CR process begins

CROWN ROYAL QUILT- the beginning

A few posts ago I told you I had agreed to make a wedding quilt for my youngest daughter's friend's sister. Not just any wedding quilt but one made out of the bags from Crown Royal. First I got a large trash bags full of freshly washed purple flannel bags.  this where we are at the moment.........

.a practice mock up of the blocksome parts are sewn, most are not.

add some alternating kaleidoscope blocks,  a view fron EQ

  The after a hundred emails back and forth between the friend and her sister, she has decided on a pattern

and picked out some fabrics...................

which without a flash looks more like this.............

and so I scanned her fabrics in and changed the star in center and got this

so the journey begins..........

Tonight I sat down and began deconstructing the bags.  After a couple of hours of carefully cutting them apart,  I felt like I had done a lot..................................... but after counting, 17 bags cut into all the pieces/parts.

12 of the large bags and 5 of the med size, wow only 17?????

So since there were at least two sizes I decided to get them out of the trash bag to see what was there...........bedsides the 17, she also has 4 mini bags, and after stacking in piles of 10 discovered she had 120 more of the middle size I thought she had 115, but she has 137 of usable sizes and 4 minis. 

 Although this is just part of the packaging and considered trash.  If you had to go out and buy all the whiskey to get this number of bags it would cost between $3000.00 US and 5000.00.  So after adding quilt shop fabric front and back it's going to one expensive quilt.   Back to cutting/deconstructing...........more later.

Mystery Monday HOW #5

Mystery Monday Hexagon Ornaments of the Week (HOW #5)

see below for link

skinny legged reindeer

reindeer with hexagon ornaments and a button nose

click HERE for link to google docs for a PDF of stitch patterns. and don't forget to register on my 100th post giveaway if you'd like to recevie a set of the HOW ornaments in reds or blues along with a set of Frosty Flakes blocks.  Sorry I was late, just got stuck trying to think of something to draw.  Nothing looked cute, new and fun out of the 30 something sketches I did.  I finally just picked a couple and stitched them........ have fun!! I am going to go work on the crown royal quilt for other daughters friend.  Black with purple, black and even more black!

ornies and a quilt

These are some of the things I've worked on in the past week.

I made some of the Frosty Flakes #5 from this week
 into Frosty ornaments!
They are designed by Dawn Hay of As Sweet as Cinnamon, her newest project a BOW(block of the week), she's only on week 5 plenty of time to catch up!!

and I finished the quilt below........... but I had to roust out Cami from her reading chair before I took quilt pictures......I painted the tree on the wall of my granddaughter's toy room the same day we painted the walls a different color other than construction "cream" that was 20 years old ( the former owners never painted the room just used it for storage.)

amazingly enough the tree is only one color of brown paint.  one brown.............what?  no I am not lying........... I drew on the wall with the big sidewalk chalk so I would basically know where to paint the base color.......but there was some sort of chemical reaction with the wet paint and the chalk and this is the result........Once I realized what was going on added some extra chalk on top of the wet paint figuring if it didn't look okay when dry, I could paint over it with more paint.  once it was dry looked  good enough for a toy room so I added the leaves in green.  Has not come off and that was 7-8 years ago.

the baby quilt my daughter needed for good friends of theirs.

here's the back

I have to go back to stitching now or I won't have any thing ready for tomorrow...............

first I need to go draw something and then stitch it out lol!!!!!

plus I still have to do my Daisy Do block from Jenny of Elefantz and Flowers of Love-Free BOM by Fiona from Mother's Cupboard..

until tomorrow.......or later tonight maybe............have a good one!

more patterns uploaded

I just added the individual patterns to buy to my sidebar.  These are the advent quilt patterns, all available as instant downloads except for one (not shown) which is the center part but it should be ready soon. This quilt has never been assembled because the quilt store owner took the blocks and hung them up as is. A lot of people only do pillows, etc with them. so I only have the picture of what it’s supposed to look like!!  I think it's somweere down below.  So is the picture of the tree center with the ornaments.  been a long nite, going to go sleep a couple!! 

more Crown Royal

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AND MAYBE SOLID BLACK FOR BACKGROUND

okay I showed you the bag of bags I received last week, got the fabrics to go with this past weekend.............'so a sneak peak, does anyone see a potential problem?  I do!  I'm  of to bed too tired to think about it anymore tonight, clock is stiking midnight and with too many late nights already this week am needing some shut eye, lol!!   

after scanning fabrics in EQ this is what happened

 or

couldn't remember which star she chose.    back tomorrow!

