Festive Fir

 I am excited to have something new to share with you!  Thursday I received an email from Kate Colleran Designs saying she had patterns on sale for a short time. So I had to go look and I decided to get her Festive Fir wall hanging one. I read it over that night, it looked easy so Friday morning I cut, sewed and after lunch quilted it. 

Cute isn't it! Perfect for a small wall, a door hanger, in a camper or how about someone in an apartment or assisted living. 

With a little more free time the last few days I dug out my black/gray leftover parts from other projects, otherwise know as scraps;)  and pieced three snowman wall hangings. Maybe they will get quilted later this week but first I need to make two cinderella pumpkin wall hangings. One of those for an order and the other to keep in the shop.

As always thank you for checking out my projects. I try to respond via email however there are some who are no reply blogger or come in as unknown and I have no way of contacting you. 

Linking up with other inspiring quilters at Sew and Tell Monday, Design Wall Monday and Monday Musings. 

Merry Christmas!

 Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas! 

My snowman wall hanging that I made several years ago is all hand embroidered. It hangs in my new studio.

Thought you might enjoy the colorful sunrise from Tuesday morning. I didn't get a photo but Tuesday evening it was just as colorful.

No matter what Holiday you are celebrating I hope it is a wonderful one.

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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.

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

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.

Some of this and some of that

Last week I worked on several different things and I did it in my camper. More on that in a minute, but here are some projects. In Wednesday's post I showed the start of my blue pineapple blocks. I couldn't resist making more and since I had more blue and neutral scraps with me why not make more, now I have a grand total of 10 blue made. These were really so enjoyable to make. 

Here they are all together.

After the scrappy fun I decided I better get the pieces cut and sew up this snowman panel. An identical one was made and sold last winter, lucky I had purchased two of them! This week will be a longarm and binding kind of week.

A little more accomplished on the flag cross stitch.

We were up north at the PGI convention(Pyrotechnic Guild International). It is a week long fireworks convention with seminars, classes and then several displays in the evening. These are not your ordinary everyday fireworks, they are from professional businesses that design really neat fireworks. Three nights of the week are PGI members and the public and the other nights are just for the members. We are members as hubby enjoys the classes and seminars and then in the evenings we go in together for the spectacular displays. Unfortunately the weather didn't always cooperate. There were two nights that events were postponed because of rain. And it was darn cold at night sitting out and watching the displays. We were wearing five layers of clothes plus wrapped in fleece blankets!! The wind didn't help either!!  It was mid 50's at 11pm, plus one night it was a bit of light rain off and on. Thank goodness we have a fireplace in the camper so when we got back there we could warm up quickly!

And this one is made up of drones, the drones kept changing within the display and consisted of 1800 drones. It started out with planets, the earth, and landing on the moon. It was so neat. This is a very shortened video of one part of it. Put your sound on:)

Linking with our favorite Monday linky parties: Monday Musings, Sew and Tell Monday, Design Wall Monday

Snowman Trio

I just finished this trio of snowman wall hangings. They all started life off as part of a panel, there were six of them. What I am showing you today are the last three, the others I used last year. 

The polka dot border is where I started bringing this one to life. Followed by a teeny faux piping before the final buffalo check/snowflake border.

All ruler work for the straight line quilting.

The second one began with me adding the gingham border that finished at 1", followed by the same with a polka dot border. This one has a snowman fabric for the final border. 

The quilting is the same for these first two that have finished approximately 17.5"x 18.5".

This third one took a little longer to be born as I got stumped after the first two borders. I really wanted to bring out the green in the snowman hat and scarf. But for some reason I just couldn't find the right fabric to finish it off.  

Until I remembered I had a fat quarter of this black with snowflake. Well wait it still needed something else.  Looking around the room and through the Christmas/winter fabrics I spied the red and white stripe. This fabric has been used a lot in my snowman table runners. Yep that works. 

The trio will soon be listed in my Etsy shop, need a few more photos first.

I'll have a fun quilty purchase to show you on Monday, I hope you'll come check it out!

Linking with these fun Friday linky parties, please stop by and check out what others have been working on this week.  

TGIFF

Off The Wall Friday

Peacock Party

Finished or Not Friday

Friday Foto Fun

10/24/23 thru 10/31/23  Accuquilt sale---SPOOKTACULAR SALE! -- Buy Two, Get the Third Free on GO! Project Dies, Applique Dies, and June Tailor Kits (use code: SPOOKY)  

Happy Tuesday!

Alrightee, let's get right to it today. To Do Tuesday goals last week were...

