Blue Green Scrap Quilt...

I made 6 inch scrap blocks from leftover various colors with a predominent color of green. There were only enough scraps for 12 blocks.  I used 10 inch sashings to make it lap size. Not sure I am pleased with the outcome, but this is what it looks like.   

The front.

The back.  The quilt is 68 x 54 inches. I stitched in the ditch for quilting.

Stashbusting:

About 1 yard and 32 inches green fabric + scraps

About 1 yard and 18 inches of blue green flower fabric for the back

A piece of 68 x 54 batting given to me (not bought)

I used standard white thread for sewing and quilting

New quilt - Barnwood Scrap...

Still trying to use up leftover brown scraps and yard sale scrap fabrics.

The front. 

6 inch scrap strip blocks interspersed with 6 inch barnwood fabric blocks.

Sashing is a white/gold star fabric. Border is an autumn leaves fabric. 

The back is pieced, leftover autumn leaves, white/gold star fabric and plain white muslin.  Quilt measures 57 inches by 67 inches.

Stashbusting:

1 yard + 31 inches of various fabrics for front

1 yard + 21 inches of 3 fabrics for back

8 partial bobbins of various colored threads

3 partial spools of various colored threads

1 mattress pad as batting

Yard Sale Treasure...

I went to a yard sale today and there was a pile of fabric, mostly Christmas and some vintage calicos.  I asked the lady how much she wanted for the fabric...$2.  I came home and discovered I have about 15 yards of fabric all together, and some is even cut into strips already!  I have a project for those strips :).

Anyway, as I sorted through the fabric, I found a little bag, opened it up and there was this:

Whoever started this project quit because the blades are all hand-sewn and the centers are sewn on machine, which bunched it up - the entire Dresden plate doesn't lie flat.

This will be an easy fix - rip out the centers, place them by hand, and all will be well.  I have no idea why there are only 5 - there is no other matching fabric at all. 

My daughter suggested placing one in the center and off-setting the other 4.  Sounds good to me.  Now, to find a nice background...plain white, or should I get adventurous?  We shall see...

Rail Fence Quilt

When I returned to the USA and began taking quilting classes, like all enthusiasts, I found catalogs of stuff to buy, including fabrics.  One of my kids found one of those catalogs and fell in love with a pack of 6 fat quarters, in the turquoises and blues of the tropical island where we used to live (Guam).  I bought the 6 fat quarters with the thought of making a quilt...someday.  That was probably 20 years ago.  Here is the Rail Fence quilt.  It measures 46 X 61. 

The front.

The back.  I used every scrap of the 6 fat quarters, except miniscule trimmings to square up the fabric.  The four little blocks are leftovers, and the large block was all the trimmings sewn together.  I even outlined the signature square with leftover pieces.

Domestic machine pieced, domestic machine quilted, stitched in the ditch. Backing blocks were sewn on by hand applique.

StashBusting:

6 fat quarters

2 yards muslin

1/3 yard of leftover fabric for binding

Another Apron

I made an apron and some coasters for my oldest from a favorite fabric.  I attached leftover Battenburg lace from the quilt I made for my Mom to her apron.

I didn't get a chance to make an apron for my youngest child at that time.  After talking wiht her this evening and telling her about Becky's full apron, she asked for one, too.

Although this looks like Autumn, it is really a very pretty Christmas print fabric with gold accents.  The apron is lined with a plain white muslin. The Battenburg lace is the last piece leftover from Mom's quilt.

StashBusting (including Becky's apron below):

1 yard of leftover white muslin fabric

1 yard of assorted blue/yellow prints fabric

1 yard of leftover Battenburg lace

1 yard Christmas print fabric 

Becky's Birthday...

Christmas 2009, I made Becky, my neighbor, this tablerunner in her kitchen colors of yellow and blue.  The coasters were just a little extra.  I had some of the fabric leftover and never really planned anything with it.  However, Becky's birthday is Friday...

Becky's table runner and coasters

So now, with the scraps from the tablerunner, I made this:

Becky's fully lined new apron!

Stashbusting Baby Quilt

I was looking through some fabric and came across the remaining strips of the Triangle Sprider Web Quilt.  There were only a few so I whacked them into 2 inch strips.  They made four blocks and a spare.  Well, why not add triangles and set them on point? OK. Then I used the rest of the WOW fabric to piece the rest of it.  Of course, it needed a border, so I rootled around and found the peach fabric. Once that was done, it needed binding.

