Home and Heart - Flags on a Stick Blog Hop

 

 

With the arrival of spring, it's time to get outside and make our outdoor space ready for

warm entertaining.
 

(The calendar says spring is here.... )

The weather thinks otherwise.

 

 

Madame Samm at Sew We Quilt created a blog hop called "Flags on a Stick" where everyone is to design their very own garden flag.

 I signed up to make a flag
and
hubby jumped on board to make a couple of garden flag poles for me.
:^)

 

A great big thank you to Thearica over at Pig Tales and Quilts for organizing the blogs participating in this hop.

She has done a great job!

Home



Welcome to Duck Creek



 I made this flag to welcome guests to our home.

It represents our home with the cowboys (Dodge City)

and

the ducks (Duck Creek surrounds our home).

 

 

The background fabric is a piece I snow dyed that looks just like a Dodge City sunrise.
Black Kona fabric for the silhouettes.
I wrote the word welcome in chalk at the bottom and then covered the chalk lines with jute twine.
The twine was couched with zig zag in a matching thread.
I put a little fabric glue on the ends of the twine to keep it from fraying.

 

The cowboy sihloutte is my husband's pattern
that he cuts from metal.
There were some very narrow cuts for fabric, but I love the result.
I will have this pattern available soon.

Heart


My daughter is going to be married in October this year.
As the mother of the bride, I'm very happy for her.
I'm also a little sad.
(Is that normal?)
I suppose it is kind of like "empty nest syndrom" in a different kind of way.

 

 

I used this dress as part of the fabric for my next garden flag.

Don't worry, the dress had a few stains and wouldn't have been useable in any other way.

I'm not usually a saver of things, but I have a few special things from when my kids were little.

This is a surprise for her.

 

Wedding garden quilt.   "I Do"

 

We can wave this flag to greet guests at her wedding.

 

 

Then later, it will make a sweet wall hanging for her home.

 

 

 The bride's dress is fabric from my daughter's little dress. 
I used the lining and the lace overlay.
The wedding colors are to be purple and lime green.
Hubby, once again, made the flag holder
and I designed the pattern for the flag.

That is my home and heart.

Be sure and check out the other waving flags of the day.
There will be some beauties with this bunch, I assure you.

April 1st

Sew Incredibly Crazy

Quilt Doodle Designs

Buzzing and Bumbling

Why Knot Kwilt?

Creatin' in the Sticks ME!

Meadowbrook

 

Thank you to the sponsors of the hop,

Flags on a Stick

and

Flag OUTLET

And
thank YOU for visiting
Creatin' in the Sticks.