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Sew.Quilt.Give. News

 

Now that I’ve recovered (tee hee) from the Most Epic Quilt that was the result of me being “in charge” at Sew.Quilt.Give. in March 2013, I can move forward with the March 2014 quilt. I hope I’ve kept this one easier and smaller. I missed out on the Scrappy Trip Along that whipped around the interwebs last year, so that’s what I asked for. I requested ocean blues and greens, referencing the Pacific along the Central California Coast as a color guide. I’m planning a Barn Raising layout, just as soon as I clean up enough of the floor. If …

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Marching By

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Things that happened in March: Caitlyn played two roles, Mellifleur and Maudlin, in Robin Hood, her latest theatre production at Youth Theatre Northwest. She’s looking forward to Alice@Wonderland in the summer. I finally managed to meet one of our homeschool goals, getting Caitlyn and I to SAM for Free First Thursday. This time we saw the Miró exhibit. Now, I just have to do it again! The peas came up. We saw a presentation of National Geographic Live: The Secret Life of Wolves. Caitlyn cried at the end. I joined the Seattle Modern Quilt Guild, my first quilt guild membership …

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Sew.Quilt.Give Block Update

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Sew.Quilt.Give. asked for Wonky Churn Dash blocks (tutorial here) in pinks and at any size for February. I’m super curious how this quilt is going to turn out. The Churn Dash is an old (traditional) quilt block and although I think of myself more as a “traditional” quilter (as opposed to “modern”), this one has never really appealed. I think the wonkiness helps, though. The blocks we made last June have reappeared as a finished quilt. Check it out. I quite like how this one came out: it’s scrappy but not overwhelmingly so; I like the diamond chains in the …

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Sew.Quilt.Give. Update

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Sew.Quilt.Give., the online quilting bee I participate in, is back for another year of charity quilting. January’s blocks were based on this tutorial from In Color Order. Look familiar? I’ve made this block before. This month’s bee leader has asked for brights, so I hope these will blend nicely with all the other blocks. I did use prints, but they are of the tone-on-tone variety, so they almost read as solids. Also, I don’t think the orange is quite this aggressive in reality; orange is tricky to photograph well, I think. While we’re talk SQG, I’m attaching the binding to …

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A Most Epic Quilt Project

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Ok, that’s a bit grandiose of a title. But wow, this project got big! This is the quilt top for last March for Sew.Quilt.Give. March was my month to request block contributions. I asked for square-in-square blocks in a range of sizes with the vague idea that I could float them on point in a spacious background. I’d this quilt from Canton Village Quiltworks in mind, with a touch of this one and this one. Next time, I really need to bust out the graph paper and turn those vague ideas into something concrete. I started off putting a creamy …

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Bee Blocks

 

I’ve been a bit of a slacker about getting my blocks for Sew.Quilt.Give. posted. So, three months worth, all at once! In September, we did “slabs”, a term I’ve never encountered before for a large, single color block. Our inspiration/example quilt came from Dining Room Empire. This block is 21 inches square… trust me, that’s big. But I don’t think I have any red bits left in the scrap basket! Next up, we made Xs and Os (or Kansas Dugout, depending), with a white background and “boy” colors. I don’t know if these are boy colors, exactly, but it’s not …