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Quilts-by-Carmel

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My daughter suggested my shop name  "Quilts-by-Carmel" as play on my name JoCarmel & one of my favorite places Carmel-by-the-sea, CA. Please visit my Esty shop where I offer handmade quilts, re-sale precut cotton quilting fabrics/products and where can choose from my customize created quilted projects to share with your love ones.


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About me

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Hi! I’m JoCarmel ... FullTime Nurse who loves quilting. My great-grandmother, Arminta was the quilter in our family. She was born and raised in rural Mississippi in the late 1890’s. She owned farmland and picked cotton to make a way for her family. However, my grandmother and my mother had no desire to pick cotton nor make quilts "slave w

Hi! I’m JoCarmel ... FullTime Nurse who loves quilting. My great-grandmother, Arminta was the quilter in our family. She was born and raised in rural Mississippi in the late 1890’s. She owned farmland and picked cotton to make a way for her family. However, my grandmother and my mother had no desire to pick cotton nor make quilts "slave work", so it was not handed down. In 2018, a fellow nurse taught me how to sew and the joy of creating quilts blossomed. We spent 2 days in her beautiful log cabin home and I’ve been hooked ever since, lol.  I’m forever grateful to Sherry, but my husband… not so much, because I’ve become a fabricolic, quiltolic, sewolic & my new bucklist cities all include quilt show events, lol.

Mission

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Mission

The goal of Quilts-by-Carmel is to share the love and art of quilting with others and hopefully inspire others to honor & share the story of their ancestors who made quilts out of necessity, warmth or for just pure joy.  These women/men have paved the way to some of the freedoms and benefits we have today and we can honor them by reigniting  and teaching our children the love of quilting.

HALF & HALF QUILT TOP

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Hello again,

I’ve taken a break from my 2025 Quilting plans to make this super fun and super cute 84” quilt top called Half & Half. It takes 40 8.5” squares (1 layer cake), 1.5yds of accent, 1.5yds of background and 1yd for the border ... you can even exchange the 8.5” with fabric panels!


Hope you have as much fun sewing as I did!

JOCARMEL

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CHURN DASH SASHING QUILT TOP

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Hi Guys, I think this might be one of my favorite Churn Dash quilt this year. It’s so happy and cheerful and I love how is easily it comes together and the secondary churn dash block that is created with the sashing. You can chain piece most of this quilt top & it's Precut friendly pattern.


Hope you all enjoy!

JOCARMEL

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ROLLING CHURN DASH QUILT TOP & BLOCK

FREE EQ8 PATTERN MOCK UP

 

Summer Sewing Series … Quilt 2 - Starring Churn Dash


I’m super excited to start & share my Summer Sewing Series with you all … I’m calling it Nantucket Summer at the Shoreline, which is composed of 4 quilt tops made with Camille Roskelley’s fabric collections along with a FREE DOWNLOADS &/OR LINK TO FREE PATTERN).


  • Quilt 1 - Shoreline Super Star 72” square 
  • Quilt 2 - Starring Churn Dash (88 x 88" square top)
  • Quilt 3 - Rolling Churn Dash (approx 62 x 78”) 
  • Quilt 4 - TBD


Hope you all enjoy!

JOCARMEL

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STARRING CHURN DASH QUILT

FREE EQ8 PATTERN MOCK UP

 

Summer Sewing Series … Quilt 2 - Starring Churn Dash


I’m super excited to start & share my Summer Sewing Series with you all … I’m calling it Nantucket Summer at the Shoreline, which is composed of 4 quilt tops made with Camille Roskelley’s fabric collections along with a FREE DOWNLOADS &/OR LINK TO FREE PATTERN).


  • Quilt 1 - Shoreline Super Star 72” square 
  • Quilt 2 - Starring Churn Dash (88 x 88" square top)
  • Quilt 3 - Rolling Churn Dash (approx 62 x 78”) 
  • Quilt 4 - TBD


Hope you all enjoy!

JOCARMEL

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TRADITIONAL 8" CHURN DASH BLOCK

FREE EQ8 BLOCK

 

Here's the ALTERNATE CHURN DASH BLOCK

Hope you all enjoy!

JOCARMEL

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SHORELINE SUPER STAR

FREE EQ8 PATTERN MOCK UP

 

Summer Sewing Series … Quilt 1 - Shoreline Super Star 


I’m super excited to start & share my Summer Sewing Series with you all … I’m calling it Nantucket Summer at the Shoreline, which is composed of 4 quilt tops made with Camille Roskelley’s fabric collections along with a FREE DOWNLOADS &/OR LINK TO FREE PATTERN).


  • Shoreline Super Star 72” square 
  • Rolling Churn Dash (approx 62 x 76”) 
  • Churn Dash X marks the spot (8” square)
  • Brick House (Free FQS pattern)


Hope you all enjoy!

JOCARMEL

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U.S.A. Quilt top

FREE EQ8 PATTERN MOCK UP

Have fun,

JOCARMEL

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BLACK BUTTERFLY EQ8 MOCK UP

FREE PATTERN MOCK UP

Happy Mother's Day


Love,

JOCARMEL

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SPOTTED BUTTERFLY EQ8 MOCK UP

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Happy Mother's Day


Have fun,

JOCARMEL

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SUMMER BUTTERFLY EQ8 MOCK UP

FREE PATTERNS

Happy Mother's Day


Have fun,

JOCARMEL

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SUNWASHED BUTTERFLY EQ8 MOCK UP

FREE PATTERN MOCK UP

Happy Mother's Day


Love,

JOCARMEL

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Double Lighthearted HST Quilt

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Welcome back everyone, I’ve been playing with EQ8 and come up with a some very “heart warming” ideas based on the Log Cabin & HST blocks to celebrate my Birthday this week!!!

Please choose a quilt layout, download it and sew a heart with me this month ❤️. You can change the fabric colors of the hearts to represent all kinds of things … Red - Feb (Woman’s’ Heart health or Valentine’s day, Pink (Breast CA), Purple (Alzheimer’s/Pancreatic CA), Gray - Brain cancer, Rainbow or Scrappy (kitchen sink) to send some love everybody/anybody.

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LOVE STAR SAMPLER - FPP BLOCKS

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LOVE STAR SAMPLER - FPP 6" BLOCKS

 

Here is the FREE download for FPP  blocks some of you have requested. 

Theses blocks will make a slightly smaller quilt top 50x62", but you can always add borders.

Hope this helps and I look forward to seeing your blocks.


JOCARMEL

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DOUBLE DOUBLE LOG CABIN HEART QUILT TOP

FREE PATTERN

Please choose a quilt layout, download it and sew a heart with me this month ❤️. You can change the fabric colors of the hearts to represent all kinds of things … Red - Feb (Woman’s’ Heart health or Valentine’s day, Pink (Breast CA), Purple (Alzheimer’s/Pancreatic CA), Gray - Brain cancer, Rainbow or Scrappy (kitchen sink) to send some love everybody/anybody.

I would love it if you make one & post it on Social Media with the #quiltsbycarmel 


Thanks!

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DOUBLE HEART LOG CABIN QUILT

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Thank you & Happy New Year!

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