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What's that peeking through the roses and azaleas on my front porch? It's the April Quilty Box! Let's take a peek!
The goodies inside are so nicely wrapped in tissue. It feels like opening a gift.
First up this month: Hello! My Name is Fat Quarter Bundle, featuring the Harriot collection by Carolyn Friedlander for Robert Kaufman.
This collection has a nice mix of wovens and prints. See the scallop design all the way over on the right? Cute!
The Bundles of Inspiration magazine has a nice interview with Carolyn Friedlander, three patterns to sew, and some other nifty articles.
Just what I need to tame my stash. A Fine Mist Spray Bottle and a bottle of Flatter in Pineapple Grove. How nice.
This month's box finishes out with a lovely gray spool of Aurifil. Quilty Box is a terrific way to up your thread collection. They send a gorgeous spool of high quality thread in every box.
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This quilt features 4" hourglass blocks in pink and white.
The blocks are sewn using a quick rotary cutting method with no bias edges.
Mill House Spring is a terrific stash buster quilt.
It could easily be sewn in a variety of colorways, but the pink and white makes a sweet baby quilt.
I'm always looking for new and interesting photo settings. What do you think?
This pattern features full color diagrams throughout.
I backed my Mill House Spring quilt with this pretty pink floral print fabric.
I used a dark blue fabric for the binding. I usually bind my quilts with the same fabric as the outer border, this blue adds a little extra sparkly fun.
The Mill House Spring quilt, posing by a country road.
Pretty folds. This quilt would make a lovely wall hanging or lap quilt.
The Mill House Spring quilt pattern is now available in the Curlicue Creations shop.
A beautiful cut of high quality quilting fabric, Tim Holtz Eclectic Elements Provisions Fabric, Linen Colorway. 100 percent cotton, fat quarter cut. Easy care, machine wash cold water, tumble dry low.
The design on this fabric features an abstract brown speckled design over a beige background. Perfect for your next quilting or home sewing project. So unique - be creative!
A beautiful cut of high quality quilting fabric, Blue Crab, by Timeless Treasures. 100 percent cotton, fat quarter cut. Easy care, machine wash cold water, tumble dry low.
The design on this fabric features large blue crabs on a cream background. Perfect for your next quilting or home sewing project. So unique - be creative!
A beautiful cut of high quality quilting fabric, Blue Crab, by Timeless Treasures. 100 percent cotton, 44" wide. Easy care, machine wash cold water, tumble dry low.
The design on this fabric features large blue crabs on a cream background. Perfect for your next quilting or home sewing project. So unique - be creative!
Welcome! It's my day for the Spring Clean Your Studio Blog Hop 2019. I'm so thankful for Cheryl Sleboda for organizing this hop every year. I need the motivation to de-clutter.
This year's hop came at a perfect time for me. My husband had just purchased the entire contents of a sewing room at an estate sale and dumped it all over the house for me to sort through and organize. Ugh! It was just too much stuff. This is a photo of my living room ~ eek! No room to live.
And it wasn't just contained to one room. This is the foyer, looking down from upstairs.
Some of the mess didn't even make it into the house. This is my front porch.
I didn't finish all of it before the hop, but here are a few before and afters of my quilting studio. This was my MCM steel tank sewing desk. It was a $10.00 thrift store find that served it's purpose for years, but the drawers all stick and it's not too pretty!
After photo: A Horn sewing desk and drawers that do not stick! I have to admit, I like sewing here. I wasn't sure I would like the style, but it's a lot nicer to work on this desk. The Janome Memory Craft is new to me, too. I love this sewing machine. It's so much fun to use.
This is the other side of the desk. I have lots of room for storage. I'll probably change the way it's currently set up. It could be utilized better. I kept my wheelie cart. I like the way it tucks under the edge of the table, and it's so convenient to push into the living room when I want to sew in there.
I redid this area, too. Look at all the clutter in and in front of these bookcases. What a disaster.
I cleaned out the bookcases and moved them behind my quilting frame. I'm filling them up with new fabric from the living room mess. All the fabric you see has been washed, dried, folded, and sorted by color onto the shelves. I still have a lot more to go through.
I put this cabinet where the bookshelves used to be. This is so much better. I have all my Accuquilt Go supplies on and inside this cabinet. Now I can use my cutter without running here and there to find all my mats, dies, and etc. I'm also storing my shipping supplies inside the big door section of the cabinet.
My 8" Qube and some of my small dies and mats fit perfectly inside this drawer.
This rainbow ten drawer storage on wheels is my favorite component of the studio remodel so far. It's so colorful! This was full of scrapbooking supplies when I received it. But now...
It's home to my cone sewing threads! The purple thread goes in the purple drawer.
The blue thread goes in the blue drawer.
The green thread goes in the green drawer. And so on....It's so much easier to find what I'm looking for. I love it.
Thanks for joining me today! Hopefully I'll complete my Spring Cleaning before Spring 2020.
Thanks again to Cheryl Sleboda for hosting this annual event.
Here's the list of the other hoppers so you can visit their freshly cleaned studios and maybe get inspired to do some cleaning yourself.
April 29 - Linda Bratten - http://lindabcreative.blogspot.com/
April 30 - Sandra Johnson - http://www.sandrajohnsondesigns.com
May 1 - Jennifer Schifano Thomas - http://www.Curlicuecreations.com
May 2 - Becca Fenstermaker - http://www.prettypiney.com
May 3 - Sue Griffiths - http://www.duckcreekmountainquilting.com
May 4 - Kate Starcher - http://katiemaequilts.com/blog
May 5 - Jo Westfoot - http://www.thecraftynomad.co.uk/blog
May 6 - Sam Hunter - http://www.huntersdesignstudio.com
May 7 - Simone Fisher - http://simonequilts.com/blogs/news
May 8 - Elisabeth DeMoo- http://www.brownbirddesignsquilts.com
May 9 - Sarah Myers - http://www.quilted-diary.com/blog
May 10 - Amy Bradley - http://www.purplepineapplestudio.com
May 11 - Kathy Nutley - http://www.QuiltingsByKathy.com
May 12 - Carla Henton - http://createinthesticks.blogspot.com/
May 13 - Sherry Shish - http://www.poweredbyquilting.com
May 14 - Kate Colleran - http://www.seamslikeadream.com/blog
May 15 - Pamela Boatright - https://www.pamelaquilts.com/
May 16 - Cathy McKillip - http://wishuponaquilt.com/blog
