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Baby Jane Fridays are back!
A simple block to get back into the swing of things. A couple weeks ago I switched from Windows to Linux and apparently during the switch my scanner has decided it doesn’t want to be a scanner anymore. Hopefully it will change its mind because these pictures are horrible.
Apparently I can’t stop making blocks like this. I love these colors and really want to keep it for the family room but it will probably end up in the shop sometime next week.
Trippy, bubbly, postmodern, whimsical (or maybe even poetic) quilt using Amy Butler’s Lotus collection and her new solids.
Words cannot explain the amount of fussy cutting/placing that went into this quilt. When I started to point some of it out to Sean I think he thought I had completely lost it.
And on her bed.
I think she likes it.
So in case you find this in a Google search or just perusing around and you think you may want a quilt like this, I am (shockingly) willing to make it again. You might just have to take out a second mortgage to pay for it though.
I still need to make the pillows, curtains and wallhangings. I’ll post a picture of the whole room when I’m done.
Now that I’m done with the big part of this project, Baby Jane Fridays returns! Yay!
At least now it’s done. D - O - N - E. Done! DONE!
It’s in the wash now. Real pictures tomorrow.
Let’s not talk about how many hours I’ve spent on this in the past three days. I hadn’t intended on spending that much time on it this weekend. Oops. Back to the huge pile of Etsy work tomorrow.
Eek! So exciting. All sewn together.
Taking a test drive on the bed.
And even a little quilting.
Eek! It’s done! I actually finished all the blocks. Wow. I never thought I’d be able to type that.
(See Miss Maeve’s quilt, Pink, Yellow, White, Green.)
And today at 8:24pm she turns four. She is such an amazing little girl with an amazing love for life (and Curious George).
A quick little stroll down memory lane.
Fresh.
One.
Two.
Three.
And four.
Happy Birthday to my little girl.
Smiling, cooperating, looking at the camera, not pulling each other’s hair… It was a good day.
And a small sample of the blocks (sans blue) together. I totally love it (which is good because it’s taken me about a bazillion hours so far).
(See Miss Maeve’s quilt, Pink, Yellow, White.)
The crib quilt is pieced. I think it came out nicely.
This is a project for a customer on Etsy using her amazing Ginger Bliss stash. There will be a full/queen quilt, crib quilt, curtains and euro shams. Today involved a lot of math, ironing and cutting. I’ll start sewing tonight.
What happened to this week? I can’t believe it’s Thursday afternoon already.
We took advantage of Maeve’s week inbetween school and camp and the nice weather today and headed out to the beach again.
Pretty castles…
Until Liamzilla makes a visit.
This is definitely their favorite spot.
Back to quilts tomorrow.
Perhaps from now on I should mention all quilts are made by Emily and Maeve.
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)
One step back.
Two steps back.
Sniff.
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!
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 (first, second) and is now listed on Etsy.
6.24.08 edit — Another one completed.
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!
Today was not a good appliqué day.
Same thing with the appliqué.
The center is wonky and I really don’t like the little appliqué diamonds. But it’s done.
This is a really simple triangle, just lots and tons of little pieces. I made every mistake possible and I think I must have redone every piece twice but it’s done and I think it came out pretty well.
I guess I decided to do the triangles too!
It’s Baby Jane Friday!
Fun quilt on Etsy with Sandi Henderson’s Ginger Blossom line. The first sale fell through,this is the link to the relisted quilt.
It all started back in the fall of 2005. We went up to the Amish country in Pennsylvania and stopped in a quilt shop. They had the most amazing quilts and were all handmade. One double wedding ring quilt with purple fabrics caught my eye but it was expensive and since we were building our current house I felt guilty about spending the money. But I was now hooked on quilts.
When we got home I started figuring out how to make quilts (I knew how to sew clothes and home dec stuff, just not quilts!) and made Maeve her first doll quilt. And then I made a lap quilt. And then a twin quilt for Maeve’s new room in the new house. I still wanted to make a double wedding ring. So in the spring of 2006 I bought some templates and then promptly packed them away since we were about to move.
So now we’re in North Carolina and I’m exploring new fabric stores. I come across a whole ton of Moda/3 Sisters’ Wuthering Heights. Perfect. Beautiful. I buy tons and tons of it. And Sean hadn’t even seen it. And it was for our Master bedroom. Hope he likes it!
So I sew little bits here and there but quickly learn to hate curves. Late in my pregnancy with Liam in winter/spring 2007 I hit some crazy nesting stage and decide to finish the quilt top. And then Liam came along and the household went crazy.
Late summer 2007 I took it to a long-armer for quilting and got it back a couple months later. And then it sat there. Until this past Saturday night.
I trimmed the edges Saturday. Cut the binding and attached it Sunday night. Flipped it over and finished sewing it on today. Probably about 4-5 hours to get the binding on. And it’s been sitting there just waiting for binding since last fall. I still have pillows and curtains to sew plus nagging the husband to paint the room (but argh, I can not figure out what color to put on the walls!) plus buy some new sheets and lights for the night tables. But for now my long awaited quilt is done.
