May you all have a beautiful and blessed Easter Sunday!
And never, ever take a freshly baked cake from scratch (a very yummy Spiced Applesauce Bundt Cake) one day, then cover it with its own special glass domed lid to keep it fresh (and the ants out) over night in advance!
It turned the dome into a humid little glass greenhouse and cracked the icing and melted my jelly beans! Beautifil rainbow dribbles everywhere but wizened pathetic looking jelly beans were literally falling off my cake!
What to do but eat every jelly bean with plans to reglaze and redecorate early tomorrow before celebrations and final cooking of ham and cheesy scalloped potatoes with all the trimmings.
Thirteen guests are expected 6 regular sized humans, 3 half pint sized ones from the todder department, and two grand dogs, 1 medium and 1 huge with feet and noses and tongues and sweet personalities to match!
It will be great fun and many more jelly beans and cake will be eaten!
Michele Bilyeu Creates With Heart and Hands as she shares her imaginative, magical, and healing journey from Alaska to Oregon. Creating, designing, sewing, quilting, and wildcrafting... from my heart and with my hands.
It's so much fun to make new Spring or Easter quilts for new babies or children transitioning into new, larger beds.
But I also make and give adult bibs, prayer flags, Alzheimer's Fidget or Sensory and Tactile Quilts as well as bags, pillowcases etc.
I love them all and this blog us filled to the brim with ideas, inspiration as well as dozens and dozens of my tutorials and thousands and thousands and thousands of other creative and talented quilters, sewists, and crafts people.
Gifts can be created from fun fabrics for all ages and stages and interests of the people you love!
Easter Blessings to all who receive our gifts of hands and heart. May you be filled with grace, joy, and peace.
I used some scraps in Beatrix Potter prints, as shown above, and made this cute but easy, baby quilt and included a little soft fabric book for a quick gift!
This little baby quilt is in flannel, and these where all the scraps I had in these colors..so no outside borders, and very simple style..but it is soft and special and still so cute! And best of all, the sweet little one who received it,
Whether you like bright, calm, or sweet pastels...they welcome in Spring.
And whether you make an Easter quilt, or Easter basket or bag, pillowcases, or my current favorites...garlands, banners, and prayer flags, it's all lovely to make and to give to others!
My links are up at the too in a full view of this blog or over to the right in my link lists and my last 7 days most popular blog posts images and link ups.
Here's a fun list of photo ideas from some of my own projects files, and from so many other "Easter/Passover/ and Celebrate Spring!"pattern links..not just for quilts, and quilt blocks but a few super cute Easter crafts, too
Any spring colors, any styles in so many different crafts to choose from! And do come back as these are updated all of the time. Just click on my my master link list up at the top border, or over on the side gadgets to the right!
This includes ideas for all
And speaking of bunnies, check out some really cute ones along with carrots, chickens, and cats and other fun Spring and Easter ideas. Plus, I've included some lovely Passover ideas for and from my Jewish readers and bloggers.
Bunny Applique mini quilt 12 x 14"free patternby Jennifer Heynen at Jennifer Jangles
Free basket blocks pattern by Gwen Marston; from her Beaver island Quilt Retreat on Baskets.
The pattern is for one of eleven baskets quilts she made for the retreat. The quilt is made with 16 pieced baskets and 15 alternate blocks in redwork. Baskets w. Red work 60" x70"
Bunny Quilt from Quilting Passion http://quiltingpassion.com/MQs/MQ11/
Blocks create a cute bunny shape! The finished size of this project is approximately 30" x 42", without borders and 42" x 54", with borders.
Cactus Pot Basket Block http://blocksnswaps.blogspot.com/search/label/Cactus%20Pot from Blocks 'n Swap.This basket block was first published in the Oklahoma Farmer Stockman, on January 1, 1930
Easter Chicks Decorate and Bunny Luv
Bonnie Sullivan of Salem OR
Check out this darling original wallhanging, wool applique on flannel, 24"x 28" and quilt designed by Bonnie for Fons and Porter, free downloads as of above at: http://www.allthroughthenight.net/All_free.php
And don't forget how easy and how much fun making Easter pillowcases can be! Use my magical 'burrito' pillowcase pattern and a yard and maybe a bit more for trim..and you'll have a darling pillowcase in no time at all!
thanks for the pdf link to the Ocean Waves Quilt Guild and to the photo of a pincushion, made and featured at the "The Chicken Run" Challenge Group..see lots and lots of chickens!!
http://ohsewtempting.wordpress.com/chicken-run-gallery/
2 identical log cabin blocks, 4" x 4" (3 1/2" x 3 1/2" finished); 1 square 2" x 2" of ... Lay down one log cabin block, right side up, as illustrated with the dark half of ... Fat Quarter Bundles, Original Quilt Kits, Quilting Fabrics & FREE Quilt Patterns
Also for recipes and other wonderful Passover posts: Do Check out Cheryl Lynch's blog She celebrates Passover and the traditions for her children in some truly lovely ways!
