Hand Wrist PinCushions

I was given a GREAT Pin Cushion pattern to make that I could wear on my wrist. It was a surprise at the time and well, the story goes something like this:

A week ago my husband and I had to make a trip to PA.  Normally we do not mind.  We get to see family and friends.  Always eat too much and have a lot of fun.  This time the trip was unexpected, for our uncle John had passed away.  He will be greatly missed!

Now, I must to say that we did have a good time.  In fact, we seen relatives that we haven't seen for a long, long time.  Anyway, while there I was given a pattern for a wrist Pin Cushion.  Since it was all by hand, I stopped by a fabric store and gotten a wool fabric pack and a few buttons for the closure.  Besides that, all I needed was a needle, thread, and scissors.

(Unfortunately, I did not have my camera so am limited on pictures, I am very sorry)  I did get a few pictures though.  Here is one of the pattern:

The large circle was 3 inches round.  (You cut two of these)  The funky flowered one is aprox. 2 1/4 inches and the little circle is 1 1/2" round.  The strip that goes around your wrist is 7 1/2 inches by 1 1/4 inch.  (you will also need two of these)    

First I sewed the small circle onto the funky circle using the blanket stitch.  (see above)  Then sewed it fast (hiding my stitches) to one of the large circles.  Then I added a few cross stitches to the small circle to add a little extra to it.  (you do not have to do this if you do not want to) 

Next, I sewed the large circles together using the blanket stitch again.  I left one inch open to stuff with batting.  Then sew it shut.  I then put the two long wrist pieces together and sewed the blanket stitch all along the edge to fasten them.  Next, sew the cushion to the center of your long strip.  You are almost completed.

Last but not least, sew a matching button to one end of the strip.  To the other end, carefully cut a slant the length of your button.  Do the blanket stitch around the edge.

You now have a Wrist Pin Cushion.  Our ride of over 903 miles, so I had time to make quite a few of these:

 They look like stocking stuffers to me!

Anyone who would like this pattern........please let me know I will either e-mail or snail mail it to you.  I tried mine out yesterday and it really came in handy.

Now I also want to remind everyone of the next blog hop that is coming up:  "NANCY DREW IS A CLUE"

It is going to be a lot of fun and you will not want to miss a one.   Starts on March 6th thru March 15th.  My day is March 11th.  (and yes, I am going to have a giveaway you won't want to miss)  It is sponsored by Carol at  http://justletmequilt.blogspot.com and Madam Samm at http://sewwequilt.com Please come join us all.

Till then,

HAPPY QUILTING EVERYONE!


To get special designed quilts or to see my gallery, check out my site at: http://janesquilting.com

A Wedding Wall Hanging

WOW, what a month so far!  I have been so busy (which is a good thing)  I didn't get to write for quite some time.

I do want to share a "Wedding Wall Hanging" with everyone.  I was sent a picture, not long ago, of a Wedding wall hanging and was asked it I could duplicate it.  It was very pretty with 2 doves and a ribbon joining them both the bride and groom.

Of Course! I started by going through my larger scrap box to see what fabrics I could use.

                 

The boarder had different blocks all around.  Since she gave me the size, it made it a lot easier then guessing.  The center was a light blue for the sky and then green for grass, then it had different colored blocks all around for a boarder.

So my next step was to cut my center and make my blocks.  I made 40 -  2 1/2 inch blocks  (10 for each side)  I sewed them all onto the light blue fabric that I chose.   Then I drew all my applique to the proportions as they looked in the original quilt.

                 
                               
I cut them out and laid them onto the quilt where I wanted and pressed in place.   I carefully attached the ribbons to the doves before pressing them  The ribbons were twisted and then attached to each the bride and groom's hand.   That way the Steam-A-Seam that I used also kept the ribbon in place while I appliqued them down.

Next I worked on the Ribbon with the names and date.

Now that all the applique was where I wanted, pressed in place.  I machine sewed them on using an invisible thread and the blanket stitch.  That way it was not seen and did not take away from the applique.

