Recycled Jeans

Have you thought about recycling things in your quilting. Bonnie Hunter does a lot with cotton shirts, and The QuiltShow.com with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims posted that they love to recycle.  This inspired me to post about my use of recycled materials.  I love jeans and have used them for a few projects. I have four boxes of jeans and pieces of cut of jeans all from my two boys, my husband and myself. 

The first denim project I made was a quilt.

 The second was a denim purse made from a pair of my youngest son's jeans. I took a machine embroidery class and this was what I used to play on the machine with. Someday I will have one of those in my machine collection.

 The third was my denim jacket lined with fleece.  It is nice and warm and heavy.

I also made myself a skirt and still have several ideas floating around in my head on what else I can do with all the jeans I have collected.  We shall see what I come up with next.

Christmas Block Swap

I got the nicest delivery in my mailbox today. It was my swap blocks from my wonderful friends at QuiltMashUp.

They are lovely and I am looking forward to figuring out what fabric to use for sashing and bordering.

Samelia's Mum: Vintage Modern {Giveaway}

Samelia's Mum: Vintage Modern {Giveaway}: If you’re anything like me, you’ll have loved all of the fabric ranges released by Bonnie & Camille. Well, their new range is out and it is really pretty. I want to add it to my fabric collection and you can enter to win a charm pack.

Stolen Quilts Alert!

 Patsy Thompson had quilts were stolen from her locked car in Corbin, KY. They also stole her embroidery machine, which can be replaced, but the quilts cannot. If you know anything about these quilts please share the information with Patsy.

 

 Her post regarding the theft with pictures of some of the quilts stolen can be found at here. 

It is scary to think of someone breaking into your car and stealing things from you. It is worse that it was her quilts which are works of love and come from the heart.   Please if you know anything let Patsy know.  Even if she can only recover one quilt, it would be wonderful as it is devastating to have something like this happen. Please spread the word!

So I went through a ton of fabric that was in the closet on the shelving unit in there.  A lot of the pieces were small fat quarters or half yards.  I found a ton of muslin, that I did not know I had, some old costumes from when the boys skated in ice shows, and more fabric.  Some of the fabric is rayon or sateen.  The rayon I am not sure what I bought it for as the colors were very different, not something I would wear.  The sateen I bought back when I was making costumes so I know why I have it.
After going through and separating the different fabric types I started on the other side of the closet.  I found pillow forms, more fleece, some books, including a couple on embroidery stitches, a few magazines, and a quilt from 1995 that was half hand quilted in the big stitch style.

I know it is from 1995 as I made three of them and two were donated to tornado victims in Clarksville, Tennessee that year.  They were originally intended as a gift, but I felt they could be better used in Tennessee at the time. The pattern is called slice and dice and is one where you stack up eight different squares of fabric and slice seven times then shift the fabrics around so each block has the eight different fabrics showing.  You can draw your lines on a square of freezer paper and then cut or just cut.  Depending on the size of your fabric squares your block size will vary once they are sewn into squares and squared up.  It is a fun quilt to make and I enjoyed making them, but I really thought that I had sent this one to someone or donated it a long time ago.  Guess this is another UFQ to add to my list.  I don't think it will take long to finish as it looks to be a little more than half done and is a lap size quilt.