On the 6th Day of Christmas Caroling! It's my turn!!

It's my turn to reveal my 2017 Christmas Caroling Row Along pattern!! My pattern is based on the song "Up On The Rooftop".  I've heard this song every Christmas season for as long as I can remember.  It's a happy song and I can remember watching cartoons as a kid that went along with the music.  Just gives me a smile!  

I started with the fabric from Northcott from the Silent Night collection #21660-49 that is the perfect fabric for a starry night background.  Northcott generously sent us fabrics to use in our patterns and let us pick the fabrics we wanted!! Thanks Northcott! There's no piecing to this row.  It's all machine applique.  I used Steam A Seam 2 Lite for the fusible web, traced the shapes onto it, starting with the moon.  You can use up lots of scraps for the houses, doors, windows, roofs, etc because these pieces are so small and the more different colors of fabric, the better! 

I fused the moon on first.  The moon just brought the background fabric to life. I added the snow next but I pressed the pieces just enough to hold them so I could still move things around if I needed to as I placed the houses and trees on. The snow fabric was from Northcott's collection "Up On A Rooftop" #21704-10.  Isn't that funny that one of the fabrics is called almost the same name as the song!

I then placed trees on each edge, adding houses but not fusing the pieces down.  The Steam A Steam 2 Lite is sticky enough to hold everything in place while trying to place everything just so.  Makes it easy!  All of the shapes in my pattern are already reversed for using fusible web.  

Once I had the houses and trees in place, I added the church and the pond.  I didn't fuse anything down until I had everything in place.  Feel free to move your houses and trees around or make more trees and houses until you like how your neighborhood looks!  

I added the sleigh and reindeer next trying to have the sleigh over a roof and making sure the reindeer were "dashing" up by the moon.  If I needed to move any houses, trees or the church a bit to get it all to work, it was easy to just peel the shapes off and scoot things around.

I put the words on last and just curved them to fit the area that was open in the sky.  I used Northcott's fabric from  Tis the Season #21740M-24 for the words and the sleigh.  Once I had the bigger pieces on, I added the windows and doors.  I almost forgot the chimneys!  I tucked the chimneys a bit behind the roofs so I could make the chimneys whatever height I wanted without trimming those tiny pieces!

If you are new to machine applique using fusible web or just need a little encouragement, stop by my youtube channel "Miss Loreen's Schoolhouse" for a video tutorial to help you out.

Once I had everything in place, I fused all the applique shapes down, making sure I pressed and didn't "iron".  Pressing means simply putting the iron up and down on the fabric so you don't move your shapes out of place.  Use the instructions on whatever fusible web product you use to get the best results.

The last step was to do the machine applique stitching.  I also stitched through the center horizontally and vertically on each window to make it appear to be window panes.  It did make a difference!

At last, here's a picture of the stitched row!  I uses a small straight stitch on the smaller pieces like the words.  The rest of the stitching was using a machine applique stitch.  I used Floriani machine embroidery thread to stitch all of the applique.  That gave me lots of color choices.

I hope you enjoy my pattern along with all of the rest of the designers' patterns.  Be sure to stop by each of the designers' blogs or websites and leave a kind comment for all of the work they did.  A special thanks goes to Seams To Be Sew who put this entire event together, gathered up so many great giveaway prizes and kept all of us designers on task.  Click on the pretty bell on the right to go to Seams To Be Sew website, leave a kind comment and sign up for more chances to win!

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Keep stitching,
loreen

 

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The first giveaway is from Moda.  Starts September 21, 2017 / Ends September 28, 2017
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Next giveaway is from Northcott Starts September 21, 2017 / Ends September 28, 2017
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Comments

[klikes99]

Love country scenery like this! Thanks so much!

[Kamila Work With Patches]

Beautiful Christmas pattern. Thanks for sharing it and great RAL.
Greetings from Poland
Kamila

[James Lewis]

Thank you for taking the time to create this gorgeous block for us

[Eileen]

This is a lovely row =).

[Cheryl]

Your composition is lovely. My favorite part are the houses and the way the words curve.

[Janet P.]

Thanks for the memories of this song! Lovely row and the details add so much!

[Vivian Oaks]

Thanks for your cute Row-Along!! Putting letters on the block is something I haven't done before, so this block has something new for me to learn! Thanks!!!

[Mary Lou Benoit]

This is The Best row

[Barb]

This is a great row, I love it! I love scenes the most! I enjoyed visiting all of the pages--great work by all!

[Elizabeth Coughlin]

Charming row! I especially love the houses and trees.

[Sandy Allen]

Love your row. It would be so pretty as a wall hanging or table runner, too!

[Susan L.]

Love your row! Thanks so much for the pattern!

[Lisa Long]

Your row is amazing..fun and beautiful! Thank you!

[Moira]

Lovely Row!

[Allison Evrard]

This was one of the first Christmas songs I learned to play on the piano umpteen years ago. Thank you for sharing your excellent pattern.

[Joyce Carter]

Your row is very beautiful! I love it. Thank you so much for sharing.

[Jackie Hale]

Love your row!

[Dawn F.]

Cute! I love your pattern!

[Jayne Dough]

Beautiful patter! Thank you for sharing.

[Bonnie Larson]

Gorgeous row. Thanks so much for sharing