tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71641779287343719462024-03-13T03:08:02.216+01:00The Quilting HermitEmmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-1306742252097617902020-04-13T22:41:00.000+02:002020-04-13T22:41:02.920+02:00My First Finish of 2020!After being somewhat unhappy with my <a href="http://www.thequiltinghermit.net/2020/03/2019-trio-of-little-girls.html" target="_blank">Trio of Random Sister's Choice quilts</a>, I decided to use the rest of my 9 patches for something completely different. You'll be seeing several very similar quilts in this pattern with different colors.<br />
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I alternated the 9 patches with half-square triangles/quarter square triangles in a diamond layout. The recipient's nursery, according to her dad, was "all colors and especially purple." So I chose 4 different purples of different shades and arranged them in lighter and darker bands around the center for contrast.<br />
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I quilted with freehand swirls with hearts mixed in. I tried to get at least one heart per 9 patch and per purple triangle. I wrote "love" in cursive on the center block 3 times but forgot that I loaded the quilt in my frame sideways so the words are sideways on the finished quilt. I'm a little peeved at myself for that but the recipient's mom saw it and thought it was special and didn't notice or care about the sideways words...so I guess I shouldn't either.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First pass complete on the frame</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of the center block</td></tr>
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Oh, and totally accidental awesome moment: I used a striped binding and had the closest pattern match happen without trying at all. Made me smile.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I couldn't have gotten this close if I tried!</td></tr>
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I realized, as I was adding binding, that one of my corners was scant and needed me to patch some fabric to cover the batting. I made it a 'humility corner' and patched it with the fabric I had immediately had handy instead of cutting off a piece of the purple that was short. I kind of like how it looks, a reminder that nobody is perfect.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Humility Corner</td></tr>
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Completed quilt photos:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Front of quilt</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of my better hearts</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Label</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another decent heart</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Center block's sideways "love love love"</td></tr>
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For fabric purchases, I'm going to go ahead and count both purchases I have made this year by time of publishing this post. I purchased 4 yards of <a href="https://www.fatquartershop.com/essential-dots-chocolate-yardage" target="_blank">Essential Dots Chocolate Yardage</a> for a backing on my Nice Nice Niece Quilt (top is complete and in my to-be-quilted pile) and 3 yards of <a href="https://www.fatquartershop.com/kona-cotton-ash-yardage" target="_blank">Kona Ash</a> for sashings in a new <a href="https://elizabethhartman.com/all-projects/mod-mosaic-quilt-blocks" target="_blank">Mod Mosaic Quilt</a>.<br />
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My goal for this year is to use more than I add to my stash. I'll be back in the black next week, I'm not worried.<br />
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2020 Stash Report:<br />
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Fabric used this week: 5.5 yards<br />
Fabric used year to date: 5.5 yards<br />
Fabric purchased this week: 7 yards<br />
Fabric purchased year to date: 7 yards<br />
Net fabric for 2020: <span style="color: red;">(1.5 yards added)</span>Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-85130259239056546362020-04-06T22:25:00.000+02:002020-04-06T22:25:01.379+02:00Final Finish of 2019: A Brother's Coordinated QuiltIf you may recall, I made a "<a href="http://www.thequiltinghermit.net/2017/02/a-short-update.html" target="_blank">Twig Cabin</a>" quilt for my first son back in 2016-2017. I realize that I never posted a finished picture of it, so this is going to be a post combining both quilts.<br />
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Twig's quilt was a 'streaks of lightning' layout of log cabin blocks. I backed it with an adorable print I had bought in Korea. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blues, greens, oranges, and browns</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These foxes are just adorable</td></tr>
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When I had a second little boy ("Sprout"), I knew I wanted to do another log cabin block quilt in the same colors, but wanted it to be different still. I chose to do an on-point square illusion layout. I had to do more planning about what colors would be where, but I like the look it has.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Same block layout and size, but totally different look</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Birch and bird backing</td></tr>
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Since the first quilt had a green birch forest and blue binding I found a blue birch forest fabric and used a green binding on the second quilt to further differentiate the quilts.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Loaded on the frame, ready to go!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Freehand swirls and hearts <3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">you</td></tr>
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I've definitely gotten more adventurous with my longarm quilting. I still don't know that I'd call myself more than a confident beginner, but I'm getting there. Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-61156449556411194822020-03-27T21:53:00.000+01:002020-03-27T21:53:04.873+01:00Orchid, Brown, and Beige...If you've looked at my blog for any length of time you've probably noticed that I am not good at doing controlled color schemes with my quilts. I can only think of a handful of quilts where I really stuck to <a href="http://www.thequiltinghermit.net/2016/12/moving-northern-lights-and-other.html" target="_blank">a</a> <a href="http://www.thequiltinghermit.net/2019/11/jade-binding-anddid-i-buy-more-fabric.html" target="_blank">controlled</a> <a href="http://www.thequiltinghermit.net/2019/11/catching-up-with-nautical-quilt.html" target="_blank">color</a> <a href="http://www.thequiltinghermit.net/2019/11/catch-up-poppies.html" target="_blank">scheme</a>. But...my husband's cousin was pregnant with a little girl and, after asking through family members, I found out that the nursery theme colors were orchid, brown, and beige. I know just enough about this cousin to know that I should do a fairly modern quilt layout and settled on a chevron design (there was a specific design I'd found that inspired this quilt but I can't find it now...).<br />
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The hardest part about this quilt was choosing the shades of orchid. I had very little in my stash that was what I'd consider orchid. I bought quite a few different fabrics and eventually settled on these:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I already had the two on the left</td></tr>
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I made <a href="https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2005/06/crumbs-crumbs-crumbs.html?m=1" target="_blank">crumb blocks</a> with my tan and brown scraps and cut those into half square triangles that would finish at 4" finished, then paired those with the orchid triangles I'd cut to match. Each column was a consistent orchid fabric with the scrappy brown and tans as a background. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Completed top, the lighting is better on this to see the colors</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quilted and bound</td></tr>
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For a backing I used one of the fabrics that I'd ordered but was too pink for the front. I finished the quilt and washed it the night before we left for a trip where I could deliver the quilt by hand to the new mother and her family. Everybody loved the quilt, especially when I pointed out all of the brown and tan fabrics in this quilt that were in quilts I'd made for my kiddos and my other nieces and nephews. A little cliche, but there's a metaphor in there somewhere about quilting and familial ties that bind us together... <br />