See my cool scallopy binding?
It’s king sized, 7 x 9 blocks.
450 pieces of pink fabrics made into 42 blocks ranging from 3.5″ to 15.5″.
146 more blocks to go! I think I’ll do white next.
That’s it for this week. I updated the picture in the sidebar as well. It looks so full! Only 7 more blocks and I’ll be caught up.
You can still see the blue ink lines… must go spray those with water. This one was a lot harder than it should have been. It’s a little wonky but I don’t know if I should re-do it or not.
It’s Baby Jane day!
I had a momentary lapse in sanity and decided to take the kids to the beach today. Keep in mind we don’t really live anywhere near the beach.
But, it turned out being a great day with well behaved kids and no major disasters!
Wait for me!
Digging the big hole.
Lunch: Sand and Sweet Potatoes.
The good life.
John asked about this. I have a whole quilt image in the sidebar (one block is off in that image) but here are all the blocks together… so far. Only 80 bazillion more to go!
And my category reorganization is complete. Yay!
I seem to have a million quilts in the works right now.
Ginger Blossom. Being pieced.
Joel Dewberry #1. Pinned and waiting to be quilted.
Joel Dewberry #2. Piecing done and waiting for pins. Wow, that’s a bad picture.
Decadent Victorian #1 and #2. This quilt was originally going to be for me but while I was doing the math so I could buy the backing I realized that I had made so many blocks it was going to be queen sized. So I redid my math and it’s now 2 laps sized quilts, one for me and one for the store. Piecing is almost done and then I need to sew the blocks together. I ordered the backing last week.
I picked up some cool baskets this weekend to help store these two projects. On the left is Baby Jane. I’m (I think) 11 blocks behind and Friday is officially my Baby Jane block workday. On the right is Maeve’s and Saturday is my workday for that. These are such long-term projects that they really do have to be scheduled into the week or they are never going to get done. When I get caught up with my Jane blocks, maybe I’ll spend the extra Friday time on Maeve’s cause that thing is going to take f-o-r-e-v-e-r to make.
And I have two new quilt categories… in progress and completed. I should have separated them a long time ago because now it’s just a disaster in the ‘Quilt’ category. I’ll slowly work through reorganizing them so the old category will stick around until I finish.
Other quilts on my to-do list include more Dick and Jane, Aliens, more Freshcut, a Christmas quilt for us, binding the quilt for our bedroom, etc, etc, etc.
Part of Maeve’s new quilt I finally got started on. These are about 3″square.
The pieces in the center are teeny teeny tiny!
I am now a believer. My I-8 block came out amazingly perfect!
Freezer Paper Foundation Piecing Tutorial by Wee Toes and Noggins.
The NCTriangle Street team asked for pictures and some words (that I still need to write!) about where I sew my quilts. If they had seen my room on the day they asked the question they would have retracted quickly since it was a disaster area. It’s clean now but with two little kids it won’t be for long.
This is our bonus room. Starting at the left: my desk, easel and painting supplies, fabric storage bookshelf with embroidery thread, quilting machine and serger on top, comfy chair, kids Lego table and bookshelf with their toys and a TV. I have a curtain rod with rings hanging above the bookshelf. I change the quilt out whenever something sells or I want something fresh up there.
The other side of the room. In the dormer on the left I store my 40 yard rolls of batting (which is almost gone… again!), then my sewing table, ironing board, bookshelves and then back to my desk. Above the ironing board is my typesetting tray with my various threads for piecing and binding.
A close up of my sewing table. I have a large cutting mat with an insane amount of rulers. A small basket of tools and notions plus some small drawers for pins, sewing machine feet, etc. I have a large set of drawers on the other side of the table that stores packing supplies, notions and large quilting thread spools. Since I only use the large quilting machine for quilting, I pull this one off the table and carry the other one over when I need it.
Finished quilts are stored in a closet way high up and out of the reach of small little hands.
It was beautiful this morning so we headed out.
And my little photographer in training.
My tiny love.
This one might not make it to the store.
I wasn’t sure if I liked it while I was sewing it but now that it’s together I really like it. Phew.
And I’m addicted to fabric.
The project over the past two days has been de-toying the bonus room, cleaning it up and just making it a more pleasant room to be in. Before I had fabric stashed here and there and everywhere. Now it’s all in one place and, um, I apparently have a small fabric shopping problem. Sean saw this last night (before everything was in there) and asked if seeing it all was going to make me stop shopping for a while. I laughed at him. Silly man.
The top is organized by line while the bottom has some lines, some genres, and some by color. There is nothing to show scale in this picture but the dimensions of the bookcase are 73″ x 33″.
I need to make some more quilts pronto before I go shopping again.
New quilt with Anna Maria Horner’s Chocolate Lollipop. Etsy link.