I quilted around all the applique and in the ditch in the boarder.  When I fist started, I was not sure if it all looked right.  But after it was sewn on and quilted....I was very pleased.

Total size is 26" X 31 1/2"

The label on the back.....Why, it was short and sweet.  The customer asked for it to say one line.

"Wishing you all the Happiness and Love"

OK, On to my next project...........

HAPPY QUILTING EVERYONE!!


To get special designed quilts or to see my gallery, check out my site at: http://janesquilting.com

Recipe for Spray Starch and Winner Announced

I got a tip I thought you might like to hear.  Did you ever use Mary Ellen's Spray Starch?  It works great and oh, the fragrance is sooooo good!!

Well, I was given this recipe that is sooo similar to it, that it is unreal.  I want to share it with all my quilting friends.  It goes like this:

1  Cup Sta-Flo Liquid Starch
1  Cup Liquid Fabreeze  (any fragrance)

                      

1  Cup Water
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Mix it all together and put in a spray bottle.   WAH  LAH  You got it!

Now, it is time to announce my winner.  Missouri Star Quilt Shop was so kind to give me 6 great Fat Quarters to give to some lucky quilter, could it be you??

I had 111 comments (or entries)  So I went to www.random.org and left it choose a winner for me.  Are you ready.........

It gave me.....

NO.  49...............Agnes B. Bullock

         
                      

You will be receiving an e-mail from me shortly confirming your winning.  Please respond within 4 days or I will have to pick another winner.  

I hope my tip has helped you.   Till next time.....

HAPPY QUILTING EVERYONE!!



To get special designed quilts or to see my gallery, check out my site at: http://janesquilting.com

Dare to Dresden + Giveaway

So do you "Dare to Dresden"?  I do, along with many others.  Today is the second day of a GREAT Hop and it is also MY day.    First I want to give a BIG Thank you to Christine from Monster in my Closet and Madame Samm at Sew We Quilt for all their hard work in making this all happen.

I started by digging into my stash and trying to figure out what I was going to make.  I had so many ideas at that time.  I decided to start with this fabric:

I decided to fussy cut a pretty pink rose fabric to show it off in my Dresden.

I decided to make one full Dresden in the center of my square and partial ones in each corner.  I also drew a small rose bud to be embroidered.   Here is the patterns that I drew:

After the Dresden was in the center, I added a 3/4 inch dark green boarder and set it diagonally.  I sewed pink fabric on each side of that to square.  Then added the partial Dresden to each corner.  I sewed them all on by hand.  When completed, I drew my rose bud pattern in the corners of the center block and hand embroidered them at this time. Then added a 1 1/2 inch pink boarder around it all. 

To quilt it, I did echo around all the Dresden's and in the ditch in the dark green boarder and outer boarder. 

  

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I hand sewn a burgundy binding on to match the center of the Dresden's.  Total size is 24 1/2" X 24 1/2"

THEN, I got another idea.  I seen this article in a quilt magazine the other week.  (I have a habit of glancing at some of the magazines while waiting in line to get checked out at the local store.)  I don't remember what magazine it was, but I did a quick note to myself and wrote down the designers name.  Her name is Anelie Belden and she had a great idea of another way to use the Dresden Pattern.  Course, like anything else, I have to do it my way.  Some say that I can't follow directions.  Some say I think "out of the box" too much.  Anyway, I came up with this:

Again, I dug into my fabric and I pulled out every red and white fat quarters that I could find.

       

I also drew my own patterns for what I decided to make:

I cut 1 1/2" squares and 1 1/2" X 3" strips along with my Dresden pattern.

Then sewed them all together to make a heart:

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Hay, so far so good, I think!  I turned under all the edges and hand sewn my heart to a large white piece of fabric.  Then cut out my letters and 3 different sized hearts to go around.  I laid them out where I wanted and pressed in place.  Those I machine appliqued on.  After I had it all on.  I cut to the size that I thought looked good and proceeded to layer and quilt.

