Holiday Party Blog Hop & Giveaway!

The Holiday Season is coming fast!

Only

6 Weeks until Halloween,

10 Weeks until Thanksgiving,

12.5 Weeks until Hanukkah,

13.5 Weeks until Christmas,

AND about 15 Weeks until New Years Eve,

so no matter what Holiday you celebrate, 

it's time to think about parties, decorating and gift giving!

To help you get in the mood, it's time to read QA Holiday 

and get great ideas for lots of beautiful projects.

There are so many fabulous things I would love to make in this magazine!

Jacquelyn deRuyter's Village Houses,

Lyric Kinard's Beaded Snowflakes, Carrie Bloomston's Love Pillow, Linda McLaughlin's Holiday Postcards and the list goes on and on!

So many projects, so little time, I need to get started!

One project I have already finished for a friend 

is my Hanukkah gift bags on page 20.

The fabric for the bags were painted 

with a stencil I designed and then cut out using my Silhouette Portrait.

You can easily stencil designs onto fabric using a foam brush but I have another way I love to quickly stencil a piece of fabric.  Here is a two minute video showing you how this is done:

I taped the fabric to a piece of foam core, no padding, and used Speedball Printing Ink.  If I were using a stencil with words (such as the Hanukkah stencil in QA Holiday) I would place the top of the stencil against the screen so that the words appear backwards when taping the stencil down.
Leave a comment telling me what your favorite holiday is for a chance to win a copy of Quilting Arts Holiday, AS WELL AS your own Hanukkah or Snowflake pre-cut stencil!
(I cut my stencils from DuraLar)