500 Posts Give Away

Yesterday I realized that I just hit my 500th (is that a word?) post. Apparently I have a lot to say.....So why not a give away? I picked out some of my favorite scraps, after I took the picture I was thinking I really should save them, but no I will share. Now that I think of it I will put some surprises in there too, no dogs I promise!

I will also be giving away this awesome book, it is so full of inspiration. Maybe you just might want to try and make a small quilt every month for a year too. I love to look at this over and over again.

To win you must be sure that I have your email....or I can't contact you. You must be a follower and I want to know what is your favorite color combination?
I will pick the winner on Wednesday and will mail it anywhere in the world!

Oh and if anyone can tell me an easy and quick way to adjust my header I would be eternally grateful!
Good Luck!
Kelly

Too Cool For School

I found these IPhone cases on a site called Quilt My Phone I can't decide which one I like the best! You can even have a picture of your own quilt put on the case too. They have many different varieties for all different kinds of devices. The price for the phone cases start at $35, not too bad for something so cool!

Last night my husband and I had a quiet dinner at home. I decided to make it a little bit romantic with some candles.....

I had a bunch of candlesticks holders leftover from my plate stands craft project so I put them to good use. They are all "crystal" wink wink so they looked good together. My husband was a little worried about burning the house down!

Kelly

Calico Cutters Quilt Guild

How gorgeous is this? We have some of the best show and tell around at our guild. This is made by Ann Tumolo who took a work shop with Christine Morgan, using her chenille technique.

Here is another one Ann made, how fun! Ann has a great color sense in her quilting and in her clothing.

 Here is a close up of those lips...

This is another great quilt made by Betty Dix using a pattern from Bonnie Hunter. My picture of the whole quilt did not turn out but what a cool block! The centers of those stars are string pieced.

 February is our Demo meeting where members demonstrate a pattern or technique to small groups. You rotate to each teacher through the day. It is always fun and no matter how skilled you are, there is something to learn every year. This was a paper piecing lesson and I thought this star was very interesting.

This was really fun! Who knew you could make a necklace using some rope and fabric?

You can make it jewel length or....

or make it a little longer and put in some loops for interest.

Dimensional bow ties and flying geese, very simple and effective.

Some simple curved piecing by Ann who made those beautiful pillows. Can you find the dog fabric in there?

You can really sense the water in that fabric!

A disappearing nine patch demo. She also did it with a 4 patch, the wheels were turning!

A darling little card holder (pattern by Valorie Wells) that was a hit!

A good time for everyone and kudos to the ladies who made it a nice day.

Kelly

Good Rainy Monday Morning

Our annual Penn Oaks Quilt Guild Getaway is coming up soon. Last year I started this zig zag quilt and have not touched it since then. I am still going to do a zig zag, just not this one.




I decided to make a pillow. I had a 20" pillow form. My block was not big enough so I added fabric to all 4 sides.




After I added the strips to the sides, I layered it with batting and some scrap fabric. It is quilted with a meandering stitch. Of course because it doesn't matter the back came out just as perfect as the front!




I love this fabric and decided it would be a pretty back. The envelope method is used which makes it quick.




Here it is finished before I washed it.




After being washed.....as I said it is raining, hard to get a good picture. It shrunk up a bit and fits perfectly.




This was my project for my curves camp this week. It became a ( little weird looking ) mug rug. None of the projects were something I wanted to make but I wanted to try and draft my own curve. After a couple attempts I decided I will never be drafting my own, not my cup of tea....

Kelly

Scrappy Trip Around the World

This is such a fun quilt to make, you can't stop once you start! First you say, "let me just try a block to see if I like this technique" 8 blocks later......you are hooked! My colors looked weird because I took this last night.

I now I am totally changing my idea for my daughter's wedding quilt. These are the fabrics, she likes a more pastel look...and I think I will try the trip around the world. It will not be a scrappy free for all. I am going to have the green dot fabric in the bottom front run through the center of each block to give it a little less chaos. There are also some solids thrown in there too, should be interesting.

 

I am so happy to be able to check this off my list! Now I can work on my own things with a clear and free feeling.

 

 

 

I was procrastinating the other day ( finishing up Bob D's quilt) and made these little paper clips. Don't you think they might be a good item for our guild quilt show boutique? I will be talking more about that next month.

 

 

I just can't help myself...these are the scraps from the scrappy trip around the world...I see yet another little quilt from the scraps.

 

Kelly





Success!

Here is the project for this week's Curves Camp Course. When I first saw that it would be a Drunkard's Path block, I will say I was not looking forward to it. Especially after last week's wonderful Rainbow Road runner. This was going to have to be accurate!

My first blocked was pinned and while it is not too bad (from far away) it did have ........

 

that little bobble to the right of that little green leaf, see that tiny gray piece of thread? I did not take it out.

 

 

The second block I decided to try no pins, much better and no little bobbles.

 

 

 

You can imagine my delight when this happened? Everything (on this side at least) matched up! Ok full disclosure, the pattern includes a way to square things up so all the little wonky stuff is cut off.

 

 

 

Not bad for my first real try at a Drunkard's Path block.

 

 









The directions have us make 1 pot holder using 2 blocks, one for the front and one for the back. I decided to make 2 potholders and used this perfect gray dot for the back.

 

This one has a thicker binding that I don't like as much as the thinner one.

 

 But I also machine stitched my binding down and that little line around the edge is not exactly even.
Next time hand stitching!

Kelly

Hill and Valley Log Cabin

 

 

This quilt is in a new book called Hill And Valley Log Cabins by Bob DeCarli. I was working on this last spring, you remember the one that had pieces that were 1/4" x 1/4", yeah that one!

Bob is the only male member of our guild and a really nice guy. He comes up with some amazing quilts, all of them are pretty intricate. To add a little bit more interest, he is color blind, so his wife Kathy has to help him pick out the colors of the fabrics. Together they are the dynamic duo, quilting is a big part of their life.

 

Here are the quilts in the book all spread out.

Aren't these quilts amazing?

 

 

 

I don't remember which one belongs to who...

 

 

 

Okay that's all, if you want to see more you have to buy the book!

 

 

Bob is working on another book..... yes I am making another quilt for him, and yes some of the pieces are very teeny, tiny, itsy, bitsy.  More on that to come next year.

Congratulations Bob on your new book.

 

Kelly