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Spring 2009 Quilt Market Reviews

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The International Quilt Market is the place to be for everything new and fabulous in the quilting world. Too bad you have to be a quilt shop owner (or equivalent) to attend. This is where store owners go to place orders for all the new fabrics and other products, as well as take classes and meet the designers. For those of us dying to get in and catch a glimpse of all those yummy new fabrics, cool new tools, and amazing designer celebrities, here is a round up of a few Spring 2009 International Quilt Market reviews from blogland.

The most comprehensive Spring Quilt Market review I’ve seen is from Checker, a Market vendor with the real inside scoop.

Store owner Kelly from I Have a Notion has a multiple-part series about her first trip to Quilt Market.

True Up offers a series from guest blogger Supafine.

Julie at Quilt Market is a blog started just to share Julie’s adventures at  Quilt Market!

Fabric and jewlery designer Genevieve Gail Swinford has a four-part series from a designer’s point of view.

And Fabric Worm has a great two-part blog post with lots of pictures of fun fabrics.

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Christmas Ornament Cross Stitch Patterns

The other day I shared some cross stitch patterns with ornaments on them, so this time around I wanted to share cross stitch patterns that you can use as ornaments. It would be fun to do a whole tree in your craft room with cross stitch ornaments, or just add a few to your tree or give them as gifts.

These little quilt inspired cross stitch patterns from Flamingo Toes look like ornaments and fit in 3-inch hoops, which are perfect for hanging on the tree or using to decorate a gift. I love the pastel colors on these but you can use more traditional Christmas colors if you like.

This cute Christmas tree from Lagodargetoshop uses a single color and fits in a 4-inch hoop, but you could make it smaller if you wanted by trimming the last ornaments and gifts from the sides, or just stitch the tree without any other embellishments. Either way it’s a cute addition to your holiday tree.

Stitched Modern has a super cute collection of retro Christmas ornament cross stitch patterns from designer Gera. This is a printed pattern that will be shipped to you. Each pattern is about 40 by 56 stitches, or 2.9 by 4 inches/7.4 by 10 cm on 14 count fabric. To work the whole set you’ll need 20 colors of floss.

These snowflake ornaments from Our Little Handmade Home are each about 2.5 inches/6.4 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric, and they use a single color of floss. They are pretty in red but you could also do white on a blue or black background, or whatever suits your other Christmas tree decorations!

From the description it sounds like this set of vintage style cross stitch characters is presented as one large chart, but the photo from Sampler Antique Stitch shows each of them stitched up as their own little ornament, so it gets included here. You’ll find Santa and snowmen in different poses in this cute collection.