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Christmas Holiday To Do List – October

Checking the List Twice

The idea of no drama is what my slow and steady has become these past few years. Nothing makes me happier than a list so I’m loving my Holiday To Do List. If you missed September Holiday To DO List it’s here for you.

Had a question about Deep Cleaning. Deep cleaning is to get the corners clean so when needed, you dust, vacuum and ready to go. It’s true many hands make light work, other’s live in the house? Pick a day, afternoon, weekend and everyone helps, it’s everyone’s holiday, not just yours. Make a plan. See The Quilt Ladies Etsy Shop

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Christmas holiday to do list for October — To Do List October

Please remember these are just idea to get you started and ready for the holiday’s, not to make anything perfect, but with little steps maybe make for time for what you want to do, not have to do.
This past week has been…well any who, here you go!

Gift Storage Spot – Very important if you are purchasing early and need to keep things out of sight. Pick up tape, wrapping, boxes as you see them when doing other things

Cook and freeze AND try out all NEW recipes

Do freezer inventory and clean out

Look through decorating things – purchase things you will need, purchase wrapping things too

Gift List check – Check with family for their lists. Think about your own wish list, nice to have something in mind when asked.

Try new traditions – what worked years before

Family outfits and clothing needs for What?

Hair cuts

Set Photo Shot (if doing)
Order Christmas card and thank you notes

Make all travel arrangements – Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years

If needed start purchasing liquor for events and recipes.

Purchase stamps

Deep Clean Dining Room – Clean vacuum shampoo carpet, Clean and find Serving Dishes, polish or wax dining table, make sure chairs are stable and secure

Purchase holiday home show tickets – Great early gift too !

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The Anxiety of Anxiety when you need a bit more

My Journey of Self-Care and Slowing Down Being everything to everyone is what I call, “Tap dancing to please others.” I have stopped dancing, stopped making others happy first, and have undertaken the project of me by doing the work to understand my health and well-being. Fewer panic attacks, stopped re-living each day every night as sleep would not come, and how care for myself finally made anxiety step back from my day-to-day life.

The Anxiety of Anxiety

Take a Simple Quilt Block Pattern

Make a Quilt Block

The other day it was a simple quilt pattern
Today it’s just about moving things around a bit with color and using smaller four-patch quilt blocks. See all my quilt patterns/books

This also has a finished size of eight inches by eight inches. With the solids using four-patch quilt blocks. How to sew a quilt square

simple quilt block pattern how to — Last week

Cut 12 Green            1 1/2” x 1 1/2”
Cut 12 Lt. Blue         1 1/2” x 1 1/2”
Cut 2 Lt. Blue            2 1/2” x 2 1/2”
Cut 4 Blue                 2 1/2” x 2 1/2”
Cut 4 White 2 1/2” x 2 1/2”

Christmas Holiday To Do List

September To Do Christmas List

After Christmas in July sales, I started picking up a few things here and there for the holidays. Christmas in July at our house, should be called let’s purchase for ourselves July. But now it’s that time of the year to start thinking about the holidays. See All Beth Ann’s Books

After years of doing everything the entire month of November. I started December 2020, a slow and steady way, but this is the first year I have written it down. Slow and steady but…WOW what a list.

Add what you need for yourself and family, and remember this is just Christmas, no Thanksgiving.

Christmas Holiday To Do List September — Holiday To Do List – See this Quilt

Christmas List or Ideas – Stocking Stuffer List

Start shopping as you go – see something pick it up, get one gift card per week,

Start any Handmade items you need to Make

Photo’s for cards (if doing)Schedule, whole family start talking and plan,

Start a Holiday Calendar – travel times, shopping days, other life appointments, doctor-dentist, birthdays etc.

Talk over with loved ones who, what, where – travel? no travel? Who is hosting? Gifts? Photo Shot?

Meal ideas – purchase can goods and freezer items ONLY early if on sale

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Need a quilt quilted??? Call long arm quilter or get it there NOW ! They book up and some/most close down for the holidays

Deep Clean the Living room – Declutter – This is the time I like to have drapes/curtains cleaned, larger rugs cleaned, shampoo carpets, any furniture that need cleaned or repaired.

