Soupcon block

I finally made some time to work on my Soupcon block. Karen H is sharing the steps on her blog. If you have a minute you should check out this post. There are some amazing and interesting blocks so far. Step #5 has been posted today. 

 Thanks for the recommendations for hand cream for my thumb. I am going to try to find one of the creams today. My thumb is on the mend so I was able to finish these two hexies that Karen H. shared several weeks ago. I think they are pretty neat.

Today is the last day of the Uncommonly Corduroy book tour. If you missed out on my giveaway go here. 

Angie is celebrating 5 great years of blogging. You won't want to miss her giveaway either. Check it out here. The photo below is some of her beautiful applique. She inspires me.

With Passion,

Carrie P.

Simply Small

Each month Sherri from a Quilting Life has been sharing small quilts that you make with your little Moda candy squares.  Sherri shared this pattern on her blog on the 10th of the month. Each time she shares the pattern is free but if you missed it you can 

 buy it on Craftsy.com. 

 Here is my simply small quilt from the pattern that was available this month. I used a pack of 2 1/2" squares from the Sonnet Collection by April Cornell for Moda.

I even did the free motion quilting myself.

I also made another mini quilt from instructions that Sherri gave last year for a small tumbler quilt. I used a pack of charms from Bunny Hill Designs called Ooh La La.

 I am far behind on my hand sewing because my right thumb gets cracked the end. Every winter it does it two or three times. It becomes very painful even to hold a needle.  It doesn't matter how much lotion I put on my hands. My thumb is finally healing where I was able to get these little quilts bound. Now onto other things that require my thumb.

I recently won a giveaway over at Cathy's blog called Big Lake Quilter. She is giving away another book this week. Go by to see if it is something you would like. I love this book and little caddy that she sent me. Thanks again, Cathy!

Don't forget I have a giveaway which is here. Some of you that have entered the giveaway are signed up with google+. I just wanted to let you know that I can not respond to your comments because I am not signed up with google+. For some reason your comments don't even come to my email. I respond to all the comments and just wanted to let you know that I am not being rude.

With Passion,

Carrie P.

Book Tour and Giveaway

Welcome to Day 4 of the Uncommonly Corduroy Book Tour 

I have been anxiously awaiting for Stephanie's new book to be published. It is called Uncommonly Corduroy.  If you click on the the blue title link you will be able to see lots of  beautiful photos of Stephanie's creations. 

For those of you who read my blog regularly you know that I am one of Stephanie's Supremes. I am one of several pattern testers for Stephanie. When she emailed me about writing a quilt book I was so excited for her. She asked if I would like to test a pattern for her. Of course I said yes. Here is a photo of Stephanie's original quilt called California Poppies.

 "Images from Uncommonly Corduroy by Stephanie Dunphy, Martingale, 2014; used by permission. Photo by Brent Kane. All rights reserved."

Here is my version. As you can see from the photo this was taken during the spring last year. I call mine Carolina Lilies. I added some borders to my version because I wanted it to be a certain size. I did not use corduroy but I have seen some of the fun corduroy prints recently. I just have never thought about making quilts from corduroy.  I would definitely like to try sewing with it though.

My friend Laura did all this gorgeous machine quilting for me. You can see more of her designs on her blog.

I love this photo of the dots. The quilt has been washed so now you can really see the quilting here.

So now for the giveaway. If you would like a chance to win an Ebook of Uncommonly Corduroy just leave a comment letting me know if you think you will try making a quilt with corduroy. I will pick an winner at the end of the book tour.


Stephanie's book is available from Martingale or Amazon.  If you would like an autographed copy you can get it directly from Stephanie.

Here is a list of others who are participating in the book tour. Be sure to check out their creations. Each person on the stop will also be giving away an Ebook.

February 19  --  Stephanie at  Loft Creations 

February 20 -- Martingale at Stitch This

February 21 --  Candace at  Squash House Quilts

February 22 -- Carrie at A Passion for Applique

February 23 --  Mary at Mary on Lake Pulaski

February 24 --  Char at  Cloth Stitched 

February 25 --  Mary at Needled Mom

February 26 -- Linda at The Quilted Pineapple  

February 27 -- Margaret at A Sampler of Stitches 

February 28 -- Ulla at Kotkarankki  

          Here to making quilts with a new kind of fabric!            

With Passion,

Carrie P.

A Lovely Finish

My goal this month was to quilt and bind this preemie quilt that will be donated to one of our local hospitals. As you can see I reached my February goal.

 I will be linking up my finish on Melissa's blog when the post is ready next week.

With Passion,
Carrie P.

A touch of Spring

 Look what Sheila sent to me all the way from Canada. A little touch of Spring fabric postcard! Thanks Sheila.

With Passion,
Carrie P.

Log Cabin Blocks

I added 9 more log cabin blocks to the 3 I had made. Only 24 more to make.

Check out Astrid's green log cabin quilt on her blog--Grandma's Red Needle. So pretty!

With Passion,
Carrie P.

Got Milk?

Do you like milk with your cookies? I do! Ice cold whole milk. No low fat milk for me. When I was a child I remember the gallons of milk my mom used to buy each time she went grocery shopping. It was all I drank morning, noon, and night.

