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Food is Life. Our cookbook is a nice mix of easy recipes to make magic with at home. Date or Family night- we got you. My Sister and I love food both vegan & non-vegan, healthy & sometimes not so healthy. Balance is important. Hope you love this mini-ebook down to the last crumb. Tag us in your magic @alexascaltrito & @dominiqueraescaltrito #littlebitofMMM
Finally! At long last the crumb slabs quilt is done! I went back and looked, my first post about this one was way back in May of last year. It's really unusual for me to have a quilt in progress that long! This is the latest in a line of crumb quilts I've made. I store my crumbs in a large glass jar and whenever it fills up I make something with them. There was the Sherwood Forest quilt, Crumb Jar Nines, and Scrappy Paint Boxes. I love using scraps! This is the first crumb quilt to be made entirely from scraps. Even the background pieces are sewn together from low volume fabric scraps. I used FMQ to quilt the top heavily with overlapping spirals. I use a scoop shaped foot with measurement lines on it to help keep the spacing even. (You can see the foot in this post). FMQ as opposed to a walking foot makes for much less shifting and wrinkling of the fabric. This quilt is going to be in the Modern section at the Tyler Quilt Show this weekend. This is the first quilt I have ever had in a show! I don't think you are generally supposed to wash show quilts but I just couldn't stand the idea of not washing a scrap quilt. They don't feel done until they have that krinkle. I ended up facing this quilt so that the design would continue right out to the edge. It just felt right. First time I've tried that, and it went surprisingly well. The quilt is also closer to square than I ever dared hope it would be! The backing is a favorite IKEA fabric. It makes your eyes do funny things to look at. When I was working on this back in the fall I kept thinking about the lyrics to "Fight Song" by Rachel Platten and how they related to this quilt. Even the smallest scraps can have a huge effect! I wrote part of the chorus on the label and the quilt is names "A Lot of Fight Left." "Like a small boat On the ocean Sending big waves Into motion Like how a single word Can make a heart open I might only have one match But I can make an explosion" ... "'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me" Linking to Finish it Friday and Oh Scrap!
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When you’re in Amsterdam, and a friend recommends a bakery café with the name De Laatste Kruimel, meaning The Last Crumb, you go looking for it with a sense of anticipation. Then you see an old-fashioned shopfront—two big show windows on either side of the door. The one on the right is filled with huge
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I'm linking up with Nicky and Leanne for Scraptastic Tuesday this week because at last I've got a scrap project to talk about! I haven't mentioned my scrappy crumb blocks for a while, but I did tell you all about them quite some time ago. These are little 5" scrappy charm squares which I've been stitching up over the past few years on the tail end of other projects and leaving aside for some future purpose. These are mostly either less than 2" wide or 2" square and making up the little squares as I go along helps to control my small scraps basket. In my current programme of clearing out and condensing all of my sewing supplies, I thought now seemed like a good time to use the little squares in a project. So after a quick layout and whipping up a few extra blocks to fill some of the gaps, this is my rainbow crumbs quilt. (I took the picture in horrible glaring nightime light - sorry.) Getting them all stacked and labelled ready for stitching together was progress in clearing the two little storage boxes in the top pic - so that's a success for condensing, right? And now, I have a small colourful rainbow flimsy with what feels like a thousand seams awaiting quilting. Interestingly, this little quilt top got the greatest response any of my IG pics have generated to date. Who'd have thought that a wee quilt top full of scrappy leftovers would be so very popular? Seems everybody loves a rainbow and scraps!
