Welcome To My Home!

Welcome To My House! 

This is my newest quilt block design.

It is a 12.5" House Quilt Block

made entirely from jelly roll strips.

Only 1 strip of each fabric print is needed for this block.

I used this Autumn Love Jelly Roll 

by Lori Holt for Riley Blake.

I apologize for not having a completed project to show you.

I almost dropped out of the hop

but decided to post this instead

in an effort to meet my commitment.

I have been sewing,

but have a lot of other projects I need to get done, too,

and not enough time to sew.

It has been a busy time of doctor's appointments and tests

for me for the last month and more appointments are still coming.

To sew this block click on the link below for my

Free Tutorial for my Jelly Roll House Block

Since I do not have a  finished project I am also posting this fall house quilt 

which I made nine years ago.

This is my favorite fall house quilt.

This has been warming my walls in autumn every year

since I began blogging ... 

My Pumpkin Patch Quilt in Fall 2009

is one of my first blog posts.

The center is a house panel.

I added borders of my own design 

 I quilted it to show off the features,
like these pumpkins which has a little extra batting tucked in to make them rounder.
I always love when the weather turns cooler and I can hang this quilt again.

I apologize for not having any new finished projects to show you.
I almost dropped out of the hop
but after talking to our wonderful blog hop host, Carol,
 I decided to post this instead
in an effort to fulfill my commitment.

I have been sewing,
but have a lot of projects I need to get done, too,
and not enough time to sew.

It has been a busy time of doctor's appointments and tests
for me for the last month and more appointments are still coming.

I hope to have a new quilt for you soon.

Please visit all the other quilty homes today ... 

September 13

Creatin' in the Sticks

Quilt Doodle Designs

Quilting & Learning - What a Combo!

Domestic Felicity

Life in the Scrapatch (you are here)

That Fabric Feeling

Just Because Quilts

Hazel’s Daughter

Thank you to 

Carol @ Just Let Me Quilt

for hosting this lovely  open house hop. 

Happy Fall! 

Remembering My Butterfly

Remembering
🦋 The Butterfly 
Forever In Our Hearts
July 2000 - March 26, 2017
R.I.P.

It has been a year, my beautiful Butterfly.

I miss you everyday.

You have a special place in my heart.

Celebrating my Quilty Kitty today in photos ...

Butterfly, Born To Be Wild

Spirited

Loving

Playful

Curious

Patient

Always There For Me

Helpful

Very Helpful

Very, Very helpful.

Always Helpful. 

Full of Life, Full of Love

My Master Quilt Tester

Butterfly Loved My Quilts

Always Ready with a Kitty Smile

My Quilty Vanna White

Butterfly and My Daughter's Wedding Quilts.

Butterfly was My Girl's Baby Kitty,

adopted at the Humane Society as a kitten.

My Girl wisely left her senior kitty here in her forever home

when she married and moved away

because she knew her kitty would be happier here.

Butterfly and I bonded while missing Our Girl.

Our Favorite Quilt

My Quilty Cuddly Kitty 

The last photo of her.

After I put down the camera I just held her outstretched paw.

I love you, Butterfly.

<3

Waiting for Spring

This is my WIP UFO

more soon!

more snow ...

23-25 inches in my backyard

'nough snow

I have been staying inside and sewing

and making soup.

waiting for spring

My 500th Post ...

... truth in blogging and a picture is worth a 1000 words.

This is a photo of one corner of my Checkers in the Park Picnic Quilt

I believe this photo shows that my narrow inner blue border measures 1" finished in my quilt

and that my corner is squared.

I posted a tutorial of how I made this quilt HERE 

My tutorial is an accurate description in words and photos as to how I made my quilt.

One of my readers believes that the narrow blue border strips must be cut at 2" 

in order to make this pattern work for her.

If you decide to make a quilt like mine, you may want to take this into consideration.

You may want to cut your strips to 2" to make your quilt.

I always use my own best judgement when I sew and I am sure you do the same.

I do what works for me.

I cut my strips at 1.5 inches.

Above is a close up of the last scrap of my blue border strips.

I squared and trimmed my outer border blocks to 12.5" unfinished 

with my 12.5" square Quilter's Rule.

Honestly ... this is what I did.

My quilt is together and it is square and flat and all my corner seams are matched.

I love my quilt!

I posted my tutorial to share my happy quilt with other quilters.

I always try to be as truthful and as accurate as possible when I put words and photos on my blog.

I have never claimed to be an expert or that I am perfect ...

or even that I make perfect quilts.

I believe that perfection does not exist in human endeavor.

I just do the best I can and "just keep sewing."

Miss Katniss approves.

All is happy and well in my quilty corner..

May your happy place be happy today.

Also ... there is still time to get in on my 

Great Giveaway

from

Fabrics N Quilts

so check it out!

Miss Katniss curled up and took a nap on this quilt.
She woke up and rolled for me to rub her tummy as I went to snap her picture.
Then she went back to sleep and her little kitty feet and whiskers were twitching.
I think she was enjoying the scent of the green grass on the quilt
and dreaming of running along the riverbank.

A few minutes later, Miss Katniss moved her nap to a sunny windowsill ...

... and Miss Butterfly came in with dirty little feet from digging in the dirt outside
 to take her turn on the quilt and wash up ...

it is a good thing I know that I can safely wash this quilt.

Miss Butterfly says, "Now how about one of those belly rubs."

Purrrrrrr!

Thanks for reading

:-)