Little Bits Quilting Bee Blog Tour
KatieToday we're one of the stops for Kathreen Ricketson's new book, "Little Bits Quilting Bee."
The book is rich with color and detail for using pre-cut fabric to make modern, vibrant quilts.
When Kathreen was working on this book, she solicited stories of people making quilts in community. I shared with her that our stitching circle made a baby quilt for a friend's new little boy. The little story about that quilt is in the book (page 10 if you're curious) and the little baby is now a bustling, busy 2 year-old.
I thought it would be fun to share a bit more about the quilt we made for our friend. Here's an exerpt of a couple blog posts Laura wrote seemingly ages ago, but was really just in 2009:
"Rather than all work on the quilt at the same time, we have taken turns between our Tuesday meetings taking the quilt home with us to work on it. As lovely an image of everyone sitting around a quilt frame is, we don’t have one. Yes, we’ve found patterns to make one, just not sure how the Black Feather cafe would feel about moving something so massive into their space….A hand held round hoop is working well enough, not too obtrusive."
A few weeks later...
"This past Saturday I spent a couple of hours making and attaching the binding for the quilt a bunch of us are making for our friend Laura’s new baby. Good timing too, because as I was stitching I got a call reporting Laura was in labor! Congratulations to Laura and Sean on the birth of their new little guy!"
If you're inspired to orgainze a quilting bee with your local or online friends, the book has information on different ways to share the work, as well as so many beautiful projects to choose from.
Here are the next stops on the tour:
Friday, November 18 – Kristin La Flamme & Camp Follower Bags & Quilts
Monday, November 21 – Quilt Dad
Tuesday, November 22 – Pat Sloan & Pleasant Home
Reader Comments (8)
Ooh - I love the circles quilt! I have put this book on my Christmas list!
Thank you for the review of the book. I like that it has suggestions on how to set up a quilting bee! so fun!
love the hand quilting!
My quilt clubs makes at least one charity quilt together per year. Others we make on our own. It would be fun to have this book to find fun ways to do this.
Love the circle quilt.
Several years ago, my friend and I sewed a doll with twig arms and legs with hair standing on end and embroidered aprons to swap out each month. We began working on the project side-by-side at each other's houses, but after each completing the doll and six of her aprons, we both drifted to other projects. Time quickly passed until we decided it was time to revisit the aprons. We set a time limit in which we would separately complete the remaining six aprons and then get together to share them with each other. It was the perfect motivator... like creating a group quilt... and how fun to reveal each other's unique spin using the same pattern!
Nice review of the book. It really is bringing quilting back to its community roots. I like that!
Thank you for the review. i'm enjoying each of the blogs that write about it.