Congratulations to Shannon Wallace of SD, and Deborah from Valparaiso - you've each won a new Loose Change book! I'd love it if you'd share something you make from this book someday. Thanks for commenting, ladies.
And thanks to all of you that follow my blog. I enjoy reading all the comments and take to heart any suggestions you make. Please use this space to let me know what you'd love to see from KT in fabric or patterns in the future. Your feedback is priceless!
One of the things I enjoy most is pictures of KT projects from quilters around the country. Here's one from Brenda who leads the KT Stash Society at Country Fabrics in Brainerd, MN. Her ladies always have fun creating variations on the Stash project using a multitude of fabrics from batiks to brights to KT darks. Here's three of their A Wave to Old Glory projects from June:
Terri Jones attended the KT Quilt Addicts retreat in Danville, IL a couple weeks ago and shared with me that she'd made an armful of stockings from an older Stash pattern. She stitched them up for friends and family to hang on their front doors - how cool is that?
If you're interest in checking out our monthly projects and newsletter, go to ktquilts.com and click on KT Stash Society. You'll find a list of new and previous Stash projects, then scroll down and click on the red box that says Current Newsletter for all the latest KT happenings. Past newsletters are also available. Under that, we list the quilt shops that participate in the KT Stash Society. These shops are the best! They have a good selection of KT fabric/patterns. It's a great way to find a kit for the Stash projects or any KT fabric.
The KT Stash Society project for October is Starry Moon. I love the featured fabric in the Harvest Moon group, so we enlarged the moon and acorns and appliqued them on a trio of stars with a band of flying geese on each end for good measure. It would make a great Thanksgiving runner for your holiday table.
Personally, I'd leave the center star plain for a neutral background for my centerpiece, whatever it may be - a pile of mini pumpkins, a vintage coffee tin full of wildflowers or a wooden bowl of nuts in the shell with grungy gourds.Anything that says fall to you. But don't stop there! This would also make a wonderful runner for the 4th of July with a navy background and scrappy red geese. Substitute the applique of your choosing for the moon/acorns - how about firecrackers? The possibilities are endless with a simple idea to start.
Comment this week on how you'd change the Starry Moon fall runner for another season and you could walk away with some Harvest Moon fabrics and the Starry Moon pattern. We'll see you next week, unless something really exciting happens around here - like the UPS guy brings new Pheasant Hill fabric!
P.S. I still haven't heard from 2 winners from the Moda Designer Blog Hop - Michelle from Atlanta, GA and Carla (with comment #10). I was unable to email you, so please contact me. Any prizes left unclaimed by Oct. 31 will be redrawn from the Blog Hop comments.
And thanks to all of you that follow my blog. I enjoy reading all the comments and take to heart any suggestions you make. Please use this space to let me know what you'd love to see from KT in fabric or patterns in the future. Your feedback is priceless!
Terri Jones attended the KT Quilt Addicts retreat in Danville, IL a couple weeks ago and shared with me that she'd made an armful of stockings from an older Stash pattern. She stitched them up for friends and family to hang on their front doors - how cool is that?
If you're interest in checking out our monthly projects and newsletter, go to ktquilts.com and click on KT Stash Society. You'll find a list of new and previous Stash projects, then scroll down and click on the red box that says Current Newsletter for all the latest KT happenings. Past newsletters are also available. Under that, we list the quilt shops that participate in the KT Stash Society. These shops are the best! They have a good selection of KT fabric/patterns. It's a great way to find a kit for the Stash projects or any KT fabric.
The KT Stash Society project for October is Starry Moon. I love the featured fabric in the Harvest Moon group, so we enlarged the moon and acorns and appliqued them on a trio of stars with a band of flying geese on each end for good measure. It would make a great Thanksgiving runner for your holiday table.
Comment this week on how you'd change the Starry Moon fall runner for another season and you could walk away with some Harvest Moon fabrics and the Starry Moon pattern. We'll see you next week, unless something really exciting happens around here - like the UPS guy brings new Pheasant Hill fabric!
