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Thursday, December 3, 2020

Virtual Cookie Exchange and Blog Hop

My mom just bought the Storm at Sea Block on Board Accuquilt Die. I of course had to play with it and try it out. What better than to make a simple and cute Christmas block that will make a wonderful gift this holiday season?! I of course used my favorite Island Batik fabrics.

I always love Just Let Me Quilt's Virtual Cookie Exchange. This year I went online searching for a new and different cookie to make with my sons. I found it...

Talk about a frosting overload! My boys will absolutely love all this frosting and bet they'll be fun to make. But only a few!

Link to Recipe from Delish

I hope you get to quilt today!

Suzy

Check out all the bloggers on the hop!

December 1

Creatin' in the Sticks

Doreen – Just Let Me Quilt Guest

Life in the Scrapatch

Ms P Designs USA

Just Sew Quilter

Cathie's Craftworks

Cynthia's Creating Ark

December 2

Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life

December 3

For The Love Of Geese

December 4

Happy Cottage Quilter

Pumpkin Patch Patterns & Quilting

The Darling Dogwood

Kathleen McMusing

Scrapdash

Monday, February 17, 2020

Color It Red Blog Hop!

It's always such fun to participate in Carol from Just Let Me Quilt's blog hops! This time the theme is color it red. Simple....just has to be red. I decided to play with this theme and create an all red flower.

I've been playing a lot lately with using nontraditional fabrics in my applique. It's fun to try something different and to get different effects. This flower has two different kinds of velvet (see the light orangey petals with the curves? Velvet.

I also has a bunch of different kinds of leather. Look closely below. You can see the curvy velvet. The triangles just below it are leather as is the curve at the top. The big dark piece in the flower? Suede leather. In fact, I think there are six different red leathers in this piece. Can you tell I've been collecting? LOL..

Look closely...how many different fancy fabrics can you spot? I also had fun doing all the blanket stitching in the same red thread. That saved so much time!

Follow me in all my adventures in my Facebook Group Machine Applique Adventures.

I hope you get to quilt today!
Suzy

Be sure to check out my fellow hoppers:

February 17^th

Creatin' in the Sticks

Kathy's Kwilts and More

February 18^th

Cynthia's Creating Ark

February 19^th

Everyone Deserves a Quilt

February 20^th

Life in the Scrapatch

Songbird Designs

High Road Quilter

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

February 21^st

Becky’s Adventures in Quilting and Travel

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Wish Upon a Star Blog Hop!

I am SEW excited to be a part of the Wish Upon a Star blog hop with Just Let me Quilt! What quilter doesn't like stars? I wanted to create something new for this hop and I was in the mood to paper piece so I designed this block in Electric Quilter and got to work. I wanted it to appear 3 dimensional so I used two different shades of orange to create that effect. I also like the way it appears to spin.

I started with three solids from Micheal Miller's Cotton Couture solids collection. They are my absolute favorite solids as they feel like batiks (go figure...I love batiks!). I paper pieced the sections of this block. I'm quite happy with how they turned out.

I started by drawing the white lines you see above. I then filled them with elongated pebbles. I used a slightly lighter gray to make these pebbles stand out.

Next, I stitched the same pebbles in the spikes.

It was an interesting challenge as the space got smaller. I ended up with curvy lines at the very tip.

Next I had to stitch the rest of the backgrounds. I added some sprays of feathers in the corner. Then I stippled the center, did swirls in the skinny strip between pebbles and repeated the stippling in the corners. I did this quilting in a darker gray to let the bubbles stand out. All of the thread used is my favorite Aurifil 50 weight.