Rainbow Wild Star and MORE - Sweet on You Challenge

  Welcome
to the Sticks
and
 the second day of the
"Sweet on You Challenge"

Here is my finished

Rainbow Wild Star Quilt.

Joan at MooseStashQuilting invited a great group of Bloggers to

create something inspired by something they are sweet on.

Thanks, Joan, for inviting me!

First off, I am sweet on rainbow quilts.

My favorite color pallet is RAINBOW and rainbow scrappy is even more of a

"sweet on you" for me.

I participated in the Wild Star Sew-Along over on Instagram

with

Lindlee at Plains and Pine

If you click on Lindlee, she still has the pattern info available

 in her stories under the Wild Star SAL tab.

Sorry about the creases, but I just unpacked this quilt.

Here is why:

We are sweet on our Kansas City Chiefs football!

Tradition says that if the Chiefs make it to the Super Bowl,

we have to watch it in Las Vegas

at a certain party, in a certain booth,

wearing the same shirts...  

you get the idea.

We just had to do our part for the WIN.

The year we didn't go watch the super bowl in Vegas, 2021 (covid), our Chiefs lost.

And since we were going to Vegas, there were a couple of other

 "sweet-on-you" 

things we wanted to do!

Visiting my friend Carol at Just Let Me Quilt was "sweet on you" number 1!

She had just signed up for a class at one of our favorite quilt shops, 

Sew Yeah Quilting,

to make seam rippers.  I was sooo in!

Eye protection first, I was so scared -

Carol was so brave and showed us all how it was done.

It starts out as a block of wood.  You can see it on the lathe.

It's so fun to play once the nerves settled down...

Zach was a great teacher.

We handled the power tools like champs!

And our final "sweet" results-

Carol's is on the left and mine is the red multi

Can you be "sweet on you" with a seam ripper?

Another "sweet on you" thing we like to do in Las Vegas is watch

our favorite college baseball player at the College of Southern Nevada

I had taken the Rainbow Wild Star quilt to Las Vegas to get pictures,

this is not what I had in mind:

It was freezing in Vegas so I was glad the quilt had made the trip with us.

I was double "sweet on you" for this quilt with a minky fabric backing that day.  

Check out the others that are "sweet on you" today:

Tuesday, Feb 21st

Vicki's Crafts and Quilting

Creatin' in the Sticks ME!
Quilt Schmilt
Ms P Designs USA
The Crafty Grammie
Vroomans Quilts
Words and Stitches

Joan has the rest of the schedule HERE

and

a Pinterest Page HERE.

In the end, we made it home with the win and "sweet on you" memories!

Challenge complete!

Pink Ribbons Quilt - Tickled Pink Blog Hop

   Welcome to Creatin' in the Sticks

and
my day - the final day for the Tickled Pink Blog Hop.

To all that participated or commented -

Thank you so much!

My head is swimming with all kinds of love

and I can't wait to try some new pink projects.

But first, it's my day to show my

Pink Ribbons Quilt.

When the idea for this hop came along, my first thought was that I needed to use up some of the pink scraps in my ever-growing stash. 

 With a Granddaughter, it seems I've accumulated a lot of pink fabric.

Trouble is, she really would rather have blue now that she is a little older.

My daughter brought her over and we had a great time making her first Valentine box.

It was all made by her with a purchased heart box and stickers.

Grampy cut the hole in the top

 and

her mommy wrote her name in glue.

 Elizabeth was all about adding the glitter to the glue!

My daughter and granddaughter showed off the masterpiece Valentine box.

My kitchen is in the middle of a remodel - what a mess!

But we had fun!

You could say we were

"Tickled Pink"

I needed a simple project as you can see - with my house in a crazy mess.

It started with simple blocks and the idea was to have ribbons of pink,

but I hated it once I started stitching the ribbons together.

So I pieced a heart together with pink fabrics and bordered it with the pink ribbon blocks

and now

I love it.

I enjoy hosting blog hop events so much!

Joan from Moosestash Quilting, Carol from Just Let Me Quilt, 

and I, Carla from Creatin' in the Sticks

take turns hosting the blog hops and themes/challenges.

This month was my turn to host the

Tickled Pink blog hop!

I'm sharing my day with these bloggers:

Thursday, February 17th

Creatin' in the Sticks "Me"

Beaquilter

Stitchin at Home

Happy Cottage Quilter

Patchouli Moon Studio

Words & Stitches

Inflorescence

Quilted Delights 

You can find the rest of the schedule HERE.

This blog hop is for everyone!

Have fun visiting each blog and making new friends.

They have worked hard to show us some new ideas, so be sure to thank them with 

a sweet comment!

You can check out the Pinterest Board to stay up to date, too.

I'm Tickled Pink you stopped by!

 

Embellished Hugs and Kisses Denim Jacket with 4 Easy Techniques at Thermoweb

I had so much fun embellishing this denim jacket
and
I think my model loves it too! 

I'm over at Thermoweb today showing the 4 super fun and quick techniques I used to embellish the jacket.

