Sunday, October 3, 2010

Paintbox Help

I wrote this post last weekend and completely forgot to upload the photos and post it! Don't you hate when that happens? Anyway...

A friend of mine, Whitney, is an amazingly talented knitter and I've helped her over the last couple years learn to use her sewing machine. She recently started up a quilting bee for other newbie sewer/quilters appropriately named The NewBee. For her month, she wanted to do a Paintbox Quilt using Oh, Fransson's pattern.

Since her stash is full of yarn and not very much fabric, I invited her over to raid my stash for prints that match the Kona roll-up she bought. It was an explosion of color!

Color Explosion

I have to show you this photo she took of the stack at her house. Isn't it pretty?

NewBee: October
originally uploaded by zigeunerweisen

I also agreed to do a couple sets since I can't resist the clean lines of square in square blocks. :)

Whitney's Paintbox

6 comments:

  1. The paintbox quilt looks pretty awesome. And I' a big fan of photos of piles of fabrics. I think there's a flickr group somewhere...flickr/Fabulous Fabric Stacks, yeah.

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  2. this is beautiful...the colors are so happy and fun. it is so nice to rummage through fabric and see what wonderful things can be found.

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  3. Aren't you sweet to help a friend? You will have made a new quilting addict out of her!

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  4. How fun! It is going to be colorful and fabulous. She is going to make an amazing quilt!

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  5. I have always wanted to do the paintbox quilt. Now seems like a good time to get started.

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