My Day On Dust Off A Quilt Book Blog Hop

Bea at Beaquilter is hosting her annual blog hop called, "Dust Off A Quilt Book" that got a lot of us sneezing as we searched through those old dusty quilt books we've held on to FOREVER. I got rid of most of my books when I moved. Luckily, I held on to a few of them.

I have a thing for Art Deco/Art Nouveau type things, so I had held on to this quilt book. It was time to blow off that dust and crack it open!

ART NOUVEAU QUILTS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

By Bea Oglesby - Published in 2006

The quilt on the book cover is the one I liked best.

The directions were okay, but I failed to think about reversing the pattern I traced.

I admit, I am terrible about reading directions. I'd rather follow the picture.

Which is what I ended up doing. I think it was just fine backwards!

What Defines Art Nouveau? "Art Nouveau was a compelling and energetic style in the visual arts which spanned from around the early 1890s to the First World War. Art Nouveau artists, inspired by plant forms and nature, took organic subjects and flattened and abstracted them into sophisticated, sinuous and flowing motifs."

This is one of my favorite Art Nouveau paintings, "Woman in Gold". There is a movie about it which stars Helen Mirren, and the story is fascinating. "Woman in Gold" was a painting of Adele Bloch-Bauer who was painted by Gustav Klimt. It was stolen by the Nazis and the movie tells the story of how it gets returned to her family. Robert Kaufman just released some Klimt fabric. It's gorgeous!

My grandson held my quilt in front of my Art Deco cabinet. It's nice having him around!

I wish I could say I'm a master at free motion quilting, but other than a meandering stitch, I need guidance of some sort. This time I used my chalk stencils. It was fun doing the clam shell stitch! 

Fabrics: Moda Grunge from my stash.

Check out all the other dusty book projects that were made:

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
Ms P Designs USA
Just Let Me Quilt
 
March 10th
Beaquilter
Karrin's Crazy World
Quilting Patchwork Applique
Julie's Quilts and Costumes

Have you participated in our Sew It-Show It Challenge/hops?  

Come on and join in on the fun! Here are our themes for this year.

 

Sign-ups are announced about 2 months prior to the start. You can read all about them HERE

You can even download the schedule HERE and start making your plans!

April brings us Joan at Moosestash Quiliting...

There's still room if you're interested.

You can read more on it HERE

Just drop Joan an email with "SAY WHAT" in the subject line and the following information:

Dust Off A Quilt Book Blog Hop

Today is my day for Beaquilter's "Dust Off A Quilt Book" blog hop. I've enjoyed seeing the other books that were used this week. 

When I moved a couple years ago, I threw out/donated almost all my quilt books. I hung on to a few that I thought might come in handy. This was one of them, "3 times the charm!" by Me & My Sister Designs.

It has some great ideas for using those 5" charm packs in quilts. I had one charm pack in my stash that needed to be used.

The pattern was easy to follow and only required one charm pack and fabric for the back and binding...perfect! I was able to pull from my stash for this one.

This will make a great table topper when Christmas rolls around again. It's nice to have something done this far ahead of things!

My helper...he's four. That says it all!

I asked for a "normal" face. Thankfully, he agreed  

Check out all the other bloggers who dusted off their quilt books!

Tuesday March 1^st 

Quilting & Learning - What a Combo   

Karen's Korner

 

Wednesday March 2^nd    

Becky’s Adventures in Quilting and Travel

Createinthesticks

 

Thursday March 3^rd

Quilting Patchwork & Appliqué

Just Let Me Quilt

 

Friday March 4^th

Patchwork Breeze

Beaquilter

Thanks for stopping by!

My Day At The Dust Off A Quilt Book Blog Hop

Bea had a great idea for a blog hop...dust of a quilt book we've had for a while and make
something from the book. The hardest part of this was deciding which project to make from
 the gazillion books I have stashed here or there. Since I enjoy designing and sewing applique,
the book I dusted off for a project was "Adorable Animal Applique" by Margie Ullery.

I got the book during a class I took at a Bernina store that was being taught by the cutest lady,
Margie Ullery from  Ribbon Candy Quilt Company. She's funny and very gifted
 in creating applique designs. There's lots of cuteness in this book!

This was the quilt I made at the Bernina class from her pattern, Hoots Hollow.

Look who else is blog hopping with me today:

Friday Feb 22^nd

Bea at Beaquilter

Barbara at Bejweledquilts

Laura at sliceofpiequilts

Sherry Powered By Quilting

Pat at Life in the Scrapatch

Carol at Just let me quilt

Kathy at Kathy's Kwilts and More

Marian at seams to be sew

Don't forget to visit these blogs, too!

Monday Feb 18^th

Turid at densyendehimmel

Pamela at Pamelaquilts

Joan at Moosestashquilting

Anne at seems like a plan

Susan at Desertsky Quilting

Selina at Selinaquilts

Kathleen at Kathleenmcmusing

Tuesday Feb 19^th

Cindy Stitchin at home

Jennifer at curlicuecreations

Stephanie at stephjacobsondesigns

Kathy at Kathysquilts

Shasta at high road quilter

Carol at Tealeafquilts

Wednesday Feb 20^th

Sharon at Vrooman’s quilts

Suzy at websterquilt

Nancy at patchworkbreeze

Brenda at songbirddesigns

Karrin at karrinscrazyworld

Denise at craftraditions

Thursday Feb 21^st

Anita at Domestic Felicity

Leanne at Devoted quilter

Jennifer at Dizzyquilter

Carla at Creatin' in the Sticks

 Lee Anne at Podunk Pretties

Andree at quiltinglearningcombo

Lyndsey at Sew Many Yarns

I hope this hop has inspired you to grab one of those patterns or books that
are just sitting there waiting for you to make something creative from them!

If you love a good blog hop, there's still time to sign-up for Be A Diamond...

Thanks for stopping by!