Hand Pieced QAL Week 5, Dust off a Quilt Book Blog Hop

This was week 5 of the Hand-Pieced QAL co-hosted by Patty at Elm Street Quilts  and Kristin at Simple, Handmade, Everyday.  They have been having such great tutorials and videos each week.  Thanks again to both Patty and Kristin for all their great help!

My block this week came out pretty good I think.  It almost seems like it took longer to mark my seams than to sew it.  

I'll be linking up with Elm Street Quilts for the Hand-Pieced QAL weekly link-up.


Meanwhile the Dust off a Book Blog Hop still continues.  If you haven't had a chance to visit the line-up is below.  There are some great projects, and I have been enjoying visiting these blogs.  

Monday Feb 18^th

Turid at densyendehimmel

Pamela at Pamelaquilts

Joan at Moosestashquilting

Anne at seems like a plan

Susan at Desertsky Quilting

Selina at Selinaquilts

Kathleen at Kathleenmcmusing

Tuesday Feb 19^th

Cindy Stitchin at home

Jennifer at curlicuecreations

Stephanie at stephjacobsondesigns

Kathy at Kathysquilts

Shasta at high road quilter
Theresa at bumbleberrystitches

Wednesday Feb 20^th

Sharon at Vrooman’s quilts

Suzy at Websterquilt

Nancy at patchworkbreeze

Karrin at karrinscrazyworld

Denise at craftraditions

Thursday Feb 21^st

Anita at Domestic Felicity

Leanne at Devoted Quilter

Jennifer at Dizzyquilter

Carla at Creatin' in the Sticks

Lee Anne at Podunk Pretties

Andree at quiltinglearningcombo

Lyndsey at Sew Many Yarns

Friday Feb 22^nd

Bea at Beaquilter

Barbara at Bejweledquilts

Laura at slice of pi quilts

Sherry Powered By Quilting

Pat at Life in the Scrapatch

Carol at Just let me quilt

Kathy at Kathy's Kwilts and More

Marian at seams to be sew
Brenda at songbirddesigns

Dust off a Quilt Book Blog Hop, Day 3

Welcome to Day 3 of the Dust Off a Quilt Book Blog Hop, and the day I get to share my project.  I'd like to take this opportunity to thank our hostess Bea of Beaquilter for the incentive to make my project.  I have a HUGE number of books  with projects I would like to do in them, and I have been planning to make this project for YEARS!

The project I loved in this book was the sailboat quilt called "Summer Sails.

If you want to skip to the bottom and see my finished project, feel free.  

I just wanted to provide  a little background why I chose this sailboat quilt.  When I first met my husband he had a sailboat, which he had moored in Mission Bay in San Diego.  We would spend the weekends sailing.   We took a celestial navigation course together in the evening, and right before we got married, we sailed to Catalina from San Diego,and back home with no problem.  

This was a picture of that sailboat he had.  His mother painted a picture of it sailing in Mission Bay.

When we moved to Northern California, John built a two masted sailboat, which we took to various locations when our girls were young.  Here if you look really close the girls are on the beach beside the boat.  Our girls are now in their 40's and have children of their own.

John went on to build 6 more boats, including a houseboat which we enjoyed for a number of years.  

Our decor has numerous sailboats, including pictures his mother painted, 

The Star of India in San Diego Bay

We have sailboat models all over the house.  This is a model John made of the 27 foot sailboat he built with two masts.  

We even have a medicine cabinet he built for our bathroom with a porthole and a ship on top.

Anyway I have been waiting for years (since 1996) to make this sailboat quilt. I had the flannel set aside.  When I was working, there just never seemed time.  We no longer sail, my husband is pretty much home-bound and disabled now, but we still have a love of sailboats.

The quilt top went rather quickly even with the hand-applique.  The only problem I had was when I went up to Fedex to get the ship patterns enlarged to 200% as stated in the directions, the guy that helped me did not do it right.  To enlarge the big ship, it need an oversized printer.  I did 4 of the ships, plus the large one before I figured it out.  

Fedex did redo the big one without charge and I was able to finish up.  This is the large ship second time around.

The quilt is 62 x 81 inches.

Flannel top 95%,

Flannel back

Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 Batting

Thanks for visiting my blog and if you have a chance please visit the other blogs on this hop!

