Sean Says I Have to Blog More

March 8, 2010 in Life by emily | 6 comments

He’s right.  I’ve been pretty bad about it the past couple weeks.

I’m still buried under all my scraps.

I have six finished quilts tops draped over anything I can drape a quilt top on.  I’d hang them up in the closet, but well …

I still have buckets of scraps everywhere.

It’s a disaster in here.

I want to rearrange part of the room to make for more space and improve some ergonomics.  I just need to move way too much stuff.  Back and knees aren’t too thrilled with this idea.

I’m in the middle of paper piecing 1200 pieces together.  Fun!

I have a million things to really blog about… I just keep forgetting (or really just running out of time…)

I got a new toy last week but I’m afraid to say anything in fear of jinxing it’s perfectness.

I leave you with a picture of a bitty Maeve and the place I’d rather call home.

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Video Game Quilt Pattern Suggestion Box

February 27, 2010 in Video Game Quilt Patterns, Video Game Quilts by emily | 8 comments

In the month since the Video Game Quilt Patterns have been up, I’ve gotten a lot of “I wish there were one for ______ game.”  So this spot will serve as the ongoing suggestion box.  If there is enough interest in any particular game or size (lap, twin, queen, etc) I will consider adding it to the to-do list.

So, what are you interested in?

Oh sniff I love that picture.  They were so tiny…

Pattern Giveaway Over at MADE

February 26, 2010 in Misc by emily | 4 comments

Dana is hosting a pattern giveaway over on her blog MADE.

Yay for boys!

Go enter.

Have fun!

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February 25, 2010 in Kids, Quilts - In progress by emily | 5 comments

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After three days of sewing scraps, I managed to use 3lbs 8oz of fabric.

At that rate it will take me over 100 days to piece together all 425+ yards of scraps.

Maeve enjoyed the snow this morning.  Yesterday she was excited at the possibility of a snow day from school but then quickly changed her mind when she realized that would mean yet another Saturday spent at school (we don’t have snow days built in and we’re year round so there is no spring break to use up so we’re left with Saturday school).

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February 21, 2010 in Fabric by emily | 4 comments

I’ve been working on cleaning up and organizing my workroom after a couple crazy months. One of yesterday’s projects was scrap management (snort, that sounds hilarious, but with the amount I sew, it’s a really big issue).  I try to not waste fabric but no matter how hard you try, scraps are just a part of sewing.

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Top row (l to r): pink, red, orange, yellow
Middle row: green, brown/black/grey, purple, to random to actual sort plus silk and flannel
Bottom row: white, blue, selvedges

The small buckets are 30qt (16.8″ x 13.3″ x 11.3″) and the large buckets are 71 qt (23.3″ x 18.7″ x 12.3″).

Not pictured: the random 1/4-1 yard cuts that have no real use anymore… you know when all the other fabrics from that collection are gone and you still have a large cut of one print left?

It totals 119.8 pounds (102.3 in buckets, 17.5 in random cuts) .

One yard of quilting cotton is about 4.5 ounces.

My calculator tells me that if I put all these scraps edge to edge that would total 425.95 yards.  I hope I did the math wrong on that. I really, really hope I did the math wrong.

I wonder what I can make with all that.  Hmmm…

(and this doesn’t include my guesstimate of over *400* pounds on my fabric shelves… I hope Sean doesn’t read this…)

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