Sunny Bunny X Crochet Stuffed Animal 24″ Tall Featured in March/April 2009 Creative Home Arts Club Magazine Designed by Deb Richey First off I think Bunny X is larger than 24″ - more like 26-28″. The direction in the magazine for the legs are not entirely correct as an Email correspondence  proved. Supplies: * 6 skeins of yarn (I used multi-colored instead of multiple colors, that way no need to change during crocheting. *Size G-6 crochet hook *A stitch marker - since you ar... Read Full Story

Quilt Finishing Services & Costs A small survey While digging around on the internet the other day i came across a “Quilting Services” site, and being curious I went to it to see what was offered. It turned out the shop was local, to me. I decided to see what other offerings there were on the web. When I “Googled” I found 10,000 plus listings, so like other Quilting sites there are endless choices! I decided to do a very small comparative sampling to see what servi... Read Full Story

Summer Card Crafting Simple Homemade Summer Cards Materials: Card Stock, Paper Stash, Item Stash, Computer Card Program I have made cards for the grandkids. Calling them “Summer Cards” at this point in time is wishful thinking! Yesterday and today 50’s and rain! The first of June is only 3 days away! The front cover is a collage, Found a different “summer” image for the base of each card, then added other summery elements; cutouts, transfers, and silk flowers. Ea... Read Full Story

A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum Original Design All in pieces Right now we are sort of between Quilting an Crafting projects. My Quilt is being hand quilted, slowly. Carol’s new Quilt has all 210 squares appliqued, and six rows have been sewn together. The Quilt is 11 squares across each row and 20 rows long.           All of the birthday cards are made for the present. Some summer cards for the grandkids are in the planning and collection stages. So I figured I would rev... Read Full Story

The Yearbook Original Design A Multi-media collage homage to the year. Each page including the cover has a paper doll and a wizard. I started each page with a piece of card stock. Onto this I glued a seasonal appropriate picture from old calendar. Since they weren’t as big as the card stock I framed them with paper. I then randomly glued on tissue paper, again seasonally themed. After the base work I added; collage pictures, words, postage stamps, tissue paper etc.. The paper dolls were... Read Full Story

My Second Quilt Hollow Cube & Fly Foot Wall Hanging Machine Pieced-Hand Quilted While I wait to finish our film roll-witch has a picture of my Seascape Wall Hanging in its finished state, I’ll move onto my next project. For this one I wanted to do something a little bigger and a bit more entailed than the first one. I settled on four 8″ blocks. They are the same pattern, with variations in opposite sides. One block is the Hollow Cube which I got from Penny Halgren”s Quil... Read Full Story

Seascape Part 3 Wall Hanging After sewing the top together I made my sandwich of Top/Batting/Backing and pinned it in place. I then hand quilted in each segment. With the sky and water I quilted using the color swirls as my guide. With the rocks and light house I quilted around rocks, shoreline, lighthouse. I made a footprint pattern that I used for a pattern in the two small “sandy” areas. Lastly I used the homemade pattern on the two L shapes (pinned in place in second picture).... Read Full Story

Seascape Wall Hanging Phase 2 Working with the right then left halves of the top I machined each half together. The only tricky part was the “set in” when it came to putting the two halves together. I sewed 1 & 2 together then added 3 to them. Next was 4 to the end of 1 & 3. Last was 5 to the end of 2 & 3. I repeated the the same steps for the left half. Lastly I combined to two halves, with the set-in in the middle to complete the quilt top. I then added the border. T... Read Full Story

Seascape Wall Hanging Original Design Machine Pieced, Hand Quilted This is my first Quilting project. I decided after setting up our web site and blog about quilting that i had better try a quilt myself. I played with several ideas fora pattern and then decided on a mostly original design. Then with my wife’s help we went threw the scrap boxes and found a seascape theme that i really liked. This is to be my “instructional” series on my first attempt. Hopefully it works out o... Read Full Story

New Baby to be Quilt Pattern: Priscilla Bianchi Quiltmaker Sept/Oct 2005 My adaptation is borderless. I am also using black/white prints in the block corners. She used solid blacks or whites in every other block. My design wall was used on the floor to arrange & rearrange the blocks. Take no notice of the missing block block in the corner. Finnally desided on a Nemo or fish block. The quilt is now in the pinned all three layers together stage and some squares are quilted. Some of the squa... Read Full Story