Little Boxes

This week, the knitted gloves have been put down for a while.

 

Earlier in the week, I treated myself to a wonderful quilting book by Amanda Jean Nyberg and Cheryl Arkison. It's called Sunday Morning Quilts and is all about using up your fabric scraps. As I hate throwing anything away, I couldn't resist it.

Also I follow Amanda's blog Crazy Mom Quilts which I love reading and find it gives me lots of inspiration.

So this bank holiday weekend, I've been sorting my scraps and making little patchwork boxes (from a pattern in the book) to store my scraps in.

 

The boxes are made using scraps of the colour of the scraps they are going to store .....if that makes sense!!

They are great fun to make!

 

So far I've made a purple one....

See all my scraps neatly folded....kind of!

and a pink one....

 

 

......and I'm halfway through making a blue one :)

 

 

All my favourite colours first :)

 

Once I've made enough boxes and sorted all the scraps, I am looking forward to making some of the lovely quilts from the book.

Hope you're enjoying these last few days of August.......it's raining here today......good excuse to make some more boxes!

See you soon,

 

Maggie xx