Saturday, June 25, 2022
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Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Getting Ready for Our Art & Craft Bazaar
Our Quilt Guild is having a Christmas in July Art & Craft Bazaar July 1-2. I have been trying to find some different things to make that use up a lot of the stash I have, both quilting stash and non-quilting stash.
This first project is a Friendship bracelet that uses a huge long piece of hard cording that did not work for the original project I bought it for, leftover batting from customer quilts, strings of batiks (that I have a million of) and some of the hundreds of DMC threads I have accumulated over the years!!
I'll have to keep trying but at this rate I won't make the June deadline!!
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
What is Flag Day?
I thought this was pretty interesting!!
The Fourth of July was traditionally celebrated as America's birthday, but the idea of an annual day specifically celebrating the Flag is believed to have first originated in 1885. BJ Cigrand, a schoolteacher, arranged for the pupils in the Fredonia, Wisconsin Public School, District 6, to observe June 14 (the 108th anniversary of the official adoption of The Stars and Stripes) as 'Flag Birthday'. In numerous magazines and newspaper articles and public addresses over the following years, Cigrand continued to enthusiastically advocate the observance of June 14 as 'Flag Birthday', or 'Flag Day'.
On June 14, 1889, George Balch, a kindergarten teacher in New York City, planned appropriate ceremonies for the children of his school, and his idea of observing Flag Day was later adopted by the State Board of Education of New York. On June 14, 1891, the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia held a Flag Day celebration, and on June 14 of the following year, the New York Society of the Sons of the Revolution, celebrated Flag Day.Saturday, June 11, 2022
Saturday, June 4, 2022
Friday, June 3, 2022
Churndash SAL
This is my first Churn Dash block EVER!! I am participating in Chookyblue's Churn Dash SAL.
This was supposed to be the first block in the quilt, but after I squared it off, I can see that I am going to be losing some of the points. On some quilts that is tolerable, but on this one, I think the points are such an intergal part of this block, that I would not be able to live with it.
I am using some batik charm packs for this quilt, so my blocks will be much larger than Chooky's (her blocks are 9.5" unfinished) but that only means I can make fewer blocks!!
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
For the Love of Blogging!!
When I was reading Janet O.'s blog over at Rogue Quilter, she was talking about how she had been blogging 11 years this month. And I thought to myself how I had been blogging for 12 years this past February and how many wonderful friends I have met through blogging.
For about a year now, I have mainly been posting my Saturday Smile each week with a few, very few, posts in between. I have decided I am going to try to blog more often. Mainly because this blog is a journal of sorts of my life for the past 12 plus years. Also, it motivates me to work on my own projects.
One of the gals in our local Guild fell a few weeks ago and shattered her knee and all the bones below the knee. She is still in the hospital up in Coos Bay waiting for a bed in Portland so they can reconstruct her knee and leg bones. So, the guild is making her a "Hug" quilt. As Sally, our keeper of memories said, she probably doesn't need another quilt but she does need the hugs!!
She loves skunks and purple and so here is my rendition of a skunk for her quilt.
I went online looking for a paper-pieced skunk pattern and found one at Mary Hertel's shop Made By Marney. She has some really cute PDF patterns!! It was fun to make, albeit tricky because of all the angles. My bother, Kelly, says it is very Piccaso - esque!
For the love of blogging!!
Kris
Monday, May 30, 2022
Remembering The Men and Women Who Gave Their Lives for Our Freedom . . .
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Trying Something New, Again!!
I have been trying to figure out a way to use alllll the DMC thread and Valdani thread I have inherited from various sources.
First I tried some small counted cross stitch pieces:
This one was really fun, pretty quick and it was a gift for my sweet friend, Janet over at Rogue Quilter. It didn't even put a dent in my thread stash!! LOL
So, I thought, I'll try one of those big ginormous, gorgeous Counted Cross Stitch charts over at Heaven and Earth Designs. Wow!! What an amazing selection. I thought I would make one for my brother, Kelly. I first picked this one:
It finishes out at 21" x 14 1/2 inches using 25 count fabric!! Tried it and these old eyes just couldn't do it!! Then I tried another one: