Karrin's Crazy World: My Day

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Sunday, March 02, 2025

Dust Off a Quilt Book Blog Hop, My Day

The Dust off a Quilt Book Blog Hop starts today, hosted by the lovely Bea @Beaquilter.

The schedule is below. Many thanks to Bea for running this hop again, I always enjoy it.

For my project, I looked through my quilt books. I was also looking at patterns in mind to have a dual purpose, for our Red and White Quilt Show in May. I took one of my primitive Red Wagon books Fall Into Winter.

The quilt I decided to make was called Vic's Red Thistle. I knew I didn't have time to hand applique all four blocks before this blog hop/or the quilt show, so I made one block. I decided to put on Bonnie Hunter's braided border the instructions for which are in her her free patterns site.

I wasn't able to quilt it due to guild activities, but this is the top.

Be sure and visit the other bloggers and see what they have come up with.

March 3

March 4

March 5

March 6

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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

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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

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Monday, March 20, 2023

Little Green Apples Sew It-Show It Challenge, My Day

This is the second day of the Little Green Apples Sew It-Show It Challenge, hosted by the amazing Carol @Just Let Me Quilt. Many thanks to Carol for letting me join. The challenge this time was to sew something with green, or apples, or a combination of both. The complete schedule is below.

When this blog hop came up, I immediately had just the project. Somewhere in the late 1990's, I was still a relatively new quilter, and I took a class at the local quilt shop. It was an apple core quilt class. I made about 5 rows of apple cores, but I had not sewn them together. In fact, the rows had taped numbers on them, to tell me where they went. I cut out all the apple cores, but put everything in a plastic bag where it has languished in various closets ever since. I pulled out everything and laid them out on the floor first.

I started out sewing the rows together by hand, as I wasn't sure how I I could get the pieces to meet accurately. Each piece needed 5 pins in them to sew the curves. After sewing about 6 rows together by hand, I decided it was taking too long and started sewing rows together by machine. I finished the top, which is a lap quilt sized. I found out recently that my son-in-law Jeff had pulled out one of my grandson's baby quilts to wrap up in while watching TV. It has been really cold around here lately this winter. So this will be Jeff's BD present.

It doesn't look like I made much of a dent in the apple core pieces. I have probably enough to make several table runners. Before picture

After picture.

When I do get around to quilting this, which will probably be next month, this will be the back. This was also in the baggie of rows I had already completed and the cut out apple cores.

Be sure and visit the other bloggers and see what they have come up with.

Again, many thanks again to Carol @Just Let Me Quilt. I finally got this UFO out of my closet!

MARCH 20

Just Let Me Quilt

Quilt Schmilt

Quilting Gail

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

DesertSky Quilting

Days Filled With Joy

Kathy's Kwilts and More

Sew Many Yarns

MARCH 21

Creatin’ in the Sticks

Quilted Delights

Karrin’s Crazy World

For The Love Of Geese

Vroomans Quilts

Quilted Snail

Homespun Hannah's Blog

MARCH 22

Pinker n' Punkin Quilting & Stitching

MARCH 23

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Monday, January 23, 2023

Shades of Blue Sew It-Show-It Challenge, Day 2, My Day

Welcome to Day 2 of The Shades of Blue Sew It, Show It Challenge starts hosted by the amazing Carla @Creatin In the Sticks. Thanks so much to Carla for letting me join in this fun challenge. Blue happens to be one of my favorite colors, and I knew I had to join. When the subject of this challenge first came up, I already had a project in mind. I had planned to make the daughter of a friend of our family a wedding quilt, and I had chosen Bonnie Hunter's digital pattern called Winter Blues. While I knew I wouldn't get the whole quilt top made, I thought I could get a great portion of it done. This quilt measures 81 x 95 inches.

I am making this entirely out of scraps I had in my cut-up strip containers, and scraps I had not yet cut up.

As of Saturday night I had the 120-16 patches, measuring 4.5 inches made, the 99 9-patches, I had the setting triangles and corners made, along with the sashings and cornerstones cut out. My kitchen counter looked like this: