tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13433558965817935042024-11-01T06:34:12.029-04:00My quilting life and everything that goes with it.Brandiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00698355673527117118noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1343355896581793504.post-65981873595401585822012-03-13T05:00:00.000-04:002012-03-13T05:00:07.689-04:00

I finally got it finished. It's only been a few years in the making. I had purchased this honey bun a while ago and decided to make a string quilt with it.  It is rather on the smallish size where the color is and it has a lot of negative space. I was contemplating cutting it right down the middle and sewing it back together so a bit of color would be on each side. I still don't know if

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I'm still around and kicking. I have been adjusting to my new job at work and let me tell it some days it has been completely overwhelming. Some days I just come home make dinner for my family and head right up to bed. This has made my quilting take a backseat for the past three weeks, but I'm getting back into the swing of things. I had signed up a while back for The Love of

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I have ask my bee group to make me wonky stars. I'm positive there are other tutorials for this but after a week of scouring the internet and read multiple prints at work I don't feel up to the task. So here it is. I started off with 5in white solid squares-8 of them A 5in square in either aqua, yellow or gray-1 pieces of aqua, gray or yellow fabric At first we only need 4 of

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I haven't posted in a while but I have some fun stuff to share over the next couple of days. Today i have been sewing but I'm of for some mother daughter time and then tonight I'm going to a the Pacers game with my MIL. Have I mentioned that I HEART basketball. As a matter of fact I may not sew anything other than my obligations next month...so I can watch all the march madness!!!

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I have finished 12 so far!

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Progress on my Strips.  I had wanted to work on something else and made myself sit down with this box. What was really holding me back was a lack of space to lay them all out. Instead i though them all it a box and staggered them as I sewed them together. I them sewed the strips into groups of 8 and laid them across the bannister Nice machine shot and the ends of the strips all

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Here is my practice swoon. I was hand quilting it with the chunky stitches. so far I have the purple done and aim to have the green done by the time the Superbowl is over. I also went to the Superbowl sale at my LQS. UMMMM 75% off the clearance room. plus prizes and discounts on regular stuff.  I also decided to make my swoon quilt with Prince Charming

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My hourglass quilt top is finished! I may or may not add a border before quilting this but for now the top is finished and it's off to the pile of things to quilt. The close up of it. This was made with The Caroler fabric I got somewhere. I can't really remember. I wasn't so sure I like it and I know I don't really like the fabrics up close but when I look at them as a grouping and don't

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In my Bee Creative bee group Miss Januray asked for a Union Jack. She said use whatever you wanted to use. I used Kona white, that red that reminds me of coral and a steel gray blue. This is the block I finally mailed off to her Monday. I had started to make myself a practice block and thought cause I conquered a quarter of it that I was good. It was my first time paper piecing and

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Here we are and it's Wednesday again.   I missed last week but no problem cause I didn't get anything done. This weekend I got my hourglass blocks all sewn together. This is a great baby blanket size but I think I'll a border to it and make it a little bigger and give it to a cousin for Christmas. The just bought their first house and I think a bright quilt might be nice.

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I, the most unluckiest person finally one something.  Three charm packs of Silent film. I won from Tammie and Fat Quarter Shop I was participating in the Shades of grey swap so now I have plenty to make a lovely quilt with grey and some pop of color. If only  could decide on my pop of color.  THANK YOU  Tammie and Fat Quarter Shop

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Well In the Sew Happy Quilt Along I'm am caught back up, until tomorrow :)  I was crazy busy at work week 3 for the template star. Then over the weekend I was having a difficult time with my printer. Turns out somehow when I plugged the printer into the USB and the computer decided to reload the software for the printer it made it a different

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I am having a day from crap!!!  I started to try and print off a template and I can't get the printer to print. All my tricks have been exhausted. Since I use a laptop It's not always hooked to the printer and It decided to be a mule.  So I figured I'd go and just sew some stuff that I don't need a template for. First my sewing machine that just came back from the repair shop

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It's Friday and I've finished something. A while back I was in a mug rug swap. I liked one of them so much that I was going to make myself, my mom, and my grandma one. Well my friends that never happened. The extras got sweep to the wayside. So this past week I have been organizing my sewing nook and found them. I decided to make one into a mug rug for a co-worker. She's from a much warmer

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Set the scene:  10pm on a Thursday night. Lady in polar bear jammie pants and a cardigan, fresh from watching Grey's Anatomy, eyes probably a little puffy from the tears. Outside taking pictures of a quilt top cause she was to lazy to do it when she got home from work.  Even more fun bonus to this crazy. The lady across the street who happens to work at my top secret

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So here we are again, it's Wednesday and I have made some progress :)  Make Life Tumblers is finished. I'm not showing the complete finished top because I need to get pictures. I finished this up yesterday and it seemed ok as I was sewing it up, but as I hung it on the clothes line I realized it's really long and not very wide. It's not a very cuddly size.  

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Here are my week two blocks.  From the Sew.Happy.Geek QA. I had some unexpected time off from work this past week and went ahead and started on my blocks. The first block I made was this friendship block. It was pretty easy although I'm not sure I really like the colors but I'm just going to keep it until I have all the blocks and then I'll decide. I really like the printed fabric

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I'm participating in the Sew.Happy.Geek quilt-a-long. This is going to make a throw size quilt. I choose to go with the teal, orange, grey and white color scheme. Week 1 blocks were pretty easy. You have and snowball block and a woven block. It was pretty nice to shop from my faric I had a home. I don't have a ton in these colors so it may be a bit limited but I think it will be

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This past summer my lqs was offering a BOM using thangles. The most awesome part is that it was only a six dollar joining fee and as long as I Bring the blocks back in the correct month the kit is only a dollar. This quilt will make a twin size when It's completed. It will involve doing a littler more to each block considering they are roughly 6.25 inches big.  So I don't know

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I made my practice swoon yesterday afternoon. I have to say it makes a lovely block but boy was it time consuming. I think once I really get into the blocks for my quilt it will be easier, since today I was just cutting for one block. I did chain piece all my pieces. I took the time to pin everything and mark the lines and then sewed them all at on time. I pressed everything and then set up

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I know this is a complete contradiction to yesterdays post...But as I sit here looking at everyone's swoon blocks from the Swoon-along Flickr group. I just want to make my swoon now! I joined the group with the full intention of making it a little later like next month. I know think after I get my house work done I'm going to go up and make a practice block. I'm going to practice with

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Along with me sewing goals. I have many many unfinished projects. They are in various stages and while I was cleaning my sewing nook out over the weekend I keep finding a bag here or a plastic tote there with the different projects in them. As part of  2012 I realized I need to have my crap together. Not only in my quilting but in my personal life as well but for this blog and this time I'm

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And have won! It only wasted 4 sheets if paper, along with multiple paper piecing videos on YouTube, along with completely given me a tension headache, and completely given me a tension headache. But I have one quarter of it done on my practice block. I also don't think one cuss word left my mouth. Hehehehe they were all inside my head. Paper piecing is kinda hard folks. I can't

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If I sign up for one more thing on flickr! I think I've gone out of control. It all started with doing one bee block group. Then another. Then a swap and then Another swap. OK so 4 things really isn't that much but when I add in all my WIP, and the BOMs I signed up for at my LQS.  I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. I know I can do this I just need to work out a schedule for it. Secondly I

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I really need to get my clutter under control  In a previous post I said I wasn't making anything homemade for Christmas. That all changed as I was window shopping for fabric and saw this fabric bundle. You see my in-laws are all about the beach. going to the beach, dreaming about selling all there belongings and driving the car till it dies and then getting a place

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