tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44237086321296082532023-11-16T06:20:22.655-08:00random thingsDebbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00286170049276359415noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4423708632129608253.post-62439797296843501452017-08-04T13:09:00.001-07:002017-08-04T13:24:44.688-07:00Drowning in UFOsI took stock of what I had on the go yesterday and I was shocked. How did I let it get so out of hand? It's not just one craft - it's knitting (2), sewing (1) and quilting (5). And I'm going to be starting another quilt in September. Something has to happen, and I've got time this weekend to see how much I can do.<br />
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The knitting is one pair of socks that don't stress me out because they're a travel knitting thing that I can always have at the ready. The other knitting is the shawl that I'm designing and I'd like to get to the end of the sample so that I can finalize the pattern and call it a day.<br />
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The sewing is the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bag-All-Reasons-all-new-occasion/dp/1446301850" target="_blank">Too Cool for School</a> satchel in a few Art Gallery prints. I think it would last longer with vinyl on the exterior or if it were canvas or something other than the most beautiful quilting cotton around, but the kid wants it just like that.<br />
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The quilting is ends and finishes on a preemie quilt, hand-sewing down the binding on the round robin quilt and three (identical) gift quilts that I need more fabric for (I'll get it tomorrow). Those three tops will then be sandwiched and quilted and I'll machine-stitch the binding on them.<br />
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I'm doing a Judy Neimeyer retreat in September and I'll be making the Dragon Star pattern. I'm getting fabric for that one tomorrow too. Very exciting!<br />
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I reported a finish a while ago, but only now do I have the photos to prove it. It's my Casual Friday cardigan with modifications. I did 3/4 sleeves and rewrote the pattern for the gauge I wanted so that I didn't have a fabric that I didn't want. If that makes sense to you, we're on the same page knitting-wise. I used 4 skeins of Ocean Park Yarns' hand-dyed yarn and the variation in the colour is really nice. I didn't alternate rows to avoid obvious differences in dye and it worked out great - I looked at the skeins and thought they were close enough, and there you have it.<br />
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So I went out to the junction to meet my knitter-friend Karen and she was kind enough to take these photos after dinner. It was a great dinner and it was about a million degrees outside. It was not an ideal day for knitwear. I wear this cardi SO MUCH, though. I love it.<br />
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I hope to see Karen again at the start of September. I'll know later today what my plans look like. Stay tuned, Karen!<br />
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Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00286170049276359415noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4423708632129608253.post-20798638675563218172017-06-27T16:12:00.000-07:002017-06-27T16:12:10.353-07:00Craftin'I have a beautiful skein of what used to be called CaterpillarGreen and is now called <a href="https://gaugedyeworks.com/" target="_blank">Gauge DyeWorks</a>. I want the perfect shawl pattern for it that's not too boring and not too busy. I couldn't find anything I liked, so I'm designing one for myself. I prefer my shawls asymmetric, so it won't be a centred triangle. It'll be like half the triangle.<br />
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In other knitting news, I've worn that <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/casual-friday" target="_blank">Casual Friday cardigan</a> a fair bit and I have thus far failed to have a picture taken. I might have to visit my friend in Nelson for more pictures.<br />
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I've finished a few lingering quilts and am now faced with the excitement of starting the cutest little Elizabeth Hartman pattern, or finishing my round robin quilt. I have it partially quilted, but I really need to finish it. I think I will focus on that this week. It won't be anything fancy because it's just too darned big, but it will get done.<br />
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I finished this little guy for a coworker who's due in July. Our country's sesquicentennial birthday is on Saturday, so since her baby is due in that month, it seemed like a good fit. I had fun with the quilting in and around the leaf. It's 36 inches square (ish). The red and white are Free Spirit solids and I used a white thread for the white bits and red Aurifil for the red bits. I don't usually do that (use more than one colour), but I didn't want to mess up the design. I used white in the bobbin because the backing fabric is a grey-and-white polka dot with pretty big white dots.<br />
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I belong to a traditional quilt guild and we had a show this past weekend. There were so many fabulous quilts hanging - it was a really great source of inspiration. Here are the winners.<br />
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CQA award winner.<br />
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Second place viewers' choice (hand-pieced).<br />
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Also, we have a lizard in the house now. She's a juvenile leopard gecko. I have yet to touch her, but she's fun to look at.<br />
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.Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00286170049276359415noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4423708632129608253.post-56794395697468099222017-05-26T08:45:00.001-07:002017-05-26T08:56:17.836-07:00Little thingsCould they be any cuter? They're made from the <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/baby-surprise-jacket-preemie-sized" target="_blank">preemie-sized pattern</a> for the <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/baby-surprise-jacket" target="_blank">Baby Surprise Jacket</a> by Elizabeth Zimmerman. I should have had something for scale so you could see how wee they are. They're done in worsted weight, so they should actually fit a newborn of full term, but they need a blocking first. And they need buttons. I used a 4.5mm needle as recommended in the pattern for a newborn size with worsted-weight yarn, but I might use a 5mm needle next time.<br />
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They're made from leftover yarns and were quick and easy to do. I would just caution a person to mind the instruction for the ssk abbreviation - it's not what you think it is.<br />
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I also finished the <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/casual-friday" target="_blank">Casual Friday</a> cardigan for me (except for the buttons) and I've worn it a couple times, but I don't have a picture yet. I deviated from the pattern because my gauge was WAY off and I didn't want to change my needles or my yarn. I rewrote the pattern in consideration of my gauge, and I finished the sleeves without additional decreases at a 3/4 length with seed stitch. You'll see.<br />
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Camping last weekend, I saw a shirt with a very interesting design on a young girl. I'm going to sew one up this weekend and we'll see how it turns out. I have a great piece of fabric that I've been dying to use.<br />
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Happy Friday!<br />
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.Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00286170049276359415noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4423708632129608253.post-61469889764692796282017-05-13T11:49:00.001-07:002017-05-13T11:49:45.278-07:00PsychadelicI will admit that I haven't finished hand-sewing the binding on the main quilt from the <a href="http://www.sewkatiedid.com/" target="_blank">Katie Pedersen</a> workshop, but the cushion cover and the two preemie quilts are done.<br />
