Star Wars Crochet

Slave one ship and Lucy's rump helping me display it.

Busy Knitting

I've been busy knitting. . The gauntlets are based on Link's from ledge of Zelda.

My first time doing fingers. I found the pattern on Ravelry for free..

I  made up the a chart for the M's for our youngest boy who is showing them off for me..  He likes Super Mario..

 

Made up a ton of Wash cloths  for family. These are the ones sent to Mom

My Aunt sent me a pattern and some bright orange yarn.. (she wasn't thrilled with the color) So for a second bag I changed up the pattern and used peaches and cream blue and white  to make her a second  shopping bag..

October NewFO Chalange

October NewFO Challenge Linky Party and Giveaway

 

It is time to Join the fun at Cat Patches with my new projects for October.  It is not necessary to finish a project, just start. I did a lot of both!

I did a lot of playing in October.  I played in the flower garden.  The Hexie garden.

Texas Wildflower Mix set 1 by The Caffeinated Quilter. 

Then I played in the pumpkin patch some more.

 White lace

Jack-o-lantern and a plain orange pumpkin ( did not get a photo of it)   OESD

Then I played with my Yo-yo.

Stuffed Yo-Yo black cat and  Pumpkin head From Yo-Yo Quilting

Then I played with my kitty Meow.

Cottonwood Creations 

My daughters niece ask me to make her a Halloween costume. 

  It is from the Movie  The Ring

I did not get a photo of her in it

When I got tired of playing, I made two table runners from a kit, Not so Spooky.  

 It is  a Kimberbell design.

Then I started on Christmas. I am making 10 stockings for my daughters extended family.   The blue ones are for the adults and the red ones for the children. They will have the names on the white cuff in silver. This is a McCalls pattern

I also started on doll cloths for the younger niece in that family. 

Let's Play Dolls panel by Firetrail Designs

Now for my official NewFO!  Hexi Garden quilt  was featured at our Quilt Sitters Circle.  It was made with 4.5 inch hexagons.  The ruler had several sizes you could make.  I have been making miniature quilts and really enjoy them. 

 

 Those are cut 1.5 and finish at 1 inch.  That is a quarter in the center.

This is the 'lap' size on the block size design wall.  After I finished putting it together, it had issues.  the next to last row is not the same size on both ends.  So I have to make at least one and maybe  two blocks over.  I hope to finish it this weekend.

September NewFO Linky Party and Giveaway 2014 NewFO Challenge

September NewFO Linky Party and Giveaway

It is time to Join the fun at Cat Patches with my new projects for September.  It is not necessary to finish a project, just start.

 

I  feel like September slipped past me.  I looked around and can not fins a single quilt that I worked on.   I did get all of the Sun Bonnet Sue quilts bound labeled and gifted and a couple of Block of the month  blocks completed.  So, what did I do.  

A lot of Embroidery.  Free standing lace for Halloween.  They stitch out tiny little 'buttons' and button holes to assemble them.  I used two layers of Decor bond on the fabric pieces and wash away stabilize.  The stabilize turns into starch when it is placed under warm running water.

First I made a Coffin.  It took about five hours to stitch out and another to put it together. 

 

 

 

 It is six inches long

 The skeleton was a left over from a doll house project.

 It holds a 12 Oz. package of M&M's.

The tombstone only took 30 minutes.  I could not get a good photo of the lace base.

Then I made Jack-O-Lantern.  It took 12 hours to stitch and another to put it together. 

Then I made a Fall Pumpkin.

 It also took 12 hours.

 The pumpkins have a hole in the bottom for lighting.  

I used these flickering lights I found at Michaels

 Halloween and fall  decorations ready to display. 

I also made another Sun Bonnet Sue for my friend.  

This is Trick or Treat Sue.  It was a free pattern on Craftsy and is paper pieced.

Last of all, I made a Pickle Pie  Trendy Over the Shoulder bag. This is also made in the embroidery hoop.   A friend was having problems with the design and wanted me to try it.  I did not have any issues.  She made another one and it came out right.

I spent a lot of time at the machine, over many days.  I only worked six hours or less a day.

And to wrap up the month, here is my sewing buddy Kirby in the case for my embroidery unit!

 And Angel setting on the witch quilt. 

August NewFO party

August NewFO Linky Party and Giveaway

It is time to Join the fun at Cat Patches with my new projects for August.  It is not necessary to finish a project, just start.

I spent some time with friends finishing up the Texas Row by Row experience.  We did make it to 40 shops and I added one when I went to El Paso to visit in July.

I picked up a pattern and kit for a ten Minute Table Runner from Minding My P's & Q's in Denton Texas..  It literately took 10 minutes. I love table runners especially easy ones, even though I do not have a table to display them on.

