March 2012
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February 2012
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My Quilting Aunties
I stopped into Button Box in Wellesley today to grab another half yard of a fabric I was short on for Aidan’s quilt and to have a chat with one of the many little hens who work there about a conceptual problem I was having with the wedding quilt.
Enough people have given me significantly more fabric than I need that I was thinking of backing the quilt in spare fabric from people and emblems...
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Wedding Chuppah Quilt
For our wedding in June, I’ve asked our friends and relatives to mail us fabric with their RSVPs. Now invitations haven’t gone out yet, but I’ve gotten a bunch from people I see regularly so that I could begin already. In my mind, I need a minimum of 25 blocks, I have a goal of 36, and the most I could do without it becoming ridiculous is 64.
There are 200 invited guests...
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January 2012
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2011 Retrospective
This is what I accomplished in 2011:
Rose’s 30th Birthday “Friendship Block” (January)
Taco’s “Trip Around the World” (March)
Tara’s 30th Birthday “Friendship Block” (March)
My Wool/Denim “Rail Fence” Monstrosity - which I should have a better shot of as it’s wound up on my bed - for chilly weather - but I...
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Big Boy Bed
Over Christmas (and untouched since then, sadly) I also started a quilt for my nephew for a different type of graduation - he’s about to turn 2 and has a toddler bed in his future. His parents are big baseball fans - so I picked a pattern with a bit of a baseball diamond shape to it - this Snowball Nine Patch.
It may be a little hard to see the baseball diamond in the demonstration colors...
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Lindsay's Graduation Quilt
Over the Christmas holiday, I made a quilt for my little sister as a college graduation/christmas present. After a triumphant victory lap, she graduated from Kutztown university with a Bachelor’s in Sociology - and I couldn’t be prouder of her.
The Kutztown mascot is the Golden Bear, so I went with this Bear Paw block.
This shot shows the motif in detail:
Here’s the whole...
November 2011
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Girl Scout Quilt All Done (ish)
Back in July, I finished this one (except for the free-motion-middles, ran out of time) and then took it right to Girl Scout Camp and used it. I was very pleased with myself.
Some day I’ll get to those middles…I hope. I figured out how to do them…I also figured out that it’s not as hard as I thought.
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Nathan & Natalie's Wedding Quilt Done
In a spree in September I finished Nathan & Natalie’s wedding quilt, literally just in time to leave…actually I was still snipping threads on the car ride up and didn’t end up wrapping it. Worst, presentation ever- here’s your wedding gift…in this trash bag. For the middles, I ended up finding pictures of continuous line paths online, blowing them up in...
June 2011
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Free Motion
I just signed up for a free motion quilting class at the Button Box Quilt Shop, so that I can learn the technique necessary to do the quilting for Nathan & Natalie’s wedding quilt. I don’t want to start on that, so I’m whipping up another project to learn on. I was camping with part of my Girl Scout family over Memorial Day weekend and a friend had made a quilt out of...
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May 2011
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April 2011
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March 2011
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Next steps.
Once I have binding on Grandma’s Army Blanket and the rest of Trip Around the World quilted & bound I have three more in progress.
1) Shena’s Friendship Scrap (cut, needs assembling)
2) My stashbuster with the rest of the Friendship Scrap Block material. (cut, needs assembling)
3) Nathan & Natalie’s Wedding Quilt. (fabric bought)
The block for theirs is this one:
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The hope chest!
I got it, not a big surprise, I suppose. It’s now happily in my closet, keeping moths out of my stuff.
This last one I find some cross between creepy and hilarious. If you send them $0.10, they’ll tell you everything you need to know about arrangements before the wedding…and after. It’s the italics, I think. Sex ed in disguise?
February 2011
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