Pattern Release-Falling For You

Falling For You is my newest pattern release on Craftsy.  I loved how this design worked up and blog friend Wendy offered to test it for me should I decide to write it up.  Decision made:)  I wrote it up last week, she tested it over the weekend.  And it is now in my Craftsy shop.

Here are my 2 versions, both in Batiks.  But you could use any fabrics of course.  I really want to make one with regular cotton quilting fabric soon.

So many of us like the fall season for various reasons, cooler weather, kids are going back to school. Or we love the sight of leaves falling to the ground in gorgeous oranges, golds and browns.  These can be made in so many color schemes, in batiks or not.   This is a quick easy pattern to whip up if you need something ready for fall which is only a month away!!  It measures 16" x 43".

Use up some scraps for your leaves!  My leaves are raw edge appliqued on after all the quilting is done. However you decide to applique it you will enjoy having this on your table for the entire fall season!

And here is Wendy's version-thanks,Wendy, for testing.  It came out fabulous!!  Love that main fabric choice.

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Finished Or Not Friday

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TGIFF(Friday Foto Fun)

Silly Mama Finishes

NTT

Oh Scrap

MCM

Monday Making

60 degree triangle runners

Fellow blogging friend Ramona recently made these 60 degree triangle table runners in a patriotic theme.  I was intrigued by her lay out.  In the past I did a different layout.  So I quickly whipped out some fall fabrics that went together nicely, cut and sewed strip sets.  Then comes the fun part of cutting the triangles and laying them out.  Yep I liked the results.  Thanks Ramona for the inspiration!

 Before long they were ready to quilt.  Straight lines and wishbones to the rescue!  

 I love how the lines formed this design!

 I found a fall vegie fabric in my stash that worked great for the backings.

Linking with Sarah and Myra

Working vacay

The hubby signed us up to go to Oshkosh WI to the EAA Airventure and camp on site at Camp Scholler.  He loves airplanes and flying, me not so much.  I do love watching some of the air shows but I am not into walking through all the planes, exhibits and vendors.  He loves it all . So I stayed in the camper sewing happily away while he was enjoying himself. Then later in the day we would go to the air show or the evening one.  Those big planes are pretty impressive and the maneuvers they can do, wow!  At night the planes are all lit up and even have fireworks shooting from the planes.  And there was also ground fireworks after the show.



A working vacation is pretty much what I had this past week from Wednesday until Sunday anyway.
This was my work station in the camper.  I have a pretty decent set up with things at my finger tips that I need.

I use my smaller Janome in the camper.  Walmart had this little fold up portable table that doubles as my ironing surface or just project holding table;)  I have a portable rolled up ironing mat and a little steam fast iron. I love that little iron!  It was a trooper even for pressing long strip sets!
I have lots of good storage for projects in the drawer under the couch and the sewing machine fits in the cabinet under the TV. A couple of my rulers even fit in the seat cushion compartment.  Yes the chair seat cushion lifts up and there is secret compartment!



First I sewed 2 sets of strip sets to make pieced borders, then I assembled 4 of these leaf table runners, not bad for 3 mornings of work!  I did have all the leaf blocks pieced before leaving home.


DH got up early each morning to go watch the Ultra light planes and powered parachutes and gliders fly.  I slept in a little then got up and sewed:)

The fun thing was that a lot of the airplanes flew directly over the camper or over the campground so I could watch a lot of them while sewing!  The little specks in the sky are powered gliders and I think one powered parachute.  This was looking out my camper door at 8am.

OMG the campground was crazy!!!!  I think everyone in the USA that owned a camper was there, LOL  The grounds opened the Sunday before we got there, and we arrived on Wednesday afternoon.  When you check in they tell you to find a spot and park your camper-WHAT?  There are no designated spots, just squeeze in where your unit fits!  It was slim pickings for spots we could fit in.  The next day there were several campers that left and we could have had a better spot. But we didn't want to go to the work of tearing down and setting back up. We filled our water tank and it lasted the 4 days, we had bought a pair of generators before we went and they powered the AC, my sewing machine, iron, and microwave.  It worked out really good.  The only thing I missed was not having good WiFi.  We had to hop a bus to a hot spot within the campground or on the grounds of the Air show.  So I didn't get to check in or respond to many of your comments on the past 2 posts until I got home.  

So this week I am going to try to quilt up a storm!  Hope you all do too:)

Linking with Connie  this week.

Secondary pattern-Island Batik challenge for July

There are so many possibilities to get a secondary design in your quilt.  You can use just one block, if it is the right one and get a secondary pattern happening after putting several of them together.  Or you can use 2 different blocks alternating throughout your quilt.

The Island Batik July challenge is creating a secondary pattern in a quilt 36" or larger.  I had been considering several different ideas but when I saw Sarah's quilt she designed for the quilt along to go with the 12 days of Christmas blog hop she was hosting I knew that was the one I wanted to do.  I chose to make mine smaller for a wall hanging.   Here are the two blocks that make up this quilt.

