Is it Black or is it White?

I have a huge collection of black and white fabrics so there is a little 1" square of most of them in this quilt. Interesting that some fabrics are black/white and some white/black. Others of course are straight half and half so it was an interesting exercise in value.Hope you enjoy the quilt Helen as much as I have making it.

Anna

Kutting-edge Kaleidoscope

I'm not a serious collector but it seems over the years I have accumulated a number of pairs of scissors, rotary cutters etc. You might say tools required for quilting.

Kutting-edge Kaleidoscope is a computer generated quilt which resulted from a scan of some of this accumulation. The scan was then manipulated in Photoshop to produce first the kaleidoscope and then the border fabric, printed with an inkjet printer on to cotton and finally quilted and bound.

I have attached the original scan as I thought it may of interest to see how it looked in the beginning. The portion used to create the kaleidoscope was taken from lower right corner.

Thank you Helen for setting such an interesting challenge. It has been fun and I am really enjoying seeing the other quilts as they are posted, all are inspiring.

Cheers Judy

Lorraine's Collection

What collection? Fabrics of course! Here are 99 samples from my fabric collection - and they didn't even scratch the surface. I enjoyed this challenge thanks Helen.

Love Deb's buttons as well. Did you use wool fabrics to stitch them onto?

Looking forward to 'Through the window"

cheers Lorraine

Helen's Red Collection

I considered my Carltonware and my grandmother's teapots before deciding on a more personal focus for my collection.
The book on the quilt (which on reflection could have been larger to better suit the dimensions) opens to reveal details of the red collection that, in part, includes red t-shirts, red shoes, red shorts, red gloves, red vests, red shirts, red scarves, red watch, red jumpers, red eye shades, red coats, red wallet, red hats, red earrings, red bracelets, red handbags, red socks, red skivvies etc. and silver car!

'bits and bobs' - Deb

I have collections of all sorts of things, so it was hard to choose! This one is probably a bit obvious - a collection of buttons! It's also a collection of my shot cottons (35 in all). I wanted the finished quilt to look like a piece of modern art! Some of the buttons have been passed down from my grandmother and my mother. The edging was something new - a binding method from andsewitgoes blog. It was also an interesting exercise getting the quilt to the correct size. I measured accurately but must have stitched with a slightly smaller than 1/4 inch seam allowance - therefore the quilt is a bit bigger than 12 x 9!! And I've learnt how to crop the photo!

Too Many Recipes, too Little Time

When Helen chose "My Collections", my first thought was, I don't collect anything.  Then I thought there is lots of fabric, but by definition, to be in this group we would all have lots of fabric.  I looked at my bookshelf and saw all the cook books, thenI went to get something from a kitchen drawer and saw my "recipe file".  My recipe file is a large plastic bag containing scraps of paper - hand written, cut from magazines and newspapers, or promotional brochures put out by various companies.  It is not organised in any way, but when I need a recipe I always know what colour paper I am searching for!  There are so many that if I started today and made something different every day it would take years to get through everything - but I still cut out new things when I see them.
My little quilt shows my bag bursting with recipes.  The small squares around the border represent my fabric collection.

Kay

"my collection: favourite fabrics" by margie may

For Helen I made a shadow box in which to display fabrics from my collection.  Some of my favourites fabrics and designers are Itaya Naomi from Japan, Kaffe Fassett, Souleiado from France, Liberty of London, Alexander Henry; and I love stripes and spots.

Apart from fabric I’m not a serious collector of anything in particular – a bit of a bower bird. I have drawers of buttons and ribbons and lace and pieces of needlework that I might do something with one day – haven’t we all! I recently discovered a shop in Castlemaine called “habadash” [‘vintage, antique buttons, bits and bobs’] – a seriously dangerous shop to enter! - but if you happen to be passing by highly recommended. http://www.habadash.com.au/

Happy collecting, Margie