Spring has me wishing for warmer temps and butterflies all around! This blue, pink and purple floral fabric was calling out to have butterflies flitting about. So I listened;) I used the Accuquilt butterfly BOB(block on board) die. All the butterfly parts were cut in one pass making this one easy to do.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Butterflies
Monday, April 22, 2024
Morning Glories and scrap processing
I am so in the spring mood! Over the weekend I pulled out and went through a bin of some floral fabric that I had purchased for making purses(which I no longer am making). These morning glories caught my attention and I remembered I had made a wedge runner with them before. That one having sold I could use another. Quilting on it should happen this week.
Linking with Sew and Tell Monday, Design Wall Monday and Monday Musings.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Finishes and blogger issues
I did crank out a couple of finishes this week. The quilting machine was purring right along on Monday and Tuesday and binding happened on Wednesday and Thursday. These were pieced during the winter.
Recently I posted about working on yellow and white blocks, several of you were anxious to see what they would become. Ta da!! Here it is. I pieced two of these over the winter and quilted both this week. Once again I only bound one of them. These are made using the Morning Star Accuquilt BOB die. It makes easy work of cutting and piecing the little triangles. I wouldn't attempt them without the die.
Blogger issues...I used to be able to click the notify me box that you see when you go to make a comment and that way all of your comments came into my email. In the last two months that hasn't worked. Well shoot I sometimes(ok a lot of the time) forget to check back here on the blog to read comments. I mean a girl(quilter) has lots of things to do and we can't remember them all, LOL. Is this issue of not getting comments in your email happening to you also? Anyone heard of a fix for this?
Monday, April 15, 2024
Patriotic Strips and Salsa
It's closing in on Patriotic times so I worked on two of the Strips and Salsa runners from one of GE Designs. This is a pattern in her book Stripology. They are easy to make and pretty quick, both of these were pieced in an afternoon.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Strawberry finishes
You might remember back in February I posted that I was making strawberry blocks. I have since turned them into three table runners. Pictured below is one of them. I had previously finished two runners and packed them away. I managed to remember to take this one's photo before packing it away.
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Purple maple leaves
I am joining in again this month for the Table Scraps challenge at The Joyful Quilter. The color this month is Purple and the theme is birds. I decided to make purple maple leaves using the Accuquilt maple leaf die. Using the die makes things so quick and easy.
Speaking of Accuquilt (I am an affiliate) these are the sales right now...
Monday, March 18, 2024
Fast and More Fun blog hop with Villa Rosa Designs
When I was asked if I would like to participate this year I couldn't answer fast enough, YES, of course!! First blog hops are so fun, but add in the Villa Rosa Designs that really ramps it up! Have you ever tried their patterns? They are printed on Rose cards the size of a post card. And at only $2 each you can try a bunch of them. You can also get them as a .pdf too. These are the five patterns we could choose from for this hop. You can purchase them HERE if you like or enter into the drawing for a chance to win, info below.
The Clover table runner is the one I chose to whip up. And when I say whip up I mean it is really a quick make that has a stunning finish. I didn't have access to my long arm right now so I wasn't able to quilt it up, that will happen next month. This measures 17"x 56".
As I mentioned this is very quick since there is very little cutting. While sewing it I used my little clippies to help line up the seams.
Friday, March
15th
- Kathleen McCormick https://kathleenmcmusing.com/
- Cheree H -- http://livelylatte.blogspot.com/
- Roseanne Nelson -- https://www.homesewnbyus.com
- Wendy Tuma -- https://www.piecefulthoughts.com/
- C&T (Valerie) -- https://www.ctpub.com/blog/
Saturday March
16th
- Bernie Kringle -- https://needleandfoot.com/
- Sandra Walker -- https://www.mmmquilts.com/
- Linda -- https://www.texasquiltgal.com/
- Debbie Huber – http://time4stitchn.blogspot.com/
- SIY (Branyn/Jennifer) – https://siysewityourself.com/
Sunday, March
17th
- Carolyn -- https://quarterinchcapers.blogspot.com/
- Emily (Norton House) -- https://www.nortonhousequilting.com/blogs/news
- Gail Shepperd -- https://quiltinggail.com/
- Susan Slaton -- http://wazoonewsbits.blogspot.com/
Monday, March
18th
- Nann Hilyard – https://withstringsattached.blogspot.com/
- Jaftex (Jennifer) -- https://scottfortunoff.com/
- Jan Altomare -- https://www.cocoaquilts.com/
- Tricia – http://quiltwithaview.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, March
19th
- Joy -- https://shout4joy-shouting.blogspot.com/
- Emily Leachman -- http://thedarlingdogwood.blogspot.com/
- Vicki S -- https://knitbug2.blogspot.com You are here!
- Rose Mikulski -- https://somethingrosemade14.blogspot.com/
- QOVF (Lexie) -- https://www.qovf.org/
Wednesday, March 20th
- Nancy -- https://www.graceandpeacequilting.com/
- Jocelyn -- https://happycottagequilter.blogspot.com/
- Tracie -- https://joyfullytracie.com/
- Daryl Perry -- https://patchouli-moon-studio.blogspot.com/
- Electric Quilt (Diane) -- https://doyoueq.com/blog/
Thursday, March
21st
Linking with: Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss
Monday, March 11, 2024
New project
Fellow blog friend Sara has been whipping up the cutest project bags and it tempted me to let my inner squirrel out and make them also.
Monday, March 4, 2024
Table scraps
How is it that we got into March already! Ok I know, day by day, LOL. But seriously the time has flown by so fast already this year, before long it will be summer. Well in my creative mind I am thinking ahead to summer at least and making a project for the Table Scraps challenge at The Joyful Quilter. The color for February was red and the theme was hearts. I didn't have the right fabric with me for hearts so I settled for just using red. I'll get to the red in a minute;) but first we have some blue and white, lots of flying geese units.
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
A new tripple zipper bag
Well what do we do on a rainy day, well sew/quilt of course!! I really needed a new little bag/pouch to carry my phone, keys, chapstick, a few dollars etc. This free pattern/tutorial from A Quilter's Table was perfect for that the first time I made it so I went for it again.
Saturday, February 3, 2024
A Blog Hop is coming
A Villa Rosa blog hop is happening in March. I am tickled to be included! I'll be secretly sewing away soon:) I think my project will center around this charm pack.
Friday, February 2, 2024
Getting back to blogging
Hello, hello my fellow quilting peeps. While I have really enjoyed my blogging break it's time to get back to posting. Even though I wasn't writing posts I have been keeping busy.
Thursday, December 21, 2023
A brown Christmas
It's going to be a brown Christmas this year as we don't have any snow, we might get rain instead. So unusual for us, but loving the little warmer temps near or in the 40's. Are you having a white Christmas or not this year?
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Snowman projects
Last weekend I had a bit of free time so I decided to put the finishing touches on these three little cross stitch pieces. They had been stitched in the last couple years, once the stitching was all done I put them aside. The plan was to make them into little bowl fillers.
But as you see that plan morphed into something else! A little garland to hang on my entry way quilt hanger sounded like a better idea as I have lots of snowman items to sit about here and there.
Another Snow Dudes table runner was needed.