Hazel's Daughter

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

It's A Jungle Out There Blog Hop...my day!

Welcome to Day 3 of the It's A Jungle Out There Blog Hop!

We are here because of our gracious hostess, Joan at Moosestash Quilting.

There are always so many talented bloggers who stitch along and provide incredible inspiration.

This month's challenge is to create a project centered on animals, plants or trees.

It all began with the background piece here that's filled with woodland animals.

I pulled from my stash an assortment of coordinating fabrics.

Not knowing how big I wanted this...more likely reason is that my math skills suck...I simply cut a whole lot of 5" squares. The solids would become HST's.

If you squint your eyes juuuust enough, you can see that there's a secondary pattern going on.

Behind the diagonal rows, there are vertical stripes of green, then blue.

Raise your hand if you see the stripes! 🙋

There is one big disadvantage to having a design floor.

After piecing all the blocks together, I quilted the layers together using the wavy stitch that's on my machine.

I've used this stitch many times and really like how it looks.

Now how in the world did this batting scrap get sewn onto the back?

At least I had only sewn one pass before finding it.

Ugh. It's a jungle out there!

A striped binding provided the look I was going for!

The leftover small scraps were sewn into rows and quilted onto batting.

And it soon became a matching bib!

It is Jax-approved!

Now for some final photos of the quilt...all taken in the jungle we call our backyard!

Now I have a gift for a baby boy all ready to go!

This quilt measures 38" square.

Please follow along the hop and see many more fabulous projects!

Monday August 19

MooseStashQuilting

Ms P Designs USA

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Quilting Between the Rails

High Road Quilter

Tuesday August 20

Patchouli Moon Studio

Karrins Crazy World

Quilting Gail

Quilted Delights

Wednesday August 21

A Quiltery

Quilted Snail

Selina Quilts

Hazel’s Daughter < << you are here!

Thursday August 22

Just Let Me Quilt

Scrapdash

BeaQuilter

That Fabric Feeling

Monday, July 22, 2024

Something Smells Fishy Blog Hop

There's a whole lot of fishy stuff happening this week on the blog hop

and today's my day to show off my crab!

When this blog hop opened for contributors, I asked Carol (our fabulous blog hop hostess) from Just Let Me Quilt if a crab project would fit the parameters of "something fishy".

She was quick to say yes!

I don't care much for seafood besides the occasional can of tuna or tilapia filet, so making a fish-sort-of-anything gave me the willies.

Fortunately, my zodiac sign is Cancer and a crab is the symbol!

Besides all that, I have been known to be on the "crabby" side a time or two.

Very fitting, eh?

I found a great crab applique on Etsy and shrunk it down to 80% so it would fit on a towel.

I'm wishing I had shrunk it down more, but it is what it is!

I pulled out my blue batik strips and sewed them together to resemble water.

Curvy organic stitching gave the strips some movement.

A navy ric rac was sewn beneath the strips on top and bottom.

The crab applique pieces were ironed in place,

then I used the blanket stitch in reverse to give Mr. Crab some texture.

He was looking pretty good, even on his crabbiest day!

Flat white buttons topped with black beads gave him that "I'm watching you" kind of look!

Gold colored beads were added to make his treasured starfish sparkle!

This is a photo of my kitchen where my new crab towel hangs on the oven door.

It is clearly a hands-off towel and since I'm the only cook in the house, I respect that decision!

Just yesterday, I found the coolest crab plate that sits just right behind the cooktop.

It was a steal at the American Cancer Society Discovery Shop in town....marked down to $3!

Now go visit all my fishy friends on the hop as they show off their awesome projects!

JULY 22

JULY 23

Patchouli Moon Studio

Words & Stitches

Quilted Snail

Quilting Between The Rails

JULY 24

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

JULY 25

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Hello Summer!

Summer's here and the living is easy, as George Gershwin once said!

As much as I love summer, spring will always be my favorite season. But the former kid, former teacher, and former public pool season passer in me, there is always a reminder of the sweet warmth that the hot months of summer bring.

My latest project was inspired by June's theme of "watermelon" at The Joyful Quilter's Table Scraps Challenge. Watermelon = Summer to me, so it was a no-brainer to put these 2 ideas together.

I found a tutorial among my Pinterest boards for a mini banner that fit the bill perfectly!

You can find the Summer Fun Watermelon Applique Banner here,

created by Amy Chappell.

I added the cursive text of "hello summer", which is pretty darned close to my own handwriting!

Cutting out the text was the hardest part of this project. Ugh.

No wonder cursive is becoming obsolete!

Add the binding was not a part of the original plan or tutorial. It became necessary because of the vintage linen fabric I used as the background. It has a loose weave and became wonky and not fun to play with.