I machine quilted in an all over random pattern on both the inside and the outside of the heart.  I did two lines on the inside of the heart.  Well, here it is:   

Total size is:   18" X 25"

I had always enjoyed making the Dresden pattern.  My first Dresden quilt was actually the second quilt that I had ever made.  I did the whole thing by hand, including the quilting.

Total size is 96" X 82"  -  I gave this one to my mother.

Well by coincidence,  we moved to Dresden, TN.  I then made another Dresden quilt.  This one was also all done by hand including the quilting.

This one is a total size is 96" X 92".  I gave this one to my Mother-in-law.

I can predict more Dresden's in the future.  They are a lot of fun to make and you can do so much with them.   In Fact.....PLEASE, don't stop here, go see more Dresden's.  Below is a list of all the other quilters that blogged today.  Just click on their name to see their beautiful projects.

Gingersnap Quilts

Busy Bee Quilts

She Sews the Blues

Traveling Quilter

Grand Mama's Stories

Cherry Blossoms Quilting Studio

Sew at Home Mummy

The Slow Quilter

Pig Tales and Quilts

Annie Oak Design

Jane's Fabrics & Quilts

Tea Time Creations

Mo Broker My Creative Side

Just Let Me Quilt

Words and Stitches

Just Keep Swimming

Sew Many Yarns

Sowing Stitches

My Patchwork Life
2muchfun

Pumpkin Patch Quilter
Quilt Monster in my Closet

But don't stop there.....here is next weeks schedule.  You really don't want to miss a one.

January 28^th, 2013

A Reformed Heath'n

Meadowbrook

Rosemary B @ “that Other Blog”

Stitch Duchess' Crazy & Sane Quilting World

Grammie Q’s

Bumbleberry Stitches

Sunshine Girl

Spiral

Butjenter Quilter

Blooming Where I am Planted

Quilting Lodge

The Tilted Quilt

Life in the Scrapatch

Pretty Bobbins
In The Boon Docks

Sew Much and More

Threading My Way
Pink Ribbon Quilts

January 29^th, 2013

A Peach in Stitches

Nancy W @ “that Other Blog”

L3 Designs

Bungalow Bay Quilts

Quilted Delights

Quilt Crossing

Lixie Makes it

A Quilting Sheep

Charlotte's Creations

Quilt-n-Queen
Domesticity and Other Ponderous Things

Sew Much 2 Luv

A Quilt and a Prayer

Amanda Murphy Design

Little Mushroom Cap
Kathy's Quilts

Sandra Kaye Design

January 30^th, 2013

Charlotte H @ “that Other Blog”

Clothes and Crafts

It Seams to be Sew

Merry Gay in Stitches

Water Penny

Granny Good Stuff

Under the Presser Foot

More Stars in Comanche

Sew Me Something Good

The Day Before This Day

Farm Road

Livin' Blue Quilter

I Piece 2 Mary
Kwilty Pleasures
Espritpatch
Nutz4Redwork

January 31^th, 2013

Quilting Prolifically

Patchouli Moon Studio

Mountain Quiltworks

In Ga

Dachsies with Moxie

Color My World

Shepody Mountain Crafter

Christa Quilts

Moosestash Quilting

Lavender Quilts

Never 2 Many Quilts

Cathy's Chatter

Madame Samm

Now, all of you know Missouri Quilt Shop, right??  Well, they gave me 6 Great Fat quarters to give to one lucky person.  

This is a GREAT quilt shop, that has some really great prices on everything.  Check them out at:   http://www.missouriquiltco.com/  And keep going back daily to see their daily specials.  It will definitely be worth it.  You know, you can NEVER have enough fabric.

To enter the giveaway for the above fat quarters is easy.  Just be a follower of my blog and leave me a comment.   That is it!!  Then on the eve of February 1st I will let Random.com pick a lucky winner out.  It will be posted right here on February 1st.  

