February 2008

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First there was Galaga. Then there was Zelda. Now there is Mario.

In the decades since his first Sisyphian pursuit of a huge barrel-chucking gorilla, Mario’s legacy has built into mythic status. It was inevitable that some glorious day his epic battles with the infamous goombas and formidable (for turtles, at least) koopa troopas would be immortalized in that most ancient of media, the Quilt.

So grab a power-up and relax underneath this heroic iconography to relive this most horizontal of sagas, or perhaps use it to decorate your own castle. Whether you are a princess or a plumber, or even an unfortunate mushroom named Toad, this life-size homage cannot help but inspire you on your own quest for a plumber or princess (or, well, whatever mushrooms quest for which we shan’t go into here).

- Approximately 64 inches (162.5 cm) square.
- Light blue backing and black binding.
- Made from 100% cotton fabric and batting.
- Machine wash cold, tumble dry low.
- Pieced and quilted by machine in smoke-free, pet-free, and geek-friendly home.

Want a video game quilt?

Also for sale on Etsy…

Zelda – The Quilt of Power.

And Galaga.

And as of March 21, we now have Pole Position.

Future Etsian

Liam went to his first Etsy meetup today.  His shirt says, “My mom is so crafty she made ME!” from Etsy seller MuthaCrafter.

I promise he had fun there!  No pics from the actual meetup since Sean had the small camera.

Etsy View Counters Reset

Oh Hrumph.  I know views (and hearts) really mean nothing when it comes to sales but it was really nice to see the counters go up and up and just be in awe of how many people had looked at my quilts.

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RevolvingDork
Etsy Admin
RevolvingDork says:
Today at roughly 2:15pm EST, there was a failure on one of our load balancing machines that rendered the site inaccessible. We recognized the failure immediately, but were unable to restore full connectivity until 3:30pm EST.

Unfortunately, tracking down the issue required all of our servers to be reset, which in turn erased all view tally data from listings. It is unlikely that we will be able to retrieve this data to bring them back, but we will try.

We’re now investigating the causes of the issue, and tightening everything back up. Those that had a showcase scheduled for today will be refunded.

We apologize for any inconvenience this outage has caused, and we’re doing our best to ensure that it won’t happen again.

Posted at 3:40 pm, February 23 2008 EST

That’s a lot of money! Does anyone happen to know what this amounts to in USD?

Finally… Simplicity

I got an email from my local quilt shop saying that Moda’s Simplicity had shipped and it will be here in a couple days! I’ve been waiting impatiently for this line since Maeve’s room is getting a makeover with it.

Her quilt is going to be a Kaffe Fassett pattern. It’s amazing. I can’t wait. I get warm fuzzies just thinking about it.

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