Despite careful placement and checking twice, I managed to sew the left bottom block upside down...and didn't see it until I photographed the finished quilt. 

Stashbusting:

1/4 yard of strip pieces from Triangle Spider Web Quilt

1 yard leftover fabric from back of the Double Irish Chain Quilt

Scraps from M-I-L Alma's quilt

1 yard of batting bought at a yard sale for $1.00

8 X 45 inches of leftover Christmas fabric for binding

1 yard of leftover white fabric

The quilt measures 36 inches by 40 inches.  Destined for the Swap Meet craft sale.

Two Aprons

Mom needed door prizes for a baby shower she is hosting.

So I found some seersucker fabric with cherries, another with citrus fruits, and some red gingham...because red gingham just makes it all look vintage.  They turned out cute. Hope the winners like them.

Green Strip Quilt

After using the leftover strips of fabric from the Two-fers Circle quilt to make 2 smaller baby-sized quilts, I thought, Hey!  I can do that with the leftover green strips, too!

Viola!  A strip-pieced baby quilt.  Probably will be sold at the craft fair.

StashBusting:

1 yard+ of leftover muslin

leftover green fabric strips

 10 pieces of leftover batting (seamed together)
1 spool of thread

I had to buy 1 1/2 yards of polka dot fabric to finish the back. Stitched in the ditch by domestic machine.

Another Scrappy Baby Quilt

I had no intention of making this a quilt, it was supposed to be the back of the Strip-pieced baby quilt below. Plans change. 

These were larger scraps and I didn't want to cut them for the strip pieces, since there were plenty. So I took this heap...

And made this scrappy baby quilt.  I didn't cut any of the pieces except to trim.  The center of the quilt is cross-hatch quilted.

Stash-Busting:  3 leftover pieces of Warm & Natural batting seamed together, 2 spools of leftover thread.  And the scraps and back, of course.

There are only a few very small strips of the backing fabric left over. 

Scrappy Baby Quilt

After I finished the Star Quilt & the Circle Patch Quilt from the Two-Fers pattern, I still had a pile of scraps left. In my continuing saga to use up all the fabric in my sewing room, I cruised the Internet looking for a good use for the scraps. 

The scrap heap.

Strip-piecing on 6 inch muslin foundation blocks.

47 X 47 inch baby quilt made from strip-pieced scraps.  The little blocks in the sashings are crazy quilted on the 6 inch foundation blocks, and then cut into 3 inch squares. I had to buy some backing fabric to finish the sashings and back.

I had a pile of larger scraps left over, too.  Originally, I pieced them together to become the back of the above quilt, but once done, I realized that with the backing fabric I'd already bought, I had enough to make another back and thus, another baby quilt, the same size!  

On the stash-busting front - for these 3 quilts, I used 4 spools of leftover thread, about 8 bobbins of leftover different colored threads, several yards of pieced together leftover batting, and about a yard and a half of muslin. 

The Two-Fers Surprise Quilt

I made a quilt at Christmas from a Quilt Soup Pattern  called Two-Fers that included the pattern for a second quilt, made from the remnants of the first quilt.  I thought the recipient only wanted the one quilt, but when I was showing her the pattern, she asked for the second quilt, too! 

Although we bought the material and some extra according to the pattern, there really wasn't enough to make the entire second quilt.  I had to piece together some of the remnants to get the squares and rectangles, and had to raid my stash for a bit of 4 more fabrics.

I thought I'd machine-applique the circles on...yeah, well, my skills aren't up to that.  I ended up hand-appliquing the circles.  With some supervision.

Dinah kept swatting my hand every time I passed the needle through the fabric and and pulled the thread. 

 

The front of the quilt.

There wasn't enough of the orange fabric to complete the back.  So I grabbed strips of leftover fabric and started sewing them together.  Still didn't have enough, so I took some of the border fabric  and sewed it to the bottom.  The circle is an extra, and I appliqued it to the back. 

A Green Quilt and more...

I wanted to make a simple, green, five-inch block quilt, no sashes, no borders, and a pieced back.  

I also wanted to use up all the less-than-a-yard light tans, white, and cream fabrics I had in my stash, to add interest to the green quilt. I started it on August 10, and finished it this evening. Machine pieced, machine quilted "stitch in the ditch," and machine binding.

The front. 