 I love the fall colors that Island Batik sent me.  I love working with the darker colors for fall.

Can you spot the two blocks in the quilt?  Sarah designed the border with the center block bleeding out into the outer border.  I love quilts that do that!  I used Hobbs Thermore batting in this wall hanging.  The batting sure has a different feel-stiff like, but it sure leaves a nice flat product in the end.  I will use it again it some table runners that will be in the coming months.

Everything was ruler quilting on my Nolting Funquilter except for the wishbone quilting in the outer border.  Do you like how creative I got with the quilting in corners of the border?  Usually I have a hard time with how to turn the corners while doing the wishbone-in this method there is no problem
It could be done with lots of other types of designs too.

Another monthly fun challenge thanks to Island Batik, Hobbs batting and Aurifil for providing all I needed to make this 44" x 44" wall hanging.  You will see it soon in my Etsy shop. 

Here is a list of my fellow Ambassadors, they would love it if you stop by and give them some comment love too!

Alison at Little Bunny Quilts

Amy at Sew Incredibly Crazy

Anita at Quilt in a not-Shell

Anna at Ark Angel Creations

Anne at Sweetgrass Designs

Barbara at Bejeweled Quilts

Bea at BeaQuilter

Carole at Carole Lyles Shaw

Connie at Freemotion by the River

Connie at Kauffman Designs

Dione at Clever Chameleon

Geraldine at Living Water Quilter

Jackie at If These Threads Could Talk

Janet at Whispers of Yore

Jeanette at Inchworm Fabrics

Jen at Patterns by Jen

Jennifer at Curlicue Creations

Jennifer at Dizzy Quilter

Jennifer at Inquiring Quilter

Jessica at Desert Bloom Quilting

Joan at Moosestash Quilting

Joyce at heARTs Creations

Karen at Sew Karen-ly Created

Karen at The Quilt Rambler

Kathleen at Kathleen McMusing

Laura at Slice of Pi Quilts

Leanne at Devoted Quilter

Mania at Mania for Quilts

Maryellen at Mary Mack Made Mine

Michelle at Creative Blonde

Myra at Busy Hands Quilts

Nancy at Masterpiece Quilting

Pamela at PamelaQuilts

Sally at Sally Manke

Sandra at MMM Quilts

Sarah at Sarah Goer Quilts

Sharon at Yellow Cat Quilt Designs

Sherry at Powered by Quilting  <--- me="" span="">

Stephanie at Steph Jacobson

Suzy at Adventurous Applique and Quilting

Teri at Lizard Creek Quilts

Tina at Quilting Affection Designs

Toby at Gateway Quilts & Stuff

Turid at Den Syende Himmel

Vicki at Vicki's Crafts & Quilting-YOU ARE HERE

Linking with Sarah, Beth, Beth and Connie

Christmas in July blog hop

I started following a new blog this year and when Carol asked if anyone wanted to participate in her Christmas in July blog hop I jumped on board!  Christmas decorating comes easy for me...I LOVE snowmen so of course my project is snowmen.

These little guys are scrappy white to cream pineapple blocks made using the Creative Grids pineapple ruler.  So fun to make.  A couple months ago I had one day with nothing on my schedule so I thought I would just make one snowman to see how he went together.  And well he was so stinkin' cute I had to make 4 more!!!  Yes I was able to make them all that day.

After I quilted this wall hanging I added button eyes, and used an elongated triangle fancy stitch on my Janome 7700 for his nose.  The ties on his scarf are appliqued on at this point also.

Here they are hanging out on our red door.

I used a pattern from  Cottage Rose to make this cutie! 

Thank you Carol for hosting and for letting me join in the fun!

If you are looking for even more snowmen ideas I have these patterns in my Craftsy shop.

I hope you are hopping along and getting all the cute Christmas ideas, here is the list of other bloggers. 

July 23 

Creatin' in the Sticks

MooseStashQuilting

Lily Patch Quilts

Adventurous Applique and Quilting

Melva Loves Scraps

Sew Many Yarns

Cynthia's Creating Ark

July 24

Wont-To-Be-Quilter

Words & Stitches

Home Sewn By Us

Desert Sky Quilting

Thimblemouse and Spouse

Seams To Be Sew

Clever Chameleon Quilting

July 25

Quilt Doodle Designs

Kwilty Pleasures

Creative Blonde

Just Because Quilts

Vicki’s Crafts and Quilting

Quilter in Motion

Made By Marney

July 26

Quarter Inch Crafter

Marjorie's Busy Corner

Tu-Na Quilts, Travels, and Eats

Ms P Designs USA

Selina Quilts

Beaquilter

Mountain Quiltworks

July 27

Life in the Scrapatch

Quilt n Party

Days Filled With Joy

Quilt Fabrication

All Thingz Sewn

Sew Golden A Chance

Just Let Me Quilt

Linking with Lets' Bee Social, WIP, and Wednesday Wait Loss

Pixie Squares

Finally my Pixie Squares quilt is finished!  OK I didn't start it that long ago, but still I am glad I have a finish.  It all started when I won a jelly roll of RJR's Pie Making Day.
