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I did straight-line quitling on them both, and used striped binding. The piecing and quilting was all done on my Janome 8900 with Aurifil 50wt in 2600 (dove gray).<br />
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On the cushion cover, with the few leftover pieces after all the other quilts were arranged, I did some free-motion swirls. I did an envelope back and although I could find a pillow form to fit, I decided to fill the cushion with quilts. There are two quilts inside, which makes the cushion really heavy and quite solid, but also gives us easy access to the quilts when we are chilly.<br />
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This is the straight-line quilting on one of the preemie quilts. I used the sticky-outy bar to get the distance between my last line and my next line, but then I used the width of the foot for the next line. With all the pieces so wonky, it was impossible to use the quilt to keep things straight, so I had to be careful with the first line at the centre joining point, and then follow that line for the rest of the quilting.<br />
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This is my super-cute dog. She was lying there so pretty, like she was posing for a picture at the Sears Portrait Studio.<br />
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We went to Granville Island for a bit of shopping and we went into the Cloth Shop, which is a lovely little shop. She picked out three Art Gallery fabrics and I'll sort out something to make her. The fabrics have a beautiful hand and will be absolutely delightful to sew with.<br />
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I'd better get on with hand-sewing the binding on that Psychadelic Baby quilt. Sixty square inches. It'll be a while.<br />
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.Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00286170049276359415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4423708632129608253.post-48610574243840908092017-04-11T17:36:00.002-07:002017-04-11T17:36:44.608-07:00And then I made a walletI actually made 2 wallets but the first one was really ... overboard. I broke my walking foot on it. It's fixable, but also regularly rebreakable.<br />
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Both wallets are made on the <a href="https://www.craftsy.com/sewing/patterns/slimline-wallet/308641" target="_blank">Slimline Wallet pattern</a>. Six card slots aren't enough for me, so I added a second unit to the design.<br />
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Wallet #1 had the increased bulk of RFID-blocking fabric in the card panels. For the record, I don't think I needed that technology in my fabric but I bought it on impulse and thought I should use it before I forgot was it was. It also had leather from my old couch as its exterior and that added even more bulk. I had trouble getting the stitches to behave and I don't think my machine (a good Janome 8900) would like to do the top-stitching to finish that wallet off.<br />
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Super cute Riley Blake fabrics, though, right?<br />
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So then I cut the fabric for wallet #2 and didn't use linen on the outside, but instead pieced a 9-patch of 2 kinds of stripes. On the inside, I have three colours of reverse dots.<br />
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This is the extra card slot unit:<br />
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It's a pretty quick pattern, especially the second time you make it.<br />
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<br />Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00286170049276359415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4423708632129608253.post-36281267656671350892017-04-09T21:10:00.000-07:002017-04-09T21:10:01.345-07:00Kinda famousI went to a workshop led by Maureen Wood on a Judy Neimeyer pattern called Broken Daisy. The pattern gives you templates and instructions for 4 placemats but I didn't bring enough of the gray fabric for 4, so I cut the templates in class for 2. I pulled my fabric months in advance, and forgot that I didn't have enough when I packed it up to go to the workshop. <br />
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I was thinking I may or may not make the other 2. Maureen told me to keep the template pieces so I could do 2 more later (good idea!!). I was thinking of all the placemats my mum had ever made me and that I didn't have space for any more ... I thought the pattern would make a great tote bag and I had just brought home some waxed canvas so that idea bloomed.<br />
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I thought that I could make 2 totes with one placemat each, so I drew up a pattern and then got to putting them together.<br />
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I quilted the placemats on warm & natural batting with Aurifil 50wt in 2600 dove gray. I love that colour so much that I also bought it in 28wt and I used that to quilt the back panels. It's just a little bit more obvious. One of the backs got a wonky spiralling square and one got a big circlish spiral surrounded by little spirals.<br />
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I posted these pictures on the Quiltworx Facebook group and I'm feeling kinda famous. Over 150 people have liked, loved or wowed the post, and 6 have shared it. I've never seen that kind of reaction to anything I've posted ever.<br />
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Crazy, right? I mean, I'm no Kardashian, but still.<br />
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I'm signed up for the next possible date of a retreat with Maureen and I'll do a full-size quilt pattern then. I love how the patterns are so organized and logical so I don't find the idea of many templates, many papers and many bags daunting. It's going to be rad.<br />
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<br />Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00286170049276359415noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4423708632129608253.post-3159453629188747022017-02-18T18:50:00.001-08:002017-02-18T18:50:25.127-08:00Organized and improvI showed you the quilt I made for the preemie program that my kid filmed, so these are the other two that were donated at the same time, bringing my lifetime total to 5:<br />
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And this is the flannel I put on the back of them both:<br />
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For those 2 quilts, I dug into my collection of 8-patches and 4-patches and lined them up in 16-patches. They aren't totally coordinated or planned, but they work. Each square is finished at 2 inches.<br />
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I quilted straight lines on the diagonal through all the white blocks. I used Aurifil 50wt for all the piecing and quilting in colour 2600 - dove gray.<br />
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I don't have a ton of space where I live, so I am careful with my scraps. If I have leftover fabric, I tend to chop it into as big a strip I can get, of any length, and then I sort the pieces into bags. I didn't use to keep 2.5 inch pieces - I cut them into squares right away. Then, while I was at quilt camp, I sewed all those squares onto a 2.5" strip of white fabric and then cut them all apart. That gave me a stack of 2-patches. I still have some left as 4- or 8-patches. And I'll probably make more. 😊<br />
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I did a Katie Pedersen workshop last weekend (see sewkatiedid.com) - the improv class called psychedelic baby - and it was super fun. We made lots of strip-based blocks and you get basically a square shape that you then cut the diagonal block from. That gives you 4 corners of triangles that aren't part of the main quilt.<br />
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Here are my blocks all lined up for ironing:<br />