I made Mr. P. some Chocolate Shortbread cookies for Valentine's Day. You can get the recipe here. My cookie jar is from Quiet Play. It is the paper pieced Sew Kitschy BOM.

With Passion,
Carrie P.

I am linking up my BOM to What a Hoot Quilts!

Happy Valentine's Day!

With Passion,

Carrie P.

A Day in the Life...

 Each day can sometimes bring something new. Yesterday brought snow around 1pm. It snowed way into the night and then it began sleeting. I woke up to a beautiful snowy landscape. It snowed just about all day today.  Our area got about 10 inches of snow. It has been several years since we have gotten a good amount of snow. 

 If you look close in the middle of the Hemlock tree (below) you can see a black, white and orange bird. It is an Eastern Towhee. I don't see him often. Last year I caught a glimpse of him. You can see a Youtube video of him singing here.

 Mr. P.had today and the next four days off. He is going to work on our house remodeling. While he worked today I thought I would watch the snow fall and do some sewing. I needed to figure out what to make for dinner first that would not involve a lot of cooking? I decided to roast a chicken and some vegetables. I put it all in my big cooking pot, stuck in the oven for 3 hours and...

 sewed up some pieces for some blocks. My plan is to put them together tomorrow. Stay tuned. And dinner was delicious!

With Passion,
Carrie P.

Love

Here is a quick and easy project. I sent this as a Valentine to my daughter. You can get this free pattern from Wild Olive.

With Passion,
Carrie P.

Soupcon QAL

I finished step three of the Soupcon QAL hosted by Karen H. at Faeries and Fibres. I am really enjoying each step.

 Karen H. is sharing tutorials on how to make some pretty spiffy hexagons. Here is my first one that I put together. I have hexagons made for two more. I hope to get them sewn together this week. I am linking up my hexagon to hexie Friday on Angie's blog.

 Here is the Bible verse for this week shared by Jenny of Elefantz.

With Passion,
Carrie P.

Don't Let the Door Stop You

Do you have a door which does not like to stay in place? My side door to the outside will not stay put when I open it to let in light from the storm door. It will close back on its own about half way.  Usually I will just put whatever is convenient in front of the door to keep it open.

 I saw this cute little door stop in the Spring 2012 Primitive Quilts and Projects magazine. I have had a subscription to the magazine ever since it came out. I kept telling myself I should make this doorstop. When I saw the call for the door stop blog hop I knew it was finally time to make my door stop for that annoying door. The pattern was created by Janice Menear.

 So meet my little friend. As you can see I changed his face a little. My daughter thought he needed rabbit teeth. His ears are a little closer together which makes it much easier to pick up and move him out of the way to shut the door. I filled the bottom part with crushed walnut shells which I bought at a local pet store. The top part has fiberfill in it.

 As you can see he would rather be outside in sunny or snowy weather.

Thanks for coming by my blog today to see my new doorstop. Don't forget to check out all the other  very creative doorstops today.

February 7th

GrammieQs

Pickles Quilting

Made by Me in Red
 
A Passion for Applique (you are here)

Living With Purpose

Sew We Quilt

A big THANKS goes to Madame Samm of Sew We Quilt and Carla from Creatin' in the Sticks. They are the best cheerleaders ever. I would also like to thank the sponsor for this hop, Quilting Treasures.

With Passion,
Carrie P.

Miscellaneous Stuff

Today one of my local quilt shops had the BOM that I signed up for this year. It was a very easy block for this month. I made it as soon as I got home today.

 Look what I discovered. I was looking for some re-fills for my Sewline fabric glue pen. I could find any. I had to go to Joanns today for some terry cloth so I decided to look at the Fons and Porter notions. Guess what? Their re-fills work perfectly in the Sewline fabric pen. I know one person who left a comment saying she couldn't find refills. Well now you know that you can use either brand re-fills and they will work.

 I have figured out what I want to work on as my goal this month for A Lovely Year of Finishes. I won this ocean/fish fabric from Sauders Fabrics in December. There wasn't a whole lot of it because they were actually fabric samples. I was able to create a preemie quilt by making disappearing nine patch blocks. I think it will make a nice quilt for a baby boy. My quilt guild makes and donates quilts for preemie babies. Each person in the guild has been asked to make four this year. This will be number two for me.

 So my goal this month is to machine quilt it and get it bound.

Here is the verse for this week from Jenny.

With Passion,
Carrie P.

Don't forget to check out the door stops on February 5th.

February 5th

More Stars in Comanche
 
Buzzing and Bumbling
 
Sew and Sow Farm
 
Purl Buttons Blog
 
Carretel E Agulha

The Quilting Queen

Pig Tales and Quilts

Building my Log Cabin

I have made my three log cabin blocks for this month for my Modern Quilt Therapy group. You can see the fabric that is my inspiration for my log cabin blocks here. This is not how the blocks will be set. I just put them on my design wall this way. Using fabric my from my stash. Yay!

 Tomorrow is another day for the door stop blog hop. Check out these blogs are more cute door stops.

February 3rd

Why-Knot-Kwilt
 
Elizabeth Coughlin Designs
 
Marjorie's Busy Corner
 
Shepody Mountain Crafter 
 
Lydsfire Sewing
 
Creatin' in the Sticks


With Passion,
Carrie P.