Category: Making

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Collecting Blocks

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These beautiful things have been sneaking into my mail box for the last 6 weeks or so as the ladies of Sew.Quilt.Give. finish their block assignments for March. I’m waiting on a few more, but I’ve already collected 24 blocks. With my current layout plan, this is either going to be a redonkulously huge quilt or potentially two quilts. No way is this project going to be done by the end of June! In the meantime, I’ve finished the April blocks. These are super easy and quick! We’re doing a version of the Lemon Squares quilt, which isn’t that far …

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Appropriate Scaling

 

It’s Kids’ Clothing Week! KCW has become a seasonal, four times per year event now, complete with it’s own blog, Instagram, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest. If you’ve got kids to sew for, this is a great nudge to get you going, and it comes with a whole community of people to cheer you on. Unlike every other year so far, I’m trying to keep my KCW goals to something reasonable and achievable. Also, Caitlyn’s doing pretty well for clothes right now, so there’s not a lot of dire needs at the moment. So, I’m making a dress, a pair …

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One at at time

 

Not that it will do me any good, but here goes: Start no more than one Block-of-the-Month project per year. I mean, really. What was I thinking? Three BOMs at a time, plus a monthly bee? And my Wardrobe Improvement Project? And everything else: Caitlyn, garden, house, work? Next time, someone please say something! Anyway. I’ve finally finished all the official blocks for In Color Order’s Half-Square Triangle BOM. I seem to have lost steam with it back in June. Or at least, that’s when I last posted about this project. This is October’s block. I seem to have it …

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One More Reason to Love the Internet

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The crazy quilt I posted about a few weeks ago is on it’s way to a new home! I can’t even begin to fathom how this would have gone if there were no Internet. Probably the challenge of finding a good home for this quilt would have ensured that it continued to live under my sewing table. Instead of writing a blog post and a small collection of emails, I would have had to print actual, physical photographs and write actual, physical letters to strangers asking for help. Not to mention that I wouldn’t have had the slightest idea where …

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With Regret, I Must Decline

Too many invitations, not nearly enough time! So, in a rare case of taking stock of things before leaping in, I’m going to have to pass up Stitched in Color‘s newly launched Scrap Attack: String Fever, even though I’ve been waiting a year or more for Rachel to host a second Scrap Attack. However, I can’t play this time. Not for lack of scraps, or even a lack of strings. Not for lack of interest in string quilts, either. It’s just that I’ll never get to the other projects I’ve started or have queued up if I don’t stop saying …

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Baggie Binge-ing

 

I’ve made a lot of Lined Drawstring Bags of late. There were all the ones I made for Christmas candy gifting, then two for my Sew Grateful winners back in February. I made this one for Dianne, the woman who has cut my hair for the last eight years, for her retirement. It was a bit fussy to make since I wanted to showcase the Laurel Burch dogs (I only had a few small pieces anyway). Once I finished the bag, I realized I didn’t like the blue I’d used for the contrast at the top – too light – …