1. Finish another snowman wall hanging-or maybe even two!  ✅  ✅ Technically there were two finishes, the first one I blogged about on Friday, you can see that HERE.

And this was the second snowman wall hanging.  They are two blocks from a panel to which I added the red sashing to bring them up to size. This time for the checkerboard I cut 2.5" strips of black and white, strip pieced them, and cut them into squares using my Accuquilt 2.5" strip die.  And here is that fun red and black plaid again. 

And a close up of this cutie!

2. Finish another sunflower table runner ✅  I found a fun print for the backing and just enough.

3. Start piecing the 8 identical table toppers. ✅ ✅ ✅  I get three checks as I pieced three of them!

4. Attend a longarm class-we are having Julia Quiltoff come do a day long class for our local longarm group ✅  This was a fun time to be with quilting peeps again.  Friday night was a trunk show but I didn't go as it was a 40 minute drive and I didn't want to drive home in the dark. So I just went to the class on Saturday. Julia is such a sweet little gal and so eager to share.  She shared many quilting ideas/designs and then we could draw them out.  I bought one of her templates for my longarm.  And yesterday I used it on the outer border here.  She calls it her zig zag template.

5. Prepare blog post for the Gremlins, Goblins and Ghouls blog hop. My day is October 19th ✅  Photos taken and post written!  I hope to see you back here tomorrow for my share on the hop. 

6. Whatever else I can fit in ✅  I had this wall hanging pieced last year and ran out of time to quilt it. So out of the closet and onto the longarm it went. Then it was off to the sewing machine for applique time on the pumpkin and sunflower.  All bound, photographed and listed.  Yippee another UFO done! 

The stars are small as this is only about 24" square.  But oh so cute!  I used flannel for the pumpkin and wool for the stem and sunflower.

I think that is enough for one week don't you think?  OMG I didn't even touch my machine for 2 whole days over the weekend!  Almost unheard of, LOL.  

Goals for the week:  

Table runners- Definitely more snowmen are needed, and I will try to piece a couple more of the identical 8. 

Thank you Linda for hosting To Do Tuesday, that's where I am heading to link up!  

Happy Snow Day banner

 This little cutie is ready for a Happy Snow Day!  Not me though, no way it's too early for that *S* word in my neck of the woods.  But it was sure fun to work on this little wall hanging. 

The snowman is part of a panel, after squaring him up I added the gingham border. Then the polka dots and finally I had the perfect fabric for the outer panel. I might have squealed just a bit when I realized it almost matched the red plaid in his scarf!  I am telling you now, I do have a large stash and it is wonderful to be working on a project and just go to the closet, cubes or wherever to pick out the perfect fabric.  If you are asking how do I know what I should buy to go with future projects...I just buy what I think is cute! 

As I was finishing him up I had this idea of adding prairie points to depict mounds of snow, and threw in a little extra touch with the buttons.  He measures 16.5"x17.5" just right for a small wall.   

And one last peek at him in this little quilt hanger.  

I hope you are all gearing up for a great weekend. I will be attending a local longarm class on Saturday. Oh my a day away from the house with quilty peeps!!

Linking up with:

TGIFF

Finished or Not Friday

Off The Wall

Peacock Party

SNOW

Each time I make my snowman table runners it seems there are leftover bits and pieces.  They add up over time, so in order to reduce them a little I made this cute wall hanging.  At 13" x 22" he can fit almost anywhere!  

Even with the help of magnets he can hang on a door. He looks pretty good on a red door!

I used the Accuquilt 2" alphabet die to cut the letters out of felt. They were appliqued on after quilting, I used the straight stitch on my sewing machine to go around each letter.  I thought it would take a while to do but I was wrong and they were soon attached.  

The faces were fused onto the leftover black/white polka dot rectangles and blanket stitched down before quilting. 

Triangle corners are added to the back to insert a small dowel rod into for easy hanging on the wall.  I am sure none of us are ready for snow yet, but that doesn't stop me from making snowman things.  

This little guy is on his way to Alaska!  Where he will be joined with this one that I made last year.

Linking up with these fun and inspiring linky parties: 

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Could you resist this cutie

Watch out I am on another panel journey!  This panel has 4 of these cuties on it, this is the second one I have made.  You can see the first HERE

The panel part is only the snowman with this little green border around him

And then I added the snowflake border, black and white checkerboards, pinwheels, the black/gray marble border and finished it off with the snowflake outer border.  I didn't have the perfect green(for the pinwheel) to match their green border, but I got close. 

Linking with Monday Making and Design Wall Mondays