Snowman, StarStruck and Hocus Pocus!

 I have been very busy this week. Two of these Snow Dudes have been pieced and one quilted. 

I finished up this blue Starstruck table runner.

Then onto piecing two Gnome runners and I even pieced their backings! Maybe I'll be quilting them while you are reading this;)

Hubby was gone so I had a bit of extra time last night and I finished making this stitchin' into a little pillow.  I stitched this a couple years ago as a SAL with Primrose Cottage. Between the Aida cloth and the fabric I added a colorful ribbon from my card making supply. It didn't want to stitch right so I glued it on. 

Just the right addition to my little Halloween display. 

Vacy fun and more table runners

Let's begin with our little vacay over the weekend. The hubby and I decided on a whim to get away for the weekend and go into Wisconsin and do some ATV trail riding. The weather was perfect for it. We did two trails, one on Saturday and one on Sunday. In a previous year we did part of them. We got to see some leaves showing their beautiful fall colors. Definitely not at their peak yet. 

We were having a great time out on the trail, until we came upon a head on collision of two side by side ATVs. We didn't stick around as there were lots of people in those groups. They were waiting for the ambulance, EMTs, cops, and DNR. Yes there were injuries. I saw one of them holding a towel to their head. Not sure how many people were involved but more than two for sure. It happened on a blind curve but for sure one of them was on the wrong side of the trail.  We continued on our way a little more cautious as there were so many ATVs out there and too many going to fast.  Eventually we came to the end of the trail and turned around to go back to the hotel, The accident scene hadn't been cleared and the injured were still there. Two helicopters were sitting on the highway, they couldn't get close to the scene as it was at least a half mile in on the trail so that an ambulance couldn't get in there either. Two people were air lifted for sure, don't know about the others but it sure was a commotion of professionals doing their jobs. They were not letting any ATV's go through that part of the trail and after a bunch of us were waiting for 30 minutes or so they told us another route we could use to get to where we needed.  I just hope that those people are going to be okay. 

We stopped for lunch at one of the pull outs and as we were eating I looked up and saw Smoky the Bear, LOL.  🠟

I have the Etsy App on my phone so it cha-chings when I have a sale. My phone was pretty busy all weekend! So when we got home Monday I got busy and shipped out several runners. And overnight I had two more to ship!  So you know what I will be doing this week!!  But first here are a couple items I finished before we left town. This Halloween swirl runner was for an order, she had seen the round one in these fabrics and asked if I could make a swirl one in those. 

Another gal might be interested in this snowman wall hanging as she bought two other of my fall ones and said how much she liked this size. I whipped up two identical ones, just in case;) This is one of my patterns which can be found HERE.

And since snowmen and snowflakes go together so well I whipped up this blue delectable mountains with blue and silver snowflake fabric. The white background fabric has sparkles in it making it so elegant. 

I guess I was still in the snowflake mood so I used red with silver snowflakes for the background of this runner from my starburst tutorial. This is one that sold over the weekend. Okay I'll be working away while you are reading this as I have several things that need quilting.

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Cornerstones

 Another cornerstone runner made it's way to the finish line. 

I have been using a lot of fall colored strips from this little bin. Soon I will have to cut a few more to get lots of different prints.

My hubby made me some square clappers, they work great to use on these square centers for these runners. 

Another pieced backing to make this long enough for this runner.

Linking with Monday Musings, and Sew and Tell Monday

Christmas Trees

This is a new project, never before made until the past few days! 

Five Christmas tree blocks made using two dies from the 8" cube from Accuquilt. This makes flying geese so easy!  I added a polka dot sashing to the sides of the tree before surrounding the block with red, green, white stripe.  The outside border consists of holly and chickadees, because chickadees sit in trees.

The backing needed just a bit more than the 44" WOF so I added a green polka dot strip in the middle of it. 

 Linking with Design Wall Monday, Monday Musings, Patchwork and Quilts, Sew and Tell Monday

Processing scraps

 I have kept a bin loaded with all the fabrics I used for my maple leaf runners. There was parts, strips and chunks in there, some leftover from when I did paper pieced leaf blocks. It was getting to be so messy, so Saturday afternoon I did something about that. I processed a lot of scraps into 2.5" squares. 

If it was a WOF x 2.5" strip I didn't cut it up, that way I can make strip sets and then cut. My bin looks much neater now! Squares are in one bag and leaf parts in another bag. The strips and sashings are in one pile. There are a few chunks I didn't process yet, I'll do that as needed. 

