Melted Crayon Workshop with Terrie Kygar

Wowee!  Did we have a great time at our class on Saturday :o)  Our guild, Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild, had Terrie over and she put on a class for us with crayons, irons and pressing sheets.

 

So. Much. Fun.

 

Have to say it didn't really seem like my kind of thing since I am pretty harsh on criticizing my own coloring skills, but dang - it was fun and turned out really cool!  So, so, so glad I did it!

 

Terrie and her daughter Kristy came over from Dallas and brought all kinds of fun stuff with them.  She taught the techniques out of her book, Creative Quilts From Your Crayon Box.  I would totally recommend buying the book, the techniques are really clear and the projects turn out totally adoreable.  Click here, here and here for sites that sell the book.

 

We all arrived and set up our stations.  We needed an iron, pressing pad, applique pressing sheet, paper towels, crayons (Crayola of course!), colored pencils (we used Lyra), pigma pens and muslin (she recommended Southern Belle Muslin) backed with fusible web (recommends Steam-A-Seam Sticky Back).

 

We started off with the pear, then moved on to a leaf, trumpet flower, humming bird and a flower with separate petals.  Check out Martha's Blog, Quilt To The Edge, for great step by step photos of Terrie doing her thing.

 

The rest of this is going to be nothing but photos - I took a lot of us as we worked.

 

Arline setting up

Ginger and Cindy setting their stations up

Arline's pear

Ginger and Cindy working on their pears

Linda's pear

My finished pear

Ginger's finished pear

Class's finished pears

Cindy's leaf

Peggy's leaf

Arline's leaf

Jo Ann's leaf

Martha's Leaf

Class's finished leaves

Blank trumpet flower and my color selection

My trumpet flower with the light color

My trumpet flower with the medium color

My trumpet flower with the dark and contrast colors

My trumpet flower with green leaves

My finished trumpet flower

Ginger's trumpet flower

Linda's trumpet flower

Arline's trumpet flower

Peggy's trumpet flower

Jo Ann's trumpet flower

Martha's trumpet flower

Class's finished trumpet flowers

Jo Ann's hummingbird

Arline's hummingbird

Ginger's hummingbird

Jo Ann's hummingbird

Peggy's hummingbird

My finished hummingbird - of course it has to be different!

Some finished hummingbirds

Ginger's petal flower

Jean's petal flower

My finished pieces

Here is a video where Terrie demonstrates the melt-n-blend technique

 

 

Hope you liked the smorgasboard of photos - I know that we all had a FANTASTIC TIME!

 

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A Wicked Day!

Hello everyone!  Welcome to AnnieOak Designs' day on the Wicked Blog Hop - I am very excited to share what I put together for you.

 

First, I want to say Thank You to Madam Samm and Wicked Wendy for organizing and hosting this Wicked Blog Hop.  Click here for the whole schedule - all 8 days worth of some wickedness that is scary great! 

 

I am sharing this Frightful Friday with the following bloggers. 

 

 In Stitches & Seams

Sew.Darn.Quilt

Quilt Monster In My Closet

Lieselfriends-Di... Handnäher

The Learning Curve Quilts And Such

Qreative Quilts And Quests

Sew Many Yarns

AnnieOak Designs  <---That's MEEEEEEEEEE!

Searching Out Simple

Sheila's Quilt World

Val Spiers Sews

Robin - That Other Blog

 

Make sure you visit all their freaky-cool sites and leave some bloggy love!

When Madam Samm and Wendy announced this blog I jumped at it.  Thinking I would do some creepy-crawlies and bats on a wall hanging, I set out looking for some ideas and patterns.  But...my mind kept going back to a play I had heard about.  You guessed it, "Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz".  Now, I had and still have, only HEARD about it.  Never seen it, never read the book, never even checked it out on the web.

