Let's Book It - May Link Up

Just a re-cap, Let's Book It is all about pulling out those 'need to have' books, magazines, patterns or saved/printed off the inter-net inspirations.  Blow the dust off, open them up, and find a project that you fell in love with so long ago but somehow got distracted.

Remember this was my long ago gotta-make project found  at  McCalls Quilting.com - and if you look under the BONUS section - McCalls Bonuses - you will find many bonus free patterns.  This one is called 'Doorway to China' from their Sept/Oct 2009 publication - page 4 of their listings.  The pdf is still available.

I was able to make the first few middle sections by disecting the panel before I ran into a repeat of the pattern. Then I had to fussy cut the last few outer sections to make it look like the pattern just flowed as one piece.  I used an old decor weight fabric for the bracings - believe me, my SIL and I pulled half my stash without success and then I took that piece out.  She thought I was crazy, but I like the look. Just a stitch in the ditch around all the bracings. And I used the panel fabric for the binding to let the design to continue to flow.  A fun project that I am so glad I pulled that long forgotten print out from the binder.  

  

This Month's Charm for the Quilt Barn pin is the Friendship Star - link will be open to June 4 with winner announced the next day.  Yes, I do ship international. 

Now it's your turn to share your Let's Book It project for May:

Tuesday Archives - 5/27/14

This week's archive is Color Wheels, Craft Projects, and Crazy Quilts.  I do work with a lot of colors, but no color wheel.  And I do love crazy quilts, but none here either.  But I do a lot of 'craft' projects.

Dressing up those little tissue boxes.  They are great to use up some scraps, add to a room decor, and just have fun with.

I have a tutorial for them HERE on a 2011 post.

Please be sure to visit Val's Quilting Studio and see what others have linked up.

Sewingly Yours,

Sharon

Happy Memorial Day

Meandering

I am still pondering my scorched project - yeah, I will try to salvedge it but not until I am in the right frame of mind.  So I did some meandering quilting to finish off three quilts.  This is actually one of my SIL's projects - tutorial for the Sophie Car Seat Quilt found at Moda Bake Shop.  She is making another and will do bindings/ties on both when the other is finished.

The other two quilts I'll show once we get some better weather for outside photos.  Our weather has been cold, rainy, and severe storms.  We even had an F-3 tornado touch down about 20 miles away - info found HERE.  I was frantic to reach my son as it is his neighborhood - luckily it died down once it got into his neck of the woods.

I hate thunderstorms (and the metal in my body - really affects me) so I dumped that never ending scrap basket to meander thru.

I have 6 of these old phone books (every family member household passed them on to me) with nice thin paper for string blocks and there were lots of strings in that basket.

And I meandered thru those scraps some more - gosh, hate to pass up on all those free block tutorials offered with RSC14.  Lots of 6.5" unfinished blocks - scrap goodness - keeping my mind from the storms.

While meandering thru that basket, I found my zip baggy holding scraps for my Round Robing project.  So I thought I would get that final step done and add the left overs to the pile.  The last round had to have some 4-patch(es) and I went with just a plain border with the corners as the 4-patch.  Those red strips hanging are my binding.  This will wait until June or July for quilting.

I have another top sandwiched that needs quilting, so I will ponder on whether to meander or strightline quilt it OR if the weather is better, get a little meander outside - cabin fever is setting in again.  

Sewingly Yours,
Sharon