It's a Jungle Blog Hop Challenge

 

The It's a Jungle Blog Hop Challenge started yesterday, hosted by the fabulous Joan @Moosestash Quilting.  Many  thanks to Joan and Carol for thinking up another challenge to use up some orphan blocks/and scraps.  

The challenge this time:  Animals, plants, trees, what is in your jungle.  

When this challenge came up, I knew what I wanted to use.  I had in my stash a panel of a lion that came with an elephant I had already used for a baby quilt.  I also had a bunch of large half square triangles from another project.

I used those for the first border my lion panel.  Then I used some leftover purple squares to make four patches for the second border.  I apparently didn't take very many pictures in the process of making this,  as it was a crazy week last week with multiple activities, including watching my 5 granddogs for 4 days while my daughter and son-in-law took two grandsons to colleges on either side of the US.  

I also appliqued animals in the four corners, and noticed when I got this far that the bottom border was sewn on upside down.  After some ripping I finally got this put together right.  

This is the finished top.  I will quilt this up and it will be donated to my guild's community service.  

The line up of bloggers for this hop is below.   Be sure to stop by and check out what everyone has come up with for this challenge!

Monday August 19

MooseStashQuilting

Ms P Designs USA

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Quilting Between the Rails

High Road Quilter

 

Tuesday August 20

Patchouli Moon Studio

Karrins Crazy World

Quilting Gail

Quilted Delights

 

Wednesday August 21

A Quiltery

Quilted Snail

Selina Quilts

Hazel’s Daughter

 

Thursday August 22

Just Let Me Quilt

Scrapdash

BeaQuilter

That Fabric Feeling

Thanks for stopping by!

it's a Jungle Blog Hop Challenge Starts Today

 

 

The It's a Jungle Blog Hop Challenge starts today, hosted by the fabulous Joan @Moosestash Quilting.

The challenge this time:  Animals, plants, trees, what is in your jungle.

The line up of bloggers for this hop is below:

Monday August 19

MooseStashQuilting

Ms P Designs USA

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Quilting Between the Rails

High Road Quilter

 

Tuesday August 20

Patchouli Moon Studio

Karrins Crazy World

Quilting Gail

Quilted Delights

 

Wednesday August 21

A Quiltery

Quilted Snail

Selina Quilts

Hazel’s Daughter

 

Thursday August 22

Just Let Me Quilt

Scrapdash

BeaQuilter

That Fabric Feeling

Thanks for stopping by!

HQAL, Slow Sunday Stitching

It has been a busy couple of weeks.  We have two family birthdays I was trying to get gifts done for.  Granddaughter Kyleigh's birthday is 8/17, and daughter Katie's BD is next week, 8/24.   Her and her fiance Andrew went on a birthday adventure/camping trip to Crater Lake.

We usually try to celebrate the two birthdays together, Kyleigh's and Katie's, and the date we came up with was last week, 8/11 for the family dinner at my house.  On 8/10, Katie wanted all of us to go to Bodega Bay, so the members that were here went to Bodega Bay for a wonderful day.  

Jeffrey her father, and her brother Keaton, were on their way back to West Virginia where Keaton will be attending college at Salem University.  Kristen flew back this week to move him into his housing, 

They even toured Trans-Allegheny Lunatic  Asylum which was functional until 1994.  

Meanwhile Jeffrey flew back home and the next day Jeffrey and Jaeger headed off to New Mexico to drop Jaeger off at UNM.  

On 8/11 we had what was left of our family dinner celebrating Kyleigh's and Katie's birthdays.   For Kyleigh's BD I bought her a new tablecloth for her table, and made her this table runner.

For Katie's BD I made her this owl quilt made with a panel.  She fell in love with this panel at my guild's quilt show, so while I was sitting at the quilt show I ordered the kit.   I should have taken the pictures somewhere else besides in front of my great pumpkin quilt!  

Katie also requested a mug rug of this picture when she was a teenager with her dad.  Katie also loves frogs, and purchased this frog fat quarter at last year's quilt show.  

I finally finished the Kathy Schmitz bee embroidery.  

What I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching is finishing August's Woven Wreaths, and then working on my redwork flowers.  

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, Margaret, Deb, Nanette, Sharon, Karrin, Daisy, and Connie

I will be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  Check out what everyone has been up to.  

Thanks for stopping by!  

It's a Jungle Blog Hop Coming Next Week

 

The It's a Jungle Blog Hop Challenge starts next week, hosted by the fabulous Joan @Moosestash Quilting.

The challenge this time:  Animals, plants, trees, what is in your jungle.

The line up of bloggers for this hop is below:

Monday August 19

MooseStashQuilting

Ms P Designs USA

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Quilting Between the Rails

High Road Quilter

 

Tuesday August 20

Patchouli Moon Studio

Karrins Crazy World

Quilting Gail

Quilted Delights

 

Wednesday August 21

A Quiltery

Quilted Snail

Selina Quilts

Hazel’s Daughter

 

Thursday August 22

Just Let Me Quilt

Scrapdash

BeaQuilter

That Fabric Feeling

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Slow Sunday Stitching

 It was a busy week last week, including 2 days of sewing with my youngest granddaughter Klara.  

The corduroy was a little difficult for her to sew on, plus my old Touch and Sew machine was having issues, so the first day was frustrating.  She got about 3/4 of this one done, and I finished it up.

The second day, I had her sew on my old Bernina and things went much smoother and she finished about 80% of this one.

The first day granddaughter Kyleigh, fiance Drew and Maple stopped by to visit before I took Klara home.  

This week was our 5th Wednesday workday for community service at our guild.  I was able to make a second quilt for the Christmas Quilts for Recovery group for burn victims in our local hospitals.   Back in 2001 there was a line of fabric called Bonne Stratton Quilts for a Cure.  I bought the whole line of blue and yellow fabrics.  I was also in a swap at the time where different people made different blocks.  I still had 12 basket orphan blocks, and I put together this quilt for the comfort group.   The lady that started this organization came to 5th Wednesday and she recently joined our guild.  I was able to give her this one, and the potato chip quilt from last week.  

We are still in the 100 degree weather, and it makes it hard to do anything outside, though I am going to need to mow my grass in the next couple of days.

What I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching is hopefully finishing off the Honey Bee piece.  I have been watching lots of Olympic Events, and enjoying them a lot.  

I also need to work on my Woven Wreaths for August.  I will be linking up at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.

Thanks for stopping by!