Happy Friday friends! I am so happy it's the weekend! I am also really excited to share this week's bundle with you! I got to sew up some lovely and easy projects out of this range of prints! So be sure to scroll down for the tutorials! ;) Cappuccino Cappuccino Cappuccino is this week's Bundle Batch! Warm up your fabric stash with this bundle of cappuccino browns! Fat Quarter & Half Yard bundles include 8 different prints. Included in each bundle: Nested Owls Grid Dot Mocha - Adornit Beauty is You Seeds Brown - Blend Fabrics Pinhead Dirt - Michael Miller Painter's Canvas Brown - Michael Miller Miniatures Cream Dots Brown - Windham Grunge Basics Hot Cocoa - Moda Essentials Petite Dots Black Brown/Ivory - Wilmington Marble Swirls Mink - Moda First up is this Heart Pillow! You know how much I LOVE color, and a lot of my projects are so very bright! This one however, is very neutral and I am in LOVE! I love the softness and simplicity of this monochromatic pillow. It so cute, but very understated and lovely at the same time. I used some linen for the background, and thought it just worked perfectly with all those brown prints. Supplies: 1 Cappuccino bundle 1/2 yard linen 1 yard of fusible web Coordinating thread Scrap Batting Template - Print HERE Cutting: 1 -16.5" x 16.5" square of linen (for front piece) 2 -12" x 16.5" squares for backing Print out template and cut out heart template. 16 hearts backed with fusible web (out of various brown prints) I did two of each print. Directions: Place hearts in a 4x4 grid - leave 1 1/2" on each edge. Place a piece of batting on the back of your pillow front and pin into place Stitch the hearts into place - I did a simple straight stitch. You could do a blanket stitch or zig-zag as well. Follow directions HERE to make into a pillow. That's it! :) Super easy and cute! Now let's get to my next project! Cupcake Mug Rug! This was a so simple to put together, and I thought it would also make cute pot-holders as well! I added some hand quilting and embroidered some sprinkles on the top of the cupcake - for some extra cuteness! ;) Supplies: 1 Cappuccino bundle 1/4 yard of linen Scrap of pink (for cupcake 1/4 yard of pink (for binding) 1 yard of fusible web Coordinating thread Scrap Batting Template - Print HERE Cutting: Out of linen: 1- 7" x 7.5" Out of brown border: 2 - 2.5" x 7.5" Out of brown border: 2 - 2.5" x 11" Out of binding: 2 - 2.5" x WOF strips Directions: Cut out template and then trace onto your fabric that is backed with fusible web. Cut out shapes, and iron them into place on your piece of linen. Add your border. Sew the left and right border on and press. Then add your top and bottom border. Press. Now layer a piece of batting and backing and quilt as desired. Making sure you stitch down your appliquéd shapes! I machine stitched mine! Now you are ready to bind! I hope you enjoy this bundle as much as I have! :) An InLinkz Link-up
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These are the basic supplies you'll need for embroidery school. • needles • threads • fabrics • scissors • hoops or frames You'll also need a design or drawing to stitch up. You can find most of the supplies you'll need at thrift stores. In fact, I recommend looking for hoops and needle packs at secondhand shops because they can be found for much less than new. Antique hoops are often real wood and stronger than new bamboo hoops. Needles Choosing a needle very much depends on the type of needlework project itself. The needle needs to be threaded easily with the type of thread, yarn, or ribbon you are using. It needs to be able to pass through the fabric without bending or breaking and without stretching the fabric. You may or may not choose a traditional needle for your projects. Generally, embroidery uses one of the following four types of needles (the larger the number, the smaller the needle): • crewel/ embroidery - sharp point; long eye; sizes 1-12; embroidery floss and perle cotton floss • tapestry - blunt point; longer eye; shorter shaft; sizes 13 - 28; cross-stitch, needlepoint, plastic canvas • sharps - sharp point; smaller, rounded eye; eye is same width as the needle; sizes 