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When 4 of the diamond blocks go together, you get this sort of effect:<br />
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Then I used my 18 diamonds thusly:<br />
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And I sewed 2 of the off-cut triangles together to make squares, and I have 36 of those. I used 16 of them to make this top, using 9.5" squares:<br />
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I'll get another top out of the remaining 20 off-cut squares, and they're a little smaller. I'll play with layouts a bit tonight. I could get another 16-piece layout like above, and have 4 left for a cushion front. We'll see! 😊<br />
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The piecing for these two tops was all done with the dove gray thread as well. It's my favourite.<br />
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.Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00286170049276359415noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4423708632129608253.post-15231229927125958022017-01-28T11:44:00.000-08:002017-01-28T11:52:43.795-08:00A little catch-up I've been fairly busy. I like to make time for crafts, and my husband has his own hobbies that I don't share, so I can count on time when he's hunting or shooting arrows or hard-core 4-wheeling as time when I can get stuff done. I couldn't count on a last-minute teenager to choose a school project that has me (gladly) providing the content, but that happened. The project was on the creation of preemie quilts for donation and I had some orphaned blocks that I'd already plotted. It didn't take much time to piece them together and then do a bit of piecing on the back, do some straight-line quilting and bind it up.<br />
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Eggsrus.wordpress.com is the school blog where you can see the finished video. It's about 3 minutes long.<br />
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This is the quilt we ended up with - Free Spirit solids and a Kaufman print on the front and back, striped binding, 50w dove gray 2600 Aurifil for the piecing and quilting, and the back just wonky enough:<br />
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Then it was time to get on with making the bunting. A person in my modern quilt guild was selling bias tape for 20 bucks. I jumped on it because you never know when you're going to need bias tape. It turned out to be way more bias tape than I thought, so I was a little dismayed. Then, around the same time, I got my mother-in-law's Christmas fabric scraps. She's not a fan of scraps. I shoved them in the cupboard and when I pulled them out later to plan a project, I saw that the scraps were pretty picked-through. There weren't many straight edges to be seen. What to do? Well, I decided to cut whatever triangle sets I could from them so I could make bunting (for decorating). I was cutting and cutting and cutting for so long.<br />
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They aren't all the same size, and I don't have a reliable possible pattern. If I started from yardage, it could have been consistent and planned, but it's scrappy. Some triangles are 8.5in high by 7in wide at the base, which is what I aimed for most often. When I could get a bit more, I went bigger. Most often, I went smaller. I didn't figure out the angle and make sure that all the triangles were the same shape. Wonky.<br />
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Then I was sewing and sewing for so long (right sides together). Then I was turning and turning them for so long, and ironing and ironing for less long. Hooray! It's time to sew them together. I shoved them up (gently) into the bias tape with a .5cm gap between the points, which looks like a bigger gap when finished. Why stick with imperial measurements when you can go metric?<br />
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All done! 6m of bias tape with room on the ends for hanging.<br />
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Purl Soho posted a No Purl Scarf pattern and the smooshiness of it caught my fancy right away. I'm casting on with an alpaca/merino blend that I dyed a while ago. It's sport weight, so I'm holding it double. I'm using 5mm needles. The pattern is written to be knit flat and you couldn't knit it in the round and avoid purls, so I'll stitch the two short ends together at the end. It'll go around at least a couple times so it will become my favourite cowl. Nevermind that I have a cardigan and an angled scarf already on the needles.....<br />
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I'm pretty lucky. My mum knits too and she has knit me more socks than I have. I wear a pair every day in the winter. Here they are drying for the coming week.<br />
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By the end of this weekend, I'll have this stack turned into about a 13m stretch of bunting.<br />
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Then there's this largest stack of the blue triangles that will probably become two strings.<br />
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This is turning into the longest post ever, but I'll keep going. On February 11th, I'm doing a workshop with Katie Pederson and these are the fabrics I've picked. I freaking love red and that blue came from my mother-in-law and it's going to give me a good pop of colour. I'll show you when I'm done.<br />
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On March 18th, I'm doing a workshop on paper piecing and the pattern is for placemats by Judy Neimeyer. I haven't done any paper piecing really, so it will be good to have a lesson. I'll show you when I'm done.<br />
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Happy weekend!<br />
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.Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00286170049276359415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4423708632129608253.post-75165789138631189312017-01-02T16:00:00.000-08:002017-01-02T16:00:24.868-08:00Happy new year!Would you look at that? The subject line on these blog posts now defaults to sentence case (capital letter at the start).<br />
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I've been busy. Lots of things to report....<br />
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I finished this quilt entirely at camp (it was a completed top when I got there) and gave it to my kid for Christmas. She loves it, and she ought to because she picked the fabric, which was bought already cut into tumbler shapes.<br />
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And the back, with double-wide fabric that I love love love.<br />
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These are two 36" square quilts that I made to donate to the preemie program at the children's hospital. They were supposed to be one quilt for a Riley Blake challenge with the Modern Quilt Guild, but the challenge was really restrictive and I couldn't get the fabrics that I needed.<br />
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I sandwiched and quilted those two at quilt camp, and then bound them at home once I received the guild labels.<br />
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I made this one entirely at camp, but bound it when I got home. I just ran out of time. It was a panel that I chopped up and redid. It was for my 1.5 year old nephew for Christmas.<br />
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I started a shawl with Caterpillargreen yarn, which is made for shawls and works in such a way that every stripe stays the same height, even though you're increasing every row.</div>
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And I also started a Christmas quilt for my neice, using a jelly roll that I picked up in 108 Mile House, close to Sheridan Lake, where we went last summer. </div>
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And I used the leftovers to make this tiny quilt for my neice's cabbage patch kid, which we also got her for Christmas. </div>
