Show Us Your Stripes Blog Hop

Yikes Stripes "Beechnut" gum.

Back from the 60's for those who are too young to remember!

LOL!!

While their spokes animal was a zebra, I went a little different direction, 

for this hop.

Meet Griffin. He's my "Yikes Stripes" goofy giraffe!

I'm no artist, so I love looking for free clipart online for my quilts.

This guy popped up when I "Googled" free giraffe clipart.

Once I saw him I knew just what I was going to make.

He is a free download from Clipground.com, you can find HERE.

Clipart is small, so I opened him up in the "Paint" program on my computer

 and printed him on 4 pages to be the size I wanted.

I have learned to love using "Paint" that I didn't know I even had on my computer.

It's so easy to enlarge things in it and much less expensive than Office Depot.

LOL!!

I had a plan in my head, so I went right to my Crafter's Edge dies and went to work.

I wanted floating triangles and I knew the Equilateral Triangle die,

 would be just what I needed to make it happen.

192 triangles later...

Griffin was complete!

Using the Crafter's Edge Equilateral Die HERE, made for quick cutting

You can cut 4-6 layers at a time.

The strip dies HERE make it so easy to cut fabrics for borders and bindings!

An added bonus is for those of you with "GO" cutters, these dies will work in your machines with the addition of a conversion platform set HERE.

I absolutely love their Crossover II machine, with it's adjustable pressure settings.

Thanks to Carla from Creatin in the Sticks, for bringing us all together to...

As always, you and Carol are the best blog hop hostesses ever!

We are blessed to have you both in the blog-a-sphere.

Make sure you visit my fellow bloggers and see what fun "Yikes Stripes" projects they have come up with!

Monday, February 22nd

Just Let Me Quilt

DayBrook Designs 
VroomansQuilts

Ms P Designs USA

Storied Quilts

Den syende himmel

thatfabricfeeling

Sew Many Yarns

Tuesday, February 23rd

Life in the Scrapatch

Stitchin At Home
Websterquilt

Homespun Hannah's Blog

Karrin's Crazy World

Quilt Schmilt

That’s Sew Kerry

SameliasMum

Annie's musings

Wednesday, February 24th

MooseStashQuilting

selina quilts

Quilting Gail
Karen's Korner

Kathleen McMusing

Food For Thought

The Joyful Quilter

Beaquilter

Thursday, February 25th

Becky’s adventures in quilting and travel 

Patchwork Breeze

Kathy Kwilts and More

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Cynthia's Creating Ark

Inflorescence: Starting to Bloom by Choosing Joy

QuiltFabrication 

Stitch and Quilt

Creatin' in the Sticks

til next time...

Keep on Stitchin'

Attention all Cacklers...

March 1 is almost here, and Carol from "Just Let Me Quilt" and I

 are busting at the seams.

While our original plan was to share just the fabric requirements...

We just can't stand it any more, so we are sharing photos of the official 

Cackling Stitches Group "Premier" BOM.

Drum roll please...

We present you, "Hagatha's House"

This is my version and you can hop right over to Carol's page

HERE

to see her's done in Moda Grunge!

🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡

Here's how it works.

The BOM will run from March 1st to September 1st.

On the 1st day of each month we will release block patterns that will be free

 until the next blocks(s) is released.

Once new blocks are released, the previous month's blocks will no longer be free.

They will be available in our Etsy stores at a cost of $2 for each month's worth of blocks.

On October 1st the entire pattern will be combined and sold in our Etsy stores for $10.

We hope you appreciate the time we put into creating the BOM quilt and understand that we are keeping the costs to a minimum. If you're quick to get the pattern during the month they are free,  there will be no cost to you.

Yes, you are required to be a member of the Facebook Cackling Stitches group,

"witch" you can join right

HERE 

LOL!!

You will find the fabric requirements HERE

This pattern will not be posted anywhere but our Facebook group. 

So what are you waiting for? 

Join us for the fun!

Feel free to download our button and post it to your blogs.

Come on March 1...we can hardly wait to see your quilts start coming together.

til next time...

Keep on Stitchin'

Carol and Joan

Crafter's Edge Design Team

 Are you looking for some fun?

Crafter's Edge is looking for experienced bloggers to make and share a project a month 

on your blog and social media accounts

You can apply online through the link below

CraftersEdge.com/DT

Unfortunately it's only for those who are in the USA.

At this time they are not shipping Internationally.

I love working with Crafter's Edge. Think about joining me!

til next time...

Keep on Stitchin'

Calling all "Cacklers"

You know who you are, if you have joined the "Cackling Stitches Group" on Facebook.

Carol from "Just Let Me Quilt" and I have been busy working behind the scenes on this years free BOM and I must say, we are just giddy with what we have in store for you. As we put the finishing touches on the patterns, I thought I would share a sneak peek of what's coming your way.

If you love Halloween as much as we do, you won't want to miss out.

The fun starts March 1. This Block Of the Month will run for 6 months. That gives you 2 months to put the finishing touches on it, before the big day! Winky Winky!! 

We will release 1 or 2 blocks a month, that will be free for that month only. After that they will be available to purchase for a small fee.

You can get in on the fun by joining our group on Facebook 

HERE

We will be releasing more information on our Facebook group, throughout the month.

Happy Dance Happy Dance!

til next time...

Keep on Stitchin'