Upcoming Crazy Quilting and Embroidery Events

If you want to learn how to crazy quilt:
I believe registration for Kathy Shaw's next Basic Crazy Quilt Course 101 (BCQC 101) will be open January 5th - 7th. This is a free course, but you do need to purchase your own supplies. More details may be found at Shawkl.com. 

HERE, you may find more details and links to Kathy's course descriptions and the calendar of course registration dates.

You will need to visit Kathy's website - HERE - on January 4th or 5th for directions on how to register.

HERE, you may find close up photos of the block above that I created in 2015 through BCQC 101.

If you are interested in creating a crazy quilt:
Registration is open for the Crazy Quilt Journal Project 2019 (CQJP2019) through December 30th, 2018. This is a personal challenge to create one crazy quilt block a month, measuring at least 8-inches square. By the end of the year, you would have 12 blocks to assemble into a crazy quilt. HERE is a link to the CQJP 2019 Challenge Rules. You will want to read the rules, the Use of Photos page, the Questions & Answers page, and then follow the directions on the How to Register page by December 30, 2018 in order to participate. Registration closes on December 31st.

This year, one option for CQJP is to work on blocks that we did not complete in previous years. If I sign up, my goal will be to finish the remaining 8 blocks from this year's challenge.

If you are interested in learning new embroidery stitches, or challenging yourself with some stitches you already know:
Sharon B. of Pintangle.com will be hosting a new round of Take a Stitch Tuesday (TAST) and Beyond TAST in January of 2019. TAST is a personal challenge to learn a new embroidery stitch each week. You may learn more about it HERE.

You may find some of my work from TAST 2018 on Pinterest HERE.


Please note, I am not affiliated with any of these events. In the past, I have enjoyed participating with them and thought I would share this information in case you might be interested.

Wishing you a wonderful week!
Renee

Monday Stitchery Link Party #8

This week, I am happy to say I finally completed my block from Kathy Shaw's free Basic Crazy Quilt Course (BCQC).

This was such a great class! Kathy gave great instructions for completing each of the seams and gave great suggestions and guidelines for the motifs. One of my favorite things about this course (aside from all I learned) is seeing how similar, yet how unique each student's completed block turned out.

Above is a close up from the top of the block. (Click on any photo for a larger image.)

I just love the way this seam turned out!

And this silk ribbon butterfly was a fun motif to learn how to stitch.

The spider motif was my choice. Traditionally, spiders were added to crazy quilts because they were believed to bring the quilter good luck.

This butterfly is another addition I added on my own. If you click on the photo above it will enlarge and you may be able to see the heart stitched into the butterfly's flight path.

The elements in the photo above were all taught in the class.

Above is a close up of the center of the block. The iris and roses were both new to me. (I need more practice on these roses!)

Here is a close up of the bottom of the block.

If you have any interest in learning how to crazy quilt (or just want to learn some basic silk ribbon embroidery), I highly recommend taking the BCQC offered by Kathy at Shawkl.com. More details may be found here.

The next Basic Crazy Quilt Course registration will be open June 27th - June 29th. As for me... I am hoping to sign up for the Intermediate Crazy Quilt Course 101 (ICQC-101) in September. (The class is available in July too, but my schedule is nuts then.)

Thank you so much for stopping by! I do hope you will hop over to Super Mom - No Cape and see what the other stitchers linking up have been busy creating. And if you have hand stitched something, I encourage you to join in the fun. 
-Renee

WIP Wednesday 03/04/2015

It has been another busy week here, but I did manage to complete a couple of projects and make some progress on the Santa and the Mouse Ornament. This freebie chart is no longer offered, but it is a small section of the Santa and the Mouse chart that is available at Heaven and Earth Designs (HAED).

Above is a picture from last week. I found my missing skein of DMC floss in stock at the fabric store this week, so I was able to fill in the small white sections along the top of Santa's hat. I also added a bit more sky to the right.

Here is the current progress on my block for the Beginner's Crazy Quilt Class taught by Kathy Shaw at shawkl.com. (If you are interested in this class, registration for the next free class will be open March 20th - 22nd. You may learn more details here.)

My fly stitch roses need more practice, but they were fun to make! Created with a French knot and three fly stitches, they sound pretty simple. I pulled my tacking stitches a bit too snug and placed the bottom stitches a tad too far out. I look forward to trying these again.

I do love dragonflies! This lace one was fun to tack down.

I could not resist adding a spider. This may be my first pink spider. It is certainly the largest one I have ever stitched!

These little satin flowers with pearl centers may be my new favorite embellishment! (I purchased mine from Thearica at Crazyquiltingsupplies.com. I am not affiliated with her shop, but I love ordering from her!)

This little bow with the dangling heart is entirely too sweet.

