Fabric Boxes

I recently sewed some fabric boxes and I really like how they turned out.  I found the tutorial on Pinterest.

One thing that made this particular tutorial appealing was that it just used plain old batting.  No super-stiff fusible stuff.  I don't dislike the stiff fusible interfacing, it's just that I don't always have it on hand.  This pattern is "fat quarter friendly," too, as there is very little left over from the two fat quarters.  Of course, you can make these any size you want:  different widths and different heights.

Anyway, I've been wanting to make these for quite a while, and I was inspired to finally do it so that I would have a "box" to hold my "un-paper towels" on my counter top.  (Read about un-paper towels here.)

As you can see here, the boxes are very soft-sided and can be collapsed.  But they spring right back up, and are perfect for my purpose.

The un-paper towels fit in the fabric box quite nicely.

And now I have a matching set in my kitchen.  The box for my clean un-paper towels coordinates with the receptacle for dirty un-paper towels!

Scrappy Strippy Star Quilt (Part 3 the final)

It's finished!!

Binding, hanging sleeve, label, everything!!

Part 1 of this blog post is here.  And the second part is here.

 It was a windy day, so it's not an optimal photo.  But MisterStitches did a valiant job of holding up the quilt in the gale.  And it shows the quilt!  I'm really happy with this quilt.

Here you can see some of the (minimal) quilting.  I just meandered across the quilt in long undulating curvy lines.  Super simple.  I didn't want dense quilting, because I don't want the quilt to be too "stiff."

When I got to the border I wanted to do something different, so I chose another wiggly design, which almost (but not quite) looks like grass. 

Here is a close-up.  As you can see, almost (but not really!) grass.

And here is the back of the quilt.  The Kaffe Fassett fabric is in the center, with more strip-pieced scraps on the sides.

Isn't this KF fabric pretty!  Now that I've used it, I'm almost sorry that I put it on the back of the quilt, instead of using it for a front of a quilt.  But, on the other hand, I really like to have pretty quilt backs, and this one is very pretty, I think.

Since the quilt is so big, I made a split sleeve for it.  Now I just have to find a dowel that is long enough for it!

I've named it "Scrappy String Star Quilt."  I know.  Not very elegant or creative!  

But it does the job.

Git 'er done!