Creatin' in the Sticks: scrap piecing

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Friday, July 1, 2022

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!

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

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

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!

Sunday, March 21, 2021

Miles of Beach - Salt and Sand

Welcome to the first day of the

Salt and Sand Blog Hop!

I'm happy to kick things off with

Miles of Beach!

Carol of Just Let Me Quilt has invited bloggers to make an ocean/sand-themed project.

After all, we are all dreaming of vacation and the beach would be a great place to escape.

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

Visiting with my hubby one day, I told him my favorite place to run is on the beach.

His response was, "I'll take you to the river bed where there are miles and miles of beach!"

That's where the name of this quilt comes from.

We have lots of sand with no water here in Dodge City, Kansas. You see, our river is dry.

The Arkansas River runs through Dodge and although it has lots of water to the west in Colorado and 30 miles to the east of us there is water, here there is none.

Just miles and miles of sand.

So I took my ocean colors to the river bed for some sand pictures.

I'm working on scrap management this year so I pulled my blues and cut 1 1/4" strips.

I randomly made log cabin "ish" blocks, wrapped them in sand-colored fabric, and cut them wonky. The border is from the strips too.

The completed quilt is about 62" x 72".

Perfect to lay on the sand...

if you can avoid the traffic. haha

Yes, those are tire tracks.

That's about all there is to do at the river, 4-wheel drive in the sand.

The sand gets quite loose and deep in some areas.

I can only dream of a trip to the beach with real water.

But for now, I will live through my friends.

Check out the other bloggers posting in the

Salt and Sand Blog Hop:

March 22
Creatin' in the Sticks
Selina Quilts
That Fabric Feeling
Days Filled With Joy
Elizabeth Coughlin Designs
Karen's Korner
Homespun Hannah's Blog
Crafts and Math

March 23
MooseStashQuilting
Life in the Scrapatch
Food for Thought
For The Love Of Geese
Becky’s Adventures in Quilting and Travel
Karrin’s Crazy World
Sew Many Yarns
Kathy's Kwilts and More

March 24
Ms P Designs USA
DayBrook Designs
Vroomans Quilts
Kathleen McMusing
Quilt Schmilt
The Darling Dogwood
Daughters of Dorinda
Annie’s Musings

March 25
Quiltscapes
Beaquilter
Stitchin At Home
The Joyful Quilter
Scrapdash
Freckled Fox Quiltery
Quilts Fabric and Thread Tales
Words & Stitches

March 26
Just Let Me Quilt
Websterquilt
Quilting Gail
Samelia's Mum
Quilt Fabrication
Little Penguin Quilts
Just Sew Quilter
Inflorescence

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

I always end up that way...

Now you can say you've seen the great beaches of Western Kansas.

Yes, I'm living the dream...

Friday, April 26, 2019

Stripe Me a Diamond - Be a Diamond Blog Hop and Giveaway

Welcome to Creatin' in the Sticks

and

my day in the

Be a Diamond Blog Hop.

Carol at Just Let Me Quilt is hosting this blog hop
and
the posts have just been incredible.

I never thought about how diamonds in quilts can be so different
and add so much movement in a quilt.

My quilt is called
Stripe Me a Diamond.

It's string pieced on a foundation and then the diamond shape is paper pieced.

I started by drawing my own diamond paper pieced quilt block in Electric Quilt.

StitchNSew EZ Pring Quilt Block Sheets

by Thermoweb

made paper piecing the diamonds

a piece of cake.

They are sturdy and see-through, yet easy to tear away.

They don't fall apart if you have to correct a mistake.

Ask me how I know...

You print the quilt block directly on the quilt block sheet and get right to stitching.

I made 64 blocks and played with the layout.

I wish I had taken a picture of my husband and son helping me remove all the quilt block sheets from the blocks. What would we do without help sometimes?