New Freebie Pattern

New Freebie!!! Are you ready for cooler temps? Enjoy stitching Halloween Friends for the upcoming Autumn season! Here's the link for all my free patterns:  Download PDF freebies

 

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A Few More Halloween Crazy Quilt Pieces

Here are a few more Halloween Crazy Quilt pieces that I did awhile ago:

As soon as my divorce is final and I can get back to something that resembles a life, I can get back to more stitching.  I really miss doing my glittery crazy quilting but I can't get to most of my supplies so I have to enjoy the photos of what I've already done.  I hope you do too!!

Halloween Crazy Quilting

I don't have any new stitching to share with you but I thought you'd like to see a few of the Halloween Crazy Quilt projects that I made a few years ago:

I made this for my cousin awhile back.  She loves Halloween!!

I did not design the cross stitch cat.  I believe the designer is Prairie Schooler.  I stitched the piece and then appliqued it onto the block use fusible web.  I topped stitched it too so that it stayed in place.  Then I added the trim by hand.

the glittery ruffle in the top right corner is just a strip of fabric left over from something else.  I hate wasting anything so simply gathered it and sewing it down.  Then I added all the embroidery and do dads!!

I'll see what else I can find to share tomorrow.

Another - Look What You Can Do!

Small cross stitch patterns are perfect for crazy quilting! 

I can't wait to do more of these!!

The patterns are in my Etsy store!

New Releases Halloween Cross Stitch Patterns

Halloween is one of my favorite little holidays!  I love cute little pumpkins, ghosts, witches and spiders!  And then there's the black cats, sunflowers and colorful leaves!!

I've been designing and these are what I've come up with:

Which one is your favorite?

All are available in my Etsy store!!!

Halloween Crazy Quilt Pillow

It's a little challenging to do crazy quilting where I am at the moment.  I just don't have the space to spread out.  Despite the challenge, I've been wanting to make something happy for my cousin Kim.  She too has had her share of stress these last few years.

Kim loves Halloween so I started out my making a small cross stitch Halloween piece.  The design is by The Prairie Schooler and I think it's from a few years back.  Anyway, I pieced a 9 inch block in happy orange colors and appliqued the cross stitch piece on.

This is the finished block:

I finished this into a pillow and added some hand crocheted trim around the outside of it:

Kim loves this!!!!

I'm looking forward to the day that I have my own place and the space to spread out and do my CQ work comfortably.  For now, I've been doing some small cross stitch projects like this one:

This is not one of my designs.  It's from an early 1990's cross stitch calendar by Leisure Arts.  It's been on my "to do" list for many years.  My plan for this piece is to work some crazy quilt borders for the sides and then sew it into a pillow.  But for now I have to wait. 

I'll just keep on stitching!

2017 Halloween Cross Stitch Mystery Is Now Complete!!

Here it is ladies, the complete 2017 Halloween Mystery Project:

Halloween Cat 2017 Counted Cross Stitch Mystery Project

Thank you to Sharon Cooper for stitching the model!!

The mystery is complete now.  If you ordered the project, you can find Part 4 in the same location as Parts 1 - 3.  I will leave that location accessible for 1 week from today at which time, I will remove it.
If you find that you're missing anything, you can drop me an email and I will send your files to you.

The leaflet for this design is now available at Magcloud: 
http://www.magcloud.com/user/kitty-and-me
(Print and digital)

And at Etsy:  http://www.kittyandme.etsy.com/
(Print only)

Thank you to everyone who joined in on the mystery!  I hope you've enjoyed your Halloween project!

I will be offering a Christmas mystery this year as well.  I will have more information for you later this week!!!

2017 Halloween Cross Stitch Mystery Stitch-Along Part 2

Part 2 of the Halloween Mystery Cross Stitch Project is now available.  If you ordered the design, you can find the file in the same place as Part 1.

Special thanks go out to Sharon Cooper for stitching the model!!

If you'd like to order this project, please visit my Etsy shop.

First Robin Of Spring Cross Stitch Pattern

Okay, so Spring is still 6 months away, but if you start now, you can have this finished in time for Spring!

Little by little, I'm re-working my cross stitch patterns into new leaflets.  This was the mystery stitch along that I did for Spring of 2008.  It's one of my most popular designs:

First Robin Of Spring Counted Cross Stitch Pattern

This is available at Magcloud:  http://magcloud.com/user/kitty-and-me

and at Etsy:  http://www.kittyandme.etsy.com/

Digital versions are also available now but only at Magcloud.

The Halloween Mystery Stitch-Along is very popular!!

I have an appointment on Monday morning that I forgot about.  I will be releasing Part 2 of the Halloween mystery on Sunday afternoon!

Are You Ready To Stitch The Mystery?

For those of you signed up for the 2017 Halloween Cross Stitch Mystery Stitch-Along, Part 1 is now available!  Follow the directions that I sent via my Etsy shop!!!