Deep Clean Your own Bedroom and Closet – Take off bed skirt wash, vacuum under everything, declutter clean off and out your dresser. Dust blinds, clean windows, wash drapes/curtains, bedding, your main bathroom too – floor, grout, shower, toilets, clean light, mirrors, shower curtains and linens

Closet – Go through clothes, put summer away if climate allows, organize jewelry, shoes and bags. Send anything to dry cleaner

Budget – Plan ahead and make the holiday better without charging or worrying about money. I have a line budget column and I know the amount, know it’s saved and what can be spent, plan a head for next year start 2023 or now.

Purchase holiday home show tickets – Great early gift too !

Let the Fun Begin – Remember Slow and Steady

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At NO Additional cost to you, this quilt pattern post contains affiliate links. I receive a few cents if you click to my links and purchase. These few cents help with my fabric collection and or obsession.
Beth Ann and as always, Thank you for making my dream a reality ! !
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Star Around a Quilt Block Pattern – Part 2

Part TWO, Let’s Make a Quilt Block

Few days ago I started a quilt block, which I named, Star Around a Quilt Block Pattern, it probably has hundreds of names, but this is the one for me. Here is all cutting and Part ONE

From Part ONE to sew 2 1/2″ x 8 1/2″
white to top and bottom of the star quilt block center.

Take 2 – 2 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ white, add triangles to the sides
Sew as shown to each side How to make Triangles

Sew 2 Rows – Top and bottom
2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ white, 1 triangle, 2 1/2″ x 4 1/2″,
1 triangle, 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ white
Sew as shown, add to the top and bottom

Sew 2 Rows – Sides
1 – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ color, 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ white, 1 triangle, 2 1/2″ x 4 1/2″,
1 triangle, 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ white, 1 – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ color
Sew as shown, sew to each side

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Sew 2 Rows – Top and Bottom
2 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ white, 2 triangle, 2 1/2″ x 6 1/2″,
Sew as shown, add to the top and bottom

Sew 2 Rows – Sides
1 – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ color, white, 2 1/2″ x 6 1/2″,
2 – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ color, 1 – 2 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ white, 1 – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2 color
Sew as shown, sew to each side

FINISHED Quilt Block Pattern – Star Around a Quilt Block Pattern

Meet Beth Ann:
A Quilter and an Author who decided to self-publish her quilt books and quilt patterns, SEE her BOOKS on Amazon and PDF download quilt patterns on Etsy

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Quilt Block Pattern for you to Make

Star Around a Quilt Block

Over the next few days, I will be sharing a fun quilt block pattern with you. This quilt block has a finished size of twenty inches by twenty inches. Let’s get started with the Center Star

Cutting for ONE entire Quilt Block
YOU will need only 20 squares
Cut 20 Assorted Colors – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″
OR as shown here
Cut 5 – Blue – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″
Cut 5 – Red – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″
Cut 5 – Gray – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″
Cut 5 – Lt. Gray – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″

Cut 12 Purple – 2 7/8″ x 2 7/8″
Cut 12 White – 2 7/8″ x 2 7/8″
Make Triangles – How I make Triangles

Cut 4 White – 2 1/2″ x 8 1/2″
Cut 8 White 2 1/2″ x 6 1/2″
Cut 4 White – 2 1/2″ x 4 1/2″
Cut 4 White – 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″

Sew 4 squares to make 4-Patch – How I do Squares
Sew 2 triangles together – 2 times
Sew to the top and bottom of 4-Patch

Sew 2 triangles together – 2 times
Sew a square to each end and Sew to sides of the Quilt Block

Meet Beth Ann:
A Quilter and an Author who decided to self-publish her quilt books and quilt patterns, SEE her BOOKS on Amazon and PDF download quilt patterns on Etsy

At NO additional cost to you, this post contains affiliate links. I receive a few cents if you click to my links and purchase. It helps with my fabric obsession. Beth Ann
Thank you for stopping

Four MOST Requested Quilt Ladies Quilt Block Patterns

From The Quilt Ladies

I have had The Quilt Ladies for many years, lots of quilt blocks, quilt patterns drawn, loads of quilt blocks made, quilt patterns on Etsy and even my quilt books in Print, Kindle and on Prime. These are the quilt patterns here from this site that are always asked about and for !

This is MY Quilt HERE and the quilt block pattern for you to make. I am so happy to have this quilt, it helped start The Quilt Ladies

Here, I think it’s the color and the movement this quilt block has that all like. It’s finished size is eighteen inches by eighteen inches, using cut 2 1/2″ squares.