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<br />Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-20548275774703490432020-03-23T21:35:00.001+01:002020-03-23T21:35:52.647+01:002019: A Trio Of Little GirlsThe title is misleading. I didn't really get a picture of the first of this trio finished...but it has been waiting for the recipient to get me a mailing address. It's hard when you try to make something for someone who you've only met online, but I'm holding onto it in case the mom gets back to me with it.<br />
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I did a sort of experiment with these quilts that I'm not entirely sure I like the end result of, but they're done so...I guess it counts as a finish/win in the end. I used the idea and layout of Bonnie Hunter's <a href="https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2005/06/random-ohio-stars.html" target="_blank">Random Ohio Stars</a>, but used the stars from her <a href="https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2005/06/sisters-choice.html" target="_blank">Sister's Choice</a> quilt instead.<br />
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I made a lot of 9 patches in the two sizes (4.5" unfinished out of 1.5" strips and 6.5" unfinished out of 2.5" strips). The backgrounds for the big stars were neutral tan fabrics, the backgrounds for the small stars were darker brown fabrics, and the alternate blocks used big/busy print fabrics that I rarely use. This is the part I'm not a huge fan of - they make the quilt too busy against the 9 patch stars.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A little busy, but still pretty fun</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I really like the quilting texture</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Busy...but it's sewn together and given to its recipient</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stars everywhere!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pink binding for a little girl with a very active older brother</td></tr>
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The third quilt is very similar, for a little girl with three older brothers.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Overall view</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quilted texture</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Backing, binding, and label</td></tr>
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I stopped after making these quilts and put the leftover 9 patches away to use later.<br />
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The only picture I have so far of the first one I finished but have put away until I can confirm if I'm giving it to the intended recipient:<br />
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<br />Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-56187195636779329612020-01-16T03:09:00.003+01:002020-01-16T03:09:44.831+01:00Can I do 350 blocks?Shelly over at <a href="https://prairiemoonquilts.com/blog/" target="_blank">Prairie Moon Ranch</a> has issued this year's <a href="https://prairiemoonquilts.com/other-stuff/the-350-blocks-project/" target="_blank">350 Blocks Challenge</a>...and I am going to participate. Will I make 350? Probably not. But I can at least try (and stop procrastinating on things...). <br />
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Here goes nothing...Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-85380636068933417012019-12-31T21:55:00.000+01:002019-12-31T21:55:09.808+01:00Plans for 2020!Every year Shelly Paglai of <a href="https://prairiemoonquilts.com/" target="_blank">Prairie Moon Quilts</a> does "the final countdown" at the end of the year. The tasks are meant to get you into a more organized place before the new year. Organizing your sewing space, finding unfinished projects and deciding if you want to finish them/downsize them and turn them into table runners, that sort of thing. The <a href="https://prairiemoonquilts.com/2019-final-countdown-task-three/" target="_blank">final challenge for 2019</a> is "Make some quilting plans for 2020." So here goes!<br />
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First, to finish the baby quilts that are sitting and waiting for quilting/binding/finishing. I have two tops in this state and one that just needs embroidery on the label before washing it up.<br />
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Second, there are seven babies born in the last year-ish (the oldest is about to turn one) who I would like to make quilts for.<br />
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Third, I want to start blogging about my quilts again. I do post pictures on the quilting subreddit as I go, but that's not a good write-up and will be hard for me to find in the future.<br />
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Fourth, I want to find at least a little time to work on my longer-term works in progress. The hand-quilted quilt for my bed, the English paper piecing quilt for my dad, the Civil War Love Letters blocks languishing in their bin...time to keep slowly working on those.<br />
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I want to do a better job picking patterns that use blocks I have leftover. I've got a stack of over 60 blue crumb blocks and 22 blue string blocks thanks to using them as leaders and enders for almost six months. I've got some leftover 9 patches from a bunch of quilts I did with those. I have some blocks I got from an estate sale. I need to use them somehow, not just let them sit around.<br />
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Happy 2020!Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-26181278773115523712019-11-09T04:11:00.000+01:002019-11-09T04:11:11.233+01:00Last Catch-Up...of 2018I managed to squeak out one last finished quilt before things got really hectic (understatement of the century) and then we moved across the country. Here's the last one I finished in Texas:<br />
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I keep waiting to run out of strings. It hasn't happened yet. <br />
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I didn't get a clear overall shot of the back of the quilt, but you can see the print better here anyways. The dots are another Thomas Knauer print.Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-12730896944065691702019-11-09T04:00:00.001+01:002019-11-09T04:11:29.705+01:00Playing With Color (More Catching Up!)I've made several <a href="http://www.thequiltinghermit.net/2011/09/working-working.html" target="_blank">Mod Mosaic</a> quilts (back between 2010-2012), though I apparently only blogged about one of them as a WIP. Still, it's a super fun block to do with scraps. When my quilt guild put out a call for quilts to auction at the quilt show in February of 2017 I made two mini mosaic quilts. The theme for the show was the color red, so I did both with my red scraps and did one with white spacers and one with black. I backed both with a plain unbleached muslin, nothing special, and bound them in the same fabric that I used as spacers.<br />
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Stash report (2017):<br />
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Fabric Used This Week (in 2017): 2 yards<br />
Fabric Used Year to Date: 51.5 yards<br />
Fabric Added This Week: 0 yards<br />
Fabric Added Year to Date: 48 yards<br />
Net Fabric for 2017: 9 yards used<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-77314584818110068622019-11-09T03:52:00.000+01:002019-11-09T04:11:50.847+01:00Catch-Up: More Strings!A third baby with no nursery theme...colors it is! Scrappy strings are really just a fun and easy block to do. Do a bunch as <a href="https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2005/06/leaders-enders-whys-and-hows.html" target="_blank">leaders and enders</a> and you can have a free quilt without too much time!<br />
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I added black and white to the quilt as a neutral to break up the bright colors and I rather like the effect.<br />
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Backing is a polka dot I found at JoAnns.<br />
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Binding is from Thomas Knauer's fabrics from Andover, I don't remember which line it was in. It's the Trivial Pursuit fabric.<br />
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Fabric Used This Week (in 2017): 5.5 yards<br />
Fabric Used Year to Date: 49.5 yards<br />
Fabric Added This Week: 0 yards<br />
Fabric Added Year to Date: 48 yards<br />
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<br />Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-2678631012085870372019-11-09T03:45:00.003+01:002019-11-09T04:12:13.378+01:00Catch-Up: Poppies!"So, what's your nursery theme or color scheme?" I asked this mother, unsuspectingly.<br />
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"Pink, red, gray, and poppies," she said.<br />
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I was a little surprised by how specific it was. Then I went shopping for backings and found...well...the perfect thing that shocked me. And without further ado...here's the next of my 2017 finishes.<br />
