Tinsel Block of the Month + Applique Thread Pak

Welcome to Tinsel - Sue Spargo's celebration of the Christmas tree. This  ten month Block of the Month program will have you creating this heirloom wool applique piece that will become part of your own holiday celebration. Participants in the program will receive all of the wool, background fabric and embellishment thread needed for top of the quilt and the Tinsel pattern book. The book also contains directions for the Tinsel Workbox and Snowman and Christmas Tree pincusions. 

Each tree shows off its own decor with embroidered festive lights, baubles, and miniature mittens and stockings. Participants will learn basic background layering techniques for cotton fabrics and techniques for textural background stitching. In addition, you will learn to use a variety of embroidery stitches to enhance your wool applique. 

Please note the Tinsel pattern does not include stitch directions, instead references Sue Spargo's CREATIVE STITCHING. Finished wallhanging measures 22" x 25".

Not sure how to get started or how to do a particular stitch? You are welcome to join our slow stitching group that meets the second Wednesday of each month and get help from Ann, our resident embroidery guru!

The embellishment threads included in the package create all of the wonderful decorations for your trees, but are not used for appliquing the trees to the backgrounds. You can use a variety of threads to applique, cotton, floss or even silk, but if you want to use wool threads for applique we are offering an applique thread package. The folks at Sue Spargo have had the wool and threads dyed to match, and if you haven't worked with wool thread before, you will love the look and feel.  There are twenty-two different applique threads included (19 wool and 3 cotton), and we will ship the applique threads as needed each month. 

The program including the applique threads is $92.50 for the first month and $41.90 per month for the remaining months.

The first month participants will receive:

• The Tinsel pattern book (if you already have the book, drop us an email and we will credit you for the cost of the book.
• Embellishment thread pack which will contain all of the embellishment threads you will need for the quilt
• Background and wool for Block #1
• Four wool applique threads and one cotton applique thread (for the background).