FALL BREEZE KINDA WAS A BREEZE

This was a quilt my friend Kathy Guenther made 

and I fell in love with it.

Yes, I'll make it too.  

I've always wanted a vibrant fall quilt.

I love the fall colors, and I love GRUNGE fabrics.

Seemed like perfect choice for...

FALL BREEZE

I drug my feet on making this one.

I was leery of all the HST.

It took a while to cut, bag and label all the

pieces and then it SAT for about a year.

I like to use a KEY card to label my fabrics

and make sure my colors will fit nicely into

the layout of the pattern colors

Just change color names as needed.

And here I sewed the stems my way, I didn't like

the way the pattern directions said to make them?

The pattern needed 12 large maple leaves.

I made them with my 5 vibrant GRUNGE color choices

on the light gray background.

There are 28 small leaves.

Gotta say...this pile of leaves is

looking very good!

I selected a light gray for the background.

All blocks made and

the top was laid out on the design wall.

and sewn!

Ta-DAH!

    Such a pretty finished top.

So off to Kim Hensley for the Longarm Quilting.

We selected an E2E design Bubble Glitter

showed up beautifully on the backing

and all the neutral space on the top.

Binding was same background fabric.

I wanted the leaves to float.

Cause when leaves fall in the breeze...

They float.

I am thrilled with this beauty!

And the hubby here with his obligatory photo

seems to like it too!

I don't know why I was so worried...it kinda was a breeze!

UPCYCLING MY WAY THRU 2025

I’ve had a bit of fun upcycling/recycling clothes this year.

Most from thrift shops but a few from my closet.

Like this recycled T-shirt and flannel from my closet.

This recycle has two thrifted items. 

A Shenanigans Coordinator sweatshirt

that was waaaay to small for  me, but I had to have it!

I am a Shenanigan's coordinator for many adventures 

The gray sweatshirt was revamped and I added

 Ghastlies travel fabrics for the win!

Another thrifted sweatshirt, cut off  bottom edge, sleeve and neck line ribbing 

and added a WONKY Churn Dash block I made to the front.

And added coordinating fabric cuffs

Whenever I find Denim Jackets in thrift shops, I snatch them up.

They might be too big but I take in the side seams to fit me.

Here I fused some fabric over a pocket.

And check this out. 

I thrifted a WICKED ‘Defying Gravity  T-shirt that was to small.

This was one those theatre merch tshirts! 

I usher in the theaters and KNOW how much these cost. 

So it may be my best thrift ever! 

I cut out and fused the tshirt message to the back, 

Pink Flowers for the pop of color. 

I had a FQ of some OOP Alexander Henry Halloween fabric. 

The front of this denim shirt had some denim roses, that I didn’t like.

I removed them and there were some tiny holes left behind.

So I fused some of those owls over them and it turned out great. 

THEN I fused some owls and pumpkins to the back 

of  a short sleeves denim shirt.

Alas Ghastlies are always whispering

‘Make something outta me’

A thrifted black sweatshirt revamped.

Revamped means I cut off the bottom ribbing, the neckline ribbing

And sometimes the sleeve ribbing.

Then Ghastlies were fused into a collage on the front and 

it’s such a fun recycle 

Another denim shirt.  Took the pocket off one side.

Covered with a rectangle and I cut this dragonfly and flower

Out of another shirt to appliqie it…somewhere and

It is perfect right here. 

Yet another denim jacket 

With a huge fabric flower fused to the  back. 

I’ve got more recycling planned in 2026!

Stay tuned. 

CHURNING OUT SOME WONKY!

I have a trunk show available for groups, guilds called

"Let's Get WONKY"

The idea is to take a traditional quilt block

and make it wonky.

That's the idea here and I used

Missouri Star, Freestyle Churn dash tutorial

I had a Layer Cake and needed to give 

this a try.

I love the result!

The backing uses same concept, my design, on a larger scale.

I gave it to Kim Hensley of

Happily Every Quilting.

We decided on the E2E Design WHITESPACE!

It's just perfect for this one.

Take a closer peek at it.

Here's the back and the thread color 

was also perfect.

I made a scrappy binding using the

two prints/colors on the quilt back.

Don't forget to label your quilts!

My fav part of making a quilt is hand stitching down the binding.

It's taken me years to get the pretty mitre corners.

The wonky churn dash looks dashing on my sofa.

The "Gordon Seeds" pillow matches perfectly!

And the biggest POSER is at it again!

BEACHY CARDS

These cards were made at the beach

while I was on vacation in October.

I didn't have room to take a sewing machine

so I decided to make all occasion cards.

I get all the pieces and parts prepared before

I go to my vacation.  Then I put them all together 

when I have down time.

 I did find a Flamingo!

And some seashells

Enjoy the variety!