Criss Cross

I have a flimsy! That is what I call a pieced quilt top, it doesn't have batting, backing, quilting or binding yet. The colors are not showing quite right, I tried and tried and it just wasn't getting any better.  This will be a donation quilt for next year, finishing will be later on.  The pattern used is called Criss Cross 3 yard quilt by Wood Valley Designs, a freebie! It measures 41"x 52".

Accuquilt sale of the day--12/16/24 only  and $5 flat rate shipping thru 12/31/24

12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS (12/16) -- $30 Off GO! Strip Dies (Use Code: 30STRIP)  Strip dies are something I use all the time! My favorites are the 2.5", 2.25" and 1.5" ones.

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

Green pineapples

 Green pineapple quilt blocks that is. They need a couple more rounds to finish them off. I am using the Creative Grids pineapple trim tool. When I went to trim the third round I thought for sure I wasn't using the right size trim tool, I have the small and large. I only brought the large with me and it didn't look the same as ones I finished this summer. Back to You Tube, after watching a bit more I discovered I had the right size but wasn't lining it up correctly, whew!!  Not the first time this tool had me puzzled but after watching the video it's easy and fun! I plan to piece lots of blocks over the next few months!

Accuquilt quilt daily sale 12/15/24 only...

12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS (12/15) -- Free GO! Big Die Catcher with Any GO! Big purchase or GO! Big Trade Up (Use Code: CATCHER)

This Accuquilt sale runs through 12/24/24

12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS -- $15 Off GO! Dies under $60, $25 Off Dies $60+

Linking with Oh Scrap!

Strings and progress with things

First the progress part of this post...Monday I mentioned I was working with these fabrics.  Today I show you that I made progress on this little quilt. The pattern says to cut into rectangles to make these blocks. I chose to make strips and then cut into the block size. I hope to finish piecing to show you the flimsy on Monday.

Here is the strings part of the post.  I often mention how my string mess collection has gotten out of hand and from time to time I sew up a few more. I'll never get caught up but I'll keep trying:)  I am not sure if I will snowball the corners like I did previously or choose something different.  I sew different width of strings and then trim to make consistent size blocks.  No hurry on these so don't look for a finish for a long long time, it's just a filler type project when I have the time/desire to make a few more.

Accuquilt is having 12 Days of Christmas sales, a new sale every day!  

(I don't normally post every day but I'll try to do that for this sale so you can snag something for yourself for an early Christmas present. Here is the first sale only for 12/13/24...

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Have a great weekend and don't forget to hop over and get some inspiration at these linky parties--

Finished or Not Friday, TGIFF, Off The Wall, Beauties Pageant and Oh Scraps!

Green for St. Patty's Day

It was a green day in my sewing room lately.  I believe it is not to early to think ahead to coming seasons or holidays. Plus it is always fun to pull out fabrics I haven't worked with for quite a while. Here is what I whipped up...

You all know how much I love working with the 10 degree wedge ruler and you most likely have seen both of these styles I have made before. They are just to fun not to make!!

And just to be a bit different I started with some spring like colors for a donation quilt. You will have to come back to see how it comes out;)

We frequently get deer coming through our yard, these two guys were attacking my pumpkin...

and then they started attacking each other and after several minutes of that this one lost one of his antlers!

Okay back to quilting and off to get more inspiration at these linky parties

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

Whether you are shopping for yourself or someone else here is an Accuquilt sale for you

GREEN MONDAY -- Extra 25% Off GO! Dies, GO! Cutters, Qubes, and Accessories (Use Code: MONDAY)  This is from 12/9/24 to 12/12/24

Hearts take two

Two more heart table runners have been taken over the finish line. First up a reversed S swirl.

This is almost a wordless post as I know we are all busy preparing for eating some turkey tomorrow.

And the second one.

Wishing all a very Happy Thanksgiving. I am so very grateful for you, my readers who keep faithfully coming back to read my post and check out what I made and leave me comments, thank you!!  And I am grateful for all the new ones coming from linky parties that stop by, thank you!!  

Here are the Wednesday linky parties I am participating in today.

Wednesday Wait Loss and Midweek Makers

Love is in the air

You guessed it I have been working on some Valentine runners. I have done this style before but I changed it up a bit. This time I used a rectangle and flippy corners for the top of the heart. The checkerboards are cut at 2", the hearts got a little larger than I wanted so next time I will try cutting them 1.75" 

I love the backing I had in my stash. 

And on to the next style of Valentines runner. This also has been made several times. The hearts were cut with the heart die from Accuquilt. 

It's Monday so let's hop over to these linky parties...Monday Musings, Sew and Tell Monday, and Design Wall Monday. 

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.