Showing posts with label wall pockets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wall pockets. Show all posts

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Wall Pockets Finished

Thanks to all of you who gave me your opinions on how I should finish these wall pocket blocks. (previous post here).
In the end, I decided to finish them as a series of four individual wall quilts, or wall pockets. Each has a split hanging sleeve on the back, so whoever purchases them can buy one, two, three, or all four, and hang them in whatever configuration fits their space.

You can see the Etsy listings here. The link will take you to the first listing, but that listing is linked to the other three as well.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Opinions Needed

So much for working on the items on my list. I got a little side-tracked (again). I've had this idea for a while now, and I just had to see if it would work. So I cut up a pile of 1 1/2" strips from my collection of vintage oxford shirts and started sewing them together. I fussy-cut shirt pockets for the centers of these log cabin blocks, thinking they would make interesting "wall pockets". You know - something to hang in the hallway or mudroom where you could put letters to mail, or movie tickets, coupons, car keys, or how 'bout a special memento or lucky charm... Even a favorite seashell you picked up on a walk on the beach...
OK - I'll get back on track...
I made four blocks and each one has a "fussy-cut" word on the top - Peace, Family, Home, Love.

My problem is, how do I want to finish these off. My original plan was to quilt & bind each block individually, as four separate mini wall quilts. Each would have a hanging sleeve on the back so any number of them could be hung side by side if someone wanted more than one.


But now I'm looking at them laid out together and wondering - should I add some sashing and sew all four blocks together into a wall quilt like this?

Or all in a row like this?


Or should I follow my original plan of making four individual wall hangings and sell each one separately, or as a group? What would you do???