There is a quilt in just about every food prepared. I enjoy cooking, and find joy in the colors that are quilt-design-worthy in dishes that I prepare. Look at these images with quilt fabric colors in mind:
Not only am I now hungry, I want to dive into designing a quilt with these food colors in mind – what about you?
No sir officers, I have absolutely NO idea how these two mini-jellies ended up in my shopping cart. I did pay for them, but how did they get in my cart? Do you have an undercover fabric-basket-filler who patrols the craft store, tossing random jellies into people’s carts? I smell a conspiracy!!!
I have slowly getting a tote bag ready for a tote bag swap I joined in one of the Facebook groups I belong to. The only requirements are that it be at least 14″ wide. The coordinator of the swap asked each of the swap members what colors they would like. She used that single parameter to choose what colors we were to make our tote bags for each secret recipient.
Let me interject here that the colors I was given were completely out of my comfort zone and I did not have at least one of the fabrics that I was given. Off I go to the quilt shop last year and picked up a fat quarter of the fabric color my secret tote bag recipient requested…and I found a really cool braided handle to put with my tote bag. Except when I got the lovely handle out to get ready to put it on the tote bag, I realized it was WAY too thick to not only sew through…I was also afraid that it would be something I was uncomfortable putting on a gifted project because of its thickness.
Off to the craft store today, to find a bit more fabric for the inside of the tote bag because I did not have any of that color in my stash, and to look for a better option for the tote bag handles. I found success in both the interior fabric and the handles!
And as I was making the tote bag, I made darned sure I had reinforced ALL of the seams. If you are going to have a tote bag that is at least 14″ wide, it would most likely be used to carry heavier things and I wanted to be sure that the tote bag can stand up to that.
I have enjoyed this secret swap project…and now we wait to find out who our secret tote bag swapper is so I can send her the tote bag with her chosen colors!
Hi Ho a Merry Oh, a binding we will go.
I am here to testify that you CAN teach an old dog new tricks! I have diligently cut and sewn my binding fabrics for the last three quilts I made as well as the binding for the beautiful retro quilt that is my cousin-in-laws.
LOVE being organized with my binding fabrics…is SO difficult, once I have a quilt ready, to either find the correct fabric for the quilt bindings as I occasionally (shhh, happens more than occasionally) use the fabric for other purposes or put it in my scrap file for others.
Do YOU make your binding when you finish a quilt top? Or wait until the quilt comes back from your quilter before getting the binding ready?
I stepped into our church yesterday to view the fruits of the labor of the wonderful church ladies who made 116 quilts for Lutheran World Relief. You may remember how excited they were when I delivered a boatload of fabric to them. I cannot tell how many quilts were made from the fabrics that were donated by the quilters I know…but, there is pure quilted beauty in the display of their efforts before they ship the quilts off. Behold…
