HQAL: Christmas 9 Patch

At our last check in I had shown you the picture of my completed Pinwheel Christmas lap quilt. Here she is one last time

I had a few choices on what to begin next. I have the wedding ring from a few years ago that still needs its binding completed, I have the tulip quilt top thats needs her stuffing 🙂 I have a quilt that needs desperate repairing but instead I decided on using up some of the overload of scrappy bits of Christmas fabric in my stash ~ oh and I also bought another Hoffmans Dream Big Poinsettia panel to make (my4th)

I have decided to work a 9 patch pattern quilt out of the fabrics above. I’ve got 20 blocks pieced so far.

They are all a bit different but the color scheme is the same – in the next batch I am introducing some more muted blues to the blocks.

I made a bunch of mini junk journals with cloth covers and bows using the material also. I am just in love with all these fabrics. A girlfriend had a friend who was downsizing and gave her bags and bags of fabric. She offered me first choice, feeling quite gluttonous, I curbed my desire to take it all. And while I felt like I had hit the jackpot, believe me I didn’t put a dent in the fabrics that were later donated, shared and passed around.

Thank you for visiting with me today ~ now it’s time to do some visiting with the others in this HQAL ~ links are below

Hand Quilt Along Links

This Hand Quilt Along is an opportunity for hand quilters and piecers to share and motivate one another. We post every three weeks, to show our progress and encourage one another.  If you have a hand quilting project and would like to join our group contact Kathy at the link below.

Kathy, Margaret, Deb, Nanette, Sharon, Karrin, Daisy, and Connie

SAL: Current Christmas Cards Continued

At our last check in I had completed this adorable card

Working steadily to complete another, I finished the skating chipmunk below. I added the word merry which is not in the instructions. The openings of this set is a bit smaller than the last and while no words were needed – stitchers liberties on this one 🙂

There are 2 more left to complete in this set of 4. I have this one started below, it’s the mouse on top of the candy jar.

I am deciding whether I want to stitch the rabbit. She is really sweet but doesn’t scream Christmas to me. With so many other holiday projects in the works, I may just put her aside for now. She would make a cute Easter card, I would leave out the berry and add some Easter wording.

Thank you for stopping by ~ happy crafting! Below you will find the links to the others in this SAL. If you have the time please take a peek at the others. There are some wonderful projects in the works.

Avis, Claire, Gun, Christina, Kathy, Margaret, 

Heidi, Jackie, Sunny, Megan, Deborah, Sharon, 

Daisy, Cathie, Linda, Helen, MaryMargaret

HQAL: Pinwheel Christmas Lap Quilt

At our last check in I had been working on this Christmas themed lap quilt. I was making great headway having completed quilting all of the pinwheels in the dark berry pattern material. You might remember I was worried about using green thread on the gold material. Thanks to Kathy cheering me on and suggesting I should, I did just that …

It looks just fine and now I have no idea what all my fuss was about 🙂 accept in my mind I had “use gold thread and I couldn’t shake that thought”

And now the grand finish all cozy in the Autumn leaves

Thank you for visiting my page and please visit the pages of the others in this HQAL by clicking on the links below.

Hand Quilt Along Links

Kathy, Margaret, Deb, Nanette, Sharon, Karrin, Daisy, and Connie

This Hand Quilt Along is an opportunity for hand quilters and piecers to share and motivate one another. We post every three weeks, to show our progress and encourage one another.  If you have a hand quilting project and would like to join our group contact Kathy at the link below.

Autumn Magic Journal

So far, Fall as been so magical here in the northwest. A neighbor stopped me the other day while out walking Skye “have you driven down the Boulevard, the trees have all turned’ I said ‘yes, but have you seen the gorgeous red display on 30th?’ she hadn’t and as she drove off I called after her “our displays are as beautiful as Vermont or New Hampshire in Autumn’. I guess she got me thinking about family drives from New York up into New Hampshire as a young kid – memories – I have tried to capture those memories with this tall document style journal.

Sharing a few pages with you

The cover has a beautiful pieces of sari fabric as a pocket stuffed with a few goodies and a strip of vintage beading in the crease of a fabric ribbon.

The pages below

have mixed in vintage papers from a 1942 Gregg Shorthand book, a sweet hankie pocket with beautiful fall colored printables. Have you bought a pumpkin yet or set up an autumnal display on your porch? It’s that time of year. Another neighbor gave me a beautiful cranberry colored mum. I decided to set her in a metal birdcage I have on my porch railing. I think she looks wonderful there.

2 more photos from the journal

These 2 pages remind me of our sweet buddy ‘Friendly’ who visits daily for her peanut butter sandwiches. I am sure she has been busy storing nuts for winter and after her daily chores she welcomes these inch size treats.

I hope you are enjoying the change of seasons and lots of crafting goodness is being created. I am continuing to work on cross-stitch Christmas cards along with finishing up a lap size Christmas quilt.

Thank you for stopping by and visiting with me today.

Sharon

SAL: Current Christmas Cards continued

In my last posting for the SAL I had completed another card, finishing a grouping of 4 vintage Current cross-stitched cards.

For this posting I am beginning a 2nd grouping of 4 vintage cards. I was actually amazed I got one started and completed in the 3 weeks. Here she is

The opening on these cards are a lot smaller with the oval shape. I actually altered the pattern a bit. The overhanging branch looked more like a pine tree branch with straight lines jutting out from it. I tried that first and it looked sloppy so I changed it to little french knot berries. I think it gave it that Christmas holly berry look which I like better.

Now on to the next!

Thank you for visiting my page and please visit the blogs of the others in the SAL by clicking on the links below.

Avis, Claire, Gun, Christina, Kathy, Margaret, Heidi, Jackie, Sunny, Megan,

Deborah, Sharon, Daisy, Cathie, Linda, Helen, Cindy, MaryMargaret