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I picked up some 1/8" cotton cording and thought I'd made some bowls or something. That's pretty fine cording and I don't think I'll go that thin again. </div>
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First I made a bowl with some fabric wrapping the cord here and there. Then I made a trivet with different coloured threads.</div>
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Today I started cutting up Christmas fabric to make bunting. I'll have more to say on that when it's finished, but to sum it up, I've cut a bunch of triangles in pairs, I'll sew them right sides together, turn them right sides out, and then sew them onto purchased bias tape. I bought some off a guild member and didn't realize it was going to be so much. I also took my mother-in-law's fabric scraps and didn't realize how many Christmas fabrics there would be, nor how oddly shaped the scraps would be. So the triangles for my bunting will not all be the same size, but that's OK. We will call it modern bunting or wonky bunting - your pick.</div>
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I took three tops with me and finished one entirely. Obviously they didn't have very intricate quilting, and none of them was especially large. Two little ones got straight lines in one direction. The bigger one got loops and swoops all over. I have the two little ones waiting for labels (donations) so their binding isn't on yet. I like to stitch the label into the binding so that it's good and solid on at least two sides.<br />
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I had samples of free-motion quilting that I did in a workshop, which I bound together into a runner. I like quilt-as-you-go, and the finishing to get squares together isn't hard at all. <a href="http://keyka.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/01/attaching-the-quilt-as-you-go-blocks-together.html" target="_blank">Here's a tutorial</a> that matches what I do. I'm really happy with the way the samples went together and with the success I had with the quilting.<br />
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I started a quilt for my nephew and got it sandwiched and ready to quilt at home. It's freaking adorable, if I do say so myself. It's from a Lorax panel, which I cut up and re-arranged. My kid wanted to steal it, but it really has to go to the nephew.<br />
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I sandwiched some pre-printed Halloween placemats and got them ready to quilt at home. I saw my expert quilter auntie Robin do some line-following on a panel that made it a thousand times better than flat and I thought it would be excellent practice for me since I have a hard time following lines or my own stitches. Practice, practice, practice.<br />
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Quilter auntie Jocy recently went to England and gave me a supercute little bus tin that could be a piggy bank, and came with some lovely tea in it.<br />
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Quilter auntie Cathy was there too, and she brought her finished <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/One-Block-Wonders-Fabric-One-Kind/dp/1571203222" target="_blank">one-block wonder</a> top for show-and-tell. She was working on that at our last camp in March so it was good to see it all together. This camp, she set to work on a lot of Christmas things and made a lot of great progress.<br />
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While I'm naming names, there is a retired woman named Pat who attends all 5 or 6 of the camps that this one shop puts on each year. I see her there no matter what time of year I go. She's close to 6 feet tall, she's (I think) 85 now, she dragonboats, she skips and bounces during the fat quarter swap, and she loves to laugh. Inspiring.<br />
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I finished (they were close to done when I arrived at camp) three of <a href="http://sewsweetness.com/2014/10/crimson-clover-train-cases.html" target="_blank">these train cases</a> (no piping) and they almost killed me. All that Soft & Stable and so many layers of everything! Expert quilter auntie Robin suggested a denim needle of size 100 to get through all the thicknesses and that was the best attempt I had had on the last few steps. My machine's timing was way off with smaller needles. Mum offered to try to finish the corners on her machine because mine didn't like corners, and that worked - thanks, Mum!, so then all I had to do when I got home was the hand-sewing to seal up the linings top and bottom. My thumb is sore from pushing that needle through so many times. But I am SO HAPPY THEY ARE DONE!<br />
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I'll have pictures of all this when I am able to get them outside and take photos. It's been miserable and gray and mostly rainy lately.<br />
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I have knitting too - a pair of socks, a gray cowl, and I have a mustardy-gold cowl in progress. The gray one is <a href="https://www.purlsoho.com/create/2015/01/09/classic-cowl/" target="_blank">a Purl Soho pattern</a> that's sort of an offset brioche, and the mustardy-gold one is a basic mistake rib of no documented pattern.<br />
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<br />Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00286170049276359415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4423708632129608253.post-86296273775823266912016-11-06T18:42:00.000-08:002016-11-06T18:42:07.114-08:00love me some kootenays!So here I am again in the beautiful West Kootenays. It's a long stretch this time, which is not so great, but it did let me spend a weekend here, which I haven't done on my own before. Luckily I had an extra almost 20 hours of work to keep me busy. However, I did have time to visit with my knitting buddy from Nelson - <b>Karen!</b> We met at the junction of 3 and 6 and got into one car together. We had made plans to go to New Denver to visit the yarn/fabric store called <a href="https://sewmuchmoreyarn.com/" target="_blank">Sew Much More</a>.<br />
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On the way, we stopped at a little coffee shop called <a href="https://frogpeakcafe.com/" target="_blank">Frog Peak</a> and Karen goes there all the time, so she got hit up to knit pockets for someone's sweater. It was a really funky little shop and I can see why it's popular.<br />
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We drove through Slocan Park, Winlaw, Silverton and then got into New Denver. It wasn't a sunny day, but it wasn't raining either. Karen showed me where her knitting friends live, where she buys her eggs, and let me blow right past the street I needed to turn down to get to Sew Much More.<br />
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After I turned around, we found the shop. It was 10:38 and it opened at 10:30. Not keeners at all.<br />
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WHAT A SHOP! They probably don't have the biggest customer base, but with product like that, I'm sure she keeps things moving. She's got Sweet Georgia, Malabrigo, Madeline Tosh, Hedgehog, Regia, Cascade, big Lopi-like stuff, and SO much more (punny). I should have written it all down, but it's probably on their website. Needles from KnitPicks, Addi and Chiao Goo as well, plus another brand I can't remember right now. Really, anything you'd need for knitting, crochet or felting. On the fabric side of the shop, she has Moda solids, collections that it would be super easy to pick from for whatever project you have in mind, jelly rolls, layer cakes, charm packs, notions like needles, thread, rulers, and so on, and tons of fat quarters. All hiding in New Denver!<br />
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We spent about an hour there. I got a couple skeins of Tosh Merino light for a shawl, a fat quarter set, and a half a meter of some Christmas owl fabric. Oh, and three pens. I like the Frixion pens for writing, not for quilting, but they're getting harder to find. So I got three.<br />
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Then we went back to Silverton to the <a href="http://www.thecupandsaucercafe.ca/" target="_blank">Cup and Saucer</a>. We both had the Valhalla Salad and it was amazing.<br />
