Happy Wednesday! I've made more vintage sheet bundles! This round of bundles are rainbow bundles, woo hoo! They're available in my shop now: Vintage Sheet Fat Quarter Bundles



Each bundle has eight fat quarters of vintage reclaimed bedsheet fabric. On top of the six rainbow colors there are two multi-colored prints in each bundle.


There are still some soft and subtle bundles left from the last update, and they go so well with the rainbow bundles! A bundle of each is perfect for making a Giant Vintage Star Quilt!


Wouldn't it look so pretty to use all different prints for the background? I want to make one!!

Happy Quilting!

Our Little Free Library

Happy Friday! Today I wanted to share a project that I've become passionate about this past year, our Little Free Library!


After baby girl was born last year, we started walking way more in our neighborhood. Lucky for us, there are a bunch of little free libraries that we can walk to, and stopping at them became something to do on those walks. I usually had a small stash of books in the bottom of the stroller, ready to swap out for something! The libraries brought me so much joy, I realized how much I'd like to have one of our own!


We have a lot of walking traffic in front of our house, so I knew it would be a good spot for one! Unfortunately I was very short on time with a new baby and wasn't sure how I was going to manage to make one. I'm grateful that my Dad stepped in and took this project on for me! We worked together to come up with a design and he built it over the winter.


This Spring I put the finishing touches on it and we installed it. I also took it as an opportunity to expand my garden in this area, which is now the "Library Garden". It's growing in nicely, although there are a few things I need to swap out that aren't super happy.


I love being a little library steward. It's so fun to see people in our neighborhood interact with it. I try to keep the bottom shelf stocked with kids books and activity/coloring books, while the top shelf is for adult books. It's added to by passersby regularly, and I thrift a lot of books for it. The Goodwill Outlet here sells kids books for $.38 and adult books for $.68, so it's inexpensive to keep a stash of books on hand to keep the library full. I love the excuse to save books from the landfill!


Have a Great Weekend!

A Quilty Coloring Book Volume 2

Happy Friday! I made another coloring book!! Say Hello to In Color Order: A Quilty Coloring Book Volume 2. Making the first volume brought me so much joy, I decided to make another. Let me show it to you.


For Volume 2, I dug into my fabric design library. I pulled some of my favorite prints from the five fabric collections I designed from 2012-2015 and turned them into coloring pages! There are also a few pages with designs that never made it into a collection, but I thought would be fun to color.


The covers are a bit different this time, they're printed on plain white cardstock and also feature a design you could color!


There are 16 different designs to color. The books are 5.5”x8.5”, printed on regular copy paper, nothing fancy! I’d recommend using colored pencils or crayons with these, markers may bleed through.


I print and assemble these little books here at a home. I treated myself to a booklet stapler recently, so each book has two staples holding it all together!

Find the coloring book in my shop here: In Color Order Vol 2 - A Quilty Coloring Book

Have a Great Weekend!

Vintage Sheet Side Braid Quilt

Happy Wednesday! I am so excited to share this finished quilt with you today! This is one of my favorites that I've finished in a while!! Say hello to my vintage sheet side braid quilt!


To be honest, I don't actually remember how this quilt idea came about. I knew I wanted to make another quilt with my vintage sheet stash, so I believe I just went through my patterns and picked one that I hadn't made in a while. I still love my Side Braid Quilt Pattern, and I have only made one other full size mini braid quilt! See that version here: Mini Braid Quilt.


I decided to try to cut as much of this quilt from my scrap bin as I could. Super scrappy was the goal, even for the background. I filled in the rainbow of colors with my stash where I needed to.


The layout definitely took some playing with to get right. I swapped out a really bright orange that was sticking out, and a background piece or two that had too much going on. There is minimal contrast in this quilt, so it has a really soft pattern compared to the original mini braid quilt I made.


Here it is in all its glory!! It finished at 60"x78". It's super soft and is like a scrapbook of my sheet stash!


The quilting for this quilt is SO special. This is my first vintage sheet quilt that I've had long arm quilted. I sent it to Katie at Autumn Moon Quilting and she knocked it out of the park. It looks incredible!! I'm so grateful that she was willing to quilt it for me. And I love this fun retro floral quilting design, it goes so well with the vintage sheet prints. It's called Posy Patch.


For the backing I used a sheet (of course!), this one is a fun warm floral. I originally cut and made a striped binding for this quilt, but when it came back I realized it really didn't match the backing at all. So I sent it aside for another quilt and made some with this fun orange geometric. I think it works really well with the front and the back, win-win! I thrifted it in 2011, so it's been waiting for its moment to shine!!


This was a fun quilt to make. It was nice to revisit this pattern, how did it come out 12 years ago!? I think this version is one of my favorite quilts I've made with it. It's great for stash busting fat quarters or scraps!


Pattern: Side Braid Quilt Pattern
Fabric: Reclaimed vintage bed sheets
Quilting: Autumn Moon Quilting

Happy Quilting!