Click here to join the 2017 Halloween Cross Stitch Mystery Stitch-Along.

2017 Counted Cross Stitch Halloween Mystery Stitch-Along Now Available!

Good Morning Ladies!  The 2017 Cross Stitch Halloween Mystery Project is now available to order!

2017 Cross Stitch Halloween Mystery Stitch-Along

Orders can be placed via my Etsy shop.  Payment will be a one time fee of $10.00.  I will send you a confirmation Etsy message with the link to where you will be able to download each of the 4 parts of the mystery on the scheduled dates.

Please do not share the pattern or the link.  This is my living!!!

If you would like a nice place to discuss the project with other stitcher's, please join the
Fans Of Kitty And Me Designs facebook group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/fansofkittyandmedesigns/

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me.

Happy Stitching Everyone!

Pam

Free Autumn Crazy Quilt Blog Background

While I was waiting for some things to upload, I worked up another free Crazy Quilt Blog Background.  This one is for Fall:

I know it's a little early but it popped into my head!  Anyway, copy the code below and paste it into your HTML Gadget thingy!!  This for Blogger/2 column blogs.

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</style>

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An Oldie But A Goodie!

I have nothing to share today!  LOL!!  I didn't get any stitching time in yesterday.  I did spend some time with mom working on a few holiday things but I had to leave them there for the glue to dry over night. 

I thought I'd share one of my little YouTube videos that I did last year.  I think this Halloween one is my favorite.  I love the template that I used!  Enjoy!

Autumn Decor

First, I would like to take a moment to say thank you to my sweet friend, Allison Aller for being my guest blogger yesterday.  I hope everyone enjoyed meeting Allie and seeing her gorgeous Place Quilts.  Allie is the queen of landscape crazy quilting and I so much appreciate her willingness to be my guest.

I've been quite busy with my projects lately.  I tend to start a bunch of different things in a bunch of different mediums, both here at my house as well as at Mom's!  So for today, I'll share my latest in Autumn Decor!

This is my Crow On A Pumpkin centerpiece:

And my Harvest Cornucopia centerpiece for Thanksgiving:

I've been experimenting with soft, muted and understated colors.  I love the bright colors of Autumn but am finding that soft colors are more soothing to me.  Definitely cottage in style and tone!

Kathi has been playing with her collection of roving and other needle-felting supplies.  We've been to 2 fiber shows this Summer and are going to another on Saturday.  Here are her latest Autumn Home Decor projects:

Check out her hand-felted leaves!  Those are gorgeous!!!!  And I love how she added a tiny black spider to them.  I have a 3rd one here but haven't done the photos yet.

My Autumn Cuff Bracelets are done so I'll try to have photos of those for you tomorrow.  I'm so pleased with how they came out!  I used elastic in them so not buttons or other fasteners to mess with!  Stop back to see them.

I'll leave you with a photo of a tiny visitor to my home last night.  I went out on the front porch for a few minutes before I went to bed and found this precious little creature sitting on my window frame:

If you've never seen one before, this is a Praying Mantis.  They're totally harmless and usually rather elusive.  I was so thrilled to see one that I had to grab my camera and capture his visit!

Treasures From Galena

We didn't spend much in Galena this past weekend.  Had to be thankful just to be able to go.  I picked up a few treasures at the antique mall:

Isn't that pretty?  I love vintage embroidered linens!

A vintage Aunt Martha iron-on embroidery transfer pattern.  I'm always thrilled when I find a vintage pattern that I don't have in my extensive collection!!! 

I'm trying to decide if I should use that doily or cut it up for my crazy quilts.  I'm leaning towards using it on my dresser.

I bought these for my crazies.  Perfect cutters!

I have a weakness for these beautiful crocheted doilies with the pansies on them.  I have a few that mom made for me and a few that I've picked up over the years in my treasure travels.  The pansies are very pastel on this one.  So pretty!

The beads came from Galena Beads.  One of my favorite stores in Galena!  They were buy 1/get 1 so I was able to get a lot for my money!

So that's what I bought in Galena!  Money was tight but that's ok.  We were just happy to be there.

In other news, I added a few new things to the shop.  First, check out Kathi's new hand-felted pumpkin patch:

Isn't that precious?!!!  It's an original creation and all hand felted.  Those pumpkins are absolutely adorable!

Then I added one of my "trash to treasure" projects:

This was a junky old metal wall pocket that I picked up at the junk store.  Cute but kind of ugly.  Not anymore!  I filled the pocket with a pumpkin, berries and harvest flowers.  The crow sits atop the pumpkin.  Very soft and shabby chic!  Both are available here.

Yesterday, I started playing with some Autumn cuff bracelets.  Quite different from Debi's tutorial.  I'll have photos soon.  These are fun!  Unique techniques!!!

I'm also working on my next Creatively Coping with Depression article.  This one is taking me awhile but it's quite extensive and rather difficult for me to write.  I'll have it ready soon.

For now, have a great day everyone!