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After lunch, we walked up to a big tree we had passed on the way and Karen took some pictures of my recently-finished <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/oda-3" target="_blank">Oda</a>. In nature. On me.<br />
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My hair matches the building. Karen thought that was hilarious.</div>
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From there, we went back to the junction and split up. It rained a little bit, but nothing too bad. It was the nicest day of the week, I think. Well, since the Sunday before I got here anyway, when it was 20 degrees. It wasn't bad today either. When I went out at lunch, I had to wear sunglasses.<br />
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Anyway, on my way back from the meeting point, I saw that the lady just south of Castlegar had her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Timmy-Jeanne-Quilting-Arts-549815828484933/" target="_blank">quilt shop</a> sign out, so I turned off the highway to go into the shop she has in her house. I added a few more things to my bag there. Gotta support the local guys, right? They be having good prices in the Kootenays.<br />
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And then it was time to work.<br />
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Here's an interesting tidbit. To drink a Guinness from a can, you're supposed to pour the whole thing out of the can, with the can held completely upside-down. It doesn't foam over or anything. I think the widgit has a role in that. When you're in a hotel room, you don't have a big beer mug, so I creatively took two plastic cups and, with a single pour, filled them without spilling a drop.<br />
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Can't wait to be home on Friday!<br />
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.Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00286170049276359415noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4423708632129608253.post-9208455382348704152016-07-19T12:28:00.000-07:002016-07-19T12:28:10.415-07:00bordersI don't often add borders to my quilts, but I did add one to the Batman quilt I made for my daughter, to make it a little bigger. Plus, I was at a quilt retreat with a bunch of traditional quilters and they egged me on with it.<br />
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ANYWAY, I just saw a blog post about how you'd go about adding borders and it's exactly the way my Mum taught me to do it, so of course I like it.<br />
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Here's <a href="http://modernquilts.mqumag.com/adding-beautiful-borders/" target="_blank">the link</a>.<br />
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Have a look and give it a try. I find that this process does the squaring-up for me, so I don't have to worry about trimming a huge rectangle to square, with the difficulties that that presents.<br />
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.Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00286170049276359415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4423708632129608253.post-7062877773247016592016-07-06T19:54:00.000-07:002016-07-06T19:54:39.386-07:00sooooo sweetDoubly sweet.<br />
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Don't you love how they cross their legs like they're still on the inside?<br />
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They're only 40-inch quilts, but they look so big when the babies are so tiny. I love quilting, sewing and knitting for babies.<br />
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Congratulations to the Mum, Dad, and all the extended family. The boys are gorgeous and I'm so happy that you're happy with the quilts. *huge smile*<br />
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.Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00286170049276359415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4423708632129608253.post-73242474767427309402016-06-04T15:36:00.000-07:002016-06-04T15:36:32.552-07:00sittin and knittinIt's a hot one. Too hot, it seems, to be hidden under an 80" square quilt, wrestling with its quilting, or using an iron for piecing. So I'm knitting. House to myself and working on Oda. Dog is behaving and probably still tired from her long run yesterday.<br />
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Happy weekend!<br />
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.Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00286170049276359415noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4423708632129608253.post-91675791742752226932016-06-01T16:33:00.001-07:002016-06-01T16:33:31.097-07:00May long weekend road tripIf you only care about crafts, you can stop reading now. This is a different sort of post.<br />
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If you only care about the west Kootenay region of BC, this post is for you! Hi Karen!!<br />
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On the BC May long weekend, hubby and I hit the road and got as far as Grand Forks on Friday. We got a bit of a later start, and the traffic was as horrendous as you can imagine getting through the heavily populated areas. So Grand Forks was far enough.<br />
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We stopped in Hedley to see family and I got hugs from two young sorta-cousins, a sorta-uncle, my closest sorta-cousin, and her husband. I missed my closest sorta-cousin's sister (also my closest sorta-cousin - the two of them are kind of a set) because she was out on a ride somewhere. That will be the last time we see the sorta-uncle in downtown Hedley because they're moving this week, if they haven't moved already. So happy for them!<br />
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It was sunny and lovely in Hedley on Friday. We left, and planned to stop for dinner in Osoyoos. We had the dog with us, so after some discussion, decided to pick up Subway and eat it by the lake. It was really windy and not warm, so we ate in the car pointing at the lake. Hubby saw a lynx (he thinks) and a brown bear of some kind somewhere around the Rock Creek area.<br />
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On Saturday morning, we got up, packed up and drove past Christina Lake and down to Rossland for breakfast. On the way, we stopped at this sign:<br />
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Then we had breakfast at Clansey's in Rossland and it was really, really good. After that, we drove through Warfield, and on the way down from Warfield to Trail, you go under two train overpasses. At one of them, you see the Tunnel Pub on one side of the road and this tunnel on the other side. It doesn't go anywhere and we don't know what it's left over from, but it was a nice place to stop and have a look. While we were there, a train went overhead to Teck, carrying anhydrous ammonia for the fertilizer operation.<br />
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Then we went to downtown Trail, the Trail airport, and we did a short walk to the river on the little trail close to the airport. That's the Columbia river. It's big. It's dammed - several times. It got smokin' hot while we were down by the river, which made for a really warm walk back up to the car. On our way back to downtown Trail, we saw Ken carrying rebar. Hi Ken!<br />
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We also drove up to the part of Trail where houses were placed in a terraced fashion, and the roads are wonky and there are covered staircases that cross-cut the winding roads. You don't have to drive very far to get this high. That's the Columbia river with Teck on the left, seeming to make all the clouds out of its stacks.<br />
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On the highway between Trail and Castlegar, you have to watch for wildlife. We now know where the turkeys go when they need to get to the other side - - highway 22. When we saw the turkey jogging down the road against traffic that was going 80km/h, it wasn't near this sign. That's why she didn't cross the road. She was just running to get to the sign so she could cross, I'm sure.<br />
