Appleicious, Quilty Fun!

I've had these fabrics chosen, and the squares for the apples cut, sitting on a design board on my floor in the corner, for 2 l/2 years!!!

I have been so busy sewing blessing gowns and baby quilts and birthday and Christmas gifts for grandchildren, traveling to visit family, and just plain life!

I've had some time lately and have been finishing my WIPs.

I picked this project up from the floor and it literally had a layer or two of dust on it, lol!

I've loved this quilt since I first saw it, I even have a Pinterest board dedicated to it.

It really didn't take long to sew up these little apples.

It's funny how your fabric taste changes over the years. 

I may not have chosen some of these prints or colors if I was making the quilt today.
I probably would have added some Cotton and Steel!

I still like them though....

My favorite apples are Honeycrisp and Pink Lady. 

I also love Golden Delicious, and Granny Smith for salads.

That's why I included a lot of pinks, yellows and greens :)

Ta Da!!!

My own little appleicious quilt!

I'm going to machine quilt it myself, but probably won't be able to  until the new year.

I love Moda dots, with the white background and the colored dots.

This background is in gray dots, and surprisingly, it didn't take as long as I thought it would, to sew the borders together.

I'm so happy with my little quilt!

Lots of Lori Holt's prints, some of Pam Kitty's, and other random prints that I love.

Do you notice the little blue leaf?

It's my red and aqua apple :)

Have Yourself a Quilty Little Christmas quilt, finished!

Lori Holt is an awesome designer!

Her first quilt book is called Quilty Fun and it's absolutely fabulous!

I completed Lori's row along, and finished a beautiful quilt that I gave to one of my granddaughters for her bed.

After the row along, Lori surprised her followers (me) with a Christmas sew along called "Have Yourself a Quilty Little Christmas."

Lori hosted the sew along on Instagram!

Most of the blocks were from her book, but she surprised us by throwing some oh so cute! Christmas blocks into the mix.

You can read about my little Christmas quilt journey, here, here, and here.

I said I would get my adorable little quilt quilted in a couple of months, but it's been almost a year later and I finally finished it!!!!

I got busy making heirloom blessing gowns, quilty fun birthday

banners, and the business and joy of everyday life.

I have always wanted a Christmas quilt and couldn't be happier with this one :)

My friend Cindy Paulson quilted it, she's so talented.

Do you see the holly berries and leaves she quilted free hand?

I love the back, it's so perfectly vintage :)

Thank you Michael Miller for creating such adorable Christmas fabric!

See my little snowman label?

I really want to make a snowman table topper or table runner someday.

Here he is a closeup before I sewed his buttons on :)

I know you'll want to make a darling Christmas quilt of your own after you catch the excitement of how much fun I had making mine!

You can go to Lori's instagram account and copy the tutorial if you're interested.

Thanks for reading my blog post and looking at all the photos!

Quilty Fun Birthday Cake Banner and Tablerunner

Lori Holt designed this cake block to celebrate the year anniversary of her Quilty Fun quilt book.

pssst....The book is available at JoAnn's.

You can go here to Lori's blog to get the recipe.

The first cake I baked, was Strawberry Cheesecake.

I had so much fun, that I decided to bake a Chocolate Mousse cake.

Red Velvet cake is one of our family favorites.

I baked another Red Velvet in a different color combo :)

Then I baked a strawberry cake, they are pretty addicting!

I baked another strawberry cake with one of my granddaughters in mind, and came up with an idea...

I will bake the cake into a banner, one for each of my grandchildren.

Each year, when it's their birthday, their cake banner can be displayed on their special day.

Charlotte's birthday is April 9th, she'll be five!

It's hard to tell in the photo, but the border looks like sprinkles :)

I appliqued Charlotte's name with wonder under and a machine blanket stitch.

 I made a tablerunner for Charlotte's mom, because she goes all out for birthdays :)

I thought she might like having a table runner for her festivities.

 I used a dotted fabric for the border on the table runner, and they still look like sprinkles!

It may be a while before I get around to quilting it.

I wanted to show you a photo from last week's post.

Here are some of my grandchildren with their dolls and baskets that I made for them.

Here are two granddaughters who weren't in the previous photo.

