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Monday, February 17, 2020

Color It Red Blog Hop

I had no problem at all signing up for this hop as I have an amazing amount of red in my scrap and stash bins just begging to be used and this year I wanted to actually make a dent (tee, hee) in both of those collections.

I will begin with an apology. Sometime in January I saw a woven pin cushion out there somewhere. I thought it was a great idea and filed it in my memory for a future to do.

Color me Red sounded like a perfect opportunity for making it. Pulled the fabric from my scrap bin and couldn't remember where I saw the darn thing. I did hunt and I am sorry I can't give credit where credit is due. Thank you Linda for the link to the pattern The Sewing Loft

So I faked my way through it.

Took some pictures and now realize you can't really see how cute the concept is. The weaving is very loose so you can see the background and use the strips for holding scissors, clips and pins.

So this is the general idea of the pin cushion I saw but hers/his had a much better looking finish on the ends. Again, so sorry.

In January, I had a give away. The winner was Colette.

When given the choice of color for me to make her a pouch and key fob she said aqua or RED. she did not put the request in caps, but how perfect a choice was that.

Since I'm not really sure about picking the color Aqua/Teal I made her a best guess pouch and a red pouch because you know, it's Red month.

Well at that point I was covered for this hop. Then The Quilt Guild of the Villages had its BiAnnual quilters Market event where I picked up (among other things) the Creative Grids Scrap Crazy 8" template set.

I was able to turn this top out in 2 days. The red in the blocks is from scrap. The border and binding came from stash. The black/white fabric is new. My local Quilt shop had a great sale on its wide for backing fabric and I fell in love with this one. I purchased all that they had. About 9 yards of wide or if you look at it the other way 18 plus yards of 45 wide fabric. A really big increase to my stash.

Finished the quilting and binding the following weekend (mostly between the adds during super bowl) and now have the second quilt for H2H 2020 ready to go.

This is what happens when you turn your back on a windy day. This is the picture of the back.

And last but not least

Operation Shoebox (goodie boxes for our troops) sent out a request for sewers who could whip up some of these wine bags that they use for fund raising. They did not supply the wine but they did supply the pre cut fabric and pattern. Yes they supplied me with RED fabric this week.

With the fabric chosen and precut the bags only require about 10 -12 minutes each of my sewing/pressing time. I'm now committed to one of packet of 5 pre cuts a week. (so this week, the pack they gave me contains 7 in spring florals. Timing is everything.

So this is just the first day of this hop so kindly brought to you by Carol over at Just Let Me Quilt

Thank you Carol for coordinating yet another wonderful hopping event.

Please give your self a treat and stop by and visit all of the other hoppers, you will be so glad you did. For your convenience here is a complete list of people to visit this week.

February 17^th

Creatin' in the Sticks

Websterquilt

Vroomans Quilts

Hill Valley Quilter

Selina Quilts (you are here)

Kathy's Kwilts and More

February 18^th

Cynthia's Creating Ark

February 19^th

Everyone Deserves a Quilt

February 20^th

Life in the Scrapatch

Songbird Designs

High Road Quilter

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

February 21^st

Becky’s Adventures in Quilting and Travel

Friday, January 24, 2020

The Winter Blues - Blog Hop

Welcome to The Winter Blues Blog Hop. It is kind of a Blue day since it is the last day of sharing terrific projects with Blue as their focus. Another great idea brought to us by Carla of Creatin In The Sticks So a big Thank You for another round of fun and ideas to add to our to do lists.

My quilting goal for 2020 is to make better use of the boxes of scraps and drawers of stash fabric taking up space in my home. Yes I will continue to buy new but I really need to focus on using up some of what I have. Therefore every blog hop I participate in this year will have at least one thing in it made using scraps or stash or both.

So to kick off the 2020 blog hops I have made a couple of zip purses using stash fabric.

These pouches were made for a zip pouch swap I participated in earlier this month. Once my swap partner let me know that she was open to getting her pouch in any color I was on a Winter Blues roll.

I made 2 pouches because I made them on my embroidery machine and that just felt like I was cheating. It is a design I got from Designs by JuJu

So now I have a question for you. When does a scrap become a scrap? This key fob was made with a piece of left over fabric from the fat quarter used to make this pouch. So does it qualify as scrap or just stash because it didn't get as far as the scrap box only to the end of the cutting table. hmmmmmmmmm

I think I'll give one away (pouch and key fob set) on Monday AM (1/27/2020) to one of you who leaves a comment.

Several of my quilting associates have been making these vinyl covered candy bag pouches. Well when it was suggested that we included other small items for our swap partner with our pouch I felt the need to go out and find a candy bag that not only had individually wrapped candies inside but that was also blue.

I was tickled that I found this one. The only problem was I didn't take into account that the bag was tall and thin making the zipper opening a bit small. Yeah I know I could have done it on the side but.

After it was finished I did check and it will hold a rotary cutter just fine.

Before I knew that I could make blue pouches I got started on a blue scrap quilt using this super simple block made up of 2.5 X 4.5 pieces. I love the quilt but it is depressing that it didn't make a dent in my blue scraps.

