CAN I GET A "Whoop, Whoop"

My Wonky Crosses kwilt 

featuring COMMA by Zen Chic 

from my post here 

has been selected as a "favorite" today 

by Sarah over at Confessions of a Fabric Addict blog.  

I am sew excited!    

Hop on over to see the others at today's "Can I Get a Whoop Whoop Friday Linky Party!

Click this button!

I am also linking this up with Sew Many Ways...
check out the fun projects over there too!

GHASTLIES WIP!

I am a hoarder of "Ghastlies" fabrics by Alexander Henry.





I made a kwilt in 2011, but during a work club fair, 
much to my surprise, 3 people approached me 
to ask if it was for sale and a bidding war ensued.  

The lady who bought it said it reminded her of 
Author and Illustrator Edward Gorey 
Just look at his book illustration for
The Gashlycrumb Tinies 
and you will see the similarities

Although I loved this kiwlt..I let it go 
and continued to buy more Ghastlies fabric. 

Sew this past weekend ...a Ghastlie Marathon began.
I want to get some things made for my Etsy shop.

This gray and pink fabric was from HA's first line.
I still need to add the outside border, which will be 
the dame fabrics as the block sashings.

  Pattern designed by Kari Nichols of Mountainpeek Creations.

This block is my favorite
"Ghastlie little girl".  

I wondered where my hammer went!!!

Then I designed my own top using a center focus pieces
and with squares all around it.  I used the first collection 
and "A Ghastlies Night" in this one. 
A black binding will finish this off perfectly.  

  

I still have lots more Ghastly fabric just waiting from me 
to create some fun purses, a sewing machine cover, more kwilts!

  
like this

and this moldy green

I love me some of that Ghastlies Holiday fabric in BLOOD RED!

and the smoke gray "Ghastly Web"

What have you made using "Ghastlies fabric"?

As for me...I'm headed out to the LQS to get more!  

Linking up over at Freshly Pieced WIP Wednesday.

DOODLE BUDDY - iPad App

I often doodle a kwilt design over and over 

on paper..so it becomes en grained in my brain.

I was on vacation with some time to kill 

and no paper on hand.  I wanted to figure out a

some designs for a couple kwilts on a long arm machine.

I had my iPad with me and knew

there had to be "an app for that"!!!

SURE ENOUGH..there were several 

I downloaded the FREE app...

  "Doodle Buddy" 

It was so much fun and with the touch of my finger

I was doodling kwilting designs.

First up was a design for my plus kwilt.

I drew the grid in blue-lines were rather thick.

Changed color to red for doodling the design

and here it is. 

I found a way to change the colors

and the slide bar to make my doodling lines smaller. 

I just kept doodling, clearing the screen and

doodling over and over.

Here is the kwilting on the long arm of this design.

I also had a wonky crosses kwilt to do

so I started with crosses in blue

And did a pointy back and forth kwilting line (in pink)

  Doodle Buddy lets you save the images to 

the iPad camera roll...

which allowed me to use them in this post!

Here is a close up of the kwilting.

So if you want to practice your FMQ for your home machine

or a longarm...give DOODLE BUDDY a try!

HO HO HO HOP & SANTA GIVEAWAY

This contest is now closed.
Giveaway winner has been notified.
Thanks to all who left me comments!


It's been sweltering HOT  in Ohio

 but I've spotted a WONKY Santa 

up on the roof top with his reindeer and redbirds.

I called the North Poll to get some fun fabrics...
Andover sent Marisa and Creative Thursday to my rescue!

 

Mrs Claus liked my WONKY idea to make 

SANTA the  "center" of attention!  He loves an audience

when not delivering presents!

Some snowmen, trees and crowns gathered

around Santa to provide more Holiday cheer!

And then some solids for a place to rest your eyes. 

These were my first wonky log cabin blocks
and I hope Santa will put me on the "good girl" list.

I had a few extra wonky blocks...

and they became part of the kwilt back
giving way to a modern feel.

I custom kwilted this one on my Bernina,
using some meandering between blocks
and straight lines to outline the block pieces.

And here it is.....just waiting on a delivery to
some lucky little boy or girl!

One more surprise
The sunshine gives a little different color tone
but can you believe the fabric and flowers
were made for each other!

HO-HO-HOPE you have enjoyed my
Santa Claus is "Wonking" To Town Kwilt!
It is for sale in my Etsy shop.

But before you catch Santa's Sleigh to the other rooftops...

I heard he is checking his list to see
if you want to win a "giveaway"

This one is a fabric panel called

OVER THE EDGE

(you can actually color with crayons if you like)

and some fun edgy, colorful fabrics to create borders.

Please leave me a comment and tell me 

what kwilting item you hope Santa will bring you!

Giveaway is open to all!!

A random drawing will be held at the end of the hop!

August 2

Quilt Doodle Doodles

life, quilts and a cat too

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Ridge Top Quilts

Editha

Stitchin By the Lake

Quilts, Fabric and Thread Tales

Sew Many Yarns

Kwilty Pleasures (that's me and the Fat Man)

Kris Loves Fabric

52 Quilts in 52 Weeks

Robin’s Fabric Nest

LOADED...

the MACHINE

not ME!!!

Mouth watering...sin-sational COMMA fabrics

FMQ with pointy back and forth design!

So much fun to kwilt on the longarm machine!

Love my "wonky COMMA crosses" kwilt!

Bold and gold batik backing 

with some left over COMMA

to accent it!

A big thank you to my kwilting partner in crime, 

Kathy Guenther.  She gave me the COMMA fabric

 for my retirement gift!

 I hope I have done it justice!  

Come back this Friday (Aug 2) to see 

my HO HO HO Blog Hop project. 

I think a big fat man will be here too!