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Friday, April 3, 2015

Swaps and stuff

I am a part of a swap group on Facebook and I have had a blast with the last few swaps. I have sent a Pincushion to Dubai. I thought it fitting to send a snowman to the desert. I received a BEAUTIFUL Pincushion from Australia. I sent a Valentine coin purse (using Madame Samm's tutorial) to Scotland and Spring Fling fabric to Mississippi.
Right now I am working on 2 tote bags - one is going to Texas and one to Michigan.
I am smooshing 2 different tutorials together and tweaking them a bit. I really like what's in my head and can't wait to get it out. I have parts cut out of the fabric but have some place to be this evening so can't start on it. :(
It is an open house tonight so I won't be staying long... :)
"I must get back to Sherman, I can't leave him alone to long "
"Sherman? I thought you lived alone "
" Sherman is Um, my um, Brother "
"I thought your brothers were in Pennsylvania? It's nice that they came to visit."
Ta Ta now. Good bye. :D
LOL, of course most of my friends know who Sherman is and this open house is at the church so it's like 1 minute from my house. :)

I will post more as I get things done. Have a great evening

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

"Presents" the puppy and other Ho Ho Holiday projects

I LOVE Christmas! Thank You to Carol and Madame Samm for giving me an extra incentive to get started ahead of time! I am a Last Minute Millie for sure!

I found this little puppy at our local grocery store just the other day and he was so cute with his little stocking in his mouth that I had to bring him home with me. (and he was only 99cents!) He became the inspiration for my mini quilt. He is a Jingle Beanie and his name is "Presents." I didn’t have any fuzzy fabric in the house and was unable to get to the store… then I remembered that I bought some stocking stuffers last year on clearance and they were fuzzy socks- but I wouldn’t have bought white ones. Thankfully the socks came in a two pair pack – one pack had a red pair and an off white pair! I just trimmed off the elastic at the top and Voila! had some very stretchy fuzzy fabric.

After I found a similar puppy picture on Google, I cut him out and got to use my handy dandy new appliqué pressing mat- I LOVE THIS THING! I used little squares from my stash for the background and did some fun FMQ in the checkerboard squares. His stocking has a ball and a little present in it.

As I was auditioning squares for the puppy, I decided I really liked these squares together but not for the puppy. So I made these nine patch variation blocks- I think they will be two table toppers some day. I used a tossed nine patch tutorial.

This table runner is made from Verna’s Cutting Garden Runner recipe from Moda's BakeShop) I used part of a charm pack of Fruitcake by Basic Grey. This was a fun recipe to make!

This stocking is made from a very, old very holey quilt. I have been talking about making something out of it forever. It was very hard to take the scissors to it. At least now it can be displayed and enjoyed. The lace came from a blouse that I always wanted to fit into and never could.

I lined the stocking with some fabric from my stash and machine quilted around the hexagons to give it some stability. As I stitched, I thought about the quilter who took the time to hand stitch this quilt. The colored pieces were probably well loved scraps of clothing. What an honor to be a part of preserving it for some one else to love! This will be a Christmas gift for a dear friend.

I just saw on Pinterest this morning some Flowers made from old quilt scraps. I will definitely be using more of this quilt!

http://www.sewterific.com/sassyelves.htm

Once again Thank you to our Jolly Elves for ho ho ho hosting this blog hop. I have officially started shopping and planning for Christmas!

Ho Ho Ho Hopefully you can get around to see everyone’s creations.

Wednesday, August 7

Cherry Blossoms Quilting Studio

From This to That <---- YOU ARE HERE!!

I Like To Quilt Blog

Leah @ L3designs

Sew Mollie Sue, Quilt Much?

Just Quilt It

Meadowbrook

Peanut’s Patchwork

Around the Homestead

Feathered Nest Studio

In The Boon Docks

MO Broker, My Creative Side

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

If you are not having fun.....

Warning! Picture Heavy post!

I just discovered something that I think is great! I can type my post is Word and have my spell check on and change my fonts and do all the “normal stuff” I do when I type – and THEN copy it over to my post. This is great because, the internet connection is not always the greatest and I like playing with fonts and I am not thrilled with Blogger’s spell check and they don’t have grammar check. ( that was a lot of ANDs J) I also have a tendency to capitalized two letters in a word (holding down the shift too long) and Word fixes that for me. I am liking this!

Have you been following the Bowls with Borders?

if not, you should!

I was getting a wee bit worried about making my bowls- I was NOT having fun! I wasn’t doing something right. My motto is “if you are not having fun, you aren’t doing it right!” I ripped out so many stitches that I wore out the fabric 3 times. Sherman was complaining- "Didn't we just stitch this seam?" NOT FUN! It didn’t help that I thought my day was the 13^th (because my day for RWB was the 13^th and my day for Think Christmas was 31^st) so I was kinda freaking out and thinkin’ “there is no way I will be ready.” I wanted to give up but admitting defeat does not come easy! Thanks to Regina’s help, Carol’s “I am not an expert” post,and the tutorial over at Madamme Samm's the light bulb finally turned on, I got my bowls done and I was having fun too! I am not good at paper piecing yet but I can now say I am enjoying the learning process. I have a Craftsy class that CaMom sent me and I was so frustrated that I was just not looking forward to taking it- now I can’t wait! I have a few finishing touches I want to add to my bowls and I am excited to say, the plan I had in mind when I first saw these bowls is coming together and they will be ready for the 23^rd- which is my day! Until then, visit these blogs for their bowls or you can visit Carol’s blog for the whole schedule.

August 14th

Jen Duncan

Sharon D.

Apron Valley Road

Quilts and Quilt Things

Pieceful Life

North Hills Quilter
Vroomans Quilts

Somewhat Fanciful

Jane's Quilting

August 15th

Binks
Robin S.
Trish
Quilting Along Life's Way

Sew Me Something Good

Quilt Doodle Doodles

Happier Than A Bird Quilts

Dizzy Daze

Bee Tree Designs

Daisy Days
A Quilting Sheep

Oh yeah! I said this was gonna be a picture heavy post- I think its a WORD heavy post :)

Last weekend, My SweetMommie and I went to a quilt show during Franklin Grove’s Harvest Fest. We made Fredly come too- he was chief photographer and stuff carrier. We also took my friend Christa (who recently asked me to teach her to quilt. She is 8 years old.) Harvest Fest is also when the Chaplin Creek Historic Site is open, so we went there as well. These pictures were taken by Fredly and MySweetMommie- I will save the ones on my camera for another post!