It is always so much fun to see how a few beads can dress up a seam! I only wish the photo could capture how the beads play with the light.

That is all the progress I can share at the moment. 

Thank you so much for stopping by!
Renee

Last Week's Goals:

1. Complete at least 100 x-stitches on the HAED Santa and the Mouse chart. Completed about 60 x-stitches. See photo above.

2. Finish my Beginner's Crazy Quilt Block. Made significant progress. 

3. Work on an item for my Etsy shop. (It is currently empty. It is so much more fun to make gifts!) Completed almost half of the embroidery on a panel for a denim coin purse.

4. Finish my February 1 X-mas Item a Month project. Done! You may read more about it here. 

5. Finish my project for the Tree Bird Blog Hop at Sew We Quilt My day to share will be March 18th. I was a little nervous about how one project would turn out, but was so happy with it that I actually clapped my hands with delight. :) That same project will also be a Christmas gift this year, so I marked off my March 1 X-mas Item a Month project at the same time. Bonus!

This Week's Goals:

1. Complete at least 150 x-stitches on the HAED Santa and the Mouse chart.

2. Work on Nicki Lee's UTS DYB RR Block.

3. Work on an item for my Etsy shop. 

4. Work on a block requested in exchange for my son's senior pictures.
5. Work on Beginner's Crazy Quilt Block. 

WIP Wednesday 02/25/2015

Is it really the last Wednesday in February already?! 

It has been a busy week for me and a productive one. (Although, I did realize I have not fully completed a project to add to my 2015 Finishes page yet. I have 3 days to fix that!)

HAED Cross-stitch Progress:

Roughly 300 x-stitches were completed on my Heaven and Earth Designs (HAED) Santa and the Mouse Freebie Ornament. This freebie is no longer available. However, it is a small section of this chart and the artwork is by Scott Gustafson. Current free HAED charts may be found here. (My favorite is the Freebie Ice Princess - the artwork is by Hannah Lynn. It is a small section of this chart.)

Santa's hat has been filled in a fair bit this week. Last week's progress is shown below for comparison.

Beginner's Crazy Quilt Class:

The majority of my stitching time this week has gone into the block I am making as part of the free Beginner's Crazy Quilt Class taught by Kathy Shaw at Shawkl.com. I have a bit more silk ribbon embroidery to add before adding motifs and beads.  I do so love the way the white fabrics make a perfect canvas for the embroidery.  It is a fun class! 

Registration for the next beginner's class will be open March 20th-22nd if you want to join the fun!

Goals:

My goals for this week include:

1. Completing at least 100 x-stitches on the HAED Santa and the Mouse chart.
2. Finishing my Beginner's Crazy Quilt Block.
3. Working on an item for my Etsy shop. (It is currently empty.)
4. Finishing my 1 X-mas Item a Month project.
5. Finishing my project for the Tree Bird Blog Hop at Sew We Quilt.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you have an amazing week!

Hugs,

Renee

Beginning Crazy Quilt Class Progress - Basic Seams Added

Let me just say, I am loving the Beginning Crazy Quilt Class Kathy Shaw offers through Shawkl Designs!  There are things I have discovered I do the same as Kathy, and there are other things we do differently. It is so much fun trying new methods.

Above is a picture of my block with the basic seams and stitches. Next, I will be adding some of the silk ribbon embroidery. 

At the time of this post, it looks like registration for the next beginner's class will be March 20-22, if you are interested!

Thanks for stopping by!
Renee

Please note: I had a few technical difficulties making this post. I do apologize if you subscribe by email and received a blank post!

Basic Crazy Quilt Class Bare Block

Kathy Shaw at Shawkl Designs generously offers crazy quilting classes for free. All you have to do is purchase the supplies, read the information and follow her amazing directions.

Note: There is a button on her sidebar for students that wish to make donation to help with the software expenses she incurs to provide the classes.

If you have taken the beginner's class, registration for the next intermediate class will open on February 26th. 

The next beginner's class will open for registration on May 2nd.

The beginner's class is a prerequisite for anyone wishing to take the intermediate classes - regardless of the stitcher's skill level. I really want to learn a few things offered to intermediate-level students, so I am taking the beginning class.

This is my bare block. (It is hard to tell from the photo, but there are 5 different printed white fabrics on this block.)

Creating the beautiful block Kathy teaches her beginning students should be a fun way to try out my new Q-snap frame, too. (I have heard such good things about them.)

Now, I am going to hop on over and see the Day 8 We Support You projects on the following blogs. I just love all of the ways support is being given through this blog hop hosted by Madame Samm at Sew We Quilt and wonderfully cheered on by Pat at Life in the Scrapatch.

Feb 9^th 

Stitchin By The Lake

 Tea Leaf Quilts

Books, Hooks, Sticks, etc

Seams To Be Sew

Stitchen' My Life Away