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Thursday, February 22, 2024

It Moose Be Love--My Turn

Today is my turn for the It Moose Be Love hop hosted by Calico Joan of Moosestash Quilting.

No moose for me though...

I'll start with this paper pieced heart. The free pattern is from The Seasoned Homemaker.

I made 6 of them for a wall hanging, decided I didn't want 6 in the wall hanging and made 2 little pieces with individual hearts. After quilting them on my domestic machine, using these small projects, I taught my SIL how to face a quilt instead of using the traditional binding. This is hers in their condo.

Here is my wall hanging with 4 hearts.

It has the same purple border as the individual ones, and the quilting is the same around the hearts.

Most of my quilting is done on my sit-down long arm: a Juki Miyabi QVP. I wish I had room for a long arm on a frame, but I don't. I'm thankful I have this Juki!

I faced this wall hanging since I had no more purple for the binding. 😁

Jana, owner of my local quilt shop, Stewart's Sewing, made a Cassie's Cutie bag (by Marlous Designs) and I loved it--had to make my own. It's really small and great when you are doing touristy things, only needing some money, ID, phone. Then I made a mini Diva wallet to go with it--the regular sized wallets are too big. I actually made the wallet body twice. The directions said to use Decor Bond as the interfacing and that was entirely too thick and stiff. I couldn't get the wallet frame on the ends of the body. From now on, when I make these, I will use only my fusible lightweight interfacing! That worked great. You'll notice I used heart fabric to go with our theme (and I just noticed the hearts are upside down when the wallet is closed--lol). 😀

These cute little zipper bags are made from charm squares and are good coin purses. The tutorial is from SewCanShe and is called Tiny Zipper Bags. :)

I "moose" end now.

Thanks for stopping by!

I hope you visit all the other bloggers this week.

Here is the list, in case you haven't visited and would like to.

Monday February 19

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Tuesday February 20

A Quiltery-For the Love of Geese

Kathy’s Kwilts and More

Wednesday February 21

Thursday February 22

Just Let Me Quilt

Inflorescence

High Road Quilter

Just Sew Quilter (you are here)

Scrapdash

Saturday, February 17, 2024

It Moose Be Love

It's almost time for the February hop, It Moose Be Love, hosted by Calico Joan of Moosestash Quilting.

Here's the list:

Monday February 19

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Tuesday February 20

A Quiltery-For the Love of Geese

Kathy’s Kwilts and More

Wednesday February 21

Thursday February 22

Check us all out for lots of fun and inspiration!

Saturday, February 3, 2024

Catching up...

I had made drawstring bags for each of my grands as part of their Christmas presents and decided to make one for each of my great-nephews and my great niece whom we would be encountering in Santa Fe and in Arizona. Here are two of the bags. This is a combination pattern--the letters are a free Spell It with Moda pattern and then SewLux had the drawstring bag pattern for it. Not sure how I got the pattern now, and I didn't immediately see it on the SewLux web pages. She has other drawstring bag patterns for sale...

I ordered a log cabin table runner kit from Shabby Fabrics because my SIL in Santa Fe wanted a candle mat to match her dishes and the fabrics in this kit were just right. I used one block as the candle mat

and the other 3 to make a shorter version of the log cabin runner. She got both projects.

I think I showed this wall hanging before but I made it for my brother and SIL in Tempe, AZ.

Chris had to take a picture of me beside it. I called it Desert Convergence. It is a Harmonic Convergence, Ricky Tims pattern.

Later this month I'll be participating in Calico Joan's It Moose Be Love hop. I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone makes, and I had better get started on my project!!

See you then!

Thursday, December 7, 2023

My Turn on the Cookie Hop

Today is my turn to share on this annual eagerly-anticipated Cookie Exchange hosted by Carol of Just Let Me Quilt!

I tried two new recipes: First up is Christmas Bar Cookies from Spaceshipsandlaserbeams.com

Use the link to access the recipe, if it looks good to you. It is a version of blond brownies.

Beginning the mixing process:

Adding in all the "goodies":

Ready for the oven:

Add more sprinkles to the top after baking, if desired, cool and eat:

YUM!!

Secondly, I tried Shortbread Wedge Cookies from Sallysbakingaddiction.com

Use the link for the recipe.

I looked for this recipe because of some shortbread cookies that we had at our church's district conference in November. There was chocolate and raspberry jam on the top of those--and they were cut into wedges-- and I had to make some.

Here is one pan out of the oven and covered with melted chocolate chips (it makes 2 pans).

I put raspberry jam on top of the chocolate on one pan of them and left the other pan just chocolate-topped and took them to my quilt group. Everyone ate the raspberry topped ones!

They were SO good! I'll be making these again.

I have some Christmas sewing projects in the works but nothing ready to show. In the meantime, enjoy 3 of my grands with Santa. I don't think little Sydney knew what was going on! She will be 2 years old on Dec. 26. Such a sweetie! (Ok, they all are!)