This is Husband’s quilt, the fold up and add to his sleeping bag quilt. The quilt block pattern is here for you.

This quilt block star quilt pattern has a life of it’s own. It’s all over Pinterest, all over other’s sites as a link to get you to their quilt sites (not paid for OR asked for) and it’s been viewed here over 26000 times. Have to say, it’s liked !

My: To Use a Quilt or Not to Use a quilt

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From The Quilt Ladies Book

!2 Quilt Stories, 15 Quilt Patterns

Excerpt from my Book “The Quilt Ladies”
Available on Kindle and in Print

“Life was just too hard to deal with and even harder at two in the morning. All I had were my own thoughts. A needle and thread made things just a little better.”

The Story continues:

Mary Alice returned with the coffee and found that
Helen had finished a total of three two patches. “Hope you don’t mind, but
these cookies looked good. Great for coffee dunking.”

Helen’s mind was working. Now her body needed a little help, too. As Helen had her coffee and three cookies, they talked. Mary Alice showed her how to unfold the sewn square and draw another ¼ inch line from the top on the wrong side of the fabric. (How to quilt)

“Take this piece and add to the back of it another one just like it, good fabric to good fabric. Place it seam to seam and stitch them together.” Mary Alice did one as Helen ate.

They talked and sewed all afternoon. Helen did not need to put the line on the fabric any more, and a rhythm had started with her stitches.

“There is no wrong way or right way of quilting, just your way.”

When they spread out their work, they had finished ten, four patch squares. Mary Alice showed Helen how she could put them together, one after another, or place a solid fabric in between. Helen’s eyes were dancing as she looked at her work. She had finished a row, putting one after another.

“I like to sit by a window with the sun light or a lamp, put my feet up and get comfortable for some serious sewing.”

Two quilts are featured in Book Two, RoadWay 94” x
110” is a quilt that Teresa made for her boys as a road to drive cars and
Square Doll Quilt 17” x 21” using small squares.

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All 12 of The Quilt Ladies Stories in ONE place
and 15 Complete Quilt Patterns to MAKE

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Christmas in JULY – Square Perfect Quilt Pattern Book

Quilt Book, eBook, PDF Download

This is a simple quilt pattern made with squares, but with the three colors, and then doing it red, white and blue, the colors pop. It’s not the red and blue, it’s the white that will make any colors POP.
Complete instructions to make this quilt are in the PDF download and printed book. There is also a pieced square border on the outside edge. How to make a four-patch quilt block

I have set a goal for myself to get things on Etsy, in Print and as eBooks. The process of designing and making quilts is my favorite. But…the goal is to get my quilt pattern out to you all ! ! ! and here is what I have been doing. My New Quilt Pattern Book –Etsy and Amazon

As an Etsy Download

In Print And An eBook

Square Perfect a Quilt Pattern in Red, White and Blue, but only if you want it to be, you can use any three colors It’s a holiday of colors no matter what colors.

Complete cutting and piecing instructions are given. Square Perfect makes a finished quilt that measures, 108″ x 98″ a Perfect KING size quilt. Instructions to make each row and a complete how to make each square design as shown in the pictures. Beth Ann’s Books

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My Heart of Hearts Quilt

Applique and Hand Quilting

Heart Quilt Machine Pieced and Hand Applique, Hand Quilted.

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I love applique and I spent many a day on a bleacher or in the car waiting for the boys to finish a (football/baseball) practice appliqueing. This is one for the first, hand appliqued and hand quilted.

Heart Quilt Machine Pieced and Hand Applique, Hand Quilted.

Hearts are on the first things I learned to applique.

Pieced borders in a crazy patch design.

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The Quilt Ladies Quilt Pattern Etsy Shop HERE for YOU

No additional cost to you, this post contains affiliate links. I receive a few cents if you click to my links and purchase. It helps with my fabric obsession. 🙂 Beth Ann

Excerpt from my Book “The Quilt Ladies” Available on Kindle and in Print

All 12 of The Quilt Ladies Stories in ONE place and 15 Complete Quilt Patterns to MAKE NOW in Print The Quilt Ladies

Heart Quilt Machine Pieced and Hand Applique, Hand Quilted.

Excerpt from my Book “The Quilt Ladies”
Available on Kindle and in Print

All 12 of The Quilt Ladies Stories in ONE place
and 15 Complete Quilt Patterns to MAKE

NOW in Print The Quilt Ladies