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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

My Turn for April Showers

Another great hop is going on, thanks to Joan at Moosestash Quilting! Already we have seen some great projects!

I did a simple one for this challenge/hop. This is a Riley Blake pillow kit from a couple of years ago when they had a kit for each month. This one is April's with appropriate raindrops.

The raindrops are all foundation paper pieced.

I love these kits--everything is furnished in them. I have done 5 or 6 and have 2 more to complete.

And, happily, I have 2 beige 20" pillows that these covers slip right onto! I can change them out seasonally or monthly. Love that!

These projects have nothing to do with April or rain, but I want to share them anyway. You saw the wallet last month.

I had a lot of left over waxed canvas and decided to make the Sandhill Sling bag with the rest of it.

It was not difficult to make and I love that these go together, but this wallet is really too big to fit easily in the bag. One of these days, I'll make a Mini Diva wallet to use in it...

Everyone enjoy the Hop!

Be sure to check out all the participants!

Monday April 22

MooseStashQuilting

Words&Stitches

Quilting Gail
Quilt Doodle Designs

Kathy's Kwilts and More

Tuesday April 23

Just Sew Quilter (you are here)

Wednesday April 24

Quilted Snail

Ms P Designs USA

Days Filled With Joy

Quilting Between the Rails (Facebook)

Bumbleberry Stitches

Thursday April 25

Thursday, April 11, 2024

April Showers Blog Hop Challenge

It won't be long before this Hop starts!

Get ready for lots of inspiration when you visit each of these blogs:

Monday April 22

MooseStashQuilting

Words&Stitches

Quilting Gail
Quilt Doodle Designs

Kathy's Kwilts and More

Tuesday April 23

Just Sew Quilter (you are here)

Wednesday April 24

Quilted Snail

Ms P Designs USA

Days Filled With Joy

Quilting Between the Rails (Facebook)

Bumbleberry Stitches

Thursday April 25

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Give It a Whirl--My Turn

Well, today is my turn for Give It a Whirl, hosted by Carol S of Just Let Me Quilt.

I knew I wanted to do something with pinwheels and when I saw this pattern on line, I decided to use it. From Monday's posts, I see I was not the only one who thought 3-D pinwheels would be fun. LOL!

The pattern said to cut 5" squares into 2.5" squares to make the pinwheels, but I decided to keep the charms full size. Using 2 charm packs, I was able to make this baby quilt.

I used some quilting from my Dot to Dot Quilting lessons from Angela Walters. I guess that kind of continues the spinning. On the outer border, I did one of my favorites--ribbon candy.

Below is the Dot to Dot Quilting panel I ordered from Angela in order to follow her instructions. It kind of spins since the colors change as your eyes move around the design.

This is the second series I have completed from her. I have learned a lot, and I especially like this dot to dot method of hers.

I know the wallet below has no pinwheels or spinning (well, the turn clasp) on it, but it sure made my head spin while I was making it. It is the Necessary Clutch Wallet by Emmaline Bags. This is the 2nd one I've made because I was thinking of teaching a class on it at our LOQ. I don't think I want to do that...

Anyway, I used waxed canvas for the outside. That is a unique experience--my 50 wt Aurifil thread breaks periodically while stitching, so I ended up finishing it with 40 wt Omni that I use for quilting.

Here is the inside of the wallet:

It has a lot of space for cards, bills, coins, a cell phone. One thing I meant to add were loops so I could attach a strap, but I forgot. Those are not in the pattern but should be.

Thanks, Carol, for another cool hop/challenge!

Please visit all the bloggers. It's always inspirational and fun!

MARCH 18

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Coming Soon...

Next week is the "Give It a Whirl" blog hop/challenge hosted by Carol of Just Let Me Quilt.

Here is the list of participants:

MARCH 18

MARCH 19

Quilting Between The Rails

MARCH 20

MARCH 21

Kathy's Kwilts and More

Homespun Hannah's Blog

Thursday, February 22, 2024

It Moose Be Love--My Turn

Today is my turn for the It Moose Be Love hop hosted by Calico Joan of Moosestash Quilting.

No moose for me though...

I'll start with this paper pieced heart. The free pattern is from The Seasoned Homemaker.

I made 6 of them for a wall hanging, decided I didn't want 6 in the wall hanging and made 2 little pieces with individual hearts. After quilting them on my domestic machine, using these small projects, I taught my SIL how to face a quilt instead of using the traditional binding. This is hers in their condo.

Here is my wall hanging with 4 hearts.

It has the same purple border as the individual ones, and the quilting is the same around the hearts.

Most of my quilting is done on my sit-down long arm: a Juki Miyabi QVP. I wish I had room for a long arm on a frame, but I don't. I'm thankful I have this Juki!

I faced this wall hanging since I had no more purple for the binding. 😁

Jana, owner of my local quilt shop, Stewart's Sewing, made a Cassie's Cutie bag (by Marlous Designs) and I loved it--had to make my own. It's really small and great when you are doing touristy things, only needing some money, ID, phone. Then I made a mini Diva wallet to go with it--the regular sized wallets are too big. I actually made the wallet body twice. The directions said to use Decor Bond as the interfacing and that was entirely too thick and stiff. I couldn't get the wallet frame on the ends of the body. From now on, when I make these, I will use only my fusible lightweight interfacing! That worked great. You'll notice I used heart fabric to go with our theme (and I just noticed the hearts are upside down when the wallet is closed--lol). 😀