My Little Elf feet Block & Friends

I told you My Little Elf Feet block WON!

Thought you'd want to see the other blocks My Little Elf feet are now friends with...

Remember the ugly Christmas fabric?

 

This is the block I made...

My Little Elf feet!

He now has friends...

ALL the blocks were GREAT!!!

Don't you LOVE how one person took her fabric and made several filler blocks...

This creates a nice sense of unity to the quilt.

There is one more block that had dark burgundy,

 that's going to use that as the label.

There will be a sashing,

 probably white,

and possibly red star  corner stones...

OH!

OH!

What about adding little elf feet on the boarder...

Won't that be cute???

I'm making some BEAUTIFUL stocking for someone...

You HAVE to see these  when they're finished!!!

Maybe tomorrow...

Sew the pieces of life together...

It's a BEAUTIFUL quilt!!!

Merry Christmas!

Nina Clotfelter

Do you ever CHALLENGE yourself?

I enjoy making something out of nothing...so to speak.

I always look in the clearance section of a store...

especially a quilt store.

YES...I LOVE the price.

BUT...

I LOVE the CHALLENGE of making something beautiful 

out of these fabrics nobody else wanted!!!

It's sew much fun!!!

Sew...

Here's my "ugly" fabric...

This yellow strip really doesn't have a lot of...

Well...

Anything!  

Just BLAH!

This houndstooth I thought was great!

It compliments the first fabric kind of nicely! 

Ok!

This is a COOL fabric for a hunter!!!

These 3 fabrics are PERFECT for a friend who's having a baby!!!

The daddy is a hunter!

He's having a baby boy.

Well...

His WIFE is!!!

And since I don't do cute pastel colored baby quilts...

I like them to drag them around when they're older!

I thought I'd challenge myself to turning these 3 fabrics

into a FABULOUS baby boy quilt!

Can't you see it?

No?

Oh, I can!!!

This Camo will be the back!

It's DINOSAURS!!!!

AND, it's SOOO SOFT!!!!!

So...

Are you ready to see what I made with my clearance fabric?

Here it is...

I didn't get all the boarders in the picture,

But you can see what it looks like!

What do you think?

Is this like the ultimate BOY quilt!?!?

I just love it!

I don't usually do such masculine quilts...

I showed this to my 20 yr old son...

And he WANTS IT!!!

What a compliment!!!

So, don't tell him...

I'm going to add a few more boarders on this and make it so my 6'3" baby boy

can wrap it around his big, size 14, toes!

I have enough to make another baby quilt!

Sew the pieces of life together!
It's a BEAUTIFUL quilt!

Nina Clotfelter

Paper Piecing Class!

LOOK HOW CUTE!!!

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago I was going to teach a Paper Piecing Class...

Here are the products made in class!!!

 See how everyone's paper pieced tree and present turned out in class...

Aren't these GREAT!!!???

This was the first paper piecing for some!

What a FABULOUS job!!!

Others have tried it before...

and things got cleared up in class for them...

now they like paper piecing and will do it some more!!!

(In ALL classes I teach, I give all kinds of tips and tricks to make your job easier!!!

That's why you take a class, right?) 

Here is their next project in class...

This one was more difficult!!!

(Each student left at different  times, so I couldn't get a group picture.)

Look at how different each of the trees and presents are!!!

I LOVE how everyone did their own thing!!!

Everyone did AMAZING in class!!!

This was SEW much fun!!!

I'm going to lead a paper pieced BLOCK OF THE MONTH starting in July...

Want to join along?

(I'll post more about that later on.)

Sew the pieces of life together...

It's a BEAUTIFUL quilt!!!

Nina Clotfelter

My Little Elf WON!

Yes!

My Little Elf's Feet won 13 more blocks, all made with some of the UGLY Christmas fabric!  One of the ladies who came to the retreat, took her fabric and simply made 7 or 8 blocks out of it.  All used the same pattern and fabric...what a GREAT idea!!!  This will bring unity to the quilt.  Because there were 2 ladies that did this same thing, (making several filler blocks from their fabric), there was enough blocks for 2 winners this year!  YAY!!!

There REALLY are some pretty blocks!!!!

I also think I'll make a boarder with Elf feet on it!

Won't THAT be cute???



Sew the pieces of life together...
It's a BEAUTIFUL quilt!!!

Nina Clotfelter

My Little Elf!

I go to a retreat each December, it's this weekend.  There is a challenge each year...
Each person is send an ugly Christmas fabric.  You have to make a 12.5" block using a noticeable amount of your fabric.

Here's my ugly Christmas Fabric!

UGLY!

I pinned it on my wall and kept looking at it...

NOTHING!

(I was starting to it's too ugly to go in a block!)

THEN...

I realized I don't have to use ALL of it, or even a lot of it!  

I only have to use a recognizable amount!

So...

This is what I came up with!

The fringe on the top of the elf shoes is dimensional, it's able to move.

I sewed a little bell on the end of each point.

Then a bigger bell on the tip of the toe.

Cute!

Right?

As I kept looking at this,

The legs were looking funny!

Look at it,

the reason they look funny is the fabric I used is NOT Christmas!!!

DUH!

Elves usually have ALL red, green, white.

So,

I decided to take the legs off and replace them with a green strip fabric!

YES! 

That will work!!

I took this to Block Therapy with me yesterday.

After the paper piecing class I taught, 

I pulled this out and was ready to shop for a green fabric!

Well,

someone had an idea of adding pants to the legs...

Hmmmm....

So,

I added little knickers,

And here is the completed block!

What do you think?

Ok, here's the funniest part of this whole challenge to me...

We are each sent ugly Christmas fabric for the challenge.  We try to come up with something cute, fun, original, so on.  I like a challenge! 

 But here's the kicker!

If you win....guess what you get?

12-14 blocks made out of this UGLY Christmas fabric!  It's UGLY!  Why do I want to make a quilt of UGLY Christmas fabric?  LOL!!!

It's just funny to me!!!

The silly things we do...

Go do something fun and silly today!!!

(But NOT ugly!!!)

Nina