tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59699997958895126662024-03-05T21:58:38.366-06:00Dee's DoingsDee Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11446400288981105934noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5969999795889512666.post-43706483792419891812016-12-29T00:54:00.001-06:002016-12-29T11:11:24.156-06:00Santa Sack Swap 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I participated in the Santa Sack Swap again this year and had a fun time making the gifts for my partner. When we made contact, Marjory said she thought it would be fun to have a pillowcase and I agreed. As we mailed, we decided to wait until Christmas to open our packages. I opened the box, just to peek at what was inside. I saw the lovely pillowcase that she had made and some packages. Here's everything once it was out of the box.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My family and I celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve so I decided to open another present after everything had settled down. Inside the package I chose were these cute and useful pot holders! Don't you just love them?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dee</span>Dee Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11446400288981105934noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5969999795889512666.post-83991547837106689862016-11-28T22:45:00.000-06:002016-11-28T22:46:03.275-06:00Looking Back and Looking Forward<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: inherit;"><b>I have not done very well with my blog this year and it makes me sad to think about it. So I've decided to make a change in the way I blog. In the past, I think I've tried to put too much in print, to make my blog have lots of pertinent info about what's been going - I think this has made it hard me to blog because I can't find time to finish a post. This is the change that I'm going to make - I'm going to make an entry and just put into it whatever I can at that time. If I don't have pictures, there won't be any for that entry. If it's just a few lines long, that's what you will see. I'm not going to save it for days on end and try to finish it up later.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><b>So here's what's been happening with me lately!</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><b>My hubby retired in July after 30+ years at the same company. That means he is home all the time and this has been a big change for me. It feels even stranger because I haven't retired. This means that I still have to wash, cook, clean, iron, plan meals, etc. And I still want to sew . . . . another change in the way this gets done. I also continue to substitute a few days here and there.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><b>For sewing/quilting, I have joined in the Splendid Sample project, hosted by Pat Sloan and Jane Davidson. It will be 100 - 6" (finished) blocks, plus a few bonus blocks here and there. I am using my stash (mostly) but I bought a fabric to put in a lot of the blocks to tie them together. I'm a little behind but am working to catch up. Here are a few that I finished recently.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><b>At the end of May, I had surgery on my left rotator cuff and expected to be several months without sewing or quilting. It turns out that the tear was much smaller than they thought so they removed a sizable bone spur, which resulted in a much easier rehab. So once I could hold my ruler down without a lot of pain I began sewing again. This is why I got behind in my Splendid Sampler blocks.</b></span><br />
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Dee Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11446400288981105934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5969999795889512666.post-32894160699035325592015-12-27T19:24:00.001-06:002015-12-27T19:24:24.862-06:00Santa Sack Swap 2015<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><b>I joined the Santa Sack Swap for 2015 for the first time and had a great time choosing and making gifts for my partner Sharon. The swap started in July and was to be mailed near the end of November. Each person was to make a stocking, bag or basket with 5 </b></span><b style="color: #cc0000;">gifts</b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b> -1 per month - </b></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><b>most were to be handmade </b></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><b>. </b></span><b style="color: #cc0000;">We both decided to wait until Christmas to open our packages but t</b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><b>hat meant about a month of looking at the bag, or trying not to look at the bag, and the wrapped gifts inside. The wait was definitely worth it!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">This post was originally written in June and never published. So I'm going to put this one out there so that I can jump start myself ! </span><span style="font-size: large;">So this info is old but still valid. I will begin working on a new update and see if I can catch up.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Does it ever just seem that a whole bunch of time has passed and you didn't really notice? Of course you know that time is moving on but sometimes it is hard to believe how quickly. I can't believe that it's already mid June and I have not written a post since April. I've had things to do during these last couple of months but not so much that I couldn't write. I think a lot of it is because blogging is fairly new to me and it's not a habit yet. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">There's a special little girl who will be 2 in July and guess what (who) she really loves. You're right, it's Minnie Mouse - in red, not pink (a girl after my own heart</b><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">!</span></b><b style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">).</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: start;"><b>This little lady is my almost granddaughter - I got to travel with my best friend, her grandmother, from Texas to Marystown in Newfoundland Canada when she was born. Her parents are there for a while for work and will be back in Texas for her birthday. I made a pretty pink quilt when she was born so I'm going to follow it with a cute red, black and white Minnie quilt now that she's getting big. Watch for more later - I designed the quilt in EQ 7.</b></span></div>
