I made something. And it’s pretty cool, if I do say so myself. This is my Bookshelf Quilt. When I was younger, my grandmother made me a bookshelf quilt. It was stolen when my house was broke…

Reading is my number one hobby, but a close second would have to be sewing. Specifically quilting. I’ve been making quilts for close to 25 years now. I started (doing everything by hand ̵…

For a retiring school librarian and inspired by a quilt made by jess at urban.patchwork.

Reading is my number one hobby, but a close second would have to be sewing. Specifically quilting. I’ve been making quilts for close to 25 years now. I started (doing everything by hand ̵…

Marquerite van Eijck of the Netherlands added some great applique to this wonderful selvage bookcase quilt, so I decided to show it to you again. I thought it looked great before, but she had other ideas. You know how quilters are! Isn't this a great quilt? Her selvages make very realistic books!

For several years I saved fabric selvedge pieces that had names and designers that sounded like they could be book titles. Examples: "Garden Tales" by Tracie Lyn Huskamp; "Annalee" by Jane Dixon. My plan all along was to make a quilt to give to my sister, thinking she would want to hang it in her bookstore. She does have a quilt spot behind the cash register. Finally this year I found two big chunks of fabric on sale. They were good options for the book shelves and frame. I have been working on the quilt this week. It has been a lot of fun, but also a lot of putzy work. I managed to finish the main part, and I love it! I decided that I want to keep it, because... I just do. I will definitely let my sister borrow it for extended times, to hang in her shop, but I'll want to get it back. Here's what I have done so far: I have more ideas in mind for how to finish it off, more additions that will improve its believability as a bookshelf. I can't wait to see it as a completed quilt! My sister didn't know I had this in mind for her all these years, so I don't think she'll mind that I will keep it. After all, I'm saving her the problem of storing the quilt when she doesn't want it on display. Aren't I a great sister??

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I LOVE my EQ. Like TOTALLY adore it. I can design anywhere (now that my awesome sweetie bought me the best laptop backpack) and create some really neat stuff. OR, I can just procrastinate. An…

I made something. And it’s pretty cool, if I do say so myself. This is my Bookshelf Quilt. When I was younger, my grandmother made me a bookshelf quilt. It was stolen when my house was broke…

Hi Everyone, I stumbled across a quilt I LOVED on Pinterest a few months ago, and it inspired the quilt I'd like you to help me create. It's a bookshelf quilt, and what I like about it is that there are very few rules. My part time jobs throughout university were always in the university library or at a big bookstore, and my books are my most prized possession, so I completely fell in love with the bookshelf quilt idea. I've gone back and forth about the size, but I think that because of the picture this quilt will make, I'd like it to be a twin size (or maybe a bit bigger) wall hanging. This means I need 18 blocks, so what I'm doing is having you all make some blocks that have regularly placed and stacked books, and then I'll make a few blocks where the books slant to the side. The reason I'm doing it this way is because I haven't figured out how to make those blocks yet, and I am about to head out traveling for a few weeks and don't have enough time (or fabric!) right now to figure it out and create one to show you! :) However, if anyone feels like they want to challenge themselves and make a block with a slanted book, you're more than welcome to do so. It's not expected whatsoever, but feel free to do so if you like! With all of that said, there is definitely no rush on this quilt, and I think I've been behind on everyone else's blocks, so please take your time. I probably won't be putting it together until Christmas at the earliest. I don't want to give you many rules about what kinds of fabric colours or patterns to use for the books themselves, because the idea I am going for is a really robust and varied book collection. You can see from the pictures of the fabrics I've used, that some of the prints actually tell stories of sorts. If you have a fabric that you feel tells a story, that would be great. I don't mind solid colours, but I don't want too many - there should probably be no more than two solid coloured strips in your block. Here's the inspiration: (http://www.thebookcollector.com/quilt.htm) For this quilt, I'd like you to divide into teams, as we've done in the past. We'll have two teams. Each person on Team A will create one regular block, and Team B members will create one stacked books block. Team A - Jennifer, Micalea, Anthea, Katy, Linsay, Stephanie, Pam, Donna Jo Regular Block - This will be a 12.5" square made of strips of patterned or coloured fabric attached to black strips of the same width to give the illusion of a bookshelf. I would like your patterned strips to be absolutely any colour/pattern/width/height. What I'm looking for is a complete mixture, and this is a fantastic opportunity to use scraps. I actually found that because of the quilts we've already done this year, I already had strips pre-done! All I needed to do was attach black strips of the same width to them. Here's the one I made: Team B - Amy, Amy, Claire Stacked Books Block - For this block, you will create a regular block (see above) that will be turned on its side to make a stack of books. I will leave it to your discretion whether you would like the books to be stacked from long to short, or haphazardly. I'd love a mix, so do whatever you like! I'll also leave it up to you whether you align the books to the right (as I've done) or in the centre - again, I'd love a mixture. If you do the centre method, you'll need black strips on either end - similar to the stacked books quilt we did a few months ago. I'd also like you to leave black space at the end/top, to give the illusion of open space behind the top of the stack. The square will need to measure 12.5" square. Here's the one I made: You will need: - Solid black fabric - no tone on tone please. You'll need enough strips of this fabric to match up with the patterned/coloured fabric you use. - As many patterned/coloured strips of varying widths and heights/lengths as it will take to create a 12.5" square block with the black strips. Here are mine together: Please feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions! Happy quilting! Jamie xox

