Another charm box mini quilt

 I really like making this charm box quilt pattern and the first one I made was smaller.  I posted about it last year.  This one is 18" square.  I am hanging it in the kitchen where I had the smaller one.  I have been working on it for awhile and finally finished it today!!  It is a free pattern from Fat Quarter Shop and is Lori Holt fabric. 
It is so good to have a finish it up Friday to push me along!!

 Joanne Sharpe has a new class online Draw Your Awesome Letters.  SUCH FUN!!

 I got a new palette tray and it is easy to swipe the little distress ink pads and then using a wet brush and water do backgrounds for my creative journals.  I got the idea to get this from Kathy at The Daily Marker.  It is fun to add all kinds of things to my creative journals!

 We spent a great day walking around at the Safari Park.  It is nice for my hubs to be able to walk easily without pain in his knee now!  Before his knee replacement in April the pain was too much to walk for any distance. 

 Here is another scrappy rectangle block. 

And in September we celebrated our 56th wedding anniversary.  We went to the Lake Cuyamaca Restaurant and walked by the water.  We spent time in Julian and Pine Hills...........some of our favorite places to visit.

Linking to finish it up Friday crazy mom quilts   and Linky Tuesday.

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Placemats for summer

I used some more of the Sunkissed jelly roll and made some placemats for summer.

I quilted each with batting only....
I cut jelly roll strips in half for the outside borders...
Then I trimmed and cut backing fabric at the same time.

Then I sewed right sides together and turned....quick way to finish.

  One placemat is squares and rectangles.......

  The other one is squares and two strips.....

 Here is a photo of the June Sew Samper from Fat Quarter Shop....fun!

 Solstice block #6............from Solstice Challenge by Pat Sloan.

 Solstice block #7.   The challenge ended with 25 blocks.  I am slowly working on them!!

Smiles and hugs...............Caryl

Linking with Connie at Freemotion by the River  Linky Tuesday

and

Amanda Jean at crazy mom quilts  for Finish it up Friday

Calico Days topper

 I used calico days fabric in this topper for my cube organizer with wicker baskets....
the same fabric I used for my charm box mini wallhanging....
I also added to the space a metal box that I painted in a class 10 years ago........

 I have been wanting to do straight line quilting again because it is so fun......
It finishes at 10 x 11½............

 I needed to do some more straight line quilting so I decided to do a quilt as you go placemat...
it is in progress I am not sure what I will do to finish........

 Sew Sampler for June...

 Quilty Box for June,,,

Block I made for an online friend who wanted Halloween stars with oranges, blacks, lime green, purple with bright white background.

I used Pat Sloan Little Wishes pattern..........

Linking to crazy mom quilts    finish it up Friday

Linking to free motion by the river....Linky Tuesday

Smiles and hugs...........Caryl

Full moon....time for Log Cabin Loonies

Here is what I have so far with my log cabin blocks.  I am making 4½" size blocks using 1½" strips...
And the larger blocks have 2½" strips and are 8½" blocks.  I did one with the outer strips of the larger block being wood grain like logs.................it was a test to see if I like it or not!  What do you think?

Linking with JulieKQuilts for this full moon log cabin lunacy fun!!
Linking with Freemotion by the River Linky Tuesday.....

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Charm Box quilt mini

 I finished this cute little charm box quilt that I started in January....hanging in my kitchen!
Fat Quarter Shop showed the top 10 videos from 2015 and this was one of them.

 I used calico days mini charms and fabric by Lori Holt.

 I did hand quilting on most of it and FMQ heart leaves on the border,

Here is how the top looked when I finished it in January...very quick and fun.  I changed the measurements so it is not exactly like the free pattern.  It finishes at 15x15.

Linking with crazymomquilts finish it up Friday
and freemotion by the river Linky Tuesday

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Log Cabin Lunacy!!

Log cabin quilts are so fun!  And Julie at JulieKQuilts has asked quilters to join in on posting log cabin quilt progress every full moon.  Sooooo I had to join in on this fun.....so this week I started a new log cabin quilt using up some of my strips and scraps!  The link to her blog post.....
http://juliekquilts.blogspot.com/2016/05/log-cabin-lunacy.html

The first photo shows the 1" strips and so far the blocks in the photo are 2½" but I am planning on making them 4½".  The other blocks are 2" strips and so far those blocks are 5½" and I am planning on making them 8½".  I am using a lot of Pat Sloan fabrics and will be adding some Lori Holt fabrics and many others.  I may use a combination of the different sizes in the quilt.