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We then spent time at Don's house on the way to Nelson, where we planned to stay for Saturday night. Hubby and Don went shooting in Don's backyard and scared THE CRAP out of the dog. She took off faster than I've ever seen her run and went to hide under our car.<br />
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There is apparently a loud noise every so often to scare the geese off the field. You can see why they might need that.<br />
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And the darned things breed like crazy! Cute though, right?<br />
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This mural is seen when you're coming out of the under-bridge parking area close to the lake. The bridge was orange, but they did work on the lower half of it and painted that a fresh pink colour. It's totally noticeable that halfway up the bridge there's a colour change and it bugs the heck out of Stephan, who lives in the area but not in the city.<br />
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Cutest Dairy Queen ever exists in Nelson. It's only open for 6 months of the year. While I was sitting outside with the dog, a mom came by and asked if the dog was friendly because her daughter wanted to say hello. The daughter was 2.5 years old and was super cute. She had some serious doggy tunnel-vision. We had a good chat and part of it went like this:<br />
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Dog: <whines><br />
Child: "What's she doing?"<br />
Me: "She's whining. Don't you whine?" (mocking children can be fun)<br />
Child: "No." Dead serious. Not even like she knows she's lying to me.<br />
Child's Mother: <finds it hard to suppress her laughter, as all mothers would><br />
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This is Nelson's courthouse. It's very old and very well covered in climbing plants, which makes it lovely to look at. It was designed by the same person who designed the Empress hotel in Victoria, BC.<br />
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Sunday morning we got breakfast and then we went to Kaslo, also on Kootenay "lake". We were hoping that the weather would clear up and it would be a nice day for walking around during May Days, and for watching the log rolling and whatnot. It was not nice. It was pouring. We did get out and walk to see the car show and the steam engine display, and we got the kid a shirt, but we didn't stay very long.<br />
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We were supposed to go back to Grand Forks for the night, but we would have been there so early and didn't want to do nothing, so we decided to go through New Denver, Nakusp, and then out to Vernon, Kelowna and home. We stopped at a little drive-in restaurant in Nakusp and ate at a covered picnic table. In the rain. The dog had to check it out.<br />
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We saw these <a href="http://www.domequixote.com/" target="_blank">little rental domes</a> on the road as well, but I think I have this out of order. They were probably closer to New Denver because they're close to Slocan Lake, but I should check a map. Yeah, close to New Denver.<br />
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And we took our car on a cute little ferry to get across to the Vernon side and enter the Okanagan from the Kootenays. In the rain. It was the <a href="http://arrowbridge.ca/ferry.php" target="_blank">Needles - Fauquier ferry</a> on highway 6 that crosses Upper Arrow Lake. I don't actually know where the Kootenays become the Okanagan, but I know that Vernon isn't in the Kootenays, so the division is somewhere between that ferry and Vernon.<br />
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And then we carried on home. It was a good trip with lots of driving and lots of looking around. We will have to go back and tour around the Slocan Valley and see what we can find there. And we'll also have to go right into New Denver because we didn't this time and I missed a yarn shop.<br />
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.Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00286170049276359415noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4423708632129608253.post-87649217209968487352016-05-18T22:37:00.000-07:002016-05-18T22:37:05.269-07:00modern twinsiesI got my act together and lined up the photos of the "same, but different" quilts that I did for the wee twin boys who aren't born yet. I have met their mother, through their grandmother, with whom I work. Grandma is a lovely person and I probably went overboard on these for the mother who I had only met once, but none of the effort was painful and all of it added to my experience (I still consider myself new, having quilted for only a year and a half). Also, my friend Amber advised me that it would be the, "Best gift at the shower, bitches!". She's a quilter too, and she has totally gifted quilts at showers. Heck yeah!<br />
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So anyway, here they are, before quilting, after quilting, after binding and all-things-finished, and the back:<br />
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A disappearing 9-patch that really, really disappeared.<br />
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All-over meandering, free-motion quilting that has a couple of goofy spots, but is actually follow-able. I bound them both with Kona gray and now you're thinking, "Which Kona gray?" and I don't know. It's lighter than my other Kona gray; I know that much. The colours on the front are all Free Spirit. They're kind of primary colours but kinda not, right?<br />
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Those are my slippers. I don't wear socks with sandals. My daughter does and says it's totally okay, and even pointed someone out at the mall last weekend who was wearing BLACK SOCKS with her Birkenstock-style sandals. I cringed.<br />
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The flannel for the back wasn't quite wide enough (40-inch squares is what they are), so I added a strip of white flannel.<br />
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This one uses all the same fabrics, but it's different. See why I called them "same, but different"? Again, those are my slippers. <br />
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My daughter HATES the quilting on this one. I did each quadrant with a line toward the centre, and then another out toward the edge at 90 degrees. I didn't measure them and many of them have an apex that isn't in the middle. They're wonky and I like that. The thing my daughter really dislikes is the 'diagonal' line that joins the apices (I had to look that up) of each of the 90-degree quilted lines. The apices aren't in a straight line. The 'diagonal' line jogs back and forth.<br />
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I think this one is more of a modern quilt than the other one, but they're both all solids. This one has more negative space and a wonky block design that I made up as I went along. I made them both up as I went along. They would have been BOTH made from disappearing 9-patches, but I had a bunch of 9-patches that didn't make the cut because they were too flowery. So I only had enough for one quilt and then had to come up with this one separately.<br />
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And this is the back of number 2.<br />
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Yes, that's me. Yes, I have blue hair. Yes, I'm wearing a Batman shirt. No, I don't wear socks with sandals. For the last time, those are MY SLIPPERS!!!!<br />
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.Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00286170049276359415noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4423708632129608253.post-37604776224188057202016-05-17T14:08:00.002-07:002016-05-17T14:08:58.360-07:00startitis and a linky postI have a bad, bad case of startitis. That's when you start everything. All of it. All the things.<br />
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I have just finished three pillowcases and three pairs of pyjama shorts in the past week.<br />