Then I got to making the borders for these two runners that I pieced on Friday. All ready for quilting soon as I am out of these. I love using up some scraps in the process!

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Fall is still in full swing

 I was debating whether to post or not because these are more remakes so you've seen me make these pattern before. But the backings are different on these, LOL. 

Here is the one I made before, see it has a different backing :)

This is also another remake. The previous one is HERE. If you look closely you will see the fabrics are  placed differently as I don't try to replicate the exact placement each time. I just grab each piece, cut and sew each one without looking at a pic of the previous runner. Another will get made this week too.

I mostly show the repeats for my own purpose but also to let you know I am still quilting otherwise I wouldn't have a lot to post about right now. 

I want to thank all of you that left me condolences on my friends passing, I appreciate your kind words.

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Holiday quilting

 It's been a productive week, lots of quilting happened. From the start to the end, picking fabric to binding each one.  And all from the stash. First up a 10 degree round wedge topper for the holidays. I picked the focus fabric, the holly one first and then picked the coordinating and background fabric. I have a tutorial for this topper on my tutorial page if you are interested.

Definitely time to finish some snowmen for the shop. This is my Snow Dudes pattern. I pieced two of these and only quilted the one for now. 

Buffalo Plaid has been a favorite in the past and I hope they continue to be. Two of these pieced and only one quilted for now. I have two other table runners and a wall hanging I am working on too. 

I received some sad news yesterday, my Wisconsin quilting friend of 20 years passed away recently. We connected online over our knitting machines and then learned we were both quilters. I have been to her house several times while we attended the Wisconsin quilt show and always looked forward to when we could get together. The last two years she invited me to a quilt retreat that she attended with friends from her area. I am already missing her as we texted often sharing our ideas and accomplishments of our quilting projects. I knew something was going on with her health this summer, but wasn't expecting the end to come so soon. My heart goes out to her family. RIP Sandi B. 

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Pumpkin Harvest

Pumpkin Harvest was long overdue to be made again. Pieced and quilted in the last few days. 

A fun little wall hanging at 12"x 25". The pattern can be found in my Esty pattern shop HERE.

I put triangles in the corner to hook a dowel rod in. Well shoot I put the backing on upside down, didn't notice till I took the photo! It's the backing and won't be seen:-l

Or it can be a door banner. 

Short and sweet for today;)

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Sunflower fun

 I started stitching this Sunflower piece over a month ago. It didn't take long to finish the cross stitch and then it sat, I kinda have a theme with that on several projects!  Well yesterday I decided I had just enough time to make it into something. It's a freebie from our friend Melisa who generously makes and gives us new stitchin' patterns all the time, thank you Melisa!!

I knew I wanted it to be a little pillow. And I had fabric in mind as I just finished another project with it. The brown with gold metallic dots was the perfect framing fabric and then I added a somewhat checkerboard gold and ivory fabric to finish it off. I say somewhat as when I started I didn't figure the aida cloth size right for the checkerboard. Therefore the checkerboards ended up an odd size and doesn't match in  the corners perfectly, I am okay with it because it is done;)  A half hour later and it was done and on display in my entry way.

Since it matched the wall hanging I just finished it needed to be a prop!!  Squeeee, it's perfect, I am in love with it!!  The wall hanging is my pattern called Welcome the Sunflowers which can be found in my Etsy pattern shop HERE.

Linking with Sew and Tell Monday, Design Wall Monday, Patchwork & quilts and Monday Musings. 

Pumpkins, gourds and more

I just had to quilt this up yesterday. Seriously amazed myself as I really like it now that it's done! If you read my Wednesday post I commented I never really liked the gourd/pumpkin panel after I got it home. So it had been in time out for at least 3 years. 

The panel squares have a plum background so I added a plum batik to them before adding the orange batik border. Cross hatch was perfect for the panel squares. And the orange border got piano key quilting.

Looking through the stash for a backing yielded this plum purple fall leaves which was perfect for it. I had to add the orange strip to make it wide enough and now the fall leaves print is all used up except for a bit of scrap. Tomorrow I will hopefully get better photos and get it listed. Today was a very cool day and gloomy so these were the best I could do.  

When this was done I went on to cut out a few other runners so perhaps they will get worked on in the next few days. 

Linking with TGIFF, Finished or Not Friday, Off The Wall, Brag About Your Beauties.

