christmas – Amanda’s blog

Happy holidays, everyone!

I’ve been busy drawing new fabric and getting new patterns sent to the printer in the midst of cookie baking and present wrapping. I thought it would be fun to take a moment and show you my holiday collection for next year! (Note that some PDFs for patterns are available now, but printed patterns will start shipping the first week in January, so you can ask your local shop to order!)

Some of you might remember pictures of my booth at Fall Market.

The “Christmas Magic” and “Jubilee Holiday” side of my Fall Market booth.

I already introduced “Thankful”, my fall collection shipping in March, in this post, but I haven’t showed you the holiday goodies in store for next year so here it goes…

My new holiday collection is called Christmas Magic. It ships in April from Contempo of Benartex and I’m so excited about it! The project that best encapsulates this collection is my favorite new pattern. It is styled in the vein of Sewing Room Sampler and is called Christmas Magic Sampler. Can I even say how much fun this one is to sew? The pattern will start shipping the first week of January. There will be extra finishing instructions on my website for smaller items.

Christmas Magic Sampler is just available as a printed pattern because of its many pages and full-color illustrations. My website just can’t accommodate a file of this size unfortunately, but I do have very reasonable shipping rates for patterns for international customers who don’t have local shops so I hope this helps.

Ok, so I got so carried away showing you the sampler I forgot to talk about the fabrics themselves! Christmas Magic has just 19 SKUs, making it really do-able for quilt shops. It is sort of a “gingerbread meets stained glass” look and the prints are exuberant and happy!

Some prints from the Christmas Magic collection. If you love them please ask your local shop to order!

When I design large quilts I also like to give people options for smaller projects. Gingerbread Star is a small applique table topper perfect for gift-giving. (I actually am hoping someone who is better at finishing than myself is inspired to make a box-edged pillow out of it.) And it includes a download code for SVG files for digital fabric cutters of course. I had so much fun playing with the color combinations with this pattern and hope that you do too!

My final pattern for this collection is the quick and easy Christmas Magic Tree Skirt. This one is 2-1/2” strip friendly so you can make it scrappy out of strips or you can make a more planned version out of yardage.

The back cover of Christmas Magic Tree Skirt shows the planned and more scrappy options.

I also sewed Christmas Magic Tree Skirt in Jubilee Holiday. And oh my goodness speaking of which, did you know that Jubilee holiday ships next month???

Here are just a few prints from my Jubilee Holiday collection for Benartex. (Since we already had red prints we could not resist having green!) Also… I can’t even express how beautifully Benartex printed this, and with all the pearls and metallics, that isn’t an easy feat!

I hope you love this one too! You might be thinking that January is pretty early in the year for a Christmas collection, but guess what you can do with it?

We have to ship it in time for St. Patrick’s Day for the new Lucky pattern!

Ruby Jubilee also looks great in Jubilee Holiday!

I didn’t get a chance to sew this version, but I did get to sew some of the blocks into pillows and a runner and you can see some of them in this corner of my booth.

How about Platinum Jubilee in Jubilee holiday?

Or Star Jubilee, my free pattern that you can download from my Downloads Page?

Fabric requirements for the Jubilee Holiday patterns can be found here.

If you have made it to the bottom of this post thanks so much for staying with me – I know it was long, but I have a ton of new product next year! The printed patterns for all of the above patterns, plus the new Thankful patterns, will ship around the first week of January. I hope that you are excited about these projects for next year and that you thoroughly enjoy the holiday season in this one!

Best wishes and happy quilting. And thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support.

Amanda

Hi guys! I’m sorry to say this is a quick recap of a post I wrote a couple of weeks ago. We had some major tech issues here and had to do a blog restore and I lost all the data for the past couple months. Tears. Just trying to recap here so you don’t miss anything!

Well, Fall Quilt Quilt Market came and went in a blink of an eye once again and I’m just now getting to sharing my new things on the blog. So without further ado here is Nordic Holiday, my new line for Benartex…

nordicholidaybooth_02 — Some “Nordic Holiday” prints

nordicholidaybooth_03 — And more Nordic Holiday prints…

Our Contempo booth won second place! You can see it below. Cherry Guidry’s Mulberry Lane is on the left of the tree and my Nordic Holiday line is on the right.)

nordicholidaybooth_01 — The Contempo booth at Quilt Market

And here are close-ups of the prints in the collection – my favorite thing about them is that they are more of winter focus, so can be kept out all winter long. I’m so excited to see what you guys sew with them! (And please don’t forget to tag me on so that I can see them @amandamurphydesign on Instagram!)

The quilt that inspired the collection was my Nordic Row Sampler. The Nordic Row Sampler is shown hanging is in red and aqua. There is a red and green version too. This quilt pieced entirely from strip sets!

nordicholidaybooth_04 — “Nordic Row Sampler”

I wanted my other large quilt to be quite different. Here is a softer Starry Night Starry Night in blues and greens. Matching runner and placemat directions are included in the pattern.

Next up is Northern Lights… a set of minis similar to my pattern that can also be finished as pillows.

And Starstruck is back, making an encore appearance because the graphic stars make this 2-1/2” strip quilt just perfect for this collection.

nordicholidaybooth_09 — “Starstruck”, surrounded by pillows made from Nordic Row Sampler blocks.

We made Christmas ornaments in our hotel room the night before. These were super easy! Just take an embroidery hoop and remove the screw, spray the outer hoop white, put the screw back in and insert batting and fabric. Then trim the fabric flush with the back of the hoop.

Patterns will come as soon as yardage is here so everything can be proofed. Northern Lights and Starstruck are already at the printer and the larger project directions will ship in first quarter of next year. The Nordic Holiday fabric line ships in April and the embroidery collection is already here and can be ordered at your local shop.