I love this line and it patiently waited while I looked at pattern after pattern trying to find just the right one to make.  In May I was browsing online and found Pixie Squares by Whistlepig Creek Designs.  It's modern and will fit the pattern wonderfully.  It is an instant download so I got right to work!   Did you notice RJR's jelly roll are actually called Pixie Strips and I used it to make Pixie Squares!



Before long I had this much done, and then I stalled on it to do other projects.  However I needed my design wall, so finishing the piecing of the top became my June OMG goal.

And by the end of June the top was finished.  And I had met my OMG goal.





















But the neat part was I won this bundle of Puzzle Pieces Fat Eighths from the OMG and Green Fairy!!  Now what will I make with this-at this time I have no idea, but not to worry I will get around to it:)

Then July OMG rolls around and I decided I needed to get the quilting done this month so it doesn't get to be a UFO.  But wouldn't cha know I forgot to get a post up for the OMG.  But it still got done!

A freehand allover feather done on my Funquilter was the perfect element to get it done and give it texture and movement.  My quilt measures 53" x 53".

I love the polka dot lime green that I picked up at SR Harris on my way home from the MN quilt show in June.  This was also used as the binding. 

Don't forget tomorrow starts Christmas in July there is quite a line up of blogs.   Wednesday is my day...

Linking with MCM, Monday Making, Chameleon’s Colour party, and Linky Tuesday

Leaf table runner and QAL

One day I was playing around in EQ8 and came up with this table runner.  It sat on my computer and on my brain for a few weeks before I got around to stitching it.

I quilted it and then raw edge appliqued the leaves on.  Since they are batiks I am not worrying about if they ravel so I straight stitched them on.

 I like it so much I made another!  What do you think should I write up a pattern for it?

I am working along with Sarah's 12 days of Christmas QAL, I am doing mine smaller. This will also be my July challenge for Island Batik fabrics.  I hope you will come back next week to see my finish.  Here are my first blocks all pieced.

Look who I found sneaking up to eat my spirea!! 

 Linking with Foto Fun, Friday Finished or Not, and TGIFF

Cornicopia

Yes I am still on a fall making journey!  And not done yet:)   This is the second panel I worked on last week and finished the binding Monday.  This is how the panel looked when I bought it. So pretty isn't it.  But you know what comes next for me...out comes the rotary cutter and I begin chopping it apart;)

Once the squares are all cut to size, they get set aside while I add a solid black border. And then 

I made strip sets of gold, orange and a black with tiny metallic gold specks.  This of course has to equal the size of the small panel squares.   This is a much simpler border treatment than last weeks panel received.  But I think this is still pretty effective. 

For the quilting, straight lines in the gold and orange while the metallic speckled black received some special attention with U turns to set it off even more.  And sticking to my usual interior quilting of a hook swirl finishes this one up nicely I think. 

Keeping this post simple and to the point-another one done.  Onto quilting some table runners today. 

Happy Wednesday everyone!!

Linking with Midweek Makers and WIP

Crushing on Fall

Here is the first of the fall panels that I have been working on.  This one is completely done and I am pretty happy with how it turned out.  If you have followed me for a while you know I love to take a panel and add somewhat of a fancy border to them.   Here is what this one looked like after I cut off the scroll line design that was at the top and bottom of the panel.  This one didn't need much straightening up either.  Sometimes panels can be really wonky.  The ones that are easy to straighten are ones with some background so you have area to work with to cut it straight and not loose the design.

Here I have added a 1.5" inner border and a skinnier orange border before I started adding my orange and cream flying geese border.  The black inner border added just the right number of inches to make the geese border come out just right.

The geese have flown into the right formation!

Next came a strip set of cream, orange and another cream for the outer borders.  The corner stones in checked orange and black pull it all together.  The black binding completes this wall hanging at about 38 x 32.

And of course it had to have some fun custom quilting!  I like to keep the interior panel piece simple with hook swirl freehand quilting.   

The borders got the fun stuff quilted on them.  My favorite ones to do are the U turns in the orange geese and a loop in the cream geese.  Another favorite is the ribbon candy that encompassed the orange and cream strip borders that is centered in between some straight line quilting. 

 I will definitely use this border treatment again on another panel.  In fact it might be used on the identical panel that I found in my stash.  I either forgot I had bought one before heading to Paducah or I just really like it that much I bought another, LOL  Well the other one has a black background so it will look a bit different;)

I did get some sewing done this weekend-on other upcoming projects.   I hope you managed to get some in also.   It was so humid here it was no fun to go out and do anything.  Oh wait I have one more thing to show you that I made this weekend.

I have been wanting to get back at beading bracelets.  There are so many cute ones on pinterest and this was a pattern from Reggies Creations on Etsy.  So I decided to purchase the pattern after discovering I had some beads that would work perfectly!  It was fun and easy to do.  A nice break from sewing too:)

Linking with MCM, Design wall Monday and Monday Making