1-12; sewing, button, and coat thread • chenille - sharp point; long eye; thicker than embroidery needles; sizes 13-26; wool crewel and ribbon embroidery Sharps are what we usually think of when we think of hand sewing needles. The eye size of sharps is smaller and more rounded and the needle shaft and eye are about the same width. But most people, when faced with the need to add a bit of embroidery to a child's dress or a tote bag, often have sharps on hand rather than dedicated embroidery needles. Sharps may be a bit harder to thread with floss, but they are handy, sharp, and readily available in every travel sewing kit or grocery store. The most popular embroidery needle sizes used with cotton embroidery floss are 7 and 9. Darning/mending needles are very much the same as tapestry needles but longer. Almost any hand sewing needle can be used for embroidery. Types of threads and fabrics and the amount of experimentation you do may warrant a completely different type of needle for your project. Other needles include: • beading - very fine and long; bend easily; sizes 10-15 • quilting - short and fine; round eye; sizes 5-12 • doll - very long with a large eye ; used for needle sculpting and attaching limbs • wool yarn/plastic - great for teaching children to embroider and stitch through burlap, aida, and felt • curved needles - used for tying quilts and upholstery-making; sizes vary depending on use Care of needles: Pincushions were often filled with natural wool fleece as lanolin in the wool keeps needles from rusting. Emery or fine sand are also useful in pincushions as the very finely ground minerals keeps needles sharp. Losing your needles? Keep a magnet handy and swipe it over chairs, carpets, and floors where you stitch. If you have a habit of losing needles, consider gluing a flat piece of magnet (or reuse a business card-style fridge magnet) to the bottom of a tin and keeping needles there. Threads Embroidery can be accomplished with any kind of fiber or thread. The art form is so varied and fabrics so diverse, that in fact, any thread and fabric can be used to create a remarkable story. Cotton stranded embroidery floss (or embroidery thread UK/AUS) or perle cotton are the most used embroidery threads. Embroidery floss is made of six strands and any number or all of these might be used to create lines and elements of varying thickness and heft. Perle cotton is non-divisible. Wool tapestry yarn, wool crewel thread, metallic stranded thread, ribbon, coton a broder are other threads that might be used. Storing threads: Stranded embroidery thread/floss comes in skeins. There is one end that is visible and you should be able to pull it and have it come out smoothly without knotting up. This is not always the case but generally works. Most people take their new skeins and wind them around bobbins for future use. Bobbins come in plastic, cardboard, and balsa wood forms. DMC brand cardboard bobbins are thicker and longer lasting than the thin cardstock no-name brands. You can also make your own from milk jugs or cereal boxes. Plastic storage cases made to fit these bobbins can be found regularly at thrift stores and are available at fabric stores. Fabrics Cotton and linen fabrics make great foundations for delicious embroidering. The linen at most fabric stores (such as Spotlight in Australia) is far too thin and flimsy for a substantial piece of embroidery work. Look for good medium weight linen at better shops or seek out antique tablecloths or napkins if you can't find a weight you like in larger fabric stores. Cotton fabric can be purchased anywhere. The least expensive and great for beginners is muslin (US)/ calico (AUS). It can be purchased bleached or unbleached. You will need to pre-wash your fabric if it hasn't been washed, but cotton fibers can relax and if you want a super crisp look to your work, I recommend hand washing and air drying on the line. You don't have to wash the entire piece of fabric. Just cut off the size you will use and wash and dry that piece. Many fabrics can be embroidered and you may be working up a pillowcase, a quilt panel, or a piece for framing. If you will be displaying the