Library Books - Book Lover Lap Quilt Wall Tapestry - Ready to Ship!

$375.00

Shipping to United States: Free

"I'm going to hang it on my wall as an art tapestry!" - Seattle, WA.
"She calls it 'Grammy's Cozy' and won't nap without it when she visits." - West Seattle, WA

"Library Books" - (oranges, yellows, aqua blues)

One-Of-A-Kind Book lover's Lap quilt and wall tapestry. It was handmade using my own pattern of a dark butterfly design bookcase with four shelves of books in oranges, yellows, and aqua blue cotton fabrics. The backing is a cozy large orange and white checked cotton flannel, trimmed with orange cotton (Photo 9).

DETAILS:
• 35.5" wide x 45" long
• machine-pieced on my 1950 Singer Featherweight (Photo 4)
• 100% cotton contemporary fabrics, all pre-washed
• puffy lightweight preshrunk wool batting
• hand-stitched quilting with 100% cotton thread (Photos 2, 5-8)
• 2 orange cotton cord loops in upper corners for easy wall hanging (Photo 3)
• (Photo 9) = customer photo of their Library lap quilt as a wall tapestry
• (Photo 10) = King-size Library Books Quilt (NFS) - my very first book-quilt-sewing experience - scroll down to "HOW I MADE THIS BOOK QUILT" for basic instructions for making your own Library lap-size quilt - Thanks !

CARE:
• lint roller for stray wool batting fibers
• machine wash cold - delicate
• tumble dry low or line dry

• Ships FREE via UPS Ground with Tracking - from Spokane, Washington.

Thanks so much for supporting my sewing passion !
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HOW I MADE THIS BOOK QUILT:
It makes me very happy that you've come to view "Library Books." I don't have instructions written out to send you, but I thought you'd like to have some basics on how I put this quilt together.

I myself figured it out from a photograph. A crafty friend had saved a magazine photo of one for 40 years!! hoping to some day make it, but asked if I would, for her, instead. I took one look at that book quilt draped over the back of a chair and it thrilled me. I couldn't believe how REAL it looked. I wanted to make it right away - and I did...a KING-SIZE - using my crafty friend's fabrics, hardly making a tiny dent in her extensive stash (Photo 10). She cut the brown cabinet fabric and sewed my 4 rows of books together onto their brown shelves, and then she EMBROIDERED titles on many of the books. Incredible. She and her husband dream beneath this magical library every night.

• First, figure out the FINISH dimensions you'd like your book quilt to have. I figured four shelves - 12" - 12" - 8" - 5" top - each shelf of books = 30" wide (after sewn together) - and 1" of shelf fabric for the books to sit on and 2.5" of the cabinet/shelf fabric for the top, bottom and sides.
• sorry - don't know how much fabric is/was required - I usually wing it
• all seams = 1/4" - opened and ironed flat
• cut varying widths of book strips, allowing for the "shadow fabric" (the darker the color, the more dramatic), to equal the height of the finished shelf, allowing for 1/4" seams top and bottom, to attach the row to the shelf
• keep sewing the books (with their shadow attached) until - once ironed - the row = desired width of your shelf.
• The BOOK LEAN = (Photos 1 & 7 )...Sorry, I don't know how to explain making a book to lean, I can only show it. Remember, when a book leans only 1 corner of it is touching the shelf at the bottom, so you need to sew a bit of shadow fabric to the bottom of the book strip first, and more shadow at the top than you think you'll need, before attaching the leaning book - leaving some shadow for the final 1/4" seams...DO NOT TRIM till the very end (the row of books will look a bit wonky and you'll wonder, but it'll be okay...If it isn't? You can rip a seam out - which I've done a lot ;-)))
• That's it ! The rest is choosing your fabric combos and thinking in strips.
• Easy peasy. Lots of FUN !!
• And Time (10 days = 6 days, 6 hrs/day to create the top & 4 days/24 hours of sewing on the binding & hand-quilting)

Thanks for reading ! XO Love, Pierr
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