So Good luck to you all and till then,

HAPPY QUILTING EVERYONE

To get special designed quilts or to see my gallery, check out my site at: http://janesquilting.com

Winner of "In with Words" Giveaway

I cannot believe that the "IN WITH WORDS" hop is over already.
Lets take a look at some of the words we learned:

GREAT                       We seen soooo many Great projects
DECLUTTER        That was a good one,  I need to declutter my quilt room
LAUGH                      Something we should all do every day
FRIENDSHIP      We all need friends, and need to learn to be better ones
SMILE                        Smile and the whole world will smile with you
TALENTED          That is what ALL quilters are!
WIMSEY                 We all need this in our lives
CLEVER                  I seen a lot of CLEVER ideas on this hop
INSPIRED              I don't know about you, but I got inspired by a lot of what I seen
BREATHE             After seeing all the beautiful work...I had to remember to breathe
FABRIC                   Something we ALL want and crave
BELIEVE               What we believe in, God, life, each other, etc.
LOVE                        To love one another
GRATEFUL        To be grateful for what I have
TRUTH                   Always tell the truth, it is easier than you think
THANKFUL        I am thankful for my family's good health, for my friends, etc.
ENJOY                     I ENJOYED each and every blog!

I could go on and on....There are so many "Words"!  Another BIG word is:

THANKS......A BIG THANKS   go out to Linda at Bumbling and Buzzing and Madame Samm for all their help and support through this hop.  They did a WONDERFUL job.


                               


                                   

    
                         

Now excuse me while I go to Random.com to pick a name to win "Focus on the Center" book by Pat Sloan.  I have 136 comments (entries).   Here we go.......Are you all ready?????

And the winner is.............................................

Number 37..........LJ  (I will be sending you an e-mail shortly to verify your winnings)

Another "Word"

CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!!

                          


REMINDER   Next hop is coming up,

"Dare to DRESDEN"

January 24th thru 31st

Sponsored by Christine Lewis at Quilt Monster in my Closet

and

Madame Samm at Sew We Quilt

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!!!

Till then..

HAPPY QUILTING EVERYONE!

       
                       
To get special designed quilts or to see my gallery, check out my site at: http://janesquilting.com

"IN WITH WORDS" Blog Hop & Giveaway

I can't believe it is 2013 already and we are in our first Blog hop of the year.  From what I seen so far, it sure is a GREAT one too!  Stop over at "Buzzing and Bumbling" with Linda and give her a big thanks for all her hard work.  And don't forget Madame Samm at "Sew WE Quilt".  She also needs a big thank you.  Then when you are there you can check out the rest of the schedule, for you don't want to miss a one blog.

I wanted to do something different for my day but fun.  So  I drew this:    (I call here Sallie) 

It started out with seeing her picture on the internet in one of those quilt picture sites.  I changed a few things on her, took away a few boxes and added more fabric. Drawing her was no problem.  But....then I had to make my pattern and number all the little pieces.  When I was done, well, lets say my picture looked really confusing, but I knew what was what. 

So, I got out my tote of scraps.  I just love the part of figuring out which fabrics to put where.

I had so many little pieces, that I divided them into little baggies until I was ready for them.  Next I cut to large pieces of fabric and sewn them together.  I carefully pressed and took off all the lint that I could.

Then I arranged "Sallie" onto the fabric.  There were a total of 105 pieces all together.  She had 28 bolts of fabric plus the fat quarter bundle on top.  I added an extra spool of thread to the one box and then plain white in the other box for batting.  It took a long time to put everything in place where I wanted them.  Then I carefully transferred to my ironing board and pressed.

I machine appliqued them on using  Monofilament thread.  I didn't want anything to take away from seeing "Sallie".  Then I used my fabric pens and added the extras:

.Next I made my letters.  I went to my Word Perfect program on my lap top and decided which font to use. I enlarged it to the size that I wanted and printed them out.  Next I cut each word out separately.

