52 Photos Project: Chopped

For week 9 of the 52 Photos Project, our prompt is

Chopped.

 

 

 

Check out more things

Chopped

at the gallery.

 

 

sue

 

De-Stash 4 Malawi

A few weeks ago I learned about a new challenge

from Barbara, over at Cat Patches.

It's been organized by Snoodles at Lily Pad Quilting,

and is called "De-Stash 4 Malawi".

Snoodles heard about Lois Kropf, who, along with her husband, live and work with the very poor in Malawi.

One of things that Lois does is make clothes for many of the school children there.

Snoodles thought that since so many quilters have stashes,

that we could probably be able to come up with a yard (or more) of cotton that we would be willing to donate to the Kropfs.  We send the fabric to the Kropfs' daughter, who lives in New York, so postage is not much of an issue!

This is what I sent - there's about 4 yards of fabric,

plus 2 spools of thread.

Check over at Lily Pad Quilting

for all the particulars.

But hurry!

The challenge only runs through Oct. 15th.


Have a great weekend!

sue

Foto Finish - Pink

OK, I'm not too much of a "PINK" kinda gal.

When I saw that this week's theme for Foto Finish was 'Pink',

I thought, "Well, I could show my photo of pink geraniums that I took at Ruth's house....no, I think I want to do something different."

So I thought, and I thought, and couldn't think of anything else.

THEN>>>>>>

I walked into my Fabric Shoppe room.

A few years ago, my sisters gifted me with this room,

buying lovely Billy cabinets from IKEA.

Building the cabinets, going through all the bags of fabric

that were piled up on the floor & organizing it all.

So....here it is, direct from the Fabric Shoppe...

PINK!!!

I don't have much pink fabric, but I do like the way it looks here!

As an aside, there are THREE cabinets in the room,

and all the fabric I had didn't fit into them!

Even after we had to throw away a bunch that was ruined by the water leak.

Here's another picture of this cabinet, still not the whole thing,

but it will give you a better perspective of how much pink is there:

I only straightened up the pink pile a little bit.

I promise!

If you would like to see more PINK photos,

click on over to Cat Patches Foto Finish -

and maybe even add some PINK of your own!!

Hope you're having a fabulous day!

sue



Don's Old Jeans

Enough years ago that I'm not sure how many, my friend Shirley gave me a giant trash bag full of her husband's old jeans.  They sat around for a long time in that room, before that room was transformed by my lovely sisters into The Fabric Shoppe.  At that time, they were taken out of the bag, and put onto the bottom shelf in one of the beautiful cabinets my sisters bought for the room.  And finally, a few months back, when I was looking for some fabric to use in a quilt, I took some of the jeans out & started cutting them up.

I wasn't exactly sure what sort of quilt I wanted to do, until I began wielding my rotary cutter.  Since Don was on the thin side, I could only get a couple blocks from each pair that was 8" square, then more at 6".  Plus every single pair had a hole worn in the front thigh of the right leg!  Only the right leg......I think that's where the remote control rested....  Anyway, I decided that I would make my first rag quilt using the jeans blocks.  I think I had cut up maybe 4 or 5 pairs when ---- squirrel!!  Oops!  Lost focus, once again, and the jeans & squares became  P.I.G.S. (Project In Grocery Sack)

Fast forward to October.  I tripped over the jeans P.I.G.S. and decided to take it with me to my quilt class on Tuesday night & continue cutting.  Then, I actually got out the graph paper & made a plan!

I used two blues & the white just for reference, so I could see the design better, it's all used jeans.  It will have the 8" squares (finished at 7") in the center, then two different sizes of coping strips so that the 6" (5" finished) squares will fit easily around the outside.  I'm using 1/2" seam allowances for the rag effect, except that I will need to piece the coping strips, so where they are joined I've decided to put the seams on the inside & not rag them.

I made a trip to M&L Fabric in Anaheim the next week & bought at 4 different flannels for the back.  This puppy is going to be heavy, but it will be living in No. California & it's cooler up there. 

plain, solid light blue flannel

light blue w/ paw prints

This blue plaid is a bit darker than it shows in the photo



Black w/lt. blue dots



The next Tuesday, I managed to get all the flannel squares cut up too.  I'm on a roll now!!



Please ignore all the stuff around the blocks, it's my desk at work....



Now they're ready to be matched up & sewn together with a big X.  Hooray!  But will the quilt be finished in time to give it away at Christmas?  Or will it ~ squirrel!!!

To be continued...