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February 25, 2010 in Kids, Quilts - In progress by emily | 5 comments

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After three days of sewing scraps, I managed to use 3lbs 8oz of fabric.

At that rate it will take me over 100 days to piece together all 425+ yards of scraps.

Maeve enjoyed the snow this morning.  Yesterday she was excited at the possibility of a snow day from school but then quickly changed her mind when she realized that would mean yet another Saturday spent at school (we don’t have snow days built in and we’re year round so there is no spring break to use up so we’re left with Saturday school).

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Teacher Quilts

January 25, 2010 in Kids, Quilts - Completed by emily | 7 comments

For Chistmas, Maeve’s class gave their teachers quilts.  I got the idea after Maeve came home with a fundraiser form that included buying quilt squares with the kids’ art.  The room mom loved the idea and got all the other parents in on it and I sewed them up.  A couple of the blocks didn’t get here until after school was out for Christmas so we gave the teachers the quilts on Friday (they just went back to school late last week… crazy silly county).

The quilts are essentially the same.  It’s a modified Mod Pod to accomadate the number of kids and size of the blocks from the fundraiser.  The teachers and kids loved them!  (I took a picture but there would be so many faces to blur out!)

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She also had a blast on Saturday playing by the creek while I took pattern cover pictures.

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The new patterns are done. They should be up in the store today or tomorrow and will ship next week.

This post is brought to you by Monday morning… I can’t seem to form a coherent sentence this early in the morning.

One Busy Elf

December 14, 2009 in Kids, Life by emily | 2 comments

Last week was full of Christmas sewing. One quilt (Sean), one robe (Maeve), and 122 quilted letters (Maeve and Liam).

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This week is full of pattern writing — 7 single and 4 double patterns.  This round started off with 4 single patterns I think?  Now I have 15 quilts in 11 patterns.  Heh.

Let’s All Laugh

December 7, 2009 in Kids, Misc by emily | 2 comments

As we watch me try to sew something other than a quilt.

I used to sew a bunch of other stuff — including clothes.  I never really liked doing it and realized quilts were much more enjoyable so that’s what I do.  They are easy.  They don’t have armholes and for some reason curves in clohes are much harder than curves in quilts. <shrug>

So Maeve had asked for a robe for Christmas.  Anytime she can get her hands on one of mine she’s in little girl heaven.  So I looked around and only found kid robes in nasty polyester.  Ick.  So me and my ingenious self decided to sew one.  I got a pattern that had the word ‘Easy’ on the cover.  They lied.

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Did you know I had a serger?  Yeah, I kinda forgot too.  I had to dig it out.  And then spend 30 minutes removing the inch of dust covering every nook and cranny.

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Still trying to figure out what a carrier is.

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Simple?  Not really.  Heck, I *write* patterns and I couldn’t understand a lot of this.  I apparently only speak quiltese and not garmentese.

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But it’s done and Maeve is going to flip and that was really the only thing that made me want to sew this — just knowing how much she’d love it.  And the amazing part?  The sleeves got attached in the right spot.  Woohoo!  And another plus?  It’s not polyester.  It is the most scrumptious cotton knit.

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It just took me, um… almost 5 hours to make.  Yikes.  But in finished in time to get everything clean up before the bus comes…

And now back to things I know how to sew…. don’t forget the quilt pattern sale!
You will not see garment patterns from me in my lifetime. ;)

Mr. Liam’s World

November 15, 2009 in Home, Kids, Quilts - Completed by emily | 15 comments

All done.

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99% of the room is from Ikea.  Did you know you can fit a bed, dresser, nightstand, bookcase, and mattress plus a Liam and stroller into a Honda Insight?  Impressive, eh? ;)   We did a second trip for the play table, frames, a million random finishing items and some stuff for the new playroom.  Good thing it only takes 3 gallons (and 2 1/2 hours, ugh!) to get to Charlotte!

The orange chair used to be a pink chair in Maeve’s room.  She had outgrown it so I got a new cover from PBK and gave it to Liam.

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Boris and Stan Jr. are from John W. Golden.  I absolutely love his work and they are perfect for the room.  I’m trying to teach Liam to say, “Hi Boris!  Hi Stan!”

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All of the little frames contain Nerdy Baby Flashcards by electricboogaloo.  (The other 6 letters are inbetween the windows.)

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Curtains are Alexander Henry’s Ready, Set, Robot! Silver UFO is from PBK that we got ages ago.

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Still loving the wall.  When Liam saw the wall for the first time he said in a very quiet and amazed voice, “Wow.  Wow.  Wow.”  It was awesone.

See the Lightening McQueen pillow?  We were at JoAnn’s getting elastic for his sheets and Liam saw a bolt of Cars flannel.  He walked around the entire store hugging the bolt.  I didn’t have a choice in buying it.  He made me.

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Just the quilt (a similar pattern can be found here).  I wanted a Modern Rose Garden-esque quilt but with smaller blocks to accommodate the smaller prints and Japanese fabrics but with a couple larger blocks for the robot prints. Sashed in Kona Coal and bound in a Riley Blake stripe.  Fabrics in the blocks range from Amy Butler to Cotton Blossoms to various Japanese prints to all sorts of other random prints.  It’s probably the least cohesive quilt I’ve ever made but I totally love it.  There are 26 fabrics making up the squares and rectangles.

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The light blue robots print is the original Ready, Set, Robot! from 2003.  The quilt is backed in the new darker blue print.

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This is probably my favorite print in the whole quilt.  It’s an Alexander Henry print from 2000.

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This is Michael Miller’s Blue Robots Flannel.  I made sheets and pillowcases with it.  Liam loves it.  He has associated all of us with various robots in the scene.  He, not suprisingly, got to be the little one in the airplane/spaceship.

Next house project?  Some stuff for the walls in Maeve’s room and then painting our bedroom and bathroom.  Thankfully both of those projects are much smaller than a whole room!  Workwise, I’m working on some quilts plus 6 new patterns.  Phew.

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