Halloween Tic Tac Toe

 Have you been Halloween stitching?

I've been having so much fun with it.

This is my newest pattern and it's free over at Thermoweb,

Halloween Tic Tac Toe Game.

My kids have already played with it.

It's so fun to use as decor on a side table and can be played anytime during the season.

It only takes a few things to make this fun

Halloween Tic Tac Toe Game.

HeatnBond EZ Print Lite  iron-on adhesive – 2 sheets

StitchnSew Sew-In fleece, High Loft 

SpraynBond basting adhesive

along with fabric, felt, and Aurfil thread.

You won't believe how easy HeatnBond EZ Print Lite makes it to create the game pieces.

Check out the free pattern over at Thermoweb.

This is my favorite time of year for stitching.

We have a blog hop starting Monday 

and

I'll be sharing a little more stitching for Halloween.

Snow Globe Zipper Pouch

It's a week of winter and snow globes over on the Thermoweb blog 

and 

I'm so happy to share a fun project over there. 

I have the cutest little zipper pouches featuring 

a reverse applique snow globe tutorial to share.

.  Team HeatNBond Lite with a fabric collection like Michael Miller Fabrics' Curiosity by Sandra Clemons to make sweet little fabric snow globes. 

 They make sweet gifts for a snow globe collector or anyone.

All the details and the free pattern and tutorial can be found over at Thermoweb.

I love these so much and these fabrics are too cute.

I may need more...

Hand Over the Chocolate - Project Quilting Season 10, Challenge 6

It's hard to believe this is the sixth and final challenge for Season 10 

Project Quilting.

I'm excited to join in this challenge, "Craving Chocolate"

My entry:

Hand Over the Chocolate

Kim at Persimon Dreams hosts Project Quilting.

Kim announces a challenge and you have one week to create something quilty.

Prizes can be won and it's a great way to meet new blogging friends.

THE RULES:

1. Whether you choose the candy or the color, your project must be inspired by chocolate.
2. Projects need to be created during the week of the challenge (started on or after March 17, finished by March 24).
3. Your project does not need to be a traditional quilt, but must meet at least one of these three requirements: include patchwork, include appliqué, have 3 layers stitched together by hand or machine.
4. Incomplete or unfinished does not qualify. Every challenge piece must be a FINISHED project seen through from INCEPTION to COMPLETION during the challenge timeline.
5. Link up by Sunday, March 24 at noon CDT

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I really didn't want to play with this theme too much.

I gave chocolate up for Lent.

So right away I thought, hand it right over.  I love chocolate so much.

A friend of mine is always showing up with a package of chocolate kisses.
As a nurse, she always has some for her patients.
She says people are so much more cooperative with a little chocolate.

She's so smart.

I made a little reversed appliqued hand.  

This was inspired by a block I sent to Sarah over at Confessions of a Fabric Addict a few years ago for her Hands to Help challenge.

I quilted it with straight and wavy lines like the paper hand drawings.

Then I appliqued a chocolate kiss with grey fabric and added an original paper from the candy.

(I threw the candy away - if you were wondering) ugh.

Once the binding was finished, I felt like it needed a little more bling.

Deco Foil bling.

The pattern for the appliqued candy was good for Hot Melt adhesive and then

I crinkled the silver deco foil to make it look more like the candy and presto:

Hand Over the Chocolate.

Hand Over the Chocolate

Project Quilting Season 10, Challenge 6 - Craving Chocolate

Made by Carla in Dodge City, Kansas

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

Size: 4" x 4 1/2"

Reverse Applique, Deco Foiled Candy, 3-D Paper enhancement 

Quilting with Aurifil 50 wt. #5006 on my domestic machine

You can see all the other challenge projects and vote for your favorites starting at noon central on

March 24th

by clicking 

HERE

This one is #24

Enjoy all the chocolate inspiration.

It's going to take some willpower to browse all the eye candy in this one...

Twinkle - Wish Upon a Star Blog Hop

Welcome to 

Creatin' in the Sticks

where the stars are twinkling today.

The Wish Upon a Star Blog Hop

is hosted by my friend

Carol at Just Let Me Quilt

and she has a super sweet giveaway for the hop.

Don't forget to enter over on her blog by clicking HERE.

I was so excited to make stars, so I started with a couple charm square packs

 (Riley Blake's Willow), sliced a few and stitched them together.

Next, I made a table of stars in Word and printed them on one of my favorite

fusible applique tools, HeatnBond EZ Print Lite 

No Tracing for me!!!

Some of the stars were reverse appliqued with white fabric in the middle.

And others were fused around the white border.

To embroider the words to Twinkle, twinkle little star I printed the letters on 
StitchnSew EZ Quilt Block Sheets 

and stitched the letters on my domestic machine with a triple stitch.
After the stitching is finished, the sheets just tear right off with no problem.

The quilt is quilted with bunnies and stars and the backing is a soft, Minky cuddle fabric.
I used batting in the middle and it's just right.

I love that song so much and will keep this quilt
 for when my new granddaughter comes to visit my house.
It's the perfect size for her right now.

Have you been keeping up with the hop?

There are all kinds of quilty stars to see.

Here is the complete schedule:

May 21

Moose Stash Quilting

Tu-Na Quilts, Travels, and Eats

Quilt In A Not-Shell

What About Rheema?

Clever Chameleon Quilting

Sunlight in Winter Quilts

Life in the Scrapatch

Sew Many Yarns

Hazel’s Daughter

May 22

Want To Be Quilter

Cynthia's Creating Ark

Selina Quilts

Ridge Top Quilt

Creative Blonde

Days Filled With Joy

Seams To Be Sew

Lily Patch Quilts

Why-Knot-Kwilt

May 23

Marjorie's Busy Corner

Quilt Doodle Designs

Adventurous Applique and Quilting

Vroomans Quilts

Peanut's Patchwork

Ms P Designs USA

The Little Mushroom Cap

Stitchin At Home

That Fabric Feeling

May 24 

Kathy’s Quilts

It’s A T-Sweet Day!

Freckled Fox Quiltery

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Melva Loves Scraps

Beaquilter

Quilting Nonnie

Den syende himmel

All Thingz Sewn

May 25

Creatin' in the Sticks  You are here!!!

For the love of geese

Words & Stitches

Quarter Inch Crafter

Quilt Fabrication

Home Sewn By Us

Kathleen McMusing

Just Let Me Quilt

Thank you, Carol for a super fun hop!!

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...

even with the backgammon block.

haha

It's prom here tomorrow, so I won't accomplish much sewing.  I have hair to fix.
Have a happy weekend!