blue and brown

trying to make a little quilt.

was inspired by something in this book.

was some extra fabric from the
sunshine happiness log cabin quilt
and
a blender pack.
and
a piece of hounds tooth brown and turquoise and cream woven silk from ages ago...

-shrug-

it was supposed to be a birthday gift, but first i have
to just figure out how to do the free motion quilting so
it doesn't look awful.

Quilting along ...

with another crazy mom
hopefully I'll be able to keep up

YIKES!!!
i'll definitely be learning some much needed skills!

sunshine happiness log cabin quilt

YEAH!
all the blocks have been sewn up...somehow i lost about 1/2 inch on them...guess i need to be more diligent when using my quilting guide to get the perfect 1/4" seam. (YEAH RIGHT)

so here are the pieces...

next step sew the blocks together



then the outside borders,
then the quilt sandwich (still waiting for the batting to come)
and then quilting...

this was supposed to be a duvet cover, can't decide if I should just make a second KING size quilt out of it or a quilted duvet cover or just a pieced duvet cover...
my sister, my inpiration, what do you think???

My sister, my inspiration

Oh, I miss knitting! I've been nose-to-the-grindstone trying to finish my Montessori diploma work (long story) ... and I had to put my knitting down. I want it!

I have gotten a few colleagues started with their first lace project, a lovely shawl called Cascading Leaves. I donated some lovely lace yarns from my stash. And yes, I have enough stash to "give away" yarn to 4 folks and not have touched the stuff I love...so? It's killing me not to be able to work ahead of them, even though I know I'll be able to catch up eventually.

I just finished making a beautiful knit afghan. I'll post some pictures of the work in progress and then the final object. I nudged a team of about a dozen knitters to make 80 squares for the blanket; we each knit mitered squares in striking pairs of colors. Then a handful of us sewed all of those squares together, and those big squares into strips, and then the strips into the afghan. And then I knit a mile of "attached I-cord" to give it a lovely clean edge. I calculated that it was likely about 200 person-hours of work... next time I'm gonna keep it, I say!

Can't wait to get my hands back on yarn!

Catalogs as inspiration

lately, i've taken to ripping pictures of quilts out of catalogs before I recycle them
and browsing my favorite houseware and clothing websites, enlarging and copying
diagrams onto postits. then I spend a few minutes to an hour graphing the quilt and putting it in my book.

now if I could only figure out what fabrics to use for my imaginary knock off catalog/website quilts.

hmmm.



oh anthropologie, how i love you.