Here are pix of the 10 items I made for my quilt guild door prizes this month. Half are 4th of July themed. I really wanted to keep a few of them but the joy is in the doing. If I kept all of them I liked, I would be a hoarder and my family would call for an intervention. Come on in and see what I did this month.
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America the Beautiful. It is a beautiful country that we live in, filled with all the wonders Mother Nature provides. Few places have so much of so much. I hope we can alter course and start to undo the damage we have done. I have hope.
My husband smoked cigars years ago and I, like the pack rat I am, kept the glass tubes some of them came in. I have used this idea before but this tube was plastic. Still, it worked nicely.
This little planter uses parts of a place mat for the art on a sign that was already painted that blue color. I thought it was just a sweet little item for a window sill or patio table.
I cut the house shape out of cardboard and put it on the wooden sign with the fork and spoon cut outs. There is a flower box behind the front wheel of the bicycle and the wheels turn. I was taken with this one too but it is easily reproduced so I may do that.
I used a Dollar Tree chair cover for the colors. It was synthetic and nasty to work with and did not want to stick to the plastic pop corn box. I persisted and made it work but was glad to see it taken early in the give away. I do think the pom pom bows made great fireworks exploding above the flowers.
A wooden hat, fabric to cover it and paper cores wrapped in fabric for fire crackers. I thought this turned out quite well and love the fire crackers.
This is 2 sided, with the other side being more patriotic. It spins nicely. The prez of the guild took this today and then sent me pix of her cats, lined up at the door, intently watching it spin.
I used fabric here again. The truth is I do not have the steady hand required to paint the stripes and the fabric worked so well. It was a little left over scrap and I put it to the best use. I loved this one. I really wanted to keep it. It worked so well considering the stripes are in two pieces with the twine artfully crisscrossing where they joined. But, I let it go and have the picture.
This is part of a place mat adhered to a pizza pan. I just liked it. It got an early home too.
This is the last one. It is a sweet hanging sign. It is cooler just to look at the watermelons as far as I am concerned.
Thank you for looking at my endeavors. I feel like tfg here, but many ladies came up to me today and thanked me for doing these and to keep up the good work. (No one was crying nor did anyone call me “Sir”.) I was humbled and felt loved. We can all benefit from both emotions, probably more than we realize sometimes.