piece in the hoop or if you are embroidering a small piece, cut the fabric about 2" wider and longer than the hoop so it will fit snugly without slipping. Synthetics and synthetic blends are not recommended for most embroidery. The fabrics can stretch oddly and gather once released from the hoop. That said, you might like to explore for art's sake and see what you can create with a variety of fabric types. Storing and ironing fabrics: Recently I made a purchase of 5 metres of the homespun cotton I use for embroidery. I managed to actually buy the end of the roll so I was able to bring the roll home. Storing fabric on a roll rather than folded prevents a lot of ironing grief later. Fabric shops usually have several empty tubes lying around and will give them to you for the asking. Even folding fabric once and then rolling around a paper towel or aluminum foil cardboard tube reduces the amount of creases in your embroidery fabrics. When you do iron fabric, make sure to use distilled water or filtered water to dampen the fabric creases slightly. Water straight from the tap may have minerals that can leave brown, yellow, or red stains in the fabric. (stork birth clamp from Antiques Navigator) Scissors You can use any small sharp scissors, but embroidery scissors are the most handy. These are about the size of nail scissors and are very pointy. The very narrow point makes it easier to cut away a stitch or two if a mistake is made. This is harder to do with sewing shears or household scissors. Why do embroidery scissors look like birds? It used to be that midwives used umbilical clamps often made to look like storks and these looked like a small pair of scissors. Eventually it fell into favor to make small sewing scissors in the stork design. Modern "stork" scissors have an added component of being loose enough to create a chirping sound when open and closed quickly. Bird chirping embroidery scissors are very popular although not all embroidery scissors look like birds. Keeping scissors sharp: My scissors have never dulled from cutting paper and I don't know why everyone thinks this will happen. Scissors get dull no matter what they are used for and can be sharpened at your local fabric shop or with a kitchen knife sharpener. I apologize in advance for upsetting all the sticklers out there, but if your scissors are getting extremely and suddenly dull because other family members are using them, they are not cutting just paper. I do recommend checking for nicks in your scissors as it is quite likely you'll cut into a sewing pin now and then and damage scissor edges. Hoops or Frames Hoops come in all sizes and are usually round or oval. Frames can be round, oval, or rectangular. Frames sometimes have cotton tape attached so the work can be basted on to hold it in place. Frames are most often used in needle point and tapestry work. Embroidery can be done without a hoop but a hoop can make it easier to keep the fabric taut so stitches remain even. The hoop has an inner and outer piece. The fabric is laid over the inner hoop and the outer placed over to trap the fabric. The inner hoop is sometimes wrapped in cotton bias tape to prevent the fabric slipping and when the hoop is a bit warped or not exactly fitting. Plastic hoops have an extra lip which helps keep fabric in place. Hoop art is made when the embroidered work is left in the hoop and displayed as is. Hanging embroidery in the hoop is not a traditional method as one's hoop was a tool not a frame and tools were taken care of and not replaced easily. These days, with inexpensive and convenient supplies available, leaving the work in the hoop is a great way to create art and gifts for friends, your own home, or a baby nursery. (Young Girl Embroidering by Charles F. Ulrich 1858-1908) Designs You'll need something to embroider, now that you've collected your supplies. Visit my shop if you are looking for a design suitable for framing or to use as hoop art. Thanks for attending the first Embroidery School lesson. In the next post, you'll learn how to transfer that design you've bought or drawn to the fabric. After that, we'll start learning and practicing basic stitches.