 

While looking for my creepies and crawlies, I came across this book from That Patchwork Place, Spellbinding Quilts: Wizards, Witches and Magical Characters to Paper Piece.  Uh, can you saw right up my alley????  So, I bought the e-version and flipped through the patterns for some inspiration.  There were a couple of neat little configurations, but nothing really jumped out at me.

 

Back to the Wicked Musical image searches.  And BAM!  There was a great selection of photos of the background and this dragon. 

 

www.cheechunfoo.com

And there was this photo of the two witches.

www.glogster.com/sunshineskittles

I had the inspiration and the ideas, so off I went to my graph paper and after drafting a quick sketch of what I "wanted" to do, I headed off to Fabric Depot.  Remember the post where I gave you a sneaky-peaky of the Boo-ty I got there?

 

 

Here is what I came up with for the dragon.

 

 

And Glinda, the Good Witch of the South.

 

 

And Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West.

 

 

They all went together for a quick quilty snap-shot of the stage and the Wicked name.

 

 

I did FMQ on the entire thing and had a blast doing it.  There is echoing,

 

 

 some regular meandering and some angular meandering

 

 

and scales on the dragon.

 

 

The back looks just as cool as the front, don't you think?

 

 

Now, what is a blog hop without a giveaway right?  I am going to be giving away 6 fat quarters of orange and black fabrics to one lucky winner to help celebrate the end of the Wicked Blog Hop and Halloween (oh and the fact that the Beavers are 6-0 right now!).

 

All you have to do is:

 

1.  Leave a comment on your favorite Oz character (Wicked or Wizard of Oz).

 

2.  For a second entry, be a follower and let me know!

 

Please, please, please: No-Reply Bloggers make me sad, sad, sad.  I love all of your comments and when I can't reply back (or send a great giveaway gifty), I get sad.  Booh.  So, leave your email if you are a No-Reply Blogger and actually want a shot at the giveaway.  I'll ship anywhere - all my followers rock!  I'll pick a winner 1 November.

 

So, remember to visit all the other Frightful Friday bloggers and leave bloggy-love.  And make sure you come back on Nov 1 to see if you won the giveaway!!!

 

woof woof meow

100 Followers Giveaway WINNER

Hello everyone!  I hope you are all enjoying the Wicked Blog Hop that started today; Mdm Samm and Wendy have done a great job getting this off to a fearsome start!

 

My 100 Followers Giveaway ended last night at midnight and I have a winner randomly picked for you!

 

The random number for the 100 Followers Giveaway was #5:

 

Terry @ a quilting blog

I'm already one of your happy followers...congrats on reaching 100+!!! Thanks for the sweet giveaway!

 

Congratulations Terry!  I’ll be sending the package out to you as soon as I get your mailing info, I’ve sent an email to you :o)

 

Thank you all, again, for being such great followers!  I’ll see some of you around the Wicked Blog Hop and hopefully you’ll all visit and enter the giveaway on my Wicked day, October 26!

 

woof woof meow

A Spooky sneak peak!

My MIL and I went up to Fabric Depot this weekend to take advantage of their monthly 35%-off-all-fabric sale and I picked up the fabrics for my Wicked Blog Hop project(s).  Here's a little peak of the BOO-ty!

 

 

 

Can't wait to show the finished projects!  My day is October 26!  Be sure to check in with my and all the other blogging fiends during the hop - I know there will be at least one freaky-cool giveaway from Annie and Oakleigh :o)

100 Followers Giveaway

Hello everyone!  I’ve got a great little giveaway for you since I’ve reached 100 followers, I’d like to show my appreciation!  In the giveaway, the package includes fat quarters, patterns and a kit, some notions and a few other little goodies.

 

 

The three fat quarters are from Spring Street by CarolynGavin for P&B Textiles.

 

 

The patterns and kit include “Global Memories” by Katrina Hamer for Katrina & Friends, “Vintage Kitty – Sewing Machine Cover andOrganizer Mat” by Cotton Ginnys, and a kit from Whims Watercolor Kits called “YellowRose of Texas”.

