Green Apple Blocks Quilt - Little Green Apples Challenge

Welcome
to the Sticks
and
 the second day of the
"Little Green Apples Challenge"

Here is my finished

Green Apple Blocks Quilt.

Carol at Just Let Me Quilt invited a great group of Bloggers to

create something with green or apple fabric (or a combo of both!)

Thanks, Carol, for inviting me!

I have so many green scraps and I've always wanted to make a 

blocks quilt, so this was the perfect chance.

I cut 5 1/2" equilateral triangles out of green fabrics (light, medium, and dark shades)

to design my blocks. 

There are actually green apples in one of the fabrics.

I quilted it with a shamrock design.

But the best part of this quilt is the day we took pictures.

I had a pro to hold my quilt.

The hostess with the most!!!!

Our very own Carol from Just Let Me Quilt.

We went to Vegas a couple of weeks ago (again)...

Carol and her husband, Ron, took us out to the Colorado river for kayaking, 

picture taking and they even packed us a picnic lunch.

Thank you, Carol!

It was such a fun day!!!  Memories made for sure!

The water is an emerald color - perfect for the green theme.

And then there was this guy with a green shirt...

I love that through this community we can build the best friendships.

Here are other friends posting today:

MARCH 21

Creatin’ in the Sticks (You're here!)

Quilted Delights

Karrin’s Crazy World

For The Love Of Geese

Vroomans Quilts

Quilted Snail

Homespun Hannah's Blog

The Joyful Quilter

Carol has the rest of the schedule HERE

and

a Pinterest page HERE

Great friends will hold your quilt for you!

Have a happy week!

Joy is Stitching a Santa Gnome Mini

 It's Joy season!

 I'm over on the Thermoweb blog with a free pattern to craft a 

Santa Gnome Mini Quilt - with instructions to make it a pillow too.

You asked for it

and

after designing the Happy Spring and the Hello Fall gnome minis,

I just had to make a Santa Gnome, too.

Pick up these Thermoweb products:

HeatnBond Fusible Fleece  

HeatnBond EZ Print Lite 

SpraynBond basting adhesive

A few fabrics and of course, Aurifil thread, and you are set.

Click here to get the free tutorial and pattern over at Thermoweb!

I hope this little Santa Gnome makes you smile today

and

brings you Christmas Joy!

Love for America Mini

I can't believe it's nearly time to celebrate the 4th of July.

 I'm over on the Thermoweb blog with a free pattern to craft a 

fun little mini -

Love for America.

It's the perfect size to craft a quick bit of red, white, and blue before the big day!

Here is what I used to make the wall hanging:

Some of my favorite Thermoweb products:

HeatnBond EZ Print Lite  

SpraynBond basting adhesive

HeatnBond Fusible Fleece  

and fabrics I had in my stash.  

Don't forget the Aurifil 50 weight Thread #2692!

Click here to get the free tutorial and pattern over at Thermoweb!

Get your red, white, and blue ready to celebrate!

Holiday Hearts with a Twist - Dust Off a Quilt Book Blog Hop

 Today is my stop in the 
Dust Off a Quilt Book

Blog Hop

Hosted by Bea at Beaquilter.

So, here are my Holiday Hearts with a Twist.

The idea is for the hop is to find an old quilt book on your shelf and make something from it.

Here is my lovely:

The Thimbleberries Book of Quilts by Lynette Jensen

copyright 1995

This book was given to me by a friend from her mom's estate.

Her mom even put her name inside the front cover - so special.

The Holiday Hearts looked like fun - all strip piecing (love)!

I wanted to change things up a bit, so I used all green scraps and made 3 of the 16" hearts.

Once I laid them together, I designed a stem, and presto, 

a shamrock!

They are still Holiday Hearts, just a different holiday.

I may stitch them together or I kind of like that I can use them as placemats if I choose.

They are the perfect festive touch for our table this month.

Here is the schedule of those showing off their old quilt book projects:

Tuesday, March 1st
Quilting & Learning – What a Combo 
Karen’s Korner

Wednesday, March 2nd    
Becky’s Adventures in Quilting and Travel
Creatin’ in the Sticks (YOU ARE HERE)

Thursday, March 3rd
Quilting Patchwork & Appliqué
Just Let Me Quilt

Friday, March 4th
Patchwork Breeze
Beaquilter

Please check them out leave them some warm and fuzzy comments.

There are some fun old books to see.

I really do need to use my books more often.

Thanks, Bea, this was fun!

Virtual Cookie Exchange Starts Tomorrow

It's a tradition.  

Every year my friend Carol at Just Let Me Quilt hosts
The Virtual Cookie Exchange.

And every year I jump to participate!

It's not just cookies anymore.

There will be lots of Christmas projects and traditions too.

Look who is joining the blog hop this year:

December 1

Creatin' in the Sticks - ME!

