Finally, Some Critters

Reindeer critters first.  I'm making a Christmas table runner with wool applique on a brushed plaid fabric background.  The little faces are based on a design from Jan Patek's Up on the Rooftop book.  She has the book for sale on her website.

A mule deer buck with antlers in their velvet stage.  His coat looks scruffy, hopefully from starting to shed his summer coat now and not some disease.

He has a friend with him.  I guess they are both looking for some green grass in all those weeds in the lower meadow.

Christmas in July

I'm so glad Debbie posted her blocks from the Christmas BOM that our Yahoo quilting group is stitching.  I've been so itching to share my blocks.

The blocks so far, blocks are inspired by line drawings from Primitive Blessing and she has tons and all free.  Here's the link,

http://www.primitiveblessings.com/shop/

Some are making their blocks in stitchery, decided mine would be wool applique on the same wool background.  Will use the red wool sashing around each block.

A Purse

Finished the pink purse and will soon be on it's way to a very sweet, pretty little girl.  I hope she likes it.

A Purse and What was I thinking

Just working on some small projects for now, so hot.  A very pink and red purse with wool applique based on the Maggie B. pattern from the prim mag.  The two sides just need to be hand stitched together now with a buttonhole stitch.

I think I must have been out in the Montana sun too long or maybe I had my one glass of wine when I posted about Kay Harmon's Chocolate Bon Bons quilt.  What a lack of descriptive words to decribe her quilt.  It's a wonderful mix of prim and applique basket filled with appliqued flowers on the chocolate fabric background.  You can see it here on Kay's blog:

http://www.kayharmon.blogspot.com/

Primitive Quilts & Projects Magazine

Did you all get your magazine in the mail yet?  Lots of fall projects to take the edge off the summer heat.  I found several designers who I had never heard of in the magazine.  One of my favorite designs is called Chocolate Bonbons, a pot of flowers appliqued on a rich chocolate background fabric, by Kay Harmon.

You can see the magazine is laying on Star Burst and I started the hand quilting with crochet cotton and the big stitch.

The Primitive Star Burst Quilt

Despite Bailey, (he is a beautiful boy), I was able to get the Prim Star Burst machine quilted.   This is my design, Linda, all the fabric is vintage Brannock & Patek. I left lots of room between the not perfect stitching lines, I wanted random lines with no rhyme or reason, not bothering me if the lines matched up or not.  Now I can add some hand quilting between those lines.  I saw the look on a blog and really liked it.

Catching a needed breeze.

Went searching for wildlife, would have even been okay to see a rattlesnake to test my lens, but the little rabbit was all I saw. 

Primitive Star Burst

The Primitive Star Burst, on my sewing table to be spray basted and pinned.

Ready to machine quilt.

Or so I thought.

Collector Series and The Wonky Quilt Again

Finished another block from the Collector Series, a break from larger projects, love to just sit and applique on something small, plus I just love having those old fabrics in my hands.

Think I will do this block next.

The Wonky Cross quilt is back on the design wall instead of the quilting pile.  The arrangement of some of the blocks were bothering me after looking at it in the last pic, I can tell what I like or dislike about a quilt if I take a pic and study it.  So redid some blocks and tend to like rectangle quilts more than square, so added one more row.  Hope this is it, have a project that has to been finished.

Sidney

Sidney is giving Bailey the evil eye as he plays in the other room where I'm sewing.  Don't know why she just doesn't come join him, cats.

What I was sewing, the blocks are stitched together on the Wonky Cross.

Bailey is clueless that Sidney is watching him with her evil eye.  She'll smack him later to make herself feel better, cats.

More Wonky Cross Blocks

I was able to cut and sew a few more blocks before the heat set in upstairs.  And yes, Linda Brannock, the fabric should look familiar, as I laugh, since it's two packages of Layer Cakes, Miss Jump's Scrapbag and Harmony that you had gifted to me last year and designed of course.  Harmony is from Jan Patek.  Never purchased a Layer Cake, but definately makes cutting these blocks so easy and something I'll remember in the future. No wonder quilters buy them.  Anyway, don't ya just love the reds in this fabric grouping, will add enough blocks to make a lap quilt, and I've pulled a few vintage red Brannock and Patek fabrics from my stash to add, haven't decided on a border, or if there will be one.

Angela, the letters in the flannel table runner are needle turn applique, only have two letters left.  Appliqueing flannel is not difficult.

Wonky Blocks and a Prim Table Runner

I've been seeing several wonky cross pattern quilts on Pinterest, love the look.  So thought I would try a few blocks and see if I like stitching this much behind the machine, not too bad, easy enough.  I think I will continue with this one in reds.

I just had to play with some of the flannel that Tara sent me.  It will be a long table runner with appliqued letters.  It will spell a word.

Very thankful for cooler temps and some rain today, anything to break the heat and threat of fires.

Celebrate

Our country's Independence!

Collector Series and Wildlife

It's very hot still, like the rest of our country, trying not to look at every cloud in the sky as a puff of smoke, so I've been appliqueing another block from the Collector Series, think I only have three to go.  I doubt that I will put all the blocks together any time soon since I have the blocks pinned on the walls all over the house.  Actually found a duplicate because I pinned one in the laundry room and forgot I had made it.  Glad it was one of the more simple designs.  Instead there are two large prim quilts waiting that I really want to machine quilt, soon.

The female pronghorn, you can see her eyelashes.  I'm trying out a new lens that a friend loaned me.  Try it, see if you like it.  See if you can use it.  I see her eyelashes and I'm far away, up above on the drive looking down to the lower meadow. 

Yes, I like the lens, I also like having a washing machine and it's down to one cycle, but then that other voice says, who needs more than one cycle, you could go years with one cycle, true and I would miss all those pictures that need to be taken more than a washing machine.  Just me and that voice, thinking.