This lovely piece is made of stash fabrics. It is the back of the scrap quilt. I'm not sure which side I like more.

This quilt will go to Hands 2 Help 2020 Comfort Quilt Challenge this spring.

If you haven't already, do yourself a favor and drop in and visit all of the other participants in this wonderful sharing of Winter Blues ideas. Here is the complete list just in case.

Thanks for stopping in and visiting. Hope to have you back again soon.

Monday, January 20th

Just Let Me Quilt

Bumbleberry Stitches

QuiltFabrication

Mary Mack Made Mine
VROOMANS QUILTS
Just Because Quilts
Kathleen McMusing

Den syende himmel
Beaquilter

Tuesday, January 21st

Quilted Delights

Kathy's Kwilts and More

Farm Quilter

Homespun Hannah's Blog
Elizabeth Coughlin Designs
Quilting & Learning: What a Combo
Life in the Scrapatch
PamelaQuilts
Home Sewn By Us

Wednesday, January 22nd

Little Bunny Quilts

For the love of geese

The Joyful Quilter

Ms P Designs USA
Quilt Schmilt
Karen's Korner
Made By Marney
Podunk Pretties
Sunshine in the Attic

Thursday, January 23rd

Websterquilt

Songbird Designs

Cynthia's Creating Ark

Storied Quilts
Patchwork Breeze
Seams To Be Sew
HeARTsCreations
Becky’s quilts and adventures
DesertSky Quilting

Friday, January 24th

MooseStashQuilting
Selina Quilts
LimeLeaves Design
Karrin's Crazy World
Sew Many Yarns
Domestic Felicity
DayBrook Designs

Creatin' in the Sticks

Saturday, December 28, 2019

Christmas 2019 Incoming

I love Christmas. I love making and giving and I'm not adverse to receiving. I have a few old friends who I exchange handmade items with every year and I generally make some type of small gift to send to family with their main gifts. My next post will be dedicated to the outgoing but this posting is dedicated to the lovely homemade gifts I have received this year.

My friend B got a lovely Bernina from her hubby for Christmas a little early, just before Thanksgiving. She made this wonderful pillow for me on it.

It came with this great matching ornament that was ridiculously hard to photograph. This picture just doesn't do it justice.

my friend P made this beautifully hand quilted table runner.

and included in the package were these amazing buttons.

I love them. For the time being I am going to pin them to my design wall and just admire them. One of these days I'll come up with a plan for them but it will have to be a very special project.

I also exchanged goodies with some local friends.

I love FSL and received 3 beautiful FSL ornaments

And then there is this very cool snow

globe. Can't wait to try a few of these on my own.

Then there are the quilty thoughtful gifts from those who are not the crafty type but who really, really know me well.

Gift cards to my favorite quilt store in Wildwood, FL

a just a wonderful quilty gift from a quilt buddy

The small wool ironing mat. I already own the large one but this one is 10 inches square and fits right next to the machine or the mobile cutting mat. Perfect for the many small projects I like tinkering with.

My thanks to all of my quilty buds.

Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year.

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Christmas Virtual Cookie Exchange - Annual Blog Hop

Merry Christmas and welcome to the Annual Virtual Cookie Exchange.

I have only participated in this hop I think once as I'm not a baker. I signed up this time because there were non baking options.

Well since I showed up I decided to give the cookie part a shot and once again I have proved my basic inability to bake.

Started the process and pulled together the ingredients. I could find 3 of the 8 needed.

Run to the super marker for the remainder.

It is pretty much a buttery shortbread type dough spread on a cookie sheet and covered with raspberry jelly and chopped walnuts and baked.

So where could that go wrong. Well I think for starters the sheet I used was way to heavy. And I apparently did a bit too much baking.

The upside is that the dough was so buttery the above pan ended up looking like this

after being wiped with a couple of paper towels.

After a bunch of fussie cutting I was able to put together a tray to take to Thanksgiving dinner

with leftovers.

They were not as bad as I expected just a bit dry but great with coffee.

So back to the options Carol offered to participate in this hop. I'm going with Christmas pieces from the past.

In this book from the distant past (publish date 1995 are patterns for jointed Christmas ornaments. Many years ago, maybe 2005 ish, I made these ornaments for my office staff and family. I always loved them. So every year when I pull my deorations out and see my lone jointed Santa I tell myself how this year I'll make some more just for me.

So thank you Carol for bring out these memories and giving me the incentive to slide a couple of gifts for me in to the holiday creating mix.

The scariest part was that I found the book in the first place I looked for it.

We had house guests for Thanksgiving breakfast and then we all went to dinner at friends. So after breakfast and before dinner I sat down and started the process while everyone else watched foot ball.

Copy the design to a fusible

Pull some scraps

Fuse the scraps to felt

Break for a wonderful dinner with friends. Come home and finish the process to more football.

Cut out

Add the details as in Jointed Arms and Legs

Iron and hand sew on the buttons and beads, no machine. I actually used a marker for the bears nose and mouth and around Santa's beard and eyes. I am so very happy with myself.

And because my deal with myself was to do at least one embroidered piece per hop for 2019 I am going to show one of the very first pieces I made on my machine, last December, just for kicks and giggles.