Gifts Week 2

Are you giving the gift of cash? Dress it up with a customized wallet!

How to make a wallet: Directions and photos are here!

Gifts Week 3

Here is another scrappy project! Make a headband for the girls in your life.

Supplies:

• two 2.5" x 19-20" wide strips for grownups, or 18" long for a 10 year old girl
• 3 inches of 1" elastic
• two 2" x 6" strips

Sew Headband

Iron long strips in half to make them 10" long. To shape the headband, trim away a skinny triangle from each side, making the headband wide at the fold, and skinny at the ends. Mark a point 3/8" in from the cut ends. Draw a 10" line from this point to the edge of the fold. Cut. Repeat on the other side. Shape a curve by trimming away the point at the fold.

Iron 1/4" under on each end of each strip.

Place strips right sides togehter, and stitch a 1/4" seam down both long edges, backstitching at the ends. Turn inside out. Press. Topstitch if desired.

Sew Elastic Sleeve

Place 6" strips right sides together, and stitch both long sides, backstitching at ends. Turn inside out. Thread elastic through this tube, and secure it with stitching at each end.

Finish Headband

Stuff each end of the elastic sleeve into the ends of the headband, making a circle. Stitch across the ends of the headband to secure.

Giveaway Round 2

If you emailed me, I may not have received your message. Please write me again if you are Liz, Ruth Anne F, or Amy F. Thanks! stef@blackberryquilts.com

"With many serviceable substitutes it is not really necessary for women to make quilts now, but the strange fascination about the work holds their interest."

Marie D. Webster, in Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them, 1915

Week 4 Gifts

Share the love!
Do you have a quilt top that you have been holding onto, not sure how to proceed?
Share it with a wounded soldier!
Quilts of Valor will connect you with a long arm quilter, who will turn the quilt top into a soft warm quilt to comfort a soldier.

Giveaway Winners!

We have winners for our October giveaway! Ruth Anne S., Sue C., Amy F, and Liz, please contact me with your addresses! Stef@Blackberryquilts.com

Week 5 Gifts

Here's another recession proof gift: recover an old, tired potholder! You know those potholders that won't get clean in the wash anymore? The potholders from 80's color schemes that don't match anymore? Recover them! Make them cute again with a fresh new fabric cover.

Pick a color or pattern that makes you smile everytime you use it!