Making a little bit of mess here and using a little bit of stash. The Quiet Blue baby quilt took 3.25 yards, all from stash, and that is all I have to report. I’m coming right along on the pink one, but I’m quilting it more intensely, so you’ll see it next week.
This week: +0 yards, -3.25 yards
YTD: +16 yards, -60.25 yards
Net stash used in 2013: -43.25 yards
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The consensus was that this quilt didn’t make it into “low volume”, but I’ll accept the adjectives I received: “quiet”, “soothing”, “restful”. I quilted it entirely “in the ditch”, between all those 2 1/2″ squares.
It’s lovely crinkly/puffy (Warm and White batting), and the backing with silvery moons and stars as well as clouds and planets, is very happy. I like it a lot, and think it will make a great baby quilt.
The effort to go low volume was an interesting exercise, proving just how garish bright and saturated my regular palette is. I pulled the very lightest squares from my scraps, but I was afraid there would be not contrast or interest if I didn’t add some from the mid range. It does have interest, just isn’t quiet enough.
A check of Pintrest shows that folks usually use prints with white or cream backgrounds for these quilts. Turns out I have very few of those. The saturated thing again. I did pull out some black and white, and am trying again. Hmmm.
Do you know about lilies and cats? This was news to me, so I want to share it with you: http://tinyurl.com/apmwws6
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I’m turning down the volume again with these Disappearing Four Patch blocks.
I really like this little girl w umbrella print, and like the way this is coming out.
A while ago I sewed together a baby quilt for no real reason, except that I had some favorite fabrics I wanted to try out together.
I thought this aqua and lavender print with the sleeping moons was precious. Also, I had some strings in coordinating colors, and I had never tried string piecing. I put these two ideas together, added a fun border, quilted it up with moons and stars, and finished it off with blanket binding. I personally was in love, but no one else seemed to feel it. It sat around my Etsy and Artfire shops for some months.
Then J, an expectant mom, spotted it, totally loved it, and added it to her favorites in hopes of getting it for her shower. She showed me her nursery border paper and it matched perfectly.
She also requested a matching pillow case, and I was pleasantly surprised I had enough of the moon fabric for the cuff. Soon after, her mom quietly bought both items. I went on vacation for the month, and while I was away, the shower was postponed because J went on bed rest. Little One was born two months prematurely, weighing only a little over three pounds. J messaged me pictures on Facebook, never mentioning the quilt. After a while I realized that she didn’t have the quilt at the hospital, and probably didn’t even know it had been purchased for her. The hope was that Little One would be home for Christmas, but she didn’t get there until December 28. Then J let me know that her mom had surprised her with the quilt, and that she loved it even more in real life than from the photos. Just last week she posted the “going home” photo on my Facebook page showing L.O. and her quilt. Wasn’t that thoughtful of her?
Now I know why I made the Moon and Stars quilt, and I will always picture it with this little miracle baby. Thank you, J, for sharing Little One with me. Aren’t quilts wonderful?
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Here are my blocks for a low-volume baby quilt in a blue-yellow-white colorway. There isn’t really as much contrast as the photo shows, but the medium blue does stand out.
This is SO much lighter and calmer than my usual pallette that I thought it was low volume, but I don’t think I’m there. I felt I had to have some contrast for interest. I’m going to try again on a different quilt, but I so like this one, so I’m keeping it.
Spring is coming. This handsome bird came and sang for a long time in the dogwood outside my studio window yesterday.
Linking up with Design Wall Monday on Patchwork Times.
Pretty good numbers this week. Not feeling terribly inspired or productive this week, but creeping along with fairly mindless string piecing and scrappy nine patches. My pillow covers used eight yards.
This week: +0 yds., -8 yds.
YTD: +16 yds., -57 yds.
Net stash used in 2013: -41 yds.
Not that string piecing is easy with “help” like this!
I’m coming right along on my February “Getting It ” goals, too:
February Goals
1. Make a primary or bright baby quilt for Etsy shop.
2. Pillow covers for living room pillows.
3. Floral quilt for Etsy shop.
4. Mail/deliver charity quilts and pillowcases
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Using strings to make some Springtime pillow covers for living room pillows. Yes, they look a lot like the Christmas ones in different colors, but I really like those. So much so that they are still on the pillows…my last vestige of Christmas. Also, my strings continue to overflow their containers. I can’t tell the difference after pulling the strings for these six covers, but it has to be helping.
Doesn’t it?
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Well, a bit of fabric came in this week, but I’m continuing to destash. I used some fabric, and I’m about to get rid of some older quilts. Feeling lighter already.
16 yards of fabric came via UPS. It’s lots of solids, some binding stripes, and some backing. Good stuff.
The purple and gray floral quilt used 9.5 yards, all from stash.
I’m meeting a women in a parking lot this week to hand off seven older baby quilts for Project Linus. I wonder how we will recognise each other? They are perfectly fine quilts that I made as I was practicing, but they just never sold. Now they will be loved, and I will have more room. Win, win.
This week: +16 yds., -9.5 yds
YTD: +16 yds., -49 yds.
Net stash used in 2013: -33 yds.
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I made a lot of progress on this quilt yesterday, quilting scads of feathers in all the gray areas. Started out poorly, with funky feathers I had to rip out, but then I began to feel them, and they took shape for me. The only trouble with that was that I got so lost in making them that I lost track of the alternating directions I was trying to do. I don’t think it’s very noticeable, and I love the effect.
Now time to trim and bind. I’m using the darkest floral for binding.
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I designed and pieced this top yesterday during the Sports Ball Sew In on Twitter #sbsi . If you don’t tweet with us, you’re missing the fun. I’m at @scooquilt .
Here’s a better look at the fabrics. There are two by Kaffe Fasset, one by Phillip Jacobs, and another that just says Rowan Fabrics. The grays are a Kona and a Stella. They’re all from my stash. The giant HSTs are 9″ to show off the large scale florals. I’m not sure if the photos show how nummy these fabrics are, but they are making me very happy.
Have you been playing with fabric?
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A baby quilt this week used 4 1/2 yds. from stash, and the cat mat for the blanket binding tutorial took 1/2 yd. My fabric order has not yet arrived, so these numbers will change shortly, but for now they’re good.
This week: +0 yds., -5 yds.
YTD: +0 uds., -39.5 yds.
Net stash used in 2013: -39.5 yds.
Today is the Sportsball sew In on Twitter. Please join us at #sbsi. Pam is giving away fun stuff, and we will share pictures and encourage each other as we work.
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Evening in the Garden Quilts 