A year of schnibbles – just started

September 12, 2009 by Scarlett Burroughs

A Year of Schnibbles challenge started September 1. Those joining will make a quilt every month from a Schnibble pattern by Miss Rosie’s Quilt Co. Go here to view patterns from her Schnibble collection.

So just what is a Schnibble? In Rosie’s words,

Schnibble: noun A scrap of fabric; a leftover bit of cloth; a small piece. The word has a German origin and is found primarily in German settlements in the Midwest.

From the Dictionary of American Regional English published by the Harvard University

Dawn of Spring Water Designs blog finished her first Schnibble quilt, Winter White. Go here to view. I’m loving her fall color palette.

For the quilters out there who also love language, it’s pure fun just to read the names of Rosie’s quilt patterns. Here are a few: Sweet Escape, Birdseye, Summer Rental, Ridley, Emma’s Legacy and Sweet Tea

Unlike some beautiful pastries that look great but do not deliver on taste, these deliver as dandy eye candy. My fave is Sweet Tea.

Sweet Tea Go hereto see others. Now, back to Schnibbles. According to A Quilting Life the following stores are participating in A year of Schnibbles:

Go here to see what these shops are offering challenge participants plus check out Sherri’s first finished schnibble quilt top.

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Cross Stitch Cards for All Occasions

I have never stitched a greeting card, but I kind of like the idea of it. It’s a card and a gift all in one, and hopefully one the recipient will hang onto for years to come.

This collection of easy and colorful greeting card cross stitch patterns from Susan Bates (via Gathered) are a great place to start if you want to stitch your own greeting cards.

These text-based designs cover a lot of card-sending events, such as:

get well soon
happy birthday
thank you
thinking of you
congratulations
anniversary
new home
good luck

The lettering is done in gradients and there are other details like hearts and stars, a house key and a gift, depending on the text. There are full cross stitches and back stitch on all of the cards, and they use 15 colors for the cross stitching and six for the back stitching (and just two colors are used for both, so it’s 19 colors total).

The designs vary a bit in size but the biggest one is 52 by 67 stitches, which comes out to 3.75 by 4.75 inches or 9.5 by 12 cm when worked on 14 count fabric or 28 count evenweave. The text suggests beads are also used in the patterns but there’s no note of them in the key, so go wild and add some beads if you like.

Designs are worked on a price of 6 by 8 inch/15 by 20 cm fabric and then mounted to a card with a colorful baking piece of card stock behind it. This is easy to assemble with whatever cardstock greeting cards you have on hand.

You can get the free charts as a PDF from Gathered.

Have you ever stitched your own greeting cards? I’d love to hear about it, or let me know if these inspire you to try.

[Photo: Susan Bates via Gathered]