Catching up

I have a bit of catching do to do as I pieced a few wall quilts using panels before we went on vacay.  And since being home I have quilted them. It feels so good to be catching up! But you will be seeing several fall wall hangings in the next few posts.  Here is the first.  As you can see this is how the panel started.

The first sashing I added is the green to bring it up to a size that worked for my HST units. Well it wasn't coming out quite right so you will notice that I added a gold polka dot fabric right in the center of each row to make it work. Then a black sashing all around to separate the sunflower outer border to make it stand out more.

Off to the longarm for some custom quilting. I always enjoy that;)

Ta Da all done! Some one will love seeing this hang in their home for Thanksgiving I hope. Yes it is listed in my Etsy shop.

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Harvest Welcome wall hanging

When you are in the mood I say go for it, and I was in the mood to work with fall panels several weeks ago. At least four of them were put together into wall hangings, or was that five. This is the second one to get quilted. The words 'Harvest Welcome' were from one panel and the pumpkins and sunflower blocks from another panel. All them were leftovers from previous finishes. It just so happens they were all of the same coloring. 

After squaring them up to a size I could work with I made some green, gold and orange checkerboards to separate them.

Then of course comes the decision of borders. After auditioning several fabrics I decided on the black with gold cork look fabric(wishing I had bought more when that was available) for the first border and then I did a faux piping in orange before adding the final colorful leaf border.

Lots of ruler work on this one, in fact all of the quilting was with rulers.  All done and listed in my Etsy shop. 

Several of you have asked how I was doing, happy to say lots better. Stomach issue is better, this week I had a root canal to save the tooth instead of pulling it. Getting rid of some of that stress is good. The hip is still bothering me and I am working with PT to hopefully solve that soon!

We were lucky to have a couple of visitors on Sunday and Monday also. One of my brothers from AZ and his lady friend were traveling through the area and stopped in. A short but sweet visit:) 

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Tuesday weekly goals

Hey there, hope you all have had a wonderful week of sewing therapy.  I needed lots of therapy this week, lots of sleepless nights, darn full moon!  

Anyway last weeks goals were lofty in hindsight but I did pretty well with them.

1. I made another Halloween flimsy yesterday so it needs quilting ASAP. ✅ 

Yes it is quilted, bound and listed. I am pretty sure I bought this panel a year ago at Quilt Cove in the Twin Cities.  The twisted ribbon border was a new one for me to make.  And there is that cute Candy Corn fabric I picked up at Walmart. It finished at 30"x47". 

2. Quilt another fall pumpkin embroidered wall hanging ASAP.✅  Yes it is quilted, bound and listed too.  The embroidery pattern is by Chestnut Junction.

3. Quilt another turkey table runner. ✅ Yes, they all look the same though as I use the same fabric because that is what seems to work best for this runner. 

4. Make more Pumpkin Harvest wall hangings.(my pattern) ✅ One done. 

5. Make sunflower wall hanging. (my pattern)- That is a big fat NOPE!

6. Work on whatever else I can squeeze in! ✅ I finished two other items and I will post them later this week. I mean you need something to come back for, right!!

Have a great week and don't forget to go check out the other bloggers who participate in the To Do Tuesday link up at our host Linda's blog.  Oh wait I forgot to list this weeks goals, LOL

1. Sunflower table runner

2. Fall S swirl runner

3. Fall panel wall hanging

4. Whatever comes along;)

Other Linky parties I am joining in with are:  Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, and Put your Foot Down

Witchy Boo

 Isn't this just a darling witch, she is part of a series of Halloween motifs on a pre-printed panel. I am using just her in this fun Halloween wall hanging. 

After trimming her up I added a finished 1" striped green border around her. 

All witches need some pumpkins don't cha think.  These pumpkins were made using a companion set for my Accuquilt 8" cube.  The bow tie die was perfect for them and then I just rotary cut a stem.

I just happened to have some great coordinating fabric in my stash for the borders. The 2.5" triangle die, also from the 8" cube, worked perfectly for a green and orange border. 

Some fun quilting might have also been added;) 

And just what you have been waiting for...the finished wall hanging! This was a very fun make.  I have really been on a panel roll lately haven't I.  I hope there is time in the near future for a few more.  As always thank you for taking time to check out my blog and big thanks for leaving a comment!

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Peacock Party

Another panel jumped off the shelf and said 'Make Me'!  So I couldn't resist the sweet request, LOL.  I had made up the same panel a few years ago, so why not use the same concept for this one. 

After squaring and trimming the panel itself, the green border was the first to be added. Once the pinwheels, which finish at 4", were made I figured out what size the red spacers in between them needed to be.

Things just go smoother if you have already done them

 before, this was a pretty quick make.  

For the quilting, I did continuous curve in the red pinwheels along with straight lines in the red spaces. Ribbon candy in the green sashing and piano key in the outer holly berry border. 

The hook swirl on the panel itself, I know you aren't shocked by that!  In fact I bet you could predict that;)  If it isn't broke don't fix it!

Lest you think I never do anything besides quilting...

Hubby and I had picked and froze apples from our tree in September.  And last week we made apple butter.  It is usually a lengthy process, like all day.  This time, once the apples were mostly thawed I put them in the blender.  That way they did their cooking faster and the process was shortened by 4 hours. We don't use this very fast so we mostly put it in half pint jars which will all go in the freezer.  I probably will have enough for two years here.

Linking with Design Wall Monday and Monday Making.

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. 

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Harvest Gathering

Sometimes panels have lots of little pictures on them. And I don't necessarily want to use everything that comes on that panel in one wall hanging.  So I just cut them apart and use what I want and worry about the rest later.  You might remember seeing the in progress post about this HERE.  I originally thought I was going to use two more blocks below the house section. But when I got that far I decided it would be a bigger wall hanging that I wanted it to be. 

Harvest Gathering is from one panel and the house from a second panel and the leaf and pumpkin are from a third panel. These all were the leftovers;)

I then added some borders of various colors/fabrics before adding the flying geese and checkerboard elements. A good place to use up a few scraps.

 

I admit for a while this one had me puzzled and I had to walk away from it and let the ideas form in my head.  In the end I was very pleased how this one came together.  I guess someone else was too as it is heading to Alaska tomorrow!  I got it listed in my shop on Friday and this morning it sold.  The panel wall hangings are going really well this year. 

On Friday I mentioned there would be no sewing this weekend as I had another craft to get ready for a local show coming up in November, I deliver to it on Wednesday tho'.   Saturday and this morning was consumed by making 32 of these candy canes! 

How would you like this guy staring back at you?  He has been coming to our pond, just off the family room, for a drink and wow was he thirsty!  Isn't he a beauty, 12 points. 

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