Project Quilting - Hometown Pride!

I am brainstorming my ideas for Project Quilting Season 9 in a notebook this year. The quilt challenge number 1 is hometown pride. I want to keep all my quilt challenge ideas in one place this year. Plus, I can grab my notebook and take it with me. 

Project Quilting Season 9 Quilt Challenge information Persimon Dreams --- Kim Lapacek's Project Quilting 

First, I stated the challenge and my personal challenge.

This season, I am making personal challenges for me, For example to use my personal stash of fabric or a certain color.

PQ Challenge:  Hometown pride
My Personal Challenge:  Use Reds and Pinks - Cherrywood Fabrics.

Next, I listed some ideas - rapid fire listing. whatever came to my mind.

Then I listed all the places I lived in my life. I have lived in 11 places between Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa. I moved 22 times!
The longest place I have ever lived, is where I live right now, Boscobel, Wisconsin.  We have lived here for 15 years and hopefully 20 to 30 more years - if I live to 80 or 90!

The sketches and scribbles were next....

 Fabric choices:  A tiny print of grey on cream, with Cherrywood reds and a grey hand dyed fabric from Quilts by Barb.

Here's what I did.......

It's ready to quilt!

Double Batting:  80/20 on the bottom and washable wool on top.

"Eleven Hearts for Eleven Hometowns"

I am linking up over at Persimon Dreams for the Project Quilting Challenge.

I am a prize sponsor of Project Quilting for the 8th year in a row, as I started sponsoring in Season 2 of Project Quilting.

Prizes for the 1st Challenge of Project Quilting
Grand Prize for Project Quilting

If you would like to see some of my past Project Quilting Projects Click Here. Note it will start with this post, so just keep scrolling to the next post.

Here is a link to the first quilt challenge I took with Project Quilting! 

Enjoy your day!

Marcia

May for Me!

Starting today, I will be sporadically sharing posts about the May for Me Celebration and how I find 5 minutes a day or more to take time to create and make you smile.  

I will be sharing here and on Instagram and on facebook and on Twitter and on Pinterest! Join in the fun of sharing about creating 5 minutes or more a day for a whole month!

Creating with fabric (simple sewing and quilting), creating with paper, making healthy food choices and displaying it on your plate, creating with plants, and more....

Several years ago, I teamed up with a few bloggers and hosted a May for Me Celebration on my blog, but after hosting it for a couple years, I decided to discontinue hosting as it was a lot of work for me and I wasn't enjoying it.

This is the logo I used for it.

I was sharing how to take time for yourself and not feel guilty about enjoying the moments or smelling the roses, or just taking time to play each day - just for 5 minutes or longer. 

I will be doing it again, but on a smaller scale and I might share every day and I might share several posts a day and I may skip a day or too! #mayforme2017

I would like to invite you to join in on the fun, please hashtag your posts on social media with this:  #mayforme2017

It is so important to me, to take time to create a little each day....makes me smile.

I love to smile each day and to feel good, so join in the fun and take time to create and share a post about what you are doing.

Let's start off the May for Me Celebration with a FREE PDF Downloadable Pattern for you!  If you are regular follower you may already have this pattern. It's not just for Valentine's Day!

I scaled it down on my printer and made a mini quilt for a loved one and included it with a sympathy card. I selected some hand dyed velvet pieces to add in with a few embroidery stitches to top it off.

Enjoy your day --- the first day in May!

Marcia

#mayforme2017

Free Crazee Patch Paper Pieced Heart

I created my "Crazee Patch Paper Pieced Heart Pattern" in 2007. With a group of local quilters, we made a quilt for at Breast Cancer Fundraiser. In 2011, we made another one! I love making the Hearts!

Last year, I made a BLUE Heart for me and I posted about it here.

You know, I love BLUES!

I had planned to take time to add borders and make a table topper for the center of my dining room table, but that did not happen!

I selected some of my favorite blues.

My PDF Pattern includes the paper pattern for printed to sew on and several photos of the Crazee Patch Heart in a quilt and as mini quilts and other ideas. It does not include instructions for paper piecing. You can find tons of "How To Paper Piece Tutorials" online.

Do you want to see the Heart in "Pinks" and in a quilt? 

