Pin It Weekly #122

Happy Wednesday!  Until you realize that it's really only Wednesday--not Thursday as you'd been thinking all along--and you still have two days of work left, not just one.  That was a letdown [huge understatement] believe me.


So I decided to take a good nap and then play on the computer for a little while.  In no time I'd pinned about, oh, 100 pins.  Yes, really.  I don't know if I was in Pinterest zone or if time got away from me, but I do know that I can't possibly post them all here!  Since I was pinning mostly quilts, you might want to visit my "heart, quilts" board to see a few of the others.  Just know that there are 4,500 pins on that board!  

These are some of my favorites from this evening.  Hope you enjoy!

So, that's how I spent my down time.  How do you spend your 

Pinterest-time?

Pin it Weekly #87

Pin It Wednesday #26

Sunday's Quilt Inspiration had to do with crazy quilts because I needed some ideas for the crazy quilt bolster I've been working on.  Well, I'm still working on the bolster and need to see how lace was used on some of the Victorian quilts that I've seen.  So I figured that I'd start with crazy lace.  Then we'll just see what happens from there.  All of these photos are on my "crazy, quilts" board.

Notice the spider and spider web in the next piece?  I had to find out why so many crazy quilts included them and, it turns out, there was a good reason: women of the Victorian era, both in Europe and in the States, believed that spiders were a sign of good luck.  Additionally, because spiders "weave" their webs, they were good luck for weavers of cloth and those who used the cloth--needlewomen.  Naturally, because many crazy quilts depicted the interests of the family, needlewomen include the spiders and their webs to represent their own work.  

Although I found several articles on this topic, two were especially interesting reads: http://www.caron-net.com/featurefiles/featmay.html and http://cqmagonline.com/vol09iss3/articles/1002/index.shtml.  I recommend them if you're interested in learning more about crazy quilts in general.  The second article is from Crazy Quilts Magazine Online, which has many articles available for free.

Enjoy some more pins, these from my "vintage, joy" board.
  

Happy Quilting,

Mary