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Courthouse steps block again. I played around with how to do my colors in the block so it didn't look messy. Pink and red intermixed in the block looked just messy. I decided in the end to make the pink the center of the block and do color gradients with the red and gray. Darkest reds would be the outside of two sides of the blocks and the lightest reds (not easy to find, let me tell you) were at the center by the pink. Lightest grays were at the center and darkest on the outside.<br />
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Fabric Used This Week (in 2017): 5.5 yards<br />
Fabric Used Year to Date: 49.5 yards<br />
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Fabric Added Year to Date: 48 yards<br />
Net Fabric for 2017: 1.5 yards used<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-14608583916014130252019-11-09T03:36:00.002+01:002019-11-09T04:12:30.932+01:00Catching up with a nautical quilt!When there's a nautical themed nursery...it's time to have some <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl12Sp1KiEk" target="_blank">Fun With Flags</a>. Especially when the baby's name is six letters. Nautical quilt ahoy!<br />
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I drafted the signal flags to finish at 6" square. I framed them in brown to ensure that I didn't lose any of the definition with a dark blue or white flag against the navy and white fabrics. I then surrounded those with alternating bands of navy blue and white courthouse steps-style. Each block finished at 16" square.<br />
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The signal flags are made out of leftover solids from <a href="http://www.thequiltinghermit.net/2015/05/a-finish-for-very-special-girl.html" target="_blank">Niece Quiche's quilt</a>. I bound it with the same brown as the frames in the blocks. I think the combination of solids with the extremely controlled color palette turned out rather striking.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closest to the actual color of the backing</td></tr>
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Stash report (2017 catch-up):<br />
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Fabric Used This Week (in 2017): 5.5 yards<br />
Fabric Used Year to Date: 44 yards<br />
Fabric Added This Week: 0 yards<br />
Fabric Added Year to Date: 48 yards<br />
Net Fabric for 2017: <span style="color: red;">4 yards gained</span>Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-70765125047200351992019-11-09T03:20:00.002+01:002019-11-09T04:12:51.159+01:00Catching up, Part 2: Oops, these are out of order!My next door neighbor in 2017 had a grandson born in the spring of 2017. I made a scrappy string quilt for him. I let a random number generator decide color placement just to see how it would do...hence the blues all being at the bottom.<br />
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So hard to get colors right in old pictures from my old phone.<br />
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I originally bought this dinosaur fabric in Korea intending for it to back a different baby quilt. But that baby quilt was too wide and instead the dinosaurs got to be used now!<br />
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I bound it in cowboy boots and lassos, because it seemed fitting for a Texas baby.<br />
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Stash report for 2017...I think I managed to come out ahead for that year! More quilts to follow...<br />
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Fabric Used This Week (in 2017): 5.5 yards<br />
Fabric Used Year to Date: 38.5 yards<br />
Fabric Added This Week: 0 yards<br />
Fabric Added Year to Date: 48 yards<br />
Net Fabric for 2017: <span style="color: red;">9.5 yards gained</span>Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-7810645560528570972019-11-09T03:12:00.001+01:002019-11-09T04:13:15.885+01:00More Catching Up...Catching up is always a bear, but let's get into it anyways.<br />
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I had three friends at church whose babies were due within...a month of each other? I thought it would be fun to see how far I could stretch a single block design and still make the quilts look totally different. I decided on a Courthouse Steps block as the basis for the quilts...jokingly calling it "Church Steps" as all these ladies were friends from church.<br />
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The first baby's nursery was vintage school themed, since the mother was a math teacher before having him. I bought school-themed fabrics to be the block centers - letters, numbers, school supplies, blackboards with math equations on them, chemistry equipment, etc. I wanted the quilt to have balls of color across it so I spent a while planning out which color would go where in the quilt.<br />
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I really loved how the quilt turned out, and so did the recipient. It's bright and colorful and matched the nursery decor perfectly. The backing I chose was a blueprint of a model airplane that I found at JoAnn Fabrics. (Colors aren't totally accurate as they were taken at night, and while I've tried to correct them a bit it isn't quite worth it to chase down the perfection. The quilt has long since been given away, oh well!)<br />
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And, of course, I had a wonderful binding helper.<br />
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Fabric Used This Week (in 2017): 5.5 yards<br />
Fabric Used Year to Date: 33 yards<br />
Fabric Added This Week: 0 yards<br />
Fabric Added Year to Date: 48 yards<br />
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Getting closer!Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-28304770629462446182019-11-09T02:56:00.000+01:002019-11-09T04:13:32.006+01:00Jade, Binding, and...Did I Buy More Fabric Again? [An unfinished post that I have just now found, two years later]I finished and delivered a quilt! Now called the Jade quilt, this was the pink and green quilt I mentioned in my last post. I chose a <a href="http://quiltville.com/pdf/Split9Patch_with_class_supply.pdf" target="_blank">split 9 patch design</a> for the blocks. This quilt took me forever, as I got hit with some severe exhaustion for a while there, but I finally got it done and delivered!<br />
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The layout of the front was fun to play around with. Looking at it once it was assembled I realized that there were a few places where two pieces of the same fabric ended up extremely close to each other, but I still love the overall effect.<br />
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I absolutely love how well the backing paired with the top. Thank you, JoAnn Fabrics, for having this beautiful butterfly print this spring! I had completely forgotten what fabric I'd picked for this quilt, and when I pulled out my purchases and found this one I about exploded. It ended up being perfect! I chose a shirt out of my bag of shirts to be de-boned and turned into quilting fabric for the binding, and I love the way it looks with both the front and the back. I didn't even need the entire back of the shirt for the binding on this quilt, so I've got more for future quilts.<br />
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I've also finished the top, quilted, and done the machine portion of the binding of my next quilt. I'm still working on the hand sewing portion of the binding, so it isn't *technically* finished yet, but it's coming along nicely. I'll do a full post on it when it's done. I'm not going to count the fabric for this quilt yet, since it's not finished. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The colored pencil binding stripes are perfect!</td></tr>
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And then...I started cutting pieces for the next quilt after this one. However, once I made my plan for this quilt I realized I had barely any of the fabrics I'd need for it. I love scrappy quilts...so of course I needed to buy more fabric. I swear, I'm trying to use more than I buy this year!<br />
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Fabric Used This Week: 5.5 yards<br />
Fabric Used Year to Date: 27.5 yards<br />
Fabric Added This Week: 11.5 yards<br />
Fabric Added Year to Date: 48 yards<br />
Net Fabric for 2017: <span style="color: red;">20.5 yards gained</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">I've got some serious quilting to do if I'm going to end up out of the red by December! I guess it's a good thing that I still have...10 quilts on my list for people I know who have had or are going to have babies between now and April. Eep! </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Oh, and public service announcement: change your rotary cutter blades and machine needles. I know I don't do it often enough (I'm finding that changing the cutter blade every project is about what I need to do to keep it running smoothly and not skipping) so here's your reminder! </span> </span>Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-24830891603999503892017-05-28T22:20:00.002+02:002017-05-28T22:20:46.853+02:00A Finish, and SO MUCH FABRICI finished <a href="http://www.thequiltinghermit.net/2017/03/work-in-progress.html" target="_blank">Baby R's quilt</a> finally! Remind me to never do a quilt with this many pieces again...or with pieces that finish this small. Uggggggggggggg. Seriously.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Overlook all of the missing points...</td></tr>