That's Max showing it off, just before he laid down on it!

 

 While I drove to the shops one of my friends did handwork, working on hexies.

I remembered this flower kit I had purchased at Quilt Asylum in McKinney, Texas.  

Texas Wild Flower Mix  (set 1) from The Caffeinated Quilter. So I have been learning English Paper Piecing.  All are ready for the stems, except the Bluebonnets, which I have not started.  Of course I had to pick something to learn on that is tiny, 1/2 inch papers! Now off to find set 2!

While we were in a shop, we all had to visit the ladies room.  Quilt shop always decorate the ladies room with cute quilts.   I told my friend, Susi, to be sure and notice this one. It was a Sunbonnet Sue. She came out and said I would love to have one like that.  I heard someone say, 'I will make you one for your birthday in September'.  I looked around and realized I had said that, not in my head, but out loud!  What had I set myself up for! I spoke to the shop owner and her mother who maid it.  They let me make photos and gave me permission to copy it. There was no pattern, so I had to work from the photo.   I picked out colors that she likes and got started. 

I have a Silhouette Cameo cutter so I created files to cut the 12 girls.  Then I digitized the applique and made several practice pieces before I was happy.    I finished the top last week and  took it to my Bernina shop to get backing.  Another friend that works there, also named Sue, fell in love with it and said if Susi did not want it, she would take it!  

 This is the first one I made.  It is ready to give for Susi' birthday in two weeks.

This is the second one I finished last night.  If I had backing, it would have been finished, also.

 When I get bored, I get crazy.  This one has 1/2 inch finished squares.   Over all size is 8 inches.It needs to be bound. I have learned a way to bind miniature quilts using a flat felled foot (Bernina 71).  Of course I do not have one so had to order it!

I would really love to win this months pin. !!!!

That is it for August.  It is hard to believe Summer it over and school has started.  WE still have temps in the upper 90's! 

July NewFO Challenge and Giveaway

July NewFO Challenge and Giveaway

It's time again to show off your new stuff! Any new project you started during the month of July.  There are no expectations here at the NewFO Challenge...no finishes required, no rules, no nothing. Just start something new, and you're in!

 

I decided to devote the month of July to catching up on my Texas Treasures BOM.  I think I had 4 blocks complete at the beginning of the month.  I was 5 blocks behind.  This is a 17 month project with the last month being the finish kit.  When I picked up the block for June, They had two ready, so I picked them both up.  They did that in July, too, so I was now 9 behind by mid July.  Each kit has a placement sheet/Applique pattern, directions and details, and a history of the Texas Treasure featured. 

 

 

 Block 1  Wildflowers in a Ball Jar

 Block 2 Wind turbines and cotton

 Block 3 Monarch Butterfly and quilt title

 Block 4 Wild flowers in a bean pot

 Block 5 Guitar and State song, Texas Our Texas




Block 6 Lone Star

 Block 7 Mockingbird, Pecans and Crape Myrtle

 Chinese Crape Myrtle

 Pecans and Mocking Bird

  

Block 7 Cowboy, Longhorn and Petrified wood

Cowboy

 Longhorn, Sideoats, Petrified Palmwood

Block 9 Prickly Pear and Horned lizard

Better known as a Horny Toad

Prickly Pear Cactus

 Block 10 Oil Derick and Pump Jacks

Gushing oil

Pump Jacks

Block 11  Alamo, Sopaipilla, Jalapenos, Sweet onion, Chiltepin pepper and a bowl of Chili

Sweet onion and Chiltepin pepper

Sopaipilla, Jalapenos and a bowl of Chili

 Alamo

Block 12 Lone Star cut Blue Topaz.  There will be a Guadalupe Bass quilted in the red.

 Te facets were paper pieced and then appliqued on.

 Block 13 Wild flowers in a Campfire coffee pot.

 Day Flower

 Poppy

  Bullnettle, Primrose and Yellow rose.

There are wild flowers in each corner of the quilt and there is a yellow rose in each group.   The true Yellow Rose of Texas is a yellow Prickly Pear bloom.  Only three blocks to go!

Not only did I do all of these blocks.  I made a mug rug.

I got this cute little guy while visiting Quilt shops in the Row by Row Experience.  There are 105 quilt shops in Texas participating and I determined that 41 were with in a days driving.  Not all one day, but many  one day trips.  Two friends and I started off in this venture on Tuedays and Fridays when one friend had off.  At the end of July, we had made 33 shops and I had made one in far west Texas in El Paso.

 

This is the region we shopped in.

This is a  perspective the state.

We did 4 shops on August 1 and will finish up the last three on Tuesday the 5th.