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.

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.

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!

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.

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!