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<b style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">believe that I haven't shared that before! This is some fabric that my daughter-in-love picked out with her mom to make a quilt for the new one (her mom is one of my quilting friends and will make the simple quilt they picked). It has the colors that she wants to use- gray, teal blue, and lime green - and her theme is zoo animals. She is keeping things generic because they are not finding out if it's a boy or girl.</span></b><br />
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<br />Dee Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11446400288981105934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5969999795889512666.post-12789272587983862142015-04-08T15:55:00.000-05:002015-06-17T06:15:16.377-05:00Past Time!<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>It's way past time to post a new entry for my blog! It doesn't seem like I have done much sewing but I guess I've done more than I realize.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>The last several weeks this is the project I've been working on. It's actually a UFO from the fall of 2012. I got the top made and started doing some stitch in the ditch when I realized that I needed to go across each row of squares not in the ditch. So I pulled out my stitches (not too many, fortunately), set it aside and got busy with other things. This is made on the fusible grid interfacing and had the shape drawn on it by the class instructor. We placed all our fabrics on the grid and used a small iron to secure them before we began to sew. We folded between each column of squares (I think they started out at 2") and sewed a 1/4" seam. After sewing them all one direction, we had to clip at each intersection and sew the other way. It was quite a new technique for me but I did enjoy it.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>If you look close, you can see things that I consider important, either in Texas: state symbols, professional sports teams or for my family: colleges, occupations, recreation.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">This is the Block of the Month I'm doing for 2015. I joined Pat Sloan's Vacation Time for this year's project. </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: large;">(There is a link on the right to the supply list and patterns.) </span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"> So far I have made 4 blocks - one each month this year, and yes, I have done them during the month they were meant to be done. Somehow, though, I have not shared them before today so here they are!</span></b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">I'm using a FQ bundle that I had bought for a quilt for my father-in-law. I was debating what to use and decided this would be a good pattern for his quilt. I added in a few more fabrics and the yardage needed for background and borders. </b><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>It's a nice soft but manly palette and I like the way it looks so far. I will be adding in a few extra blocks so that it will fit a twin bed. I plans to have it finished for him for Christmas.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>I received my mug rug in a box about a week before the "mail by" date. Inside the box was a really cute mug rug in one of my other favorite colors (green), a mug, some tea, and some really neat fabric. Oh yeah, there was a really delicious cookie in the box too . . . yes, I've already eaten it. The fabric is really neat - it's not fabric I would normally buy for myself but I love it. I can't wait to find something to make with it.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>It was sent to me by Tanyia, who lives in Florida and has a blog called </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><b>We weren't sent any information about who we were sending our rug to so it was one of those times when you make something that you like and hope that they like it too. I didn't realize until I addressed my package to her that we were actually swapping with each other, which was kinda neat. The appliqued mug rug that she sent me had a silhouette on it which reminds me of the logo for the subdivision that I live in and I love that. Are you ready for pictures now? Here is the mug rug</b></span></span><br />
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Dee Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11446400288981105934noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5969999795889512666.post-14800705211765337752015-03-04T08:52:00.003-06:002015-03-04T08:52:58.588-06:00Block of the Month Finished . . . What's Next?<span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">M<span style="font-family: inherit;">y</span> 2014 Block of the Month is finally finished - quilted, bound, and on the bed (at least for the weekend). I'm pleased with the way it looks without adding a border. I found this really nice blue dotted fabric for the binding. It has both medium and dark blues in it and the dots also range from almost white to light blue. It looks great with the background of my quilt.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Here it is on the bed that my niece slept in this weekend when she came to visit.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> And here is a close-up of the binding. I put it on by machine, which was a new thing for me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1) my block for March Vacation 2015 (by Pat Sloan) done</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">At this point I had to take a little break because it was the weekend. Because my hubby doesn't really like me to sew/quilt on the weekend, I try to only do little things that don't keep me in my sewing area long. I wanted to concentrate on these designs and do them all at the same time so I elected to wait until Monday to finish up.</span><br />
