Quilting Through a Book

A few weeks ago I read a blog post on Blue Ele­phant Stitches web­site talk­ing about Quilt­ing through a Book and knew I had to take up the chal­lenge.  I even imme­di­ately knew which book I wanted to work through.

When Amber John­son from A Little Bit Biased star­ted show­ing the quilts from her book Vin­tage Vibe last year I found myself ‘oohing and ahh­ing’ over every single quilt.   I pre-ordered the book loc­ally and was­n’t dis­ap­poin­ted when it arrived.   I remem­ber telling a friend that I wanted to make every single pro­ject and then.…. noth­ing, I haven’t sewn a single thing from the book yet!   I’m so grate­ful for the idea to quilt through a book because it has provided me with the motiv­a­tion I need to get it done.

Vintage-Vibe

I can­’t prom­ise that I’ll be fast but I would like to have every pro­ject done in 18 months time.  I also can­’t prom­ise that I’ll make a full size ver­sion of every pro­ject but I do prom­ise to make each and every one in some form or another.

And… I really want to use up these cute little scrap strips Amber sent me along with her Cross Stitch pat­tern some time ago.   I have made the Cross Stitch quilt, it one of my favour­ites and is right now on my bed.

SheQuiltsAlot-Cross-Stitch-Quilt

But, my ori­gin­al plans for the scraps changed so I’ve decided to try to incor­por­ate some of them into each pro­ject I make from the book.   Lets see how I go with that one!

Scraps

First cab off the rank is Scrap Jars Quilt, its my 2nd favour­ite from the book, (I’ll leave you guess­ing for now as to which one is my favour­ite), and is prob­ably the easi­est one to incor­por­ate some of the scraps in to so was an easy first pick.

Vintage-Vibe-Scrap-Jars

Is any­one else tak­ing up the chal­lenge to Quilt Through A Book?   I’d love to hear if you are and which book you’ve chosen 🙂

Happy quilt­ing!

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5 thoughts on “Quilting Through a Book

  1. Hi Peta, love this idea. Can­’t wait to see your makes from Amber­’s book. It looks like a beau­ti­ful choice to work through. I haven’t seen her Cross Stitch quilt pat­tern before. Your ver­sion shown above looks gor­geous! Did you use one fab­ric collection/range to make it, or is it a mix­ture from your stash?

    1. Thanks Kelly, I’m really look­ing for­ward to it :). I made the Cross Stitch quilt with Bon­nie & Cam­ille’s Miss Kate minus the Navy prints and some of the reds. I’m fairly sure I had enough from one lay­er cake minus a couple of pieces I was able to pull from my stash.

  2. You’re tempt­ing me! It sounds like such a fun idea! I love this book and have already made one of the quilts, so maybe I’ve started?

  3. Great idea! But it would mean I’d have to buy a quilt book! Oh hang on, I have Jen Kingwell’s.….but that may just be a little optim­ist­ic that I’d get all her quilts made! 😉

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