Jun
12
In Progress
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I’ve been a bad girl. That’s right, I’ve been sewing with my “bad” foot. Hey, one of the exercises I’m supposed to do involves pointing and flexing my foot… so pushing the pedal counts, right?
Anyway, here’s a shot of one of the things (one of many) on my sewing table. It’s going to be a quilt for the boy child. I haven’t worked on it much in the past few days though… I’ve got another deadline on my plate, but I’ll let you know more about that in a few days.
Jun
1
(Not so) Fabulous Footwear Friday
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Yesterday I had a small bone fragment removed from my right foot. Yes, that’s right, my sewing foot!
This boot seems like such overkill for such a small surgery. Really, the only sore thing (well that I know of so far, I’m pretty drugged up still) is the incision on the back of my ankle that feels like a new shoe blister. Here’s hoping it’s better soon… I have sewing that must get done!
May
30
So who won the Mendocino Madness giveaway day last week? Well, I had the lovely random number generator at random.org pick numbers for me. (I had it generate 6 numbers in case I couldn’t contact one or more of the commenters, but as luck would have it I heard back from the first two numbers!)
The winner of the blush and aqua fat quarters of Heather Ross’s Mendocino Presentation fabric is: (drum roll please…)
And the winner of the fat eighth of the gold swimming sisters and fat eighth of the brown kelp forest and small piece of the brown kelp stripe is:
Congrats ladies! And thank you to everyone who entered. I read every single comment as they came in. I wish I could have had time to respond to everyone, but with nearly 500 comments there is just no way!!! Thanks again to everyone!
May
29
do. Good Stitches {March 2012}
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March was my month in the Dream circle of do. Good Stitches to be the quilter. That just means that I got to pick the block everyone made, and then was the person responsible for putting the final quilt together and getting it sent off to our charity, Project Night Night.
For March, I chose to do the string block that Ashley demonstrated on her blog ages ago. I really love the white line down the center, it seems to tie all the blocks together even though they are made from so many fabrics. I decided to alter the layout in this quilt to get a more “chevron-like” pattern. I like it, but I think if I were to do it again with this type of block I might make the white “centers” a little less centered so they could come to points.
On the back, with the extra blocks, I used the same criss cross pattern that the tutorial shows. I had to search my stash for a fabric to fill out the back. I knew I wanted to use a solid because the blocks themselves are so busy, but I didn’t have enough of anything (except Kona snow and other neutral fabrics) to do the entire back. In the end, I chose these two bright solids. I really like the way it came out. (Sorry, I have no idea what colors they are…)
I quilted it 1/4 inch from the white center lines for a nice wide zig zag. The quilting shows up wonderfully on the back and I really love it.
Binding was a big headache! I had no idea how to bind it without it looking really really busy. After many suggestions from a lot of wonderful ladies, I ended up going with bright prints. I used 3 leftover pieces of binding from other quilts. The scrappiness of it just goes… you know?
I forgot to add the label before I basted and quilted, and so I attached it after the fact. The front has so much going on though, that you almost can’t see the stitching line.
It’s going to be really hard to let this quilt go… She’s definitely one of my favorites! But I know that the child who receives it will need it far more than I do. I hope it brings security to that little person in their time of need.
May
21
Giveaway Day — Mendocino Madness!
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Entries for May’s Giveaway Day are now closed. I will choose the winners using a random number generator before Monday May 28, 2012!
A while back, I lost my mind and started buying up all the Mendocino I could find. Ok, not all, but I decided I must have at least a bit of every fabric. And in the process, I ended up buying a few duplicates, partly because I couldn’t remember what I had already, but also because a lot of these fabrics are sold in small bundles, and to get one that I’m missing I might have to buy a couple that I already had. I really wish I hadn’t completely missed out on these fabrics when they first came out!
Well, what better way to eliminate duplicates than to share with you! So I actually started looking for some dups on purpose! These are by no means all the extras, but I think I’ll save a few for future giveaway days. :)
The first lucky winner will get these two fat quarters of Heather Ross’s Mendocino Presentation Mermaids in Aqua and Blush!
The second winner will get this little bundle. It consists of two fat eighths — Brown Kelp Forest, and Gold Swim Sisters, and a small 9″ x 11″ (ish) piece of the Kelp Stripe in Brown.
All you have to do to win is leave me a comment telling me either what you’ll make with these fabrics, or which fabric line you totally missed out on!
For a second chance to win, follow my blog and leave me a second comment saying you are a follower!
International Entries welcome!!!
I will close the entries at 7pm CST on Friday May 25. I will randomly choose the two winners with a random number generator.
Happy Giveaway Day! I hope you are one of the lucky winners!