FIONA's BOM

I don't know about you but I only do a few big projects now and then.  But what I really like to do is small projects. things that I can get done quickly, or work on in bits and pieces of stolen time, lunch hours, waiting for people, and at meetings etc.  Things that I can FINISH, with out getting bored.

 So look at what popped into my reader box late last night............

Another free fun small project from Fiona at Mother's Cupboard!!!!!

Only 40" square, 10 month BOM, and cute on top of all that. 

For you american readers,  the only downfall is measurements.  It is in cm instead of inches,  get over it they have to adjust to our measurements too!!

Dig out your scraps, buy 1.25 yd for the back and you'll be fine

hop over there and check out all the other wonderful things she has on her blog too!

GO! RYAN GO!

HAPPY SEWING MONTH!!!!

Ryan Walsh over at I'm just a Guy Who Quilts is hosting the MOST FANTASTIC week long GO! event, He's got some great tutorials, and gathered great prizes.  The Grand Prize is an AccuQuilt GO! cutter and 3 dies of your choice donated by wonderful AccuQuilt people from the little town of Fremont, NE.  (Born Lincoln and being a native Husker,but living in MO, I am so proud of the wonderful things going on in Fremont., You're on the cutting edge!! :)  

So if you need a GO! cutter and who doesn't????? Hop over to Ryans for a chance at this or at the many other prizes he will be reveaaling later this week.

here's a peek at some die sets they have!.

more GO! FUN over at Ryan's!!

more instant downloads for sale

I just got some patterns uploaded for those that want to buy them as instant downloads.  I had a few requests that were not honored at the retail shoppes. These include the redwork sunflower pillow, the redwork angel pillow, the redwork santa pillow and all of the individual snowball blocks for those who don't want all 16.  Check the side bar or bottom if you were wanting these patterns and the quilt shoppes would not want to mail them to you!!!  If you have any trouble with them please email me and I'll get it fixed.

 

 

Mystery Monday HOW #4

Wow what a week last week at least 4 GO giveaways, nah, I didn't win.  But there are some lucky people out there who did.   Sweet Paulette can hardly drag herself away from the one she got!!!   And there's more chances this week..............keep on the lookout.  Word is that Ryan Walsh from I'm just a guy who quilts is going to have one to give away......................He said he had some exciting new to share on Monday!
After you've visted here GO! to Ryan's and chack it out.

I've been working on the baby quilt and Mystery Monday Hexagon Ornaments of the Week.
Notice on sidebar I made a blog button to grab for my blog.   Here are the ornaments for this week!

Hexie 4 A

Hexie 4B

Here are all of the "HOW's " so far........... If you want to learn how to make the custom twisted cord ornament hangers go back a couple of posts to twisted cord tutorial. CLICK

 At the end of the Frosty Flakes BOW, eventually will have your choice of blue OR red ornaments along with a set Dawn Hay's blue OR red Frosty Flakes Blocks (blocks only on these not whole quilt)  if you've entered my giveaway contest to win them............WHAT? you're not entered.................go read my

100th post and then enter there. 

BUT YOU HAVE TO GO HERE TO GET THE PDF TO DOWNLOAD IF YOU WANT THE ORNAMENT PATTERN.

CLICK ON WORDS UNDER THE PICTURE TO TAKE YOU TO GOOGLE DOCS

where you can download patterns for

 Hexie 4 a & b  HOW#4 enjoy!!!!!!

And don't forget about the GO! giveaway at Ryan's

blog buttons

The monday mystery button was my third try at trying to create my blog button for people to grab and added it to my sidebar, will it work? We'll find out!

Third time I took this photo above and added the words.  That was the hard part getting them easy enough see picture and be able to read words.

It was kind of hard. Editing the "grab the button html "code I found from various generous bloggers who posted about how to add a button was actually the easiest part. Creating the button and getting the words and picture on the button big enough to see and yet have the button small was kind of tricky. Oh well, we'll see how it goes.................. if you want it and it doesn't work right, let me know. Have a good one, I "have"(lol) to go stitch.

new note, We've been practicing making blog buttons for Cyndi N ..........right at moment, it's only a link back to her page. by tomorrow a new blog button for her., hopefully!?

she's chose this but we, (I) had issues with a
black background showing up,
see below 

 so we tried to modify it to this.....

Only in a hurry to get it back to her, I forgot to add white to the fill of the outside frame and it was set to "no fill so 
 we got this...................

She's going to use it for now, Sorry Cyndi,  we can try again whenever you want.  At least you and I both learned some new computer skills!!