Creatin' in the Sticks: Play with Me QAL

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Friday, August 12, 2016

Quilt Along Blocks

I started the year with several hops

and

have only really kept up with two.

I have fallen a touch behind in

Alida (TweloQ) Designs "Play with Me" quilt along.

Here is the block for July:

" Hex game"

with a focus on English Paper Piecing.

This is my favorite block yet in this quilt along, but July was just too busy.

I'll catch up in August (at least that is what I keep telling myself).

After all, I have until Christmas. :)

My next blocks are the August blocks for

In Our Garden BOM blog hop

Hosted by Amy over at Sew Incredibly Crazy

These super cute blocks were designed by

Kris over at Kris Loves Fabric.

Kris has the free tutorial and pattern over on her blog HERE.

I didn't take a shot of all the blocks so far this month,

but I can't wait to put them all together.

There is too much cuteness.

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

The fabrics are Botanique by fabric designer Lila Tueller.

Here is the list of bloggers and the months:

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

Still to come:

September

Pat – Life in the Scrapatch

October

Vicki – More Stars in Comanche

November

Lana – It Seams to be Sew

December

Jan - Sew and Sow Farm

January

Amy – Sew Incredibly Crazy– Final Blocks and wrap up

There's a group Facebook page HERE

and a Flickr Group

where everyone has been sharing garden blocks.

You can still join in on all this fun!!!

Have a great weekend!

Thursday, June 30, 2016

Play with Me Quilt Along Skill Builder - June

I've been playing along with

Alida (TweloQ) Designs

in the "Play with Me" quilt along.

This month the skill builder is traditional piecing and the block is Ludo.

It was fun to do some simple piecing.

Making the quarter triangle square (hour glass block) in the middle was my favorite part.

There are a lot of ways to make hour glass blocks, but my favorite is to make 2 half square triangles and then put them together to make 2 quarter triangle squares.

Click here to see my

Hourglass Block tutorial

Here are all my

Play with Me Quilt Along blocks so far.

I'm having fun making this quilt. It's going to be a Christmas exchange gift.

I still haven't made any game pieces, (I say this every month) but I have 6 more months. lol

I can't believe it's the last day of June...

Monday, May 30, 2016

Play with Me Quilt Along Skill Builder - May

I've been playing along with

Alida (TweloQ) Designs

in the "Play with Me" quilt along.

This month the skill builder is applique and the block is a Peg Solitaire game.

I didn't want to try needle turned applique on all these circles and the choice was ours to make on how we did the applique.

I chose to do raw edge applique and made it even easier by using the template

to print all 33 circles on my fusible with my computer.

Have you tried these printer sheets by Thermoweb?

I know I will be using this easy method of printing stencils from now on.

Where has this been all of my life?

I chose the background fabric because it reminds me of those triangle peg solitaire games I played when I was a kid. I used a blanket stitch on all 33 circles and the red fabric is Kona solid.

Here are the blocks so far:

I'm having fun making this quilt. It's going to be a Christmas exchange gift.

I still haven't made any game pieces, but I have 7 more months. lol

Have a great week!

Sunday, April 24, 2016

Play with Me Quilt Along Skill Builder - April

It seems appropriate to share my April block for the "Play with Me" quilt along as I am returning from a family vacation in Las Vegas, Nevada.

This is my hubby, my daughter, me, my son, and son-in-law riding from the airport to the hotel.

It was a trip I'll never forget. I think my kids are as much (or more) fun now as they were when they were little ones. It's even better with one more in the family. Cheers!

I have finished my April block and I will probably get a low score...

The skill builder this month is embroidery. As I said, I've been on vacation and time was not on my side so I put Miss Janome to work and machine stitched the fancy stitches instead of hand embroidering the lines for the game, GO.

I pulled out my trusty Heat n Bond lightweight fusible interfacing to stabilize the fabric and, after marking the lines, let Miss Janome embroider away with Aurifil 50 wt to match the background fabric.

I added an extra border, ~~for extra credit~~ to add a little color since I cheated this month...lol

Here are all the blocks for the quilt so far.

My hope it to give this away at Christmas...

How fun is that? A game board quilt. I have a lot of game pieces to make, but I have until Christmas, right?

April showers are almost ready to give way to May flowers. YIPPPEEE!!

Although the weather was a beauty here today. Hope yours was.

Friday, April 1, 2016

Backgammon Block for the Play With Me Quilt Along

It probably doesn't look like much to you

but it's a finish for me that I've been struggling all month to get done.

The skill for this backgammon block was reverse applique.

I've done this form of applique with fusibles, but never without.

I joined this quilt along to learn knew skills and this month was definitely a learning experience.

My machine doesn't like to satin stitch or something.... ugh

Lucky for me, this March block can still be posted today
and
I will still receive April's block.

Here are all the blocks for the quilt so far.

My hope it to give this away at Christmas...