In Our Garden Quilt Top Finish

Yeah, for Friday and a FINISH!!

A flimsy finish, but one that I am so excited about.

The

In Our Garden Block of the Month blog hop was

Hosted by Amy over at 

Sew Incredibly Crazy

last year and the final blocks were posted in January 2017.

Every month one designer shared an applique block and a pieced block

and 

I want to thank each of them for all their hard work!

February - Blocks 1 and 2

Amy – Sew Incredibly Crazy

March - Blocks 3 and 4

Carol – Just Let Me Quilt 

April -  Blocks 4 and 5

Doris – Quilting Queen Online

Bonus Block

Amy - For Thermoweb

May - Blocks 7 and 8

Carla - Creatin’ in the Sticks 

Bonus Block

Carla - Creatin' in the Sticks

June - Blocks 9 and 10

Sue – Super Mom No Cape

July- Blocks 11 and 12

Joan – Moosestash Quilting

August - Blocks 13 and 14

Kris – Kris Loves Fabric

September - Blocks 15 and 16

Pat – Life in the Scrapatch

Bonus Block

Pat - Life in Scrapatch

October - Blocks 17 and 18

Vicki – More Stars in Comanche

November- Blocks 19 and 20

Lana – It Seams to be Sew

December

Jan - Sew and Sow Farm

January

Amy – Sew Incredibly Crazy

 I was lucky enough to receive Riley Blake fabrics for this quilt.

The fabrics are Botanique by fabric designer Lila Tueller.

My blocks and quilt top are finished

and

I hope to finish quilting this 78" x 93" quilt this week

and

show the Friday finish next week too.

You'll notice the 3 birds baths in the middle and there is a couple of the May pieced blocks.

There is a reason for that.  lol

I designed those blocks and in the designing process I make them.

Why not include the extras. 

Not all blocks make the cut when designing, but I decided they were just fine for my quilt...

(the bottom center)

The team for this year's BOM has put together another great quilt for 2017

and

I can't wait to show my blocks!

Splash may return!

Join us!

And 

if you haven't already,

 join the 
Facebook group

you can find it HERE.  

These things are more fun with TEAMWORK

and
we gather on Facebook to share
our blocks and visit with other
participants.

I hope to see you there.

What a beautiful week it has been in blog land.

Thank you all for the generous shares, pins, comments, and emails on my 2 posts for Thermoweb

and 

Are You Ready For Some Football post

 for Project Quilting.

You have spread the love!!!  Thank YOU!

Egg Basket Upset- Project Quilting Season 7 Challenge 6

Egg Basket Upset

is my entry in the final challenge for Project Quilting this season.

Kim at Persimon Dreams hosts Project Quilting.

She announces a challenge and you have one week (due by noon TODAY- central time) to create something quilty.

This is the final challenge of six for Season 7 of Project Quilting.

The Challenge:

A Goose in the Monkey Wrench

The Rules:

1  For this challenge you must include at least one monkey wrench block and one flying geeseblock.  You may add other blocks if you wish.

2.  Every challenge piece must be a FINISHED project seen through from INCEPTION to COMPLETION during the challenge timeline. Each piece must stand alone as DONE to count toward prizes.

3.  Your project does not need to be a traditional quilt, but must meet at least      one of these requirements:

1. Include patchwork.
2. Include appliqué.
3. Have 3 layers stitched together by hand or machine.

4.  Please remember that these projects need to be created during the week of the challenge.

5. Link up  by Sunday, March 20th, 2016, at noon, CDT.

This is not the project I started with, although it was in the back of my mind.  I started another quilt, but I want to make it bigger and one week just wouldn't allow me to finish it.

Here's a sneak peak of it....

The paper piecing ended up taking me twice as long as I thought it should, so for many reasons I abandoned that idea and moved on to the next.

I used a little of the previous idea on this quilt.  

The butterfly has a body of part of the swirly flying geese (1" wide!) from above. The wings are 3-D and left free to fly.

Why didn't I use black thread on the applique?  (Lesson learned)

 Then I tackled the flying geese decorating the eggs and decided to completely piece the eggs instead of just appliqueing the flying geese to them.  Oh, the love of sewing tiny curved pieces.....

The monkey wrench fit in nicely with one corner as the basket and some piecing manipulation.

Egg Basket Upset

Project Quilting Season 7, Challenge 6- A Goose in the Monkey Wrench

Made by Carla in Dodge City, Kansas

http://www.createinthesticks.blogspot.com/

Size: 24" x 24"

Fabrics:  Scrappy with a lot of hand dyed fabric

Techniques:  piecing, paper piecing, curved piecing,  fusible applique (handle and butterfly body), applique with interfacing technique (eggs), 3-D effect, Free motion quilting on my Janome machine.

You can see all the Geese in the Monkey Wrench quilts

and vote for your favorites 

by clicking

Here.

Egg Basket Upset is #31.

(Second to the last....always cutting it to the last minute)

Happy first day of Spring!!!

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.

 

 



grow...A garden quilt

I am participating in Project Quilting Season 4 at Persimon Dreams.

grow

"grow" was made for  Challenge 3, Annie's Vision.

 The challenge - Your inspiration is the art of Annie Young. Explore the colors, the textures, the style, the subject matter, the feelings….. Choose what speaks most to you and use it to make your quilt. Look over her blog: http://www.annieyoungarts.blogspot.com/ to see her work.


Size: 22" x 18"

I was inspired by Annie's inspirational way of using color and texture in her painting of nature. She has a wonderful spirit that comes across in her paintings.

Annie uses a free motion style with loads of color and texture. I used my own hand dyed fabric and explored free motion quilting in my little garden quilt. I noticed some of her paintings have words, so I found this as the perfect opportunity to hand embroidery (which I love).

  The center of the flower is hand made piping which I rolled into the circle and then added beads for sparkle and texture.

I'm hoping I inspire my garden to "grow". (My thumb isn't green, but I try)  This project has definitely inspired me to grow in creativity.

My husband made a beautiful holder for the quilt to be in the garden.  He's a wonder with metal.  Visit his Facebook page for Duck Creek Design.

If you are visiting here before February 16th please head over HERE and vote for my quilt.  It's Carlotta Jean you want to toss a vote at.  You can vote only once for your favorite 3 quilts.  Choose wisely (Carlotta Jean).  haha


Keep Growing,

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