Doreen – Just Let Me Quilt Guest

Bumbleberry Stitches

Home Sewn By Us

Quilt Schmilt

Food for Thought

Life in the Scrapatch

Ms P Designs USA

Just Sew Quilter

Cathie's Craftworks

Cynthia's Creating Ark

 December 2

MooseStashQuilting

Karen's Korner

Sew Many Yarns

Selina Quilts

Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life

Days Filled With Joy

Words & Stitches

Just Because Quilts

Beaquilter

December 3

Quiltscapes

Websterquilt

DayBrook Designs

Karrin’s Crazy World

Samelia's Mum

Songbird Designs

For The Love Of Geese

Stitchin At Home

Dreamworthy Quilts

That Fabric Feeling

 December 4

Just Let Me Quilt

Quilt Fabrication

DesertSky Quilting

Seams To Be Sew

Happy Cottage Quilter

Pumpkin Patch Patterns & Quilting

The Darling Dogwood

Kathleen McMusing

Scrapdash

This should be a fun week of Christmas ideas for sure!

See you tomorrow.

Happy Thankgiving!

 Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving craft inspired by "Thanksgiving Activities for Children"

Today I am grateful for all the goodness in my life even in 2020.

Here's to happiness ahead!

Stay home and stay safe!

Get Cozy Over at Thermoweb

 It's getting colder and colder.

My newest pattern over at Thermoweb will help you to stay cozy. 

I was so happy to play with one of my favorite color combinations in

Art Gallery Fabrics “Merry & Bright” collective by AGF Studio.

To make Cozy you'll need these products from Thermoweb:

HeatnBond EZ Print Lite  iron-on adhesive – no tracing, the pattern is ready to print

StitchnSew Sew-In fleece, High Loft – for a super cushiony pillow

SpraynBond basting adhesive - no pinning 

The free pattern can be found HERE.

I have a quilt pattern coming next week.
 It's the perfect complement to the Cozy pillow.

The Warm quilt pattern will be available for free over at Thermoweb too.

Next week we'll be Cozy and Warm!

Christmas in July Then and Now - Christmas Ornaments Pillow and Giveaway

Welcome
to

the first day of the

Christmas in July Then and Now Blog Hop.

.

I'm happy to kick things off with

 my

Christmas Ornaments Pillow.

Carol of Just Let Me Quilt invited bloggers to show an 

older Christmas project from "back then" 

or

show something new...anything Christmas related.

That was it, just make or show something Christmas.

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

This pillow is my "now" but I've made these blocks before.

It's theThermoweb Holiday Quilt Block Series from 2017

and

this is the table runner I made with the blocks with

O' Christmas Tree by Whistler Studios for Windham Fabrics

.

I teamed with 3 other Thermoweb designers to create ornament inspired 

quilt block patterns. 

 Our hostess, Carol, was part of the design team, too.

The FREE quilt block patterns can be found on the following Thermoweb links:

Carla - Christmas Bell Ornament

Carol - Vintage Christmas Ornament

Amanda - Holiday Retro Ornament

Amy - Joy Ornament

Click HERE to see the way other designers put the blocks together.

But wait, I used these awesome patterns again to make another table runner last year

with different fabrics, I received from my local quilt shop.

With permission from the designers and Thermoweb, I taught a class at my local shop,

Birds of a Feather Quilt Shop.  

It was my first teaching gig and it was too much fun.

I pre-printed all the patterns for the class on 

 HeatnBond EZ Print Lite 

(no tracing)

so the class could start right in with fabric selection and sewing 

to finish the blocks in the class.

Which brings me back to my Ornament Pillow.

For the class, I didn't know how much time I would have to stitch, so I made the blocks 1/2 size so I could still have time to teach. 

 I only managed to finish one block even with the smaller size.

So, thanks to this hop, I finished the blocks and made them into a pillow cover.

Be sure to check out all the Christmas projects over at these blogs today:

July 27

Creatin' in the Sticks

Just Because Quilts

Words & Stitches

Quilt In A Not-Shell

Ms P Designs USA

 Scrapdash

Selina Quilts

Days Filled With Joy

  

Here is the rest of the schedule:

July 28

Life in the Scrapatch

Cynthia's Creating Ark

Karrin’s Crazy World

Vroomans Quilts

Quilted Delights

Songbird Designs

Websterquilt

 Karen's Korner

  

July 29

MooseStashQuilting

Beaquilter

Day Brook Designs

Seams To Be Sew

Little Penguin Quilts

Bumbleberry Stitches

Samelia's Mum

Canyon Rim Quilting

  

July 30

Quiltscapes

Mary Mack Made Mine

DesertSky Quilting

For The Love Of Geese

Quilt Schmilt

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Becky’s Adventures in Quilting and Travel

Quilting Gail

  

July 31

Just Let Me Quilt

Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life

Den Syende Himmel

Quilt Fabrication

Sew Many Yarns

Just Sew Quilter

Shirley C.

Kathy's Kwilts and More

Get all that inspiration to start your holiday stitching now 

so it's done in time for you to enjoy the holidays.

(Every year I say I'm going to start my Christmas stitching early and every year I wait till the last minute.)

At least I have a pillow cover ready...

I want you to have a chance to try 

Thermoweb's HeatnBond EZ Print Lite 

so I'm giving away one package.

I'm covering the postage so this giveaway is limited to U.S. only.  (sorry)

Entries are open until August 2nd

I'll announce the winner by August 4th.

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