Creatin' in the Sticks: September 2016

Monday, September 26, 2016

The Road Home Row Along - Dodge City, Kansas

Welcome to Creatin' in the Sticks!

Dodge City, that is.

You've probably heard this at one time or another.

You can see, around here we say
"Get the h*** out of Dodge"
a bit different.

Some of us like it here.

On my road home this is what I see.

In fact, there are metal cowboys everywhere.
Even in my front yard...

My hubby created this one.

Cowboys and the beautiful sunrise and sunsets inspired me to create my row for

The row finished is 12" x 36"

You can download the pattern at my Craftsy Pattern shop.
Click this button.

I think this row would make a fun quilt for any cowboy.
The letters are optional...

The other rows available in the row along today are:

September 27

Creatin’ in the Sticks (You are here)
Dodge City, Kansas

Sue Griffiths Featured At Just Let Me Quilt
Northern Rivers Region, NSW, Australia

Seams To Be Sew For Batts In The Attic
Hollywood/LA

I Can Quilt 2
Baltimore, MD

Don't forget to enter

my giveaways

for a chance to win this fabulous

bundle of fabric

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Or a chance to win an
Anita Goodesign Machine Embroidery Design CD

a Rafflecopter giveaway

There is so much history to explore and characters to investigate.

I may need to make a whole quilt for Dodge City.

Thank you to Marian of Seams To Be Sew and Amy from Sew Incredibly Crazy
for the chance to show off my road home!

Now, "Get the h*** out of Dodge"

Just kidding, I'd rather you stay!

The Road Home Designers:

September 6

Allie-Oops Sweet Happy Life
Harrisville, MI Sunrise Coast
Cynthia’s Creating Ark
Adelaide South Australia
Kissed Quilts
Grand Coulee, Washington
Renee's Quilting Addiction
Alberta, Canada

September 8

Sew Incredibly Crazy
Colorado
3 Patch Crafts
Bulgaria

Just Let Me Quilt
Las Vegas, Nevada
Quilt in Piece
Amanzimtoti, South Africa

September 13

Tweety Loves Quilting
Edinburgh, UK
Quiltscapes
Heber City/ SLC
Seams To Be Sew
Idaho Falls, Idaho
Pine Valley
New Zealand

September 15

bdieges designs
Road to Tehachapi (CA)
Elizabeth Coughlin Designs
Worcester County in Central Massachusetts
Patti’s Patchwork
Toronto, Ontario Canada
Seacoast Quilter
New Milford, Connecticut

September 20

Beaquilter
Denmark
Heleen Pinkster
Netherlands
Rebecca Mae Designs
Northern Maine
MooseStash Quilting
Alaska

September 22

Words & Stitches
Beaches of California
Quilt Art
Africa
Any Pattern
Port Angeles, Washington
Patchwork Breeze
West Michigan Shoreline

September 27

Creatin’ in the Sticks
Dodge City, Kansas
Sue Griffiths Featured At Just Let Me Quilt
Northern Rivers Region, NSW, Australia
Seams To Be Sew For Batts In The Attic
Hollywood/LA
I Can Quilt 2
Baltimore, MD

September 29

Quilted Fabric Art
Burlington Vermont
Westend Quilter
Manitoulin Island, Canada
Pamela Quilts
Oregon
Quilt Fabrication
Silicon Valley, CA

October 04

Linda Robertus
Netherlands
Elm Street Quilts
North Carolina
Sarah Quinn Featured At Seams To Be Sew
Outer Space
Patchouli Moon Studio
Central New Mexico

October 06

Cheryl LaPlant Featured At Quilt In Piece
York, Maine
Miss Loreen’s Schoolhouse
New Hampshire
Bumbleberry Stitches
Oklahoma
Needle in a Hayes Stack
Mojave Desert
Cloth and Paper Studio
North Georgia Mountains

October 11
Show N Tell Day

Saturday, September 24, 2016

Blogger's Quilt Festival - Seasons of Love

It's time for the

Blogger’s Quilt Festival :: Fall 2016 Edition

I want to thank Amy over at Amy's Creative Side for hosting the Blogger's Quilt Festival. I have found some great ideas and wonderful works of art. I am inspired!

It was a toss up where to enter this quilt, Seasons of Love, but I decided on the small quilt category even though this is my original design.

I made this quilt for Project Quilting.

Kim at Persimon Dreams hosts Project Quilting and announces a challenge.

You then have one week to create something quilty.

This was the second challenge of six for Season 7 of Project Quilting and the challege was seasons.

If you've seen the musical (or movie), Rent, it's easy to recognize my inspiration for this quilt.

"Seasons of Love" is a song from the Tony award winning musical written by Jonathan Larson.

I've been watching my friend Vickie over at More Stars in Comanche make the most beautiful collage quilts and decided to try my own version of one.

I would say the above picture pretty much tells the story of how I put it all together.

And a rough draft of the words going around the heart.

That's 525,600 minutes. The total minutes in a year. The colors represent the seasons and the ups and downs of love.

I could go deeper here, but I'm sure you get the drift....

After everything was fused down I did as quilters say, "I quilted the crap out of it"
or
"matchstick quilted."
That will hold all those free edges down.