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Quick and non-curated bibliography for my local structures study group - few annotations, very few links, very little attention to proper bibliographic format, but hey - it's a start! Discoveries: Multiple variations - Brick treading/singles/traditional/alternating, and "O's/pairs/roseate/birdseye, and X's/pairs/hourglass, and Dukagang fashion 1 and 2/columns. And then you can change the look of the pairs by starting the tabby with 2 instead of 1! And then you can turn the draft. And then there's polychrome! Yikes! It has a relation to Crackle, and Taquete, and Samitum, and Half Satin, and even Tied Overshot and more! 1. Handwoven Magazine 2006 to 2021 (the number in brackets at the end of a listing tells how many shafts are needed). May/June 2006 is almost all summer/winter, and has a van der Hoogt "School for Weavers" section that was quite helpful to me. If you need more, search for Handwoven Magazine Indexes and have a look at the earlier issues. There's lots. 2021 Bauhaus Weaver Hand Towels. MA21, 50-52 (4) Fishing for Compliments. SO21, 62-64 (8) 2012-2020 Adventures in design: weaving upholstery fabric. SO15, 22-23 Both sides of summer and winter: linen placemats. JF16, 44-46 [7] Bread cloths. ND20, 40-42 [4] Four blocks on four shafts: summer and winter towels. MJ13, 27-29 Hail to the hostess bottle bags. SO16, 42-44 [6] Inspired by color towels. MJ18, 48-49 [4] Inspired vest. SO12, 48, 50-51 [8] Spicy scarves. MJ14, 52-54 [8] Starry sky placemats. SO16, 50-52 [4] Stars & stripes picnic blanket. SO16, 34-36 [8]; errata MA18, 67 Summer & winter squares. MJ20, 30-32 [6] Summer and winter. SO16, 18-19 Summer and winter kitchen towels. MJ16, 38-40 [4] Summer and winter silk scarf. MJ16, 46-48 [4] Summer and winter spelled out. ND15, 20-21 Summer and winter with a twist polka-dot towels. JF15, 46-48 [8] Sunshine napkins and raffia placemats. MA12, 38-41 [2, 4] Turning autumn towels. SO20, 61-63 [4] 2006-2011 Bookmarks and a Polychrome Challenge. MJ06:56–59 [8] Color Gradations in Summer and Winter. MA11:60–61 [4] Color Play in Summer & Winter. MJ10:38–39 [6, 4] Farkle Game Bags in Summer and Winter. SO07:60–62 [8] Fun and Functional: Turned Summer and Winter Towels. MJ06:52–55 [8] A Run of Linen Runners on the Same Warp. MJ05:52–55 [8] School for Weavers: A Summer and Winter Family Reunion. MJ06:74–77 A Small Coverlet Is within Your Reach. ND11:62–63 [6] Summer and Winter Polychrome—A Yarn’s Best Friend. SO10:58–59[8] Summer and Winter Resources. MJ06:14 A Summer Shawl. MJ06:48–50 [8] Technicolor Cloth. MJ06:44–47 [4] Warp Once, Weave Two Throws—or More!. SO09:60–62 [6] Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. MJ06:40–43 [4] 2. A Weaver's Book of 8-Shaft Patterns. Ed. Carol Strickler, pgs. 145-161. Has a lot about using a profile draft too. And even though I took "Unlock the Block" (thanks Janet Dawson!) and had no trouble with the threading and the tie-up, the treadling substitutions made my brain hurt until I put it all up in Fiberworks. (Some of us have to actually do a thing to understand it) Did the sheep in all the variations. Fun. Though the original still probably looks the best out of all the possibilities. 3. Weaver's Craft Issue 14 Vol 4, No 3 Fall 2003 Summer & Winter Don't have this one yet, but it looks good. 4. The Best of Weaver's Summer & Winter Plus. Ed. Madelyn van der Hoogt A lot of projects for 10 shafts and up, but it does have 6 @ 8-shaft, 1 @ 5-shaft, 1 @ 6-shaft (turned), and 4 @ 4-shaft (with pick-up). Also a lot of info on tied unit weaves. Deep structures dive. 5. New Key to Weaving. Mary E Black, chapter 9. 6. Summer and Winter: A Weave for All Seasons. Donna Sullivan (I'm putting this in here, but hoping it is at the guild library as it's a bit pricey everywhere.) 7. The Complete Book of Drafting. Madelyn van der Hoogt 8. Best of Handwoven: Summer and Winter eBook - these are all projects from Handwoven magazines, but a choice if you don't have a subscription. 9. And a video download Weaving Summer and Winter Madelyn van der Hoogt 10. A Handweaver's Pattern Book. Marguerite Porter Davison, Chapter XX Summer and Winter 11. Learning to Weave. Deborah Chandler, Lesson 14 Summer and Winter. 12. And if you took Janet Dawson's "Unlock the Block" class, she has given us a few pages of lovely Summer and Winter essentials info including threading keys and treadling keys. As well as a gorgeous draft in Towelpalooza 2020! 13. And of course, if you're a Rigid Heddle weaver, I have a blog post about that! https://farmnana.blogspot.com/2012/04/rigid-heddle-summer-winter-weave.html My take on the sheep draft from Strickler (playing with the variations). From top to bottom - bricks, o pairs, x pairs, columns 1 and columns 2.
