You know what I mean?

A little bit here and little bit there, suddenly, we have more quilts to tuck our loved in on a winter night. Many of my friends have begun to understand and embrace reusing cloth from clothing. Some of my friends think I'm a little different!

But I don't care what people say or think!

Take for instance, a blog posting that using up denim in innovative ways?

http://unrulyquilting.blogspot.ca/

In the blog above you'll see dozens of examples of scraps from all sorts of places? Does it matter? Really, I doubt if anyone who receives a lovely, handmade quilt will say, "Is this new fabric or what?"

You know what I mean?

Quilts are about the care and love that goes into a handmade item, made just for them. They will only think of the love and effort that you did,  yourself, not what kind of fabric it is.

So come and join us, let down your hair and try something new?

Velour backing/batting, denim jean circles, barkcloth background squares, wow quilt!

Quilt Guild Reminders

Hello Groupies!

Just a quick reminder that our next meet-up will be on October 27th at the Telkwa Reformed Church.

Carli has suggested that we do a stash-buster sale at out up-coming demo (November maybe?). So let us know if you have bundles you could donate - the guild would keep 50% of the commission for fund-raising, and you would take home the rest.  Check out your stashes and see what you might donate!

Also, I'd like to post a few tutorials on using technology to share and communicate with other quilters (with Carli's blessing).  Keep your eyes skinned on this space to learn a few tricks about navigating and sharing online!

-Kirsten

Modern Paper Piecing-Foxes, Frankenstien and brown cat?

This cutey is easy to paper piece and is totally fun to play with. This little fox is in transition as she makes her way into my quilts. I personally think that Sonja Callaghan is one of our brightest, emerging paper piecing artist we've seen yet. Her work is fresh, alive with innovation and creative spunkiness that is often not seen anymore.

In this scene I imagine this little fox is peering down a dark hole in the ground. The  background is the sunny skies of summer. Its simple, yet calms the spirit.

Her Frankenstien takes a 'hole' new view of things as he peers out from his custom made horror. 

Her kitty is free on her website, http://artisania.wordpress.com/ 

I am priviledged to have discovered her work. I recommend that you visit her site and read some of her blog posts. Funny and interesting.Her paper pieced patterns are downloadable so you can get started right away.

Sonja was enthralled along with all Canadians as the Vancouver Canucks fought for the Stanley Cup, she offered a free paper piece pattern of their sudo logo.

 I really like making paper piecing, but one warning for beginners, little scraps like these are not on. Always use a much larger piece of fabric than the little paper segment identifies on the patter piece. To get the angles correct, aligned so that you have your outside 1/4 inch for sewing into your quilt is a little bit tricky, it tends to bend your mind a bit. I suggest that  having a glass of wine while doing other things than paper piecing is the best advice I can give.

These little slivers are solid color organic cotton from a project I'm not quite ready to share, I'll keep you posted.

In the meantime, if you've got a favorite modern paper piecing pattern, share it with us. 

May the wind be at your back and sun on your face.