A Quote Book

         In the movie A Walk To Remember, Jamie's mother had a quote book where she wrote down quotes that inspired her. Ever since watching that movie, I've wanted to make one. 

 

 

 

 

 

I admit, I've ripped out a few pages because I was too messy when I was drawing... I'm not usually too picky about that, but I really want this book to be neat!

I've only done three pages so far, because every time I try to do it quickly I end up with a mistake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recently I read the Aeneid and this line really stuck out to me. I just love it!

 

 

 

 And of course the famous Augustus Waters must make an appearance.

 

 

This is probably my favorite Taylor Swift lyric of all time. I'm sure more of her lyrics will be in this book by when it's finished.

 

 

 



 

 

Another TFiOS reference....but technically it's a quote from Caesar

 

 

And this page is my favorite so far. This is a lyric from my absolute favorite song ever, Jesus you are beautiful to me, by Sara Groves.

I'm also drawing borders along the top and bottom. These have mostly been the reason for the redoes.

 

 

 

  I love this book so much! I encourage you guys to start one too.
Thanks for reading!



A Crazy Quilt

I've always loved crazy quilts, because they say so much about the person who made them. You can put so many little details into them and the colors and embroidery can really reflect what you like. I've seen some amazing ones in antique stores, but they're always either very old and worn or very expensive. I've only made three small quilts. Two were wall hangings, and one a baby quilt. But I've always wanted to make a bed quilt. So my goal is to have the top of this quilt finished by 2015. Not necessarily the embroidery... we'll see when we get there.  (I've also been inspired by Kelsie's new quilt)  

I've made 9 blocks so far, and I have 21 to go!

Please tell me this block looks like a tree... It didn't turn out as well as I hoped. But I'm going to outline it more with the embroidery.

this block is supposed to resemble a grassy hill with blue sky behind it. I plan to embroider houses (from my books) on it :D

Though crazy quilts traditionally were a way to use leftover scraps of fabric, I don't have enough to make one that way. So my friends and family donated fabric scraps.

(obviously I need to iron these!) 

The color scheme of this block revolved around this fabric. I love it!

And this block was inspired by my obsession with the Wizard of Oz.

I'm looking forward to when I can do the embroidery, because I suspect that will be the best part... I'll be posting quilting updates and pictures of new blocks that I make,

 Thanks for reading <3