Aujourd’hui, je vais peut-être me faire rabrouer, voulant casser un mythe encore bien ancré en France… auquel j’ai cru moi aussi dur comme fer ! Toute quilteuse a entendu un jour …
Happy TGIFF all! We're over at M-R's Quilt Matters this week. She didn't think she'd have a quilt to share this week, but Quilt Girl came to the rescue! Grab your finishes (finishes only please), head on over to link up and enjoy the inspiration. Hmmm...
There has to be a line in the sand my quilty friends! I have been practicing my "NO" when it comes to new projects. Shocking, but true! NO more new projects until I finish a few of the ones I have in progress that I really like and that need to become finished quilts! I said NO to Yankee Notions, even though I really love Barbara Brackman sampler projects. My favourite was Votes For Women ... you can still get the patterns here. I said NO to Bloomtopia quiltalong, even though I love the colours, and adore the backing design. I am saying NO to all the AQS quiltalongs, although there are great prizes to be won. I said NO (maybe) to the 2 colour quilt Grandma's Attic quiltalong at Quilt Doodle Designs. It's so darn cute and could totally be made from scraps. I said NO to the Out West quiltalong at Pat Sloan's blog, even though the theme is western movies, which is one of my guilty pleasures. What I hope I say NO to is Moda Blockheads #3 that started on January 15th. I first heard about round 3 starting from the Bear Creek Quilt Company. What is appealing if I were doing it (which I'm probably not) is that you choose your block size! What about you? Are you practicing your NO?
This week was a particularly nasty week and I could use a few cheap laughs. Maybe you could too! Enjoy the cheesy, punny, silly goodness. Forget Ryan Gosling...The Avengers are better It is....and I have it in my stash...lol.
ARTspiration Artists or art that turns me on, feeds my soul, and inspires me. This bronze abstract sculpture of a figure of a woman holding a shield was created by actor Tony Dow, titled,…
Summing up a week of sewing... here's a look at the design wall. The green strip waiting for applique got pushed off, this year's Halloween top got finished, I tried a new to me hand piecing project from Happy to be Scrappy. This little fellow is challenging. It is full of angles that create bias, and I apparently have no starch here at this house. All the seam allowance converge together, and despite pressing them in little star rounds, they take up space right where the joins show. I was entranced by Deb's stars so I thought I'd "whip four up" to try it! cut them all out, trace around each one, put into the working tray with thread, glasses and needle start the current audio book by Ellery Adams, The Book of Candlelight and start stabbing myself with a sharp needle sewing whew! here's one section sewn and pressed... only 24 pieces in this block so 19 to go plus putting them all together! Almost there! Done with that one! only three more to go. Earlier in the week, I worked on the halloween quilt... what happiness to do! I got to use a lot of halloween fabric scraps, play with placement, try the smaller magic star blocks from the JOyful Quilter, Joy herself, and make kind of a row quilt. I don't want to show it all in a close up yet, but here's a top secion... it's about 23" X 43" long now It's always amazing to me, how long it takes to choose colors and pattern. A teacher I had early in my quilting life, once said it takes a lot of stare time. I love having the design wall, so I can put something up at eye level and leave the room, and when I come back in I see it afresh! Last thing I added were the three wee ghosties cut out from some old JoAnn's scrap. Ya never know what will work out! The three bats were from a printed vest (just cut out and sew) that I didn't want to wear but liked some of the prints. my painting from this week this was a stressful week, with major appliances going out, causing me to have to go through wet boxes of Christmas decorations and throw many away... have workmen in my house who mistakenly think covid is overblown (America has nearly 200,000 deaths and still spreading) and record heat to deal with. but no worries! It's going from near 100F this weekend to snowing on Tuesday. I expect the next few days will be figuring out what to do with the tomatoes that are finally fruited out, the mums we got last weekend for Fall, and cleaning all the floors again from workmen. Red is the color of the month at RSC, so I have all those blocks to do also. I'm watching videos on how to paint like the masters, so my paints aren't going to use themselves either. Laugh with me... from https://bytheyardcomics.com/ Linking tohttp://frombolttobeauty.blogspot.com/ http://busyhandsquilts.blogspot.com/ can I get a whoop whoop Fridays http://www.inquiringquilter.com/ Wednesday wait loss Midweek makers wednesdays design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts lovelaughquilt.mondays sew can do mondays oh Scrap Sundays slow stitching Sundays superscrappy.blogspot.com/
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Great Minds think Alike! I was thinking about making a post about Quilting Abbreviations, but why re-create the wheel! Here are several lists that I recently came across. On February 23 the Quilti…
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Quilting has an acronym language all its own. If you have ever wondered what a UFO or a WOMBAT is, this article will explain it all. There is also a view of The Usual Suspects!