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<b style="color: #38761d; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: center;">This</span> is the second block of the month that I have done with Cindy and I have enjoyed both of them. At the beginning she told us that this would be a theme quilt and after the first block, or should I say row, it was obvious that the theme was to be winter. I live in the south so I wasn't so sure about a winter themed quilt because we don't have a lot of winter most years! I had another reservation because it became obvious that the quilt would be built with 2.5 inch squares and I struggle with making so many seams meet. I decided to go ahead with the quilt and use it as a opportunity to get better at making my seams meet. Most of the blocks were actually rows which was different from any other BOM that I had made but I loved the way they went together. The only row made of blocks is the row with the trees and houses - it has 4 blocks. I used a cording foot for the first time and it was really easy once I tried to stop guiding the cording and just sewed where it was supposed to go. I found out that applique is a skill I'm still perfecting!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">As I laid the quilt out to decide what order to put them in (I found Cindy's layout was the best for me), I found a little (big?) mistake. My row of mugs was 5 squares too wide - I had added an additional column of squares to each cup as I made it. So I took out my trusty seam ripper and began to find the easiest way to remove a strip from between each cup.</span> </b></div>
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Here is the quilt top all put together. I have chosen not to add a border and I did a little embellishing after the top was put together (not shown here). I just added a reindeer in the trees and a wreath above the door.</b></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><b>I chose this lovely print from the Snow Happens line for the backing of the quilt and began to quilt. I chose snowflake pattern that I saw on theinboxjaunt.com. It's linear and I made one line of quilting in each row of blocks. I like how it looks so far.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><b> I started my quilting in the center row and did 2 rows above that one then 2 rows below it, alternating the side that I started on. I'm continuing this method the full length - I'm hoping to keep the quilt more square by doing it this way. I had my snowflakes too close together at first (you can see this at the top of the house and in the tree) so I marked a pattern on a few rows to get more of a pattern started. You can see that I alternated the spacing of the flakes on each row, and put in a "snowball" every now and then.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Did you know about the NASA Astronomical Quilts! Block Challenge issued by Astronaut Karen Nyberg? She created a star quilt block while in space and she issued a challenge to quilters to create and submit star blocks. These blocks were combined into quilts that were displayed at International Quilt Festival in Houston.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I created 2 blocks - one was in response to a challenge by Pat Sloan and the other was a block that I had been thinking about making and sending in for the challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When I got both blocks finished, I decided </span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">to send in the green one (I love green!) because I thought it would be different from most other blocks. I'm saving the red, white, and </span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">blue one for some other quilt some day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;">This quilt was made for a sweet young lady that I have known for all but the first 2 years of her life. She and her husband had their first child, a little girl in October. I love to make quilts that have the same color scheme as the nursery so I went on a search for pink (bubble gum pink and hot pink), gray, navy, gold, and elephants. The elephants were easy - I had some of that cute Ed Emberley designed elephant fabric left from a quilt earlier in the year. The pinks weren't too hard to find, I left out the gold (way too hard to find the right shade), but the navy was a little trickier. When I found all my fabric I began to talk to a friend about the pattern that I planned to use. She also knows this young lady so I thought she would be helpful. Boy was I wrong! Since she "just loved" a quilt I made another friend's grandchild I began a search to find a similar pattern. (I don't really want to repeat patterns just yet). To make a long story shorter, the pattern we settled on didn't work with the fabrics that I had but I couldn't really tell until I got all the pieces cut. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I decided to use a variegated thread for the quilting - this way the quilting didn't jump out at you at any particular place on the front. I just did some leaves and flowers - I divided the quilt into quarters, drew a basic path to follow and then concentrated on just one section at a time. This really helped me not to get stuck or lost and miss a spot. In the center I did a stitch in the ditch diamond and a large elephant inside the diamond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> One more quick thing - I did finally finish the weighted blanket that I was making for my great nephew. I got to him just before school started and <u>it really helps him</u>. This is a close-up so you can see the pockets - they are filled with poly pellets and the whole thing weighs about 8 pounds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is the last of what I did the last half of 2014. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So what's up for 2015?</span></b><br />
<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm working on another block of the month - it's one designed by Pat Sloan and it's called Vacation Time. I plan to give it to my father in law for his twin bed but I'll have to lengthen it a row to make it long enough. I also have a few UFOs that I'd like to finish, I've already got the pattern for a quilt for a friend who is hoping to have a baby this year, I need to make my son a quilt (fabric and pattern already picked out for that one) . . . you know the story.</span><br />
