This is my favorite scarf. That I bought last year. I have several other favorite scarves. Probably about 10 or so that are favorites, and another dozen or so that I really, really like. Favorites include the one I got at a thrift store in Germany this summer; the one I bought in San Francisco […]
My mother-in-law has a stunning antique Crazy Quilt that hangs on the wall in her home. I was visiting there today, and I caught my self inching closer and closer to the quilt, in an attempt to discover all of it’s amazing details. The tiny flower embroidery is so charming. The discord is the one […]
This collection of solar system-inspired from artist Jimmy McBride have left me breathless. What really has me excited, though, is his post about his next project. I’ll give you a hint: Pillars of Creation. Check out the diagram and fabric selection he’s put together. Amazing. [via Apartment Therapy Boston]
Project Runway Season 1 winner, Jay McCarroll shows off his quilting expertise and a few laughs in this clip from Interweave’s Quilting Arts TV. Jay shows off some of his cool fabric designs too!
Cathe at Just Something I Made has found a way to extend the life and use of a beloved vintage quilt by scanning it in to her computer and using it in several different craft projects. Above, she’s printed the scanned quilt on ink-jet iron on paper and applied it to thrifted leather remnants. She […]
I have always enjoyed cooking and baking with a recipe. I like to follow exact instructions and then, hopefully, there are no surprises. Other people like to make it up as they go along, adding dashes of different flavors until they arrive at a taste they like. However, I have made a few t-shirt quilts following specific directions and they never turn out the way I want. They always end up too square and blocky. Since I had a number of cute t-shirts that I didn’t wear anymore (from the cluttered days of my Threadless addiction), I decided to experiment with making a freestyle, dash-of-this-pinch-of-that t-shirt quilt.
Kath at Whip Up has a great round up of quilt block tutorials.