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The main blocks are a design I pulled from my copy of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/5-500-Quilt-Block-Designs/dp/0806977493/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1496001208&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=5500+quilt+block+designs+maggie+malone" target="_blank">5,500 Quilt Block Designs</a> - design number 2460, "Rosie's Purina Whirligig." I drafted the alternate blocks myself, with the small squares finishing to .75", and the center square finishing to 2". Again, why do I hate myself? The fabrics in the chain of the alternate blocks are the same as the sashing in the recipient's older sister's baby quilt, though, and I didn't have much of it to work with.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It got a little warped hanging over the rocking chair.</td></tr>
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I backed the quilt with a light blue fabric with brown polka dots on it I'd gotten on clearance from Fat Quarter Shop, and just so happened to have a perfect binding to go with it - a brown batik with light blue grass blades on it. I love when my stash comes through for me!<br />
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Judy over at Patchwork Times isn't doing a stash report link-up anymore, but I really want to keep track of my fabric usage. I made a HUGE purchase at Joann's this week, and while everything has a project to be a part of...it's a LOT of fabric. So I've got to make lots of quilts to get back into the black! I did finish another quilt this week, but it's currently in the wash so I'll have to blog about it later. I'm counting its yardage, though - I need all the help I can get!<br />
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Fabric Used This Week: 11 yards<br />
Fabric Used Year to Date: 22 yards<br />
Fabric Added This Week: 30.25<br />
Fabric Added Year to Date: 36.5 yards<br />
Net Fabric for 2017: <span style="color: red;">14.5 yards gained</span><br />
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I also bought batting, since I was out of crib-sized batting and I still have 6 more quilts to make for friends, family, and coworkers. Here's a picture of the fabric I bought:<br />
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Most of what I got was from the clearance rack. I have 3 distinct themes for my next quilts - a green/pink quilt (the greens at the bottom, and the backing second from the top in the back pile), a school-theme quilt (the two fabrics on the right, and the backing is the third in the pile), and a pink/red/gray poppy theme quilt. I had very few lighter reds, and almost no grays in my stash. This is no longer teh case. And I found the best backing ever - poppies on a gray plaid background.<br />
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Hold me accountable, people...<br />
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-7734114515719565372017-03-13T17:56:00.000+01:002017-03-13T17:56:35.038+01:00Work In Progress My quilting time is pretty scarce these days but I have been doing what I can when I can (okay, not always...the internet is far too easy to get lost in). But I am making a lot of progress.<br />
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<a href="http://www.thequiltinghermit.net/2015/01/high-tech-low-tech.html" target="_blank">Baby J-kwelin</a> had a baby sister born on my birthday last year. Of course, since her older sister had one of my quilts this little girl needed one too. There was a block design in my 5,000 Quilt Block Designs book that actually had her name as part of it, so I picked it and haven't looked back. Funnily enough, this design is VERY similar to J-kwelin's design...like turn four half-square triangles in a different direction similar. So the sisters will have similar but different quilts.<br />
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I love how the design is turning out, even if every block pretty much has at least one place where a point has been chopped off. Seriously, it's a block made entirely of half-square triangles and flying geese. It's going to happen.<br />
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In other news, I won some fabric two weeks ago (but didn't have time to post last week)! Annie of <a href="http://www.anniesrubyslipperz.com/" target="_blank">Annie's Ruby Slipperz</a> had a giveaway for 5 fat quarters on her blog when she recently came back into blogging. I won! I got to choose the color I wanted so I picked *gasp* neutrals. This is what she sent me - they'll be perfect for adding some variety into my stash. I've been using a lot of neutrals.<br />
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Finally, I've been doing <a href="http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2005/06/leaders-enders-whys-and-hows.html" target="_blank">leaders and enders</a> almost since I got seriously into machine quilting back in 2009-ish. For several years, my leaders and enders have been paper-pieced blocks from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Civil-War-Love-Letter-Quilt/dp/0896894878/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489423487&sr=8-1&keywords=the+civil+war+love+letter+quilt" target="_blank">The Civil War Love Letter Quilt</a> book by Rosemary Youngs. I've finished 34 blocks from the book so far. My book didn't come with paper piecing patterns, but I used phone book paper and drafted the blocks based off of the picture/pattern in the book. Some of these have some really small pieces and paper piecing definitely makes me more confident about the way the block will turn out in the end. My current block is this one:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First of five of these stars complete</td></tr>
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I've changed the colors from what they are in the book on all of these blocks. I'm sticking to a similar color scheme as the log cabin quilt from my <a href="http://www.thequiltinghermit.net/2017/02/a-short-update.html" target="_blank">last post</a> - brown, green, orange, and blue.<br />
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Finally, my stash report:<br />
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Fabric Used this Week: 0 yards <br />
Fabric Used year to Date: 11 yards<br />
Fabric Added this Week: 1.25 yards<br />
Fabric Added Year to Date: 6.25 yards<br />
Net Fabric for 2017: 4.75 yards used
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I'm still in the black! I've got a lot of quilts to make (this one, 3 friends are due in April and May, my neighbor's daughter in law is due in April, and a coworker of hubby's is going to be welcoming his first sometime soon as well) so time to sign off here and get sewing while I still have a chance!<br />
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Linking up with <a href="http://www.patchworktimes.com/2017/03/12/stash-report-march-12-2017/" target="_blank">Stash Report Sunday</a> and <a href="http://www.patchworktimes.com/2017/03/13/design-wall-march-13-2017/" target="_blank">Design Wall Monday</a> at <a href="http://www.patchworktimes.com/" target="_blank">Patchwork Times!</a>Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-58765351676946185722017-02-19T20:23:00.002+01:002017-02-19T20:24:03.153+01:00A Short UpdateI entered my first quilt show! I didn't place, which I pretty much expected, but I had 3 quilts in the show all with my name on them! Aaaahhhhh!<br />
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The first quilt was <a href="http://www.thequiltinghermit.net/2015/05/a-finish-for-very-special-girl.html" target="_blank">Niece Quiche's Star Wars quilt</a>. My sister was kind enough to send it back to me to put a hanging sleeve on and compete with.<br />
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The second was for Twig, my one year old son. The top has been done since...um...September? October? I knew I wanted to quilt it on my new mid-arm machine but kept procrastinating because I didn't feel ready to do it. Like I would mess the quilt up if I did it. I spent a lot of time picking out the quilting and actually had the machine break down but the owner of the company that made my machine was very helpful via email and we got it working again. I finished this quilt the day before everything had to be turned in for the show.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I called this "Twig Cabin" since we called my son Twig until we decided on his name.</td></tr>
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The third was for baby H3, my nephew. His nursery was ocean themed so I designed and made this quilt in less than a month. When the mid-arm broke down I immediately switched gears and prepared it for quilting on Jenny the Janome. The quilting was simple and pretty fast, and this was finished the day before the show as well.<br />
