Quilting Project this Week

I am participating in the All About Strings Blog Hop

 that Carla is hosting March 25 through March 27. 

 

It looks like this blog hop is going to be inspirational for scrap busting! 

I am almost finished with my project. 

I hope you'll join us each of the four days.

Here's the line up:

Monday, March 25th
Just Let Me Quilt
Kathy's Kwilts and More
Bumbleberry Stitches
QuiltFabrication
Seams to be Sew
DesertSky Quilting
Happy Cottage Quilter
quiltsbyjoanne
selina quilts
Homespun Hannah's Blog
Karrin's Crazy World

Tuesday, March 26th
MooseStash Quilting
keepsake moments
Just Sew Quilter
Vroomans Quilts
That Fabric Feeling
Quilted Delights
Life in Scrapatch
Patchouli Moon Studio
ShirleyC

Wednesday, March 27th
Stitchin at Home
Alycia Quilts
Websterquilt
Elizabeth Coughlin Designs
Melva Loves Scraps
Words & Stitches
Den syende himmel
Patchwork Breeze
Domestic Felicity
The Quilted Snail

Thursday, March 28th
Cynthia's Creating Ark
The Joyful Quilter
Color Creating and Quilting
PamelaQuilts
Beaquilter
Two Maker Chicks
Days Filled With Joy
Quilting & Learning - What a Combo!
Creatin' in the Sticks

The other day I posted about helping in the high school art classes with pattern making and sewing guidance with the Monster Project. I've come home the past two days and sewed a stuffy each evening. Here's what I made. 

The red dog was made with a pattern I have had for a long time and I don't have any information about it. 

The gray cat is a pattern I got from Choly Knight called Kitty Bean Plush. It is the first pattern of hers that I have sewn. It was fun and the directions were clear. I am sure with practice I will get better. 

The other project I am slowly completing is the fabric shower curtain for our remodelled bathroom. It's been a long process because of the odd size: 62"wide x 84"tall. I have only the hem to finish! I'll post a photo when it is completed. 

Thanks for visiting!

Upcoming Blog Hops

I am participating in two upcoming blog hops. 

Black & White in January 

and 

Dust of a Quilt Book in February 

I am busy working on the projects.

Black & White (hosted by Carla of Creatin' in the Sticks) starts on January 21. I have a woven basket filled with black and white printed fabrics I have collected over many years. 

When I saw Carla's post asking for participants, I knew this was the time to dig into that basket! I wanted to start using my AccuQuilt dies more and thought this was a good place to start. I choose the Go! Triangle die #55002  for this project. It is designed for 6" quarter squares, but I chose to sew two triangles into 4" half triangle squares. 

Cutting the triangles with the GO! Fabric Cutter was so quick! I had 160 triangles cut in no time. But I still have lots of black and white fabric in the basket!

This is where I will leave you until I reveal my project on the Black & White Blog Hop. I've added some more interest to the quilt. (We're waiting on the final schedule before posting; but my day is tentatively set for January 23.) 

I have a left-over project I made with the black and white scraps. MUG RUGS, of course! 

The mug rug on the left is finished. The other two need the binding and I hand sew it to the back while "watching TV" in the evenings. 

The Dust Off a Quilt Book blog hop is hosted by Bea of Beaquilter. The idea is to make a project from an old quilting book or magazine that we have never made a project from, or one we haven't gotten back to in years! I chose one off my books that has a publication year of 1977-one year after I started quilting! Yep, it's been a long love of mine!

This book was on the freebie table at the quilt guild meeting quite a few years back, I liked the nostalgia of the patterns. I won't tell you what my project is just yet, but I am using some of the Island Batiks I have left from when I was an Island Batik Ambassador. That will be one twist in the pattern. My scheduled post day is February 20. 

Thanks for visiting today and I hope to have you visit during the blog hops.