I made 4 tassels from embroidery thread and a few beads

to add an extra punch of color.

This will hang on a narrow wall in my bedroom.

Hello Summer!

Enjoy your easy living!

Thanks, Joy, for your encouragement and support to keep this blog alive!

Linking up with:

June's Table Scrap Challenge

Wednesday Wait Loss @ The Inquiring Quilter

Wednesday, June 19, 2024

For The Birds Blog Hop

Today is my day on the For the Birds Blog Hop!

This hop is hosted by Joan at MooseStashQuilting, and it is here that you will find a wide array of bird-themed projects to keep your wings aflutter!

How's that saying go? Birds of a feather flock together?

Well, if that's true, this funky bird is in the right place!

I hope you've been following along with this blog hop and have enjoyed the creative bird projects!

When I'm looking for inspiration, I often get caught going down the rabbit hole of Pinterest. I found enough ideas to fill my bird-brained nugget so I could get pecking at my new project!

I gathered my brightly colored strip scraps and sewed them together for the background.

Knowing this was going to be on the smaller side, I chose strips no longer than 16" in length.

With scraps of fabric chosen and hand-drawn templates, I used Heat 'n Bond Lite to prep my appliques.

All appliques were cut out and laid in place.

I had a keen liking for this bird already!

She seemed to be going places!

Back to the background piece, I laid the applique templates aside and added a batting to the sewn strips. Organic wavy lines became my quilting choice, using different colored threads.

The flowers were ironed down first, then edged with black thread in a narrow stitch.

Her groovy, skinny legs and bird boots are perfectly in fashion for heading to wherever!

And in her beak, she carries a purple string!

She knows that a string always comes in handy!

I had so much fun making this little bird wall hanging!

Thank you, Joan, for hosting another great hop!

Here's the week's full blog hop schedule for your enjoyment:

June 17

MooseStashQuilting

Quilting Between the Rails

Selina Quilts

Quilt Doodle Designs

June 18

Homespun Hannah's Blog

BeaQuilter

Words & Stitches

High Road Quilter

Quilted Delights

Quilted Snail

June 19

Patchouli Moon Studio

A Quiltery

Ms P Designs USA

Stitching Farm Girl

Scrapdash

June 20

Just Let Me Quilt

Isabella’s Whimsy

Quilting Gail

Hazel's Daughter (you are here!)

Songbird Designs

Saturday, June 1, 2024

May Flowers Bring Roses

Who doesn't love roses? Keep your hands down, if that happens to be you. You might end up liking them enough to enjoy this project!

Once again, I was prompted to create a project for Joy's Tablescrap Challenge...this month's theme being Kentucky Derby. I'm not a horse lover, although I do appreciate their beauty from afar. (I had a bad experience with a big "gentle" one back in Girl Scout Camp many moons ago.)

So no horse, of course, in my project.

But with a winning horse in the Kentucky Derby, one may come home with a garland of roses.

Or perhaps a few roses on a pillow.

That's the squiggly tale of my thought process, anyway.

Among my many pins on Pinterest that will keep me busy far into my afterlife, I narrowed it down to the vintage scrappy rose applique using my batik scraps and a small piece of Kaffe Fassett flower fabric. No pattern or template used, just free form cutting.

Multiple layers and 3 flowers later, I found a piece of white-ish upholstery fabric in my stash.

I had just enough for a small pillow, front and back...woohoo!

I layered this with batting and a muslin on the back to quilt in a big grid back and forth, then used some batik strips to make some fence-like posts. I was short on the purple strips, but I thought that just gave it more interest!

I stitched down each layer of the flowers close to the edge, as well as the leaves.

A simple 12" pillow form was made using muslin and poly filler.

The pillow backing was one that has the opening to sneak the insert pillow inside. Easy peasy.

And then, a pretty little rosy applique pillow was created!

Linking up with:

The Joyful Quilter Tablescrap Challenge

The Inquiring Quilter Wednesday Wait Loss

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

April Showers!

I know, I know...it's already May, but it's still raining in my corner of the world!

Besides, I wanted a mini quilt for my wall to celebrate Spring.

I was inspired to make this as I looked on Pinterest for a quilted piece that included an umbrella.

Why an umbrella? So I could link up to Joy's Table Scrap Challenge at The Joyful Quilter!

I started with this background fabric that I bought at a 2nd hand shop in Missouri on our way to see the last solar eclipse. The tag is hard to read, but I snagged this 2 yard piece of Art Gallery newspaper print for $1.99!! Someone surely didn't know it's worth!

I printed off an umbrella template and found this perfect scrap of bird fabric that was exactly the right size. Sometimes things just work out, don't they?