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Linking up with Judy at Patchwork Times for her <a href="http://www.patchworktimes.com/2017/02/19/stash-report-february-19-2017/" target="_blank">Stash Report</a>:<br />
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Net Fabric for 2017: 6 yards usedEmmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-53271939741553891172016-12-15T21:45:00.001+01:002016-12-15T21:46:05.370+01:00Moving, Northern Lights, and Other Assorted AwesomenessAfter finishing Niece Egg's quilt, I had two more quilts to work on pretty much immediately. This post will be about one of those. I found out that one of my friends, who we'll call M, was pregnant over the summer of 2015. I didn't know M too well but she was married to a friend from college and seemed really nice. Her husband worked with mine and they rode the bus to work together an hour each way, plus her husband loves playing board games and so do hubby and I. We found out about M's pregnancy after we announced our pregnancy to her and her husband - M and I were due 2.5 weeks apart.<br />
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M and I started spending a lot more time together. We commiserated about the unglamorous aspects of growing a tiny human, about living continents away from our families, and about our fears and insecurities about becoming parents. M was born and raised in Finland and married our friend, who's an American citizen. As we were all struggling to pick names for our fast-approaching tiny humans we joked that one American way to name a baby seemed to be to find a random word in a foreign language that you think is pretty and use it, regardless of the meaning. We decided to call their daughter Potato; it actually does sound pretty in Finnish - Peruna.<br />
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Since M was missing Finland, I wanted to do something with the quilt to remind her of it. M is a very conservative dresser compared to a lot of Americans with respect to color. I don't think I saw her wear anything that wasn't black/white/gray/navy/tan until she had to buy a pair of new sneakers to fit her feet as they grew a bit with her pregnancy and the only ones that fit her and were comfortable had pink stripes on the sides. This is where it got really hard.<br />
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I love color. I have never done a super muted quilt, color-wise. But doing my usual colorful quilt would have overwhelmed M and I didn't want to do that. I asked her what color they were generally trying to stick to with little Potato's stuff and she said purple, so that was the one color I let myself use.<br />
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I decided to use the Northern Lights as my inspiration for the quilt. A streak of color through an otherwise dark-ish sky would work well for my limited color pallette and would translate pretty well into a quilt. A bargello quilt would work for my intent, but I wanted to go beyond just sewing a bunch of black and white strips into a tube with some purple and seeing how it turned out...I wanted to know how it would look before.<br />
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In drawing it out I lost a little of the bargello functionality because every vertical strip wouldn't have every fabric in it, but I wanted the stripe to go like that through the center. I also knew I wanted the colors to be in a gradation - the lightest purple would be in the center of the streak, the darkest next to the black and white fabrics. I also laid out all of my black and whites in dark-to-light order so that the blackest fabric would be next to the dark purple. Basically, I took a bargello quilt and made it harder than it needed to be...but when has that stopped me?<br />
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I didn't get any in-progress pictures because I was pedal to the metal to get this quilt done before we moved. I was juggling having my own tiny human with quilting (and the sewing machine being in the room where tiny human slept so I couldn't work on it unless he was awake) and getting ready to move back to the United States.<br />
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In the end I messed up and didn't have a good backing fabric for it. I went through everything in my stash and finally decided on a light blue fabric with darker blue ginseng leaves on it, which seemed kind of appropriate since Seoul has ginseng all over the place (unfortunately; they're pretty but the berries smell AWFUL). I also had cut out a helicopter to do my usual label...and it got packed. So I just embroidered my initials and the year on the backing without a helicopter. But still, I'm proud of how the quilt turned out. I tied in Finland and Korea for a present to a little Finnish-American baby born in Korea...and that's a win in my book. Please excuse the terrible quality photos - they were taken with a backup cell phone while standing on a hotel bed. The laundry by the side of the bed...well...it's life. But life or not, hotel room living with an infant or not, I finished the quilt and delivered it before I left the country.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The motion in this quilt makes me smile.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Korean-inspired backing on a Finnish-inspired quilt.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fail label. Still mad I didn't save the label from the movers.</td></tr>
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Hope you like it, it's definitely one of my top few favorite quilts!Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-47579016555860148162016-10-19T00:00:00.000+02:002016-10-19T00:00:13.871+02:00I Need a Bit of a Rant<br />
I just went to my first quilt guild meeting ever last night (I'm back in the US and have a local quilt guild! Eeeee!) and we were making donation quilts, which was pretty fun and took some of the awkwardness out of it being my first time. I had a ton of fun and got more sewing done that night than I've done for a while (more on that later). But the fabric we were making the quilts out of...was obviously donation fabric. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to be the first to donate my favorite fabric and keep my ugly/old stuff for my own use if I'm donating fabric. But there were some OLD fabrics in there. 1980s calicos and florals old, with a few newer pieces.<br /><br />The design we were doing was supposed to have 3 values - there were white squares, darks, and lights. The fabrics we had weren't the easiest to divide up into lights/darks - a lot of them were medium tones, which would've been fine as long as we were consistent with using them as either a light or dark...but people were using them as both and, in one strip set I was handed to use, two fabrics with the exact same background color were sewn together with the only difference being that one strip had navy colored snowflakes on its pale blue background and the other was just a solid.<br />
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My mom's been telling me lately that she loves my eye for color, as she calls it. I'll be the first to admit that some of my earliest quilts are no longer my favorites - I used a lot of bright colors without much neutral to give the eye a place to rest. I still love scrappy quilts and make them all the time, but those quilts last night...they looked ugly to me.<br />
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I'm trying to figure out why I think they looked ugly (I had to leave early so I didn't get any pictures of them) since I love scrappy quilts and enjoy putting fun fabrics next to each other. Floral next to a plaid? As long as the values are right, sure! But something about those quilts just wasn't right for me. I think it's a combination of how the values weren't separated right and the total lack of a color palette. I'm all for rainbow quilts and using all kinds of colors, especially with a neutral like the white squares in our design last night. But there was no thought put into whether the fabrics everyone donated would work well together at all. A lot of the colors were very dated and the blocks just didn't flow well. Add to that the fact that a lot of the "dark" fabrics weren't dark (or that some blocks had the dark and light portions sewn in reverse) and the quilt's design just didn't come out.<br />
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I think if they'd stuck to a color scheme - everyone donate fabrics in these three or four colors - and then used those fabrics to still make a fun scrappy quilt but in a slightly controlled color scheme it would have worked a lot better. Or if they'd done a better job being consistent with darks/lights and had them divided up better within the anything goes color scheme (or cut everything into smaller pieces)...maybe.<br />
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Anyways. Enough ranting. I've got a lot of blogging to catch up on!<br />
