Alpine Quilt Retreats

Monday, February 28, 2011

Hi Ho Cherry-O Step Two- Making the Wool Trees

Iron "Heat and Bond" on to the back of your wool.

Then trace the tree pattern and cut them out of the wool.

You can see that my wool was a little smaller than the pattern so I just cut my trees a little smaller. I wanted the monkey to show on my background fabric so I made some adjustments to all of my tree shapes after making the first original cut. Go ahead and get creative with your tree shapes.

Punch holes. I punched two trees at a time. I'm always looking for the shortcut!

This is what I used to punch my holes.

10 holes in each Tree. It will put marks in the wood so don't do this on your kitchen table!

I found a scrap of wood in my garage leftover from a three year old remodel job.

Sometimes I am glad no one cleans out the garage.

Carefully tack a small piece of fabric to the back over each hole.

Try not to get "heat & bond" on your iron.

Now you will have a solid color behind each hole.

I did two of my tress with orange as the background and two with yellow.

This has nothing to do with the game but I just liked the way it looked with two different colors.

Get creative in the center if you want.

This is the first gameboard quilt I made.

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Hi Ho Cherry-O Step One

Making the background for the trees. Make 4 of these.

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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Hi Ho Cherry-O

Here is what is coming next.! I will be posting the steps for the second game we will be making for the Grandma's Game Board quilt on Monday. It's a lot of steps but not too difficult. If you want the printed instructions you MUST be a "follower" on my blog.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Checkerboards!!

Game Board Pattern for the Hi Ho Cherry-O coming in a few days. But for now here are some checkerboards.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Don't Throw Away the Valentine's Day Cards

We have a tradition in our home of putting a Valentine’s box in the middle of our kitchen table about a week before the 14th. It started as a gentle reminder that the day was fast approaching. On the evening of the 14th we have a dinner that is mostly red and the main dish is always heart shaped meatloaf. After diner we open the box and pass out all of the valentines that the family members have made for each other. I have saved those over the years. A few years back I made this quilt using the valentines as a starting point.

My new favorite treat. Poached pears with homemade carmel sauce.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Grandma's Game Board Quilt

I was asked by my local quilt guild to come up with a project for our group to do in the year 2011. This is what I came up with -- Grandma's Game Board. If you look at some older post you will see this one almost completely finished. But for this post I am giving a photo step-by-step for those in my guild who are making the quilt. This was the fabric I chose as my starting off point for color selection.

I wanted to use some of the same fabric from my previous game board quilt.

The first game we are making is the Checkers.

Step one.

Step two.

Step three.

Step four. Trim to be square.

Step five.

Step six.

Step seven.

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