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FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2014


BRAG SHEET: 2013


I tried carrying the weight of the world
But I only have two hands.
Hope I get the chance to travel the world,-
But I don't have any plans.
–Wake Me Up, written by Tim Bergling, Aloe Blacc and Mike Einziger, performed by
Avicci

I wasn't going to do a post about all of my 2013 projects because it didn't
really seem like there were many. But I've enjoyed the other 2013 posts, so I
looked over my index page and was surprised that even though it seemed like slow
going, I got a nice bit of sewing done this year.

First are the projects I put together using Pat Bravo's Indie fabric line. I
made two Stitchy Kits, designed by Lori Holt {pattern here}. I gave one away and
kept one for myself. And I made a folded fabric star and put it on a tote bag.
Somehow, Pat sussed me out and invited me to enter her Instagram contest, which
I won. I received a half-yard bundle of Carnaby Street as my prize {by the way,
I still need a sewcation} and Pat used the photo of my folded fabric star as the
header on her Flickr page. The post of the finished fold star tote bag is my
most popular post of all time, with 9,822 9,823 9,826 visits to date.



I put together a few other non-quilty things this year: two Christmas ornaments
in January, stragglers from Christmas 2012; a Christmas table runner for a lady
I know whose birthday is on December 24th; a new reversible ironing board cover;
a Magicka Wizard's robe for Grasshopper's Halloween costume; and two little
booklet holders.



Although this has nothing to do with sewing, I was inspired by Shay, who
included her travels in her 2013 wrap-up post, and thought I'd throw in our
family vacation with a few days at Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, a few days at
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming and a quick drive-by of Grand Tetons,
Wyoming. Fun stuff! More family travel is definitely in our future.




And finally, even though it didn't feel like it, I got a few quilts done; a
Drunkard's Path, Ripples, for a friend for her birthday; a 4" square mini for
LadyBug's report on Pennsylvania {which is where the Amish live and the Amish
are famous for quilting} and which ended up as a quilt for her Guard Lizard,
Gilbert; a scrappy baby quilt, Little Boy Blue, for a friend's new baby; a
framed Double Wedding Ring, Echoes of Eternity, for a wedding gift in the
bride's colors; a zig-zag quilt, Miss Butterfly's Flower Garden, for my niece,
Miss Butterfly, to use on her bed; a batik quilt, Sea Glass, for a friend for
her birthday; and even though I didn't make the quilt top, I'm counting the
quilting I did for P. on her String Ring Dresden as a finish for me as well. At
75" x 95", it is the biggest quilt I've done.



I'm excited for 2014. My goal for this year is not to over commit. I have loads
of Ph.D quilts that I want to work on and I've made out a mental list of things
I want to work on, but I'm leaving it open to see what inspires me.




Today's post brought to you by:

Posted by Elizabeth at 5:25 PM 2 comments
Tags: 2013 Finishes, Batiks, Christmas, Double Wedding Ring, Dresden, Drunkard's
Path, Fabric Crushes, Garment Construction, Gifts, Go Big or Go Home,
Grasshopper, Instagram, LadyBug, Lori Holt, Music, Pat Bravo, Scrap Quilt,
Zig-Zag Quilt



SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2013


P.'S STRING RING DRESDEN: FINISHED AT LAST


Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.
Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find that you have crossed the
mountain. –Unknown

First, welcome to all my new followers! I've had about 25 new people jump aboard
my crazy train in the last 24 hours. I'm glad you're all here! If you don't mind
me asking, what or who sent you my way? I can tell something is going on over at
The Facebook and that it has something to do with my Folded Fabric Star, but I
haven't been able to trace the source. I'd love to be let in on the secret. I
hope no one is promising you big things, because it is slow going over here
right now. Case in point, the quilt I'm about to show.

P. mailed this quilt to me on December 12th. I mailed it back to her all quilted
on December 20th. Now, that sounds pretty awesome, doesn't it? Fastest quilting
job ever, right? Not so much. She mailed it on December 12, 2012 and I mailed it
back on December 20, 2013. And I actually could have mailed it earlier this
week. Procrastination at its finest. {Hangs head in shame.} P. has been more
than patient with me, which I truly appreciate. I hope her patience is rewarded.