I didn't get one of their baby sister, because she was sleeping :)

Have yourself a Quilty little Christmas, Quilty Fun!!!

I finished my quilt top and I love it!!!

It's Lori Holt's #haveyourselfaquiltylittlechristmas quilt along, which she posted on Instagram, tutorials and all and it's free!

You have to buy her book "Quilty Fun" to have the complete cutting instructions for some of the blocks, but that book is worth every penny and more!

You can also find it at Joann's, use a coupon, and save lots of money :)

I made the pieced four patch border and there was lots and lots and lots of cutting involved.

These bright colors make me so happy!

Here's the border assembly line.

Let me just say that it's time consuming but well worth it, for a cute scrappy look.

Ta da!!!

My finished quilt top is really Christmasy and colorful :)

Lori also created Mr. Snowman who will be sewn onto the back as a quilt label.

He's so cute that Lori is making a mini quilt, using nine little Mr. Snowmen and Snow women.

I really want to make one, but it's time to finish my Christmas preparations.

I hope you've enjoyed seeing the progress of my quilt, I'll show you the quilted version in a month or two.

Have Yourself a Quilty Little Christmas

Hi Everyone!

I intended to have this quilty fun Christmas quilt finished by tonight, but I watched Christmas movies on TV with my family, instead.

Have you seen "Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever?"

It's hilarious in an extremely corny sort of way!!!

Just in case you haven't heard of this quilt, you can read my previous post about it here.

Here's a cute courthouse steps block.

I sewed some of the blocks together and like how the low volume backgrounds are blending together.

Here's my stocking block, Lori threw it in as a bonus block!

Here's my entire quilt, without the border.

I never showed you the wreath blocks, aren't they adorable?
They're bonus blocks too!

I was a little worried about my bright backgrounds mixing with the low volumes, but I think it turned out well :)

I'm currently working on my pieced 4 patch border, but it's going to be a while....

These are all the pieces that need to be sewn, cut, pressed and sewn  together again, you get the idea!
The border and finished dimensions of the quilt will be the same as Lori's Apple-Icious quilt.

Have Yourself a Quilty Little Christmas

My friend Lori Holt from bee in my bonnet, is doing a quilt along.

It's not on her blog though, it's on Instagram.

Her name is beelori1 and it is so much fun trying to keep up with her and seeing all the blocks everyone else makes.

Lori told us that the blocks would be from her book Quilty Fun, and to pull some quilty Christmas fabrics for the QAL.

Our first block was a little cottage, a lot of people made gingerbread houses.

Then we made a cocoa mug.

Lori surprised us by adding a block that wasn't in her book, a cute little Christmas tree.

Here are all of my blocks, including some pretty fabrics that I love.

I made some white fluffy Santa mitts.

I'm being a little daring, choosing such bright colors for the background.  

We have no idea what order the blocks will be sewn, or what the finished size will be :)

Lori gave us a little gingerbread man who wasn't in the book!

He should have 3 little buttons down his front but I haven't sewn them on yet.

Here's what I have so far, I think the colors go together pretty well.

5 Christmas lights, they were fall leaves in the book :)

We added a candy cane stick to stir our hot chocolate.

Block 7 is a Christmas candle to put in our window.

Block 8 is a Christmas star, to represent the star of Bethlehem and the birth of our Savior and Redeemer.

Block 9 is a cute vintagey ornament which isn't in the book either.

I was referring to Lori's profile so many times to see what the measurements were for each block.

I decided to keep a journal of all the blocks and the cutting directions.

I will probably want to make another quilty Christmas quilt and would like to have the directions in one place.

I recorded everything in my "Happy Day" journal.

Block 10 is a sewing basket that represents all the giving that we do at Christmas.

Lori told us the order to sew these blocks together.

I think the color blocking works, thank goodness!

I forgot to take a photo of Block 11, a Christmas present, in the lower left corner.

Block 12 is spools of thread or ribbon.

Here are all the blocks I've made for this little QAL.

I made a new star, because I didn't think the colors in the previous one matched the rest of the colors in my quilt.

I have no idea how many more blocks there are, but I hope you join, it is like being with your best friends in your own sewing room :)

If you join, follow me, my name is Dream Quilt Create.