I truly struggle to find a way to use my crumbs.
The other day I was perusing Instagram and came across this idea from Instagram (PrairieAndOcean)…..
Make small strips of crumbs….
….and use them in a strip-pieced block….
I MUST try this!
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I did find ONE way to use crumbs….
and turned it into a pattern….
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My friend, Deb Messina, has a wonderful quilting website and shop called “Quiltblox”……
This year, she has presented the “Quiltblox Twelve Days of Christmas”, and Day 3 was all about CREATIVITY!!
She provides a beautiful description of creativity and gives suggestions for getting out of your creative funk! (I REALLY need this)
Check it out here…..
I appreciate this paragraph in particular……
The word “creativity” is born in wonder. It begins the moment we see color and texture and imagine what could be. It’s rooted in play — that joyful part of ourselves that never stopped loving crayons, patterns, and possibility.
Thank you Deb for sharing your sweet thoughts with the world!
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You know how you are having fun creating your binding, and then something like this happens…..
Then you work a little bit longer and IT HAPPENS AGAIN!!
Oy vey…..
Maybe I need to concentrate a BIT harder!!
At least I had the great idea to wind the binding onto a pool noodle to wait for the quilt to be finished.
I am finding that this is a great way to store those LONG strips…..
The only problem will be if I can remember where I put it when the time comes!
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When I first moved into my renovated studio, I spent a lot of time folding and ironing my fabric and carefully placing it on the shelves…
It was SO neat and tidy.
Let’s move 5 years down the road……
Not quite as pleasing to look at!!
I knew that it was time to do some straightening, and I also wanted to pull all of my solids out of the regular stash.
But I simply couldn’t summon the energy to commit that much studio time to the clean-out.
Then I got the idea to work on it while we watched TV at night. I set up a small table and brought down the stacks….two at a time.
And before I knew it, I had re-organized the whole wall…..
It was amazing how quickly the task was accomplished by doing it two stacks at a time!!
I also learned that I didn’t have as many solids as I thought that I did…..
Hmmmm…. maybe that means a trip to the fabric store??
So what is the moral to this story (besides the joy of fabric shopping)??
If you have a BIG, DAUNTING task, break it down and just do it!!
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Last Tuesday, I told you about learning that I had been threading my Sit-Down Longarm WRONG for a long time!!
While I was thinking about thread, I decided it was time to clean some of my “iffy” threads.
These are some threads that I purchased when we were in China….
I loved the colors and weights of the threads, but after 10+ years, I hadn’t tried using them yet!!
IT WAS TIME……
I loaded up three different threads, and each one of them broke within 2 minutes of quilting.
NOT A GOOD SIGN!!
I knew when I bought them, that they were of “iffy” quality, so it is time to get them out of my studio!!
NOTE TO SELF….don’t buy unknown threads!!
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