Karrin's Crazy World: Cricut

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Monster Mash Blog Hop, My Day

The Monster Mash Blog Hop, Sew-It Show-It Challenge, hosted by the fabulous Joan @Moosestash Quilting started Monday and there have been some fabulous projects shown.

The challenge this time is in Joan's words was to "Sew something scary, not scary or something in between. If it's Halloween related, you know we will love it".

Many thanks to Joan for another amazing Sew-It, Show-It Challenge.

For this blog hop, I finished several things. I bought a pre-fused kit from Kit and Caboodle of a witch. I started working on it, and then realized I had made this witch before, as you will notice in my header!

I was browsing through Cricut Design space and noticed some really cute designs, and I liked this one "You Say Witch Like Its A Bad Thing".

I also found this

Then I got a little carried away with T-shirts. Cricut Design Space had all of these designs. Michaels had T-shirts on sale for $2.99 each so I cut out some more designs. I have enough Halloween T-shirts for about 5 days.

These are some pillows I have made in the past.

The past couple of weeks I have been coming across some Halloween treat recipes:

https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/chocolate-peanut-butter-bark/

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/halloween-buckeyes-16934586

https://www.crazyforcrust.com/halloween-toffee-bark/

https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/peanut-butter-spider-cookies/

https://www.crazyforcrust.com/halloween-sugar-cookies/

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/photos/halloween-recipes

Be sure and visit the other bloggers below.

Monday October 23

Tuesday October 24

Scrapdash

Words & Stitches

Homespun Hannah's Blog

Domestic Felicity

Wednesday October 25

Karrin’s Crazy World

Just Because Quilts

Quilt Doodle Designs

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

MS P Designs USA

Thursday October 26

Just Let Me Quilt

Thanks for stopping by!

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Say What? Sew It-Show It Challenge, My Day

This is the last day of the Say What? Sew It-Show it Challenge hosted by the fabulous Joan @MooseStash Quilting. She is one of the ladies that come up with the greatest challenges! Many thanks to Joan for letting me join. There have been some amazing projects the past few days. The entire schedule is posted at the end if you haven't had a chance to view previous days.

Joan's challenge this time, in her words:

"You can share a story, or show us a project or technique that you can't believe you tried. Or how about a quilty word project. There are so many different ways you can interpret this hop."

I love putting words that have a message in my quilting projects. This is a project I did several years ago. I cut out the letters on my Cricut and used iron-on vinyl on the back. The front said "Crazy For You"

I had numerous projects I wanted to do for this Say What? Sew It-Show-It Challenge. I had intended to use my embroidery machine and stitch out numerous projects. I had just picked up my machine the week before from the spa and was looking forward to using it again. My first project was going to be embroidering 4 of these sentiments. It is coming up on 2 years since my husband passed away and I intended to make one for both my daughters, myself, and granddaughter.

Well I got two stitched out and my machine decided to go kaput. None of the buttons responded. I took it back to the shop and they couldn't get any button to work either. So my multiple projects did not happen.

Like Joan, I am always collecting sayings off the internet, things I intend to do something with some day. I love the beach, and I always collect things that related to the beach.

I intend to make a little wall hanging for my daughter and include this picture of the last time we went to Half Moon Bay last July. I cut the letters out on my Cricut and used iron-on vinyl. This isn't finished yet.

These are some other ideas I have collected, usually on Facebook.

Be sure and check out the other talented bloggers below. And thanks again to Joan for another fantastic challenge!

Monday, April 17

MooseStashQuilting

Selina Quilts

Quilt Schmilt

Patchouli Moon Studio

That Fabric Feeling

Scrapdash

Tuesday April 18

Inflorescence

Creatin' in the Sticks

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Wednesday April 19

Kathy's Kwilts and More

Thursday April 20

Just Let Me Quilt

Karrins Crazy World

crazy'boutquilts

Pinker n' Punkin Quilting

Songbird Designs

Days Filled With Joy

Thanks for stopping by!

Sunday, October 09, 2022

Slow Sunday Stitching, Long post

It's been a couple of weeks since I posted. Two weeks ago, my daughter and I worked at a plant sale for several hours both Saturday and Sunday representing the Begonia Society. I was finally able get rid of the begonias I was babysitting. This is JJ another member of the Begonia Society. It is fun to work with her, she has a quick sense of humor.

The only trouble with working at the plant sale, with all sorts of plants is that I might have gotten in a little trouble Right across the aisle from us was a booth selling staghorn ferns, bromeliads and bonsai plants. I was tempted by this staghorn fern.

I also got these Gesneriaceae, of the African violet family I think. They were at the table with African violets.

I also got this bromeliad and another mini begonia that was sold at another table.

I also got a few outdoor plants, a 2 new geraniums and a butterbur plant.

My shelf in the kitchen is getting a little full.

Last Sunday was grandson Keaton's BD. He just turned 16, and got his driver's permit.

