Sew Incredibly Crazy: March 2016

Thursday, March 31, 2016

In Our Garden Blocks 5 and 6

Here we are with Month Number Three of the

I am so excited to share with you

Blocks 5 and 6 by Doris of
Quilting Queen Online

Block #5

Block #6

Doris is using bright and cheery colors from Timeless Treasures.

The fabric is POP and it is just too cute.

I bet it will work for just about any quilty project.

The patterns for Blocks 5 & 6 are available for free

until the end of the month of April.

Go and check out her blog to see how to pick them up.

She is also having a giveaway for

The Fat Quarter Shop!

I maybe received the pattern a bit in advance,

so that I could work them up with

my fabric selection:

Riley Blake Calico Days by Lori Holt and

a few other Riley Blake fabrics.

I made a few slight changes in the applique block.

I added an extra flower and

a little applique tulip to the watering can.

Here are the six blocks together.

I also created a bonus block a Bouquet of Tulips
for Thermoweb using their
HeatnBond Lite EZ Print Sheets.
You will never trace your applique patterns again.

I think it looks perfect with the
In Our Garden Blocks.
You can find the pattern Here.

We would love for you to join us
and show off your blocks.
You can do this by joining us on
our Facebook Group and/or Flickr Group.
We will be having a link party at the
end of the month to show off your handy work and
have a chance to win some beautiful fabrics.

Here's the schedule for all the blocks:

February
Amy – Sew Incredibly Crazy - You are here
You can find My first block here Block #1 and Block #2 HERE.

March
Carol – Just Let Me Quilt

April

Doris – Quilting Queen Online

May
Carla – Creatin’ in the Sticks

June
Sue – Super Mom No Cape

July
Joan – Moosestash Quilting

August
Kris – Kris Loves Fabric

September
Pat – Life in the Scrapatch

October
Vicki – More Stars in Comanche

November
Lana – It Seams to be Sew

December
Jan - Sew and Sow Farm

January
Amy – Sew Incredibly Crazy– Final Blocks and wrap up

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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

In Our Garden : Bouquet of Tulips Bonus Block

It has been quite an exciting couple of months

heading up the In Our Garden Block of the Month.

Well, I have a special gift for you

from ThermOWeb and myself.

A Bouquet of Tulips.

A perfect spring time treat for all my friends.

I think that it is a perfect addition

to our little Garden party.

Using an inkjet printer, I printed out pattern

pieces using Heat N Bond® EZ Print Lite sheets.

I truly do love those.

No more tracing!!

You can find the Bouquet of Tulips on my Craftsy pattern page,

but before you do please also stop by ThermOWeb

and check out what project I made from the block, or

maybe you can

tell them Happy National Craft Month!

They are giving away a DecoFoil prize package with an

Oliso Iron.

Another one of my favorite things!!
This giveaway ends on March 30th.

And with that I wish you a

HAPPY SPRING!!

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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

A Bouquet of Daisies FInish

Last week, we had a bit of a blizzard pass through.

The kind of blizzard that causes

the power to be out.

10 plus hours to be out.

While I would have loved to hop

on my sewing machine and add

a couple more rows to the current quilt project,

Mother Nature was not going to let me.

I guess she knew I need to finish up

my crochet WIP.

So, I picked up my Bouquet of Daisies afghan,

and went to town on it.

I was able to finish it up

and right before the electric

came back on.

Of course, I had to wait a day to take these pictures.

It doesn't look like much here, but

the drifts were quite large.

The only thing that I will miss about the snow is..

that is does make a beautiful backdrop.

The pattern for this afghan can be

found in the book Hooked on Crochet Afghans.

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Monday, March 28, 2016

A Craftsy Tote

Craftsy asked if I would like to try out one of their kits,
and I jumped at the offer.
I have bought fabric from Craftsy several times.
I just picked up this adorable set of Riley Blake Fat quarter bundle
for the block for the In Our Garden Block of the Month.

But, I have never used a sewing or a quilting kit,

last weekend I tried a little

something different.

The kit that I was sent was this beautiful Rowan tote.

I received the pattern via email within just a few minutes,

and the fabric came before the week was through.

Everything was in the kit except for the thread,

button and the fusible fleece.

I used Heat n Bond Fusible Fleece.

I have used the fusible fleece on several

other projects and I absolutely love working

with it.

The fleece has just the right loft to make your

quilting just pop. I choose to quilt 1/4" from the seams

to show off the quilting rather than the recommended

stitching in the ditch.

I figure if I am going to spend all the time

quilting the tote, I might as well be able to see the quilting.

After a few hours of cutting, sewing, and quilting,

I was left with this super

fun tote bag.

This cutie was a given to my sister.

She uses it all the time.

Makes me want to make myself one.

Which, I might just have to do.

Would I make another kit?

Yes, I found the kit easy to use

and quite enjoyable to stitch up.

I actually purchased a quilt kit from Craftsy.

It is the Rowan Kaffe Fassett Collective Lovely Lattice Quilt.
I am really looking forward to starting on this
beauty.
It is a little different than any other
quilts that I have made before.

Have you tried a Craftsy kit before?

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Thursday, March 17, 2016

Quilt Qwazy Queens Blog Hop

It's hard to believe but this is

my 4th year of quilting.

I started off really small.

It was a quilted bag, that
I entered into a competition with
Moda.
While I didn't win, it did

jump start this love of

Fabric and Thread

That makes me a Quilter. (I did make it to the top 10)
Well, my blog name does say a lot as well.

Here is just a small bit of what

I have done in four years.

Designed and hand quilted by me.

This is just one of my favorite quilts.

I also enjoyed finishing this

quilt up. It was my WIP pile

deciding on exactly how I would like to

finish up.

And this pretty quilt named "Jared's Star" created for

a young man that recently

past away from lung cancer.

It was a very emotional quilt

to finish creating.

I also decided this year to head

up a blog hop, a new adventure

that makes me a bit Quilting Crazy.

Here are the first two month blocks,

You can find out more here.

Most of what I have created,

has gone to others, so I decided to make a little

something of my own.

Here is my very recent creation.

A little luck of the Irish to add to my table.

I finished it just in time to

enjoy over the last few day.

It is completely hand quilted.

I used HeatnBond Lite for
the clovers and then was able to
blanket stitch around the clover.
You can find some other great products to use over
at Thermoweb , where I contributing blogger at.