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Etsy Craft Afternoon

emily — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:20:55 +0000

Carrie and Karen came on over today for an Etsy get together and to learn how to make quilts.

Our project was a doll quilt inspired by the log cabin pattern.

First we piece…

And then we quilt…

I apparently forgot the binding pictures. Oops.

All done!

Carrie got to sew for the first time and Karen learned that there is fish in a bag fabric. She’s thrilled.

It was fun ladies!

emily — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:29:56 +0000

Step 7. Trim the blocks to 12.5″ square.

Step 8. Start laying it all out. It’s like a really big puzzle.

Step 8.1. Take a picture of Maeve because she sees you taking pictures of other things and she wants in on it too.

Back to Step 8.

Step 9. Sew all those blocks together.

Step 10. Sew your backing fabric together.

Step 11. Back to the iron.

Step 12. Pinning! I pin baste my quilts. A bent safety pin goes in every 4″. That means there are over 500 pins in this quilt.

Step 13. Trim the excess backing and batting.

All done!

To be continued…

emily — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:54:59 +0000

Step 5. Keep on sewing some more.

Step 6. Iron. Iron a lot. The pile isn’t so fluffy anymore.

To be continued…

(Sorry for such dark pictures. I do a large majority of my sewing in the evenings when, well, it’s dark.)

emily — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:50:25 +0000

Dirt may not hurt but apparently grass does.

emily — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:16:43 +0000

I’m working on a custom quilt that was requested through Etsy’s Alchemy. It’s a queen sized quilt with shams in Heather Bailey’s Freshcut line.

Step 1. Buy fabric. Buy a LOT of fabric.

Step 2. Cut the fabric up into a million little pieces. Ok, not a million, more like 540.

Step 3. Sew all the fabric that you just cut up back together.

Step 4. Keep on sewing.

To be continued…