One of my favorite things to do…when I am not sewing…is have fun with graphics. I make a lot of sewing memes and other images that are only shared on my social media pages. In an effort to bring them all into one place, I thought it would be a great idea to do a […]
This past Saturday I taught a workshop on the One Block Wonder Technique at the Eastern branch of the Irish Patchwork Society. It was a busy but satisfying day and I think the participants enjoyed it. I don't have a lot of photos from the day, but I thought I'd share those which have resulting blocks in them (pity I don't have everybody's), as well as the tips we were able to take away from the day. I'm really looking forward to seeing the finished quilts, though finalizing the layouts may take quite some time. This is a picture I wanted to print out, but didn't manage to get to the printers'. It sums up what we did on the day very well (both the picture and the phrase were found on the Web). I will not run through the whole process of making a One Block Wonder quilt (there are a lot of tutorials around on the Web), but I do want to share some tips which proved handy and/or were learned the hard way. 1. When choosing the fabric, pay attention to its color way - the pattern will change beyond all recognition, but the colors will stay the same. 2. For the first stage of the process - identifying your pattern repeat - it's handy to use a tailor's yardstick or any piece of board/plank that has a long straight edge. Alternatively, you can tape together two quilting rulers. 3. Some fabrics have their prints printed straighter than others. Don't be afraid to shift and wiggle your fabric to align the pattern. Once it's aligned, handle it with care to keep it that way. 4. Use flat pins to keep together your six layers while you're cutting. They don't have to be removed from the fabric when they get under the ruler, so your strips will remain aligned and won't shift. 5. Although most tutorials call for cutting 3 3/4 in strips, you don't really have to stick to this number. Measure the width of your repeat - in some fabrics it will not divide by 3 3/4, so to avoid wasting too much of your fabric you can choose a different strip width, say 3 1/2 in of maybe 4 in. Another thing to consider is the scale of your pattern. If it's on the smallish side, decrease the width of your strips. 6. Using a 60 degree triangle ruler with a "blunted" corner saves you a bit of fabric width when cutting the triangles. The blunted corner can also be handy to mark your central corner when piecing the triangles together. However, you don't really need a special ruler for this technique, any ruler with a a 60 degree line on it will do the job too. 7. Make sure your ruler has a horizontal line matching the edge of your strip. If it doesn't, create a line by sticking a piece of tape to the ruler - this will ensure all of the angles in your triangles are 60 degrees, and thus, all of the sides in your triangles are equal. 8. When piecing your triangles keep them in strict order, and always keep the center corners facing one way (for example, away from you) or mark the center corners with a pin, then your piecing process will be fast and smooth. 9. After you've assembled and pressed your half-hexies, keep them together with a piece of masking tape on the back while you're playing with the layout. 10. The layout is a very personal process, but I would still point out two important things - lay out all your blocks to see if there is any "focal" color that really jumps out at you; if there is, start the composition with the blocks that have most of this focal color and create some sort of shape of line with them, then arrange the other blocks around. This is a quilt I made before with the same lilac fabric. I chose to arrange the purple/pink blocks in a sort of wave with the greens supporting the shape. 11. When playing with the layout, snap photos of every variant, even if you don't really like it - the pictures make it easier to evaluate, compare and discuss your layout with other people, you might spot something you can't see up close and personal. On the whole this is a very fast and satisfying technique, definitely worth trying, at least to gain a new perspective on the use of pattern in fabric and the potential of fabrics you probably never considered suitable for quilting. UPD: If you're wondering what came out of that fabric, here's the finally finished quilt Linking up to Tips and Tutorials Tuesday at Quilting Jetgirl
It will never happen. At best I'll straighten up. Why bring this up? Susan over at Molly Faye's blog dared me to show my sewing space. It's ...
This cartoon cracked me up, and I had to share it with you. My fabric stash is like a bath tub with the water running and the drain open. You know, some coming in and some going out, and the overall level staying about the same. (Which is about 8 Rubbermaid storage boxes.) How about you?
You all know I love to craft. and I love to laugh... so let's combine the two into a perfect marriage of funny craft memes! I share a bunch on my facebook page (go here)
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Let’s transform your fabric scraps into something fantastic! My easy to make projects and quilt blocks that are sure to inspire you to start stitching up a storm.