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Cindy at Quilt Doodle Designs has sent out the schedule for viewing 2014 Block of the Month quilts. I hope you'll take a little tour of all the quilts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://emailmg.homestead.com/ox6/v=OaNNK5b/academicquilter.blogspot.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Mari - The Acedemic Quilter</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://lapaylor.blogspot.com/%20%20" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">LeeAnna - Not Afraid of Color</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://quiltdoodledesigns.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Liz - Hosted by Quilt Doodles</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://www.needlethreadhappiness.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">JoAnna - Needle, Thread, Happiness</a></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://sunshineintheattic.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Sherri - Sushine in the Att</a>ic</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://deedsdoings.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Dee - deesdoings</a></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://quiltdoodledesigns.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Nancy D - Hosted by Quilt Doodles</a></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://vroomansquilts.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Sharon - Vroomans Quilts</a></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://lesliesitchintobestitchin.blogspot.ca/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Leslie - 365 Days of Wonderful</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://www.quiltingwithcalicos.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Jules - Quilting with Calicos</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><a href="https://emailmg.homestead.com/ox6/new2quilting.blogspot.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Kathy-Kathy's Quilting Blog</a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://quiltinglikeamaniac.blogspot.ca/2014/11/finished-two-more-boms.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Nicole - quiltinglikeamaniac</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://www.stitchingbetweenthelines.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Pam - Stitching Between the Lines</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://quiltdoodledesigns.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Jill - Hosted by Quilt Doodle</a>s</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I hope you have a good week! Come back on Jan 25 to see my finished block of the month from 2014.</span><br />
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Dee Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11446400288981105934noreply@blogger.com0United States31.541940250411464 -94.3755197525024416.0199057504114641 -135.68411375250244 57.063974750411461 -53.066925752502442tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5969999795889512666.post-51796797686298993492015-01-17T21:11:00.003-06:002015-01-18T07:51:35.306-06:00Catching Up<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Today I'm going to show you the other things that I worked on while I was "on vacation" from blogland.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">One of the things I made was a cute little potholder for a hostess gift for a friend. We celebrated Thanksgiving with them and I wanted to take something as a thank you. I had been wanting to make a pot holder and then I saw this cute little turkey on Jennifer Jangles blog (http://www.jenniferjangles.blogspot.com/). I decided that would be my gift. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Another thing that I made, was also made for a gift (or gifts). These cute little ornaments are made with an ornament pack from Hummingbird Highway.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">I stopped at her booth when I was a Quilt Festival to see all the neat stuff that she had and found this pack that had a printed piece of fusible interfacing and 9 pieces of fusible foam- it was called Taste of Nectar Ornament Pattern. The pieces in the center were cut at 1 inch, all nine were fused onto the interfacing, and then sewn on the lines both directions. After cutting them apart, they were given borders, layered with the foam and the backing, pressed, and quilted. The biggest challenge was making the HST that finished at 1 inch. Because I wanted 10 ornaments to give to the group that I play hand bells, I made one by piecing it and using some fleece. I was pleased with the way they turned out and they were all made from scraps from a table runner I made at Quilt Festival.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Have you ever made a bargello quilt? I had seen them and thought they look really neat but the idea of of making a quilt was a little daunting. There was a bargello table runner class at my LQS and I decided that was a good place to start with bargello - I could give bargello a try without the commitment of a full quilt. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">When I went to pick fabric, I found this really pretty piece of fabric.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I knew I couldn't use it for the front so I chose fabrics to go with it and used it for the back. My fabrics are shown here; the top fabric is for the binding.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">After cutting </span></span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">strips</span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: left;">and sewing them together, I cut varying widths from the unit. </span></div>