Monday Feb 18^th

Turid at densyendehimmel

Pamela at Pamelaquilts

Joan at Moosestashquilting

Anne at seems like a plan

Susan at Desertsky Quilting

Selina at Selinaquilts

Kathleen at Kathleenmcmusing

Tuesday Feb 19^th

Cindy Stitchin at home

Jennifer at curlicuecreations

Stephanie at stephjacobsondesigns

Kathy at Kathysquilts

Shasta at high road quilter
Theresa at bumbleberrystitches

Wednesday Feb 20^th

Sharon at Vrooman’s quilts

Suzy at Websterquilt

Nancy at patchworkbreeze

Karrin at karrinscrazyworld

Denise at craftraditions

Thursday Feb 21^st

Anita at Domestic Felicity

Leanne at Devoted Quilter

Jennifer at Dizzyquilter

Carla at Creatin' in the Sticks

Lee Anne at Podunk Pretties

Andree at quiltinglearningcombo

Lyndsey at Sew Many Yarns

Friday Feb 22^nd

Bea at Beaquilter

Barbara at Bejweledquilts

Laura at slice of pi quilts

Sherry Powered By Quilting

Pat at Life in the Scrapatch

Carol at Just let me quilt

Kathy at Kathy's Kwilts and More

Marian at seams to be sew
Brenda at songbirddesigns

Dust off a Quilt Book Blog Hop, Day 2

TheDust Off a Quilt Book Blog Hop continues on Day 2.  This is hosted by Bea of Beaquilter. This blog hop is where you take an old quilt book you have and make a project or block from it.  My day is tomorrow, Wednesday the 20th.  

The line up is as follows in case you haven't had a chance to visit yet.

Monday Feb 18^th

Turid at densyendehimmel

Pamela at Pamelaquilts

Joan at Moosestashquilting

Anne at seems like a plan

Susan at Desertsky Quilting

Selina at Selinaquilts

Kathleen at Kathleenmcmusing

Tuesday Feb 19^th

Cindy Stitchin at home

Jennifer at curlicuecreations

Stephanie at stephjacobsondesigns

Kathy at Kathysquilts

Shasta at high road quilter
Theresa at bumbleberrystitches

Wednesday Feb 20^th

Sharon at Vrooman’s quilts

Suzy at Websterquilt

Nancy at patchworkbreeze

Karrin at karrinscrazyworld

Denise at craftraditions

Thursday Feb 21^st

Anita at Domestic Felicity

Leanne at Devoted Quilter

Jennifer at Dizzyquilter

Carla at Creatin' in the Sticks

Lee Anne at Podunk Pretties

Andree at quiltinglearningcombo

Lyndsey at Sew Many Yarns

Friday Feb 22^nd

Bea at Beaquilter

Barbara at Bejweledquilts

Laura at slice of pi quilts

Sherry Powered By Quilting

Pat at Life in the Scrapatch

Carol at Just let me quilt

Kathy at Kathy's Kwilts and More

Marian at seams to be sew
Brenda at songbirddesigns

I was having a great time yesterday visiting blogs and making comments.  I look in my spam folder today and I have 8 mailer demon messages, saying my comments bounced.  This is what they look like.  I have contacted google (the majority of them are from gmail  users, 1 from yahoo (which is what I use), and one from someone using Comcast e-mail.   

Mail Delivery Subsystem  To:3cmxrXAgJCeESDWFKHVlbDKRR.FRPKHLGHZkhmJPDLO.FRP@blogger.bounces.google.com Message blocked Your message to ******@gmail.com has been blocked. See technical details below for more information. LEARN MORE

The response was: Unauthenticated email from yahoo.com is not accepted due to domain's DMARC policy. Please contact the administrator of yahoo.com domain if this was a legitimate mail. Please visit https://support.google.com/mail/answer/2451690 to learn about the DMARC initiative. z13sor1672512ior.123 - gsmtp I contacted Yahoo help last night, and they got back to me this morning and told me it wasn't them, to contact postmaster at gmail. They haven't gotten back to me yet.  If you look up this google answer, it talks about bulk mailing, which I am not doing.  I am just making comments on blogs.  I am not making comments on a work e-mail.  It is a private email which I have had for years.   This is making me crazy.  I cannot get an answer or help, and apparently there are a lot of people in the same predicament.   I have spent most of the morning and part of the afternoon on this researching.

Dust Off a Quilt Book Blog Hop Coming Starts Tomorrow!

The Dust off a Quilt Book Blog Hop starts tomorrow.  This is hosted by Bea @Beaquilter.  This blog hop was one where you take an old quilt book you have and make a project or block from it.  I've been working on my project, and I hope to finish quilting it today and get the binding on.  My day is Wednesday the 20th.