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I've cut fabric for a topper for a big chest that will serve as a side table in the living room, and which is too dear to damage in any way.<br />
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I've still got that round robin quilt sitting there with the pins in, waiting for the rest of its quilting.<br />
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I've completed two quilt tops that are 36" square, which will be donated to the preemie program at a local hospital. They need to be sandwiched, quilted and bound. (That should be quick because they're small and I'll do the binding on the machine.) They were made with some <a href="https://www.rileyblakedesigns.com/shop/product/c945-black/" target="_blank">Riley Blake fabric</a> that I received from the Modern Quilt Guild in a challenge, but I couldn't procure the necessary fabrics to finish them up and get them entered (I had to use <i>other </i>fabrics). The Riley Blake fabric, though, was super easy to work with and aside from it being 3/4 of a yard long rather than the width of fabric (the design runs parallel to the selvedges), it's perfect. I suppose if you bought 2 yards and wanted great lengths of it, you'd be annoyed if there were only 40ish inches of it based on the width.<br />
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I've been downloading patterns like crazy and am itching to make <a href="https://blankslatepatterns.com/collections/women/products/oceanside-pants-and-shorts" target="_blank">summer pants and shorts</a>.<br />
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I've got a paper-piecing project planned. Just a mini, but it's got 20,000+ pieces and I want to get it done and out of the way soon. It's for a girl at work. She will probably outwardly scoff at it, but she's a prickly pear and I know she'll be thinking sweet thoughts on the inside.<br />
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I have some abandoned pieces from a disappearing 9-patch that will come together to be a quilt of their own, with only a little bit more sewing. And maybe some really bold orange added to it. That'll be a wild one. I hope the other girl at work is having a girl. She won't know for a couple weeks, but if it turns out that it's a girl, this quilt is ear-marked for that baby.<br />
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My walking foot broke the other day. It's <a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31Sif6L8aBL._SY355_.jpg" target="_blank">this one</a>. I only bought my Janome 8900 Quilter's Edition last August, and I had the world's best experience at <a href="http://www.toews.com/" target="_blank">Toew's</a>, where I bought the machine. No questions, no issues, just a new part. WOOT! So because of that, I thought it best to support this local business just a little bit more and so I also got the 1/4" foot for the walking food (Accufeed), and I picked up a 'teflon' foot for doing a project with vinyl as well.<br />
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That's the other project I've got started - the sewing machine mat from <a href="https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjXu_H4_-HMAhUW52MKHXJuDhUQtwIIKDAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DtRb9RRO1j48&usg=AFQjCNFudsI69rK3g_YWw3d9T1nSIsuD4Q&sig2=A44ZcRUFNEiIC4_-ffL5rQ&bvm=bv.122129774,d.cGc" target="_blank">Make It, Take It</a>. It's made with selvedges on muslin, and then quilted onto batting and a back, and you add the vinyl to the front bit that hangs down in front of your machine so you can put things into pockets that you stitch into the vinyl. It's going to be epic - I'm making it as wide as my machine plus plexi-table, not just the width of the machine. Hopefully my machine will be a little quieter. Not that it's terribly noisy now, but it isn't silent and I don't have a sewing room with a door. I have a nook area off the kitchen, just around the corner from the TV-watching area.<br />
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So .... yeah. You can see that I'll have lots of things to show you in a while, but they aren't done yet. It's because I keep starting other things.<br />
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(Truth be told, I have finished a set of two baby quilts for twins that a friend's daughter is expecting, but I haven't got the photos available right now, so they'll have to come later too.)<br />
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.Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00286170049276359415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4423708632129608253.post-24693629768739608682016-04-02T22:36:00.000-07:002016-04-02T22:36:10.823-07:00unending scraps #scraps4lifeI sewed the 2-patches into 4-patches and then the 4-patches into 8-patches (so much chain-piecing!!), prepping to create the 16-patches.<br />
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My scraps that would become 16-patches don't really go together to become quilts at this time. Know what that means? I need to make more 8-patches and see what happens, or build frames for 8-patches or tall 16-patches and tie them together that way. Just having a white buddy on each little square isn't enough to bring cohesion.<br />
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So this project will continue. I'll keep building new quilts and creating new scraps, and eventually it'll work out. It's all good.<br />
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.Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00286170049276359415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4423708632129608253.post-40431539456425847392016-03-24T13:23:00.000-07:002016-03-24T13:23:37.231-07:00scrap happyI went to quilt camp this past weekend. I intended to do the quilting on my round robin top but I just got it pinned. I didn't really have enough room to quilt it there. I also have no idea how I'm going to quilt it. I did get my 12-inch mini finished - I'll be sending that one to the Maritimes for a swap.<br />
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And the back is pretty cute too.<br />
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It was fun to tinker with. The paper airplanes are paper-pieced and that was really my first time doing that. Then I chopped them down and improv-pieced them back to square. I did pretty minimal quilting, but I'm happy with the jetstreams and the ghost cloud that echoes the back.<br />
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I also finished a quilt for a coworker's daughter. They have both been sick lately so I don't know when I'll get it to her, but at least it's done.<br />
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I love love love the pink stripe binding on this one. And the owls (Riley Blake) in the centre of each square are totes adorbs. I have a really cute fabric on the back that looks like inter-lined paper. There's the odd word and picture, but it's mostly blank. I don't mind if she writes on it when she's able to - I did. No label required!<br />
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At camp I also made a pair of oven mitts that you can't get your thumbs into. I'll head to the store for the Easter weekend sale and get more Insulbrite and see if I can make a better pair. I'll actually have the current set of mitts to use as a template instead of going from memory, which is sure to result in success.<br />
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I had a terrible time with cheap flannelette squares on the weekend - I made a few nine-patches and then decided that I didn't like the fabrics or the way they were going to go together. They'll be orphan blocks for a while.<br />
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Remember how I was sorting my scraps? I went a little crazy with the 2.5" squares. I decided to sew them to a 2.5" strip of Kona White, and then realized how quickly you could eat up a meter of fabric doing that.<br />
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I got 17 squares on each strip and I had about 21 strips in the end. Then I ironed the seams and opened them all up. Then I spent some time meticulously cutting them into their white-and-x sets.<br />
