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Monday, November 4, 2024

Gnome for the Holidays

Where did this year go?
Is it me, or does life seem to fly by faster, the older we get?
Oh, but it's that wonderful time of the year when we all take a moment to focus on what we are thankful for.

This year we are celebrating the Thanksgiving season with a "Gnome for Thanksgiving" theme.

In just 2 weeks myself and my fabulous fellow bloggers will be sharing their holiday projects. 
It's such a heartwarming time, I know you won't want to miss it.




Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Something Wicked Blog Hop...It's My Day


You know it's my favorite time of the year, and OHHHH..
have we seen some "Wicked" projects this year. 

Here on my homefront...

the decorations are up and my little man is so excited. He turns 2 in a couple of weeks and is starting to increase his vocabulary. "Ween" was one of his favorite words and he has just mastered adding "Hallo" to it. LOL! His other favorite word is "spider", so the spiders were hung on the wall with care, in hopes that a witch with candy soon would be there.
:-)

Being I am such a witch...I knew this had to be my project this year.

After all, you don't want to mess with me, when I have a needle in my hand.
HEHEHE
She just melts my "witchy" little heart!

This is the "Quilted Witch" by Lori Holt. 
She's biggie, the quilt finished up at 76" x 89",
 The pattern is 64 pages long and worth every page. 
It might look a little intimidating to sew, but it's done in sections and is very easy straight forward piecing. Not to mention a great scrap buster.


She's almost as tall as I am and fills my 4'x8' design wall and then some. In fact, I have nowhere big enough to hang her around here, unfortunately.


Here she is in all her glory!
I do apologize, but photos were kind of a last minute thing and I didn't have time to iron it. What's that saying...you gotta jump when the iron is hot or when your son agrees to get on a ladder to take a photo for you.
HAHAHA
This project has called my name, since I saw this a year ago at the "Garden of Quilts".
 

I could hardly wait til the pattern was released. You may remember seeing one of these witches earlier this year. Carol beat me to the finish line, with hers! 
It's not my fault. I put myself on the waiting list to be notified when the pattern was released.
Needless to say, I was never notified and  Carol had already bought her copy and was working away on it. LOL!!  As they say, all is fair in love and war and I do love Carol!
Check out Carol's beauty HERE  and see her complete quilt on Instagram HERE.


After reading Selena's post on Tuesday, I decided to throw this one into my post as well. At quilt retreat last month, everyone made a bear paw table topper in beautiful fall colors. Well, I should say everyone but me. I went my own direction with Halloween fabrics.

Not that Selena had problems with her project, but I have to say, never have I ever had so many. The half square triangles going around it, did their best to drive us all crazy! Blame it on the directional fabrics in my case, but we all struggled with the direction of the spin on all those triangles. Some gave up and made a solid border around theirs and called it good.  As for me, none of my corners even come close to matching each other. I cried "Uncle" and decided it was finished!
I haven't even had the courage to quilt it yet.
There you go...my epic fail, but done in my favorite fabrics of the season!

Now off with you, so you can visit my fellow bloggers today...

OCTOBER 24


MooseStashQuilting (You are here)

Ms P Designs USA

Quilted Delights

Quilting Between the Rails


It's the season for candy, so leave them a little sweetness with a kind comment on their posts!


Today is the final day of the hop, but in case you missed anything, you can find the complete schedule

HERE



We have just 2 more hops to go, so don't miss out...




til next time...
Keep on Stitchin'

Friday, October 18, 2024

Something Wicked Blog Hop Starts Monday

Whoo hoo...it's that time of the year!

If  you are ready to get your Halloween fix, you won't want to miss this hop.

All our quilting buddies are getting together to share our favorite "Wicked" Halloween projects with you. 

OCTOBER 21

Just Let Me Quilt

Just Sew Quilter

Sew Many Yarns

Patchouli Moon Studio

High Road Quilter


OCTOBER 22

Quilt Schmilt

Selina Quilts

Karrin’s Crazy World

Scrapdash

Quilted Snail


OCTOBER 23

A Quiltery

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Beaquilter

Homespun Hannah's Blog


OCTOBER 24

MooseStashQuilting

Ms P Designs USA

Quilted Delights

Quilting Between the Rails



til next time...

Keep on Stitchin'




Friday, October 4, 2024

Blog Hops

We have 3 hops left this year and are excited to see all the projects from our favorite time of the year.




As for 2025...

 It's been a hard decision, but Carol and I have talked extensively and decided that it is time to pull the plug on blog hops. We have both seen the trend in readership dropping over the past few years. There just doesn't seem to be the traffic to our posts or interaction with comments that we saw a few years back. 

Life changes and I get it. Blog hops are all I post anymore and I don't have the time to read other blogs, either. I'm getting old and my grandies are balls of energy. When they go home at night, I go to bed! LOL!!