Once I finished piecing the blocks, I found 2 large pieces of batt that were cut from other projects, zig-zag sewed them together, and used that as the batting.

The back.
I used all the leftover blocks on the back. 

Its a generous lap quilt size, just right for snoozing kicking back in the recliner. :)

Best of all, in my stash-busting, I used up about 2 yards of various fabrics, plus batting leftover from other projects.  I did have to buy the greens and the backing fabric, but I'm happy with the results.

Kindle Keeper

I made this a few weeks ago. I wanted to experiment a few weeks ago with strip piecing and use the decorative stitches on my machine, which I've never used before (although I have used the monogram and quilting features).  I went to the Moda Bakeshop and found their BookKeeper pattern for e-reader devices.  Although I didn't have the proper fabric, I had a jellyroll (wider than theirs) and put this together. I cannot do the applique, I'm not sure what I am doing wrong, but it just wouldn't go together, so I gave up.  I'll try it another time.  

 The outside - see the decorative stitches, I used different colored threads. The right side is white thread, should've used a different color, but oh, well.

The inside.

Tablerunner Experiment...

I saw someone do a technique for making half square triangles and I wanted to try it since points are my downfall.  I forgot to take pictures, I'll do it another time.

Take two squares of cloth, put them right sides together, and sew a 1/4 inch seam all the way around.  Then, turn on point, and cut corner to corner, all four corners.  You will have little squares of HST, just press the seams.

Sounded like Christmas to me...so I cut 6 inch squares and did this with the striped and white fabrics. Then I added the 6 inch green squares. I used a decorative stitch on my machine to quilt the green squares and stitched in the ditch on the white/red squares.  A gold Hoffman Christmas fabric as the binding, and I was done.  

I will be experimenting with the HSTs again, and my decorative stitches, too.

I love Christmas.

Tablerunner...where did it come from?

In my on-going attempt to get rid of stuff, I was rootling through some fabric that had been in storage for a while.  I came across this kit called Sassy Stripes.  There is a  3.5" x 5.5" laminated card in the baggie, with the instructions, along with enough fabric for front and back. The card says it is copyrighted by Pieced Tree Patterns. However, there is no price tag or bar code.  I have no idea where I got it.

I do not buy kits, I usually only buy patterns, templates, and the occasional special ruler. Was this given to me?  Did someone want me to do it for them?  Maybe I got it for free for buying something else?  Perhaps I won it, or someone exchanged it in a swap? I do not know.  I don't decorate for any holiday, except Christmas. It is a mystery why this is in my stash. Regardless, I made it today.

The kit.

The finished table runner.

By the way, I love the laminated card idea with instructions and pictures of how to do the design. Nice layout and easy to use.

 I finished this 47 inch X 47 inch baby quilt this evening.  The top has been made for a while, just needed to put batting and a back on it and bind it.  Made from scraps from other quilts, this one is going to the swap meet to be sold. 

  

 

While I was busy with the quilt, Richard canned 9 quarts of tomatoes from our neighbor's garden.

A Little Treasure

We live way out in the country, and every Friday, I go shopping with my Mom and another neighbor.  It saves on gas, we do all our errands, and we have lunch at various establishments to round out the week.

We also yard sale.  We have the list from the paper, a GPS, and our coin purses filled with quarters and dimes (and the occasional dollar or two).  We've managed to find antiques, clothes, an assortment of dishes and knick-knacks, bikes, chairs, strollers, and even an appliance, or two.  

Today, some dude was cleaning out a storage unit.  There was a box of fabric.  I have made a promise to myself to not buy fabric unless its to finish a quilt.  However, as I rootled through the box, I found this.  I'm pretty certain it is very old and the fabrics look like feedsack.  I offered the dude $2...and he said, "OK, do you need a bag?" A bag?  Yep, he gave me the whole box of fabric, lace, rickrack, buttons, hook and eyes, cording, binding, and even a spool of thread for $2. 

I rootled through the bag when I got home.  All the extraneous notions and fabric lengths are going to a friend who has asked for extra fabric and scraps.  I'm keeping the tiny squares quilt block. 

Double Irish Chain...

This quilt top was made about 15 years ago, one of the quilts I made for myself.  I wanted to do something to highlight my Husband's Irish roots (his grandmother came to America straight from County Cork). All the fabrics except the white have shamrocks on them.  The pattern is called Double Irish Chain and I put the 25 patch block between the "chains."

