Dust off a Quilt Book Blog hop

This is my first blog hop of the year and one of my favourite. I would like to thank Bea from Beaquilter for hosting us. I have been having a few technical issues, resulting in me having to using my old Blogger account for this one. Some of you may have come directly here and others may have had to go through the original link  I just hope you got here.

 I get to dive into my quilt book collection and pick a book and create something from it. Not sure where I got this one from, but here it is in my collection. It was published back in 1991. 

Now I was only dating my husband to be in 1991, I hadn't starting quilting and when you look at the instructions in the book there is only scissors used to cut fabric and everything is done with graph paper and templates. A really old school book.

This is the full schedule if you have only found us today on my day. Take the time and check everyone post out.

March 6th

Quilting at the Farm

Lemon Tree Snippets

Creatin in the sticks

Natalie (on Beaquilter)

March 7th

Quilting Gail

Thrift Shop Commando

High Road Quilter

Moosestashquilting

The Morning Latte

March 8th

Kathleen McMusing

Words & Stitches

Isabella's Whimsy

DesertSky Quilting

March 9th

LC's Cottage

Cynthia's Ark - You are here!

Ms P Designs USA

March 10th

Beaquilter

Karrin's Crazy World

Quilting Patchwork Applique

Julie's Quilts and Costumes

So I delved into this book looking at the projects and thought some little pin cushions would be fun to make. Then I had to get the graph paper out to draw up the block as it tells you to trace the line drawing and make templates for you to them cut out the fabric.  Look at these instructions.

My theory is if I draw it up on graph paper that will tell me how big each piece is and I can cut my fabric out using my rotary cutter. Then I can dive into my scrap box and make all sorts of colourful houses.

 

My finished pin cushion next to the the pattern in the book. It took me more time to create this post than sew the pin cushion together. It is really cut I think when I have some free time I may make more blocks and turn them into pin cushions.

Thank you for visiting today I hope you have enjoyed this blog hop.

Until Next Time Keep Stitching 

Cynthia

Dust off a Quilt Book Blog Hop

When Bea asked about Dust off a Quilt Book Blog Hop this year I couldn't say no. I loved this one last year and was really excited to participated again.  Thanks to Bea for doing this one again. Here is the schedule. We are up to day 3 on this blog hop.

MONDAY 3/1

Words and Stitches

 Samelia’s Mum

High Road Quilter

TUESDAY 3/2

  Karin’s Crazy World

Lemon Tree Snippets

 Anjaquilts

WEDNESDAY 3/3

Beaquilter

   Cynthia’s Creating Ark   (You are Here)

  A Quilting Readers Garden

THURSDAY 3/4

Kathy’s Kwilts and More

Quilting Patchwork Applique

 The Darling Dogwood

 Creatin’ in the Sticks

FRIDAY 3/5

Beaquilter

Quilting at the farm

 Kathleen McMusing

Looking through my quilt books I found this one. It even had the receipt in it from when I purchased it, back in 2013 for $10 in the USA. So really it hasn't been in my collection all that long.

Though it was published in 1999.

Looking through the book I found a few  quilts I would like to make but I knew I had to keep it simply. The harder ones will have to wait.

I found this one, a simply four patch in reproduction fabrics with some wide sashing. My plan was to dig into my reproduction scraps for this one. 

 The instructions in this book are all old school instructions.  No rotary cutting instructions just templates making instructions and lots of square cutting. 

I got stuck in to making the four patch blocks and once I laid the blocks out into rows  so I could audition fabric for the sashing I decided to make the quilt longer than wider.

More four patch blocks to make before sashing the rows together.

Sashing and first border on. I did reduce the sashing width too.

By the time I got to the borders I was running out of time. So I got the last border the night before my day on the blog hop.

Quilting it will have to wait for another time but I am very happy with it.

I did try and be random when I pieced the four patch blocks. I hope you enjoyed stopping by and please check out what everyone else hs done for this blog hop.

Until Next Time

Keep Stitching

Cynthia

Dust off a Quilt Book Blog Hop

It is day 2 of the Dust Off a Quilt Book Blog Hop. It's my day. Thanks to Bea for hosting us and encouraging us delving in to our quilt book libraries.  Make sure you pop over to her blog Beaquilter to enter the giveaways. Here is the full schedule.

March 2

• Pieceful Thought of my Quilting Life
• Quilting Gail
• Beaquilter

March 3

• Cynthia’s Ark  (You are here)
• Lemontree Snippets
• Anja Quilts

March 4

• The Darling Dogwood
• A Quilting Reader’s Garden
• Becky’s Adventures

March 5

• Quilting Jeanne
• Karrinn’s Crazy World

March 6

• Quilting at the Farm
• Kathy’s Kwilts and more
• Quilting Patchwork Applique

Now to find out what I had in my quilt book library.
Looking through my collection, I was looking for the first book I purchased when I first started quilting. In theory it is the oldest book in my collection but it's not that old as I start in 2006. So I took a different tack what is the oldest by the publication date to see what I had in my collection.
This is the book I found.

    Better Home & Gardens 501 Quilt Blocks

Now I was given this book. My mum found this book at a market when she was browse the book stalls and brought it for me. It is dated 1994. To me 1994 doesn't seem that old, it is the year after my husband and I got married. When you count up the year, it is 26 years old.
There is lots of blocks to choose from, different techniques, in theory there is something for every quilter. Now I have never used the book, I have looked at it a number of time.  There is a bit of work to be done to work out how big to cut your fabric. No rotary cutting instructions for your fabric. So it is time to delve in to it and make something. I have  selected this block. X-Quisite

Once again my scrap stash is the focus of this blog hop. I am making a serious effect to use up anything I can, to reduce my scrap stash which is getting too large. I don't want to throw it out. I am willing to share it with a few of my special friends but not everyone.
What is on the page is all you get measurement wise, there is basic instructions in the book. I had to measure the block picture and work from that.
It is a fun block, it would be a great block to use as a Leader and Ender project. I have enjoy making what I have, that I am thinking I will keep going to make a quilt but do I want to keep going at this size?

Now I did have a go at resizing the block but I think I have made a miscalculation as it hasn't turn out quite right but does it matter? Maybe I will end up with two quilts and make a dent in my scrap stash.

I will play around with this block a bit more. I hope you are enjoying this blog hop.
Until Next Time
Keep Stitching
Cynthia