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A sigh of relief

25 Monday Oct 2010

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Horn cabinet, Jinny Beyer, Kaffe Fassett fabrics, organising, quilting blog, sewing blog, sewjournal blog, thread

My sewing room re-organisation is finished. I managed to get it done by late Friday afternoon. I’m very happy with the result.

Previously I had stored my fabrics according to colour. Well that just didn’t work for me. I mean look at some of those Kaffe fabrics! What colour are they? There are so many colours in each fabric and usually they’re all shouting “look at me. look at me!”.

So I decided  to keep all my Kaffe “group” fabrics together on one shelf, loosely in colour order. Then I put all my solids and colour-on-colour and blenders together, roughly in colour order on another shelf. Then I have my Jinny Beyer’s and two plastic containers on another shelf with florals in one and Japanese and Batiks in the other. I have two more plastic containers on another shelf that holds all my scissors and some project bags. The containers are grouped into neutrals, browns and blacks and novelty fabrics. Then I have a plastic crate with all my flannels, another with WIPs, another with my inspirations and a fourth with empty plastic containers. My books and boxes of freezer paper etc are on shelves and a red container holds batting off-cuts. I guess you can work out where the ironing board gets stored.:)

My fabric bolts are in the wardrobe, together with my whole rolls of batting and crates of other craft things – knitting, painting clothes sewing etc.

My threads are all in containers in another bookcase and my cutting mat and sewing machines are in/on my Horn cabinet.

The only disappointment of this exercise is the fact that while I found the plastic bag and the card explaining its use, I didn’t find my errant Jinny Beyer Perfect Piecing tool. 😦 Oh well you can’t have everything and at least I’ve got a clean and tidy sewing room.

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Auditioning fabrics for my baby quilt

22 Thursday Jul 2010

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baby quilt, Brandon Mably, Jinny Beyer, KOna solids, Me & My Sisters, Moda, RJR, Rowan, Westminster Fabrics

I was looking through my pink and purple fabrics and I’ve come up with four that I might use in the coloured strips of the baby quilt and for the binding. I’m planning on using Kona Snow for the background and I haven’t yet decided whether to do a pieced or a plain backing.

Here are my four fabrics. What do you think?

Fabrics for the stripe

Fabrics for the stripe

These are, from left to right, Kona Lilac by Moda, Ravello by Jinny Beyer for RJR and Burlesque Brocade by Brandon Mably for Rowan/Westminster fabrics.

Binding fabric

Binding fabric

I’m not 100% sure about using this fabric for the binding but if I do, I will probably use it on the bias. It’s called Rick Rack by Me and My Sister for Moda.

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Jinny Beyer Give Away

22 Saturday May 2010

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As promised yesterday, here is my give away to celebrate the 5,000 visitor milestone.

Signed Jinny Beyer Pattern Give Away

Last year I was fortunate enough to visit the US and to meet Fran, a hand quilting, email list buddy. She was so kind and took me wherever I wanted to go and of course we had to go to Jinny Beyer’s Studio.

Jinny Beyer's Studio

Jinny Beyer's Studio

The view from the back porch of Jinny's Studio

The view from the back porch of Jinny's Studio

We spent hours in there and Jinny actually came in while we there. She was so friendly and helpful and she autographed the patterns I bought. So, to celebrate passing the 5,000 visitor mark I’m going to give away one these signed Jinny Beyer patterns. The one I have chosen is called “Sumatra” and is suitable for even beginner quilters and yet it looks stunning. I will ship internationally so wherever you are feel free to join in.

Front of pattern with Jinny's autograph

Front of pattern with Jinny's autograph

Back of the pattern

Back of the pattern

All you have to do to enter is to grab the RSS feed of the blog (the button at the top on the left sidebar) and leave a comment saying what colours or fabrics you would use if you made this quilt and I will choose a winner. The give away will be open for a week so that gives you plenty of time to enter.

Another give away in blogland

Janet from Quiltsalott is also having a give away to celebrate passing 500 followers! Well done Janet. So when you have finished here why not go over to her blog and enter her give away too? Her blog is really interesting and she does some stunning work. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it.

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