Dust off a Quilt Book Blog Hop

Welcome to my stop on the   Dust Off A Quilt Book   Blog Hop.  Thanks go out to Bea over at Beaquilter for the idea and the organization behind this event.  The point of this hop as most of you know was to find a quilt book, an old quilt book and dust it off and make something from it.

I had no trouble finding this book. It was one of several stored in a box in my garage since we moved to Florida 4 years ago.  The issue was to figure out what I wanted to make from it. The book has a copyright of 2002.  I did make this cutie as a wall hanging when I first got the book.

You need to trust me on that since I can't locate it in my Easter storage bin at the moment.

When I opened the book I found the beginnings of this banner.  Never finished it and thought it might  be a good time to take it from UFO to finished, but not.  I'm just not a banner person and don't have any friends that are either.

 If anyone out there is interested let me know. The first person I hear from can have all of the pieces.

Next thought was to use my embroidery machine and make an applique from this design.  I spent hours playing at doing something I had no training in with a toy that I wasn't really sure could do what I wanted it to do. 

As I was running out of time I decided to go back to the old fashioned way of applique using heat and bond.

Then one last try and I got this far.  Not exactly what I wanted but close enough to be usable for a bag.  I was so excited that I completely finished the bag before I realized I never quilted it. I may go back and open a couple of seams and do some, or not.  But I did manage to get my goal of some machine embroidery into this hop.

Because I didn't know where the bag would end up I did use that piece I put together with Heat and Bond to make a sweet one hour basket.

I had also made an egg from the book, for testing, that I ended up making into a little draw string bag.

Thanks for stopping in and visiting. Please take the time to visit all of the sew very talented participants in this hop you'll be so glad you did. Here is the complete list for your convenience.

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
Theresa at bumbleberrystitches

Wednesday Feb 20^th

Sharon at Vrooman’s quilts

Suzy at Websterquilt

Nancy at patchworkbreeze

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

Friday Feb 22^nd

Bea at Beaquilter

Barbara at Bejweledquilts

Laura at slice of pi quilts

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
Brenda at songbirddesigns