Black and White Bargello

Thank you for stopping by for the Black and White Blog Hop hosted by Creatin' In The Sticks.

With a black and white and gray jelly roll on hand and a plan to make a bargello quilt, this became the project for this bloghop. This is a new to me design. I'm wowed over all the stunning bargello quilts online. Google them and see all the amazing designs for them.

It's all about the flow of the placement of the pieces. I actually did not use a pattern for the design. I did read many online sites about bargello patterns and did watch many Youtube videos on them and then just winged it.

I added a white on white print from my stash to define and enhance the flow of my design. I like it with just the design and no borders, but I had no more 2.5 inch strips so I added the solid black and gray borders.

I call this quilt Enlightening. It was enlightening to me to take on the bargello that I thought I would never accomplish and just love everything about it -- the easy, quick, and beautiful design it became. And it does sort of look like a lightening bolt, don't you think? I will confess this was not the design I envisioned at the start, but I'm super pleased with the result. It seemed to take on its own look.

If you haven't created a bargello quilt yet, make it your next must do project. You will not be disappointed in your creation.

 Check in with Creatin' in the Sticks for more black and white this week.

Hop Schedule

Monday, January 21st

Just Let Me Quilt

Needled Mom

Tu-Na Quilts, Travels, and Eats

Life in Scrapatch

QuiltFabrication

Scrapdash

Bumbleberry Stitches

keepsake moments

Vroomans Quilts

Tuesday, January 22nd

MooseStash Quilting

SewFreshQuilts

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Quilts by Joanne

PamelaQuilts

That Fabric Feeling

Songbird Designs

Two Maker Chicks

Wednesday, January 23

Selina Quilts

Beaquilter

Quilt in a not-Shell

Patchwork Breeze

Adventurous Applique and Quilting

Kathleen McMusing

Cynthia's Creating Ark

Everyone Deserves a Quilt

Homespun Hannah's Blog

Thursday, January 24

Quiltscapes

Seams to be Sew

Storied Quilts

Kathy's Kwilts and More

Ms P Designs USA

Den syende himmel

Melva Loves Scraps

Creatin' in the Sticks  

Gin

A Run In The Park

A few weeks back some of the family was over and we went in the woods  to let the guys prepare for hunting season. We did a lot of running.

Riding around, showing some love, working in the field, and just having fun on a pretty day in the woods.

We did some play acting while they worked. It’s cool what technology can do for you today. We put a dinosaur out in the woods and caught us on camera running from it.

We did both work and play. Some were not too happy with the playing part. The dinosaur graphic was just too real for her and she wasn't going to participate. Can't believe how real it seemed. 

Gin

Hope with all your heart

I  joined Project Quilting 10 for six challenges in twelve weeks with a deadline of seven days for each project. Project 10.1 is about hope,  Hope Springs Eternal. After a lot of ideas that wasn't manageable in 7 days I went with "hope with all your heart". Hope and heart go together. When I have hope, I'm hoping with all my heart.

I pulled out coordinating pinks to do the heart and had to buy the background fabric and fell in love with it being mint green crushed ice.

The entire top was easy using 3" wide strips in varying lengths from 4" to 12" from the pinks and the mint. I layed out the pinks in lines to form a heart with staggering edges then extended the lines with the mint to the edge of the quilt.

I played with it day and night for four days to cut and layout and sew together and quilt and bind . And its done! Measuring in at 64"x75".

I'm loving it.

And there's a plus. It also makes the cut for my valentine quilt I wanted to make.

Super, super, super big easy project in four days.

Gin

Christmas Scenes Past

I’m still reminiscing about Christmas with sugar plums dancing in my head and participating in all the Christmas activities before Christmas Day. We went to school programs, Christmas church service and mall shopping with the Christmas carolers performing just to name a few.

Christmas Day was at the new house of our oldest and all the kids and their families and a few others were there for all the Christmas dinner traditions and the gifts exchange and the playing and the surprise reveal of their new baby to be in Early June. Surprise its a boy!! That's what big brother wanted and he's super excited.

Here's a few of the scenes of the day.

Some adults always like to join in the fun for real.

A backyard visitor made it to the activities. Meet Chicken Ginger. Their  group of chickens are  named after family members and there's Louise, Betty, and Dixie to name a few. Everything was fine till she popped on the carport and then sent back to the coop.

The Reason for the Season is everyday not just Christmas Day to  celebrate the birth of the Newborn King.

A Quilting Mini Series: The Final Episode

This quilt  is fitting for the season with the ugly sweater party but instead the ugly quilt party. This quilt top was made a few years ago and put away and just now made it to the top of the pile to be quilted.

I liked it in the beginning because of the bright yellow and greens. Now that I see it again, the big brown in the center does nothing for the bright green, blue, and yellow. That's why I'm calling it the ugly one.