P.S. I still haven't heard from 2 winners from the Moda Designer Blog Hop - Michelle from Atlanta, GA and Carla (with comment #10). I was unable to email you, so please contact me. Any prizes left unclaimed by Oct. 31 will be redrawn from the Blog Hop comments.
For some reason, I am thinking americana for the summer with red, tans and blues, thought not sure about the appliqués, I think it would be nice on it's own by changing the colors, with green and red for christmas,etc. I prefer tans to whites in my color schemes.
ReplyDeleteDebbie
Hearts for Valentine's Day would be nice too.
ReplyDeleteI would make my background fabric green, the stars red and applique holly leaves and berries on the outer 2 stars leaving the middle one plain for a centerpiece of some kind.
ReplyDeleteHooray! Thank you for the book!! :) I'm so very excited!!!
ReplyDeleteLynne, I agree with the center star staying neutral and plain. Though I've never tried it before, I might try to hand stitch a Bible verse on both stars. For ex: Give us this day (on one star) our daily bread (on the other star). I also like the idea of a really simple sunflower appliqued onto the two outter stars.
I would make the background green and make shamrocks in the center of the stars for St. Patrick's Day. Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI would have a blue background with the stars in tan, then do the flying geese in red, green, gold and tan, and applique a snowman face in each star for the winter season after Christmas.
ReplyDeleteI'm so excited I won! Thank you so much! I'm looking forward to creating a new treasure. I promise to share!
ReplyDeleteDeborah
I'd use a different dark blue print for each of the three center stars, three different creamy off white small prints for each of the moons, and add a small, golden, wool appliqued star near each moon. The background fabric (brown in the picture) would be the same creamy off white that I use for the center moon. The flying geese would be a variety of blue prints; gold prints would complete the flying geese background. This could be a table runner for all seasons.
ReplyDeleteI think it would be neat to make the dark area blue, the stars white, the flying geese lighter blue and gray, and put something like snowmen, mittens, pine trees, snowflakes, etc. in the stars.
ReplyDeleteI really like the fall version you have made.
I think I would put a star within the star for a americana tablerunner. And for Christmas, maybe applique snowflakes. Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteFor Christmas I would turn the flying geese into trees, by adding a trunk in place of the bottom goose. I would then stitch "Silent Night Holy Night" onto the stars, or possibly "Peace, Love, Joy".
ReplyDeleteI'm adding this to my to do list!
I'd repeat the star in the center of the star. Then I could change the color way to red/white/blue, or use Christmas fabrics, or fall colors. That design would work with any color way. Thanks for the chance to win.
ReplyDeleteI collect snowmen so I would put snowmen in the outside side stars and make green and red flying geese.Background would be gold shade.
ReplyDeleteI love stars for the Christmas Season so I would make the runner in Christmas fabric and applique some angel silhouettes or smaller stars, then I would place some pieces from my nativity collection on the runner. It's a super design. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI would use it for any season. Maybe I would make several that are reversible so I could get 2 seasons from one runner. Love it to pieces. Thanks.
ReplyDeletecongrats to the winners.
ReplyDeleteLove the show and tell and the table runner.
I think it would be perfect for July. I would definitely keep the stars, doing them in red, white and blue. Same with the geese.
I think an appliqued Uncle Sam's hat would be cute on the stars.
congrats to the winners of a fun looking book. I do love the layout of the table runner. I see others have had the same idea that I had. I like the the blues and whites with the snowmen in the center of the stars. Thanks. Oh by the way I love Harvest Moon fabric.
ReplyDeleteLove the table runner just as it is.....might take your suggestion of leaving center blank as well. jmh
ReplyDeleteI haven't yet made a table runner to use during January, so I would use navy blue for the background and some silvery-gray for the stars. And since I love violets & purples so much, I would use fabric from those colorways for the geese!
ReplyDeleteI look forward to your regular updates. Love your designs!
I would do the runner in blues and whites for winter!
ReplyDeleteOne for Fourth of July would be great, navy backgroud, red/wt/blue scrappy geese, yellow solid stars, wt moons and I would love to embroidery fireworks in metalic threads over the moons and stars! thanks!
ReplyDeleteI see this runner done in pastels with Easter eggs in the stars.
