Hippity Hop

In Friday's post I asked if you could guess what I was working on, two of you got it right! 

It's an Easter table runner.

Well actually two of them. 

I used the same backing for them so they were on the longarm at the same time. Isn't that backing just the cutest with these bunnies.  I did not purchase them to go together nor at the same time.

Saturday was my local longarm meeting, after I got home from that we processed some berries that we had frozen from a while back. We have berry jam, sooooo good!!  The berries included mostly raspberries, others were strawberries, juneberries and a few blueberries. The jam flavor came out as mostly raspberries.

I forgot to show you the apple butter we made a few weeks ago using apples from our tree.

Hope you all had a great weekend.  Will I see you over at these linky parties?

Sew and Tell Monday, Monday Musings and Design Wall Monday.

What am I working on...

Can you guess what I am making?  I should have it done for a Monday post:)

These are finishes from this past week...

This round one with blue snowman and snowflakes was a request from a customer so she could put it out after Christmas for the winter. 

Hope to see you Monday!

Linking with Beauties Pageant, Finished or Not Friday, TGIFF, Off The Wall Friday.

It's getting to be the season

It's snowing season I guess as I heard Colorado got hit yesterday. Did you get any where you live? We did not and I don't want any yet! But that doesn't mean I can't sew up some snowmen.)  I confess this one has been done a while and I forgot to blog about it.

You might have already guessed that the center is a panel. The borders were fun to work on with  a flying geese tree.

and friendship stars.

A more recent finish was a Snow Dudes runner.

You can find the pattern for this one HERE. Sew fun to make;)

And last but not least is this snowman wall hanging.  You might recognize it as I made a different version of it HERE.

Linking with these party goers--Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, NTT and Put Your Foot Down.

Scrappy bricks

I don't know about you but I still have quilt fabric from the 80-90's lurking about. Yes I kinda hate admitting that but on the other hand with fabric getting so expensive I really love having a large stash to shop in!!  When I am making scrappy quilts for donation these work great.  

Using the #2 and #8 Accuquilt dies from the 12" cube made quick work of cutting the blue and neutral scraps for the bricks.  I keep checking out the companion sets for the 12" cube too. So many ideas floating about! I like the corner sets too!

I started this quilt in September at retreat and finished piecing the top here at home later on.  The quilting, which I kept simple, was done recently.

I had yardage in these blues also so that became a pieced back and navy binding. The plan is to give this quilt along with six others to my DIL who will give to her church group that goes to the Twin Cities to serve those in need. I hope someone will love cuddling up in it this winter. 

Linking up with Oh Scrap!, Sew and Tell Monday, Monday Musings and Design Wall Monday.

Gingham toppers

These have been a hot commodity in my Etsy shop as of lately. I don't mind a bit.  This summer I pieced two of them and they sold in September and earlier this month, you can see them in this POST. You can see that the medium in those is different from the ones below that I have done during the past week.

I love this peppermint candy fabric that I used for the medium value in these new versions.

I am cutting the entire topper with Accuquilt dies. There are 32 flying geese(green) and the background(white w/red dots) triangles for them is 64! That would be a lot of cutting using a ruler!!

Here is the back for the first one. 

And the back for the second one is almost the same!

And the back for the third one is all one piece. I love making these!  The pattern is from Primrose Cottages but I tweaked it a bit.  I made trees from the flying geese and omitted the stars in the corners. Plus I used a different size for the gingham center blocks. But it still resembles their pattern;)

Linking with these Wednesday parties---Midweek Makers and Wednesday Wait Loss. 

and Thursday with NTT and Put Your Foot Down

It's all about the snowmen

You all know how much I love snowmen!  It doesn't matter what month or time of year it is I can make them:)  Recently I made one of these and when it sold it was time to make another. I didn't even get to blog about the first one but it was identical to this one.

So fun to make! At just 14"x22" it can fit just about anywhere.  I put a hanging sleeve on to the back so it can be hung or laid on a little table. 

I used the alphabet Accuquilt dies to do the words in white felt with fusible on the back.

 This next project has been done a while and I forgot to blog about it.  The pineapple snowman table runner is one I have done a few times also. A good one to reduce a few whiteish scraps. The pineapple Creative Grids ruler was used for it.

On the domestic side of things apple picking has taken place, well some were picked there are more still on the tree.

A Dutch apple pie was made, I'd offer you a piece but it's all gone already! I know it's not nice to tease you, I'm sorry;)

That's it for today!  There will be a few more finishes this week, what will they be?  You might want to stop back in a few days to find out;)

Linking with Monday Musings, Design Wall Monday and Sew and Tell Monday.

Flower Power and more

Doesn't the border on this quilt remind you of flower power!!  It was so fun to make from a Villa Rosa pattern called Cinnamon Stix. A very easy and fast quilt to make.  I modified it a bit to fit the amount of fabric I had.  This is more child size. I had pieced it late this summer and quilted this week.

Some pretty pink flannel piecing for the back.

A quick stipple on the long arm keeps it soft and cuddly.

Since it was a quick finish I moved on to quilt this one that has patiently waited it's turn on the long arm.  I found a free tutorial for it HERE

Another quick stipple with a monkey print flannel back. These are both donation quilts. 

Nope not done yet!  This one was in the to be quilted pile also. This was not as quick to quilt as I did lots of custom on it with rulers and freehand.

  

The snowman is a panel and I added the green border, along with the black snowflake print with the inserted red strip to meet the friendship stars. I had made one last year and sold it, now this one is sold already too.  It's the last panel I have of it, so time to move on to a different one;)

Linking with TGIFF, Finished or Not Friday, Beauties Pageant

 

Through 10/29/24 Accuquilt is offering $5 flat rate ground shipping, orders $150+ ship free

Sailing to a finish!

The sailboats have crossed the finish line!  This block is so easy to do using the 12" Accuquilt cube. Using the #5 and #8 dies made it so quick to cut and piece.  And it finally made it to the quilting machine this week.  

This will be a donation quilt I will send home with my DIL next month for her group to give the quilt to someone in need. 

Thank you accuquilt for the 12" cube to help speed up my quilt making for some donation quilts.

 Accuquilt is having a Better Than Black Friday sale still good through today -- 40% Off Your Order $40+ (Use Code: FRIDAY40)  A great time to stock up on dies or perhaps you have been wanting to get started with Accuquilt. The above link is my affiliate link, I may receive a small commission at no extra charge to you for using my link. Thank you to those that do:)

Linking with Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, NTT and Put Your Foot Down, TGIFF, Finished or Not Friday.

Chipping away at the quilting pile

 The 'to be quilted' pile has grown as I sneak in a little piecing here and there this past month. So it was time to reduce that pile by getting these three quilted and bound in between working on the donation quilts. 

The pattern I used to make these is a free one from Krista Moser using the 60 degree diamond ruler.  I did do mine a tad different as I used three 2.5" strips instead of  six 1.5" strips for the star. 

I had so much fun picking the fabrics that I made three of these, all Christmas ones.

The last one is all about those snowflakes.

Stay tuned for more finishes this week, I have a plan!!

Linking with Monday Musings, Design Wall Monday and Sew and Tell Monday.

Fall in our neighborhood.

AccuQuilt sale (affiliate link)

10/18/24-10/23/24--Better Than Black Friday -- 40% Off Your Order $40+ (Use Code: FRIDAY40)