Hey Everyone! It is time for the final fall reveal and the project that took a TON of my time this summer, but I think it was definitely worth it....see what you think! I have written a 28 page soft cover book called Media Frenzy for all those fabulous media devices in your life. Now you can tote them around with some real attitude, "Serendipity Style"! There are instructions for 4 different bags in this book, along with a simple wallet and scrappy camera strap. The madness for this book began when I purchased a digital SLR camera this summer...a Canon T1i. It was way overdue as we have been using a tiny camera for pattern covers and other shots. It is fantastic to have a camera with so many capabilities. Once I had the camera in my possession, I realized that I needed a camera bag, and not just ANY camera bag, but one that would suit my needs as well as look darn good. I began doing a bit of research to see what was available and then decided I would design my own. With a lot of thought and planning (and a lot of math!) I designed not one bag, but two! One is called the Essential Camera Bag and is for those of you (like me) who have the camera, a charger, and a few other things, but don't really need the HUGE bag to lug around. It features a comfortable adjustable strap that is designed to be worn either over the shoulder or cross body to keep both arms free without danger of dropping your precious cargo. The other is the Ultimate Camera Bag and has a ton of room for the photog who has it ALL and wants to lug it all around! Both bags are designed for the camera to rest face down inside with movable partitions to customize the interior to your liking. Empty: Filled with camera stuff: The next bag is the Digital Messenger, designed specifically for an iPad or eReader. I made the interior permanently divided and padded so you can slide your digital devices in and out without worry, plus you still have the other half of the interior for your other essentials. With a divided bag, there are no worries about scratching the screen and the bag is designed with an adjustable strap to be worn cross-body....comfortable and practical, but still great looking! Everyone will want your bag!! The last bag in the book is the GPS Destination bag. Ever get annoyed at the fact that most of these devices don't come with a bag to carry all the stuff they come with? Well, we did...so I designed a great little bag that is simple to make for carrying it around. There is even a little felt sleeve to slip the screen into so there is no danger of scratches. The best part is that you can choose your favorite fabric and make this bag a statement of style rather than just simply for utility. To round out the book, I added a Simple Wallet and Scrappy Camera Strap. These accessories complete the bags and give you everything you could possibly need for staying organized while carrying any one of these bags....no need for a purse, just one bag and you are done! (Dig our "vintage" Pentax camera in the photo below....glad I don't have to use that one! The megapixels are seriously compromised... ) Again, this book will be available in mid to late October (as soon as it arrives from the printer). Enjoy, and happy fall everyone!
It's time once again to do the UFO challenge and to celebrate successes (and to confess to what is not really failure, but perhaps an opportunity to experience how things can go astray). 1. WIP - The granddaughter dress revision - done and sent Once I got over my fear of not knowing what I was doing and just started putting needle to fabric, it finished up pretty quickly. Put a matching fabric bias trim on the opening, added some matching bias trim fabric to the neck trim, and put in a snap (couldn't find a button that looked right). OK, so I had to do the snap several times since first, I sewed the second part of the snap upside down (with the bump up instead of the hole) and had to re-do it, and then, I found I had neglected to leave a tab to grab onto to undo the snap and had to re-do my neck trim extension, and then I sewed the second part of the snap on upside down (again!). And I probably should have made a little bow to cover the snap tab, but the dress has been mailed away already, so that will only happen if mom and dad request it. Fabric is by Lida Enche (a local artist/fabric designer) 2. WIP - the "Journey" Challenge Quilt - slow progress, not what I had hoped for this month! Here's the challenge fabric (only photo I can give until after the guild meeting in May). Since the study I am doing is a design