It's been a joy hosting the hops with all of you. You have inspired me with your creativity and talent, more than you will ever know. Hopefully someone with host a hop from time to time that I can jump in and play on. (hint hint) Cause who the heck am I going to mess with if it's not Carol, my partner in crime?😄😄😄😄

While it's not goodbye by any means...this really seemed so fitting.
This golden girl has made the best friends the internet holds and I thank you!


 

Friday, September 27, 2024

November Blog Hop Announcement

 Our September blog hop was a big success, thanks to all our wonderful bloggers. They really are the best of the best! I do hope it inspired you to "Bee Kind' to others. The world is a hard place right now and we all need a little kindness.

November is rapidly approaching and we start thinking about being Thankful. 

Without further ado our new hop is...

Challenge: To “Gnome” them is to love them! Throw a little Thanksgiving twist into your “Gnomie” project! Or anything that shows your thankful!


Drop me an email, if you want to play along!

And we will see you next month at

Remember a little Kindness and Thankfulness, goes a long way!


 

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Bee Kind Blog Hop Day 4

 


This week has shown us so many different ways we can be kind to each other.
Patterns, charity projects, bees a buzzing. Our blogging world shares it all.
Today is the last day of the hop, so make sure you visit our bloggers and leave them some "LOVE' with a sweet comment or two!

You can find the complete schedule  HERE

Our Pinterest board for this hop is updated daily  HERE

Remember be kind, it can make all the difference in someone's life!

We will see you next month when Carol hosts her super fantastic Halloween blog hop.
You know how much we both love Halloween!
If you want to join in on the fun, drop her and email.

Check back tomorrow for the November hop announcement!


 

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Bee Kind Blog Hop Day 3

 


It just keeps getting better and better. 
We have seen some of the greatest examples of kindness and the cutest bee's around.
And the fun keeps on going...

Check out these bloggers posts and show them some love with your sweet comments.

You can find the complete schedule  HERE

Our Pinterest board for this hop is updated daily  HERE

Remember be kind, it can make all the difference in someone's life!

 

Monday, September 23, 2024

Bee Kind Blog Hop Day 2

 


Wowie, did our bloggers rock day one with their incredibly "Kind" projects.
There is no shortage of inspiration, charity projects and free patterns we can stitch up. 

Today these bloggers are sharing their kindness, so leave them some sweet comments to make their day!

You can find the complete schedule  HERE

Our Pinterest board for this hop is updated daily  HERE

Remember be kind, it can make all the difference in someone's life!

 

Sunday, September 22, 2024

Bee Kind Blog Hop...It's my Day!


I'm so excited about this hop. There is nothing more fun that sharing a little kindness with each other, especially in the times we are living in. So grab your fuzzy slippers and cuppa, kick back and enjoy the posts this week.


My project is Nancy Halvorsen's "Be Attitudes" quilt. I have had the book for a very long time. It was time to pull it off the shelf and blow the dust off of it.
Her quilt is done in dark colors and I have always loved it, but I had a bag of strips of leftover fabrics that was overflowing, so I decided to make it more of a grab, what I have and see where it takes me, kind of quilt. I did make an effort to try to keep like fabrics apart from each other and sort of co-ordinate the block fabrics, but it didn't always work out that way.

Here are the blocks and their special "Be" messages...





I have to be honest, when I was piecing the background blocks and putting them up on the design wall, it looked horrible. I came really close to throwing it all away, but...




I decided to take the leap and just see what happened when the appliques went on them.



I couldn't believe what a difference that made.


There were hiccups...I really need to learn to read first and not just jump in and start things. I thought I was so smart scanning the pages and reversing them on the printer. I traced, fused and cut out all the block pieces before I realized the pattern had already been reversed for me.
Eye roll here!  
That made a bit of a challenge for placing the words...but


...in the end, it really became a "Joyful" quilt.

Next up...
This is "Bee Grateful" designed by Lisa Capen Quilts
What a fun project to do and I finally put my favorite piece of snow dyed fabric to use.
Check out her YouTube video and link for the free pattern



Lastly...I've been working on kennel quilts the past couple of weeks.
The little quilt club I belong to, has been making these for years.

I'm doing the happy dance with 108 quilts, quilted and ready to deliver to animal shelters in need. In fact, 36 of those quilts went to California and Nevada to help with the animals that have been effected by the wild fires, already.
I went on a mission to clean up all the old fabric I have stashed in every corner of this place and make a few puppies and kitty's happy, too.


The paper pieced star quilt is a leftover block and probably the fanciest kennel quilt, this girl will ever make. LOL!!
Got scraps and want to warm a little furry friends heart?
Check out their Facebook page 
HERE

Enough from me...
Check out what my fellow bloggers have to share this month
and leave them a little kindness with a sweet comment!

Monday Sept 23

MooseStashQuilting (you're here)

Words & Stitches

Selina Qullts

Just  Sew  Quilter

Scrapdash

You can find the complete schedule  HERE

Our Pinterest board for this hop is updated daily  HERE

Remember be kind, it can make all the difference in someone's life!