We can all thank Bea, from BeaQuilter for making us pull those books off the shelves and put them to use.
My goal, while I had a couple months off from watching my grandies, was to actually clean up my sewing room. While it may not gone as well as planned, I did manage to go through my bookshelf.
The project I found was this sweet little scrap buster...
This is "Hugs and Kisses"
This pattern did not come from a traditional quilt book, but one of my binders of quilt patterns, I am going to do "someday".
It was on my bookshelf and yes, I did have to blow a little dust off of it!
Years ago, I went to a class on finding your creativity. It was an excellent class that focused on cleaning out the stuff you are not interested in, to make room for what you love. The instructor actually made us all bring a quilt magazine, and tear out the pages we loved and throw away the rest. That was the hardest thing to do, for everyone in the class. She also gave us each a journal that we were to paste the things we loved in.
To this day, I still love flipping through that journal for inspiration. It amazes me just how much it does get those creative juices flowing.
The biggest benefit from it once I got home, was I was able to take stacks of quilt magazines, pull out only the pattern I loved and throw away the rest.
Over the years, I've gone through my binders from time to time. I've added some things and tossed some. Just recently I separated them into seasonal, kids, and scrappy binders, etc...It makes it so much easier to find what I'm looking for. All my internet finds are printed and stored in there, as well.
This pattern is from 2007. While it took some searching online, I found there has been a name change to "Hearts and Flowers" and you can still find the free download
HERE.
Please stop by and visit my fellow bloggers today.
They all have been cracking open the books lately!
March 7th
Quilting Gail
Thrift Shop Commando
High Road Quilter
Moosestashquilting (you're here)
Bea asked us to share our oldest quilt book...
Mine is this Dear Jane book published in 1996, but the quilt is from 1863!
Have I made this quilt yet???
NO :-)
But this book from 2000 was from the first official quilt class, I ever took. They told me my colors were terrible. So motivating for a brand new quilter. It's funny how you remember those kind of things. I loved what I chose at the time, but in retrospect...they might have been onto something. LOL!!
None the less, I was delighted with my finish.
"Little Green Apples" challenge/hop is just a few weeks away. We would love to have you visit!
Have you participated in our Sew It-Show It Challenge/hops? Come on and join in on the fun!
Here are our themes for this year. Sign-ups are announced about 2 months prior to the start. You can read all about them
HEREYou can even download the schedule
HERE and start making your plans!
April bring us...
There's still room if your interested.
You can read more on it
HEREJust drop me an email with "SAY WHAT" in the subject line and the following information
Hugs and kisses to all!
til next time...
Keep on Stitchin'
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