Christmas Celebration Star Row

The first row in the Christmas Celebration Row of the Month Club at Shabby Fabrics was stars. I'd made the second row of Stockings in my post for 5/29/26 and my third row of Trees in my previous post before sewing up the stars. Now I am looking back and making the Star row.

The stars are basically four flying geese blocks around a central square. I have a Bloc-Loc tool which works well to make flying geese. The tool requires cutting the fabric a slight ¼" larger than the norm. Although I have extra fabric provided in the kit, it was not of the dimension that allowed me the luxury of oversizing without some creative positioning. That's OK. I can use my old standard method. The flying geese of the star points still yielded me enough HSTs to make two pinwheels per star for a total of twelve pinwheels.

Each row of Christmas Celebration introduces a few new fabrics from the Emmitt and Ivy Sweetwater collection by Moda. The red/white ornament and the pale blue snowmen, marked by blue star in the following image, are new in this row of stars. None of the stripes from the stockings are repeated. I look forward for when other fabric options from the line appear. Perhaps they will be used in the upcoming rows:  4) Gifts, 5) Wreaths, and 6) Ornaments.

I am one half of the way through my row making (3 out of 6) and it is still fun. Yay! Next row installment has been shipped and I eagerly await its arrival in the mail any day now.

Christmas Celebration Tree Row

The third row in the Christmas Celebration Row of the Month club at Shabby Fabrics was trees. I'd made the second row of stockings first in my previous post. Upcoming rows are 4) Gifts, 5) Wreaths, and 6) Ornaments. After struggling with my stocking row, the trees went together fairly easily. I could assemble the four strips/level of each tree and wait to press until the adjacent neighbor was determined. Then I could alternate the seam direction for the white background. "Press to the dark side" was not always best. I do like that the trees have separating spacers between some of them to break up the rigidity of an all-in-a-row look.

I made up into pinwheels from all those triangles cut off at each level of each tree. Those six trees yielded twelve pinwheels. They are pressed but not yet trimmed to be truly square and accurate

The fabrics were again from the Emmitt and Ivy collection by Sweetwater for Moda. Only the red snowman print was a repeat from the stockings. The wonky gingham, the green snowmen, the green/white ornaments, the red evergreen sprigs, and the white evergreen springs were all new.

This so far has been a fun row-by-row monthly kit with cheery fabrics. I am enjoying assembling it. I am one third of the way there. Hmm... those pinwheels...  It remains to be seen what I will do with them.