April Showers Blog Hop!

Happy Monday! Today is the first day of the April Showers Blog Hop Challenge! So glad that you are here, I hope that you have fun hopping around and seeing all the quilty fun. We have had our share of rainy weather, but we have also had some cold days too where we are lighting the fireplace and looking for our winter sweaters! Today it's a bit warmer and I'm happy to say we might make it into the 60's. I did break down and buy some pansy pots for my front entryway, but I have been having to watch the temperatures so that they don't freeze! My daffodils are blooming so I know spring will soon be here. For my project I designed a sweet highland cow adorned with flowers. This sweet cow is also spending time picking flowers from the farmers garden too! It's a fun springtime design and looks adorable on display in my kitchen. It took me an afternoon to stitch together using some scrap fabric from my bits and pieces basket... let me show you how I put it together.

I traced the Highland Cow pieces onto the paper side of my fusible web. I like to use flexifuse since it does not gum up my machine. Then I iron the shapes onto the wrong side of my fabric scraps and then cut them out using my applique scissors. Following the manufacturer's directions I iron everything in place to form the cow design.

Once everything is fused in place, I machine stitch around all of the raw edges using brown thread and a buttonhole stitch. To finish my design I raided my button jar and found the perfect buttons for the cow's eyes and flower centers.

 

~ Highland Cow ~

I think it's super cute on display on my cupboard door.

If you want to make a Highland Cow of your own, it can be found in my Etsy Shop and also on my website as a PDF download.

April Showers may bring May flowers, but this year our second granddaughter waited until April to be born, (she was due in March) So she is our sweetest little April baby! We are smittened with her and can't wait to watch our two granddaughters grow and play together. 

I hope that you have a wonderful day and spend some time stitching. Make sure to leave a sweet comment and visit all of today's blogs. The list is below.

Happy quilting,

Cindy and Josephine

Monday April 22

MooseStashQuilting

Words&Stitches

Quilting Gail

Quilt Doodle Designs (You are here!)

Kathy's Kwilts and More

 

Tuesday April 23

Karrins Crazy World

BeaQuilter

Selena Quilts

Songbird Designs

Just Sew Quilter

 

Wednesday April 24

Quilted Snail

Ms P Designs USA

 Days Filled With Joy

Quilting Between the Rails (Facebook)

Bumbleberry Stitches

 

Thursday April 25

Just Let Me Quilt

Inflorescence    

Quilted Delights

Vroomans Quilts

Scrapdash

High Road Quilter