Creatin' in the Sticks: Quilts

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Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Green Apple Blocks Quilt - Little Green Apples Challenge

Welcome
to the Sticks
and
the second day of the
"Little Green Apples Challenge"

Here is my finished

Green Apple Blocks Quilt.

Carol at Just Let Me Quilt invited a great group of Bloggers to

create something with green or apple fabric (or a combo of both!)

Thanks, Carol, for inviting me!

I have so many green scraps and I've always wanted to make a

blocks quilt, so this was the perfect chance.

I cut 5 1/2" equilateral triangles out of green fabrics (light, medium, and dark shades)

to design my blocks.

There are actually green apples in one of the fabrics.

I quilted it with a shamrock design.

But the best part of this quilt is the day we took pictures.

I had a pro to hold my quilt.

The hostess with the most!!!!

Our very own Carol from Just Let Me Quilt.

We went to Vegas a couple of weeks ago (again)...

Carol and her husband, Ron, took us out to the Colorado river for kayaking,

picture taking and they even packed us a picnic lunch.

Thank you, Carol!

It was such a fun day!!! Memories made for sure!

The water is an emerald color - perfect for the green theme.

And then there was this guy with a green shirt...

I love that through this community we can build the best friendships.

Here are other friends posting today:

MARCH 21

Creatin’ in the Sticks (You're here!)

Quilted Delights

Karrin’s Crazy World

For The Love Of Geese

Vroomans Quilts

Quilted Snail

Homespun Hannah's Blog

The Joyful Quilter

Carol has the rest of the schedule HERE

and

a Pinterest page HERE

Great friends will hold your quilt for you!

Have a happy week!

Monday, March 6, 2023

Contemporary Crazy Border Quilt - 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 is my Contemporary Crazy Border Quilt.

The idea for the hop is to find an old quilt book on your shelf and make something from it.

Here is my book:

The Quilting Bible from the Singer Sewing Reference Library

This book has been sitting in my sewing room because I was intrigued by this project:

I have had this piece of fabric forever.

It was time to use it.

My Contemporary Crazy Border Quilt was fun and totally took me away from my own

design style. I guess that is the point of a challenge such as this.

Here is the schedule of those showing off their old quilt book projects:

March 6th

Quilting at the Farm

Lemon Tree Snippets

Creatin in the sticks You are here

Natalie (on Beaquilter)

March 7th

March 8th

March 9th

March 10th

Quilting Patchwork Applique

Julie's Quilts and Costumes

Please check them out and leave some warm and fuzzy comments.

There are some fun old books to see.

I really do need to use my books more often.

I have so many that are from the 90's but not many older than that.

Now, magazines, I have waaaaaaay too many old ones.

It may be time to do some spring cleaning...

Thanks, Bea, this was fun!

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

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!

Monday, January 23, 2023

Shades of Blue in a Sampler

Welcome
to
the first day of the
Shades of Blue
Sew It Show It Challenge.

I'm happy to kick things off with my

Shades of Blue Sampler Quilt.

Skill builders like sampler quilts are so fun

and

I created this one just to play with some quilt block designs.

9 fat quarters of Kona Solids in shades of blue with some careful cutting,

became
31 quilt blocks and a 54" x 72" throw.

The plan was to offer the pattern now, but I'm planning a sew-along in the future for this one.

So, stay tuned for that.

In the meantime, it was so fun to take pictures in the snow...

After all, it's all about shades of blue this week

and what better background for blues than white?

I invited a great group of Bloggers to

create something with shades of blue.

Here is the line up:

Monday, January 23rd

Creatin' in the Sticks - You are HERE!

Tuesday, January 24th

Artes de Paula Louceiro

Days Filled With Joy

Beaquilter

Wednesday, January 25th

Just Let Me Quilt

Inflorescence

crazy'boutquilts

Kathy's Kwilts and More

Quilted Delights

Quilt Schmilt

VroomansQuilts

Thursday, January 26th

Ms P Designs USA

Lianne Makes Stuff

Quilting Gail

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Words & Stitches

Just Sew Quilter

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.

The week will definitely be blue skies ahead!

#ShadesofBlueSewitShowit

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