Pieceful Sunday: Merry Christmas 2017!

Leyland Cypress Christmas Tree from JANDA Bend Christmas Trees

This week on Pieceful Sunday, I want to wish you all Happy Holidays. May you enjoy the company of family and friends and celebrate the coming New Year. I must say that 2017 has been a rough year for my family because of health issues and the passing of my Father. He was a good man. We all miss him. However, it is a time for new beginnings and looking forward as well as backward.

Since this is the holiday season, The Pieceful Sunday Linky Party will be open for links through Saturday, December 30, 2017 at midnight, This way you can link up your quilty gifts after Christmas.

I have been working on my Workshop for Beginning Quilters which will be held at the Tahlequah Amory Municipal Center in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. I have already had several people who visited the JANDA Bend Christmas Trees Farm this year indicate that they were interested. The workshop will be open to 24 participants and will include a free pattern to the first 20 people who register. We will be making a version of the pattern Dessert Time from Quilt in a Day. The completed quilt will be approximately 48" x 58". This is a fun, easy pattern that incorporates large half-square triangles and a strip-pieced border. There will be a kit available for sale, or you can purchase your own 10" squares and 2 1/2" strips or make your them  from your scraps.

There will be a total of six, three-hour workshops on six Saturday mornings (February 10, 17, and 24 and March 10, 17. and 24, 2018). In the first three weeks, you will piece and assemble the quilt top. Then in the last three weeks, you will baste, quilt, and bind your quilt. So if you want to learn how to quilt in 2018 and you live in Northeastern Oklahoma, or Northwestern Arkansas, this is your chance!

I have planned additional, more advanced workshops later this year as well. However, I decided to start with the beginner class. 

Registration Information will be available soon on this web site. So stay tuned! Or better yet, sign-up for the Newsletter so that you do not miss sign-ups!

​Now it is your turn! You can link up your in-progress or completed piecing projects using the blue button with the frog below. Please note that the thumbnail photos and links will not show up on this page. You will need to click the blue frog button below to see the photos and links. This may be a little different from what you are used to.  Remember that the link-up will be available until Saturday, December 30, 2017 at midnight. If you prefer, you can also link up on Instagram using #PiecefulSundayatJANDABendQuilts. ​ ​

To see the link-ups or to add your link-up, click on the blue frog button.

Please include a link to this page in the blog post that you are linking up. If you wish, you can include the Pieceful Sunday button as well. After linking up, I hope that you will stop by the posts of others to see their work. Encouraging comments are welcome. Quilters tend to be nurturing and supportive.  I am hoping that this Linky Party will help us establish an encouraging quilting group. 

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Thanks for stopping by. If you have questions or comments, please go to comments or contact me by email. 
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Happy Quilting!

This post was originally published by JANDA Bend Quilts.