Showing posts with label My Favorite Quilt Block Blog Hop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label My Favorite Quilt Block Blog Hop. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

And the Winner Is... For My Favorite Quilt Block Blog Hop



Last week, during the My Favorite Quilt Block Blog Hop, hosted by the fabulous Carla of Creatin in the Sticks, I showed a small basket quilt I was giving away, and today was the name I randomly generated a number of the commenter.  

This was my post on my day of the blog hop.  This is what I am giving away:



I used a random number generator to chose a number.   


True Random Number Generator  29

And the winner is:


Leah said...
Love all these baskets! Thanks for the inspiration.



I will be contacting Leah to notify her.  

Thanks for stopping by!



Wednesday, September 11, 2019

My Favorite Quilt Block Blog Hop, My Day & Giveaway






When Carla of Creatin in the Sticks asked bloggers if they would like to participate in the My Favorite Quilt Blog Blog Hop, I jumped at the chance.  Welcome to my day to share my favorite block.  

My favorite block is a basket block.  Doesn't matter what kind.   I love baskets, am a basket collector, and love basket quilts.  

I have baskets hanging from the ceiling, on shelves, and baskets holding fabric for certain projects.  I also  have a basket on the couch at night beside me with my current hand stitching project.









I was in several blog hops earlier this year in which I finished up UFO's which had basket quilts as the theme.  There was the All about Strings Blog Hop also hosted by Carla of Creatin in the Sticks.  I had some old, old swap blocks of baskets that I made string triangles to set them upright.  These were pink and brown Civil War Reproduction fabrics.






Also earlier this year, I was in the Quilt Qwazy Queens Blog Hop by Marian, of Seams to be Sew  and finished up another basket UFO, this time, a crazy quilt project in which participants had embellished the wool basket blocks I put together.




So for the My Favorite Quilt Block Blog Hop I needed to figure out which basket block I wanted to make. I got out some of my basket books and looked through them- but couldn't make up my mind.  




I even got out a project I have not started yet, and even have all the wool to make this basket quilt.  Luckily the squirrel did not convince me I had time to do this project!


Finally I looked online and found these 30 Free Basket Patterns in a post by Quilt Inspiration.  I decided on this one, Baby Basket, by Anita Shackelford for American Quilter with the free PDF download here.

I went ahead and made up this pattern with my Civil War Reproductions.  This measures 14 x 14 and I am offering it as a giveaway.  You just need to leave a comment to be in the drawing.  If you are a no-reply blogger, make sure you leave an email so I can contact you.   I will do the drawing on 9/18/19.  





I actually made two other basket block table toppers, sort of improv thing.  I basically took a bunch of my 2.5 inch squares and sewed them together, making 4 patches first and then sewing those together.  They amounted to 25 4-patches of low volume prints.  I then got some scrap paper and cut out a basket, crow, sunflower and leaves machine appliquing these down.  I made two of these as table toppers for when Bunco is at my house.





Thanks so much for stopping by.   The rest of the participants for today are as follows:


Wednesday, September 11th

The whole schedule for the My Favorite Quilt Block Blog Hop is below if you haven't had a chance to visit the first two days.

Many thanks to Carla @ Creatin in the Sticks on putting this together


Monday, September 9th


Tuesday, September 10th


Wednesday, September 11th


Thursday, September 12th



Friday, September 13th

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Moment of Panic, My Favorite Quilt Block Blog Hop Continues

I had a moment of panic this morning.  Yesterday I had written my post for the My Favorite Quilt Block Blog Hop, which continues through September 13th.  

I went to check my scheduled post for late tonight and across all of my blog posts is this:


A long time ago, maybe in 2008 or so, I had a graphic design person designed a special header for my blog.  It incorporated one of my crazy quilt pieces that is framed and she designed a theme I love.  I had no idea how she did it, she just designed it and put it on my blog.  Apparently she must have used the above tinypic site, because they are closing up shop and my image disappeared overnight, and all my posts had the above image.

I have tried to salvage the situation this morning, and am not really happy with it, but at least I have that above image off.  




Meanwhile the My Favorite Quilt Block Blog Hop continues.

This is today's list of bloggers.  There are some great projects shown and have given me some inspiration of new things to try.  My day will be tomorrow, Wednesday, September 11th.

Saturday, August 03, 2019

My Favorite Quilt Block Blog Hop, Witchy Stitchy Blog Hop


There are a couple of blog hops I am going to be involved in the next several months.  The first up is My Favorite Quilt Block Blog Hop September 9-13th hosted by Carla of Creatin In the Sticks.  




My Favorite Quilt Block Blog Hop


Next up is the Witchy Stitchy Blog Hop October 7th to 11th hosted by Carol of Just Let Me Quilt.   My day on this one is the 11th.  







Wednesday, July 10, 2019

My Favorite Quilt Block Blog Hop



Carla at Creatin in the Sticks has a new blog hop coming up, if you care to join.  The info about it is below. She gave me permission to use her announcement to spread the word.  I have joined up, anybody else interested?   Contact Carla with the info below.  




There are about 2 months to sew something and join in on the fun.  
It's another easy theme that should have you thinking of lots of things you could make.

Your favorite quilt block should be your inspiration.
Show it, explain why you love it, and make it a project.
What kind of project?
Anything you like.  
Make a tutorial for the block (or not), make a quilt (or not), make a pot holder, make a mug rug, just make us smile to see your favorite quilt block.

Interpret it any way you like.


The blog hop rules:  
sorry, there has to be a little organization...

Sew something that includes "your favorite quilt block".

It's up to you!  Inspire us.

Post your project on your assigned day.

Have a giveaway or don't have a giveaway. It's totally optional!

Visit everyone's blog on the list and leave a sweet comment.

Are you in?


Send me an email with the following information:
Your first name
Your email address
Your blog name
Your blog URL