August 2008

I broke all the Dear Jane rules with this one.  I used the sage green for the background, but it’s different from the usual background fabric.  I just had to try something different.

I have no idea what happened to the tip of this.  Some of it will disappear in the seams but it might need a new tip…

Nicknames a husband gives their wife?  Honey, sweetie, cutie …

My nickname?  The Slowest Dot Matrix Printer Ever.

Piecing on this will be done tonight and I’ll quilt it over the weekend.

Just a mommy vent…

The downside to preschool is all the germs that come home.  Maeve brought something home and she promptly passed it onto Liam and they’ve both been sick for about 1.5 weeks.  She refuses to nap even though she’s exhausted.  She sniffles, coughs, whines, mopes, whines some more and then sneezes on me. Liam is whiney and clingy.  He’s exhausted and actually fell asleep on my lap one day before lunch.  I’m tired of been coughed on, sneezed on, the wiping place for boogers and breaking up fights between two sick and whiney kids.  And I know it’s only a matter of time before I get it too…

So on that bright and cheery note, here’s Liam from the other day after stealing Maeve’s 3D glasses from a movie.  She promptly screamed and whined that Liam stole her glasses.  Bonus points to anyone who can name the two fabrics in the background.

I need Calgon or a margarita… or maybe both.

Is it a tower of whimsical architecture, a stock trading bar chart, or a tragically failed game of Tetris?

This is (probably) it for shop quilts this week.  I started a custom quilt yesterday and have the rest of that one plus another to do this week.  And the pattern.

As much fun as a quiltful of monkeys! Sock monkeys sunbathing, sock monkeys relaxing in beach chairs, sock monkey lemonade stands, sock monkeys playing volleyball… just watching these sock monkeys relax so enthusiastically makes one want to curl up under a nice cozy quilt and take a nap. Now if only you had a nice cozy quilt…

One quilt.

Another quilt.

A pattern… or at least pattern progress.

And the MOST exciting part of the weekend?  Recaulking the kids’ bathtub.  Wow, that was a blast!

55 done!  170 more to go…

This looked really straight after I finished it but looking at the scan, everything is wonky.

AKA a Wacky Log Cabin quilt.

When this quilt is sitting across your lap or draped over a chair, one sees only stripes of brightly cheerful florals. But look a little closer and it starts to become apparent that something’s… not quite right. This riff on a very traditional log cabin pattern throws all the lines just a *bit* off parallel, mixing a dash of amusing chaos into the strictly ordered concentric rings.  Fabric is Pop Garden and Bijoux by Heather Bailey.

This was a custom order through Etsy. All finished and off to the post office tomorrow.

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Inspired in part by the art of Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, the Modern Rose Garden quilt begins with simple rectangles and composes them into an eye-catching formal garden of interlocking lines.  It can be brought alive with nearly any fabric line – and, if you’re willing to fussy cut, can beautifully highlight any designs they feature, large or small.  You can use whatever fabric catches your fancy, whether modern or traditional – or you can just use scraps you’ve collected from previous quilts!

All patterns ship USPS First Class Mail.

For wholesale orders, contact me at at emily [at] carolinapatchworks [dot] com for more details. I’m new to the whole world of wholesale so please bear with me while I figure it all out.

Love the pattern but don’t quilt? Check my shop for quilts made with this pattern or email/convo me for a custom order quilt.

Maeve’s comment:  Liam’s doing down dog!  Mommy!  Liam’s doing down dog!

I’m totally tickled that my four year old knows what down dog is.  Liam needs to work on his technique though.

I love where we live.  A mama and her babes looking for dinner.  Too bad for them our entire yard is herbs … and it’s only all herbs because of the huge number of deer here and they don’t eat herbs (our deer eat deer resistant plants).

Modern Rose Garden Quilt.

Inspired in part by the art of Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, the Modern Rose Garden quilt begins with simple rectangles and composes them into an eye-catching formal garden of interlocking lines.

Binding is a blue small floral print. Backed in an blue rose and ribbon print. Fabric is Flirt by Robyn Pandolph.

A pattern for this quilt will be available for sale later this week.

Garden Kaleidoscope Quilt

Starbursts of bold deco flowers seem to swirl and spiral at first glance, but on closer inspection resolve themselves to a stately garden of triangles and squares marching in formation. The playful but confident outlines and simple shapes are equally at home in a strictly traditional sunroom or a sixties-revival lounge.  (Sean’s descriptions crack me up!)

Binding is a coordinating multi-colored stripe. Backed in an light blue, yellow and red paisley. Fabric is Pop Garden and Bijoux by Heather Bailey.

I’ve been selling on Etsy for exactly one year.  904 hearts.  74 sales (52 of those being quilts).

Lots of new and exciting things to come in the year ahead!  (Or at least I hope so!)

Maeve said she working on a quilt this morning before school.

Hers:

Mine (a Mario pipe):