I had too much caffeine this evening, and decided since I finished Alma's quilt, I could get started on this one...it's 2 a.m.  I finished machine quilting this one, too.  However, I plan to do some hand-quilting in the white squares. 

 I made this table-topper for Alma when she went to Florida.  The shamrock in the center is hand-quilted with green thread.  (Sorry about the stain, it is rust and will not come out).

I plan to use this same hand-quilted shamrock on the white portions of the Double Irish Chain.

All Done! Alma's Quilt...And another follower!

In my continuing saga to finish OPS (Other People's Stuff), I found my MIL's blocks and finished her quilt.  This is probably not how she intended it to look, but I couldn't find all the fabric pieces for what little foundation pieces were left.  She made the 4 blocks on the outside and the big central block. The big central block was hand-quilted to batting and back, so I left it as is, and simply applied the other blocks, with remaining fabric in between.  I machine quilted the straight lines, but left her hand-quilted Xs in the boxes as is. I did have to raid my stash for the cream border, and go to an LQS for the outer border and binding. I am a lousy photographer - the photo doesn't do it justice.  The colors are warm and comforting.

 

I am also grateful to see another follower!  Thanks, Pamela J!

Doing my best...

After fussing for five hours with the small amount of fabric I found that went with this quilt, I gave up on making new squares and went with what was finsihed.  All the blocks are my MIL's handiwork.  I added what remained of her fabric in between the blocks.

I found a nice calico in my stash, and will add it as borders to make the quilt larger.  It will be slightly larger than a lap quilt, smaller than a twin size quilt.

 

My mother-in-law's UFO...

Back in 1992 or so, we returned to the States from overseas, and although I'd taken 2 quilt classes, I really didn't know a lot.  So I joined a quilters group in Pennsylvania.  My mother-in-law, Alma, who lived with us, decided to try her hand at quilting, too.  She joined the group and then took classes.  I didn't take those classes with her, as I had another obligation on the evenings of the class.  The class was to teach a variety of techniques - there are triangles, borders, and applique in some of the blocks.

Alma lost interest in quilting, and never finished the quilt she began. She loved crochet, knitting, and needlepoint much more and created some beautiful pieces, which many of us still have.  She passed away in 2010.

This is what remains of the unfinished quilt.  I'm not sure what the circles were for, but the cream muslin in the upper left corner of the photo has a diamond star and hearts drawn on it, plus the 8 hearts cut out that fit on it.  The block may be part machine pieced (the star) and part appliqued (the hearts).  I'll finish the block that way. 

From the look of the quilt and measurements, it appears that there was to be one row of 3 smaller blocks, one row with the large block and probably large sashings, and then another row of 3 smaller blocks.  This quilt also used incorporated the quilt-as-you-go technique, which I have tried, and do not really do well.  I will remove the blocks from the batting, and create a whole quilt, then finish it that way. Using what's left of the pile of fabric, I will create a couple blocks to finish the quilt. 

 

Finished!

19 new patches and numerous new seams later (including some binding repair on the back), Katie's baby quilt is repaired.

 

Looks pretty good, doesn't it?  She will be very happy to get it back - it's her favorite snugglie, even now. 

A new follower! and more...

I have a follower - Grandma Rockton!  Thank you for visiting my blog.

I have put Grandma Mary's quilt aside for a little bit.  I showed the damage to another quilter, and discovered that more of the fabric is shattered than I first believed.  Only a few blocks are intact, and the fabric in them is iffy, too.  I wanted to talk to my Mom (who was on vacation) before I did anything radical. 

Radical would be to take the remaining intact blocks (there are three) out of the shattered remains, and make a new quilt, surrounding the three blocks that are left.

In the meantime, I seem to be in the quilt repair business.  Niece Katie recently got married, and while visiting with my sister last month, Katie and her husband came up to see me.  Katie brought along the sewing machine I gave her (to relearn how to thread it!) and her childhood quilt, made by her paternal Great-Grandma MeeMee.  Katie received it as a baby, and is now 22 years old.  The quilt has had some hard use, and a few squares need some tender, loving care and new patches. 

I brought the quilt home, with promises to repair it quickly.  Hope to finish it today, and then post photos.  Despite what it looks like in the photo, the damage is more extensive than it looks. Several of the light triangles are torn/mostly gone. I was able to hand sew some seams back together, too.  So far, I've put 16 patches over torn fabric.  There's still more to go.

