Christmas Through the Year

If you follow my blog you know that I am making a pillow cover a month for my son and DIL. Marina figured out that this was one for the kids. This is the pattern from Kay's new book, Scrap Applique Playground.

Here is the rug that is my inspiration for the pillow covers.

Don't forget to go over to Erin's blog to see more of what is in Kay's book. Good luck in the giveaway.

With Passion,
Carrie P.

And the Winner Is...

Sheryl from Scraps from Sheryl. Congratulations! to you.
Thanks to everyone who entered.
Don't be discouraged that you have not won yet because there are still five more chances. Check out Susan Brubaker Knapp’s, Blue Moon River today for a chance to win a book. 


Thanks for stopping by my blog. It was nice to meet new bloggers. I tried to visit everyone's blog to see what you like to do. Lots of talented quilters, for sure.


With Passion,
Carrie P.

My Day in the Book-A-Round and Giveaway

 Welcome! My day has finally arrived to participate in the Book-A-Round. I was so excited when Kay Mackenzie asked if I would participate. When I got the book, Scrap Applique Playground published by Martingale, I read it from cover to cover. There are so many great patterns in this book. Like you, I keep a place for all my scrap fabrics which sometimes just sit because I don't know what to do with them. When I saw this pattern called Pop Beads I knew I had to try out this technique. So let's play in the scrap-applique playground!

There are several Scrap-Applique methods Kay features in her new book. Shrinking Strips, Building Bits and Bobs, Lay Down and Fuse, and Crazy Patch which I used for my project. You can see here how I started out piecing my scraps with a flip and sew method. This technique uses a fusible interfacing on the underneath side which is completely illustrated in the book. I am a visual person and all the methods are thoroughly described with great illustrations.

                                             My scrap-applique circles are ready to be fused.

Next I pieced the background.

Then fused and sewed the circles onto the background. A fun and quick completed project. 

I had fun playing in the Scrap-Applique Playground. There are eight projects in this book. I plan to learn more of the techniques so that I can use my scraps to make some more of Kay's projects.

If you would like a chance to win a copy of this book, be sure to leave a comment and a way for me to contact you. I will reveal the winner tomorrow morning.

Unfortunately the giveaway is only open to the U.S. and Canada due to the cost of shipping.

Don't forget  Book-A-Round continues until June 16 where Kay will finish the tour.

With Passion,

Carrie P.

Flowers

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.  ~Chinese Proverb

 What joy flowers bring to us. Even a Chinese proverb states the importance of a flower. Flowers make us smile. I have some gardenias blooming and their scent fills the air which makes me smile.  I enjoy how each flower is so different. Flowers! Enjoy Them!

 Flowers are featured in this Clover and Violet block I just finished.

 I found this little embroidery technique book at a book sale a couple weeks ago. I thought I would try one of the stitches.

You can see I used the rope stitch on the leaves of the tulips. It gives the leaves a little bit more dimension.

Another day of the book-a-round at Maria's Quilt Scraps. She made one of my favorite patterns from the book. I hope you are taking the time to go see the blogs that are featuring pages and projects from this book. Tomorrow come back here to see my post about the book. I will also be having a giveaway. Until tomorrow...



With Passion,
Carrie P.

Next Stop In the Book-A-Round

Sew Joy Creations! Go see what she made.

With Passion,
Carrie P.