I am still working out in my head to proceed on a few quilts. I get ideas and see things, and then have to figure out how to use them. When I piece, I use leader and ender fabric which Bonnie Hunter taught me on her blog. This way, I start with 2 squares and end with 2 squares and then make 4 patch leader and enders every time I sew. I have all these neat 4 patch blocks now as a bonus from regular piecing. So, now what to do with them? I made two Wonky Star blocks to try this out. I could make a some more star blocks and then a sash around them all, then 4 patches around maybe. I don't know. Bonnie Hunter is also working on 2.5 x 8.5" strips of paper and covering them with crumbs. Four strips make a block. I made two blocks. I don't know how the blocks would go together, sashing around? All of these scrap blocks are sewed on my Singer treadle. I keep a box of scraps on it, and do therapy sewing whenever I need it. I can just leave it on the machine. I don't like sewing on paper, but I am giving it a try. The last crumbs I am working on is 6.5" blocks. I love using scraps. My thought is to make a number of blocks and maybe use attic windows to put them together. I don't always like using sashing around because it gets kind of boring and repetitive. The last crumb quilt I did for a comfort quilt had sashing. I thought maybe this might work- I have never sewn the attic window pattern, just this one block. What do you think? One Attic Window Block
Finally! At long last the crumb slabs quilt is done! I went back and looked, my first post about this one was way back in May of last year. It's really unusual for me to have a quilt in progress that long! This is the latest in a line of crumb quilts I've made. I store my crumbs in a large glass jar and whenever it fills up I make something with them. There was the Sherwood Forest quilt, Crumb Jar Nines, and Scrappy Paint Boxes. I love using scraps! This is the first crumb quilt to be made entirely from scraps. Even the background pieces are sewn together from low volume fabric scraps. I used FMQ to quilt the top heavily with overlapping spirals. I use a scoop shaped foot with measurement lines on it to help keep the spacing even. (You can see the foot in this post). FMQ as opposed to a walking foot makes for much less shifting and wrinkling of the fabric. This quilt is going to be in the Modern section at the Tyler Quilt Show this weekend. This is the first quilt I have ever had in a show! I don't think you are generally supposed to wash show quilts but I just couldn't stand the idea of not washing a scrap quilt. They don't feel done until they have that krinkle. I ended up facing this quilt so that the design would continue right out to the edge. It just felt right. First time I've tried that, and it went surprisingly well. The quilt is also closer to square than I ever dared hope it would be! The backing is a favorite IKEA fabric. It makes your eyes do funny things to look at. When I was working on this back in the fall I kept thinking about the lyrics to "Fight Song" by Rachel Platten and how they related to this quilt. Even the smallest scraps can have a huge effect! I wrote part of the chorus on the label and the quilt is names "A Lot of Fight Left." "Like a small boat On the ocean Sending big waves Into motion Like how a single word Can make a heart open I might only have one match But I can make an explosion" ... "'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me" Linking to Finish it Friday and Oh Scrap!
I'm linking up with Nicky and Leanne for Scraptastic Tuesday this week because at last I've got a scrap project to talk about! ...
Here she is! I finished her last night, but the lighting was so bad I waited until this morning to take a picture! I LOVE it! This is one of my favorites. I am pleased that I sewed it well (still won't take pictures of the back of the quilt top though....lots of hidden stuff, lol). I also had time to sew the back together. I don't have a large stash, but I found some purple and green plaid fabrics and threw them together. I think they all were sold as remnants. One of them was a civil war fabric so I made sure to save some of that and tuck it away for my next hexagon project. The total pieces for this quilt top is 1137! The top cost me about $18.00 to make. I bought the white background fabric and the blue border fabric. 5 yards for 18.00 is a good deal to me!! I love a good stashbuster, don't you?!? Here is the finished Crumb Patch Quilt! The big question here is how do I quilt this thing!?!?!? I am new to the actual quilting part and have a hard time many times figuring out how to compliment the quilt with quilting. Suggestions welcome!
Last weekend, after a couple of years absence, The International Quilt Festival returned to Chicago/Rosemont which is 10 minutes away from my house! Little compares to the quality of this festival. The quilt shows were fabulous and the vendors a plenty. I love to start off walking through the show to get inspiration and be awed by the beautiful art. Although I took quite a few pictures I will share only a few. As I was walking through the show I quickly noticed this quilt and immediately knew who it belong to. Although I have seen her work many times on her blog, seeing her signature style in person was amazing! A World of Many Colors by Georgeta Grama I loved the perspective in this quilt. It really gave the feeling of walking down an alley with graffiti walls. Amsterdam Alley:The Shortcut Between by Leslie Tucker Jenison I was attracted to the colors and piecing of this quilt. I love the use of hexagons and the secondary design that is made. Details of Catena by Timna Tarr. This clever piece was made from candy wrappers...Pixie sticks, Skittles, Reese's Pieces, Starbursts and more! Appropriately named, Sweet Blooms by Pat Kroth. The use of color and the shape of a Tuning Fork arranged every which way really caught my eye. Tuning Fork #6 by Heather Pregger One of the exhibits was called Chicowgo. I just thought that some of these were just so clever. Gotta love the play on words! by Mary MacNeil (I took VanGogh's Cow for my daughter who teaches Art) by Mel B McFarland by Connie Donaldson by Mel B McFarland This past Thursday, I was fortunate to attend a lecture and trunk show by Victoria Findlay Wolfe. She is well know for her blog, book and modern quilt theory, 15 minutes of play. She also won Best of Show at Quiltcon this year with her modern take of the double wedding ring quilt. It was amazing and honoring to meet her. Here are some of her quilts she shared. Her grandmother's quilt where she got her inspiration. 15 minutes of play made fabric Everything but the kitchen sink quilt. Mixing antique blocks and blocks made from Made Fabric. Playing with stripes. If you ever get the opportunity to hear Victoria speaks I would recommend it! Here is her cow quilt...could have fit in the Chicowgo show! So what else have I been doing? I have spent some time in my sewing room but since this post is already quite long I will only share my July Art Journal page which is ready for Monday! The rest will wait for another day! Can you believe that July is just around the corner? My page is a little predicable with the 4th of July being the main attraction of the month. Without further adieu...My July Calendar. Here is the link to see what some other's are doing.
