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. 

Linking with Free Motion Maverick's, Beauties Pageant, Finished or Not Friday, TGIFF

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;)

Linking with Wednesday Wait Loss, NTT, and Put Your Foot Down

 

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.

Linking with Wednesday Wait Loss, NTT, Put Your Foot Down.

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. 

Linking with:

Off The Wall

TGIFF

Finished or Not Friday

Oh Scrap!

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?

Linking with Finished or Not Friday, Freemotion Mavericks, TGIFF, Off The Wall and Oh Scrap!

Give Thanks

 I give thanks for being able to work with panels and come up with border ideas for them. Sometimes they can be a bit wonky so you have to work with them by spritzing them with water, sometimes a little starch and a hot iron. This one wasn't to bad so it went quickly. 

My additions to this panel start with the skinny green sashing and then added in the gold, orange and neutral HST's. I surrounded that by a small black border and finished with a colorful border of mums. It looks so pretty on my quilt hanger than I kinda hate to see it go, LOL. But I will let it go as I have too many seasonal ones already. 

I am getting low on this backing fabric, I bought several yards way back and love using for the fall sunflower quilts and runners.

It was a rainy weekend so it was sewing day all day on Saturday, I pieced this one. Quilting will be this week I hope. 

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

Happy Jacks times two

 Oh my gosh I forgot to write a post last night, totally forgot it was Friday today! So here goes a short post for these two Happy Jack wall hangings or use it as a door banner.

This is inspired by a Buttermilk Basin pattern, I enlarged my squares. Here is the backing for the first one. 

And the second one. See my new prop, the Hello Fall truck that I picked up from Hobby Lobby this week. I couldn't resist and it was on sale!

Don't you love the witches and black cat piece for the backing on this, it pays to dig in your stash!! It wasn't quite enough so I added a gold on top and for the triangle hanging tabs. 

A bit late to these parties but never the less I will be there!!

Finished or Not Friday, Freemotion Mavericks, Beauties Pageant, Off The Wall, TGIFF and Patchwork and quilts

Cinderella plus...

 I love the results of the Cinderella pumpkin wall hanging from Laugh yourself into stitches. I just don't care to make the small little brown HST's. But they aren't so bad now that I use the a die to cut larger and trim down. Two of these were pieced over the winter, this is the first to get quilted. I'll soon be doing #2 as this one is already spoken for. People are getting in the mood for fall!

And the backing, I am liking the triangle hanging tabs, so much faster than sleeves.

I enjoy making this scrappy fall table runner. They are strips actually cut from yardage but lots of different ones to look scrappy. The black is the only one that stays the same throughout. This pattern is called Cornerstones by Calico Printworks.

They are longer than the width of fabric so I piece a coordinating strip in the middle. I'll be soon doing another of this. Things are picking up in the shop and I am very happy about that!

                                      

Have you ever seen a striped zucchini? The seeds were all in the same packet, the other three plants are normal looking zucchini, but this plant has the striped ones. We have never experienced that.

I'll be taking the day off from sewing tomorrow as it's our 43rd Anniversary! So I better get cranking out some product today;) Hope to see ya on Friday.

The linky parties you will see me at are Wednesday Wait Loss, and Put Your Foot Down. 

Autumn Greetings

 It's no secret I love working with panels, sometimes choosing parts of one and parts of another to make something new.

For this wall hanging I chose the Autumn Greetings section first.  

Next came the pinwheels which are 4" finished for each pinwheel, more orange sashing was added to the top and bottom of the pinwheel units.

That is when I searched through my panel parts to see if anything would look good with what I had so far. That yielded the leaves and acorns rectangle. I had to trim it a bit to fit. Next was putting these three parts together and surrounding it all with orange sashing. 

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Then came the gold/neutral squares, green border and finally the beautiful orange with metallic gold leave border. After quilting it I went in search of a binding that might coordinate as I didn't have enough of the orange leaf fabric for that.  I might have squealed a little when I discovered the perfect stripe with metallic gold accent in just the right color in my stash! 

The backing with the folded triangle hanging tabs.  This piece was snatched up shortly after I listed it.  That just means I need to move forward with another fall panel:)

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

My coneflowers are blooming nicely this year, this one was unique in it's downward petals that I thought he deserved a photo.