 Click Here to see this quilt. 

and Click Here to see my Sweat Heart Quilted Box. It was created for a Project Quilting Challenge.

It's a fun and easy to make paper pieced Crazy Patch Heart pattern. You will find my FREE PDF Downloadable Pattern in My Craftsy Pattern Store.


Enjoy the FREE PDF Pattern!

Marcia

Do you want a printed pattern of the FREE Crazy Patch Paper Pieced Heart? I will mail it to you for $4.50 ($4.50 includes US shipping of $2.00).

Please mail a check to me with your request and your address.

Marcia Wachuta
41826 County Road W
Boscobel, WI 53805

Do you want a printed pattern of any of the PDF Patterns in my Craftsy Store.  Add $2.50 for printing to the price on Craftsy, plus $2.00 for US shipping.

Yes --- It's a BLUE Heart!

In 2007, I created my Crazee Patch Paper Pieced Heart Pattern.  In 2007 with a group of quilters, we made a quilt for at Breast Cancer Fundraiser.  In 2011, we made another one!  It's a fun and easy to make paper pieced heart pattern.

You can find it in my Online Pattern Store.  Links are in my sidebar. It is a FREE PDF Pattern.

Tonight I made a BLUE Heart!

You know I love blues....

I love it! 

I will probably add borders and make a table topper for the center of my dining room table.

I selected some of my favorite blues.

My PDF Pattern includes the paper pattern for printed to sew on and several photos of the Crazee Patch Heart in a quilt and as mini quilts and other ideas. It does not include instructions for paper piecing. You can find tons of "How To Paper Piece Tutorials" online.

Hop over and download my Crazee Patch Paper Pieced Heart for FREE! 

Want to see the Heart in "Pinks" and in a quilt? Click Here

Enjoy your day!

Marcia

I Eat My Lunch Alone and I LOVE It!

That is the name of my quilted place mat.

"I Eat My Lunch Alone and I LOVE It!"

Ok .... so if you are a quilter, you probably turn your kitchen table into a sewing center by day and back to a kitchen table at dinner time. 

Yes ----- That is my Heart Quilt under my breakfast this morning. 

A couple years ago I made an extra large place mat from the denim scraps from my Blue Denim Quilt.  I use it for eating breakfast and lunch. I wanted it to be big enough to cover my cutting board, that is always on my kitchen table. I can quickly turn my sewing work space into an eating space by just flopping the quilted place mat down on the cutting board. At dinner time, I move things to the other end of the table.

My new Heart Place Mat is oversized. It measures 18" by 24".

"I eat my lunch alone... and I love it" Heart Place Mat

This is my entry for the Project QUILTING Season 6 Challenge Number 4 --- Hearts.

I was also inspired by Pat Sloan's Hip to be Square Challenge and used 2 1/2 inch squares.

The Project Quilting Challenge states you need to have at least 12 hearts.... well look closely at the quilting....

There tons of hearts all over my quilted place mat.

Bottom right corner I stitched:
Marcia 2015
PQS6Ch 4

I had fun taking photos of my pretty blue plates on my new place mat!

I not only love eating breakfast and lunch alone, I also love my new place mat.  

Thanks Kim at Project Quilting for the wonderful HEART Challenge!

When I read the challenge on Sunday, I decided, I was going to make something with my blue fabrics.

On Monday, I was skyping with daughter and my grandson and they had been making valentines cards.  My daughter had taken a washable marker and drew a little heart on my grandson hand.  He proudly showed it to me!  Then they put a star on his other hand.  They took a photo and sent it to me.

He said "Grandmama --- Heart!"  So I grabbed a marker out of my sewing basket and drew a blue heart on the back of my hand.

  
We skype and we send photos back and forth everyday.  We have decided that long distance relationships work best when we share something about our days, every day through messaging and photos. 

Later in the day, I sent this photo to them.  I kept thinking I had quilting threads on the back of my hand --- it was a distraction... but a good distraction that reminded me of the love I feel for my family --- all of them.

And if I could I would have a house full for breakfast and lunch and dinner!

Having a pretty place mat, with pretty food, makes breakfast and lunch fun!

I will be linking this post up over at Persimon Dreams for the Project Quilting Challenge.

Thanks for following along!

Marcia