book love and a giveaway winner...

It was so interesting to read that so many of you look to old quilts for inspiration for your own work. I thought I'd share a few images to be found in "Through the Needle's Eye" which is a catalogue of the York Museum in England's quilt collection. It is my latest favorite book of vintage quilts most of which were sewn in the 1880 to 1900's. In its pages, you can really see where Kaffe Fassett among other designers in the UK developed some of their prints. As for the giveaway, according to the The Random Number Generator the winner is the crazily talented Sujata. If you have never visited her blog you must. Everything she makes is amazing! Sujata please email me with your coordinates. Thank you so much to everyone who left a comment. I admire all of you immensely...

 

100 posts giveaway...

Well I realized that this is my 100th post and thought I'd celebrate with a giveaway! Still buried in snow after last week, I'm spending lots of time flicking through books and magazines looking for inspiration. On offer are two books and some cool items to help you make notes and mark pages. The first is by a modern quilter who needs little introduction Denyse Schmidt and the second is by the amazing Reiko Washizara. Reiko's book is in Japanese but with pull out instructions and very detailed schematics the patterns are easy to interpret. You just have to convert the measurements from metric into imperial ones if you are more comfortable working in inches rather than centimeters. How do you get your creative juices flowing? Travel? Long walks? Journalling? Wine? Chocolate? Let me know by leaving a comment and please be a follower of the blog. These goodies will be mailed anywhere in the world. I'll draw a winner next Wednesday... Good luck to everyone and thank you for reading!

speechless...

This antique beauty is from the mid 1800's. It may be found at the Grand Rapids Museum and viewed online here in the "Quilts" gallery. I feel a burning need to go to to Michigan right now...