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Sunday, April 21, 2024

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

Wednesday April 24

Quilted Snail

Ms P Designs USA

Days Filled With Joy

Quilting Between the Rails (Facebook)

Bumbleberry Stitches

Thursday April 25

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Turkey Trot!

Welcome to my day of the Turkey Trot Blog Hop! I have a complete listing of the participants down below. Make sure you visit them all and give them some love! Thank you Joan from MooseStashQuilting for hosting this wonderful event.

I have been busy around here getting ready for Thanksgiving. I'll be having my boys, and their families join us this Sunday for an early celebration. I need to make some serious lists so I don't forget to do something! I have busy decorating the house with fall leaves and pumpkins, some of it was leftover from Halloween. I like to decorate the table too for dinner and I've been on the look out for something for the place settings. I've been looking online, made a couple of trips to Hobby Lobby and I didn't have to look further then my sewing room! I decided to make some quilted leaves using up my bits and pieces that I had in a fabric bin. Let me show you how I made them.

I first pulled out my orange and brown fabric scraps...

I drew out a big maple leaf shape. Then I stitched together my scraps without paying any attention to what I was doing. Just sewing the scraps together. Then layer my pieced square with a backing and some scrap batting.

I then pinned my paper template onto my quilt sandwich and stitched around the edge. I also added a 'stem'.

I then cut around the edges using a pinking shears and top stitched the leaf's veins using a variegated thread.

I love how the leaf turned out. I think it's the perfect touch for my place settings. I've got 4 done, I've got a few more to go!

These leaves also make adorable coasters!

I hope that you have fun hopping around and enjoy my little tutorial for my leaf coasters, mug rug. It can also be used as a candle mat. It was a great way to use up some of my little scraps that I have a hard time throwing away. I found the perfect project for those little pieces of fabric!

Here's a fun project I made years ago. I traced some leaf shapes and using fusible web I appliqued them onto an easy table runner. It's one of my favorite projects to put on display each year.

Monday November 13

Tuesday November 14

Karrin’s Crazy World

Just Because Quilts

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Domestic Felicity

Nettie Sews and Lucky Quilts