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January 2010 Patterns

January 25, 2010 in Patterns, Quilts - Completed by emily | 9 comments

No. 022 — Creature Comforts

Join the squirrel, bird and owl frolicking about in the flowers. Finished quilt measures 60″ x 60″ (152.4 x 152.4 cm).

No. 023 — Concentric

Includes directions for making four sizes (lap size shown below):
Crib – 40″ x 50″
Lap – 60″ x 60″
Twin – 76″ x 96″
Queen – 96″ x 96″

No. 024 — Twisted

Oh the tangled web we weave…*

Includes directions for making four sizes (lap size shown below):
Crib – 40″ x 58″
Lap – 60″ x 62″
Twin – 76″ x 96″
Queen – 96″ x 96″

*actual pattern contains little deception. No inset seams! Promise!

No. 025 — Life Imitating Quilts

Fabulous manquilt. My husband even asked for one. Finished quilt measures 60″ x 60″ (152.4 x 152.4 cm).

Sweet Garden = Liam’s quilt + Modern Rose Garden + a Layer Cake. I love Liam’s quilt but I hated cutting from 26 different prints. This quilt uses one layer cake + sashing. Finished quilt measures 66″ x 67″ (168 x 170 cm).

No. 027 — Zero One Zero

Um, yes, really. I made a quilt with, uh, yeah, that on it. Any guesses as to what it spells? Release your inner geek! Time for a binary solo! Finished quilt measures 67″ x 62″ (170 x 157 cm).

No. 028 — Ants’ Delight

Get ready for summer with this picnic quilt with lemonade and an apple and pear and watermel… hey! Where is the watermelon going? Hurry before the ants eat the quilt too… Finished quilt measures 71″ x 71″ (180 x 180 cm).

(there are more patterns! go to the next post!)

Video Game Quilt Patterns

January 25, 2010 in Patterns, Quilts - Completed, Video Game Quilt Patterns, Video Game Quilts by emily | 8 comments

No. 029 — The Plumber and The Monkey

The Plumber (based on Super Mario Bros.)
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. Finished quilt measures 64″ x 64″ (162.5 x 162.5 cm).

The Monkey (based on Donkey Kong)
Donkey Kong! In a quilt! Want to snuggle with a big gorilla? Finished quilt measures 64″ x 64″ (162.5 x 162.5 cm).

No. 030 — The Alien Hordes and The Racecars

The Alien Hordes (based on Galaga)
Relive the action, the excitement. Gather a pocketful of quarters and head to your living room to relax under the 8-bit glory of the arcade classic Galaga brought back to Earth as a quilt. Travel in space and time without leaving your couch! This quilt is fully compatible with the XBox 360, Wii, PlayStation III, all high-definition televisions, most models of fireplace, and a wide variety of good books. Finished quilt measures 60″ x 60″ (152.4 x 152.4 cm).

The Racecars (based on Pole Position)
Recall the wind in your hair, the tang of smoking rubber on asphalt, the heat of your exploding Formula-1 racer as you wipe out again, and agin, and again against a billboard or into another car in this classic and hair-pullingly difficult archetype of the modern racing genre, Atari’s Pole Position. Not intended for use while driving. Finished quilt measures 65″ x 65″ (165 x 165 cm).

No. 031 — The Hero and The Brother

The Hero (based on The Legend of Zelda)
The Legend of Zelda may have introduced an entire generation to the joy of colorful worlds of monsters and heroes filled with melodies of bleeps and bloops, all contained in a little plastic box connected with wires to the TV. Bosses and Triforces, dungeons and new swords, secret doors and endless maps; these inspired fear and joy beyond anything a 256×224 set of pixels wavering on an ancient CRT had any right to do. Octorok and Leever threaten Link amidst the rocky Overworld’s bushes and water, as a Darknut patrols in his Underworld dungeon. Finished quilt measures 64″ x 64″ (162.5 x 162.5 cm).

The Brother (based on Super Mario Bros.)
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 The Plumber quilt pattern, Mario finds a Fire Flower — and prepares to power up with fireball-flinging flower power! Finished quilt measures 40″ x 50″ (101 x 127 cm).

No. 032 — The Invasion and The Hunt

The Invasion (based on Space Invaders)
BOOP. Boop. boop. boop
Keew! Keew! (Shkee)
BOOP Boop boop boop
Keew! (Shkee) Keew! (Shkee)
BOOPBoopboopboop
Mweaa! Mweaa! Mweaa! Mweaa!
Keew! Keew! (Shkee)
Booboobooboop
sh-POOGGGGGH!!

GAME OVER
Play Again?

Finished quilt measures 50″ x 70″ (127 x 177.8 cm).

The Hunt (based on Duck Hunt)
There’s one! Shoot! There’s one! Shoot! Finished quilt measures 65″ x 45″ (165 x 114 cm).

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Note about all patterns:
All patterns assume basic sewing and quilting knowledge. Yardage requirements can be found here.

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!)

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

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.

First (finished) Quilt of 2010 and Christmas

January 4, 2010 in Misc, Quilts - Completed by emily | 7 comments

I have tons that are partially done but this is the first completely done one. It’s off to sunny CA now.

Christmas was a lot of fun. Liam was in choo-choo land the entire time. This picture captures what Liam has looked like since about 9am December 25th. Every day this is what he looks like.

Maeve was in pink land. And quite happy about it.

I was happy that for the first time ever I parallel parked. Yes, really, I’ve never done it before. Between the suburban wasteland I learned to drive in and the one I currently live in it has never been a necessary skill. Sean had the kids clap for me. Yes, a big day (sigh).

Off to finish another quilt (still working on the new pattern covers. They are totally cool… to me at least!)

Mr. Liam’s World

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

All done.

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.

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!”

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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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