The good thing about this one is the size. It is a nice 72"x90" and a nice weight. Not too light weight and not heavy at all. It would be nice if the brown wasn't there, I think. 

Its completed and one day it'll have a home.

This is the last of the Quilting Mini Series. There have been about 12 quilts I've made in the last 8 or 9 months that included:
     Country cow quilt
     Flower center panel quilt
     Carousel horse quilt
     Peacock quilt
     Sailboat quilt
     Personal photo dirtbike quilt
     Carpenter's star pinktastic quilt
     Cat quilt
     Fall quilt along
     Lazy Goose quilt
     Ugly quilt

 There is Christmas stuff to do now, so I should lay off the quilting for now, unless I can throw in a Christmas quilt or two or three. I do have many quilts on the drawing board to make and a few waiting in the wings to be quilted. I'll show them now and then as they are completed.

A Quilting Mini Series: Lazy Goose

NOTE: You may can see the pictures now. Don't know what the problem was earlier.

The pattern is called “lazy goose” and I purchased the pattern and the fabrics for the top in a quilt kit from a lady’s Facebook site called SewTrendyMN. I’m addicted to her. She has an awesome quilt/fabric studio and has a live show every Friday nite with sales on fabrics, patterns, and things she sees. The kit had just enough fabric to make the top with the blues and the white and the pattern was on a post-card size cardstock. How easy and quick can that be?

And it was super easy, super quick. There is a common block called “flying geese” and this seems to be just a bigger version and called “lazy goose”. The colors in the kit are so pretty and bold and look great.

I love, love, love this look. It’s a modern look with pretty blues. I have a yellow and gray matching fabric bundle from her also and I’m thinking of making this again in those colored.

The backing is a blue print and kind of matches the blues ont the top. The quilting lines are straight across and then connecting v shapes in the blue triangles. This is s great go to pattern for a quick quilt.

I may just keep this one for awhile!

A Quilting Mini Series: A Personal Touch

A cute, cute quilt for my little guy. Do you know you can print a cell photo on fabric? Yes you can, either at home on your own printer or an online fabric site. I wanted a bigger piece of printed fabric than my home printer would print. If you’ve learned anything about me in my Mini Quilting Series, you should know I go big or go home. So I uploaded this photo to Spoonflower fabrics online.

She worked with it to get it to a 24”x36” fabric print. I was more than excited!! And I couldn’t wait to see the final result of the quilt.

The black/white gives it the checkered flag race look and I framed the picture fabric panel with fabrics on hand. Th backing is soft cuddly navy minky fabric.

It meets my expectations and I love it. So did Cohen. He and his parents just moved into a new house and now he has two new quilts just for his new room. Look a few post back at the sailboat quilt. That was just made for him last month in the colors his mom had picked for his new room - gray, teal blue, and a touch of orange. And they love boating.

The quilts have been presented to him and already in use.

 

Thanksgiving Re-cap

Thanksgiving 2018 included a Thanksgiving kindergarten program with Pilgrim girls and Indian boys.

Cute songs about why we have Thanksgiving.

And sister got a quick peek in the wig-wam on our way out.

Then the next week was traditional turkey food and all the trimmings with family and friends. But no pictures. Can’t believe I’m slacking on that. Hope your thanksgiving was a blessing to you.

Switch-a-roo

UPDATE:  We have a winner!! She’ll receive her gift shortly. Thank you to all 28 people who read the post, though.

 There are still quilts to show and tell on my Quilting Mini Series, but I'm switching to a new venture for a week or so. I just can't be unoccupied. I have to have my hands and and mind going constantly. My new venture is pennant banners. Just out of the blue I had this thought to see how I could make one. So I made a few and put them in my booth at the vendors gallery.  Well, they're not there any more. They sold.

So more are in progress to get ready for the Christmas Open House at the gallery. There's Christmas and non-Christmas ones ready. Mostly all are burlap with one or two exceptions.

Or maybe for the kitchen or breakfast nook.

They are cute to hang around and they can speak for you.

I like them so much that I'm going to GIVE ONE AWAY to one special person. Just comment one word that can speak for you and I'll draw a WINNER ON OCTOBER 31ST.
.. it can be any word of your choosing, not just the ones I've shown. Shipping to USA Only.

Happy Halloween.......

A Quilting Mini Series: Cat Nap

Would you sleep under a cover of cats?

There are many cat quilt patterns online. This one was a free pattern and looked like I might could figure it out. I've come to believe there is nothing super easy out there, but I managed to figure it out and then it went pretty fast.

With the flowery cat blocks of mostly pinks and blues sewn together and a pink border added all around, it waited its turn to be quilted.

The back was a flower design, also. That's enough of flowers for awhile.

 It's different that's for sure. Seems you can sew up any design you can dream of.

Meow, till next time.