Bowls with Borders Blog Hop

Welcome to the Bowls with Borders Blog Hop!  Madame Samm and Carol from Just Let Me Quilt have put together another amazing blog hop!  Over 165 bloggers are participating in this hop, which takes place over 28 days.  Almost a whole month of bowls.  Wow!  I'm excited to be a part of such a great event!


If you are just starting the hop with my blog, I hope you'll take a minute and hop on over to the other bloggers who have exciting new bowls for you to explore.  I'm sharing today with:

August 17th

Beate from Gabrielles Atelier
Sharon-Quilt Sheddy

Lilypad Quilting

Searching Out Simple

Scrapbook Chick A Doodle
Ark Angel Creations
Polka Dot Classic

prsd4tim2 (You are here!)

Little Mushroom Cap

I Have A Notion

 And, if that's not enough bowls, you can go back and visit the great "bowlers" from previous days, and of course check in every day for the rest of the month to see what folks have cooked up.

And before I forget, many, many thanks to Regina Grewe for her pattern Piling Up!, which she generously donated to everyone who participated.  Thank you Regina!  I had fun working with your cool pattern.  While you are there, check out some of her other patterns.  There are several adorable patterns to purchase, and some are even free.  Not to mention a bunch of tips and tricks for successful paper piecing, a lovely gallery of items made with her patterns, and a whole wealth of other information.  Regina, you are the best!

Now before we get started, I just want to encourage you to read to the end of the post.  I'm not telling you that you have to....  I'm just saying it might be a good idea to do so.  (Yes, that might very possibly have been a hint.)

My first bowl

 When I started out, I had no idea what I was doing.  AND I had no idea what I was going to do with this project.  Honestly, my first goal was to successfully make a bowl.  I have been quilting a long time, but paper piecing has always intimidated me, and I still don't consider myself very good at it.  There's something about thinking inside out and backwards that befuddles my brain every time.  Add to that the fact that I am working on the paper, not the fabric, and it kind of blows my mind.  But after a few false starts, I came up with my first bowl.  It turned out OK.

So, I added another.

And another.

Hey!  The bowls really are Piling Up!!!

And finally, I had an idea of what to do with them.  It required a little ripping...  See that white strip at the bottom of bowl #1?  It had to go.

Back to eighteen 25 for a cool new font.  This one is called - you guessed it - Cut The Paper.  (If you haven't explored eighteen 25 click on over there when you finish here.  She's got some great fonts and some other fun stuff on her blog.)

Then off to get the fusible web (for a mini tutorial on using fusible web, go here)....

for a little applique action...

 

Then I added my very own paper pieced design (yes, I drew it myself)...

in two parts!

It's really coming together now!  I'm getting excited!

A little more stitching.  Some quilting and binding, and voila.  My very own kitchen mini quilt.

Best of all, this project was made entirely of scraps.  (I really love scrappy projects.)

That was so much fun, a couple of days later I had another idea.

I blew up the pattern 200% and made a bowl...

Then I made another bowl and put it upside down on top of the first  one.  I added some minky "whipped cream" and a button "cherry"...

And I had a raspberry sundae!

It makes me hungry just looking at it.


I imagine I'll be making more bowls one day.  Meanwhile, thanks again to Madame Samm and Carol for a great blog hop and especially to Regina for her fun pattern.

Now, at the risk of this being scorned as a "giveaway blog" (since this is the 3rd giveaway in three weeks), I think you deserve a reward, don't you?  Well, here's the deal - you can have your choice of either of these two bowls projects (yes, I'll finish "Raspberry Sundae" if that's the one you choose.)

Here's what you need to do:

1.  Just leave me a comment letting me know which of these two Bowls projects you would choose if you win.

2.  Be a follower (or become one) for a second entry.

Be sure that you give me a way to get in touch with you.  If you are a no-reply blogger and don't leave me an email address, I will immediately choose another winner.

The giveaway will close at midnight Central time on Wednesday, August 22, and I will choose the winner on Thursday, August 23rd.


Thanks again for dropping by.  I'm off to see the other Bowls with Borders blogs!  I'm sure they all have something exciting to share.