Hi Moda Bake Shop Readers!! I’m Melissa Corry from Happy Quilting and I am so excited to be back here at the Moda Bake Shop to share my Read With Me quilt!! This fun twist on a standard …

Update – there are a couple of small wall hangings like this listed in my shop! Etsy link for wall hangings can be found in this link. A friend from church approached me about making a quilt …

Update – there are a couple of small wall hangings like this listed in my shop! Etsy link for wall hangings can be found in this link. A friend from church approached me about making a quilt …

DIY Bookcase Quilt Free Sewing Patterns

I knew I was feeling better when I started to crochet again; I’m almost done with the ginormous Secret Paths I started in July, done in Aran wool bec...

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Thank you for all of the sweet comments on the ABC . . . Read With Me quilt plan I posted on Friday ;) I am really excited to see how this quilt will come together ;) I was hoping to work on some mo

DIY Bookcase Quilt Free Sewing Patterns

This will likely be my last post of 2016, and in it I want to look forward to 2017 (sewing-wise). There are so many things we cannot control or plan, and I`m OK with rolling with the punches life throws. But it’s nice to have an area of creativity that I can control (mostly, if time and funds are not counted, LOL). And so I will outline some basic sewing goals for 2017, realizing that reality may look slightly different. I love the Rainbow Scrap Challenge! It helps to get rid of fabric scraps (“leftovers”; and I’m a big fan of leftovers. If it’s food, leftovers mean I often don’t have to cook but can do something instead). Doing something with my fabric scraps means that I can conjure up quilts out of pieces that may have had no further life expectancy. The RSC also adds a framework around which I can plan my sewing - by monthly color. I prefer to attack my colored scraps when the color is announced, sewing them as I’ve planned. After they are done (and sometimes in between if I get tired of a color) I turn to other projects. It works well for me. So here is what I have planned for RSC for 2017. 2.5” Squares and HSTs 1. Friendship Star Variation This 6” quilt block This quilt layout 2. Arrowhead Puzzle (or Garlic Knot) This block This quilt layout The background will be scrappy for this one. Tentative plan is to use all colors, mixed up, but that may change. PIECES, smallish 3. Color Me quilt by Emily Herrick. I started Color Me last year and have a couple of the crayons done. The pieces within the crayons are 2.5x5”, a good size for my scraps. I will continue to add to this until it “feels” done. There may be more colors.... STRIPS 4. Diagonal Strips This is another project I started last year. I have several 8.5” blocks done in pinks, reds, and blues. I’ll just keep adding to them as my scraps dictate. 5. The Rainbow Bookcase I’m really excited by this one! Blocks are just 12” squares (5 per row); a color topped by the background. I can piece them so the books stand vertically or horizontally, using different width scraps and even adding lettering or selvages to mimic book titles. Depending on how many scraps are available, this may be a 1-2 year project. I’m thinking of combining pink and red in one row, and combining the aquas and blues in one row, then purples and grays in another. So, most of the variables are open at this point, except that I do have a gray piece to cut up for the “shelves”. Not sure what background I’ll use yet, but I have lots to choose from and it doesn’t all have to be the same. SELVAGES I believe I’ve shown this one before, but here we go again.... 6. Rainbow Selvages, pattern by Riel Nason. What I like about this is that the selvages themselves are all mixed up and with all the white they contain, they form the background/alternate piecing to the rainbow colored blocks. I don’t know if the color blocks will be solid (probably not) or pieced, but I think this will allow a lot of flexibility to use up lots of scraps and selvages. I would like to try 1-2 columns per month, with more of a varied range. For example, the oranges could be dark orange (one column) and light oranges (one column) moving into golds (one column) then yellow (one column), light greens, darker greens, etc. I tried sewing together some selvages this week and I think I have enough selvages to keep to the same color family in the same column. If I run short, though, I have so many multi-colored selvages that we’ll just make up any shortage with those. And finally, I have four RSC2016 quilts to finish in the first quarter. One is ready to quilt and the other 3 are now flimsies. I will show some pictures of those in the next few weeks. NOT RSC, but Must-Do’s for 2017 1. Lozenges. My birthday is March 14 (Pi Day) and earlier this year I entered and won a contest from @Laurie3.14 on Instagram. The prize was 314 scrap pieces of fabric, dozens of which were her leftover lozenges from making this quilt (a Bonnie Hunter pattern) for her daughter (picture is of daughter’s friend holding quilt): photo courtesy of Lauri M I’m doing this same quilt, with white and black or gray accents (flip corners). I used Laurie’s gifted orange scraps as the start, then cut out a hundred or so more when we had orange month earlier this year. I will take stock and begin work again in earnest come our next orange month. 2. Disappearing Nine Patch (D9P) for BIL Marv. This year I took a red quilt for Bruce’s brother Dennis when we visited in February. When we go again next year, I will take a quilt for Marv - a D9P in black, white, gray and teal. 3. A quilt for me. I’m using Olive’s Flower Market (I have bought up enough of that line to probably make three quilts, LOL. I lerrrrve it!!) Pattern is Rose Cottage. 4. Finish up Farm Girl Quilt. 5. Kennel quilts - small size quilts (12x18” up to crib-size). Our Best Friends local group takes any size, so I am going to try to donate 6 per month, or more if I can manage. 6. I promised hubby Bruce that I’d make him another quilt, and he wants guitars. Also, one son-in-law is deployed currently, but when he gets home I will make him a quilt. His wife (our daughter Emily) says he’d love one of those Big Game quilts I made this year. Bernadette (my Bernina 550QE) was gone for Three.Whole.Days. for a spa treatment this week. But she’s back now and I’m ready to get sewing. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to finish another quilt before year-end. Do you have any plans for New Year’s Eve? We don’t either, LOL. Too darn cold to go downtown to celebrate outdoors. We’ll just cozy up in the new living room, have some Kahlua and eggnog (my seasonal favorite drink) and try to stay awake until the New Year rings in. I know, we’re so boring. Linking up to Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