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<span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">It's a very interesting process to build a bargello: sew the strips together, make a tube, cut widths across the tube, and then unsew the tube at different spots. I quilted the runner with a metallic thread - the first time I've ever used one. After some thread breakage, I changed to a needle meant for metallic thread and had success with my quilting.</span></span></span><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="clear: left; color: #0c343d; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ERT1spxDXC0/VLqg51ihodI/AAAAAAAACEk/ujdbqoMId2A/s1600/DSC_0220.JPG" height="214" width="320" /></span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: inherit;"> Here's the finished product. It looks very fall and was a great addition to my table in Oct and Nov.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"> </span><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">It looks like I will need one more post to finish up with all that I have worked on the last half of 2014. I can't believe that I still have a few things to show you!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'll be back in a few days to finish up and then again on January 25 to show my Block of the Month from last year. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have just taken a little (long?) vacation from blogging. I'm not exactly sure what happened because I really didn't plan on doing it. Anyway, I'm back and plan to try not to take such a long break next time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was still sewing and quilting on my break so I have several things to share. I may make 2 posts in the next few days and then another on Jan 25, when I will share my block of the month for 2014.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I began to lay out the blocks and rows to assemble the quilt top, I found a mistake - somehow I had made one row too long. After some searching, I realized that I had added an extra column between each cup. After some unsewing, I was able to make the row the same size as the others.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">on the 24th and you should see the list of those participating. My day is Jan 25th so check back that day to see my quilt put together and hopefully quilted.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One of my nieces graduated from high school last May and a few months before graduation, her mother called me. She wanted to know if I knew anything about making t-shirt quilts because she was thinking about making one for her daughter. The short story is that I found out my LQS was having a class in Aug and I decided that a t-shirt quilt would be the perfect graduation gift. I was given approval to make a quilt, she gave me the t-shirts, and we collaborated over fabric (thank goodness for smartphones!). I finished it and took it to her in the middle of September. Here are some pictures.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I found this t-shirt that I just loved and made it into a pillow for her. If you look close, you can see words that are associated with Texas A&M University (Gig 'em Aggies!) - they are very visible in the picture but when I first saw the shirt I only saw the words and not the fact that there was a block ATM.</span></b><br />
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Dee Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11446400288981105934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5969999795889512666.post-73636506632247241142014-06-15T15:34:00.003-05:002014-06-15T15:34:40.031-05:00Not Much Sewing<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This has been a strange 10 or so days for me - - I have done little to no sewing! I think I've been decompressing</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I did do a little sewing on a little jumper for my almost granddaughter. Does anyone else have an almost grandchild? My best friend's daughter had a baby last July and since I have known her since before she was born 27 years ago, she considers me her second mom. Little Caroline, along with her mom and dad, live in Newfoundland, Canada while her daddy works on a project there. When I went to Newfoundland last July with her grandmother to see her and help out her mom, I bought the Newfoundland plaid material to make her a jumper. I want to send it to her since it should fit soon but I'm having trouble putting the buttonholes in it. It's very weird to make perfect buttonholes on a scrap fabric but have to unsew the buttonholes (not once but twice) on the jumper itself. I have put it aside for a day or so and then I'll try again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><b><i>FABRIC SWAP:</i></b> I am doing something new for me - I'm participating in a brick fabric swap. I saw a notice for a swap by sewathomemummy.com. It was for American Made Brand solids so I decided </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;">of solid fabrics that are made in</span></span><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> the US. Each </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;">participant was </span></span><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">assigned</span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">2 colors to cut into </span><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">25- 5 x 10 inch </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;">bricks </span></span><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">(I was assigned dark </span><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">raspberry and lime). </span><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">After they've all been cut, sent in, </span><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">and sorted, I will receive 1 brick of </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;"> each color in the mail. There is a link </span></span><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">on my sidebar to the original post </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;">about the swap. Here are my two colors. </span></span><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I don't know yet what I will do </span><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">with the bricks - I'm open to </span><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">ideas if anyone has anything!