What's new at The Loft - Episode 117

It's all about the change

For the past several months I have been working on the Kimberly Schaeffer's calendar quilts.

 

I love making these but I have to admit that the mini quilt wall hangings shown in the book, while cute are to me a bit boring.  So when I go to work on the next months mini quilt the first thing I think of is how am I going to change it.   Making these quilts has now become all about the change for me. 

 

It started with the June quilt, which was cute but I really didn't like the ants.

 

 

So I decided to have a little fun with it and made mind a tribute to the Eric Carle's children's book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" with an orange, lollipop, ice cream, a leaf, a cupcake and of course the Caterpillar.  I also use a small red gingham print for the squares to look like a picnic. 

 

 

 

When I worked on September I at first was a little stumped on how I would change it

 

Here's the design from the book

Inspiration hit and I added some squares of chalkboard fabric and I created notebook paper out of muslin for the background. 

 

 

 

Here is how is how mine came out

 

 

Here's a closer look at some of the squares

 

 

 

 

 

and for a back I found this cute school fabric.

 

 

I am working on October now, and I can't wait to share the changes I made to that pattern too.

 

Thanks for stopping by.  As always comments are welcome, so feel free to drop me a line and let me know what you think.