| I love it!!! |
| Sadly, I would be hard pressed to tell you what I had for breakfast this morning, but I can almost always remember if I have a particular piece of fabric! Even more amazing is that I know where it is :) |
These pictures include the containers of precut scraps of different sizes in squares and strips. They don't include the collections (Fat Quarters, Christmas, Halloween, Civil War, 1930's, Kids, Stripes, Denim, Corduroy, Satin, Ethnic, Tie Dye, Wool, etc.) If I didn't work in my sewing room every day, I think I'd have a hard time not apologizing for my Stash! You'd think I would have tidied up the piles a bit for the picture but then I wouldn't have been able to find anything for a while :) |
This is my sweet dog :) She joins me
in the sewing room most of the day but
is unbelievably respectful of quilt
pieces laid out on the floor. We found
her at the SPCA and named her
"Keeper" for obvious reasons.
in the sewing room most of the day but
is unbelievably respectful of quilt
pieces laid out on the floor. We found
her at the SPCA and named her
"Keeper" for obvious reasons.
My hard-working Singer 319W, which
I mentioned on my Home page, has
brought me a surprising number of
E-Mails. I've always loved her but I
didn't realize how many people
thought the 319W was special :)
I mentioned on my Home page, has
brought me a surprising number of
E-Mails. I've always loved her but I
didn't realize how many people
thought the 319W was special :)
I just finished this quilt in March of 2007. I named it "Bobby & Me &
Family" and the only fabrics used in it are from family clothes or scraps
from clothes that I had made. I had originally planned to make each
block with one piece of fabric from my clothes and one from a piece of
my husbands clothes and name the quilt Bobby & Me. However, the
family clothes kept calling to me so the quilt became a family affair. I
enjoy looking at it and remembering the people I love wearing a
particular piece of clothing! To me, quilting from old clothes is the
essence of "scrappy"!
I had the quilt beautifully longarm quilted by Vicky Van Houten. Her
website is Finely Finished Long Arm Quilting and I really recommend
her work!
I love my quilt! Thanks Vicky :)
Family" and the only fabrics used in it are from family clothes or scraps
from clothes that I had made. I had originally planned to make each
block with one piece of fabric from my clothes and one from a piece of
my husbands clothes and name the quilt Bobby & Me. However, the
family clothes kept calling to me so the quilt became a family affair. I
enjoy looking at it and remembering the people I love wearing a
particular piece of clothing! To me, quilting from old clothes is the
essence of "scrappy"!
I had the quilt beautifully longarm quilted by Vicky Van Houten. Her
website is Finely Finished Long Arm Quilting and I really recommend
her work!
I love my quilt! Thanks Vicky :)
This quilt was made in 2001, when I first got back into quilting after a
twenty year absence (during which time I enjoyed raising a great
family ) All of the fabrics, except the white background, are from
clothes that I made for my daughter. Do I save stuff or what!!!
I paper-pieced the little girls and gave them little pony bead eyes (I
hasten to add that in real life, my daughter does not have "beady
little eyes!!)
You can imagine the memories that came back as I "dressed" each
little fabric girl just as I had dressed the real little girl twenty-some
years before. Quilts preserve memories and keep those precious
times a part of our busy daily lives. I believe a quilt can make you
pause and think, and then, smile at the remembrance.
I'm pleased that this quilt now hangs in my daughters home :)
twenty year absence (during which time I enjoyed raising a great
family ) All of the fabrics, except the white background, are from
clothes that I made for my daughter. Do I save stuff or what!!!
I paper-pieced the little girls and gave them little pony bead eyes (I
hasten to add that in real life, my daughter does not have "beady
little eyes!!)
You can imagine the memories that came back as I "dressed" each
little fabric girl just as I had dressed the real little girl twenty-some
years before. Quilts preserve memories and keep those precious
times a part of our busy daily lives. I believe a quilt can make you
pause and think, and then, smile at the remembrance.
I'm pleased that this quilt now hangs in my daughters home :)
& Stuff
| I could pretend that I put this picture on to show off my Sunrise Log Cabin Quilt, but I think we all know I'm really showing off the two new grandsons I got in May and June 2007 :) When I made this quilt a few years ago, I never imagined it being displayed so well!! |
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| A little picture update on some of my "Assorted Grandsons" Woman does not live by fabric alone!! |
| A new cabinet - allowing me to get almost all of my fabric out of plastic containers! Hoo-ray!! |
| I've been working from Stash for a while....now doesn't the cabinet on the right look better than it did in the picture on the left:) Piles still crooked but not so jammed in!! |