OWL HAVE A MERRY ONE!

OWL have me a Merry Little Christmas
with this "owl" tree.

A skinny tree in the corner of the foyer.
added some grapevine garland 
and flocked, pine cone picks



Then comes the "Burlap and Bling"



Picks always give great dimension to a tree
These have burlap and berries...

The topper is "up there"
and easy to assemble if done first!

Owl ornaments in all shapes, sizes, textures
are ready to hang!

I spy a Charley Harper Owl ornament!

 I just kept adding more and more to the tree

til I felt "nocturnal"

My dining room is adjacent to the foyer

so I blinged up my family of owls who live

atop my china cabinet...year round!

another post will show you what I put in the cabinet.

Have you started your decorating yet?

JUST CRIMINAL!

Criminal Minds IS my favorite TV Drama.

The unsub package I received for the Criminal Minds Swap

came from Anett Edwards, Capetown, S Africa.  

Check out the threadwork for Aaron Hotchner mini quilt. 

Other items included a pouch, 

the beautifyl blue fabric - made in Capetown.

Postcard provides a view of a place I will never see.

Always enjoy some yummy candies.

Happy Mail...quite CRIMINAL this time!

Holiday Sewing

A few projects I just finished up for the Holidays

Ghastlies Christmas Apron

  

Master Bedroom Side Table Mats

Bed Runner and Pillow Cover

Pillow Cases

Apron

Cookie Party Gifts-sneak peek, of course

Something GHASTLIE is coming our way

 I felt like I was at the Houston Quilt Market last week
Sew many IG friends kept tagging me
on posts of the new line of Ghastlies fabric...
like this!

 Last May posted on IG a Ghastlies project I had begun..

and @alexanderhenryfabrics sent me a text

letting me know new Ghastlies was in the works!

Quilt Market revealed what Ghastliness

will arrive in April, 2016

SOLIDS! and some NEW COLORS

OOP MOTHS AND WEB RETURNS!

GHASTLIE.JUST.GHASTLIE

GLARING GHASTLIES

GIMME THESE GHASTLIES NOW!

CUT.SEW.STUFF.ENJOY

AHF BOOTH - R U KIDDING ME!

SEBASTIAN DOES HAVE 9 LIVES

Who is behind all this Ghastliness?

Phillip and  Nicole deLeon
"deLeon Design Group"

Alexander Henry Fabrics...

thank you for listening to all the Ghastlie Groupies
with our cries of MORE Ghastlie fabric!

I started a new hashtag on IG
#neverenufghastliesfabric

and @alexanderhenryfabrics loves it!
Please tag your Ghastlie fabrics and projects

let them see what we love!

GHASTLIE NIGHTMARE - ORANGE YOU GLAD ITS DONE!

It is Halloween and I sincerely hope NIGHTMARES 

don't scare you....cause I got one for ya!

The nightmare began with my obsession for 

The 2009 Orange Ghastlies fabric

I saw this fabric when it was release but geeze 

it was Halloween orange and black.

This print in a new and modern gray, white and pink

 caught my eye Halloween eye!

I made this kwilt using "Sidelights" pattern

Sorry for the bad photo, but it's all I have!

Who knew all these years later I would want ORANGE!

The hunt was on and finally...I had enough fabric

to make 9 Nested Churn Dash Blocks

(24" squares)

Block 1

Block 2

Block 3

Block 4

Block 5

Block 6

Block 7

Block 8

Block 9

It was dreamy..no nightmare yet!

Left over pieces were used in the backing.

Sewed the top together and OMG...Ghastlie ghoulishness

beyond my wildest dreams  !

Backing

 I decided to "send this one out" to my professional longarmer.
I used an app called "Doodlebuddy" on my iPad

that allows me to draw over pics and then save the pic

Looks good...right?

Black thread for the web...right?

and little webs in the cornerstones...

This is gonna frickin rock the tombstones!  right?

WRONG...when I got the kwilt back 
(no fault to the kwilter) 

My Orange Ghastlie nightmare began!
I was NOT happy with it!
What I thought out in my head
DID NOT appear with needle and thread!

The spiderwebs were spaced to far apart.

The black thread was in my face and 
 just looked like lines going every frickin way!

Here is a "before" pic

 I left the spider webs on the center squares

and added some more straight lines to make it more visible.

Picking out the stitching was VERY difficult
Apparently, spider webs need double lines...one on top the other.
But I kept after it...one block at a time!

I rekwilted each block, matching thread, meandering

"After pic"
Much easier on the eyes

My nightmare in hours lasted 60 HOURS
yup 60 HOURS of  

picking out thread and re-kwilting this Ghastliness

It was worth every cursing, patience-testing second...
All finished and I named it...
"Orange You Glad It's Done"

 Tell me your worst kwilting nightmare!