This was a picture at one of the two proms he went to recently with his girlfriend Addie. They go to different high schools, so attended both proms.

I've been working on a number of projects recently. I made this wallhanging for my stepdaughter Dawn's BD. I took a coloring page and fused a bunch of batiks and cut out the felt letters with my Cricut machine.

I've prepped 4 blocks for the Woolie Gnome Stitch Along from Calico Patch Designs on Facebook. I just need to start hand stitching the pieces down.

This is what I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching. I'll be linking up with Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts. Head on over and see what everyone is up to.

In case you haven't heard already, Carole @ My Carolina Home is having her annual Autumn Jubilee, with multiple projects, multiple sponsors. I always look forward to this every year. I found out Saturday morning that I was a winner of a $50 gift certificate from One Of The Flock, who have a great Etsy shop with wools, felts and all sorts of great kits.

The other thing I have been up to is working on an extensive yard project with a landscaping guy. With the ongoing drought in California, I am having my two lawn areas in my front taken out and replaced by bark. I also need two 40+ year old birch trees that are half dead taken out. This the side yard. The plan is to take the grass out, plant a couple of trees with drip irrigation going to them.

The plan is also to take out the grass in front of the garage, take out the cinder blocks I was using as a garden, and make a larger garden area encompassed by moss rocks. I spent several hours digging up plants and putting them in pots temporarily. The plants in containers will be moved closer to the November 1st when my project will be started.

There are also plans to take out some juniper tams in this front section. I have a circular driveway and there is a garden area in front of the driveway and in front of the sidewalk. The junipers have been there probably for 40+ years and I am tired of them. I plan to redo this garden area, but I am waiting to see how much the other things I want done first. The landscaper is coming on Monday or Tuesday to give me the estimates.

I also am redoing this garden in front of the house. I have 2 camellias that are not doing that well, and the garden area is covered by plastic covered with bark. The ground underneath is 44+ year old packed soil I cannot dig in. So the camellias are being taken out, the soil broken up and made into something I can plant in. I always have to plant everything in a pot and it is annoying. I have hardpan. They are also putting in drip irrigation in all gardens and in the front section so the cedar gets watered better.

I also made a couple of yummy meals. I love pimento cheese, I grew up with it, but haven't really made it in years. John didn't care for pimentos. He had a bad experience in the Navy where they put pimentos in lime Jello. He loved Jello, and felt the pimentos ruined it. Anyway the pimentos jumped out at me at the grocery store the other day, so I made some.

I also made some Pozole. Traditional Mexican pozole is a rich, brothy soup made with pork, hominy and red chiles. I also added some chicken I had leftover from a rotisserie chicken. It is like a soup, with salad on top. I added cabbage, avocado, jalapeno, radishes, cilantro, and tortilla chips. It was yummy and I also froze some.

This week our singing group will visit a nursing home. We are booked for October and November. Granddaughter Klara has a performance this week which I will attend. My BD is Wednesday and on Thursday my girls, grandaughter, her boyfriend, and his mother and grandmother are going to do this painting thing tentatively. You paint your own item, whatever you pick.

Sorry this turned into a book, but a lot has been going on.

Thanks for stopping by!

Monday, September 19, 2022

Queen of Gadgets Blog Hop, My Day

Today is my day on the Queen of Gadgets Blog Hop, hosted by the amazing Carol @Just Let Me Quilt. The challenge this time is to show the gadgets we use making our projects. To me, the definition of a gadget is something that makes a task easier. The blog hop line-up is below.

When I was thinking of something to make for this blog hop that would use a lot of gadgets, I was also thinking I wanted to make a small quilt for our annual Sacramento Branch of the American Begonia Society Show and Sale.

I went online and searched for begonia images. I finally settled on 4 begonia coloring pages which I used to trace the pieces to applique.

I used my lightbox to trace my begonia applique pieces onto Heat and Bond Lite.

These are the four appliqued blocks. I didn't get pictures of the blocks before I quilted them.

I also went online and downloaded a begonia design to embroider. I used my embroidery machine and embroidered the center square.

The name of our show this year was "The Magic of Begonias". So I opened my Cricut Design Space on my laptop and found some letters that suited my project.

I used my Cricut to cut out the lettering in iron-on Vinyl, and used the Cricut Press to iron them on my project.

Next I used my Accuquilt to cut out some Sawtooth Star blocks.

I used my old trusty machine to sew these blocks together, along with quilting the project.

This is the finished project.

This was it hanging at the Begonia Show.

At the next Begonia Meeting tonight, I plan to give this quilt to this lady Joan, who founded our branch of the Begonia Society.

So that is my project. Be sure and check out the other bloggers below and see what gadgets they use. Thanks again to Carol for another great blog hop!

September 19

Creatin' in the Sticks

Annie’s Musings

Days Filled With Joy

Quilting Gail

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Scrapdash

September 20

MooseStashQuilting

For The Love Of Geese

Food for Thought

Karrin’s Crazy World