Showing posts with label quilting books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quilting books. Show all posts

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Scrap Boxes

I really like this book... Sunday Morning Quilts.  It has a lot of great ideas for scraps.  This one.... I just couldn't live without!  I separated all of my scraps by color.  Then I used them to make color coordinated scrap boxes!  The hardest part was eating enough cereal to cut up enough light weight cardboard to put inside of them! 

I left off the labels (if I can't tell that the box made with blue fabric is for blue scraps, I probably shouldn't be a quilter).  I have them lined up on my cutting table.  I think they are so cute!  If/when we finish our basement and I make an actual sewing room, I hope to have these on shelves above my cutting table. 

Here are the quilted panels, all cut and ready to be sew together




I even had a little help putting all of the piece together!


Here's the original idea

and here are my boxes!





Thursday, April 26, 2012

Best Dog, Fantastic Book!

Took a few minutes last weekend to settle in with a great book and my super dog.  I started a project right away from this book!  I can't wait to show pictures!  It will be AWESOME!  More to come soon!!!
Who wouldn't love this cutie???

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

some of my faves

There are times (practically every night of my life during the week) where I just sit and ponder what I want to make next.  Usually this takes place around 9:30 at night.  This is when the demands of my life as a working mom and wife are over and I have a minute or two to myself.  So I sit on my killer new electric reclining leather loveseat (my husband's pick, which i secretly love and publicly claim to be ridiculous), tv on in the background with some Bravo or A&E dvr'd show playing mindlessly.  I reach down to my secret stash of books.  I always keep four or five of them next my spot on the killer ridiculous love seat.  Then I start to dream.  Do you do that?  I look at this book and that book.  I think of my stash of fabrics and plan my next project.  When will I get to this project?  Maybe never!  Because I already have a queen size bed in the basement next to my sewing area with planned projects all layed out.  But it doesn't matter.  I still thumb through one or two books every night.  Sometimes a new one will make it into the rotation.  Sometimes a top fave will make it to the bed in the basement and get paired with some awesome fabric. 

Here are some of my faves in my current rotation....



 It is no coincidence that this is being posted at 9:33pm on a Tuesday night!  Such is my life!