I want to make a quilt. In the past, I made My Handsome Man a T-shirt quilt , but this time I want to make a quilt for me. I have thought a lot about quilts. The time and effort that goes in to making one makes them a labour of love. You can find baby quilts made out of baby clothes, quilts made by

Hello and happy Monday! I hope your week is off to a terrific start! This morning I got up early and finished a big project I’ve been working on over the past week. I had a lot going on with a couple of family gatherings and other projects at the same time, so I really […]

Well, here it is, the end of March already. Can you believe it? That means I have another stash pattern to share today. I'm calling it Easy as Pie. I love the vintage vibe it has. It measures 58" x 70". This was my initial fabric pull. I started with about 18 different fabrics, and edited a few out as I went (due to color), and added in a few more. So I would guess there are about 20+ different fabrics in all. Materials needed: 3 1/4 yards total of various fabrics for the rectangles 1/2 yard for binding 3 1/2 yards backing fabric 60'' x 72'' batting or larger Cutting: cut 110 rectangles 5 1/2" x 7 1/2" from various fabrics cut 10 rectangles 3" x 7 1/2" from various fabrics (these will be referred to as half rectangles) Assembly: There are two approaches to the assembly. The first way is to layout all the blocks at once, making sure that each block is in a specific spot. The second way is to randomly sew rectangles together to make the rows. Once all the rows are sewn together, they are arranged. This is a much more random approach, but somehow it always seems to work out in the end-especially if you have a large variety of fabrics. Either way, the rows will be constructed the same way. Sew 11 rectangles together, side by side. You will be sewing the 7 1/2" sides together, so the rectangles will be standing on end. Add a half rectangle to each row. Make 10 rows. In every other row, the half rectangle will be the starting block. In the alternating rows, the half rectangle will be the ending block. Sew all 10 rows together, making sure to press the seams well. Quilt, baste and bind as desired. If you use this pattern to decrease your stash, I'd love to see it!

I want to make a quilt. In the past, I made My Handsome Man a T-shirt quilt , but this time I want to make a quilt for me. I have thought a lot about quilts. The time and effort that goes in to making one makes them a labour of love. You can find baby quilts made out of baby clothes, quilts made by

I have received 13 blocs of 20x20 cm. in a quiltbloc-swap. I have added the bloc with the cat and some small objects and put the bookcase together

I want to make a quilt. In the past, I made My Handsome Man a T-shirt quilt , but this time I want to make a quilt for me. I have thought a lot about quilts. The time and effort that goes in to making one makes them a labour of love. You can find baby quilts made out of baby clothes, quilts made by

Okay, so I have been hinting about this tutorial for about a week and so I am happy to say, that it is now posted! Introducing . . . Rea...

Update – there are a couple of small wall hangings like this listed in my shop! Etsy link for wall hangings can be found in this link. A friend from church approached me about making a quilt …

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