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And sorting them into colour stacks and colour families.<br />
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And then planning all the 16-patches and stacking them for sewing. <br />
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It's going to be an interesting design exercise to line up the 16-patches that can go together into a quilt. I still have 2 stacks of 2.5" squares, so I can carry on and provide more options if I need to, and I can also sock them away and wait for more scraps to be born. I'm going to do 2.5" strips instead of squares wherever I can, though. Squares are finicky.<br />
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<br />Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00286170049276359415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4423708632129608253.post-41568956396158690732016-02-19T17:57:00.000-08:002016-02-19T17:57:41.257-08:00let's try that againI wrote a bit and then I paused it (without saving) to go take a crappy cell phone picture. I lost the writing. Rookie mistake.<br />
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So I just finished this Hayley's Comet shawl, with a different colour arrangement than in the pattern because I was using odds and ends:<br />
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It isn't really properly blocked. Just enough for me to weave in the ends, and then I may block it again with pins. Maybe.<br />
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I'm going to cast on the Antler sweater this evening and I'm stoked. It doesn't actually have antlers on it. It's a fingering-weight sweater with interesting details like the saddle shoulders, garter cowl, coloured sleeve ends and things like that.<br />
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She's helping me ball the yarn. I do it by hand because I enjoy it.<br />
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And here it is all balled. It's four 50g skeins all wound up together with the ends felted together to make it think that it's one big 200g ball. It's a big beast. I can't wait to cast on. But first I shall take my daughter for Thai food and we will grab something from the coffee shop on the way home. That's very exciting - I don't have Thai very often.<br />
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This new knitting project is going to live in the new project bag. The yarn is excited about that.<br />
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I finally finished cutting up the scraps to get them under control. This is all the widths going into individual baggies. I'm so happy with this organized state. The 2.5x2.5-inch squares are stacked separately and I have a plan for them now. I'm going to sew them to a 2.5-inch strip of white and then press them and cut them apart. Then they'll all have a white buddy and I can play with layouts and see what sort of scrappy wonderfulness I can come up with.<br />
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I started today by quickly sewing up some fleece for lining the guinea pig cage. They have some, but another set was necessary. I hope they enjoy their new mango-coloured bedding.<br />
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Then I moved on to the camping ponchos. We had bought $5.99 'beaver blankets', knowing that we'd need three for the ponchos and a fourth to fashion hoods for them. My husband grew up in Beavers/Scouts, so he is delighted to be able to use these type of blankets again. I even had 2/5 of a blanket left for our wee doggie to lie on.<br />
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After that, I whipped up a quick burrito-pattern pillowcase using some Batman flannelette with a plain black cuff. Daughter can never have enough Batman.<br />
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I made a larger sized knitting project bag and the coolest thing about this flannelette fabric is that it looks like knitting! It's perfect and I love it. I got the fabric at the January destash that was conducted at my modern quilt guild meeting this year.<br />
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After that, I decided that I couldn't make anything work the way I wanted to with my leftover purple-and-green rail fence blocks. So I'm going to make a table runner. Who doesn't need a purple-and-green table runner?<br />
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And in the middle of all that, I did some grocery shopping, picked up bubble tea and Starbucks and made escargot. Oh, and I watched a movie and did some knitting. What a day!<br />
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.Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00286170049276359415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4423708632129608253.post-84263313848627957782016-02-09T13:52:00.001-08:002016-02-09T13:52:26.243-08:00chop chopI'm working on organizing my fabric scraps. I'm about 2/3 of the way through. It's a year-and-a-bit's worth of scraps, so nothing too crazy, but enough that it's taking me days to get through it. It's a lot of work getting organized, and it's a pain in the butt when you cut at a kitchen table. Well, more like a stress on the back than a pain in the butt, I suppose. I'm breaking it up with knitting and eating.<br />
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Can you believe that I've been collecting selvedges for just as long? And not only my own, but my Mum's and anyone else's who wanted to donate them when I was at quilt camp. I have enough now. I will figure out a way to use them and it will be awesome. Later.<br />
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.Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00286170049276359415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4423708632129608253.post-51193233040742815302016-01-31T19:03:00.001-08:002016-01-31T19:03:38.535-08:00I made a thingThere's a guy at work who is expecting (I think he's still expecting) his first baby with his lovely wife. She was actually due Friday. We shall see if he is at work on Monday.<br />
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They are the rare ones who haven't asked for their baby's gender before they meet him or her. The mother's favourite colour is purple, so I paired it with green and made them a little 30" square stroller quilt.<br />
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I just lost a bunch of knitting- related words. This blog doesn't want to be about knitting anymore.<br />
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This one uses the browns and dusky blue from my fat quarter stack of Elementary. Love those prints. O feel so nerdy when I look at the one with calculations (no solutions, though).<br />
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This one (below) uses a coordinating few from a collection I found at a local chain store. I think the aunt who is receiving these prefers this one. It does offer more contrast and the design is eye-catching.<br />
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She doesn't know she's getting both, though. They were designed for her, so she may as well get them both. It'll help prevent table-runner-boredom as well. Not that she will be staring at the table runners for the bulk of her days anymore .... The casts are off and Auntie TwoBrokenLegs actually took some steps outside today!!! Such progress. I'm so happy for her.<br />
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<br />Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00286170049276359415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4423708632129608253.post-35519213134465760272015-12-26T10:52:00.000-08:002016-01-14T16:55:26.435-08:00fun with half-square trianglesYou don't always have to have a crystal-clear plan when plotting a project using half-square triangles (HSTs). If you know the size you want to end up with, and the number of squares you'll need, you can leave the layout and see what suits your fancy later. On second thought .... seems a bit reckless. Maybe only I do that.<br />
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