Craft Book Month

Every September CraftBuds hosts

the Craft Book Month challenge.

All you have to do is

show a project you made this year 

following a pattern in a craft book.

Should be easy enough - 

And did I mention there are prices to win :-)

At least I do have

quite a few quilting books.

Maybe too many?

Well, I made

"Flower Bed"

from a pattern in

Scrap therapy: Scraps Plus One

by Joan Ford.

I adjusted the measurements,
added a scrappy border

to fulfill the wheelchair quilt size

my quilt guild is collecting.

Even better: 

Did I mention I used up

some of my fabric scraps?

That's always good, right!?
I like the projects in the book
and sure have enough scraps
to try a few more.

Linking up to 

the CraftBuds book challenge.

Come and join the fun

and link up 

until September 30th!

Barb

September goal setting party - ALYoF

After having successfully 

completed my August goal,

I need to chose 

a new goal for September.

So how about this one:

get the binding on my charity quilt

"Flower Bed": ( Scraps Plus One - book).

Binding: my least favorite thing to do...

and yes, it will be machine sewn.

But that's the goal,

the clock is ticking...

Come and join Melissa and Shanna

for ALYoF

Once the binding is done

I can also link up to the

Craft Buds book challenge 

since it is a pattern out of a book

and was completed in September 2014.

Nice!

Got to dig for binding fabric

and get started,

Barb

September - Craft Book Month 2013

Just at the beginning of September

I read of Craft Buds Craft Book Month 

and wanted to enter - 

but it needed to be a simple project.

I picked Camille Roskelley's book "Simplify"

and chose her pattern 'Coming Home' - perfect!

Going through my stash

I found a Halloween charm pack

and got started. 

And this morning

 just a few hours before the deadline,

I managed to finish my project.

Meet 'Simply Halloween':

I personalized the pattern a bit 

and left out the outer triangles,

because it didn't fit my Halloween theme.

I quilted it with Random Stars EZ boards.

Additionally I used Susie's Magic Binding

to get the cute orange flange.

Thanks Camille,

I love the pattern!

Simply Halloween will be hanging 

on my wall here shortly!

Thanks to Craft Buds and their inspiration

of actually using and creating things from Craft Books!

Linking up to Craft Buds linky party.

Happy sewing and crafting,

Barb