ReplyDeleteI would change out the berries for stalks of wheat. It is harvest time here.
ReplyDeleteDeborah...that's genius! I like the idea of wheat stalks!
DeleteI would add holly leaves and berries for Christmas!
ReplyDeleteI'd add a colorful turkey or cornicopia in the centers to celebrate Thanksgiving!
ReplyDeleteI love crows so I might applique crows in the stars for a year-round tablerunner in my kitchen. And - for Halloween, black cats with arched backs!
ReplyDeleteAlso just have to mention that I was lucky enough to organize the retreat last month in Danville, IL and we all soooooo appreciate that Lynne could join us after her trunk show. It was honestly such a pleasure to sew and chat with Lynne!
Oh my goodness! My post came through as "anonymous"!!! Hmmmmm.....sorry, it should be "Amy on the prairie". Oh if I only had a brain...
DeleteHi! I would add holly with berries and a cardinal for Christmas on the blocks (applique) and change the geese to christmas fabrics to cooridinate. Snowman and snow women for January with blues, red and white with appliqued hearts for February, the possibilities are endless.
ReplyDeleteI love and collect snowmen,so I would do blue stars with snowmen and blue and white geese.
ReplyDeleteI am a Sunbonnet Sue NUT, so I would add applique Sue in the center star-- and she could be displayed all year long! :-) Thanks for the chance to win!!
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking spring colors; appliqued flowers for the outer stars, plain inner star for a vase of fresh flowers. Thanks for the chance at your giveaway.
ReplyDeleteShamrocks for me. KT greens and purple for Mardi Gras
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I like the idea of using red, blue and gold with plain stars for the summer and then red, green and gold for Christmas. I would probably appliqué snowflakes on the background around the stars too. Thanks for the chance towin. Your runner is very pretty.
ReplyDeleteI would make a Christmas table runner with trees or bells appliqued in the blocks with the center left open for a nice Christmas arrangement.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like all my ideas have already been posted.. but I also saw a lot of ideas that I had not thought of.. this was a great post. and thanks for a chance of your drawing.
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Ladies, I am blown away by all your suggestions. Makes me want to make this runner over again a half dozen times! This is a great way to brainstorm!
ReplyDeleteThanks, keep up the good work.
Lynne
You could applique sprigs of holly with berries instead of the acorns and change the color of the fabrics for the Christmas holiday. In spring you could applique Easter eggs or flowers and change to spring fabric. Lana
ReplyDeletemore reds and greens and holly leaves and berries where the acorns are now...thanks for a chance to win - laurie
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Changing out the brown background to blue, using more blue and silver-greyish flying geese, and applique of old fashioned noisemakers -- think New Year's celebrations of yore...
ReplyDeleteLove the Starry Moon Runner that way it is! I might like a winter table runner with an array of snowflakes on sky blue fabric stars. Love those flying geese. Thanks for sharing your ideas and the pattern!
ReplyDeleteI would make a Christmas runner using reds, greens and golds and add holly leaves and berries as the applique. You are right---this is a great runner to change up for any type of holiday! Thanks for sharing and offering the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI would like to see Pumpkins with leaves in the beautiful fall colors that KT uses, deep greens, burgundies and browns...perfect!!
ReplyDeleteI would change it to a winter theme. Switch the acorns to snowflakes, use navy,powder blue, white and silver fabrics. By the Silver Moon!!
ReplyDeleteCathyC in Alberta
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Holly leaves and red berries for Christmas. Change the stars to red, white and blue for July and add some little firecrackers or sparks. Snowflakes for winter, pumpkins for Halloween. You could do a lot with this pattern. It's really cute. Thanks for the chance to win.
ReplyDeleteMary
The easy change would be red white and blue for July with more stars appliqued in the 3 stars but I'm thinking how cute it would be for Easter and spring with the stars and geese in pastels or bright spring colors and eggs and flowers in the stars. How versatile that pattern is.
ReplyDeleteI see three sunflowers in the center with a few Fall leaves splashed around for the Autumn season which is one of my favorites. I love sunflowers and think they would fit nicely in the center.
ReplyDeleteHave a blessed week.