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!

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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). 😀



These cute little zipper bags are made from charm squares and are good coin purses. The tutorial is from SewCanShe and is called Tiny Zipper Bags. :)


I "moose" end now. 
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Saturday, February 3, 2024

Catching up...

I had made drawstring bags for each of my grands as part of their Christmas presents and decided to make one for each of my great-nephews and my great niece whom we would be encountering in Santa Fe and in Arizona. Here are two of the bags. This is a combination pattern--the letters are a free Spell It with Moda pattern and then SewLux had the drawstring bag pattern for it. Not sure how I got the pattern now, and I didn't immediately see it on the SewLux web pages. She has other drawstring bag patterns for sale...

I ordered a log cabin table runner kit from Shabby Fabrics because my SIL in Santa Fe wanted a candle mat to match her dishes and the fabrics in this kit were just right. I used one block as the candle mat


and the other 3 to make a shorter version of the log cabin runner. She got both projects.


I think I showed this wall hanging before but I made it for my brother and SIL in Tempe, AZ.
Chris had to take a picture of me beside it. I called it Desert Convergence. It is a Harmonic Convergence, Ricky Tims pattern. 




Later this month I'll be participating in Calico Joan's It Moose Be Love hop. I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone makes, and I had better get started on my project!!




See you then!

 

Thursday, December 7, 2023

My Turn on the Cookie Hop


 Today is my turn to share on this annual eagerly-anticipated Cookie Exchange hosted by Carol of Just Let Me Quilt!

I tried two new recipes: First up is Christmas Bar Cookies from Spaceshipsandlaserbeams.com
Use the link to access the recipe, if it looks good to you. It is a version of blond brownies.
Beginning the mixing process: 

Adding in all the "goodies":

Ready for the oven:

Add more sprinkles to the top after baking, if desired, cool and eat:
YUM!!

Use the link for the recipe.
I looked for this recipe because of some shortbread cookies that we had at our church's district conference in November. There was chocolate and raspberry jam on the top of those--and they were cut into wedges-- and I had to make some.
Here is one pan out of the oven and covered with melted chocolate chips (it makes 2 pans).


I put raspberry jam on top of the chocolate on one pan of them and left the other pan just chocolate-topped and took them to my quilt group. Everyone ate the raspberry topped ones!

They were SO good! I'll be making these again.

I have some Christmas sewing projects in the works but nothing ready to show. In the meantime, enjoy 3 of my grands with Santa. I don't think little Sydney knew what was going on! She will be 2 years old on Dec. 26. Such a sweetie! (Ok, they all are!)

Enjoy the rest of the hop!
Here is the entire list for the week:

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