I put the quilt on LadyBug's bed for a little photo shoot. My camera didn't like
the light quality, so it is a little blurry. But here it is. Finished! Aside
from the unbound edges, it kind of looks like it belongs there. {Sidebar: Isn't
LadyBug's bed pretty? I bought assemble-it-yourself bedroom sets for Grasshopper
and LadyBug seven or eight years ago. Grasshopper's had blue labels on the boxes
and the set is a pretty [TARDIS] blue. I put his together first. LadyBug's set
had pink labels on it and when I pulled out her white furniture pieces, she
asked why hers wasn't pink. It's funny now because I'm pretty sure she'd refuse
to sleep in a pink bed.}



Here is a close up of the quilting in the String Ring Dresdens {from which the
quilt gets its name}. I'm really happy with how they turned out. I was so
worried about getting the quilting right in the Dresdens because they are the
focus of the quilt.



And here's a gratuitous PictTapGo_App and Instagrammed shot. They totally need
to make PC versions of these apps . It is fun to play around with the filters.



Here's a close-up of the scrappy border and one of the diamonds. I'm all about
coloring inside the lines. I like to quilt to enhance the piecing. I tried to
keep it fairly simple — mostly straight lines, with bit of free-motion to accent
— as P.'s directive was {paraphrasing} “less is more.”



And I made an embroidered quilt label to go on the back as a thank you to P. for
trusting me with her quilt. When she started this quilt, she put out a call for
strings. I sent her a few fabrics {as I quilted I noticed that fabrics I sent
her were in 11 of the 12 Dresdens}, so I pulled a few favorites from those to
use in the label {which is now outdated. I had a serious case of project
procrastination on this quilt. Sheesh.}. It is meant to sit in a corner of the
quilt, so I hope P. will show us how it looks when she's trimmed and bound the
quilt.



I'd like to send a huge thank you to Paulette for her trust, patience and
friendship. I really hope you like the quilting!

More about this quilt:
P.'s Post on How the Idea Came About
P.'s Post on the Significance of the Color Scheme
P.'s Post on Design Decisions
P.'s Post on the Finished Flimsy
P.'s String Ring Dresden Tutorial
A Start on the Quilting
A Little Bit of Quilting Progress
Getting Closer
P's Post on the Bound and Finished Quilt


Today's post brought to you by:

Posted by Elizabeth at 11:10 AM 15 comments
Tags: 2013 Finishes, Blog Community, Coloring Inside the Lines, Dresden,
Embroidery, Free Motion, Instagram, Procrastination, Scrap Quilt, Straight Line



WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2013


A STRING RING DRESDEN QUILT PROGRESS REPORT


Paralyze resistance with persistence. –Woody Hayes

The ditch quilting is done. The embellishments in the pieced border and black
diamonds are finished. I crissed and I crissed and I crissed. Then I
procrastinated. Eventually I got around to some crossing. After a little more
procrastination I crossed and then crossed some more. And I finally got the
straight line quilting finished in P.'s String Ring Dresden. {I PicTapGo_Apped
and Instagramed [find me @suchasewandsew] the photo and it's supposed to be all
artsy smarsty, but it just looks over-exposed. The original is not much better.
It's kind of hard to tell when you've got less than 3" square of photo to go
on.}



The red centers in the Dresdens are all crissed and crossed too. All I have left
to quilt is something fancy in the Dresden rings. {See, it's a crap shoot with
full-size photos that have been PicTapGo_Apped and Instagramed. This one is kind
of awesome.}



That fancy pants quilting that remains to be done is at the root of all of the
procrastination. It is very intimidating to quilt for another quilter. But as
soon as I finish those Dresdens, then I can work on anything I want {read: I
have forbidden myself to even think of another project until this one is done}.
I have a good idea. Now I just need to put needle to quilt and make it work. And
so off I go to my Jolly Holiday Workshop. A little music to quilt by, if you
please.


Available for purchase from The Piano Guys or on iTunes.

Posted by Elizabeth at 8:08 PM 4 comments
Tags: Blog Community, Christmas, Coloring Inside the Lines, Dresden, Instagram,
iOS, Music, Procrastination, Scrap Quilt, Straight Line, The Piano Guys



MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2013


WE NOW RETURN YOU TO THE REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAM


The property of rain is to wet, and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat
sheep; and that a great cause of the night is lack of the sun. –William
Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 2

I've been working on and off for about 4 months on the quilting for a flimsy
that P. made. When it's "on" I make a lot of progress. But it's mostly been
"off." When last I left off, I had the ditch work and border finished and almost
half of the background quilting {diagonal lines through most of the quilt}
finished.



