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  16.5 – Follow Your Arrow – Challenge 5 of Project QUILTING season 16      I chose to make a weathervane for our Follow Your Arrow challenge. Sometimes it feels like life just sends things spinning! I love bunnies they make me smile. I found a public domain image and I decided to add the roof top. I pieced a sky background and traced the image onto Flexie Fuse using my light table. Thank you for visiting !

  16.4 – Birthstone – Challenge 4 of Project QUILTING season 16 For my 4th challenge I made a needle book. I'm a March baby and I love the color Aquamarine my birthstone but for some reason I could not find my aqua fabrics! I started to mine my stash and I found this aquamarine fabric I really love!  The inspiration for this project came from You Tube and the fact that  I had all of my hand sewing needles and supplies were just rolling around in a zipper pouch. It was overwhelming!   I watched a few tutorials one by Minki Kim another by Lori Holt and Stitchin Post  I used bits and pieces from each tutorial to make my own needle book .  I'm super happy with my result and after filling my needle book I decided I would like more pockets!   Cover and needle page Time to fill my needle book! Inside pockets Gathering supplies Fabric pulls Thank you for  visiting!

  16.3 – Common Blocks – Challenge 3 of Project QUILTING season 16 I had so much fun with this challenge! I worked with my fellow Project Quilter and friend Nancy I. together we went through Nancy's collection of "left overs" or "orphan" blocks. We started with piles of blocks in various stages of construction and we worked together bouncing ideas off of one another.  We tested colors and block layouts. It was like working on a puzzle. It was a challenge to figure out how the blocks fit together. We couldn't believe that we finished our tops on day one! It was a wonderful day! Thank you Nancy for coming up with a great idea of using leftovers! I set out to make a blue quilt but I ended up with a purple and pink quilt. I love it! I'm spotting Minnie Mouse's bow and shoes. I found Peter Rabbit yesterday when I was binding! There are little orange crabs.  It is such a pleasure to be surrounded by a truly scrappy quilt-I was so cozy under my new quilt! S...

  16.2 – Ombre – Challenge 2 of Project QUILTING season 16 This weeks challenge Ombre stumped me. I would usually use ombre as background for a collage quilt or something like that. This year my goal was more piecing. I had several false starts for this challenge.  There was a very cool paper dolls idea that friends helped me brainstorm, another quilting friend gave her ombre fabric to work with. despite all of the support. I couldn't pull it together this week. I really loved the diamond shape and I thought that had a lot of visual interest. I should have stopped there. My challenge is an improved table runner 21:X36"? I loved the wild fabrics and that's about it!  Thank you for Visiting

  16.1 – Mythical Creatures – Challenge 1 of Project QUILTING season 16 It's back! Time for season 16 of Project Quilting. A big THANKS to Kim Lapacek and Trish Frankland  for our  first challenge, Mythical Creatures. Kim and Trish make the new year sew much fun! I look forward the challenges each year!  For challenge one, I'm happy to share my "Gnomes all Around" table topper.  It is 24x24" foundation paper pieced. I found this pattern in the Annie's Quilting book,  Quilted Gnomes for your Home .  The patterns author is Jennifer Thomas of Curlicue Creations.  Trixie my cat approves of this weeks challenge!              Thank you for visiting! 

  15.6 – Irish Chain – Challenge 6 of Project QUILTING season 15 For this challenge, I used raw edge applique  and a pre-made canvas bag. I had the bag from a previous project and it needed to be quiltified!  I was given scraps that a fellow Project Quilter was going to toss out. I free cut my scraps using only the lines on my cutting mat (no ruler).  I auditioned a few different fabrics for my mini Irish chain and placed them on Lite Steam- A-Seam 2.  I wanted to create a Spring feeling with my fabric. I think it came out really cute. Thank you for visiting! Auditioning Fabric and placing on Lite Steam- A-Seam 2