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September 2005 Challenge: Mantel Toppers (or Shelf Toppers or Valances)! (Page 1)

"Design a long narrow quilt decoration that can hang from a mantel, shelf, or act as a valance. The edge of this decoration can be straight or not. This is a great format for working with a virtual border made with motif shapes set on Layer 2. Measure your own personal base (mantel or shelf) and build an edge that hangs down from that." - Barb Vlack

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Barb Vlack
Ribbon Winders
Barb Vlack
Wedgewood Valance

Coloring a quilting stencil block led to this wonderful applique design for the focus block of this mantle topper. Blocks on-point were set on Layer 2. The setting triangles were drawn with PatchDraw and also set on Layer 2.

St. Charles, Illinois USA

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I love the tranditional look of Wedgewood china. The lace embroidery and quilting design in white reminded me of this china. This valance might look good hanging from a shelf.
The lace embroidery patterns were rotated from the Graph Pad. The scalloped edges of the valance are "virtual" borders, which are motif blocks set on Layer 2.

St. Charles, Illinois USA

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Quilt 4
Kathleen Potvin
All I want for Christmas is My Shelties
Angie Padilla
Log Cabin Mantel Cover

Well, I gradually got carried away with this project. I made the stockings first, then muffled through the mantle cover. Then...experimented with my dogs photos, put them in frames & decorated the top as the mantle shelf. All in fun, of course. All the blocks are from EQ library...most are modified. The alphabet letters in the library had their sections separated, I moved them together, rotated, resized, etc. The pictures wont look nice on the web, but if you zoom in, they look much better.

Ft. Wayne, Indiana

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Quilt 5
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Angie Padilla
Christmas Mantel Cover
Alecia Gentry
Autumn Leaves Mantle/Shelf Topper

36"x6" Main rectangle. For the loose hanging leaves, place fabric wrong sides together with fusable webbing in between and iron. Cut out leaf shapes and stitch their tops in the seamline of three sides of the main rectangle. Use decrative stitching around leafs if desired. Knife edge bind rectangles fourth edge. Quilt as desired.
Very easy project.

Pea Ridge, AR

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Quilt 7
Quilt 8
Alecia Gentry
Bountiful Grapes - Kitchen Valence
Alexis Dustan
Snow Dance - Valance

24"x13" Valence. I have space between the top of my white, kitchen cabinets and the ceiling. This valence can hide all the "stuff" we stick up there. With knife edge binding this repeating design can cover various width cabinets and look like a continuous flowing design, yet still leaving openings to get behind and retrieve "stuff". I can even put one over my window.

Pea Ridge, AR

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I have also designed a Christmas tree skirt along the same theme - they would make a great set for your holiday decor. You can see a picture of the skirt on my website.

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Quilt 10
Anna Scott
Mantle Scarf one
Anna Scott
Mantle Scarf 2

Design layout is my own. Block is from Block Base. Then used a quarter of the block to put into the star shapes on the edges.

Arkansas USA

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Same layout as in one just used a different block.

Arkansas USA

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Berit Pramm
The two Geese
Barbara Gilstad
"Snippets of Color"

Norway

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This simple topper could easily be adapted to the length of any matel. It is composed of just one plain block, multiple points, and Luminosity, a luscious fabric designed by Paula Nadelstern.

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Barbara Gilstad
"Where's the turkey?"
C.M.Verbiest
Valance round a bookshelf

My second mantel topper is based on the same layout. But this time I incorporated Contempo, a gorgeous fabric designed by Rebecca Yaffe which reminded me of Thanksgiving and cranberries.

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Rotterdam
the Netherlands

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C.M.Verbiest
Valance round the chimney
Charlotte Kleiner
"The Stocking's Were Hung..."

Rotterdam
the Netherlands

I immediately thought "STOCKINGS" when I saw this challenge. I realize that if you had these attached to a runner you would probably need a large plate of cookies (for Santa of course!) on either end of the mantel in order to keep the stockings from pulling the topper off of it!
In order to keep the size of this project file from being too large, I used solid colours in most of the pieces and only used a few of the Christmas palette fabrics here and there.

Winnipeg, MB Canada

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Quilt 18
Charlotte Kleiner
Snowflake Mantel Topper
Claudia C.

I had designed the snowflake applique for the December 2003 clubEQ Challenge - ROUND QUILTS. I worked on it some more, made some changes and then used it on this Mantel topper. The little round balls on the hanging edges would probably be some kind of bead or bobble trim.

Winnipeg, MB Canada

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JoAnn Banks
Mantel Cover 2
JoAnn Banks
Leaf Mantel Cover 1

Approximately 75-1/2 inches by 10-1/2 inches. Block size 10-1/2 inches finished.

Sandy, Utah

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Approximately 73-1/2 inches by 10-1/2 inches. Block Size 10-1/2 inches finished size.

Sandy, Utah

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