Stitch in Public Day

Stitch - in - Public Day
Saturday, February 5, 2011
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
In honor of
National Embroidery Month

Members of the Canopy Oaks Chapter, Tallahassee, FL (our local EGA guild), will be visiting the library to offer a place to stitch with others or to learn how to stitch. Come any time of the day and learn all about the skill of embroidery! Open to all ages.

Leroy Collins Leon County Public Library, Downtown Branch
200 West Park Avenue
Tallahassee, FL 32301

Come see us and say hello if you are in the area!!

my quilt--part 2

Diana called me and sent me a picture of the sashing fabric--at first I was disappointed because the background looked so white. Then she sent me a second picture with the blocks laid out with the sashing, and I love it!!! You cannot keep this one!!!

The small square that looks blackish is actually the dark navy print shown in my last post.

my quilt

My sister Diana informed me today that she has started making my quilt. Here is a picture of some of the fabrics she is using.

I gave her a range of colors and she picked the fabrics. She was snowed in today and she called me at work (she loves to do that when she is not working and I am!!!) and told me that she had made a few blocks. Can hardly wait to see pictures!!!

Edited: Go here to see the pictures of the blocks she has completed. She changed the yellow to a brighter shade, but I love what she is making.

for Diana

One of my sisters, Diana, was organizing and cleaning her sewing room yesterday. I told her how I now stored my sewing fabric and she asked me to post pictures, so here they are.

This is the shelf that contains 99% of my fabric. I have sorted by colors, with the exception of clothing fabric, the fabrics that I use for totes and bags, and my holiday fabrics. They are sorted as clothes, totes and bags, Christmas and other holidays. As I am a blue girl, I have a lot of fabric in the blue family so it gets the largest container, along with the Christmas that is in another space. The other bins have 2 or more colors combined.

 This is a closer look at some of the bins.

 

And this shows my labeling, which is very simple. I found a fun font, printed everything as a Word document. I then cut out each label and stuck it inside the bin. This way it is visible and I can change things if I need to.

Diana, hope this helps. :)