September BOM

September Block of the Month

Welcome to the NINTH month of Zebra Pattern’s NEW “Happy Holidays!” online Block of the Month program. Each month on the first Tuesday we will feature the monthly block. There will be a button to link you to our website to download the pattern that month for only $1.00. If you miss a month or start the program late, the pattern will still be available at its regular price of $2.50. Every month we will include tips and tricks and extra things that can be done to enhance or make the project easier. Below you will see the overall quilt and in the following section we will get into specifics. So let’s get started on this month’s block!

September

We will continue the calendar year with – September. If you missed the previous blocks just go back in the blog history. The feature image is of a Teacher’s apple and pencil. Look below to see what the block looks like put together with cotton fabrics. I chose a light background with matching corners to my design. My background will be the same for all twelve blocks. Your download will include a full size pattern, a full size positioning sheet and directions to create the background square in square block to place the Apple and Pencil atop.

September Block $1.00 for the Month Download

Click here: September BOM Download

Step one each month: Each month you will start by taking one 10″ background square and choosing your corner triangles. (two 8″ squares cut in half diagonally.) Make your 14″ square in a square background block. Choose your design element fabrics, in September it will be a color for your Apple and Pencil corners.

Preparing applique: Each month you will make your pattern pieces from the provided pattern sheet. Apply fusible webbing to the back of each fabric. (FREE Demonstration available here: Zebra Applique Demo) I use Steam-A- Seam Lite 2® by the Warm Company. I have felt for over 20 years it is the very best product on the market for applique. Always use a pressing sheet to protect your iron and ironing surface. I use “The Fat Goddess Sheet” by The Attached Company.

Assembly: After fabrics are chosen, cut, and fused, use your positioning sheet to position your applique onto your background.

Raw Edge Quilting: Using a tear away stabilizer behind your applique, raw edge sew with a zig zag or buttonhole stitch your seasonal applique design.

Extra Ideas: The pencil can get a little glitter on the tip for a tiny blast of bling. You can also add a few glitter dots on pencil to jazz it up. If you really want to go crazy bling up the leaf too.

Glitter Kit

Finishing: Remove tear away stabilizer and set block aside until final assembly.

Come back next month on the first Tuesday to get the next Block for: A BUCK A BLOCK!

$1.00 download special price for month of May 2024 only. Regular price $2.50

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Fabulous Customer Art!

Thank you Patricia B. from Northern California for sharing your 2024 Black History Month quilt. Patricia’s quilt showed at the PQIF Quilt show in Santa Clara California. She used our Women of “Her-story” 6” printed Charm-stamp cotten panels. She did a beautiful job framing the group of women with her creative sashing technique. We LOVE to get images of finished art from our customers. I’m sure you will join in with me in sending Patricia a big “Job Well Done!” Thank you so much for sharing Patricia.

Click Here: Women of “Her-story” Panels by Debra Gabel

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Buy 3 & 4th is Free All Products Sitewide!

All Products • 4.15.24 through 5.31.24
Free shipping USA at $35 and above order value
Free shipping CAN at $55 and above order value

As we always offer at quilt shows, no time is better to be buying some of your favorite Zebra Patterns items in multiples of 4 … and only pay for 3! For the first time we are offering this saving SITEWIDE! – across the entire product line – including our most expensive products! – through 5.31.24. Why?

Customers writing to us the past few weeks expressed disappointment that we would not be in Paducah, so offering Buy 3 & 4th is Free on-line was our no-brainer response. We’ve been doing that while at shows, and for a full month afterward, for years.

Then we got to thinking that since not exhibiting saves us quite a bit of time and money, why not share those savings with all Zebra Customers – by expanding 4th Free to SITEWIDE!, over the entire product line, through May 31, 2024.

Please share this great Buy 3 & 4th is Free value news with your quilting community.

Best regards to all.

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2 Queens from down under ….

I get requests from our customers quite often to create new destination postage stamp panels. People create their own “Where Ya Been?” quilts featuring their life travels. In past 5-7 years I have been designing more on my ipad using digital painting techniques in a program called Procreate. One afternoon I was remembering this couple who desperately wanted Queensland to finish their king sized quilt. So I decided to get started.

