Triplets

Good things come in three's right? Things have slowed way down this week with the heat we are having and it is only getting worse in the next 5 days. So it's best to stay in and sew, hehe. So I made triplets of this wall hanging. The pattern Pumpkin Stack is by Karen Walker. A fun one to sew. Yes there are a few small pieces but it comes out so cute it is worth it! The pattern does not include the outside black print border but I wanted the wall hanging a little larger.

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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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Pumpkin Stack

 Looks like I am deep into fall quilting right now, I love it! Lots of little pieces in the sunflower but so worth it :)

The pattern is called Pumpkin Stack from Karen Walker at Laughyourselfintostitches. I found it to be well written and easy to follow. There might have been a couple made last year and I pieced two over the winter. This is the first to be quilted, bound and listed in my Etsy shop.

I tried out a new hanging sleeve technique with less edges to hand sew down. These are 6.5" squares folded twice to get a triangle. Laura from Sew Very Easy showed this technique on You Tube. 

My finished wall hanging is 27"x17". 

We went on a little camping trip last week heading up to northern Minnesota. The weather was hot and humid but thankfully we had electric hookups. We tried out a new to us campground, it was our first time using a COE(Core of Engineer) campground, it was very nice. But it was misleading on their website it stated it was electric and water and showers. We got there with no water on board the fifth wheel only to find out there was not water at each campsite after we got all backed in and set up! Lucky for us we were right next to the camp host who lent us his hose and hooked with ours we could get water from his source.  Very nice camp though, quiet and not full either. And a very good price.  We went there to pick Juneberries and blueberries in the wild out on the ATV trails. Hmmm, we were so disappointed to find they were past their prime and we only got a few.  

After that we went to our son and DIL's for the weekend. We enjoyed seeing them, went for a hike and to the aquarium. The weather was hot and humid there too.  Came home Monday and flipped on the AC and I don't care to go anywhere right now! So I finished the above wall hanging yesterday. While we were gone the cucumber on the deck survived the wind and rain and produced cuc's for us to eat right away. There will be more in a few days. The garden gave forth two zucchini and tomatoes.

I took this stack of 10 quilts to my DIL for her church group to hand out to those in need. A bag of hand knit slippers also went to her. It feels good to help out and she so appreciated each of them. She had to take them out of the bag and look at each one. I love that!!

Enough for today, I need to get back to quilting more:)

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Pumpkin Stack

I was lucky enough to pattern test for Karen at Laughyourselfintostitches for her new Pumpkin Stack pattern! It is so adorable. You saw me working on it in an earlier post, but here it is all finished.

Mine looks a bit different from the pattern because I added a border but also there was an 'oops' in the pattern and my pumpkin/crow stack is taller than the sunflower. So I fixed mine by adding a piece of the background fabric above the sunflower. The pattern has been updated with the correction on Karen's website.

 If you are not familiar with Karen's patterns you should take a look, she's got some really cute ones!  Thanks for letting me test it Karen!!

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