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Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Rainbow Wild Star and MORE - Sweet on You Challenge

Welcome
to the Sticks
and
the second day of the
"Sweet on You Challenge"

Here is my finished

Rainbow Wild Star Quilt.

Joan at MooseStashQuilting invited a great group of Bloggers to

create something inspired by something they are sweet on.

Thanks, Joan, for inviting me!

First off, I am sweet on rainbow quilts.

My favorite color pallet is RAINBOW and rainbow scrappy is even more of a

"sweet on you" for me.

I participated in the Wild Star Sew-Along over on Instagram

with

Lindlee at Plains and Pine

If you click on Lindlee, she still has the pattern info available

in her stories under the Wild Star SAL tab.

Sorry about the creases, but I just unpacked this quilt.

Here is why:

We are sweet on our Kansas City Chiefs football!

Tradition says that if the Chiefs make it to the Super Bowl,

we have to watch it in Las Vegas

at a certain party, in a certain booth,

wearing the same shirts...

you get the idea.

We just had to do our part for the WIN.

The year we didn't go watch the super bowl in Vegas, 2021 (covid), our Chiefs lost.

And since we were going to Vegas, there were a couple of other

"sweet-on-you"

things we wanted to do!

Visiting my friend Carol at Just Let Me Quilt was "sweet on you" number 1!

She had just signed up for a class at one of our favorite quilt shops,

Sew Yeah Quilting,

to make seam rippers. I was sooo in!

Eye protection first, I was so scared -

Carol was so brave and showed us all how it was done.

It starts out as a block of wood. You can see it on the lathe.

It's so fun to play once the nerves settled down...

Zach was a great teacher.

We handled the power tools like champs!

And our final "sweet" results-

Carol's is on the left and mine is the red multi

Can you be "sweet on you" with a seam ripper?

Another "sweet on you" thing we like to do in Las Vegas is watch

our favorite college baseball player at the College of Southern Nevada

I had taken the Rainbow Wild Star quilt to Las Vegas to get pictures,

this is not what I had in mind:

It was freezing in Vegas so I was glad the quilt had made the trip with us.

I was double "sweet on you" for this quilt with a minky fabric backing that day.

Check out the others that are "sweet on you" today:

Tuesday, Feb 21st

Vicki's Crafts and Quilting

Creatin' in the Sticks ME!
Quilt Schmilt
Ms P Designs USA
The Crafty Grammie
Vroomans Quilts
Words and Stitches

Joan has the rest of the schedule HERE

and

a Pinterest Page HERE.

In the end, we made it home with the win and "sweet on you" memories!

Challenge complete!

Sunday, July 25, 2021

Baseball Stadium Cushions - It's A Guy Thing Blog Hop

Welcome to the first day of the

It's a Guy Thing

Blog Hop!

I'm happy to kick things off with my

Baseball Stadium Cushions

Carol at Just Let Me Quilt presented bloggers with the challenge to make something for a guy or tomboy, or in manly-man colors.

Thank you, Carol, for inviting me to join this super fun blog hop!

We've been very busy this summer.

I've barely been in my sewing room or here on my blog.

Why?

We have been watching a lot of baseball games.

Dodge City hosts a summer collegiate baseball team.

College athletes are recruited from all over the nation to play ball in our Kansas league.

Our team relies on host families to provide the players a home away from home during the summer

and

we decided to open our home to a player this year.

While he was a total stranger at the beginning of the summer, we have had the pleasure to get to know him and it feels like he's part of our family.

It will be very hard to say goodbye.

Now my project isn't necessarily for him, but it has certainly been better on my bum to have a cushion while I've watched over 20 of his home games on hard bleachers.

If you are interested in making your own cushion, I have a free tutorial

that is for a football version HERE.

I started the summer using the football cushions at the baseball games.

My sister-in-law poked a little fun at me and that motivated me to make a baseball set.

Baseball playing is a "Guy Thing"

but with over 40 baseball games to watch, this girl needs a cushion.

Check out all the other Guy Things:

It's so fun to get inspiration from Blog Hops.

I'm sure we will have way too many ideas for our guys by the end of the week.

The summer has been so full and we've made new friends for life.

I'll be back to sewing and blogging more soon - after summer baseball!!!!

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Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Rainbow Wild Star and MORE - Sweet on You Challenge

Sunday, July 25, 2021

Baseball Stadium Cushions - It's A Guy Thing Blog Hop