{"id":6668,"date":"2016-02-22T12:08:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T17:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/?p=6668"},"modified":"2020-06-27T11:43:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:43:53","slug":"st-pattys-day-quilted-ornament-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/quilted-ornament-ideas\/st-pattys-day-quilted-ornament-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Patty&#8217;s Day Quilted Ornament Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Patrick's Day isn't a holiday I've made <em>tons<\/em> of ornaments for, but I do make at least one each year. It's hard to resist the green and gold fabrics, and a lot of the prints are just plain fun. <\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the ornaments I've done over the last few years (including this month's Kit of the Month, which I do have just a few more of, right <a href=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/shop\/#!\/Complete-Ornament-Kits\/c\/11745536\/offset=0&#038;sort=normal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>I hope these inspire you to make your own!<\/p>\n<p>This one is made from &#8220;Lots of Luck&#8221; fabric, by Longaberger. I LOVE this fabric. It has long been retired, but I try to snag some whenever I see it on eBay. <\/p>\n<p>Here I've paired it with solid forest green fabric to accent the dark green hints in the print. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lots-of-luck-quilted-ball-ornament.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lots-of-luck-quilted-ball-ornament.jpg\" alt=\"lots-of-luck-quilted-ball-ornament\" width=\"750\" height=\"499\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lots-of-luck-quilted-ball-ornament.jpg 750w, https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lots-of-luck-quilted-ball-ornament-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here's one I made about 9 years ago! The ladybug fabric is actually sheer, but sheer fabrics can work if you use them with solids, to help hide the pins from the layers below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lucky-ladybug-ornament-wm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lucky-ladybug-ornament-wm.jpg\" alt=\"lucky ladybug st. patty&#039;s day quilted ball\" width=\"337\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lucky-ladybug-ornament-wm.jpg 337w, https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lucky-ladybug-ornament-wm-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A cute little lucky charm:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lucky-charm-ornament-top-wm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lucky-charm-ornament-top-wm.jpg\" alt=\"lucky charm quilted fabric ornament\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5831\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This ornament is made with the Japanese Kimekomi technique, which I originally learned from the book, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/kimekomi-book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fast, Fun, &#038; Fabulous Fabric Handballs<\/a>&#8220;&#8230; you can then modify this technique to make  ornaments! It's an <a href=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/kimekomi-book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">awesome book<\/a>, and it includes the pattern I used to make this ornament (I also added a gold beaded hanger):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/patchwork-ornament-kimekomi-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/patchwork-ornament-kimekomi-7.jpg\" alt=\"Patchwork\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/patchwork-ornament-kimekomi-7.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/patchwork-ornament-kimekomi-7-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And last but not least, a quilted ball with 3 different fabrics. (This is also this month's <a href=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/shop\/#!\/Complete-Ornament-Kits\/c\/11745536\/offset=0&#038;sort=normal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">featured kit<\/a>.) I used green gingham and plaid fabrics to contrast the mini-shamrock fabric &#8211; my favorite St. Patty's Day ornament so far!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Feb-Quilted-Ornament-Kit-of-the-month-3-blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Feb-Quilted-Ornament-Kit-of-the-month-3-blog.jpg\" alt=\"Feb-Quilted-Ornament-Kit-of-the-month-3-blog\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Feb-Quilted-Ornament-Kit-of-the-month-3-blog.jpg 850w, https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Feb-Quilted-Ornament-Kit-of-the-month-3-blog-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Feb-Quilted-Ornament-Kit-of-the-month-3-blog-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Feb-Quilted-Ornament-Kit-of-the-month-3-blog-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Feb-Quilted-Ornament-Kit-of-the-month-3-blog-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Feb-Quilted-Ornament-Kit-of-the-month-3-blog-270x180.jpg 270w, https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Feb-Quilted-Ornament-Kit-of-the-month-3-blog-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Feb-Quilted-Ornament-Kit-of-the-month-3-blog-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Patrick&#8217;s Day isn&#8217;t a holiday I&#8217;ve made tons of ornaments for, but I do make at least one each year. It&#8217;s hard to resist the green and gold fabrics, and a lot of the prints are just plain fun. Here are some of the ornaments I&#8217;ve done over the last few years (including this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[180,196,241],"class_list":["post-6668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quilted-ornament-ideas","tag-ornament-ideas","tag-quilted-ornament-ideas","tag-st-patricks-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theornamentgirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}