Lovely Silk

Silk

This lovely pack of SILK was on the FREE table at Quilt Guild last night!  I could not believe my luck!   

The sari silk I bought a few years ago is too thin to sew into a quilt, but this will work nicely!   Most of this is sturdier, but I may still need to stabilize some of it ...  

I was thinking of making a crazy quilt, using the AccuCut Die, but now I'm thinking a different pattern might work better -- more like the Kantha quilts?  Or maybe a rail fence?  We'll see ... 

 

What about this 2-4-6 pattern would work well with this silk?

 

Or maybe something like this stacked coins quilt? 

 

Rag Balls & Ribbons

 

It was a good day on the Free Table at Quilt Guild last week! 

I picked up these rag balls as I can use them for making rugs some day. 

I gave them to my friend Karla who has other rag balls to go with her own rug loom. 

 

 

Someone was also giving away these baby food jars of ribbons.  Nice ones! 

 

 

Also -- Laura is helping me re-stock the blues in my stash.  

These are from Dee S., a founding mother of the guild. She is in her 90s now, and giving away some of her stash.  I am happy to help out!

Meanwhile, I've been getting kits ready for Quilt Camp next week.  Cutting and cutting because you don't want to make a mistake at that while someone is talking to you ...