Carli The Quilter

 I'm doing the experiment of not buying new fabric and I'm almost two months into it and I've been quilting and still no need for anything new. Its called Fabriholics Anonymous , I tracked the start of this neat idea to the lovely Rebecca Lynne  of Making Rebecca Lynne Blog, who admits she placed it out there on the sparkling and static Internet world to read. Her friend, the lovely Jess of The Elven Garden the receiver of the suggestion, was on board.  I learned about it shortly afterwards and then posted about it on this blog. I even included this photo in the first post, but hand on But what I didn't share was that the photo of green bins really contains 100% re-purposed fabric directly from clothing and a small amount of it is new that was donated to me. But for some reason, I didn't suggest it because its just not sexy! As a blogger of the quilt world, I've learned that most quilters or readers want to read something that...

Recently, as mentioned  before I have been experiencing carpel tunnel syndrome. I type a lot, I use a computer for some part time work I do and then I hand stitch. I guess it can be a deadly combination, so I'm resting them and this means very little stitching is going on here. So lately, I'm trying to get some stitching done on my Winter Block, but to be honest its slow going. This is where it currently is, slightly unfinished in my opinion. But then again, as the snow falls outside, our weather seems not done with winter, so its matching my block.  To be honest, I'm finding the idea of trying to portray a season to be challenging. Mostly because its difficult to define stitches with keeping within a grey, white and dark grey and pinkish colored fabrics. But when I think of winter in the north, we get a fair amount of grey days, with low hanging clouds that make a grey color to the landscape, so this is my perspective on my color choices. But I will c...

Of course, I'm taking a few moments and working on my Winter Block for the Crazy Quilt Along 2014 members of my little quilt along. In between removing my wrist supports. Ugh! Progress is going slow. So then I have many friends around the world who do some absolutely gorgeous work in crazy quilting. One of them is Masha of way over in Russia, she does some awesome work! These images were cut and pasted into my blog, Masha is so happy that I'm promoting her work! Now you can see what I mean? Masha organized a round robin, what a great idea. I'm working on something like this for those in my group of crazy quilters? Anyone interested? This is how a round robin works. 1. You figure out a group that is not toooo far away from you. This saves on postage. 2. You make your own blog, add in some special things that are really pertinent to the idea of your block, then you mail it away to those in  your round robin group. 3. Someone needs to be the ...

I've finally been figuring out how to find my photos and I'm having to transfer photos I want from my old Mac via a Data Traveller. I know its not ideal, but what the heck, its something I can do. I found these old photos and thought you'd like to see some of the work on reused denim that I've created. The photo above is the top edge of a pair of baby jeans, this cute little necklace fits over your head with the zipper down. This is what the cuffs look like opened up. I encourage you to rethink what you do with jeans, yes, I've seen examples of denim quilt and I've made some too, but lets rethink how else we can reuse denim. See you soon, let me know what you think? Carli

Complete finished wallhanging, each block with a very old watch dial. , a photo by Margreet from Holland on Flickr. This is simply stunning and so beautiful!

It is a booklet for myself. , a photo by Margreet from Holland on Flickr. Calling all crazy quilters! This artist from Holland is one of the best in my opinion, check her stuff out on Flicker! In regards to my own journey of healing my carpel tunnel flare up while hosting my beloved quilt along, I'm happy to say I'm over the bump in my stitching. I've been moving through my new Winter Block for my hosted Crazy Quilt Along 2014 on  this blog, its simple to follow along and join in if its your first crazy quilt or its your 10th, we'd love for you to join. My vision for this 'winter' block was an image in my mind of the very soft glowing kind of light that reflects from the snow on a clear night in our world of snow. This also falls upon a scene that represents the northern hills of Darbyshire in Britian. My parents are immigrants of Britian and I have a very old photo that has a scene like this. In the winter as well, so similar. My st...

OMG, my pants are needing a belt! They are so loose that they are always lower over my belly than I like. My hubby is thrilled with my progress and he's been really helpful to my weight loss project.  Yep, when he needs a big fat, juicy, dripping something with calories type of meal, he heads into town for a lunch date with the boys! Thank you sweetie! Sometimes we tend to put everything and everyone in front of ourselves. We seem to do this for years, always finding a reason to not actually make the break and BEGIN to lose weight.  We try to make attempts but for some reason we don't stick with it. We fail. But what's important is that you get back up and get back on the horse, so to speak! I'm attesting to a whole load of pain, anxiety, loss and heart ache from this past spring and summer. Its been a real roller coaster. Trying to find a simple place to sit without pain has been difficult.  Pain for me this past summer was excruciati...

Hello everyone, where ever you live I hope its an awesome day! Its very cold and blue sky sunny today, wow! I have found some absolutely extraordinaire links of crazy quilting and the first up is one of the crazy quilting links on Pinterest that I'd love for you to go and visit, but first you might want to read the whole post before disappearing  because I've got some things to say. Things that helped me get started in crazy quilting! When we got our first computer in mid 1990's, I started learning everything I could about the internet and computers in general. This is the kind of excitement I felt when I first realized that I loved making stitches that were similar to the images I saw in books and on the various web sites I found, before I even knew about  blogging. So let yourself go, as you may have figured out about me, I don't go the way of the rest of the crowd. Maybe letting go of what your friends like, you know? I'm hard working, on every j...

I was asked to make a gift for a friend of mine. His Mom loves the color burgundy. He wanted the photo transferred to fabric and included in something artistic. I used embossed roses that found in my vintage stash, you know really I'm not experiencing any hardships with using my own fabric. I destashing and its not hurting me either. The finished peice, I just love crazy quilting, this is to update on the previous posting when I couldn't find any of my photos. Its cold, sunny and so beautiful today! Hoping your day is beautiful too! Carli

I just love this quilt and this blog! Kristy@QuietPlay is a nifty paper piece designer. I  have begun to play with her free pattern download of her BOM. http://quietplay.blogspot.com.au/p/sew-kitschy-paper-piecing-bom.html I've done my two versions of Jan and Feb as you see her version and my version. You know I'm not buying anything for 6 months which started on Jan 1 with the lovely Jess at The Elven Garden and her Fabriholics Anonymous  and for some reason I can't find her post on using up what we have. I know that's not what the fabric sellers that we love don't want us to do....but you've got to get rid of some fabric some how? My vision for this lovely quilt along is to make a quilt that will fit into my new kitchen. I don't know what that will look like, but I've got an antique kind of idea in my head. I'm really happy to be linking up with Quiet Play and her BOM Sew Kitschy I'm really pumped to ...

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 In the world of hand embroidery, one stitch can make many. Study the stitches. See how many ways a simple daisy stitch can be placed in a hundred ways.

As you know, my life is filled with fibre in one way or another. And I've been having a sweet time checking out interesting things online. Recently, I found this sweet little new crochet flower! Its called the African Crochet Flower Thanks to Canadian Living for this cute finish photo of the African Crochet Flower. I just love playing with yarn, threads and fabric. Beads also come into this and now I'm into making jewelry!  What do you think of my radical wrist cuffs. These are just the first and more are coming along, they'll be posted in my new upcoming Etsy Shop.  And then reflection from all of my hand embroidery has made me rethink where I'm going. Just how much hand embroidery and hand stitching can I do anymore. Its such a pain to have to wear wrist support all the time.  Plus I'm working on some cute NEW Christmas "Snow Town Folk" patterns that I published in the Canadian Quilters Connection back in 2011.  ...