If you want to check my past blog posts for log cabin quilts check the label log cabin block.  Also the last blog post I did in March shows the little blocks I made for cabin posies quilt using 1" strips.

Linking to Julie Log Cabin Loonies  here

Linking to Linky Tuesday at Freemotion by the River here

Happy full moon day!!

Projects in progress

So many fun projects but nothing totally finished.....

The first photo is Pat Sloan's 2016 mystery Secret Garden block 1...
I am using her new hometown girl fabrics........

Next....Come Together by Gudrun Erla from G.E.Designs........

Next is charm box from Fat Quarter Shop tutorial and this is smaller than the mini in the pattern....

The ninth block of Little Wishes free pattern from Pat Sloan last year...

I will probably make three more blocks...

A bento box block for an online friend.....

Disappearing pinwheel block for an online friend...

Cabin Posies pattern by Lori Holt from a magazine.  I haven't worked on this since last month...all the little cabins are done and most of the shapes are done....
I am picking my fabrics for the next Secret Garden block and....
there are other sew alongs I may start!!!

 Linking to Connie at Freemotion by the River   Linky Tuesday

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Farm Girl Vintage canning season and haystack blocks and scrap vortex in progress

 Some more blocks from the Farm Girl Vintage book by Lori Holt.....

 and following along with farm girl fridays.................
on instagram and her blog....Bee in my Bonnet............

Then a photo of some of the blocks for scrap vortex quilt along from crazy mom quilts blog.
I have my trifold design board on top of my ironing table for the photo.....
on the left part of my strip tube quilt is showing hanging on the wall.....

Linking to Connie at Freemotion by the River....

smiles and hugs....Caryl

Farm Girl Vintage baking day and butter churn block

Here are my blocks hanging on a clothesline in my sewing room....

we just hung the tiny clothesline yesterday.....and using tiny little clothespins....how fun!! 

The blocks are from the Farm Girl Vintage quilt along............

Now I have done five of these blocks....the first one I did in 12" and made into a

tabletopper.

This week I finished the baking day block and the butter churn block

You can still follow along with Lori at Bee in my Bonnet blog....

AND there are tons of photos on instagram....

Linking to Connie at Freemotion by the River

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Farm Girl Vintage autumn star and baby chick blocks

 I put these on instagram over the past week and almost forgot to document here!
I still have to stitch the chick legs and eye....
I use my blog as a way of documenting my projects, etc....and hopefully inspires others!

These are both 6" blocks and wow.....that autumn star block was challenging!!
***Here is a really good tip.....spray the fabric before sewing with starch or Mary Ellen Best Press....

 Here is the layout using my alphabitties to mark the pieces before I sewed the baby chick.....

AND here are the pieces ready for the next block...baking day block.
Lots of photos on instagram for inspiration
....AND follow Lori Holt Bee in my Bonnet blog for the fun!

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Farm Girl Vintage apron strings tabletopper

My finish this week and I love it on my glass top kitchen table.

This is the apron strings block from Farm Girl Vintage sew along.

If you are on instagram you have seen a lot of wonderful blocks from this sew along....

AND if you aren't on instagram.....why not??

Here is the back of the tabletopper with the quilting and before I added the binding.........

Here is the link Farm Girl Fridays schedule for the sew along that started May 1.
And go to Lori Holt's blog Bee in my Bonnet and check out all the fun!

Linking to crazymomquilts finish it up Friday
and also to Freemotion by the River Linky Tuesday

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Farm Girl Vintage Fever!

There is a new book by Lori Holt of Bee in my Bonnet........
Have you caught the fever yet? .......

There is quite a "buzz" on instagram.......
A sew along is starting May 1 and going til October..........

Lori will be posting on her blog every Friday.....

The photo above is the book and Farm Girl Vintage Fat Quarter bundle...
I ordered these from fatquartershop.com
If you want to do this....don't wait...my order came in two days from Texas to California!

As Lori would say.....YeeHaw!!!!