Carli The Quilter

I have had to stop so much hand stitching, so I've turned other projects and I'm now going through many strips and placing them all into various log cabin blocks, check it out here with these photo's, enjoy!   I apologize in advance for this next poorly lit photograph. I am playing around with  making log cabins using 2 in strips from random odds and sods of fabric.   Not much of re-purposed fabric is  here, but you surely good reuse, the basic log cabin block is a great way to learn an accurate 1/4 in. seam, shaping with printed color, its a great way to start reusing. In fact, I've made a few.   This illustration I did in 2004 for a book I was in the process of writing. Then my new winter crazy block peeks out! I've progressed from there and I'll post that soon! Hope your day is going good and that more logs are in the process~ And I'm linking up with Oombawka Designs who hosts Link & Share Wednesday'...

I have made and sold many bags from re-purposed fabric found in clothing, here are some of these examples. These bags are made from found fabric and only those who want to support thrifty use of fabrics that would ordinarily go into a landfill. I am not sure how the excess of clothing happens in our communities, but in many of the northern communities, the excess is going into landfill, simple as that, this is my opinion is a waste. I look at things in this way, to make the clothing in the first place, energy was used to grow or manufacture the very fabric. So then afterwards, to make any kind of product, more energy is used to make new things from the fabric. Then more energy is used

 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!