Saturday, February 7, 2026

Project quilting the prompt :Horses My photo on a tote!

 

The prompt for Project quilting this week, and we had one week to make something from is

Horses

I take a lot of photos on my daily walks, and visit this small ranch often... I took this photo

so I printed it onto fabric, adding in prismacolor pencil here and there on the printed fabric and started
I had a brilliant sky fabric scrap to go with the rocks, horses, SW design  fabrics and began designing 
I knew I wanted a tote bag. 
I sewed the outsides of the tote (then 15 X 16" approx), layered it with lining and batting and began quilting it like any quilt
decided on a top binding to put on after I folded it RST and sewed the sides. First I made quick handles
placed and sewed into place
used a gorgeous batik SW print for lining

fold them out of the way and add some rock fabric along the top to finish the edge

box the corners along the bottom so it will sit up
love the back of the tote



it's ready to use and I L O V E how it came out! I get to see my photo more often, it's useful and is made of specially hoarded fabrics years old so I get to see them too




I love horses...

another of my photos, taking in the neighborhood walk

a sweet horse video... enjoy


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZa9ZQkd05E

fabrics from my stash, I'll need to use soon they are so pretty







these turquoise nuggets might make a fine tassel or embellishment among the rock fabrics later





 
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Thursday, February 5, 2026

I Like Thursday #490 children's valentine cards

 

Ahhhh February 

winter gave us a pass this year. Pretty much temps mid 60's plus intense sun at high altitudes make it warmer during the days.... I start with a photo of my front porch (alas no snow on it) 

I love photography and have continued to try art photos this week along my walks

many are brought to you by the color gray

insects are coming out already, hello miss Ladybug

the road is winding
dropped bandaids won't help this road crack, sad to say
beloved donkeys taking advantage of another warm day


these two rode by in the nature preserve while we were there... 
beautiful scene as we walked the nature preserve, with these folks and gorgeous horses
icy creek view along the golf course from when we had 3 days of cold

this little fellow scampered right past us with no nod at all

this tree is trying to escape the fence... 
while this one won't be escaping much, wonder what happened? 
ouch

gray clouds look heavy, and the mountains have no snow

our conversation starter this week is

"remember in elementary school, exchanging Valentines with classmates, did you? It was a big deal, which  tiny card to give to which child. We had to give everyone one... we decorated the box too. 

remember those little cards and the tiny envelopes? 

I would pick the ones to give from the 5 & dime.... tear them apart, sign them, put them in the little envelop and put my classmate's name on it. In class the next day we were called up one at a time to put the cards in the boxes each kid made. It was so fun to go thru them when you got home! 

no surprise, I always loved whimsy!


That was in Tampa.... did you also do it in your area? 

A happy moment was connecting with one of the I Like people, Angela, via FT.... she's a real kindred spirit to me and it meant so much to chat with her and see her studio. Thank you my friend! 



Time and Acceptance are the biggest gifts one can share

in these unhappy times I have to watch fun videos... to remind me one day I'll have a dog again

happy? the basics  link  to talking dogs ( sorry the video won't appear here)



I do love a goofy baby








I'm looking forward to the start of the Olympics... ice skating and curling, opening ceremonies

Might watch the puppy bowl, but why run it during the olympics? 

trying to keep up with my sewing challenges... from this week


please visit these folk to see their likes, and if they gave out kid valentines too 

let me know if you wrote a post to be included... I'll add in your link!





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Tuesday, February 3, 2026

"stay at home round robin" prompt for this week, double blocks

 

I did what I could this week, 

life is a challenge right now, and life interrupted my sewing time this week. 

(Pardon the pictures, it was dark in my studio )

The round robin prompt from Kathleen this week was to add "double blocks" to our growing quilts... 

I could not make things easy for myself on this challenge.... oh no, LOL

from google images

quilters planner souce

I googled images and wanted to do trapunto raised water lillies but wasn't sure that fit the prompt

I thought, start with double 4 patch and choose watery fabrics. What size?  it would be nice to just know but when you are the designer it's not always obvious. My dragonfly blocks finish at 12" my hourglass blocks finish at 4" so the double 4 patch will finish at 6" all divisible by the dragonfly size

and it all has to fit in with this!


start with water lily and sparkly blue fabrics, make 8 small 4 patches 
Decide how to make the little 4 patch into a big 4 patch with another water fabric

oh yes I'll like this. I ran out of energy, something is sapping my oomph. I do not want to mess up this pretty quilt so had to stop to do a post to link up in time. 
Generally the 6 days we have to do the work, write about it and link up are rushing me so much
the plan is to use the leaf papers to shape my lillies with that lovely batik pink fussy cut

it's going to look so pretty when sewn into the double 4 patch ( a big 4 patch made with two little 4 patches and two blocks of the water fabric.

so that's it for the moment... now to stop and do the Project Quilting prompt... 
it is a one off, I get to play since it's small. Their prompt is horse, and I'm inspired by a horse who lives in the next neighborhood over... wait til Sat to see that one

linking up with Kathleen here
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Saturday, January 31, 2026

creativity overload

 

three challenges converge and I'm overwhelmed!

Today (one thing at a time this week) (which means several posts according to deadlines)

for Rainbow scrap challenge color of January, blue scraps I present another hexie spiral done with snowy prints

cows... metallics, dots all ready to begin stitching together, life is going around in circles for me

as for blue, two of my artsy photos taken on a walk
Blue ball in the wild

blue skies and heat of a Colorado winter

I have an idea for the stay at home round robin this round... double blocks.... gotta keep it fitting into a dragonfly theme too. 

and here comes Project Quilting one week prompt on Sunday to complete the frantic pace and drain the rest of my creativity energy! lol 

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