Kermit Says "The Luck 'O the Irish to You!" and offers to share my free St. Paddy's Day quilt or quilt block patterns with you!
Shown above, is my own favorite simple string quilt, pieced in a diagonal pattern with 'Kiss Me I'm Irish' and other fun shamrock fabrics.Kermit's Irish green eyes are smiling on the string quilt done in greens and holiday shamrock fabrics, hope yours are too!
And above, my own green Somerset Star Potholders Tutorial complete with a free patter tutorial:
**Yellow Clover a block design first published by Nancy Cabot for the Chicago Tribune.
According to Barbara Brackman's Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns, Yellow Clover is one of hundreds of Cabot patterns sold by mail order during the 1930s.
YELLOW CLOVER debuted in the Nancy Cabot quilt column in the Chicago Tribune on March 19, 1936. Cabot's notes state the following:
"Yellow, green and white form one of the most popular of present day quilt color combinations. YELLOW CLOVER is one of the newer pieced blocks which allow the quilt maker to use these colors in a most appropriate pattern.
It is a pattern which is not difficult to piece, and only 36 blocks are required for an entire coverlet. They are set together six blocks across and 6 blocks deep and surrounded by a five inch border of white material and bound with leaf green bias binding a half inch in width."
The pattern is included in most compendiums, see p.207-5 in Jinny Beyer's QUILTER'S ALBUM OF PATCHWORK PATTERNS, for example, or p.212 in Maggie Malone's 5,500 QUILT BLOCK DESIGNS, or #2459 if you're using Barbara Brackman's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PIECED QUILT PATTERNS.
For an index of Nancy Cabot designs at this site, see. CABOT BLOCKS.
Yellow Clover: BLOCK SIZE:10 1/2" square
MATERIALS
Dark print at least 5" x 10"
Medium print at least 10" square
Light print at least 16" square or one fat quarter
CUTTING
Dimensions include a 1/4" seam allowance
Cut 2: 5" squares, dark print
Cut 3: 5" squares, medium print
Cut 5: 5" squares, light print
Cut 4: 3 3/8" squares, light print, then cut them in quarters diagonally to yield 16 side triangles
Cut 7: 2" squares, light, then cut 2 of them in half diagonally to yield 4 corner triangles
DIRECTIONS
Draw diagonal lines from corner to corner on the wrong side of each 5" light print square. Draw horizontal and vertical lines through the centers.
Place a marked square on a 5" dark print square, right sides together. Sew 1/4" away from the diagonal lines on both sides. Make 2 using the dark squares and 3 using the medium ones.
Cut the squares on the drawn lines to yield 16 dark pieced squares and 24 medium pieced squares. Press the seam allowances open. Trim each pieced square to 2".
Sew a 2" light print square to a dark pieced square to make a rectangle unit. Make 4. Press the seam allowances open.
Lay out the square units, rectangle units, and the remaining 2" light print square. Sew them into rows and join the rows to complete the block center. Press the seam allowances in the direction indicated by the arrows. Set it aside.
Lay out 3 medium pieced squares and 2 side triangles. Join them to make a pieced strip, as shown. Make 4. Press the seam allowances open.
Lay out one medium pieced square and 2 side triangles. Join them to make a pieced strip. Make 4. Press the seam allowances open.
Sew a corner triangles to a pieced strip to make a corner unit, as shown. Make 4. Press the seam allowances toward the corner triangles.
Sew a corner unit to a pieced strip to make a large triangle. Make 4. Press the seam allowances toward the corner.
Sew 2 large triangles to opposite sides of the block center. Press the seam allowances toward the corners. Sew the remaining large triangles to the remaining sides and press to complete the block.
Michele Bilyeu Creates With Heart and Hands as she shares her imaginative, magical, and healing journey from Alaska to Oregon. Creating, designing, sewing, quilting, and wildcrafting... from my heart and with my hands.
