Craftsy Free Class Today!

If you've never taken a Craftsy class, before, today, Saturday, May 18th, is your day!  They are offering one free class today only for anyone who has never taken a Craftsy class.  The selection is great for this offer, too.  Everything from Quilting to Knitting to Jewelry Making, even Baking classes!  I'm currently taking my second Craftsy class, Free Motion Quilting with Feathers and it's just wonderful.  Plus, if Craftsy hits their goal of 10,000 new students, they have pledged to make a $5000.00 donation to DonorsChoose.org., so you'll be helping others at the same time.  Click here to link to the Craftsy free class page and get started! Until next time...Have a super day! Jennifer Schifano Thomas

House Cat Quilt Block Pattern

Just as promised, the House Cat (I love the pun!) Quilt Block has just been added to the Curlicue Creations Shop.  This is block 11 of 12 in the popular Basket Cat Quilt Block Series.  Here's a link to the pattern:  House Cat Quilt Block Pattern

Meow!

Have a super day!

Jennifer Schifano Thomas

Basket Cats Quilting

My quilting time has been so limited lately.  But here's what I've been working on.  This is the top for the Basket Cats quilt, minus the dark brown outer border.  I somehow neglected to get a photo of the completed top.  So sorry.

Ten of the Basket Cat block patterns are available in the Curlicue Creations shop in the Quilt Block Patterns section.  The last two patterns, House Cat, and Liberty Coins Cat should be coming soon.

I had a little "quilter's block" when it came to the cat's faces.  My friend, Lynne McFern helped me out with the quilting design.  Aren't they cute?  I'm so grateful to her, and happy to have met her on our Facebook group, Quilter's Show and Tell.

I'm quilting these curly vines on the green vertical strips.  It's my first time doing a vine and I really like it.  They are fun to quilt!

The baskets are getting a tight back and forth line pattern to look like a woven basket.  I did the same thing with the basket handles.  I just stitched in the ditch for all the block designs featured on the baskets, and added a clamshell to the basket bands.

Here's my dark brown outer border.  I'm quilting a happy little loopy design there.  I love doing loops.  It's my current favorite to quilt.  I have some of these in nearly every quilt.

This cat is a little different from the others.  He has a little extra hair on top of his head, so I made him look a little fierce by quilting a pointy zig zag.  He's just a little bit crazy!

I'm on the last row of cats now.  Hopefully I'll be showing the finished quilt soon!

Until next time...please visit the Curlicue Creations Shop...and have a super day!

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Jennifer Schifano Thomas

Craftsy Class!

I've just enrolled in the Craftsy class, Free Motion Quilting with Feathers.  I'm so excited!  I've been wanting to improve my feather quilting technique.  I practice every time I'm quilting something, but I'm still not happy with the results.  I hope this class will give me the added tips and technique I need to learn to execute beautiful feather quilting!  I want to have something beautiful to quilt in all the white spaces on Sally's Mystery Quilt-A-Long quilt.  I showed the top in my last post, but here it is again:

Until next time...please visit the Curlicue Creations Shop...and have a super day!

Get Creative

Jennifer Schifano Thomas

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all you Mom's out there!  Take the day off and relax!

Have a super day!

Jennifer Schifano Thomas

Sally's Mystery Quilt-A-Long

Hello my quilty friends!  If you are a member of my Facebook group, Quilter's Show and Tell, you've heard about the Mystery Quilt-A-Long we're sewing with Sally Ann Johnson.  If you're not part of Quilter's Show and Tell, come on over and join in on the fun!  Here's the link:  Quilter's Show and Tell.

In this step of the quilt-a-long, Sally shows us how to sew the blocks together for the quilt top.  

Here's a couple of the Jacob's Ladder blocks together.

And here's Row One.  You can get all the instructions to make this quilt at Sally's blog, Sally's Quilting Corner.  It's never too late to start!  

Here's one of the center rows, with the Mexican Rose blocks.  I think it would make a pretty table runner, too.

And here's my "little helper".  He just loves to have his picture taken!

What a pose, eh?

This is how my top turned out.  I love all the white space.  It should be a lot of fun to experiment with the quilting on this one.  

Until next time...please visit the Curlicue Creations Shop...and have a super day!

Get Creative!

Jennifer Schifano Thomas

Quiltmaker's 100 Block Blog Tour Winner!

Good morning!  Sorry I've been a little slow to announce my winner, it's been busy around here!  Lesley Carruthers of Nova Scotia was chosen by the highly scientific method of my 8 year old choosing a number.  Yep, we are really high tech around here.

She will be receiving a copy of my Lady of the Lake Cat Quilt Block Pattern - Meow!

And a brand new copy of Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks, Volume 7!  You can find this on sale today at your local newsstand.  I also have a few copies available in my shop at this link: Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks, Volume 7.

Until next time...please visit the Curlicue Creations Shop...and have a super day!

Get Creative!

Jennifer Schifano Thomas