There are also free templates for you.

Here is the list of Thermoweb supplies:

iCraft Fabric Fuse Liquid Adhesive

HeatnBond Light Weight Non-Woven Fusible Interfacing

HeatnBond Lite Iron-On Adhesive

StitchnSew EZ Print Quilt Block Sheets

plus you will need 1 purchased denim jacket (washed and dried), Aurifil thread:  50wt # 4660
Iron – I love my Oliso Pro, a few scraps of fabric, 3/4" trim, and general sewing supplies.

Check out my post over on the Thermoweb Blog today.

We had so much fun!

Sometimes, the pictures are even more fun than the sewing.

Hugs and kisses!

Hearts on Fire - Play Ball!

 “Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.” – Yogi Berra

 Welcome to the first day of the

Hearts on Fire Blog Hop!

I'm happy to kick things off with

Play Ball!

Carol of Just Let Me Quilt has invited bloggers to make a heart project, 

only the heart can't be the color red.

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

My heart is on fire for baseball.

I quilt what I love.

It may be that baseball for me means family time

whether we are watching a little league game, big league (Go Royals!), or any game in between.

The game always seems to bring us together.

That's my sister, our dad, my son, me, and my sister's youngest son.  

We were watching my sister's oldest son play baseball last summer.

My sister has 3 sons that play baseball.  If they aren't playing they are practicing and not just during the summer, but year-round.

I made this quilt for her.  Baseball this time of year can be quite chilly.

The quilt is 54" x 60" and will be perfect in the stands.

I have been working on stash management and cut all the pieces from my white and grey scrap boxes.  

Next, I used purchased bias tape for the baseball stitches and quilted it with straight lines.

I sandwiched batting between the top and the very special fleece backing.

My sister's oldest just committed to play at Kansas State University!

I am so excited to go and watch my nephew play university ball

and

his mom can share her quilt with me.

Or, maybe I should make one for myself...  

Be sure to check out all the other Hearts On Fire this week:

January 18

Creatin' in the Sticks
Life in the Scrapatch
Freckled Fox Quiltery
All Thingz Sewn
Den Syende Himmel
That Fabric Feeling

 January 19
MooseStashQuilting
Websterquilt
Words & Stitches
Vroomans Quilts
Quilt Schmilt
Cynthia's Creating Ark
Songbird Designs

 January 20
Selina Quilts
Stitchin At Home
Samelia's Mum
Just Sew Quilter
Scrapdash
Karrin’s Crazy World
The Darling Dogwood

 January 21
Quilt Fabrication
Ms P Designs USA
Beaquilter
Becky’s Adventures in Quilting and Travel
Ridge Top Quilt
For The Love Of Geese
Sew Many Yarns
Quilting Gail

January 22
Just Let Me Quilt
Karen's Korner
Elizabeth Coughlin Designs
Quilt In A Not-Shell
Storied Quilts
Kathy's Kwilts and More
Homespun Hannah's Blog

I love putting hearts in quilts, don't you?

I'm sure by the end of the blog hop, you will have more ideas than time.

I always end up that way...

Maybe if we could all go hang out at a baseball game the world would be a happier place.

Quilted Love Keychain - Free Pattern

  Valentine's Day is one of my favorite reasons to make little gifts.

I love stitching Valentines too!

Today I have a free tutorial and pattern to share.

My Quilted Love Keychain is a feature over at

Thermoweb

today.

It's a fun take on the key to your love.

The Quilted Love Keychain is a quick patchwork and applique project.

It finishes at 2" x 7" so your love will be able to find those keys easily.

Make it with a few of my favorite HeatnBond products:

HeatnBond Lite iron-on adhesive

HeatnBond Non-woven fusible interfacing, Medium weight

HeatnBond High Loft fusible fleece

Add Island Batik fabrics and Aurifil thread and you also can have my love (keychain).

Get the free pattern and tutorial

on the 

Thermoweb blog

and

spread a little love!

Valentine Sew Along - Framed by Love

Happy Valentine's Day!

I'm excited to share

Framed by Love

today.

Did you follow the Valentine Quilt Block Sew Along over on the 

 Thermoweb blog?

Teaming up with other Thermoweb designers for the 

Valentine Quilt Block Sew Along

 has been so much fun! 

As a member of the designer group,

I shared this quilt block:

Jars of Love

The fabrics I used are

Vintage Berries by Sweet Bee Designs  

and the thread I used to stitch around the applique is

Aurifil thread:  50wt # 2620

 I used HeatNBond EZ Print Lite to print the patterns right on the fusible adhesive to create all of the quilt blocks. 

 Just print, fuse, cut, bond, and stitch.  It's that easy.

Today I am ready to share the finished quilt and the free pattern to put the blocks together. 

In fact, there are 4 different ways to put the blocks together today over 

on the Thermoweb blog.

Click HERE to find my PDF pattern in a special blog post over at Thermoweb today.

I hope your day is full of LOVE!