process, everything is taking much longer than I thought it would, so instead of my 12 unit goal, I have only completed 2 and a half! I still have hopes for finishing by the deadline, since I can always do the quilting and finishing in May (yeah, last minute, I know, but still an option) and I have a new plan for progress - Instead of working so hard to make each unit perfect, I'm going to be more intuitive about it (I've got all the fabrics, they just need to be "arranged") and crank out a lot of units, and then select the most successful ones to assemble into the challenge quilt (the rejects can still become a lap quilt or something). This will also give me more opportunities to make mistakes and take more risks, and in doing so, to learn more from my study! 3. NewFO - Fingerless Mitts - done and I love them (I think these may be for me) Pattern is "Fluency" by Silvia Harding- in the fingerless mitt variation. Yarn is Mini Mochi merino sock yarn by Crystal Palace Yarns Beads are Toho Metallic Nebula size 6/0 4. UFO - The giant flower quilt - top is done (though I may still add a stem and some leaves) and is now a WIP Unscheduled March finishes! 1. NewFO - Beaded Cuffs! Pattern is Aquitaine by Silvia Harding and uses both prestrung and hooked bead techniques. Yarn is Malabrigo Sock superwash Merino color 871 Playa Beads are Toho Metallic Hematite megatoma 3mm, round 6/0, and cube 4mm, and Toho round 8/0 Matte Opaque Gray. 2. NewFO -Color and Weave scarf! (the color is not quite right in the finished scarf photo above, but is good in the process photo below) I wanted another color and weave sample for the beginning Rigid Heddle Weaving class I was teaching, so did a houndstooth and variations (fun). Will blog this later. 3. NewFO -Warp emphasis scarf! My Rigid Heddle Study Group is doing a study of unbalanced weaves (where the warp and weft are not the same number of threads per inch), and my beginning weaving students saw this novelty yarn and asked if it was possible to weave with it, so I had to give it a try and combined two experiments in one! It turned out to be a lovely, soft, drapey scarf - and fun and pretty too! Will blog later. April Goals 1. WIP - "Journey" Challenge Quilt - crank out those study units so I can quilt and finish this in May! 2. WIP - Giant Flower Quilt (see photo above) - Quilt and thread sketch I'll have to whip together a fused quilt practice "sandwich" since I've never done any thread sketching before (I like a good challenge)! 3. NewFO - beaded fingerless mitts A friend of mine saw my Fluency mitts and asked for a pair, so here they are. They just need the thumb gussets finished, yarn ends woven in, and a nice bath and blocking. Yarn is Mini Mochi merino sock yarn by Crystal Palace Yarns (color 108) 4. NewFo - Wyvern Wrap Sweater Have been wanting to make this for my daughter-in-law, but haven't found the right yarn on my little island (and I don't buy internet yarns unless I know what they feel like and look like and smell like). Goal is to make the big shopping trip to the mainland and search for yarn (and get it cast-on if I find the right yarn) And that's it for now!
Hi, all! We are back this week with another Fat Quarter Frenzy quilt tutorial! We've been discovering new ways to utilize fat quarters in quilts, and if you're like me and have way too many, a way to use up some of the stash! So far, we've used 48 fat quarters (!) - 16 in Meet Me in St. Louis, 14 in Kaleidoscope, and most recently 18 in a new version of Supernova. But I'm still overflowing with fat quarters, so today we will be exploring a new tutorial, this time for a quilt I call Woven. Let's go! *&*&*&*&*&*&* Woven A Fat Quarter Friendly Quilt FABRIC REQUIREMENTS: Fat Quarters (FQ) in three different contrasting color groups Color A - 7 Color B - 5 Color C - 4 CUTTING: From Color A FQs, cut: 26 4.5” x 12.5” 30 4.5” x 4.5” To achieve this, and assuming your FQ have 17” x 20” of useable fabric, cut your first six FQ in this manner: This will give you 24 long strips and 24 squares. Take your remaining FQ and cut in this manner: This will give you your remaining 2 long strips and 6 squares. From Color B FQs, cut: 13 4.5” x 12.5” 30 4.5” x 4.5” To achieve this, cut the first 3 FQ in this manner: This will give you 12 long strips and 12 squares. Take another FQ and cut four 4.5” x 17” strips. From one strip, cut one 4.5” x 12.5” strip and one 4.5” square. Cut the remaining strips into 9 squares. This will give you one more long strip and 10 more squares, for a total of 13 long strips and 22 squares. Take the final FQ and