 

 

The notions are a pack of 2” fine butterfly pins and an “AddA Quarter” Ruler.  The other little goodies include a Suzy Toronto cat coaster, luggage tag from Hoffman Fabrics and a magnetic notepad from Leanin' Tree. 

 

 

Fun huh?  All kinds of things for any taste!  All you have to do is be a follower and leave me a note telling me you are one.  New or old – doesn’t matter, I appreciate  you all!  No-Reply commenters make me sad - please make sure you leave your email in the comment so I can contact you if you win :o)  I'll ship internationally (my first giveaway winner was international). 

 

Giveaway ends 12:01am (PST) on Sunday, October 21.

 

Thanks - woof woof meow!!!

Leafing Another Blog Hop Behind...and a Winner!!!

Well, Leafs Me Happy Blog Hop, put together and hosted by Mdme Samm and Cherry was great!  So many different interpretations of Fall, has me waiting for the trees outside my office window to hurry up and change already!!!  It has been cooler and foggy in the mornings, so maybe soon :o)

 

In my post I mentioned a giveaway and now is the time for the winner. 

 

5 FQ of Fall fabric

I had 195 comments - thank YOU very much! 

 

Mr. Random picked #170:

Pauline from Quilt n Queen

Good morning, the tossed 9 patch is a fun, fast and easy block. Can't wait to see it after it comes off the long arm. It will be a beauty! Happy stitching, Pauline

 

Congratulations Pauline!  I'll be emailing you for your address shortly!

 

Thank you again to everyone for stopping by, commenting and becoming folowers!  I've got over 100 now, so it is time for another giveaway this weekend.  I'll post it up on Sunday :o)

 

Thanks again -  woof woof meow

Leafs Me Happy!!...oh and a Giveaway

It is my day on the Leafs Me Happy Blog Hop!!  Yay!  My second one and I am really having a fun time with it :o)

Thanks to Mdm Samm at Sew We Quilt! and Cherry at Cherry Blossoms Quilting Studio for putting this Blog Hop together and hosting the whole she-bang!  Thank you thank you!!!  Here is the whole schedule and here is the schedule for today:

Mrs.Pickles Garden

Gingersnaps Quilts

Petit Design Co

A Passion For Applique

AnnieOak Designs (that's ME!!!!!)

Michelle's Romantic Tangle

CherrysPrairiePrimitives

Krislovesfabric

Scrapbook-ChickADoodle

Make sure you check out the other blogs and give lotsa bloggy love!!!

Now on to my block(s) and project.  Using 5 Fall fabrics

and a paw print blender (not pictured), I put together a tossed 9-patch.  I used the Eleanor Burns pattern and she does a great little video on how the pattern is put together (and how to do her swirling centers!).

I didn't get any photos of the blocks before they got put together, but here is one of the blocks zoomed in:

See the smaller blocks that were the 5" blocks cut into quarters?

 Then I added a small inner border of the paw print to frame the whole thing.  I used the left over 5" squares and cut them in half, mixed them up and sewed them back into the outer border.

Here is a close-up of the quarter block:

 I can't wait to get this on the long arm!

I call the quilt "Disappearing Harvest"

 A couple close-ups of my favorite parts of one of the fabrics I used:

Happy Cornucopia

Gobble Gobble!

Now on to the giveaway :o)

I am going to give away 5 FQ of the fabrics I used (but not the paw print - I am running low and can't bear to part with it)!  To enter the giveaway, all you need to do is leave a comment!  You need to be a reply-blogger, if you aren't, be sure to leave your email address in the comment.  For a second entry, be a follower and leave a comment telling me you are a follower!  I'll draw a winner on Thursday October 11.

Easy-peasy :o)  I hope you enjoyed my blocks and good luck on the giveaway!  Make sure you check out the other bloggers today and throughout the rest of the hop! 

Hop hop hop :O)