More Repairs - Grandma Mary's Quilt

Grandma Mary, my Pa's mother, gave this quilt to Pa and Mom when they got married back in 1966.  It has been well-used and well-loved.  The blocks were hand-pieced, but the quilt was backed by machine, with no batting between.

I have assessed the damage in this vintage quilt and it is extensive. The back will have to be removed, it is stained, torn and damaged beyond use - the fabric **shatters** in places, so is not strong enough to anchor the quilt.  Some of the fabrics in the blocks are also shattered, which means I need to put fabric over it, to hold the rest of the block together. 

My goal is to save as much of the front of the quilt as possible. I will cover the torn fabric, either with full reproduction blocks, or only in places needed, like I did with my other Grandmother's quilt.  The red fabric is alternately strong in places, but in other places it is shattering, too - not sure why, but I'll do my best to fix it. 

 

 

The whole quilt. It is larger than lap robe, but smaller than twin.  I suspect it was made for a child, or one of those little homemade beds, before bed sizes existed. Although, with no batting, it might have been a pieced tablecloth, although my Mom never used is as such.

Whole pieces of the blocks are missing as you can see in this closeup - these will be replaced with fabric as close to the original colors as I can get. You can see the large tear in the red block.  I will not sew it together, but will cover it. If I sewed it back together, the seam would warp the block next to it, resulting in uneven sides.

It is interesting to me that the blocks in the middle are the most damaged. 

** shattered fabric - fabric that tears when touched or tugged.  It most often happens with silks and finer fabrics, but can happen to cottons and other blends when they are old, heavily used and/or washed repeatedly.

My parents are in Montana right now visiting their new great-grandson (my grand-nephew, whom I made the baby quilt for in a previous post), and Pa's birthday is on July 29th.  I hope to have this done so when they get back, I can give it back to him.

In other news, I hurt my back so Richard helped me with the canning, most of which gets given away at Christmas, and when people drop by, or when I need a quick gift:

23 pints of peach jam (already gave some away)
36 quarts of tomatoes
22 quarts of spaghetti sauce
(it would've been 23, but it smelled so good, it's supper tonight)

 

Visiting and Repairs...

I went to visit my sister to help her with canning the produce from her garden.  I also brought along her birthday present, a pressure canner from Mom and me.

I brought my sewing machine and she asked me to repair and/or alter several articles of clothing.  I repaired/hemmed 4 pairs of denims, fixed 7 shirts, and 1 skirt.  Two shirts had sleeves that needed to be shortened.  I saw a bracelet made from a cuff, online, and decided to make her granddaughter one.  I cut the fabric right at the seam line on the cuff.  The cuff has snaps on it, so I simply sewed the cuff to fit her wrist, then cut the excess off and turned it right side out. 

 

While she was playing with the sleeve scraps, she held up a portion and asked if I could make her a purse out of it.  So I did.  I simply turned the sleeve inside out, sewed the bottom closed, and put a denim hem scrap on it as a handle.  I put the handles on the sides of the sleeve, so she can open the snaps to make the purse wider, if she chooses. 

She loved it - a special purse made for her, with a cuff bracelet to match.   

 

Canning:

10 pints of peaches

4 quarts of peach pie filling

9 quarts of beef soup

4 pints of pickles

6 quarts of blackberry pie filling

3 pints of blackberry jam

4 pints of blackberry jelly

6 pints of plum jelly

4 pints of sand plum jelly

2 pints of applesauce

1 quart of apple pie filling

In addition, my sister dehydrated and/or froze a bunch of squash, corn, bell peppers, jalapenos, celery, carrots, green beans, peas, and carrots for soups and stews. 

 

Anni's Little Apron

I am going to visit my sister next week.  We are going to can her garden produce, tomatoes, jellies, jams and other stuff.  Her granddaughter is also coming to visit, so I made her an apron so she can help us.  

The butterfly fabric, the yellow fabric and the polka dots were leftovers from different quilting projects.  The green is double fold blanket binding.  

I sewed everything so that there are no unfinished edges except where the ruffle joins the skirt. 

The Triangle Spiderweb Quilt

I started this quilt in 1990.  I finished it today, June 26, 2012.

I took a class to learn to make this quilt. It was made by sewing 4 long strips of fabric together, then using a plastic triangle to cut out wedges.  The wedges were then sewn together, creating the pinwheel effect in the center of each block.  Sewing the blocks together resulted in the green squares with white borders.  I got tired of making triangles and sewed the 4 strip pieces together as the border. I used a sheet to make the back and machine-quilted the "spiderwebs" and the borders. 

