Peek A Who? Blog Hop

Welcome to Day 3 of the Peek A Who? Blog Hop!

I want to thank Marian at Seams To Be Sew for hosting annual Halloween blog hops. 

It is always so much fun to see the craftiness shared by other bloggers.

I love Halloween fabrics, especially the ones that glow in the dark!

This year, I used a few scraps of Halloween and fall fabrics to create fabric postcards.

I also love embroidery and crazy quilting. Each postcard was hand embellished. A few of the threads even glow in the dark. You may click on any photo for a larger image.

The eye and spiderweb fabrics glow in the dark. The pumpkin was part of an earring. And the orange spider was created with glow in the dark Kreinik thread.

Here it is in the dark.

"Boo" was added this Timeless Treasures Glow Ghosts fabric.

It still shows up when the lights are out.

Creating embroidered spiders is always fun!

Especially on Timeless Treasures Glow Webs fabric.

These are even creepy when the lights are out.

This Peanuts fabric in my stash was screaming to be included. I embroidered a bit of a Charlie Brown tree in the upper-left corner and added a few leaves with beads.

Fabric postcards are fun, quick and a bit addictive to create! 

If you want to make your own, I found this tutorial at Patchwork Posse very helpful (there are a lot of ads though), and I generally follow the finishing instructions on this fun fall postcard tutorial at Quilted Delights.

I recently shared a 6-part tutorial to create treasure chest postcards. You may find that and a link to a PDF file for the postcard back on my Tutorials and Free Patterns page found HERE. 

If you make a fabric postcard, I would love to see it!

Do you have a favorite Halloween memory? 

My favorite Halloween memories include trips to the pumpkin patch, carving pumpkins with my boys and their grandparents, and the Halloween parties we hosted when the boys were small. Making Mummy Dogs, Spider Cake (filled with green Jell-o), and Graveyard Pudding was always a treat!

The full blog hop schedule and Rafflecopter giveaways are below.


Peek a Who? Blog Hop Schedule:
Monday, October 22, 2018
Just Let Me Quilt / Tu-Na Quilts, Travels, and Eats
Words & Stitches / Melva Loves Scraps 
Seams To Be Sew

Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Songbird Designs / Quilt Doodle Doodles
Made By Marney / SewGoldenAChance
Ms. P Designs USA / Seams To Be Sew

Wednesday, October 24, 2018
MooseStashQuilting / Hand Stitched Treasure (you are here!)
DesertSky Quilting / Adventurous Applique and Quilting
Seams To Be Sew

Thursday, October 25, 2018
Just Because Quilts / Elizabeth Coughlin Designs
Patchwork Breeze / Life in the Scrapatch
Seams To Be Sew

Friday, October 26, 2018
Kathys Kwilts and More / Quilted Delights
Seams To Be Sew / Bumbleberry Style

I would love to thank Timeless Treasures and the Fat Quarter Shop for their generosity. The giveaways below run all week long.

My dear friend at DesertSky Quilting did a great job sharing the
Giveaway Rules and Guidelines at the end of her post here.
Please read through them. Thank you!

There is a free pattern available at Seams To Be Sew each day of the hop - each one is available for only 24 hours, so you will want to check in daily to collect them all.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Thank you for visiting.
I wish you a spooktacular day!
Renee

Peek A Who? Blog Hop Day 2

Day 2 of the Peek A Who? Blog Hop

Marian at Seams to Be Sew is hosting another great blog hop.

You may find the blog hop schedule HERE on her blog.

She is also offering a free pattern each day during this event.

My post is scheduled Wednesday. I hope to see you then!

Renee

Peek A Who?? Blog Hop Begins Today!

The Peek a Who? Blog Hop begins today.

Marian at Seams To Be Sew is hosting this Halloween blog hop.

You may find today's schedule and the free pattern of the day HERE at Seams To Be Sew.

You may find the full schedule HERE.

I will share what I made on Wednesday.

Wishing you all a spook-tacular week!

Renee

QS Red Hearts Update - September 2018

1,269 stitches were added to QS Red Hearts in September, completing Page 5. Six of nine pages are now complete. I love this artwork by Ching-Chou Kuik and it is beautifully charted by Heaven and Earth Designs.

This is how she looked at the end of August.

And this is how she looked at the end of September.

The project is 89.07% complete. (It was 86.37% in August.)

Pages 1-4: 100%
Page 5: 100% (It was 95.67%)
Page 6: 70.34% (It was 69.17%)
Page 7: 100%
Page 8: 41.24% (It was 23.31%)
Page 9: 7.03% (It was 2.4%)

October 19th - 21st is International Hermit & Stitch Weekend (IHSW). Last month 1,151 stitches were added during IHSW. We have a busy weekend planned, but I hope to make some progress. 

Wishing you all a great weekend!
Renee

IHSW originated at Random Ramblings. The goal is to set aside as much time as possible to stitch the 3rd full weekend of the month. There is an IHSW Facebook Group you may find here, if you would like to participate. 

TAST Week 14

Week 14: Buttonhole Wheel
During Week 14 of TAST, the Buttonhole Wheel was shared as Stitch 13 in this post at Pintangle.com. (There has been one break week.)

I used one of Sharon B.'s Stitcher's Templates and marked the foundation side of my crazy quilt block to help keep my buttonhole wheels evenly spaced.

My stitches were worked with a single strand of DMC #605 size 8 perle cotton. As you can see, I still need practice keeping these stitches even...

Black seed beads completed the seam.

TAST stands for Take a Stitch Tuesday. It is a personal challenge offered by Sharon B. at Pintangle.com to learn or work a new stitch each week.

Please note: I am not affiliated with Sharon B.'s templates. I did receive a set for an honest review, and I truly love working with them. My full review of the templates was published in the Summer 2016 Crazy Quilt Quarterly Magazine. (I am not affiliated with the magazine either.)