cut three more 4.5” strips, then crosscut into 8 4.5” squares, giving you a total of 13 long strips and 30 squares. From Color C FQs, cut: 48 4.5” s 4.5” To achieve this, cut four 4.5” x 17” strips from each of the four FQ, then cross cut them into 12 4.5” squares for a total of 48 4.5” squares. ASSEMBLY This quilt is made up of three separate blocks, shown as follows: Block 1: Make 13 Block 2: Make 6 Block 3: Make 6 LAYOUT: While it may look complicated to lay out, it’s really quite simple. First of all, take Block 1 and lay it out in a checkerboard design, with 3 blocks in the 1st, 3rd and 5th rows with the stripes running horizontally, and 2 blocks in the 2nd and 4th rows with the stripes running vertically. Take Block 2 and place them between the horizontal stripe blocks in rows 1, 3, and 5. Now take Block 3 and place them between the vertical stripe blocks in rows 2 and 4. Assemble and quilt as desired! *&*&*&*&*&*&* I hope you enjoy this quilt pattern, and that it helps you use up some random fat quarters in your stash! See you next Sunday with another Fat Quarter Frenzy quilt! Hugs! Sarah
It's time once again to do the UFO challenge and to celebrate successes (and to confess to what is not really failure, but perhaps an opportunity to experience how things can go astray). 1. WIP - The granddaughter dress revision - done and sent Once I got over my fear of not knowing what I was doing and just started putting needle to fabric, it finished up pretty quickly. Put a matching fabric bias trim on the opening, added some matching bias trim fabric to the neck trim, and put in a snap (couldn't find a button that looked right). OK, so I had to do the snap several times since first, I sewed the second part of the snap upside down (with the bump up instead of the hole) and had to re-do it, and then, I found I had neglected to leave a tab to grab onto to undo the snap and had to re-do my neck trim extension, and then I sewed the second part of the snap on upside down (again!). And I probably should have made a little bow to cover the snap tab, but the dress has been mailed away already, so that will only happen if mom and dad request it. Fabric is by Lida Enche (a local artist/fabric designer) 2. WIP - the "Journey" Challenge Quilt - slow progress, not what I had hoped for this month! Here's the challenge fabric (only photo I can give until after the guild meeting in May). Since the study I am doing is a design process, everything is taking much longer than I thought it would, so instead of my 12 unit goal, I have only completed 2 and a half! I still have hopes for finishing by the deadline, since I can always do the quilting and finishing in May (yeah, last minute, I know, but still an option) and I have a new plan for progress - Instead of working so hard to make each unit perfect, I'm going to be more intuitive about it (I've got all the fabrics, they just need to be "arranged") and crank out a lot of units, and then select the most successful ones to assemble into the challenge quilt (the rejects can still become a lap quilt or something). This will also give me more opportunities to make mistakes and take more risks, and in doing so, to learn more from my study! 3. NewFO - Fingerless Mitts - done and I love them (I think these may be for me) Pattern is "Fluency" by Silvia Harding- in the fingerless mitt variation. Yarn is Mini Mochi merino sock yarn by Crystal Palace Yarns Beads are Toho Metallic Nebula size 6/0 4. UFO - The giant flower quilt - top is done (though I may still add a stem and some leaves) and is now a WIP Unscheduled March finishes! 1. NewFO - Beaded Cuffs! Pattern is Aquitaine by Silvia Harding and uses both prestrung and hooked bead techniques. Yarn is Malabrigo Sock superwash Merino color 871 Playa Beads are Toho Metallic Hematite megatoma 3mm, round 6/0, and cube 4mm, and Toho round 8/0 Matte Opaque Gray. 2. NewFO -Color and Weave scarf! (the color is not quite right in the finished scarf photo above, but is good in the process photo below) I wanted another color and weave sample for the beginning Rigid Heddle Weaving class I was teaching, so did a houndstooth and variations (fun). Will blog this later. 3. NewFO -Warp emphasis scarf! My Rigid Heddle Study Group is doing a study of unbalanced weaves (where the warp and weft are not the same number of threads per inch), and my beginning weaving students saw this novelty yarn and asked if it was possible to weave with it, so I had to give it a try and combined two experiments in one! It turned out to be a lovely, soft, drapey scarf - and fun and pretty too! Will blog later. April Goals 1. WIP - "Journey" Challenge Quilt - crank out those study units so I can quilt and finish this in May! 2. WIP - Giant Flower Quilt (see photo above) - Quilt and thread sketch I'll have to whip together a fused quilt practice "sandwich" since I've never done any thread sketching before (I like a good challenge)! 