Podunk Pretties Quilting: Dusting Off a Quilt Book blog hop

Thursday, February 21, 2019

~ Dust Off A Quilt Book Blog Hop ~ Day 4 ~

Yeah! Today is my day to share in the Dust Off a Quilt Book blog hop hosted by Bea over at the BeaQuilter Blog. In this blog hop we were asked to make a project from a book or magazine we've had in our personal quilt book libraries. What a task! We purchase these books because we love them. To pick one project was quite the chore. Those of you that know me know why I chose this mini quilt....the CHERRIES!

The mini quilt was found in the book Happy Flower Quilts. I won this book a couple of years ago during a blog hop. It's packed full of so many great projects big and small.

As you can see in the picture from the book I change the project just a bit to suit my lazier style. The pattern suggested tons of hand work that did not appeal to me. Simplifying was a must.

My tiny applique is raw edge applique using Heat N Bond Lite. Even with the fusible webbing the small pieces were very challenging.

I considered not stitching the applique in place. But after a little battle with Me, myself and I, WE decided the machine stitching could be done and would add a nice touch to the quilt.

I had fun making this one due to all the challenges that pushed me out of my comfort zone.

This quilt was almost 100% made from scraps. All except for the yellow cherry border is scraps.

You can read more about the making of this quilt

here -machine stitches video

here - making the applique shapes

and

here - picking the fabrics

Be sure to stop by the other bloggers participating in the Dust Off a Quilt Book blog hop.

Today's bloggers is listed below. You can find the full week list of the hop over at BeaQuilter.

Thursday Feb 21^st

Anita at Domestic Felicity

Leanne at Devoted Quilter

Jennifer at Dizzyquilter

Carla at Creatin' in the Sticks

Lee Anne at Podunk Pretties - You are here!

Andree at quiltinglearningcombo

Lyndsey at Sew Many Yarns

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Wednesday, February 13, 2019

~ Digging Deep ~

I was invited a couple of months ago to join a blog hop called Dust Off a Quilt Book. The blog hop is being hosted by Bea from BeaQuilter. The idea is to make something from a book or magazine you already have in your library. What a great idea! I mean really, how many of us have oodles of books and magazines with pages that have barely even been turned? We buy them with good intentions and put them on the never ending bucket list of "Someday I'll make this". I don't have an actual list. My method is to place bookmarks in the book or magazine and toss them in the cabinet. To be honest I rarely purchase books and magazines anymore. I hadn't purchased a book in about 2 years until this past December when I decided I needed the Bonnie Hunter collection. When they arrived I thumbed through them all in one evening and then in the cabinet they went with all the others. My library of books are rarely used so they are at the bottom of my old stash cabinet. Over the years I've collected probably about double the amount of books and magazines that you see here. Occasionally the book stash is purged and gifted to a new quilter or a thrift store. I can see no reason to keep them if they don't bring me joy but could bring someone else joy.

The dig for just the right project was overwhelming to say the least. So many cute projects dating back as far as the late 60's. But the older publications were quickly ruled out due to the lack of rotary cutting and templates. You see in these older books and magazines you were given paper templates to trace for simple shapes such as squares. And any applique was downsized and they would show them on graph paper so you could redraw the shapes. Umm...I'm to lazy for all that work!

Some of my newer magazines really aren't that new. I stopped my subscriptions many years ago and now only purchase the issues that really tickle my fancy. I pulled a few of my favorites to add to the pile of "maybes" for this blog hop.

Then it was my older stash of books. Pam Bono is top of my list when it comes to loved designers. So one of her books made the "maybe" pile. And who doesn't have a fondness for Georgia Bonesteel books.

As I dug through my stash I realized my stash lacked new books. Other than Bonnie Hunter's newest book the two below are the newest in my library. Both of these were gifted to me in blog hops or an online giveaway. Might as well add them to the "maybe" pile because they have some really cute projects in them.

I could sit here all day and look through all these books several times. But there's things to do and quilts to make. The "maybe" pile has plenty great projects that I would really like to make. So I stopped digging, cleaned up the mess and picked a project from the magazines and books above.

I can't wait to share my project during the blog hop...Cute! The Dust Off a Quilt Book blog hop dates will be Feb. 18-22. My day to share during the hop is on Thursday Feb. 21.

You can read more about the hop over at BeaQuilter. Below is a complete list of the bloggers participating in the Hop. I have to admit some of these are new to me. I'm looking forward to making some new blogging buddies and hope you find some new friends well!

Monday Feb 18^th

Turid at densyendehimmel

Pamela at Pamelaquilts

Joan at Moosestashquilting

Anne at seems like a plan

Susan at Desertsky Quilting

Selina at Selinaquilts

Kathleen at Kathleenmcmusing

Tuesday Feb 19^th

Cindy Stitchin at home

Jennifer at curlicuecreations

Stephanie at stephjacobsondesigns