I have today off, and since baking a pie does not a full day make, I’ve done a bit of stock-taking of my sewing projects. (The pie crust should be cooled by now, so should shortly be back in pie land.) The first thing of note is my new baby. It was my ten-year anniversary […]
I still had a bit of a quilting itch yesterday, though knew I wouldn’t have the time to set up the machine. So instead, I brought out my long dormant landscape quilt I’ve been working on. I’ve most recently been stuck on how to add in the forest in the middle. I had a bit
With my renewed interest in sewing due to the new sewing machine, I dragged out the much interrupted celestial fabric quilt I’ve been working on for the better part of a decade (no, really. It’s a bit shaming, actually.) When I last left the quilt, I had woefully underestimated the amount of fabric I’d need
I spent the morning on Sunday (aka Hurricane Irene day) finishing up my Emmeline Apron. It’s from quilting cotton I bought at Joann Fabric. (It’s reversible, which is why there are two pictures.) It’s a nice, easy pattern – extremely easy to understand, and probably doable in a day if you’re not like me and
Today, I made jam. It’s freezer jam, since it’s far too hot to be doing the kind of cooking required for regular canning. This is the blueberry freezer jam from Ellie Topp and Margaret Howard’s The Complete Book of Small-Batch Preserving. I was immediately attracted to this book by the idea of not having to
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Blueberry’s quilt is done! I sewed the back of the binding last night (perfect evening to be forced to have a lap quilt, I might add), and ran it through the wash this morning. It’s all set to go down to Boston on Saturday. I’m really pleased with how it turned out, considering I choose
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This morning flew by. I got a lot more then I thought was possible done on the quilt. In order, we have step 4: arrange squares, step 5: sew them all together, and step 6: make the quilt sandwich. At that point, I decided to tie the quilt rather than quilt it, because I have
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I did all the set up work to get the squares for Blueberry’s quilt today. I love this pattern, because it’s basically: 1. Cut a bunch of strips. 2. Sew a bunch together and do a bit more cutting. 3. Sew everything that’s left together. I’m now ready for step 4, which is arrange everything
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I really wanted to make Blueberry’s quilt from some of the flannels in my stash, but I need six different colors for the quilt top, and I wasn’t able to pull off any combinations in my stash. So I took a trip to Joann’s yesterday (it’s rather pathetically true that that largest city in Maine
I’m on vacation for the next week! Hurray! (I feel like I have an absolute surfeit of vacation this year, but it’s really just the result of taking absolutely no time off from January through May, while I had a project at work, and then having to make sure I take all but the 40