 

It's Fall

 Hello September which typically means its fall! So Monday I put up a few of my fall decor items.  This is in our entry way where my treadle always resides. I made this pumpkin quilt many years ago, it's still a favorite for September. I believe it is a Thimbleberries pattern.  I might add a few more items to this display but I ran out of time. We are getting ready for some Arizona friends to visit today and have dinner with us.

In between cleaning house yesterday I managed to get this one pieced. The four pumpkin/gourd blocks are part of six blocks on a panel I purchased long ago. After getting it I was not inspired to make something with it and it sat in time out at the bottom of a show box of panels. From time to time I pulled them out and looked at them and didn't like them.  

A couple weeks ago I pulled it out, again, determined to do something with it. I cut them apart and threw them on the design wall, picked a few fabrics that would go with that coloring of plum, orange and a funky green. And then they hung out there until yesterday. I sashed and border them with a plum batik and an outer border of orange batik. Boom done! Well it needs quilting yet. But the funny thing is I kinda like it now, hahaha.

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Maple leaf progress

 Remember all the maple leaf parts I posted about on Wednesday, I worked on 12 blocks. Three of each color. Do you wonder why the pile of gold ones are in the corner by themselves? Well they were in time out!  Wednesday I went to my blog buddy's house to sew....Wendy from Piecefulthoughts invited me up for the day!! We hadn't gotten together in a very long time, it was so fun to catch up and so fun to see her quilt room remodel, ooh la la it was so pretty! Thanks Wendy for a fun day. 

Back to the gold blocks that were in time out...I might have been chatting a bit too much and I sewed two pieces wrong in each of the three gold leaves. I didn't allow Jack(seam ripper) to come out of hiding while at Wendy's so I packed them up and went home. Thursday morning I fixed those mistakes. And hurried onward to add the sashings etc. to all twelve so I would eventually have three runners. 

 

After lunch I was getting tired and knew I would not be able to finish them all then. So I decided to take four blocks, the pieced border squares and get one table runner all pieced and find the backing so I could quilt it today while you are reading this;)  See that cute coffee mug and fall fat quarters in it, a gift from Wendy! She is such a sweetie. We had a great day.

I do believe this is my last post for August, can you believe how fast this month/year has gone! I hope you all have a wonderful Labor Day weekend. I know I have some domestic stuff to do, but I also want to quilt. 

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New but not new

 I have spent a lot of time the last two days cutting out leaf blocks(for runners) and a couple of gingham/tree runners. Thank goodness I invested in the Maple leaf Accuquilt die! 

Yes I know these look just like the ones I posted on Friday. But this one was pieced on Sunday morning and quilted a couple hours later. Now I still need another, yep you guessed it, this one sold right away!

This morning star was pieced last winter and quilted on Sunday afternoon also. Both of these were bound and listed on Monday and then the cutting began for the maple leaf blocks(above). 

Well quilty peeps I am off for a bit of fun today. I'll link up to these parties first and visit later.

Wednesday Wait Loss

NTT

Put Your Foot Down

Remakes

 This was a busy week of remaking three table runners and two wall hangings. I am happy to make more when things are selling:) 

This is Cornerstones by Calico Printworks in one of their books that I have had for many years. I pieced it last weekend and quilted this week. It's already spoken for. So I will be doing another soon. Thankfully I still have lots of scraps cut into the right sizes to make it go faster.

Pieced and quilted this one by Jedi Craft Girl. 

And it's backing.

Quilted the last one of these that I pieced over the winter. It has already left my house too!

Pumpkin Stack is a Karen Walker pattern.

Morning Star was also pieced over the winter but just got quilted this week. 

And last but not least is another leaf runner pieced, quilted and sold. Told you it was a very busy week!!  That is why I didn't get a Wednesday post done!

Last weekend we found lots of our wild plums ripening and falling on the ground unharmed. I picked several and made a comment to the hubby that I felt like experimenting making something with them. Looking online and found people making fruit leather, ok why not try that. Hubby is always up for an experiment so he helped. Well it baked in the oven for hours and hours, somewhere around eight hours. It tasted like Craisins instead of plums when all done! We didn't use anywhere near the crazy amount of sugar in the recipe. Have you ever tried making fruit leather? 

Well it is back to work for me today(quilting that is). Saturday we have all three grands for several hours, hoping to take them to the local zoo and have a picnic while there. What will you do this weekend?

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