Sew Crazy For You!: March 2022

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

March 23, 2022

Hard to believe I haven't done a post since last July...but then that means I have been busy stitching and have several projects to share with you today!!!

Where to start? Last summer, in doing garage sales I met a wonderful who has become a special friend. When I gave her my card, she asked if I had ever been to Kasha Quilts. Well, since I hadn't heard of the place, we made a date for the trip to a museum in Genesee. https://visitidaho.org/things-to-do/museums-galleries/kascha-quilts/

Meeting Karen Hagen was a wonderful experience, as not only does she have a great personality, but she is a very accomplished quilter! Not only has she made traditional quilts, but also many art quilts along with crazy quilts. You can visit her at her Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Kascha-Quilts-107625174400248/

With over 450 quilts of her own making...it is very hard to pick out favorites. Of course, I fell in love with her crazy quilts. Here's one she made, and has worn in the past.

One of her Under the Sea quilts is just spectacular.

But one I really fell in love with, is her crazy quilts with clowns...all done in velvets! It's a very heavy quilt naturally. It's cleverly done with the shape of the clowns making the pieces match to others.

Here, is Karen showing us the pieces of the quilt.

Well, then I made a gift for my friend, Lynn for introducing me to Karen who then introduced me to the Palouse Quilters Guild and I was invited to do a show and tell.

I made this pillow for Karen, the picture in the center is one done by Annette Eldon Graves, https://www.facebook.com/annette.graves. She is not only a wonderful crazy quilter herself, but a wonderful artist.

This is the back of the pillow. I named the piece, Enjoy the Journey.

Then I made a hanging piece as a thank you gift for Karen, using her picture of her quilt, and played off all of those colors and theme. I titled it, "Where are the Clowns?"

In October, I bought a picture from Zen to Zany, https://www.etsy.com/listing/508564311/visit-their-world-item-110-prints-and?ref=shop_home_active_5

I also received the peacock from Nicki Seavey and just had to use it!

I call this one Look For His Signs!!!

Then in November, I bought a T Shirt, and I loved the quote so much, that I photographed the picture on the shirt, and printed it out on fabric to make a wall hanging.

Then in church one morning, we sang the song "I Raise a Hallelujah in the presence of my enemies".

So it just seemed like the words to the song matched the theme that was developing in my mind.

I found charms to match the words, along with charms of musical notes!

Then in November and December I realized I had no wall hanging for the Holidays. Even though I have a crazy quilt under my tree, I wanted something for the entry way.

So I made one for Christmas.

Since there are three kittens on the quilt, Sonny, Mikey and Goldie. And this being our first Christmas with no pets, I decided to make it their tribute!

And then I wanted one that could be hanging on the wall into January for what is usually our snow month!

I call this one His Winter Star!

Then in February, I felt a subject tugging at my heart. Though I have not raised any children, that doesn't mean I don't feel very strongly how our children have been treated in this travesty that we have been in worldwide.

You don't have to believe like I do, but I have studied and seen the 120 medical studies that have said for over 20 years, that masks do not block viruses. Even surgeons know they wear them to stop sneezing into an open wound. But it is beyond me why anyone who would put masks on children. The main way they learn the world around them is by learning to read faces.

So I made this quilt, called "Suffer His Little Children." After all, God is the one who creates and blesses families with children. And He has much to say about them in the Bible.