Showing posts with label blog hop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blog hop. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Dust off a Quilt Book Blog hop

This is my first blog hop of the year and one of my favourite. I would like to thank Bea from Beaquilter for hosting us. I have been having a few technical issues, resulting in me having to using my old Blogger account for this one. Some of you may have come directly here and others may have had to go through the original link  I just hope you got here.

 I get to dive into my quilt book collection and pick a book and create something from it. Not sure where I got this one from, but here it is in my collection. It was published back in 1991. 





Now I was only dating my husband to be in 1991, I hadn't starting quilting and when you look at the instructions in the book there is only scissors used to cut fabric and everything is done with graph paper and templates. A really old school book.

This is the full schedule if you have only found us today on my day. Take the time and check everyone post out.

March 6th

Quilting at the Farm

Lemon Tree Snippets

Creatin in the sticks

Natalie (on Beaquilter)

March 7th

Quilting Gail

Thrift Shop Commando

High Road Quilter

Moosestashquilting

The Morning Latte

March 8th

Kathleen McMusing

Words & Stitches

Isabella's Whimsy

DesertSky Quilting

March 9th

LC's Cottage

Cynthia's Ark - You are here!

Ms P Designs USA

March 10th

Beaquilter

Karrin's Crazy World

Quilting Patchwork Applique

Julie's Quilts and Costumes


So I delved into this book looking at the projects and thought some little pin cushions would be fun to make. Then I had to get the graph paper out to draw up the block as it tells you to trace the line drawing and make templates for you to them cut out the fabric.  Look at these instructions.



My theory is if I draw it up on graph paper that will tell me how big each piece is and I can cut my fabric out using my rotary cutter. Then I can dive into my scrap box and make all sorts of colourful houses.


 

My finished pin cushion next to the the pattern in the book. It took me more time to create this post than sew the pin cushion together. It is really cut I think when I have some free time I may make more blocks and turn them into pin cushions.



Thank you for visiting today I hope you have enjoyed this blog hop.

Until Next Time Keep Stitching 
Cynthia





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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

All Thingz Sewn

Den Syende Himmel

That Fabric Feeling

 January 19

MooseStashQuilting

Websterquilt

Words & Stitches

Vroomans Quilts

Quilt Schmilt

Cynthia's Creating Ark

Songbird Designs

 January 20

Selina Quilts

Stitchin At Home

Samelia's Mum

Just Sew Quilter

Scrapdash

Karrin’s Crazy World

The Darling Dogwood

 January 21

Quilt Fabrication

Ms P Designs USA

Beaquilter

Becky’s Adventures in Quilting and Travel

Ridge Top Quilt

For The Love Of Geese

Sew Many Yarns

Quilting Gail

January 22

Just Let Me Quilt

Karen's Korner

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
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Tuesday, December 29, 2020

My Stitching Resolution for 2021

 


Welcome to the Stitching Resolution 2021 Challenge.

Thank you to Carla from Creatin' in the Sticks for coming up with this blog hop. This is everyone who is participating. So pop over and check out what they have set themselves.

Wednesday, December 30th

My stitching resolution for 2021 is to make time to sew.



That should be simply right! Not in my world. During 2020 as I worked my way through a set program of projects to become a  Quiltworx certified shop I really struggled at times to find time at the machine.  Now I was hearing stories of how much time other people were having sewing up a storm and here I was really struggling.

I got there in the end but it was not the way I had planned to do it.  I had a plan for 2020 that fell apart about April. Yes I can blame Covid-19 for some of my failings.  Making everything harder and creating too many hoops for me to jump through behind the scenes  to keep the business open and running within the new regulations. Boy, did I have issues. There was plenty to deal with and I tried my hardest to battle on and not to let it show.  The rest of the issues were my own doing, I could have done something about them and didn't. Plus trying to keep everyone else happy was too much work and only pushed me to breaking point. 

Now how am I going to make time for me to sew.

For 2021 all workshops and classes will have the end of the the sessions announced, unless you are paying for an extended session. This should give me extra time to take care of business during shop hours rather than in the evening when I could be sewing. 

Next half of our Saturday sessions are  becoming  10 am-1pm sessions, which hopefully will give me 1-2 hours on some Saturday afternoon to sew. 

I have 3 big projects I need to find time to work on during 2021. One is the Glacier Star project the ladies are doing this year.  I need to be ahead of them so I am sure I know what I am doing during the workshops.


 I wish I could tell you about the other two, but at the time of posting this blog post I can't share the details. When I am able to, I will shout the details from the rooftop.  

When there is a fifth Saturday  or Sunday in the month they are mine to sew, no workshops will be scheduled, unless it is unavoidable.

Until Next Time

Keep Stitching

Cynthia

Are you in?
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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

It's A Garden Party Row Along



 Welcome to my day on the It's A Garden Row Along. Thank you to Marian for organising and host this annual event, Northcott for suppling us with fabric to  use in our blocks and prizes, Electric Quilt Company and all the other sponsors.  Here is the full schedule, just in case you have only found us.  Make sure you visit everyone, collect their patterns and leave a comment. You may win something for doing something that simple.

