Friday, July 27, 2012

I Killed 3 Birds With One Stone! La Maison Chocolat

Our son and his wife are building a new home and it seems they have run into so many roadblocks this summer. Hopefully things will pick up speed a little. On the other hand, my housing project is complete.

Oops! Did I forget to mention I was building a house this summer as well? Actually it was 5 houses...does that officially make me a licensed housing contractor now?
Let me explain...


I had several challenges to attend to this summer and I have been working steadily away at them.

I decided to kill THREE birds with one stone. (four actually)

1. July was "quilter's choice" in our Another Year of Schnibbles;

2. Our last guild meeting in June, we were given a challenge. There was a large selection of packages and wrappers all face down. If we chose to participate in the challenge, we picked a random package/wrapper. It was then explained that our challenge was to make a quilted project of our choice using only the colours on the package. This project was to be finished for the September meeting.

3. You may remember I finished my Cinnamon and Nutmeg quilt for the bed at the cottage, but I really wanted to use up the last of the fabric collection, so I made matching pillowcases and still had a fair bit of "scraps" left, so my goal was to use the rest of it .

4. I wanted to make a couple of toss cushions for the bed as well.

This was the package I had chosen for my challenge. Bakers Chocolate!
My fate was sealed...the fabric scraps I wanted to use was from the collection Chocolat.

Carrie Nelson had already made a cushion using the Full House Schnibbles pattern and had posted directions on her blog,

I went to work and this is what resulted...

I followed Carrie's instructions for the front and then just constructed my pillow sham according to what fabric I had left.
By constructing these houses, I made my July Schnibbles, made my guild challenge, made a pillow for the bed AND I pretty well exhausted the last of my Chocolate scraps, thereby "killing 4 birds with 1 stone".
Voila!
La Maison Chocolat!


***PLEASE NOTE:
No birds were harmed in the making of this post.

9 comments:

  1. It sure all looks cozy there on the bed!
    I haven't even thought about the color challenge.

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  2. Oh, it is so pretty! I love how it looks on the bed, and I love the back, too. I'm really impressed that you were able to accomplish three things with one project. Cool!

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  3. Oh Wendy, you are SEW smart!!! Love it!!

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  4. I love your quilt and your pillow is awesome !!

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  5. Wendy... I love love love your pillow.. Great job..

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  6. What a lovely pillow Wendy! Love it.! And of course the quilt is soooo very pretty also. Beatiful work!

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  7. BEAUTIFUL PILLOW! IT LOOKS PERFECT ON YOUR BED!

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  8. My chocolat quilt looks lovely on my bed in the new trailer....but I didn't keep enough for pillowcases, so now I am looking for scraps...Yours are an inspiration.....beautiful! Hope to see you soon....

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  9. Really cute :-) I do love this in pillow form. You got a lot done in one project! That's certainly great multitasking :-)

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