Bibliosophy Handmade

Snow day sewing

We continue to be snowed in here, but are resuming our normal activities; which is to say that I made it to the quilt shop yesterday for their yearly sale!  Have to plan ahead, right? 

Work continues on the friendship quilt, and I'm almost ready to put on the binding and curl up under it with a good book.  The quilting as you go has worked perfectly, and is much less stressful than trying to quilt a whole top in one big piece.

Some other random thoughts:

• What kinds of shopping do you do on the Internet?  We went to look at double strollers this morning, and I must say the thought of grocery and household shopping with two babies became a little daunting.  Does anyone grocery shop online?  What about household goods like toilet paper and cleaning products?
• The movie The Young Victoria is out at the local independent theater and I'm dying to see it.  The costuming alone looks to make it worthwhile; and I cannot resist a good British period drama.  Anyone seen it?

Collaborative Quilting

Over the past several months, I've been working on a virtual quilting bee with some other crafty friends.  Each person mailed out their fabric and some general guidelines about what they like and don't like, and each other person created 2-3 quilt blocks for them.  It has been so fun to see how people put fabrics and patterns together, and to see each person's style emerge in their work.  And even more fun was being given the challenge of creating blocks with fabric that I did not choose; it was a great path to creativity to be given random materials and asked to make something new.  Fabric that I would never have purchased for myself became suddenly inspirational, and I've learned to appreciate all different colors and styles.  This arrangement above is a brainstorm for how I might put my quilt blocks together.  In the meantime, I'm quilting each block as I go, and am excited to reach a finished product, sometime in the new year!