I start by researching the location and gathering internet pictures. I enter the destination in Google and hundreds of pix come up. I compare the lot and select something that seems to be iconic or repeated. There is always one or two things that show up many times. Once I get the idea of the landscape I will gather 3-4 images and start the process of building my interpretation of the scene digitally. This time like many before I start the process. I finish and transfer the new digital photoshop painting to my desktop computer. That is where I add elements in the corners like birds, flags and or flowers.

Designing my Queensland Stamp for my customer was going smoothly. I converted the image into my postage stamp layout and started looking for side images of flowers, flags and animals. This is when I add the text and my signature in Adobe Illustrator. So I chose a font and added “QUEENSTOWN” to the sky area like I have in hundreds of stamps prior. MISTAKE!!! It was supposed to be Queensland! not QueensTOWN! Well I had the landscape of queensland and the animals and flower of QueensLAND. My husband Gary, pointed that out to me when he was proofing it! I was so confused. Turns out there is a QUEENSTOWN in New Zealand which is very popular for outdoor activities. QUEENSTOWN is in Australia! Hence forth, the creation of two queens from down under!

Thes stamps will be available online at http://www.zebrapatterns.com in May 2024.

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August BOM

August Block of the Month

Welcome to the EIGHTH month of Zebra Pattern’s NEW “Happy Holidays!” online Block of the Month program. Each month on the first Tuesday we will feature the monthly block. There will be a button to link you to our website to download the pattern that month for only $1.00. If you miss a month or start the program late, the pattern will still be available at its regular price of $2.50. Every month we will include tips and tricks and extra things that can be done to enhance or make the project easier. Below you will see the overall quilt and in the following section we will get into specifics. So let’s get started on this month’s block!

August

We will continue the calendar year with – August. If you missed the previous blocks just go back in the blog history. The feature image is of a Beach Ball. Look below to see what the block looks like put together with cotton fabrics. I chose a light background with matching corners to my design. My background will be the same for all twelve blocks. Your download will include a full size pattern, a full size positioning sheet and directions to create the background square in square block to place the Beach Ball atop.

August Block $1.00 for the Month Download

Click here: August BOM Download

Step one each month: Each month you will start by taking one 10″ background square and choosing your corner triangles. (two 8″ squares cut in half diagonally.) Make your 14″ square in a square background block. Choose your design element fabrics, in August it will be a color for your Beach Ball and corners.

Preparing applique: Each month you will make your pattern pieces from the provided pattern sheet. Apply fusible webbing to the back of each fabric. (FREE Demonstration available here: Zebra Applique Demo) I use Steam-A- Seam Lite 2® by the Warm Company. I have felt for over 20 years it is the very best product on the market for applique. Always use a pressing sheet to protect your iron and ironing surface. I use “The Fat Goddess Sheet” by The Attached Company.

Assembly: After fabrics are chosen, cut, and fused, use your positioning sheet to position your applique onto your background.

Raw Edge Quilting: Using a tear away stabilizer behind your applique, raw edge sew with a zig zag or buttonhole stitch your seasonal applique design.

Extra Ideas: You might add some glitter to beach ball colors to really jazz it up.

Glitter Kit

Finishing: Remove tear away stabilizer and set block aside until final assembly.

Come back next month on the first Tuesday to get the next Block for: A BUCK A BLOCK!

$1.00 download special price for month of April 2024 only. Regular price $2.50

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Spring Pastimes Are Back!

Spring ushers in some of America’s favorite pastimes – other than quilting! – baseball and gardening!

This Thursday, March 28, is Opening Day for all 30 major league teams, which means that opening day for your Little League Baseball, Softball and Tee Ball sluggers can’t be far behind! What fun adding to these generational family memories with Debra’s award winning 20″ x 30″ Batter Up! applique pattern, featured in the AQS 2009 Engagement Calendar and a timeless favorite in our catalog.

Your 2024 gardening may already be underway if you live in the warmer climates, and for sure is in the planning stages if still experiencing too many frigid days. Inspiration abounds with our 50 fabulous 12″ x 20″ applique Florals, especially with our Buy 3 & 4th Free value for these $10 patterns! Floral projects are also featured in selected 12″ x 20″ Pre-Fused Laser Cuts and 14″ x 14″ Basket Blooms.

