Every cloud has a silver lining and a glorious rainbow can follow every storm. Let’s rifle through our scrap baskets to pull out rainbows this spring. There’s nothing like sewing a rainbow to help one focus on the bright side. Come join the fun online this March!
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Hurrah, for another Rainbow Over Head! This sweet-sized quilt would be perfect for that baby or toddler in your life OR to hang up on a wall where you sew. She’s 41” square and 100% made with love and light.
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Storms come and storms go. After the clouds of change blow through, even while the rain still fringes the view, the rainbow gathers. Can you see it hanging, just over your head? Look up, another rainbow is about to break through.
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Ta da, my finished Scrap Cabin quilt! She’s bright and warm and made from so many, many scrap fabric strips, folks. It truly boggles my mind that I have this many scraps, given how many scrap quilts I sew. Where are they coming from?
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Guess what? Things are going really well with my Evensong Quilt! This is a new-to-me EPP project, pattern and kit available from Jodi of Tales of Cloth. The block is the traditional Rose Star, scaled to a generous size.
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Stop in for a tour of my new sewing studio away from home. It took me weeks to get set up, but now it does feel welcoming enough. Still, I never use the fluorescent lights as they spoil my mood and the colors. Three cheers for the design wall and pretty wall quilts!
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Do I hear your scraps calling? Or is it that low volume fabric stack you’ve been saving forever that is begging to become part of a Scrap Cabin quilt? Log Cabins always makes us smile, don’t they? Come join the fun online this January! Supplies - Options - Prizes - Schedule - it’s all here in the master post. I hope you’ll sew along with us!
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My Hourglass Curves quilt is sewn with drunkard’s path blocks. It’s straightforward curved piecing, which suited these bridal gown silk scraps just fine. The silk is crisp like quilting cotton, but lightweight as silk will be.
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Here comes some happy scrappy patchwork fun! It’s pattern release day for Scrap Cabin! Once upon a time, I created my first Scrap Cabin quilt with that fresh, new year’s energy - - - And you have been asking for the pattern ever since. Because here is what’s special about this: it uses long, thin scraps of every width and length! Come join us in January!
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What’s that? You still have fabric scraps? They do have a mind-boggling way of multiplying, and aren’t we glad! Scrap quilts are such fun to sew. Well friends, let’s kick off the new year by busting some scraps in a brilliantly efficient manner. Sign up for the Scrap Cabin sew-along!
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This week I am already moving house and moving my sewing studio, so I thought, “why not move my blog as well?” Wink ;). Naaah, it really wasn’t like that, but it just so happens that everything IS moving this week. It just so happens that this is good news for everyone. And, as Beth commented Friday, I do seem to love a challenge!
Bottom line.: You don’t need to do a thing.
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Earlier this year I had the honor of helping a woman finish her very last quilt. With her failing health, she knew she would no longer be able to sew. I quilt and bound her last project and adopted some fabric, for which she was desperately searching out a new home.
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But the quilt! I love that too. It turned out great, if I do say so myself. I already had faith in it as a scrap quilt, but the green and black sashing pushed it way beyond ordinary. I imagine that it will bring such a cozy, joy to someone’s home.
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Finally I am entering the moving homestretch. I have one week left of “normal life” after which it is time to put everything in boxes, no exceptions. Well, you can imagine then how good it feels that I am totally caught up on quilting customer quilts. Plus, that means that I have some pretty things to share with you!
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Make Modern magazine has just released a new issue! It’s a beautiful magazine written by quilters for quilters and delivered digitally to creatives across the world. Patterns, interviews + ideas for the modern quilter.
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Do you ever wonder how many scrap quilts you could sew if you just kept cutting and sewing your scraps? If you dump out a basket of scraps and cut them into a consistent, small shape (such as the 2” x 3” rectangles in my crumb blocks), it’s truly shocking how many blocks they make. And I have literally drawers full of scraps! A catch-all project like my current quilt is just a drop in the bucket.
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Well, friends, this is going to be my very last Expat Chronicles. I know! Sniff. I will miss it as well. But as of last Thursday, I am an expat no longer. I have officially become a Dutch citizen, and my minor children along with me. I have some ideas to continue writing about my life, as well as my experiences in The Netherlands, but we will talk about that later. For today let’s wrap up this series with a snapshot of my journey to becoming a Nederlander.
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Ever tried to sew a scrappy quilt with all your scraps and ran into trouble? This kind of wild scrap sewing was supposed to be effortless and still look fantastic, but - - hmmm - - it looks a bit like mud? Here are my secrets for All Colors In scrap quilts.
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