Just Let Me Quilt: Seuss

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Friday, April 26, 2019

Be A Diamond Blog Hop Day Five

It's day five of the Be A Diamond blog hop and it's been an incredible week of diamonds.

I've loved it and I'm sure you have, too!

My diamond project is made from one of my favorite fabrics, Dr. Seuss.

My sweet friend, Kris, from Kris Loves Fabric, sent me a big bundle of Seuss

fabrics because she knew it was my thing. They came in handy for this quilt.

I used a 60 degree ruler for the triangles and can't wait to use it again sometime.
My quilt retreat friends jumped on using it and my Seuss fabrics, too.

The fabric I used on the borders and back had most of the Seuss characters on it.

Gotta love the Lorax fabrics, too!

The rules for the Be A Diamond blog hop were:

Make a project with a diamond block on it.
It can be a mug rug, pot holder, mini quilt, baby quilt, bag, etc.

So many diamonds happening on these blogs!

Today - April 26

Creatin' in the Sticks

Cynthia's Creating Ark

Days Filled With Joy

For The Love Of Geese

Quilt Fabrication

Stitchin At Home

Just Let Me Quilt

You can find all the projects on the Be A Diamond Pinterest page HERE.

Sunday, September 9, 2012

My Dots On Dots Day and Giveaway

It's time for another fun blog hop to inspire, motivate, and encourage us all.

Let the DOTS begin!

I loved those chevron fabrics by Riley Blake the moment I saw them and then....

...Whoohoo.....I won a fat quarter pack of them!

They paired up perfectly with some dots for this paper-pieced block.

Which I made into a pillow and added a button.

I had all the other colors of chevrons left over, so I used

them to make blocks of stripes and polka dots,

and paper pieced flower blocks,

plus a pretty dress,

and put them all together to make a little girl's quilt.

It just needs some finishing and then it will be ready

for some sweet girl to wrap up in.

I loved appliqueing and sewing that little dress so much, I made another one,

added an "E" for Ellie (a really cute little girl I know)

and created a doll blanket (using the last of my chevrons for the back.

Fuzzy dots count, right? I'm sure they do, but if not, don't tell the dot police that I'm using them in this hop.
Shhhhh....it's our secret.

These paper pieced blocks of fuzzy dots (Truffula Trees) surround none other than.....

The Lorax!

I found this paper piecing pattern at Fandom In Stitches

and added a little minky fabric for the moustache/beard.

They all went together to make this quilt.

And last, but not least,

I made this dotted block to go with a set of bowls.

Yes, another stack of bowls.

These are a second set I received from Madame Samm

(click here to see her story on why she sent me two sets of bowls.)

The finished wall hanging will look great hanging in my sewing room.

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Think Christmas--My Turn! And Winner Update

It's the first day of Think Christmas AND it is my day to share my blocks--so glad you dropped by to visit! With temperatures around here reaching 110 degrees and up, it was a little hard to think snowmen and Christmas trees but it was great weather to make me want to stay inside and sew!

A special thanks to Lesley at The Cuddle Quilter for all her hard working putting this together

and to Madame Samm for making it all happen!

Paper piecing going on here!
-Two snowmen and a Christmas tree-

Those three 12 1/2" blocks turned into this runner:

Just a little something about me: I used to have an iguana who I rescued when she was about a foot long. She ended up around four feet long and her name was "Wanda", though I eventually found out she was a he. Ooops!

This was Wanda aka Juan

Lizards/iguanas (not real ones anymore) perch in various places in my house and in my yard, including this guy. He's watching over my little tree and as you can see, it is a paper pieced 6 /12" block.

I made one of these little gift blocks. No more.

All those trees kind of took over.

Yes, ALL those trees. I couldn't stop myself (which seems to be a common theme in

these blog hops) and ended up making around 30 cute little Dr. Seuss fabric trees.

This was one of my sneaky peeky pics--love that guy, obviously, since

I have quite a few Seussy kind of quilts in my house.

All those little trees became this Grinch Christmas Quilt

I had some Moda turnovers (see giveaway below to win a couple packs)

just shouting at me to become pinwheels, so these little blocks....

...turned into these two huge pinwheels (or spinning stars)

and hopefully, will turn into at least six more blocks....

.....eventually.

Could I stop there? No, of course not!

Though I could never keep up with Madame Samm (who could?),

I just had to make these little paper pieced

blocks from Regina Grewe's Christmas collection.

They were so fun to make! Definitely more to come...

Oh, yeah, there's a giveaway, of course!

Two Moda Turnovers, "The Caroler", to ONE lucky winner!

The giveaway is now closed.

The winner is

Tubakk

"I really love your Christmas tree quilt. And I'd like to win the fabric, always longing for more fabric. I'm your follower by e-mail."

An email has been sent letting her know she won.

Congratulations!

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Seuss...Again

I finished sewing my Seuss thing for Think Christmas, but I just couldn't put the remaining fabric back in the closet. There had to be something I could sew. Hmmmm....a baby shower is coming soon, for a little girl, so...since Seuss was just staring at me, begging for just one more moment at my sewing machine, I gave in. A little green ruffle helped make it a little more girlie.

The front

A little girl

The back

Okay, now I'm ready for this with Lesley,

this with ME,

and this with Corrie.

Fun times are coming!

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Just A Little Chaos, But There Was Fun Too

I've been pretty busy the last few days with the Bowls With Borders Blog Hop, but I did take some time out to run pick-up a couple quilts that were finished (thanks Quilted Works!) Once things quiet down, I'll be adding some binding and then deciding who's going to get them. There's a new grandbaby on the way, so guess which one will go to him/her?

The minky is so soft and I love the swirly quilting!