Carli The Quilter

I just love the action and creativity that comes when I'm stumped and I just let go..... Do you ever do your creative process this way. It must come from the deeper side of my quilting, the one of a kind quilts I make for clients. Remember this quilt, really it was going nowhere fast!! 'Into the garbage' were the thoughts I had several times as I stored, refolded and buried this quilt. I just didn't like it and that doesn't happen often. But as the desire to finish things became an obsession whilst doing the canning and harvesting of garden produce! Its amazing, it must be the awesome work done by my chiropractor! I'm feeling less pain everyday and this provides new energy. I simply started by cutting off the four blocks surrounding the hexies. Then came the next round of cutting, I went crazy cutting over two blocks at a time. Then I created new fabric in a round about crazy fashion in 5 inch strips. It was fun start...

This Little Houses Quilt Along is so sweet!  Thanks again Kaaren from The Painted Quilt blog for hosting this fun and fast houses quilt along. Apparantly, around 500 quilters are participating. What fun! Whebn piecing I always pin close together to ensure seams line up. And there we have the Part 1 of this quilt along. Something looks a little wonky at the bottom. I'll have to find out what's going on there. And does anyone use Picasa Photo Editing from Google? I've just recently discovered that I had it all along! But now, I'm learning new stuff and enjoying the curve to learn how to edit your photos to improve the look. So if you are reading this far, then you're learning that a few days ago, I had my first contact from a reader who USED my new contact form!  Sharon, who lives down in PA was excited to learn that because she was the first reader to use this new contact form, she had won one of my newly developed ...

My garden has been the focus of the last while with peas, brocolli, cabbage and Saskatoon's too. But I have fussy cut out all 16 house units ready for sewing this week. Did you read the great quilt show on Fairies and Fibers blog? Happy Quilting everyone.

As I told you, its a teaser!

Yes, I know, you are all shaking your heads and giving me googly eyes, but I just love the work of "The Painted Quilt" and Kaaren Johnson's work is simply gorgeous and even better than all of that, she's a Canadian. The UFO's will just have to fold their arms over the chest and suck it up, I'm into a quilt along, so there! Have you not been to Kaaren's blog? Oh my girls, you are missing out big time! To be totally truthful, it was her cute and stunning little Christmas Wool Pincushion that first caught my attention. Funny how it is with bloggers heh? We are such eye candy hounds really! But anyway, she's now been asked to create her first line of fabrics and recently she posted this totally cute "House" quilt and now, she is doing a quilt along for this little quilt.  I have had the 'house' block on my Quilting Bucket List for quite sometime and I thought, oh what the heck, its what I do, lots of quilting! P...

This list is ambitious, but why not, its only summer and busy people gets things done! I'm so glad that On The Windy Side has hosted and lead this great way to Finish Things. This list is my one post of all the quilt tops that I intend to finish, so keep the comments coming, its so great to read what other people think of my quilts.  Thank you Adrianne! Isn't her banner below so stunning, its from her blog title. It must be a bunch of work to organize this and her crew as well are busy too behind the scenes. Thank you to all of you who help with choosing the winners for this great little way to get some finishes under your belt. This must an influence from watching the Calgary Stampede on CBC TV is making me talk like a cowboy! This is a table runner I am making for myself and my home. Its my own design, not too complicated but I decided to make it into a tutorial. So I made another one of course. Next up is my version of a Modern C...

I've been preparing to do Karen's Quilt Along on her "Empire" pattern from the blog Fairiesand fibers.blogspot.com I got ready with some prepared hexie's and off to the cool riverside to stitch. I made two sets to work on, one using ancient purple from 1990 paired up with scraps from Dr. Suess fabric. On the second piece I was brave enough to use printer paper and made a larger hexie template for 1.5 in. Hexie. I love the color for the second way better. Black print from the Miscelleny collection from Cloud 9 Fabrics paired with lime green spotted fabric from a series of fat quarters picked up somewhere. I've purchased some gorgeous fabric from Cottage Quilting in Kelowna.

Hello folks, I sure hope that my stack of "wip" are not boring anyone? Do tell me? What techniques are you wanting see? These photos show the stack I'm still working on and a very long table runner where I used the left over blocks from Burkley's quilt. Working through this stack is actually relaxing. What are you working on?

This little piece is coming along. I want it to be a total secret when its done.

Well, I picked a super huge bunch of fresh strawberries and wished I had time to quilt today, but that was just not on the list for today. But just had to share a photo of these lovely yummy deliciousness! Now, when I started getting ready to participate with Adrienne's Finish Along, I was slightly blown away with my progress so far!! Thank you Adrienne for your kind comments and enthusiasm for getting things finished! A slight side bar, here, I follow Adriennes blog and when I noticed her little "Finish Along" button, I was thinking "Ya, I can do that! It will help me stay motivated." But little did I realize that this "2015 Finish Along with Adrienne at On the Windy Side" actually had prizes and fun stuff like that going on. Well, I was shocked by that I think deep down, it made me want to show off and finish things for REAL! This was finished as of April 6, 2015 and it made many people smile a smile a mile wide. I was really tick...