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Who’s that Squirrel? It’s Henrietta Whiskers!

January 5, 2011 By 70 Comments

Let’s have some fun!  Join me in the Henrietta Whiskers Club!

Can you imagine a cute little squirrel with a winning personality?  I can, and I’ve put her in my newest applique quilt!  It’s Henrietta and she’s so excited to be here!  She’s the new Bunny Hill free block of the month for 2011!   I just hope all this attention doesn’t go to her head.   I can’t imagine that it will because she’s just so sweet.

It’s been a little over a year since my “Name That Squirrel” contest;  November 2009 to be exact.  Twila Dockter from South Dakota was the winner of the contest and the name she submitted was Henrietta Whiskers!   I fell in love with the name and it’s where I got the inspiration for this quilt!  Thank you Twila again and again!

Henrietta Whiskers is such a special little squirrel and she’s going to bring us a loads of fun!   The applique is easy, the piecing is simple and I’ve added a touch of embroidery for fun.  Nothing difficult I promise! If you haven’t appliqued with wool this is a good time to start.  It’s so easy and I think you’ll love it.  I’m here to help if you have questions.  You can ask them in the comment section and I’ll answer you.

Have fun choosing  fabrics.  I’ve given you a fabric guide to lead you on your way but remember it’s only a guide.  Email us (info@bunnyhilldeisng.com) if you are interested in using the same fabrics.  We’ll  direct you to where you can find them.  Pulling from your stash will also be easy;  just make sure you have a mix of light and dark backgrounds to set off your applique.

Did you notice I gave Henrietta a little pink scarf?  I just couldn’t help myself! You’ll see this pink in a few other places throughout the quilt.  Henrietta in pink.  Does it surprise you?

Floss sets and embellishments will be available next month.  I’ll let you know when we have them in stock.

You can join my Flickr group and show off your work as you go along!   You’ll meet some really nice people and get some great ideas.  Henrietta Whiskers on Flickr!

I hope you have fun with Henrietta!  She’s ready for a party!

Hugs,

Anne

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Snowbound Block Eight!

August 4, 2010 By 28 Comments

Block eight is here!   Another month has gone by and now Mr. August is arriving in a wagon.  As you can see my “Snowbound” is quilted and ready for Christmas!  Yours will be too in no time at all! I hope you’ve been working on your Irish Chain blocks and assembling your quilt by rows so you can see it coming together!

Tell me where the year has gone?  Did you notice it flying by?  Only four more snowbound blocks left, can you believe it? 

 We’ll be decorating for Christmas before you know it!

If you received my newsletter this morning you know it’s “I Love My Pet” month at Bunny Hill!  Email or send me a picture of your pet and you’ll be entered in the drawing to win this basket full of goodies!  Email your photos to info@bunnyhilldesigns.com .  

 

 Here at Bunny Hill we are surrounded by pets as most of you know! 

Bitsy is back to normal, her stitches are healing fine, and she even wants to play.  But she still won’t walk.  It’s not that she can’t walk, she can walk just fine, she’s just refusing to.

Can you believe it?  Just look at this face!

Or this one with her ears up. 

Can this be the face of a spoiled smart dog? 

She has a stub of a tail that she wags at just the right moment.  She makes sure you’re looking first.

Chelsea’s getting worried that you might forget how “cute” she is with all this attention going to Bitsy.  She wanted a few of her pictures in the blog post

And Mooch?  She’s not worried a bit.  After all, she’s a cat!

  So love your pet and show me how cute they are!  You might see them on my blog!  How fun is that?

 

And now for the next hint you’ve been waiting for…

 

Hints to help you guess my Fall Market Block of the month theme!

1.   Christmas with some pieced blocks

2.  A little bit of snow.  White snow NOT pink snow.

Have a great day everyone!  

Back soon,

Hugs,

Anne 

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Look what I found!

July 25, 2010 By 3 Comments

Look what I found!  It’s a blog that links to me AND I’ll be darned if she isn’t having a giveaway of Snowbound blocks!  Not just Snowbound blocks, but Snowbound blocks in redwork!  Leave a comment on her blog and you could win these blocks! Hurry, she’s picking a winner tomorrow morning!  Think what you can do with these blocks!  She doesn’t know I’m posting this, we’ve never met, but it’s such a great giveaway!  It makes this a two post day for me!   Don’t ever say I don’t tell you about things….

Little Pieces of My Life

Thanks Karen for the wonderful giveaway and congratulations on your 150th post!!! 

Hugs,

Anne 

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Alyssa’s New Pincushion

July 12, 2010 By 19 Comments

Last week I started teaching my youngest grand-daughter Alyssa to embroider.  We spent a couple of hours together with me sitting right next to her.  She had my full attention and loved it!  This weekend she came over to finish her first project. 

There’s a lot to embroidery you probably don’t even think about!  Alyssa’s learned the quilter’s knot, how to thread a needle, which end of the thread to put through the needle, how to put the embroidery in a hoop and how to end her embroidery when she runs out of thread.  These are big steps for an 8 year old. She’s pretty proud of her results!

We’ve been working on the stem stitch. Getting those stitches small and even is not easy and it’s something that comes with practice.  It takes awhile to learn it all!  I drew 3 hearts for practice.  She picked out the floss colors and when she was done we decided to turn it into a pincushion!  The backing is the little tiny dog bone print from ”Pampered Pooch” by Moda.  For the filling we used ground walnut shells.   She sewed the front and the backing together on the machine. 

 

Eight is the perfect age to begin teaching children to sew, and embroidery is quick and pretty easy.  They can have a finished project in no time at all.  Once you have the first lesson completed, it’s important to have a second lesson within a week.  You don’t want them to forget everything they’ve learned.

 Alyssa’s been looking through all of my books for something to trace for her second project.   She found one she likes in one of my “Dover” copyright free books.   Much to my surprise it’s a “rat” in a little tea pot.  We’ll enlarge it on the copier and make it the perfect size.  Perfect size for what I’m not sure.  I wonder if she’ll  like rats in tea pots when she’s older!    Children really do  know what they like and it’s important to let them lead the way.  :>)  Bet you can’t wait to see this one!

Pick up the latest issue of “Quilter’s Home” magazine and you can see the sewing room I’ve created for my grand-daughters! 

Happy embroidery day everyone! 

Hugs,

 

Anne

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