3. NewFO - beaded fingerless mitts A friend of mine saw my Fluency mitts and asked for a pair, so here they are. They just need the thumb gussets finished, yarn ends woven in, and a nice bath and blocking. Yarn is Mini Mochi merino sock yarn by Crystal Palace Yarns (color 108) 4. NewFo - Wyvern Wrap Sweater Have been wanting to make this for my daughter-in-law, but haven't found the right yarn on my little island (and I don't buy internet yarns unless I know what they feel like and look like and smell like). Goal is to make the big shopping trip to the mainland and search for yarn (and get it cast-on if I find the right yarn) And that's it for now!
scarf 31 Working on a large project it is all too easy to let the nay-sayers living in your head to send you into a frenzy of procrastination. Will it turn out? Will people like it? Will people actually pony up real money and buy it? If you let yourself listen to those voices you can get mired down in thinking about all the things that will go wrong and wind up not doing that which you most want to do. I find an approaching deadline does wonders to shut those voices up. The panic from watching the deadline creep (or race) up on me is generally what provides the energy to break through the fear of failure. With so many approaching deadlines, all of them critical each in their own way, I am having to really control the voices and the panic. Too much of either can cause the wheels to fall off the cart, so to speak. A little panic to provide energy is good. Too much panic and I start feeling overwhelmed. And get really cranky on top of it. Because I do want to do everything on my schedule. I know I will enjoy all of it once the deadline has been met and the event - or project - is behind me. I will have accomplished a major goal (goals) and that will make me feel good. But as a friend says, better to have done it than to say you are going to do it. The anticipation is one thing. The feeling of accomplish from having done it? Priceless. Currently reading Emergence by Temple Grandin
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Two weeks ago I attended a class with a very talented local quilter, Shirley Mooney. We started with a single length of a stripey fabric, and a 60 degree triangle ruler. Through out the day we turned the fabric into something completely different. Siren Song by Michael Miller Fabrics Shirley encouraged us to take photos on our phones and study how our arrangements looked on a smaller screen. This was my first attempt: Then it grew to look like this: Then I swapped out 3 of the centres and made all the centres dark, and that looked better: Someone else in the class had the same fabric, but in pink and purple. She went for a different approach: Another student had something completely different: We spent the whole day cutting triangles and playing with the layout. Once we were happy with our layouts we pinned them to sheets and took them home to sew up. The knack is in matching the stripes perfectly, as shown below. Due to the care and attention needed to get the stripes matching correctly, I only got 2 columns sewn together the next day, and even they aren't 100% perfect, but I'll settle for 97.5% perfect in this case. The rest is still pinned to the sheet, waiting to be joined up. Because I'd purchased plenty of fabric, I had enough to do 2 different designs, so I've got 2 designs pinned onto my sheet. It's carefully strewn across my sewing table - I need to be careful that it doesn't accidentally get bundled into the washing machine. Imagine all those pins and triangles floating around in the washing machine. I'll be certain to post more photos as this progress, but it's the start of our winter school holidays now, and my kids are off for 3 weeks. We've got a couple of trips planned so I don't expect to get a lot of sewing done in July. Shirley has a blog called Don't Wait to Create, and is on Instagram with the same name. I recommend you take a look.
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Last week my mom sent me a crafty care-package. Yes, my mother still sends me care packages, how great is that?? Included was a fabric bowl from my childhood home as inspiration and 12 yards
