The Ultimate Quilt Room, No Parking Quilt,Gurney Quilts,The Quilt cellphone,Metal Quilts,Button Sculptures,Your Color Fix for Today

THE ULTIMATE QUILT ROOM
by photographer Tom Mannion

I am speechless. All that came to mind were captions and scary thoughts.
Some were:
Old quilters never die...
they just use up every single last fabric scrap they own and their friends too.

Would a quilter's husband, significant other, or partner really understand what redecorating a room with a quilt theme mean?

Is this the ultimate way for a quilter to re-purpose her stash?

A conversation between two quilters:
"Well, he told me that my stash was getting to big and that I should think about using what I had before buying anymore fabric."

What were your thoughts when you saw this?
Join me in captioning this picture!

Artist Paul Margolis
Paul is pretty amazing. As a dad, bus driver and artist, he makes quilts we ordinarily don't see. To read more, click "here" and to help find these a home, click "here".

GURNEY QUILTS
I guess a quilt is in order for whatever the occasion may be.

Just when I thought I saw it all......

YOUR QUOTE FOR TODAY

A Cell phoned named "The Quilt"

Sky introduced this slider handset known as "The Quilt" in Korea. The idea here is that it actually sorta resembles a quilt. (I would have at least liked to have seen a REAL patchwork pattern here and then I would have not objected it to being called a quilt.....but that's just my opinion!)

AMAZING

Wooden Sewing Machine
I was happy when I found another wooden sewing machine like I did in my last blog post...
you need to go check them out!

METAL QUILTS

I am drawn to these metal pieces of art quilts. As quilters, we should be so honored that what we love and create spills over to other artists who create their versions of "quilts"
Click here to read more about this artist.

Art created with quilting and sewing in mind

Dog Food Quilt Block

I couldn't believe this when I found it. Yep....this is made with dog food. I am quite impressed that there is someone out there that actually makes art with dog food....but why not? His name is William Kenneth Daw and an animal lover at heart. When I first saw this, I naturally saw this as a quilt block.....don't you see that too?

BUTTON SCULPTURES

Creator: Esther Lapointe
Made of Turfo stone and marble.

This button sculptor is on Penn Campus:

Creator: Stephanie Cruise
Located on Spadina Avenue,Richmond Street, Toronto, Ontario Canada

In Grand Rapid, Michigan this is a hug red button installed on a tilted axis. The center has four pierced holes in it and it is installed in a children's playground. The creator is Hy Zelkowitz.

Artist Lisa Kokin created these amazing button sculptors

YOUR COLOR FIX FOR TODAY

This post was so much fun putting together.I hope your time here was fun and some of the quilting/sewing related things you saw and read about made you smile and say WOW! Life is full of surprises and the ingenuity of artists makes my curiosity grow.

When I am putting together a lecture or designing a new pattern for classes or a pattern, my inspirations are endless. Just the COLOR FIXES alone play around in my head and fill me with motivation.

I have been working on a new lecture that will bring the funny, the bizarre, the ingenious and the ultimate in quilting....just like you read and see here!

I hope my blog sparks the quilting and artistic muse in you.
Share this with a friend and I hope you leave a comment!
Linda

Wooden Sewing Machines,Sewing Machines that sew "Music",Shoes Made from Quilts,Fiber Art Sewing Machines,Your Postive Thought for Today, Color Fix

THINGS I LOVE

I just absolutely love this little wooden sewing machine. What a great way to expose the little ones to sewing. You can own one of these little babies too! These works of art are loving created with much thought and expertise right here.

A Sewing Machine that Sews Music?

Imagine, you are at a party and the Dj is playing your tunes, a good mix, a perfect set, music you never want to forget, no problem! You can wear that music because this machine can stitch the full Dj-set visual on a t-shirt for you. So don’t wonder if you see a busy black sewing machine next to Dj turntables in your club in near future! Sounds Butter is an interactive Design group who came up with the idea to visualize sound with a sewing machine through the height of the stitches it creates. Before you clap your hands to order your super looper sound stitchi machine you have to be patient, because at this stage it is just a prototype.

Check it out here

SHOES MADE FROM QUILTS
Never ever would I have thought that a quilt could be re-purposed into shoes.

Terra Plana are pleased to introduce the ultimate in high heel court shoes. The Melito is not only lightweight but flexible, unheard of in a double mount shoe! A sexy super high heel shoe that's good for you? Can it be true? Yes it can! Made from vegetable tanned leathers and with a recycled memory foam lining this shoe is the ultimate in high heel comfort.
Melito Multi Quilt is made from recycled Pakistani quilts making each pair unique and not necessarily what is pictured.

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SEWING MACHINES AS ART

Scrap artist Danny Mansmith combines disparate elements in fabric, paper, photography, and thread into structural forms and tableaux. Danny Mansmith connects the unrelated

YOUR POSITIVE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
I just love this positive thought. So many possibilities and so beautifully stated.

YOUR COLOR FIX FOR TODAY

I love sewing and have plenty of material witnesses. ~Author Unknown

Read great quotes releated to all kinds of needlework when you click on:

QuoteGarden

Some of the most amazing, quirky and interesting things are out there related to sewing and quilting. I sit here and am still amazed that there is a sewing machine that will sew out music in the prototype stage. Thank goodness for creative and inventive people. I would never had thought there was something out there like this. So this wraps up my blog for you today, I hope you enjoyed and if you like what you see and read, spread the word.

Tell your friends to come by and visit and above all, if you have something you found or know that is quilty or sewing related and a little out of the norm, let me know and I'll post it right here.
Havre the best day ever,
Linda