February 2011
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Hope Chest
I’ve started looking for a cedar chest on craigslist. I think it’s probably good to have as I have started to accumulate knit/quilted things for people that it’s not quite time to present. Also, it would be nice to put some quilts for me in as well.
I found some promising leads:
And I was TOTALLY into this one…until:
The guy turned it into a cat latrine! The...
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Grandma's Army Blanket.
I recently acquired 10 trashbags of fabric…of varying vintage and description. Over an entire bag’s worth was wool and so I decided to make what I’m calling Grandma’s Army Blanket. I have pieced about 50 of the 100 squares I think I’d like to put in it (it was quick). Here’s a shot of a few laying on the floor:
Some of the fabrics are a little scratchy,...
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Friendship scrap #2
In the past week-ish, I cut the fabric for both of the other friendship scrap quilts and fully assembled the top for the first one (which is due March 18th)
I also have been generating a lot of little scraps in the cutting of all that, so I decided to put something together for myself with leftover squares and some scraps…I’m turning 30 too!
I’m still working out the layout...
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Clearly bitten by the bug...
While in the basement of the quilt shop, pinning the first quilt… I found a great fabric with nails on it.
Later, on Etsy (<3) I found fabric with tag-along-campers on it. My girlfriend is a carpenter, but also is restoring a tag-along-camper to do a great handyman roadtrip leaving in April. I decided to make her a quilt for the bed in the trailer which will be a going away present.
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How this began.
This year, some of my best friends are turning 30 - after 12 years of friendship - and a lot of ups and downs - I decided to make them all quilts. It seems like a fitting tribute.
I decided this January 5th and began by choosing a pattern - I settled on the friendship scrap block - and cut up some fabric I had laying around the house to try it out.
The next day (a Friday), I went to...
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Quilts.
I started making a quilt randomly in college. I think I was trying to de-stress or procrastinate or something. I got as far as a 3’ x 3’ top…and then stopped…used it as sewing machine cover for a few years. Then a friend had a baby and I finished it and gave it to them. So that quilt took…7 years?
In between when I started and finished that quilt I made a...