I've been working on it again the last couple of weeks and had really hoped to
have it finished by now. But I seem to overestimate my abilities to bend time to
my will and underestimate the number of distractions in the way of Parent
Teacher Conferences with really long lines, play dates, loads of laundry, meals
to prepare, sick days {I had my first cold in more than two years}, the need to
sleep for ⅓ of the day and just plain life. And I have about a zillion other
projects in progress that sometimes just call to me and I have to stop and work
on those. Nevertheless, I am roughly ⅞ of the way finished with the diagonal
quilting.

I like being on the far side of the half-way point. It means I have less left to
do than I have already done. And it's when things all start to take shape and
that pesky voice of self-doubt is quieted, either because it was a good plan and
it's coming together or because it is too late to do anything about it anyway.

I've been using blue painter's tape to mark the lines for quilting. The tape is
really only good for one use; it picks up too much lint on its special
clean-release adhesive and so I started a tape ball. I didn't think about it
until I was about ⅔ of the way through and had already used a full roll of tape
and was a good way into my second roll, but it's still a good size — bigger than
a golf ball, but smaller than a baseball. I ran out of daylight today, what with
all those things that keep cropping up, like people needing clean underwear and
homework checked, so I'll show you a photo another day. In the meantime, you can
see my marking system and if you look closely, you can see the pattern starting
to fill in in the bottom right corner of the photo.



If I hurry, I can make the tape ball a little bigger before the requisite hour
begins to get my full 8 hours of sleep.

Posted by Elizabeth at 9:46 PM 3 comments
Tags: Blog Community, Coloring Inside the Lines, Dresden, Goofy Post Titles,
Procrastination, Scrap Quilt, Straight Line



THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2013


THE STRING RING DRESDEN AND THE BOGART


Bogart: /ˈboʊ gɑrt/ — Slang, Verb:
1. to take an unfair share of something; keep for oneself instead of sharing.
Derived, presumably, from actor Humphrey Bogart's tendency to frequently hold a
cigarette between his lips or in his hand, but never to actually smoke it.
Noun:
1. a person who hogs or monopolizes something.
2. a magical creature that takes the form of whatever you fear the most.

Once upon a time, P. made a fabulous String Ring Dresden quilt top {String
Dresden Tutorial here}. P. does amazing things with fabric. I loved the colors
she picked. I even sent her a few fabrics when she put out a call for more
strings in those colors, and it was really fun to see them incorporated into her
quilt top. So when she said she wasn't going to quilt it herself, but send it
off on a fabulous quilting vacation—destination to be determined, I opened my
big mouth and told her I had an idea for those fabulous Dresdens.

A few months later, a box arrived at my doorstep, which I resolutely ignored for
a good three months. I was absolutely terrified that I would mess up her
beautiful quilt top with my poor quilting skills. Eventually, I took a peek at
her flimsy {she had it folded right sides together} and was completely amazed by
it all over again. Photographs don't quite do quilts justice. From there, I
started fleshing out the quilting plan details in the back of my mind, while
still ignoring the quilt in its box for a few more months. Sometime around the
five month mark, I knew it was time to get going or send the quilt back. I took
a deep breath and started quilting. I stitched in the ditch to stabilize the
quilt and then did ¼" echo quilting around all the Dresdens, diamonds and
border.



Then I started adding some details. I'm not finished yet, but so far, not bad.



What P. doesn't know, is that when I'm finished with this quilt I'm keeping it.
I even got her to send me the binding for it. I told her that I like to put the
binding on part-way through the quilting process to keep lint from building up
on the quilt top from the excess border of batting. It is true, but I told P.
that as part of my evil plot to get possession of this super fabulous quilt. And
now that it's here, there's pretty much nothing she can do to get it back .

Posted by Elizabeth at 10:07 PM 6 comments
Tags: Blog Community, Coloring Inside the Lines, Dresden, Free Motion, Goofy
Post Titles, Humor, Once Upon A Time, Procrastination, Scrap Quilt, Straight
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