weekend reading.

Oh my goodness.  I *love love love* this magazine!  Every page is full of ideas and the photography is fabulous!  As part of Vanessa's photography class, we were all to look through magazines that were handed out, notice pages we liked and define why.  Then at the end of class, we were all gifted with the magazines!  Wasn't that so sweet? 

Here is a fantastic book, I have never seen before.  I actually won it (in one of the bajillion special give a ways at The Sewing Summit).  It is just packed with fun ideas for blocks that can be made into mini quilts as well as larger ones.

 (from The Sewing Summit flickr page)

I took Amanda's class on making mini quilts.  That girl is so creative!!  And super fun!   I think all of us left out of her room determined to make mini quilts!  I know I sure am!!  :o)  What a fun way to show off those tiny scraps of fabric that you love and are unwilling to part with, not to mention, I would love to learn different embroidery stitches and would be fun to do it on a much smaller scale.
Here are some samples of what she has created:

 this is a note book cover-look at those tiny stars-I believe they are paper pieced-note to self ... 

learn paper piecing!

this was my absolute favorite

see that star in the center?

not a fabric scrap ... it is also paper pieced

and super tiny pointy points

...swoon...

Here are a couple of the name tags that ladies made and hung in the front of the class, that just stole my heart ... how cute are they??