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Last post I showed Niece Quiche's quilt. This post will feature Niece Egg's quilt! The pattern is <a href="http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2005/06/sisters-choice.html" target="_blank">Sister's Choice</a> by Bonnie Hunter, though I added sashings and didn't do the borders.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This couch has been the setting of many quilt photos.</td></tr>
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I quilted each square differently, but I'm not going to post twenty pictures to show each quilting motif. Here are a few of my favorites:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Argyle</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Squared off stipple sewn with a walking foot</td></tr>
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I backed it with Winnie the Pooh fabric to coordinate with their nursery. The binding is more of the sashing fabric, which actually is one of little Egg's dad's old shirts. She and her family definitely appreciated the quilt and the personal touch the shirt added.<br />
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I'll end this here for now, more updates later (if anyone still reads this thing).Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-23971699926082881912015-05-02T05:08:00.003+02:002015-05-02T06:25:32.614+02:00A Finish for a Very Special Girl<div style="text-align: left;">
I am very pleased to announce a very special quilt finished for a very special little girl - my neice, who I called neice Quiche in my last post. I finally finished the quilt and got it sent off to the wild world of Wisconsin, where it has been very warmly received...and I'm super excited to show it to all of you!</div>
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Neice Quiche has been very long anticipated and finally arrived this past December (I know, I'm a bit late on this quilt). When my sister found out she was expecting, she and her husband made a deal that allowed him to pick the nursery theme (before they knew gender) and he decided vintage Star Wars. I was SO excited they kept the theme even after finding out they were having a little girl...and so I got around to designing a vintage Star Wars baby quilt.<br />
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I did a quick search on Pinterest for Star Wars Quilts and found a <a href="http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=424213.0#axzz2VPL0eIFJ">pin</a> that linked to Andy Rash's <a href="http://andyrash.blogspot.com.au/2010/09/1200-star-wars.html">Star Wars pixel art</a> and I was totally hooked. I drew the characters on graph paper, cut them out, and moved them around until I liked the design (with the hubby's help to try to make them all fit). I had decided on 1.5" strips unfinished/1" finished and the size had to fit on the Warm and Natural crib-size batting (package says it's 45x60).<br />
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At first, I was afraid of the design - the characters had enough overlap between them that I was envisioning Y-seams and other terrible things (hey, I hate them...if you can do them, the more power to you!)...until my husband pointed out that I could just make blocks of a fixed size and the characters would still come together in the end. Duh!<br />
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To make the quilt as best I could, I used my Go! Cutter to cut 1.5" strips, then sewed those strips into the most common strip pairs I'd need for any given block. I then sub-cut those strip pairs down into doublets - two 1.5" squares sewn together, not pressed. I pressed the top seams of each block to the left, the next row to the right, etc. so they would nest well; waiting to press the sub-cut seams helped all of that lay nice and easy for me.<br />
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The solids are all <a href="http://www.fatquartershop.com/robert-kaufman/kona-cotton-solids/where/product-type/yardage">Kona cottons</a>, which I'd bought from the Fat Quarter Shop. In all, I'd bought 6.5 yards of the solids and either 3 or 4 yards of the background, which was Stargazers Sky Milky Way Yardage (I can't find it on the Fat Quarter Shop now, but here's a picture of the fabric on <a href="http://fabric.com/">Fabric.com</a>:<br />
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Overall, I definitely bought too much of the solids, but they'll get used in the future, I'm sure. This quilt was fun, if a little finicky to get all the seams to match. After all, it contained 2,240 squares in total, and getting that many to match up...isn't necessarily impossible, but definitely difficult.<br />
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The backing was <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OMQUC4C/ref=pe_385040_128020140_TE_3p_dp_1">Timeless Treasures Fairy Tale Mini Stars Fuschia</a>. I bought 3 yards and it worked well - I had a few strips left over from each side of the quilt but not too much. To bind the quilt, I opted for a navy batik with a snowflake design left from <a href="http://www.thequiltinghermit.net/2010/12/its-been-sprint-thon.html">Texas Mom's 4-Seasons quilt</a>. I think I got it from Fat Quarter Shop, but I'm honestly not positive because it was bought in 2010. I picked this print because neice Quiche is a December baby, and my sister's wedding was in December - her colors were blue and silver and she had lots of snowflakes in her decorations. I liked that the binding tied that in there subtly.<br />
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I quilted in a squared-off spiral so the quilting would go through every square of fabric (gotta help reinforce those seams for baby quilts - they'll get spit up on and need to go through the wash!). I randomly quilted a few stars throughout, as you can see in the character shots below. For the two ends of the quilt, I just quilted straight lines (the rectangle meant that I ran out of width to quilt before I ran out of length) to make the eye think that the spiral was still going. <br />
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Pictures from before I sent it off (this is bigger than my usual quilt, so I had to stand on the couch and get pictures of it on the floor):<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emperor Palpatine; it's hard to see the magic sparks coming out of his hands but you can if you click to make the picture bigger.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">*cue the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzWSJG93P8">Imperial March</a> here*</td></tr>
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And now a few pictures of the quilt in action, used with permission from my sister:<br />
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I absolutely love the location of the characters. The droids, just like in the movies, have managed to get in the middle of the battles. Luke and Han are both trying to protect Leia, Chewie is throwing up his arms and doing the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr3sBks5o_8">noise he is so known for</a>, and the Ewok is getting into trouble as always, unaware of how tiny he is. Yoda is even almost standing on Luke's shoulders.<br />
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Stash Report, linking up with Judy L. of Patchwork Times whenever hers goes live:<br />
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Used this Week: 7 yards (front, backing, and binding)<br />
Used year to Date: 7 yards<br />
Added this Week: 0 yards<br />
Added Year to Date: 7 yards<br />
Yards to Goal: 43<br />
Net for 2015: 0 yards added - I'm even! Wahoo!Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-36976318315686281572015-01-25T07:49:00.000+01:002015-01-25T07:49:10.557+01:00High Tech, Low TechI wish I could just write *insert witty opening line about not having posted in years here* and have one appear but, alas, life doesn't work that way. Instead, it moves on and before you've realized it has been two years since you even looked at your blog. Go figure!<br />
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My quilting has been much slower lately. Since my last post (seems ages ago, really!) my left shoulder hasn't improved, unfortunately. I have had two surgeries on said shoulder, which has put a big damper on rotary cutting. I'm now still dealing with that shoulder's issues (how am I this broken? I'm still in my 20s!) after I fell off my bike on ice and landed squarely on that arm. My latest MRI shows that I have what appear to be small tears in my rotator cuff and possibly some scar tissue growing through some of the tears. I'll find out in late February if I'll have to have another surgery. <br />
