Carli The Quilter

My sweet friend Miss Pat of Muddy Boot Prints educates youngsters in her outdoor learning program full days, outsidemostly. Rain or shine, they do have warm up spots for wet little ones out of the rain for brief times. This is where my two new quilts almost finished will go.  These are reused moving blanket from U-Haul, are onto a new life, giving warmth and comfort to red nosed children and two sweet ladies, Miss Pat and Miss Velma. This began as a way to reintroduce myself to being able to plan out my projects and realizing that I had way too many quilts that need desparately to be completed. But while completing those quilts which need my attention in my sewing womb. I began with an idea. I  began with reusing moving blankets for new quilts that can take the abuse of outdoor use. I pictured my friend and her business partner getting a wee bit chilly at times, I wanted to jump in and get busy on this project. When you have the means to buy fabric...

Hello to all my quilty friends! Super excited that I'm finally able to get into some new fabric and some new quilts. More on that later. But just received some fun project supplies from www.fabricspark.com. A few years ago I was inspired and fell in love with Jen Kingswell designs! My work on her pattern "Midnight in the Oasis" gave me pause for a whole bunch of reasons. I have done so many quilts that pausing has been good for me and my aspirations. I lingered on modern versions of crazy quilting using machine stitches and machine embroidery. But I love hand stitching, so..... I journeyed deep into the cool pool of water. We all come forth via water. I paddled upstream and downstream and got caught in a tidal pool or two. I find now that I am fearless! I know I can't help it, I go around sharing my inner thoughts as if we were having a tea on the deck. I hope you are not bored? Since moving, I have been overwhelm...

We had such a great time at the Makehouse on Fort St in Victoria on March 11! Victoria's downtown core was alive with raindrops and bustling feet. I even found a parking spot not far away! I have been in love with the ambiance at Jenny's Shop since the first time I saw the photo of her window display online. Jenny Ambrose is so sweet and is passionate about reusing. The new fabric classes for lingerie shows in the various items hung around her shop.!  Her classes are full of interesting fashion and home decor that would suit most learners with new stuff being added all the time. Also, what is coming are more quilting classes and for a video view of her shop, this video is a great promo of herself and her concept once you are at her site. In the meantime, quilty folks! I watched a beginner make her first t-shirt quilt from bar towels. Yes, who knew that bar towels like these from different pubs from across the world even existed? Kerry's undertaking...

Hello to all of my faithful readers! Thank you for continuing to read my blog. This is Chapter Thirteen-Remake Handmade. I'm counting backwards because my little bloggy spot is approaching 500 blog posts. WOW! The photo below describes some of what I love to do, which is river fishing with my hubby of 32 years. He took this photo of me when doing the 2nd thing I love to do, hand stitching! These chapters are a way for me to search out my own roots in the crafting I do and asking myself is this what I thought it would be like, some ten years down the way? Back in 2007 when I started this blog, I knew nothing about blogging. I did it in secret. My friends and others thought me a little 'weird'.  Eventually, most of them began to realize that blogging didn't mean me sharing everything we discussed or worked on in the privacy of our  homes, as just girlfriends! You know, right, who would do such a thing without consent! Its been this blog, Good ...

Hi to all my quilty friends! First, I have made up my Beginner T-Shirt Workshop sample for March 4th, 2017 at the theMakehouse.ca in downtown Victoria! I'm very excited about all the teaching opportunities for 2017. I have also been working tirelessly on my Quilty 365 Circles blocks and I'm almost there! I have also worked on a new crazy quilt for another upcoming workshop. What do you think? I have made up some blocks to make into give away Pincushion gifts for students attending my Beginner T-Shirt Workshop at theMakehouse.ca on Fort St in Victoria, B.C. This new Crazy Quilt starts off at a regular crazy pieced block and goes onto new horizons. Also, for some strange reason Google has changed or its a conflict between my phone updates, my laptop and other computers I use at home and its resulted in me not being able to "Reply or Comment" on any blogs anywhere. So this is why no one is hearing my comments on yo...

Happy Sunday!  I love getting to "my time" with Lucinda Williams softly playing in the background, the iron is warm, it looks like rain outside and I'm quilting! I'm really digging how this quilt is finally coming together. The continued scrappy feel of this quilt as colors and prints have collided into a happy smile on my face. I've been trying to figure out what to name this quilt. I'm seeing a 'happiness' factor speaking to me. These Dresden Plate blocks are coming together and its fun to see them get into the dance together. I've got some really "fun finishes" for December that I'm building in the back ground and hoping that your time for quilt has been a great time. Stay tuned for these upcoming posts. Off to go keep my iron warm! Today, I'm linking up with one of my favorite link-up party: Slow Stitching Sunday

The clouds have lifted into a beautiful evening sky last night! I made awesome progress on Sunday with machine quilting three projects waiting in the wings for a completion date. Remember this one below?  This Christmas Table Runner has reached the point of binding it and then its complete. Its so fun to machine quilt smaller projects! I'm just glad to have reached some finishing in this crazy womb of quilting! You know who will relate that room being called a womb. Cheers my friend Nola. I tried different techniques to reacquaint myself with machine quilting again. I'm planning on a special Christmas post, that will give this lovely Christmas Table Runner a nice place to show off. Hope you are all having fun quilting!

It feels good to return at the day end to my sewing and quilting. I adjust the music sound level and I zone into my stitching. I take a deep breath and plunge in.  I'm not alone with hearing from all of you. But I did take a wee fork in the road of "Scrappy Dresden Quilt" and I've made a decision to agree with the comments around choosing a color scheme for the background sashing of this quilt. As I pulled the blue selection I could choose from, I found fabric yardage discrepancies and decided the earlier layout of Scrappy Dresden Quilt required a wee adjustment to "more scrappy is better." You can see the change I've made. And of course, I have some new crazy quilted cushions coming along with a new bit of a slant on crazy quilting. It was quite by accident that I decided to move into placing 2.5 in squares I purchased from a lovely UVIC student who was so sweet to help me find her using our phones on that ...