It took five hours to finish the quilt.  

UFOs...Un-Finished Objects...

Due to our various moves, much of my sewing and quilting supplies were in storage for a number of years (not intentionally, it's just the way events came about). We also had a few family needs that required the use of my sewing room as a home/bedroom for various relatives at difficult times in their lives, which meant my sewing was packed in boxes and relegated to the garage/attic.  

I have many quilt tops where I made up the blocks and put them together, but never was able to finish the actual quilt with batting, back, and binding. 

I have several projects in which I bought the fabrics and the pattern, but never put the quilted piece together.  These include tablerunners, tablecloths, wall-hangings, small quilts and other pieces. 

I bought other patterns for future use as quilted/sewn gifts for various people.

And last, I have several projects given to me by other people to finish or repair. 

Over the next few months, I plan to finish these quilts/projects or pass them on to someone else to do (and to keep, if its stuff I'm no longer interested in). 

My ultimate goal is to NOT have a fabric stash.

After finishing up these projects, I plan to move on to other hobbies which I enjoy so much more, and will probably not return to quilting or sewing, except for the occasional project.

Time to clean up this sewing room!  

Maggie's Quilt

My sister, Maggie, embroidered these squares some time ago.  I put the blocks together, then discovered some of the squares weren't finished.  I sent the quilt back to her to finish them. 

Today, I finished the quilt.  The back and binding is a sheet, it was the only fabric I could find in my stash that was large enough, and even then, I had to expand it with another sheet.  The quilt is a queen-size, but longer than a regular queen cover.

I made a baby quilt for a soon-to-be-born grand-nephew...and discovered I had enough fabric to make another baby quilt.  So I made a second one to sell at the craft fair later this year.  It's a baby dinosaur print.  The blue fabric was from my stash.  It is backed with white muslin.

Repairing A Quilt...

This quilt was given to my sister when she was a young bride.  It was made by our paternal grandmother sometime in the early 1970s.  It was backed with an old sheet and instead of batting, the inner lining was an old damask curtain.  Much of the fabric looks like 1970's era with  psychedelic colors and patterns, but several of the fabrics look like old flour sack remnants.

The quilt was well-loved and well-used. By the time I received it to repair, there were many tears, holes and the backing and lining were beyond repair. 

I was told by a quilt expert many years ago that when repairing a vintage quilt, do not remove the torn fabric. Instead, simply put a new patch over the old one. So I did.  Eight of the bow-tie squares had to be completely covered. About five more only needed a patch over part of the bow-tie. Many other patches simply needed to be sewn back together. Some of the quilt was handsewn, some was machine sewn.  I handsewed all the repairs and machine quilted the whole thing. 

I used Warm & Natural batting as the inner lining and white muslin as the back. The binding is the back, folded over.  Note that it doesn't match widths on all sides.  I miscalculated the machine quilting gathering up the back. 

It will be returned to my sister when I go to visit next month. :) 

Cleaning the sewing area...

My sewing room has actually been in boxes for several years in the garage and storage area.  I decided with this lovely weather that it was time to find it all, clean it up, purge what I didn't want, and make a place for the rest so I can work more efficiently. 

The sewing corner.  Under the table is all the batting, fleece, and unfinished quilt projects.  Also some items that need repair, like pillow coverings.

This bookshelf is not all my fabric, it is only the fabric that I kept.  The rest was given to a fellow church member, who asked for all scraps and lengths I no longer needed or wanted.  The roll is foam, awaiting fleece covers.  It is to be 3 dog beds, which will be placed around the house for the dogs.  The basket on the floor is the new scrap heap. The two rolls under the bookshelf are insulated batting and a roll of pastel flower fabric that may become cushion covers.  I haven't decided yet. When it becomes overly full or I no longer rootle through it, I will pass it on to my friend at church.

The guestbook...

Still doing things for my niece's wedding.  The photo album is just one I bought, as is. 

I took a 1/2 inch binder, made a horse cover for it, and then glued pastel envelopes onto plain cardstock.  I will take pastel cardstock, put some Scriptures at the top, and  people will sign the cards, and can add whatever best wishes they choose.  I added some plain pages for the cards she and her new husband will receive, too.  

Photo album to show size of binder.

Open, with a page out.