Cynthia's Creating Ark: Just Let Me Quilt

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Monday, January 18, 2021

Hearts on Fire Blog Hop

The brief was to features hearts in a project but no red hearts allowed. Thanks to Carol from Just Let Me Quilt for hosting this blog hop. She always has great ideas. Here is the schedule to follow along.

January 18

Creatin' in the Sticks

Life in the Scrapatch

Freckled Fox Quiltery

January 19

Cynthia's Creating Ark

January 20

January 21

Becky’s Adventures in Quilting and Travel

Ridge Top Quilt

For The Love Of Geese

January 22

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Quilt In A Not-Shell

Storied Quilts

Kathy's Kwilts and More

Homespun Hannah's Blog

I have a set of these Westalee Heart rulers I have been wanting to play with and no enough time so I thought I would make a little runner for myself. I spend a lot of time of stuff for other people but not for me.I thought I would send some hearts my way.

I kept it simply as I have been very busy.

I spray basted my three layers together and used the lines on the fabric to set my template on.

The hearts are very effective. and a easy template to use. I can see myself getting distracted by reading the sayings on this side. Wait there is more on the other side too.

I needed some funky binding for my project.

In hindsight I could have made my runner slightly wider but my machine does fit and at least this way not wider enough for a cat to come and sit on it.

There is enough runner for my sewing essentials and my Summer project blocks to sit on and hopefully they will not find the floor as easy as sitting straight on the table.

Make the rounds and have a look at what others have made featuring hearts.

Until Next Time

Keep Stitching

Cynthia

Monday, November 30, 2020

Virtual Cookie Exchange 2020

Every year I look forward to this Blog hop. The Virtual Cookie Exchange has provide us with many tasty treats to share with our family and friends. A big thank you to Carol from Just Let Me Quilt for hosting us and rounding us up to put on this event.

This is Day 1 so you are in for a treat, just visit everyone to collect their recipes abd your kitchen will smell just as delicious as our own kitchen, It is especially nice at this time of the year to have those wonderful Christmas baking scent floating through the house. Sometimes I wish they would create that scent for the air freshers.

December 1

Creatin' in the Sticks

Doreen – Just Let Me Quilt Guest

Life in the Scrapatch

Ms P Designs USA

Just Sew Quilter

Cathie's Craftworks

Cynthia's Creating Ark - You are Here-

December 2

Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life

December 3

For The Love Of Geese

December 4

Happy Cottage Quilter

Pumpkin Patch Patterns & Quilting

The Darling Dogwood

Kathleen McMusing

Scrapdash

This year I have been treating my family and friends with this recipe. Let's just say we have tested this recipe a number of times leading up to this event.

Ice Box Cookies

Ingredients

1 cup Butter, softened

1 cup Icing Sugar, sifted

1/2 cup sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

2 1/2 cups plain flour, sifted

1/2 tsp salt.

Nuts/ chocolate to top cookies (optional)

Method:

In a mixing bowl cream butter and both sugars. Add egg and vanilla and mix together. Add flour and salt and mix together. Split the mixture into half and roll each half in to a log and wrap in cling film. Repeat with the other half.

Chill logs for at least 2 hours but you can make the dough the day before and chill overnight.

Preheat your oven to 170 degrees C (350 degrees F) while you prepare the cookies.

Remove logs from the fridge and slice in to disks ( about 5mm / 1/8") It's is up to you . Just remind if you cut them thicker they will need a little longer in the oven. Arrange on baking trays leaving space around them. They spread a little bit but not too much.

Once they are on the trays you can top each cookie with nuts or chocolate for a bit of Christmas Bling or leave them plain. Bake for 10- 12 minutes or until lightly brown around the edges. Keep an eye on them as I found the 2-3 batches many only need 8- 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool on the trays. Store in an airtight container if they last that long. Makes 30 cookies approx.

They will make great gifts wrapped sipmply in cellophane with a nice ribbon or a nice container. A tin filled with a cookie selection wrapped in a Christmas tea towel, would be a lovely gift idea.

Make sure you visit everyone on the list collect their recipes, don't forget to leave a little love in their comments boxes.

Here is the printer Friendly version

Until Next Time

Keep Baking

Cynthia

Monday, October 26, 2020

From the Heart Blog Hop -Day 1

A big thank you to Carol for putting this blog hop together. It is day one of this blog hop. Below is the full schedule, so make sure you tune in each day for some great gift ideas.

October 26

Creatin' in the Sticks

Ms P Designs USA

Becky’s Adventures in Quilting and Travel

Websterquilt

Selina Quilts

Cynthia's Creating Ark (you are here)

Quilting Gail

Scrapdash

Ridge Top Quilt

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

That Fabric Feeling

Vicki’s Crafts and Quilting

October 27

Kathy's Kwilts and More

October 28

Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life

Life in the Scrapatch

Storied Quilts

Kathleen McMusing

Food for Thought

For my idea, it involves you checking out what containers you are throwing out or recyling from your home, There is so many different containers you can use. I have been eating a new brand of yoghurt which gives me a great container to decorate as it has a cardboard sleeve on it that is easily removed to leave you a plain container.

This leaves you a blank canvas to work with and the plastic lid is clear, so you can use that as well. I made a wrap to go around the container with a bit of velcro to secure it to the container,

This is how I made it.

Make a quilt sandwich slightly larger than the width of your container plus 2 " for the overlap. You can use the fabrics you like or if it's for Christmas - Christmas fabrics. This is a good way of using up some of your wadding scraps too. This is where you can have some fun with rulerwork quilt, freemotion quilting or some straight line quilting. Quilt your strip or strips.

Once you are happy double check your size and trim if you need too.

Next bind your wrap using your preferred method.

Wrap it around your container and mark where your velcro needs to go.

Sew on your velcro.

Wrap it around the container and you are ready to fill it or use it.

You can fill it with all sorts of treats, It mays a great sewing caddy. You will even find some in my shop holding stock together.

I hope you have fun with this idea and enjoy everyone else ideas.

Until Next Time

Keep Stitching

Cynthia

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Color it Red Blog Hop

Here we are gathered together around for the Color it Red Blog Hop. Thanks to Carol from Just Let Me Quilt for hosts us. Red is the natural colour for February as Valentine Day is in it and for me in South Australia it is Summer so we often have scorching hot days. So I was thinking I may need a colour themed wall hanging I could hang out for the month of February. Hearts were first to pop in to my mind for the project but I found a couple of red and white prints in my stash that was screaming out to me to use. So for some unknown reason the hearts went out the window and I ended up with this simply layout with the two fabrics.

A close up of the two fabrics. Yes only two fabrics cut into 3 inch squares. Why don't I have more of that red stripe in my stash? That's right I have used it a couple times now.

Then I added a small red border to the top and bottom from the red stipe cut the other way, followed by a piece of the red and white print larger piece at the top and a smaller piece at the bottom.
More red and white on the back some simple quilting hanging sleeve and binding to complete my latest wall hanging.

All the fabrics came from my stash, I don't quite believe I had that much red in my stash but I got there. It's quick and easy project to make and you could make a few different one to hang at different times of the year.

Here is the list for the whole blog hop. So pop around and say hello and check out what everyone has made.

February 17^th

Creatin' in the Sticks

Kathy's Kwilts and More

Samelia's Mum

February 18^th

Ms P Designs USA

Podunk Pretties