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I had resisted getting a Go! Cutter until a couple of months ago, when I finally decided that enough was enough and I was being utterly ridiculous. I bought the Go! regular with a 2.5" strip die and a 1.5" strip die (the value die came with it but I haven't used it yet). I love it...absolutely love it. It's easy to use and I get so much more cutting done. Up until fairly recently I had been able to do some rotary cutting but was noticing that I was having more issues with reliability of those cuts. I'd slip at the end of the cut and it would be just a little too big or a little too small, but usually enough to swag and make it work. Getting the Go! has completely eliminated that issue for me, and my 2.5" strip bags are quite healthy.<br />
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I haven't had any issues with the fabric being distorted with my cutter, though that could have more to do with the fact that I'm using the strips and not any of the shapes. One of the rubbery feet on the bottom of the center of the cutter has fallen off, but mine gets folded up and moved around fairly often so I'm not too worried about it. I wasn't expecting how much static electricity it produces, but it's not really a problem, just a minor annoyance. It might happen less during the more humid summers, we'll see.<br />
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Lately I haven't been able to rotary cut at all, though, so I've gone back to the old days of quilting...drawing lines and cutting pieces with scissors. The Go! cutter is great for making me strips, but I don't have every die and when I need a 2.5" by 6.5" rectangle I can't make it with the dies I have. Rotary cutters were around when I started quilting, but the nice lady who taught me (whose name, unfortunately, I have forgotten some 15 plus years later) was a template woman. She had somewhat opened to the idea of a rotary cutter to add a seam allowance but she would trace her template and then use the rotary cutter to cut .25" away from her line. She and I both hand pieced back then, so the line was necessary to know where to sew.<br />
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I became an Auntie recently and, unfortunately, that quilt is still in progress and a secret. I've got another neice on the way soon but her quilt is only a few blocks that are now on hold since baby Quiche's quilt backing finally arrived (names obviously changed for privacy!). The quilt is not quite halfway done with the quilting.<br />
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My most recent finish has been for my friend's baby. Baby J-kwelin (it's an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw">inside joke</a>) was born in September and I was able to finish her quilt in time! Her nursery colors are yellow and gray. Her quilt was Bonnie Hunter's <a href="http://www.quiltmaker.com/articles/Jack_in_the_Box">Jack in the Box</a> pattern, 4 by 5 blocks with .75" sashing.<br />
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It was a fun little quilt to make. My blocks were a good chance to play with color theory a bit. I found I am not very good at finding "light orange" in my stash, since those color combos invariably didn't read well value-wise. I also started playing with varied neutral backgrounds, though I'm not as relaxed as Bonnie is (each block had the same background, not mixing and matching like Bonnie's quilts usually are...also, all stayed well within the tan color family). I quilted it in rows since the blocks had been made over a long period of time and weren't exactly the same size.<br />
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My other finish recently was for baby Jorgito. He was born in August and he's the most serious, studious baby I've met. I used string blocks for his quilt; his nursery was green and brown, hence the color scheme of the quilt! <br />
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The binding for this quilt was actually leftover bits from <a href="http://www.thequiltinghermit.net/2011/06/its-been-while-since-my-last-post.html">Baby S's quilt</a> a few years ago. The brown/orange/blue/green/yellow stripes really looked nice with the colors on the front of the quilt. I had just enough of the stripe (in the direction it needed to go) to do this quilt with about 8" leftover. Stash for the win!<br />
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That's enough for now...wrapping up with a link back to Judy L's fabric report! Nothing finished so I can't count anything used yet. Drat! By way of explanation: all added yardage is backings for the two neice quilts. My goal is to use 50 yards this year. <br />
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Used this Week: 0 yards<br />
Used year to Date: 0 yards<br />
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Added Year to Date: 7 yards<br />Yards to Goal: 50<br />
Net for 2015: 7 yards addedEmmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-31550054378095738942012-09-14T22:05:00.002+02:002012-09-14T22:05:16.343+02:00Is this my home?I'm home. Home from my business trip...but it still feels a little like I'm not. What does home mean, really? After all, while I was on my business trip, home was my tent. My tent that I shared with 9 other girls who didn't know the meaning of quiet, especially when closing the door. Home was the hoodie that I brought with me and slept with every night...the hoodie my husband gave to me when we were in college after it shrank in the wash.<br />
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My first night home, so to speak, was spent at a friend's house since I wasn't allowed to drive for 24 hours (boss' orders). Me, her, her husband, and her two boys...I was still home even if I did have a really hard time figuring out the shower (hey, don't blame me - from MY height, the plunger thing to make it a shower was totally hidden by the temperature control knob).<br />
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Then I came home. But it still feels empty, even with me here. It's quiet, and I keep music or a movie/TV show on most of the time. And this IS home for me...but what is home? I don't think it's a place...although this is the place I keep my fabric and sewing machine, where I know what's in which kitchen cabinet and where things are in my messy but somewhat organized wardrobe.<br />
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Home isn't a building, folks. Home is a mindset. It's more an emotion, I think, than a place. I've never understood people being homesick for where they used to live, whether it's Mom and Dad's house, or a town that they've always been in. Maybe I'm just lucky that I moved around enough as a kid to realize that home, whether it was in one state, town, or country, or any other place, wasn't this place on a map. Even on sleepovers as a little kid, I wasn't homesick (at least not that I can remember!). Home was my family, my place to be comfortable, my place to relax.<br />
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So whether it's my tent on my business trip, my friend's house, my house, my parents' house, or any of the houses I grew up in, home truly is, as they say, where the heart is. Please smack me now, that was totally and utterly cheesy and corny, but it's what's on my mind.<br />
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Just because I've been away for a while doesn't mean that I've totally given up on my sewing. I've been sewing as much as possible since I've gotten home (though that isn't as much as I'd like due to some issues with my left shoulder...it's hard to hold a ruler in place to rotary cut if you can't push down hard enough) and I did work on a secret hand-work project while I was away. I can't post any pictures of that for now, but I can leave you with a picture of the first completed block for my next baby quilt! I'm using the <a href="http://quiltville.blogspot.de/2012/01/free-pattern-story-time-stars.html">Story Time Stars pattern by Bonnie Hunter</a>, with a few tweaks of my own, of course. I haven't totally decided on my sashing or setting yet, but I'm loving the concept!<br />
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The center of each star is a crumb block (I don't have many novelty fabrics) of a secondary color. The points and background of the stars are the two primary colors that make up that secondary color. Kids are never too young to get some color theory! I've finally made a dent in my crumbs now that I've made six center blocks of each color (so I can pick and choose which blocks I like for the quilt). The added bonus? I'm finally moving into using Bonnie's <a href="http://quiltville.com/scrapusersystem.shtml">Scrap User's System</a>. Some day, I hope to be as successful with it as Bonnie...but until then, I'm happy with my tiny start of 2.5" strips left over from cutting the pieces for my stars!<br />
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Please don't judge the photography, either - it's getting late and I want to get this post up tonight so I took the picture with my webcam (hence the soft focus and odd angle). Just wanted to give ya'll an idea of the cuteness of a crumb secondary color center with primary outsides...I want to squeal, I think it's so adorable! Plus it's great at using scraps...trust me on this one!<br />