 
Because they are words, I had to trace them backward to trace onto my Steam-a-Seam.

The rest.......well, again, I changed a few things up at the last minute.  Instead of putting the full phrase that I first decided on.  "There is NO such thing as TOO much fabric"  I shortened it to "There's NO such thing as TOO much fabric"  

Oh, but I didn't stop my words there...I machine quilted an all over random pattern and in that I also added the words pins, needles, threads, rulers, etc.  (I hope you can make them out)

  So without further ado....Here it is......

TOTAL SIZE IS:  16" X 20 1/2"

I had made this wall hanging for my mother, (Home is Where the CAT is)  she loves cats.  At present time she has two, named after her late sister and mother. (Elsie and Alice)

And I must share my Quilting Lady with everyone.  My husband thought this one was so neat.  In fact, it is what inspired me to make "Sallie".  Oh, he really likes "Sallie" too.

Again, I want to thank Linda from "Buzzing and Bumbling" and Madam Samm.  They both did a wonderful job and worked hard getting this all together for us.  Now that you seen my "Words" go read some more great "Words" from all the other bloggers of today.

Jane's Fabrics (Jane R.)

Nuts 4 Redwork (Heide W.)

Cherry Blossoms Quilting Studio (Cherry G.)

Bits and Pieces (Martha R.)

Life in Every Breath (Jennifer B.)

Quilting Lines (Patricia L.)

Travel Thru Greece (Mara)

Meadowbrook  (Kristen K.)

Count It All Joy!  (Denise P.)

Sophie Junction (Sophie W.)

 The rest of the schedule goes as this:

Monday, January 14

Gracie Oliver Arts (Jeanie)

Clothes and Crafts (Maria K.)

Cherrys Prairie Primitives (Cherry E.)

Simple Sew (Shirley T.)

Woolie Mammoth (Anna B.)

RocknQuilts (Mary Ann)

Celynn's Sunflower Patch (Celynn)

A Quilting Sheep (Amy)

Sane and Crazy Quilting (Cathy L.)

Quiltsmiles (Jane E.)

Feathered Nest Studio(Jennet)

Tuesday, January 15

BQuiltin Studio  (Beverly K.)

Hill Valley Quilter (Britt-Inger)

Bumbleberry Stitches  (Theresa K.)

Buzzing and Bumbling  (Linda W.)

Outback Crafter (Debra S.)

In Stitches and Seams  (Annette S.)

Englating  (Marica from Sweden)

Stitchin by the Lake  (Marlene B.)

Selina Quilts  (Selina)

Sheila's Quilt World (Sheila M.)

Words & Stitches (Beth S.)

Wednesday, January 16

My Collection of Things  (Jeni K.)

Quiltin' Jenny  (Jenny)

Shade Tree Quilting (Judy C.)

(Rosemary B.) at “that other blog”

Pat Sloan, The Voice of Quilting (Pat. S.)

Dachsies With Moxie  (Agnes B.)

Sew Many Yarns (Lyndsey M.)

Sew We Quilt  (Mdm. Samm)

Tomorrows Treasures Today  (Denise D.)

The German Mom  (Tina S.)

Christa Quilts (Christa W.)

OK, I know what everyone is waiting for....oh yeah.  I have a REALLY GOOD GIVEAWAY.  My sponsor.  Missouri Quilts,  gave me this awsome book for the lucky winner.  It is....are you ready.....

OH YEAH, it is "Focus on the Center" by our good friend Pat Sloan.  This is a wonderful book with 8 great patterns of hers.  Each pattern is unique and I know you would enjoy making each one.

To enter is easy, be a follower and leave me a "WORD".  For a second entry... pass the WORD around and come back and tell me how you did it.   Then on January 16th I will go to Random.com and get a winner and post it right here, so do come back.

TILL THEN,

HAPPY QUILTING EVERYONE......... 


To get special designed quilts or to see my gallery, check out Imy site at: http://janesquilting.com