Friday, April 30, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
I've caught the bug again...
The sewing bug that is! (It's a good kind of bug to have :-) )
An old friend of mine from college recently approached me about making a quilt for her to give away as a gift. I was honored and flattered that she would even ask me to do it, and of course I said yes! In my opinion it's the best kind of quilt to make, a baby quilt. They are so much fun to make because the fabrics are so cute and cuddly.
I have already figured out the design and made my shopping list for Joann Fabrics. Some of the materials I want are on sale so I am going to head over there tomorrow and get what I need. This doesn't have to be done for months, but now that I have it in my head to do, I'm very motivated!
In the meantime, I have been working on a few things I have laying around at home. I finished another block of the blue quilt I have been working on for years, and I experimented last night with making quilted coasters with some left over blocks from another finished project. They came out really cute, I will post a picture perhaps tomorrow when I have some free time tomorrow.
Once I pick up the fabrics for the baby quilt it will be my number one priority, and I will post some pictures of the fabrics I find tomorrow.
Here's a hand sketched design of the quilt. It's actually not going to be that many blocks across and down, I mis-calculated, but you get the idea :-)
An old friend of mine from college recently approached me about making a quilt for her to give away as a gift. I was honored and flattered that she would even ask me to do it, and of course I said yes! In my opinion it's the best kind of quilt to make, a baby quilt. They are so much fun to make because the fabrics are so cute and cuddly.
I have already figured out the design and made my shopping list for Joann Fabrics. Some of the materials I want are on sale so I am going to head over there tomorrow and get what I need. This doesn't have to be done for months, but now that I have it in my head to do, I'm very motivated!
In the meantime, I have been working on a few things I have laying around at home. I finished another block of the blue quilt I have been working on for years, and I experimented last night with making quilted coasters with some left over blocks from another finished project. They came out really cute, I will post a picture perhaps tomorrow when I have some free time tomorrow.
Once I pick up the fabrics for the baby quilt it will be my number one priority, and I will post some pictures of the fabrics I find tomorrow.
Here's a hand sketched design of the quilt. It's actually not going to be that many blocks across and down, I mis-calculated, but you get the idea :-)
Sunday, April 18, 2010
A Work in Progress
I love fabric. I love to sew and quilt. But finding the time, and motivation isn't always the easiest for me to do.
I'll start a project, but stop part way through and put it aside and pick up something new. I get bored easily I guess.
4, (yes, 4) years ago I picked up the material to make a beautiful blue and white quilt. At the time it was going to be made for a wedding gift, but the detail involved made me realize that was very impractical, and it would never get finished in time. I cut most of the pieces, or at least a good portion of them, and put everything together in a box and put it aside.
A few months ago I pulled out the box and was looking at all the beautiful fabrics and got motivated again, for awhile anyway.
Here is one finished block... and a stack of neatly piled pieces waiting to be sewn into more pretty finished blocks...
I've lost it again, the motivation I mean. So the piles are neatly sitting by my sewing machine waiting to be joined together. I'll get to them, when the time is right. I don't know who's home this quilt will end up in, but after the years I have put into it, it may come live with me.
I'll start a project, but stop part way through and put it aside and pick up something new. I get bored easily I guess.
4, (yes, 4) years ago I picked up the material to make a beautiful blue and white quilt. At the time it was going to be made for a wedding gift, but the detail involved made me realize that was very impractical, and it would never get finished in time. I cut most of the pieces, or at least a good portion of them, and put everything together in a box and put it aside.
A few months ago I pulled out the box and was looking at all the beautiful fabrics and got motivated again, for awhile anyway.
Here is one finished block... and a stack of neatly piled pieces waiting to be sewn into more pretty finished blocks...
I've lost it again, the motivation I mean. So the piles are neatly sitting by my sewing machine waiting to be joined together. I'll get to them, when the time is right. I don't know who's home this quilt will end up in, but after the years I have put into it, it may come live with me.
A new beginning
I have a blog for hiking/adventures, and I have a blog just for my own ramblings, but I wanted a place to post articles about my quilting, and crafting, and a place to share wonderful recipes that I find and create.
So here it is... I hope to post fairly regularly, but as with everything else, it may get lost in the shuffle.
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