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Flowers

Baseball

Baskets of Flowers

Lakeland Florida Quilt show

This year we opted to try a new venue in Lakeland Florida. The past few years we have vended in Daytona but this year we decided to switch it up. Take a look at the specifics below.

Zebra Patterns will be there!

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July BOM

July Block of the Month

Welcome to the SEVENTH month of Zebra Pattern’s NEW “Happy Holidays!” online Block of the Month program. Each month on the first Tuesday we will feature the monthly block. There will be a button to link you to our website to download the pattern that month for only $1.00. If you miss a month or start the program late, the pattern will still be available at its regular price of $2.50. Every month we will include tips and tricks and extra things that can be done to enhance or make the project easier. Below you will see the overall quilt and in the following section we will get into specifics. So let’s get started on this month’s block!

July

We will continue the calendar year with – July. If you missed the previous blocks just go back in the blog history. The feature image is of a Firecracker. Look below to see what the block looks like put together with cotton fabrics. I chose a light background with matching corners to my design. My background will be the same for all twelve blocks. Your download will include a full size pattern, a full size positioning sheet and directions to create the background square in square block to place the firecracker atop.

July Block $1.00 for the Month Download for March

Click here: July BOM Download

Step one each month: Each month you will start by taking one 10″ background square and choosing your corner triangles. (two 8″ squares cut in half diagonally.) Make your 14″ square in a square background block. Choose your design element fabrics, in May it will be a color for your Firecracker and corners.

Preparing applique: Each month you will make your pattern pieces from the provided pattern sheet. Apply fusible webbing to the back of each fabric. (FREE Demonstration available here: Zebra Applique Demo) I use Steam-A- Seam Lite 2® by the Warm Company. I have felt for over 20 years it is the very best product on the market for applique. Always use a pressing sheet to protect your iron and ironing surface. I use “The Fat Goddess Sheet” by The Attached Company.

Assembly: After fabrics are chosen, cut, and fused, use your positioning sheet to position your applique onto your background.

Raw Edge Quilting: Using a tear away stabilizer behind your applique, raw edge sew with a zig zag or buttonhole stitch your seasonal applique design.

Extra Ideas: The sparks on the firework look best if they are created with GOLD glitter. Follow lines on the positioning sheet. I outlined the red shapes with a line of red glitter for added bling.

Glitter Kit

Finishing: Remove tear away stabilizer and set block aside until final assembly.

Come back next month on the first Tuesday to get the next Block for: A BUCK A BLOCK!

$1.00 download special price for month of March 2024 only. Regular price $2.50

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Quiltcon in Raleigh

Last Saturday Gary and I traveled 2 hours north to Raleigh for a modern style quilt show. We wanted to vend there as it was so close, however the venue was full. The next quilt show there will be in 2026….so we shall see. Modern quilting for the most part uses mostly flat or “read as solid” colors. The images tend to be geometric. There were many quilts with direct messages and points of view. The quilts act as a means of expression for the artist. Some really told it like they see it… loved it!

The show was well attended and I ran into many long term associates. We have vended in England and Germany. The show was more like a European show with many “make and take” offerings in booths. That is very popular in Europe. There were many manufacturers there just “Brand Building”. It was interesting. The crowd was mixed with many traditional quilters as well as modern quilters. I joined SAQA again…a national arts group. I’m hoping it will motivate me to get back into art quilts. Below are pix from QuiltCon 2024.

Raleigh Convention Center

GTFO – based on “Free Choice“for women’s bodies. (Look up GTFO)

Powerful Statement!

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Black History Month

This year I added Tina Turner, Toni Morrison and Maya Angelo to our Black History Month Fabric and Charm Stamp panels. Each charm measures 6″ square and makes the perfect tribute to your favorite woman in history. Available through our fabric shop on Spoonflower is our Black History Women fabric avaiable in several sizes.

All Women of Herstory Individual panels are on sale!

Click here for Women of History

Images available in 3″, 2″ and 1 inch repeats.

Black Women of History Fabric – Click Here.