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Blue Heron Quilting | Made By Marney
Pumpkin Patch BC | The Devoted Quilter

Thursday, September 10, 2020

Bobbin In Quilts Blog | Kissed Quilts | Patchwork Breeze
Songbird Designs | Stitchin’ at Home

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Daughters of Dorinda | Elizabeth Coughlin Designs
| Lovingly Lissa | The Quilt Rambler

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Fabric Bash/Carpe Blogum | For the Love of Geese
Kathleen McMusing | Ms P Designs USA | QuilterChic

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Heleen Pinkster Quilt Design | Patti’s Patchwork
Quilt Schmilt | Scrapdash | Your Sewing Friend

Thursday, September 24, 2020

Charisma’s Corner | Clever Chameleon
Dragonfly’s Quilting Design Studio | Kathy’s Kwilts and More
Mountain Meadow Designs

Tuesday, September 29, 2020   Today

Cynthia’s Creating Ark (You are here) | Miss Loreen’s Schoolhouse
Moose Stash Quilting | Tuning My Heart Quilts
Cheryl LaPlante

Thursday, October 01, 2020

Barbara Dieges | Linda B Creative
Orange Blossom Quilt Design Studio | Ursa Minor
Sunflower Stitcheries and Quilting

Tuesday, October 06, 2020

Bumbleberry Stitches | Charlie’s Daughter
Seams To Be Sew | The Quilting Room with Mel
Words & Stitches

Thursday, October 08, 2020

Duck Creek Mountain Quilting | Lynn’s Beauty
Quilt Art | Renee’s Quilting Addiction
Sew Incredibly Crazy

Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Show and Tell Day
TBA

Now on to my block.  Every garden needs a focus tree in my opinion, size doesn't matter as gardens can be tiny or they cn be huge. So that why I have created a tree which will be my centre block when I get around to creating my Garden quilt from the patterns collected..


This block is suitable for a quilter who has the basic skills as it only has half square triangles in it. You can find my pattern HERE.


I have the pleasure of having a Northcott Giveaway for everyone today. Northcott will send you a bundle from one of these in the picture below.  This is a worldwide giveaway - USA winners will wait until the Row Along ends for shipping to take place and USA winners will pay shipping cost.



a Rafflecopter giveaway

 You can find the rules for the Giveaways here.



Also Electric Quilt  has a special offer for everyone during the row along. They are offering a 20% off any products except for EQ Academy during the row along. The coupon code is: GARDENPARTY20. If you haven't got it yet this is the perfect opportunity to get it and receive the discount.

I hope you have enjoyed your visit and I look forward to see what you do with the patterns you collect.
Until Next Time 
Keep Stitching
Cynthia.
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Thursday, April 2, 2020

Scrap Everything and Sew Blog hop


Welcome to my day on the Scrap Everything and Sew blog hop. Normally I won't sign up for a blog hop that ran this week of the year, but when I got Pat's invite stating she was host a blog hop on this week due to her travel plans being cancelled, it got me thinking mine might get cancelled. Believe it or not, that is exactly what happened. Normally this week I  am flat out getting ready for the Laura Folk Fair, an event we have done for 18 years I think. It was a big blow to see it cancelled but we can't do anything about. So I sent Pat an email count me in. A big thank you to Pat (Lemon Tree Snippets) for hosting us.
Here is the full schedule, so pop over and see what everyone has beeen working on.
Wed. April 1
Lemon Tree Snippets
Thu. April 2
Quilting Gail
Fri. April 3
Beaquilter
Cynthia's Creating Ark (You are here!)
Sat. April 4
The Darling Dogwood
Sun. April 5
Kathy's Kwilts and More
Lemon Tree Snippets

Now I am here to share my scrappy project.
Out came one of the scrap boxes. I had an idea but needed to check the scrap boxes for colour selections. I was after reds, pinks, yellow and neutrals. Reds and pinks not a problem. Only a few bits of yellow, but I didn't need much, The neutrals had to come from the stash more than the scrap boxes, not enough in the scrap boxes. There was some small cuts in the stash to use.

I created my block in EQ7 (Yes I am behind the times. I am haven't upgraded to EQ8 yet, but it will happen now I have the new laptop.)
Nothing too hard. I have plenty of hard stuff to do, I don't need more.
I had a table runner in mind. I finished my blocks  and I still have a stack of cut pieces to sew. I think I got carried away with the cutting.


Once my blocks were made, I off set the blocks by adding a piece to one side of each block. Then turned every second block.
Once sewn together it looks like this.


I got to this stage and love the look so much, my original table runner idea has gone out the window. I will be making more blocks and there will be a quilt when I am done with them.

I hope you have enjoy visiting today and once I have finished this project I will make this pattern available.
Until Next Time
Keep Stitching
Cynthia


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Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Virtual Cookie Exchange 2019

Welcome to my day on the Virtual Cookie Exchange. Thanks to Carol for organising us in to a well oiled cookie machine pumpimg out cookie recipes for everyone to test and enjoy over the holiday break.
Here is the full list because I know you will want to collect every recipe.

December 2nd

December 3rd

December 4th
Cynthia's Creating Ark you are here

December 5th

December 6th

This year my recipe is one that was shared at our annual Project Uninterrupted retreat in September. Beth made these wonderful treats to share with all of us and as soon as I tasted them I knew I was going to have to share the recipe here with all of you. A nice easy recipe that you can whip up at short notice and impress everyone with.

Coconut Biscuits
1 cup desiccated coconut
1 cup of self raising flour
1 cup of castor sugar ( it is a fine white sugar that dissolved quicker for baking)
125  grams butter melted
1 egg
Mix all the ingredients together. Roll  teaspoons of mixtures in balls and put on baking tray. Flatten slightly.

 These will spread so give them extra room on the trays.
 Bake at 160 degrees C for 10-12 minutes so they are slightly golden. Let them cool on the trays as they are still soft when hot. Makes approx. 20 biscuits.
I hope you enjoy these one, I know we are.
Until Next Time
Keep Stitching
Cynthia
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