Wordless Wednesday

The Bibliophile Files

It's hard to believe but yet another month has come and gone since the last TBF update. I don't think I did as well this month as last but I am still making progress. Any time now summer work hours will kick in and vacation time will help me get ahead.

In case you are new to my blog, and therefore, new to TBF, I have issued myself 2 reading challenges for this year. I hope to read 74 books this year with one word in each title starting with letters that spell out the months of the year. Nine of the titles will also have colors in them. You can get the specifics of the challenges and the books I have finished this year at the Bibliophile Files tab above. I've finished 25 books so far which is 34% of my goal.

Sorry, no reviews this month but I hope you'll click the titles to read more about each book at Shelfari. I will tell you that Grass Roots was my fav of the month and I can't wait to read more in the series.
     Afraid to Die (5/18/14)
     O'Jerusalem (5/24/14)
     Scones & Bones (5/26/14)
     Storm Front (5/29/14)
     Grass Roots (6/2/14)

On my nightstand and stereo:
     Red Velvet Cupcake
     A Wilder Rose

I've got my next 18 books lined up - now I just need to find some time to listen to them. I hope you read some good books this month - looking forward to reading about them! Feel free to link up about any novels, quilt books or cereal boxes you have read!

Design Wall Monday - 6/2/14

As much as I don't mind having lots of types of quilt UFOs to work on (gotta love variety) - I do have to wonder how many scrap projects at a time is a good idea. I'm talking about leader/ender style projects to use up all the bits left over from other projects.

You are probably aware of my basket project. I've finished these 6 in the last week. I neglected to count how many that brings me to but it must be more than 75 by now. I really need to pick a setting fabric so I can start putting them together and decide how many more to make. Obviously this is my most often worked on L/E project.

Yes, that is a wooden pants hanger in the picture. I group finished blocks on the hanger and they hang on the side of my cutting table.

A while ago I started making some of these garlic knots that Bonnie had in a Quiltmaker magazine. I've only made 3 so far but it was fun to pull strips from the bin and put them together easily. I had actually forgotten about this project until I was thinking of a post for today.

See, I was sew excited about this tiny block that it's out of focus!!

My latest project is this tiny puss in the corner block. Yup - just one so far. I'm preparing a class called Magic Blocks and this is one of the samples. The class premise is that you can take single blocks, 4 patches, 9 patches or 16 patches, cut them apart and then sew them back together in to a new block. Think of disappearing nine patch gone wild.

This little beauty is actually a 4 patch! I made the first sample from 5" blocks but this one is from 2.5" blocks. Any size would work but I liked them best as little blocks. I can do a tutorial if any one wants..

How many L/E style projects do you have?

Momma says - don't forget that tomorrow is the next Bibliophile Files!!!!