Chalk Board Art!

It's so trendy right now! But who can resist it? It makes me so happy!

Here are a couple chalk boards I did over the weekend!

I love love love chalk boards!

Strips with Flowers Quilt

This one us soooooo cute! When I saw it on Pinterest, I knew I had to make it! Plus, it's super simple, and therefore, fast!

Sew various STS strips together so that you have around 60 inches in length. Your quilt will then be trimmed width wise to the smallest selvage--probably about 40 inches. I quilted the layers together here just with simple lines following the strips every 2 inches or so. Here's the backing with a label! (A quilt isn't finished without a label, they say!)

Then you make these adorable flowers. I just eyeballed them and sewed a 2" circle onto a 3" circle and then keep adding layers of circles til you have about 5"-6" bottom circles. I sewed the outside edge to the next layer and then sewed the outside later of that one to the next and so on...

Then I appliqued the stems and leaves with my machine and added the flowers! 

Here's the finished product. Made for a baby girl in the family!

Pieced by Christina Konrad.

Quilted by Christina Konrad. 

Easy Zig-Zag Quilt

This us a quick and easy variation on a chevron/ zig-zag design! I needed to whip something together relatively quickly, so I found this idea on Pinterest!

It's just strips of colored fabric sewn to a background fabric.

 Then laid out in the design.

Then sew the rows together and then rows to rows.

You can start to see the chevron design come together, although I don't love my color choices as much as I had hoped.

Here's the finished product. Made for a baby boy in the family!

Pieced by Christina Konrad.

Quilted by Christina Konrad. 

Graduation Banner

We love Bothell! We love Football. We especially love our football family! This year one of the kids from our football family graduated from high school and I said I would make a fun banner/ some decorations for his party...

Fun times!

4th of July -- Sweet Stuff

For that family gathering I mentioned, I did the desserts! I made several varieties of cupcakes as well as some low sugar options and fruit!

Cowboy hat cupcakes! Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting topped with a cowboy hat!

Low sugar cheesecakes topped with fresh fruit!

Cherry chip cake with vanilla frosting. Yellow cake cupcakes with cream cheese frosting topped with flags!

Fruit tray flag style! I layed out 2 rows of yogurt covered pretzels and then filled in the gaps with red fruits! The bowl in the corner is filled with blueberries!

Everything was a hit!

Chalkboard M

This July is my grandparents' 60th anniversary. We intended to have a family gathering around then to surprise them but due to some unforeseen circumstances they found out. 

I have been making decorations and things to have around and I am just so excited to see my cousins that I haven't seen in 10 years!

I made a sign with a cardboard monogram letter and chalkboard art! This might be used as a decoration but I am also gifting it! Love when things can serve multiple purposes!

 

I made the fabric scrappy heart on the monogram!

I made a fabric scrappy banner to use as a photo booth backdrop!

I also made a mane banner using paper doilies, jute rope, and diecut letters!

And, I died rice to use as weight in the vases for table center pieces! Who would have thought? I planned to purchase stones but I saw this idea on Pinterest and I though--I already have rice & food coloring--yes!

Tumbling charms

WTumbling charms! You have a 10" square, framed by 2x10 and 2x13.5 strips. Then I cut those 13.5" squares in 4 quadrants. After you do that, you flip them every which way to create a zig-zagy design. It takes some planning, and my poor kitchen table is NOT big enough! Wha, wha, wha...

Can you see the mistake?  Don't worry--I tore it out and fixed it. 

Here's the finished product! So pretty!

Backed with leapard print flannel!

Pieced by Christina Konrad

Quilted by Jennifer McCrea

Finished 2015