Carli The Quilter

I had shown you some of the blocks I've made using the 'Modern Improv' method where anything goes and as a good little quilter, I'm always reminded automatically to use balance in my color and print choices. And as  you know I'm on the diet of my stash projects and getting really great feedback from locals and even received some emails from followers. I'm busier than the beavers on the Bulkley River river right now! I have more blocks here for you to check out that are also going into the quilt. These are orphan blocks and anyone can make a quilt like this, its the easiest quilt I've ever made, no fussing with exactness, no fussy cutting, just the simple act of modern peicing where who cares if they are all not matching, but in the big picture, its an awesome quilt in the making. Take care, its raining and warm today in Northern BC. Thanks so much for dropping on by my little blog! I'm linking up with Stitch  by Stitch. C

If you went to search online for women's institute you might find the definition of found in  wikipedia  you'd read that it all started in  Llanfairpwllgwyngyll ,  Anglesey  and that  " It had two clear aims: to revitalise rural communities and to encourage women to become more involved in producing food during the First World War". This quilt above was a project by the ladies of Sunshine Valley W.I. to commemorate 100 years of the City of Grand Forks, B.C. My grandmother was a founding member of one of the branches in in or around Chapel-en-le-frith, Darbyshire, England, I'm still on the hunt to find out this exact information. But regardless, she'd be proud of me, I'm sure! Our annual conference was lead by our esteemed President Geneva Wiseman of Southside Branch.  We have a minute of silence for those members who have passed on after another member reads out the accomplishments of those members. Our world logo for Women's Ins

Well, you all know I love to read about or see something lovely made up from reused materials. Sheila Munro from Nova Scotia emailed a link to me and I'm so excited to see others taking the bull by the horns and reining in our lack of appreciation of quilts made from reused materials. Now, I'm not dissing anyone, but sometimes all I read about its what is happening with new 100% cotton. So you know what I mean hopefully. You may know of this "New to Me" blog called Quilt Inspiration and so these are some of the photos I have not gained permission to use, but I'm  not saying they are mine, they are ladies who also write for this blog I think. Just a little taste of this great article, just check this jean inspiration here. Hope you all have a great weekend! I'm off the local pub to watch 'open Mike' tonight. Tootles! Carli

Earlier this month, I started making some random blocks for a wedding quilt that is due in three weeks, of course I leave it until the last minute! But here are the blocks that I'll use in this new modern wedding quilt. And last but not least, my yellow sun crazy blocks is going into this improv quilt and I'll be doing it with free motion quilting on blocks as I create the quilt. Its my favorite way to construct a quilt and it gives me all the control to design, which is just what was requested. And then I had to redo my Old Martha, her dress was over 25 years old and she was starting to look sad, now she is so  happy.Here she is before and after. And the drum roll for New Martha in her new do!  Now,she's really got to get back to work of holding all my pins! I'm feeling fine, its springtime! Is it spring time where you are? Carli

Crazy quilting is not for the faint of heart, that is a certainty! You must be willing to stretch your creative muscles and do things that FEEL right to you, not anyone else.  I don't make my crazy quilt to please anyone or to attract anyone for a sale. They are mine, simply what I love in stitching. I love to play with stitches, like a cowboy with a lariat.   I'm building, growing and listening to my life. Its saying to me, let it go and be free. So these special, delightful bundles are going up for sale soon. The hot new color for 2014 and I'm locating some delicious satin and velvet I have in these colors. Its a bold color that has been in clothing for decades, funny how that is, its now hot!  I enjoy the give and take of reclaimed fabric with "life" in it. Its for a beginner to start with of an experienced crazy quilter to really get into the whole art of crazy quilting. I do speak about the joy of doing something

I've been so busy with learning about beading that my time has gone by happily with nice walks in the springtime, since my last epidural, my back is really been very quiet in the pain department. Yahoo for that! I've been having a blast learning how to bead effectively! Enjoy and Happy Easter to all my followers across the world. All the best, Carli

Hello new friends and followers ~ Welcome to my blog where I'm talking harvesting! I asked the question " What do you do to reuse by making anything from a portion of the whole of an article of clothing. It was my  hope that more folks might admit this fact by helping our fragile blue planet? And some did for sure. I thank you all ladies for your honesty! I was really pleased to hear all the comments left by these engaged women from around the world. I put the names in my husbands cap and he picked our winner who is Emily Carnes!! She wrote this comment as quoted below: " Yay! I am so glad to read this post! I just posted last night about my "new" sweater that I got from my friend who re-purposes wool sweaters into new sweaters and "sweater-dresses". Every time I read the words recycle, upcycle, and repurpose, it makes me happy. We truly do have so much excess, and after all, repurposing worn out clothing and other fabrics is the origi

Cloud 9 Fabrics is one fabric manufacturer who seems to  have a great talent at picking awesome collections and they specialize in organic cotton. This one is a unique bundle that I bought a few years ago, so I'm sorry that its dated now, but what the heck, new fabric if new fabric, am I right? When I buy fabric I buy organic cotton, because I know the standard are set up to promote growers NOT using pesticides in the growing of the cotton and the milling, manufacturing has other standards to eliminate the less than desirable chemical use. I've made several with these fat quarters and I love the way they feel to hand quilt afterwards. So soft and seem to be just the right density for smooth hand quilting.  Here in this way I've made the Monkey Wrench block into a really earthy feeling small wall quilt! What you have to do to enter this giveaway is make a comment on my Facebook page here. I'm listed as Caroline Heinrichs, Te

Spring is here!! I wanted you to see this cute bed sized quilt which I purchased from EBay several years ago, its kind of like Easter already. I'll actually take it outside and get a full size photo really soon, its awesome polyester fortrel crazy quilt. This is where I've been spending a bunch of time with patterns finally getting done. I have an interesting reuse project going on that is going to be a pattern this spring. You can see the snow we still have on the ground. My gloxinia is blooming again and I'm slowly making some progress on my summer campfire purple poncho that I wrote about a few weeks ago. And this is only photo I can share of a little table runner project that a friend of mine needing finishing. That's all for now, working on my CQA Spring block. That post is up next! All the best to you my faithful readers, and I've got something special coming up as I crest over the top to 100 followers!! This is real