This one is an orange one. Hubby said the other one was pretty but he thought pumpkins were orange. I made an orange one this time. These are just so easy to make. Don't take much to make them either. Believe it or not, I had a time finding scraps to stuff this one. You would think with me quilting I would have all kinds but I throw away all the small pieces and give the customers back their left over batting. I was about to tear into a pillow to get enough to stuff it.
Here's the latest! This evening I made one of the Patchwork Pumpkins they did at Camp Caleb. Had much fun doing this. It went together well. Seams matched well on top and bottom of pumpkin. I had not expected it to be so easy.
Today was the last day at Camp Caleb. We all had a GREAT time! We learned lots of new things this year. Tuesday we did Simple Appliqué, which was time consuming. If you do it that way it looks so good but you have to have a real interest in it. I am afraid I like quilting and strip piecing to good to take the time to do much appliqué, time will tell. I had a very good teacher.
Wednesday I did the Appli-Bond method like the picture on my blog. I loved it! I have another pattern for it that I got at a yard sale. I think I will be doing that someday when I get some other UFO's done.
Today, was basket day. We made a coffee filter basket and finished it. I got mine to small at the top and the lid don't fit to good. I hope I can sand the lid down some and it will fit beter. It just likes a little fitting.
Yesterday they made snowmen from slabs. They painted them and made faces on them. They were really pretty. They also had a class making a stuffed pumpkin that was really cute. Some of us girls bought a kit and are going to get together and make one. This year our county had a lot of girls participate in the classes. I would encourage more women to become homemakers. Just contact your extension office and they will tell you the dates and times of each meeting.
This is what I did in one of the classes at Camp Caleb today. This is named after the teacher. Gypsy is a very good teacher. Can you believe she had about 12 in the class and she had appli-bond all these little pieces and cut them for us! They are about 32 pedals to each, seven leaves and she even cut the bias for the stems. All we did is sew them on and put the border on. It is called Appli-bond and is 3D. Don't look close at the French Knots, I was practicing. heheee. Yesterday I took Simple Applique. Sue was our teacher and she is very good. She had some amazing hangings she had made. I didn't get it finished yet, but plan on doing so soon. Tomorrow I am looking forward to making a coffee filter basket.
Just doing a test block of the Single Wedding Ring. I tell about this block in a previous post. It is one of those patterns you get and you think you will never get around to it. I can't believe I have made a block of it. It turned out fair but is time consuming but I really would like to have one of these quilts. Only thing I think of is quilting it. I think one like this is for hand quilting and I am not good at that. I just might have to learn. Which this might be the only block I do. I am sure they are a trick to the points in this block that I don't know about. I had finished quilting Ina's quilts and thought this would be a good way to unwind to make this block.
This is a finished top made from the blocks I made when I first started quilting and never did finish. It was a Thimbleberries quilt and I lost the book, it has been that long, never have found it. When the guild was going to do the 4 patch posie quilt using the stack n whack blocks, I thought this would be good to combine these blocks. Now it just needs to be quilted. I already cut the binding for it.