The line-up is as follows:

Monday Feb 18^th

Turid at densyendehimmel

Pamela at Pamelaquilts

Joan at Moosestashquilting

Anne at seems like a plan

Susan at Desertsky Quilting

Selina at Selinaquilts

Kathleen at Kathleenmcmusing

Tuesday Feb 19^th

Cindy Stitchin at home

Jennifer at curlicuecreations

Stephanie at stephjacobsondesigns

Kathy at Kathysquilts

Shasta at high road quilter
Theresa at bumbleberrystitches

Wednesday Feb 20^th

Sharon at Vrooman’s quilts

Suzy at Websterquilt

Nancy at patchworkbreeze

Karrin at karrinscrazyworld

Denise at craftraditions

Thursday Feb 21^st

Anita at Domestic Felicity

Leanne at Devoted Quilter

Jennifer at Dizzyquilter

Carla at Creatin' in the Sticks

Lee Anne at Podunk Pretties

Andree at quiltinglearningcombo

Lyndsey at Sew Many Yarns

Friday Feb 22^nd

Bea at Beaquilter

Barbara at Bejweledquilts

Laura at slice of pi quilts

Sherry Powered By Quilting

Pat at Life in the Scrapatch

Carol at Just let me quilt

Kathy at Kathy's Kwilts and More

Marian at seams to be sew
Brenda at songbirddesigns

Thanks for stopping by, and be sure and come visit our blog hop.  There are sure to be some great projects.

Karrin

Slow Stitching Sunday

I'm hooking up to Kathy's Quilts for Slow Stitching Sunday.   Mostly what I have been working on this week is quilting my project for a blog hop later this week. 

What I have been working on in the evening is this Flourishes block, by Piece of Cake Designs.  This is the 10th block out of 12 and I am looking forward to getting this quilt done.  It is a long time coming~

Just have 2 more flowers and a bunch of leaves and I can call this one done. 

Later this afternoon I will be sewing down the binding on my blog hop quilt.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Karrin

Hand-Pieced QAL

I've been having so much fun with the Hand-Pieced QAL hosted by Patty at Elm Street Quilts and Kristin at Simple, Handmade, Everyday.

The block for week 4 went together for me effortlessly, it was close to perfect, until I discovered it was over 1/4" larger than the others.  I must have cut the squares out wrong.  So I trimmed it down, till there was almost no seam allowance left. 

So I ended up remaking the block. At least this one is the same size as the others!

I'll be linking up with the Hand-Pieced QAL link up on Patty's site at Elm Street Quilts.

Thanks for stopping by!  Karrin

Good Fortune Mystery Monday Link-up , Mail Surprise

This was the first year I participated in Bonnie Hunter's Quiltville Mystery which this year was called Good Fortune.   The pattern can now be purchased as a digital pattern at the Quiltville store here.

I had my top completed within a week of the reveal in early January and decided to donate my top to the Carolina Hurricane Quilt Project.  You can find out more about that here at From My Carolina Home.  I contacted Carole and she hooked me up with a longarmer who graciously quilted my quilt.

I received a picture of the finished quilt this week, and was so happy to see it quilted, and on its way to being donated to one of the hurricane victims.  Irene did a lovely quilting with my top, and her friend the binding.  I really appreciate the time and effort she spent finishing up my top.  

I will be linking up with the Quiltville Mystery Monday Link-Up

I went out to the mail this afternoon and found a squishy filled with Island Batik widths of fabric  that I won from Wednesday Wait Loss at the Inquiring Quilter.  Thanks so much Jennifer, I really appreciate it.  It is so exciting to get squishies in the mail.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Karrin

HQAL, Slow Sunday Stitching

Three weeks is flying faster and faster by!  Have been doing a lot of hand stitching, and a lot of it involves things I can't show right now due to upcoming blog hops.  I have been enjoying the hand-pieced QAL hosted by Patty at Elm Street Quilts and Kristin from Simple, Handmade, Everyday..

I'm really having a good time, with fond memories of my dear MIL who could usually hand-piece and hand-quilt a quilt in a month. She had no rotary cutter either.  It was all done using templates and scissors.

Hand Quilt Along Links

This Hand Quilt Along is an opportunity for hand quilters and piecers to share and motivate one another. We post every three weeks, to show our progress and encourage one another.  If you have a hand quilting project and would like to join our group contact Kathy at the link below.

Kathy, Lori, Margaret, Kerry, Emma, Tracy, Deb, Connie, Susan,  Nanette,  Edith, 

Sharon, Karrin, and Gretchen

I'm also working on some hand stitching on little challenge piece with some friends, Moira at The Quilted Snail, Susan at Desertsky Quilting, and Edi at Edi's Crafting Life .  We each received a FQ and are to make something from it.  I have my project  half done.  Can't show that right now either till the reveal.

I'll also be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.