June 2008

Freshcut Circles Quilt.

Perhaps from now on I should mention all quilts are made by Emily and Maeve.

(See Miss Maeve’s quilt, Pink, Yellow.)

Only two more colors (79 blocks) to go.

More Mario on Etsy.

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.

In this smaller sibling of our Super Mario Hidden Level quilt, Mario finds a Fire Flower — and prepares to power up with fireball-flinging flower power!

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 40 x 50 inches inches (101 x 127 cm).  Big enough for two little kids or one big kid.

(See also: Galaga, Zelda, Mario,  Pole Position, and Space Invaders)

Want a video game quilt?

Laurel quilt now on Etsy.  It feels so good to be finishing up some projects this week!

One step back.

Two steps back.

Sniff.

This is the fourth one and is now listed on Etsy.

See: First, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, pattern.

Another quilt in Chez Moi’s Posh fabrics is now on Etsy (previous Posh quilt).

Want a video game quilt?  I now have custom order listings in my Etsy shop of quilts that have sold previously.

And a new design is coming soon too!

All done!

(See Miss Maeve’s quilt, Pink.)

I hit 500 hearts the other day. Awww.

All done!  And this is the first post that is very happily not powered by a Windows machine.  Yay!

At Waters Edge progress.  The quilting is about half done.

Maeve (as usual) insisted on matching jammies. And look at how clean the playroom is!

This is the third one and is now listed on Etsy.

See: First, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, pattern.

I finally got some real business cards (as opposed to the printed out at home and cut by hand).

Exciting night here in the ‘burbs.

See the crazy man up there?

He cut down our 70(ish) foot tall dead oak tree.

The carnage.

I’m not sure which is more disturbing - the large hole in the trunk of the tree or…

(ewwww)

…or the man with a chainsaw outside my window.

But at least now it won’t hit the house.  Phew.   We just won’t think about how many yards of fabric I could have bought if I didn’t have to write him a very large check.

We have a quilt top (sans a date with the iron).

We have some fun plans for the weekend that includes no sewing (!!??!) so this will be finished up next week.

This is how it happens…

Fabric store sends Emily spam advertising a sale or a new line or this or that…

Emily shops.

Fabric store ships.

Emily gets a big ol’ box containing *42* yards of fabric.  42!

More progress.  The green blocks are done and the yellows are half done.

This is a custom quilt for a customer through Etsy.  The background colorway stays the same while the cartwheels will be brown, goldenrod and green.

And again, it’s a nighttime picture so the colors aren’t perfect.

New quilt on Etsy.  This was originally going to be my quilt but I made so many diamonds that I had enough for two quilts.

All done and on Etsy.

I didn’t get a chance to take a picture of the quilt with a munchkin before they went to bed so I went into Mr. Liam’s room after he was asleep and had him pose for this. He snored through the whole thing.

I’m only one block behind now!