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Good night, dear readers, and I'll hopefully be on here a little more often again. Hopefully. :) After all, 12 babies who need quilts between last month and March? Sheesh...maybe not so many wordy posts, but plenty of quilty picture goodness! Please hold me to that!<br />
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EmmaEmmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-75721862707004271772012-04-26T21:36:00.001+02:002012-04-26T21:36:27.063+02:00Perspective and other such thingsI haven't posted here for a while. It's simply become a habit not to. But I need to vent for a minute, and while this probably isn't the best way to encourage readers to stick with me (especially since I've been gone for what seems like forever)...I need to get this off my chest.<br />
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November was when I last posted. It seems like years ago right now. If you've read this blog from its beginning (or read all of my ever-so-many posts), you remember that my husband was gone (I didn't mention it outright in every post, but it was mentioned at least once or twice in passing. He was on a business trip for 3 months. Well, he's on a business trip again, but this time I'll be on one while he's gone too.<br />
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He left before me, last week. It's funny, knowing that I'll be leaving too, because it doesn't matter how much I <i>know</i> that I'll be gone too. It doesn't matter how much my head knows something, because it still <i>feels</i> like it did on the last long business trip. Except for one glaring difference so far, which I'm not sure if it's because I know I'm leaving too or what...I haven't cried since he left.<br />
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Don't get me wrong - I was a miserable wreck for the five or so days before he left (when we found out the exact date). I mean that in every sense of the term - we got the exact date, I started crying for no particular reason. We'd be talking about something random and then WHAM, the tears were there. He was wonderful about it, though, and would just sit there and hold me the whole time, trying to make me feel better. The morning he left, well, every time I looked at him I'd break down sobbing. He'd make me laugh as tears were rolling down my face. I'd talk to a friend whose husband was going on the trip too and with no warning, I'd just start bawling. But as soon as he left and I can't see him or touch him (because Skype/Google Video Chat is AMAZING), nothing.<br />
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Last time, it was the one week mark that did it for me. One week in and I had what I referred to as my "breakdown day" because I just lost it. I'd woken up from a dream that he was with me, holding me, and then he wasn't there and that was it. I lost it and spent most of the day moping.<br />
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But this time...I haven't cried. And it bugs me enough that I just started a sentence with and, which I know is grammatically incorrect and should bug me. I want to cry but I can't, and because I can't I get upset because I want to, and it's this whole nasty cycle. I've watched romantic movie after romantic movie to no avail. My eyes might water up but then it all just gets sucked into my eye as if my eye is a desert. I even tried what I thought would be my secret weapon - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mJ08-pyDLg&list=UUmKurapML4BF9Bjtj4RbvXw&index=20&feature=plcp">this video</a>. And nothing. I kind of feel all the time like I should cry, like I know that it would make me feel better and less mopey, but I don't. And I don't know why I'm confiding in you, whomever you may be, but since I've been watching too many girly movies, this quote popped into my head as being perfect for this spot. It's from "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128853/">You've Got Mail</a>" which is definitely high on my list of awesome girly movies for when I'm sad.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void. </span></blockquote>
And now, since I've probably thoroughly depressed all of you, I thought I'd at least share something sewing-related. Well, I was going to share some stuff from my flickr stream but am getting an error because of the password on my flickr. And since I'm not about to lose everything I've written...hmm. Well, for one, I have kept my finishes and my WIPs up to date-ish. Except that the number of quilts I now need to make is up to 9, just for the babies. That's right - NINE baby quilts from now until March. And I'll be on a business trip (read: no sewing machine or fabric!) for at least a chunk of that! I choose to blame the pile-up of quilts on one coworker, whose wife is pregnant with triplets. One-third of my quilts are for his family, haha, not that he knows it!<br />
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And so, since this photo is on my hard drive, the recipient of this quilt just recently sent me a picture of it. I made this by hand when I was in college for a friend whose wedding I missed, then whose son's birth I missed. So I made them this quilt (drafted on my trusty graph paper!) by hand, piece by piece, in college, quilted it by hand, and for the first time, used a sewing machine to attach the binding to the front of the quilt and then sewed the back by hand. She sent me a picture of the quilt on her couch not too long ago so I could share it on the blog as it's a better picture than I had on my own. This friend of mine also happens to be an author who has a book that will be free 27-28 April on Amazon for your kindle, so check it out! Her blog, with info about the promotion, is <a href="http://melissa-sasina.blogspot.com/">here</a>, so go check it out! And without further ado, the picture.<br />
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I probably love it more than I should, but I still love everything about that quilt. The design came from a website I'd found (this was back probably 7 or 8 years ago, so I have no idea where) and I simplified it so that it would work in a quilt. I added the border myself (original didn't have one) because it needed SOMETHING to enclose it. The backing is muslin, and the quilting is echo quilting in matching thread. As in, one line of quilting inside of each shape about 1/4" from the edge, and also one line of quilting outside of each shape in a nice harvest gold shade of quilting thread. I'm glad to see it's still holding up well, since it was not very densely quilted and it was pieced by hand! Let's hope it lasts as long as some of the old antique hand-pieced quilts!<br />
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With that, dear readers (if there are any of you out there), I'm going to say thank you. I feel much better after venting, so hopefully there will be no more angsty posts, and more posts in general. They won't all necessarily be about quilting itself since I'm not going to have a machine, but I should at least hopefully be able to catch us up with the quilts I've finished and haven't blogged about yet.<br />
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So this begs the question - what are YOU up to quilting-wise, or anything else-wise?Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-38794294527378567112011-11-15T22:01:00.001+01:002011-11-15T22:01:18.434+01:00<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/47797623@N05/6348646180/" title="Untitled"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6222/6348646180_f2672aef2f.jpg" alt="Untitled by emmac350" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/47797623@N05/6348646180/">Untitled</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/47797623@N05/">emmac350</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>Top finally completed for baby Bryce, born a few weeks ago!</p>Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164177928734371946.post-32925711571472313022011-09-21T21:16:00.002+02:002011-09-26T19:42:39.487+02:00Working, working<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-bz15qJbq8y0/Tno4Bq4mfJI/AAAAAAAAALQ/Xg-H214FBrE/Working%25252C%252520working%252520_img_1.jpg"><img height="240px" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-bz15qJbq8y0/Tno4Bq4mfJI/AAAAAAAAALQ/Xg-H214FBrE/Working%25252C%252520working%252520_img_1.jpg" style="float: left cursor: pointer; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" width="180px" /></a><br />
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Just wanted to share a quick picture of my current project. Mod Mosaic blocks, 12.5" square. This has to be gender neutral which is hard. I'm loving the way it's turning out though! <br />
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I'm linking this up with <a href="http://www.patchworktimes.com/2011/09/26/design-wall-monday-september-26-2011/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PatchworkTimes+%28Patchwork+Times+by+Judy+Laquidara%29&utm_content=Google+Reader">Design Wall Monday</a> over at <a href="http://www.patchworktimes.com/">Patchwork Times</a>!Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08563154977078187669noreply@blogger.com8