Vintage Bowl Fillers

The other day while I was looking for some charms to put on a craft, I found this fabric, all cut up in a bag.  Honestly, I didn't even remember that I had it!  LOL  If you're a crafter, can you relate?

So I gathered it up and started sewing this little bowl fillers.  Like right away.  (This may be why I have a hard time finishing things!)  You can use these to put in a bowl, on a shelf or as a pin cushion.  They're about 5" tall.

In the bag were some scraps of vintage lace, so I added some of that to my project.  I finished them off with buttons and small safety pin with a tag.  How nice they look in the chicken wire basket that I purchased recently on one of my hunts.  

The only bad thing about this project is that I want to make more!  

Here's me with the "girls" out at the Vintage Market in VT finding our antique treasures.  I'm the one on the right.  Part of the fun of putting my display together is finding the things to put in it.  :)

 

The Colorful Quilt - Quilt #1 for 2020

At my quilt retreat in October, I started a jelly roll quilt for one of my friends who was moving away. I was hoping to pretty much finish it up by the end of the weekend. The jelly roll fabric was from Lori Holt and I thought the fabrics were so pretty arranged in the rainbow pattern that they came in.

However, instead of keeping them in rainbow order, I decided to mix them up and make squares with a couple of triangles for the corner, sort of like a snowball, but with only two sides.  

So I sewed them together and then wasn't so sure if I liked how it looked.  (Really, I called it the ugly quilt that day.)  But my friend was moving away and I had a deadline to meet if I was going to give her a quilt before she left.

But I brought the quilt home and stared at it for a few days.  I decided that it needed a teal border that would pull out the teal colors and sure enough, once I added that, it began to redeem itself.  Even the colors seemed like they went together better.

I finished the quilt by the deadline and gave it to my friend before she moved away to Belgium. 

And guess what?  She really liked it!  I call it the Colorful Quilt, because that is what my friend is to me - a very colorful, fun person to be around.  :)

And who knows, I might even get to go to Belgium to visit her!  :)

Vintage Adventure

In summer, I love to go out camping.  Actually, it's more like glamping, a glamorous form of camping!  I picked up a red vintage trailer (haven't taken it out just yet) and decided that I needed some "quilty" things to go with it.  :)

I want to decorate using vintage reds, teals, pinks, gray, etc.  I found this adorable fabric called Vintage Adventure by Riley Blake and it is so perfect for what I want to make!

I have a jelly roll and some charm squares of the fabric and I started out cutting the strips into 2 1/2" squares.  I sewed them together and make a table topper for the picnic table and one for the end table next to my bed.  I can't wait to use them next year in my trailer.

For the first mini quilt, I quilted it using straight stitches and love the grid pattern that it makes.  I'm pretty traditional when it comes to quilts and I love the linear look.

In the second one, I did some simple free motion quilting and it give it an entirely different look.  You can see the two quilting styles in the second photo.

One of my friends gave the vintage trailer birdhouse to me as a gift and I might even bring it with me camping to hang up in my campsite. :)

Oh, there are so many more things that I'd like to make with these pretty fabrics.  But for today, these 2 pieces will have to suffice.