Little Pink Houses - Welcome to My House Blog Hop

Welcome to my house

here at

Creatin' in the Sticks!

Carol at Just Let Me Quilt always has the best hop ideas and when she told me about this one I went straight to my drawing board to make my little pink houses.

I've always wanted to make a "Little Pink Houses" quilt.

You know the song by John Cougar, or is it John Cougar Mellencamp, or is it, John Mellencamp?

Anyway, that is my inspiration.

Little Pink Houses

100 little pink houses all scrappy and made with lots of love

but not finished.

I want to add borders and maybe one red, white, and blue house too.

It's 60" x 60" right now

and

I love it so much

I want to make it bigger.

The pattern for the 12" finished block-  PDF Pattern can be found in my Craftsy store HERE.

Free for a week for you.

This quilt is a great stash buster and I can see it in all different colors too.

BUT, I love the pink!!!

Thank you, Carol, for giving me the reason to make this quilt.

It's been in the back of my mind forever!! 

Be sure and check out the other houses today:

September 13th

Creatin' in the Sticks - you are here
Quilt Doodle Designs
Quilting & Learning - What a Combo!
Domestic Felicity
Life in the Scrapatch
That Fabric Feeling
Just Because Quilts
Hazel’s Daughter

"Oh but ain't that America, for you and me
Ain't that America, we're something to see baby
Ain't that America, home of the free, yeah
Little pink houses for you and me, oh for you and me"

Thank you for stopping by my house.

Come again soon!

Merry and Bright Christmas House Ornaments

If you sew for Christmas, you've probably already started your projects 

or 

at least made a list of what needs to be made.  

Today I have a little project over on the Thermoweb blog that you may want to add to your Christmas sewing list.

These little houses are fun to make and you could personalize them with a little name at the top too.

The fabrics for these little houses are

 Merry and Bright by Cori Dantini for Blend Fabrics

and

 the supplies to make the houses are

 HeatnBond fusible interfacing - Craft extra firm and HeatnBond Lite

. 

 A little Aurifil thread:  50wt # 2692 and #2620 and you are set to make some little houses.

The full PDF Pattern can be found in my Craftsy store HERE.

Be sure to head over to the Thermoweb Blog

and check out all the fun

Christmas ideas this week for both paper and fabric!

Schoolhouse Sticky Note Holder - Are you ready for back-to-school?

It always seems like the minute 4th of July is over it's time to get ready to go back to school.

Today, you can find me over on the Therm-O-Web blog sharing how to put this sweet 

back to school teacher gift 

together using

Heat-N-Bond craft interfacing

to keep the walls of the schoolhouse box nice and firm.

Yep, you read me right...lol

I'm jumping for joy today!

Please go check out my first tutorial and pattern for Therm-O-Web.

It's so exciting to join this team of talented designers
and the best part
is creating fabric goodies with all my favorite 
Therm-O-Web products.

Check out the Therm-O-Web blog
and
send a school full of hugs 
on that first day of school.

The PDF instructions are on my Craftsy page HERE.

AKA - The Bunny House Lady

Somehow I've become known as the Bunny house Lady.

I make one miniature house, which leads to another and another and another.  Well, you get the picture.

I finished up these two today.

Each has it's own family of bunnies and a complete set of furniture.

The pattern I use (modified a little) is McCall's pattern 8346 from 1982.

They make the sweetest gifts for little ones at Easter.

I can't make enough of them. 

 Trouble is, they are super labor intensive and take so much time...

and I want to make a quilt.  wink**

These little guys have to say goodbye to each other.  

Bunny BFFs forever!!

Here are houses from the past.

All of them are being loved by little hands, except the Halloween one.  (I'm trying to keep at least one in case I have little hands around here someday)

Here is where I blogged my first one.

Little Pink house

Bunny House Lane

Halloween House

It has black cats instead of bunnies.

And my finishes today make 7 so far. 

 I'm sure there will be more in the future (I have lots more orders), but I need to catch up on all the BOMs and quilt alongs.

Oh, and there is the last challenge for Season 7 of Project Quilting this week.

Little Pink House - Project Quilting Season 7 Challenge 5

The Challenge:  Through the Eyes of a Child

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 fifth challenge of six for Season 7 of Project Quilting.

The Rules:

  1.  Your inspiration for this week's challenge is children's art.  Be sure to include a picture of the art that inspired you.

(Luckily we could use one of the examples from the challenge page)

I used Capri's (Kim's daughter's) art as my inspiration. 

  Isn't it cute? 

My first thought when I read the challenge was a house and stick people, Capri is a little more accomplished than that.

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:

Include patchwork

Include appliqué.

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 either a blog post or flickr image  by Sunday, March 6th, 2016, at noon, CDT 

While Capri chose a winter scene, I took the Spring route.  Snowmen go to snow as flowers go to bunnies.....  At least in my mind.

I decided to go the nontraditional route for this challenge and make a toy instead of a quilt.

The pattern I used (modified a little) is McCall's pattern 8346 from 1982.

I couldn't wait to put the Tula Pink fabric on the roof of this house. 

 I thought it looked like a tile roof.

The house is sandwiched with batting and plastic canvas.

Shall we knock on the door to see inside?  lol

The bunny isn't dressed, but he has invited us in...

I still have a bed to make and want to add a momma and baby bunny.

Here is the back of the house.

Little Pink House

Project Quilting Season 7, Challenge 5- Though the Eyes of a Child

Made by Carla in Dodge City, Kansas

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

Size: 10" tall and 13" wide

Freemotion quilting on the door

Techniques:  house building, bunny making, furniture making, embroidery, soooo much hand sewing, and applique

Vote by clicking HERE for your favorite Challenge 5 Projects.
My little pink house is #27.

Spring is coming....

Better get ready for Easter.

Black Cat Crossing

Welcome to my stop in the

Black Cat Crossing Blog Hop

sponsored by

Maywood Studio

Everyone is welcome to visit.
It's really not haunted.

Except maybe this spider....

yuck

The black cat family is arriving to make this house a home.

Add a little furniture

and a house becomes a home

The fabric in the house and furniture is Maywood Studio Black Cat Crossing.

The house was made with a few modifications from McCall's pattern 8346 from the year 1982.

Thank you Madame Samm and Wendy for this wicked hop!

Please visit the other wicked blogs of the day and leave lots of wickedly wonderful comments:

Creatin' in the Sticks This is me

Living With Purpose

Moose Stash Quilting

The Quilted Cat

Lines, Color, and Art

Sorry for the short post.

The wedding last weekend ( see below) has me in overdrive...

wink

Bunny House Lane

Two little ones are going to have a sweet Easter surprise.

I've finished 2 bunny houses, 2 sets of furniture, and 6 bunnies and all are in their new homes

ready to be loved by little people.

 

 

Welcome to Bunny House Lane.

 

 

Two houses made to look like our cabin.

One with brown bunnies and one with white.

One is for a little boy and one for a little girl.

 

 

Orange furniture in one.

 

 

Red furniture in the other.

 

 

I just love those pictures of families walking away from the camera.

 

 

 



 

Two little houses made with a few modifications from McCall's pattern 8346 from 1982.

These are the second and third ones I have made.

The first one was blogged here.

 

You may tire of seeing these little houses as I have orders for a lot more.

 

I have a ton of ideas for colors and animals

and enough orders to use them all.

 

 

I'm happy to have these finished in time for my Easter deadline.

Doing a happy dance.

 

There is a blog hop going right now where bloggers are revealing superpowers.

 

 I'm not in this one (that Easter deadline), but I've been cheering everyone on

and enjoying all the inspiration.