</span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Leave a comment if you can </span><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">think of something good. I will </span><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">post pictures of the bricks </span><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">when I get them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>The last call link up has gone out for everyone's triangle quilt. All quilts that are linked by the end of July are eligible for a prize. You should stop by and look at all the quilts that have been done. They are really nice!</i></b></span>Dee Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11446400288981105934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5969999795889512666.post-61361582453937367362014-05-21T17:21:00.001-05:002014-05-21T17:29:08.408-05:00Done <span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Block of the Month</b></span><br />
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Dee Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11446400288981105934noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5969999795889512666.post-2214710937339685252014-05-13T20:29:00.000-05:002014-05-13T22:17:19.215-05:00Finished Projects<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">I can't believe it's almost the middle of May. I have worked so many days since Spring Break here that I can't believe that I have finished anything at all. I will not be working on Wed for only the 4th day since April 21st. That may not sound like a lot but when you are a substitute teacher and it is 6 weeks or less until school gets out, it's a lot. Oh well, I will have some money to carry me into the summer!</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><b>2. Baby Quilt</b> </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">for a cousin.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Okay, I must confess . . . </span></b><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">this is the reason that I did not finish the triangle quilt when it was scheduled. There was a baby shower for my husband's second cousin and when I saw this fabric bundle at my local quilt shop, I just knew I needed to make her a quilt with it. It was a great match for the things that she registered for and I fell in love with the fabric.</span></b><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> I did order the elephant fabric to go with the bundle and had to wait for before I could start the quilt.</span></b><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> It was a very simple quilt and did not take me very long to do. I was more than happy with the way it finished and she loved it too. Here is Jill's gray and yellow baby quilt (with elephants!).</span></b><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">For May, we're making a smaller tree to go on the other side of the house. Look for it soon.</span></b></span><div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Have a great week! Not much sewing scheduled for me, although I'm sure I'll get some in. I do have May's block of the month to finish!</span></b><br />
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Dee Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11446400288981105934noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5969999795889512666.post-22725111924661523292014-04-26T13:21:00.000-05:002014-04-26T13:21:15.391-05:00Quilt Progress<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This post is much later than I had planned on because the blog was acting up - it wouldn't open anything so that I could work on it - the post that I had started and when I started a new one I could not type in it! Oh well . . . it's working now!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It has been a busy time for me lately and I think it will slow down for sewing and quilting the next several weeks because I will be working a lot of days (I'm a substitute teacher so work is here and there). Anyway, I wanted to show the progress that I have made.</span><br />
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For week 4, we were to sew the rows together to have a completed top. Since I had 5 rows of triangles left to sew first, I wasn't sure that I would make the deadline. But hooray, I did manage to finish sewing the triangles into rows then sewing all the rows together.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For week 5/6 , we need to quilt and bind our quilt. I have my binding ready and I'm all ready to quilt it except that I cannot decide how I want to do it. Most people are quilting in straight lines on each side of the seams. Because it's already angular, I thought maybe a different design with some small curves might be nice. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'm open to suggestions for quilting! The goal is to have it finished by May 3.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The blanket that I started had to be put on hold. Somehow I hurt my back and that made it difficult to handle the weight. I did get to finish the weighted lap blanket and here is a picture of it. I hope to start again soon on the larger blanket since my back is doing much better.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I put this project on hold until after Easter because of the next project. I have begun piecing this month's block. I would like to have it finished by the end of April so I will be ready for May's block.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>PROJECT #4 T&F's Quilt</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is what I spent a lot of time on for about 10 days before Easter. My friend Angie, who is also a quilter, and I made a quilt together. You see, her daughter is married to my son. So we decided to make them a quilt and started it last fall in their color choice of gray and yellow. We made an easy chevron - she did the left half and I did the right half. After we had it quilted, we divided up the rest of the work. She joined the sides together and put on the binding. I put the 2 borders on and made some shams and throw pillows to go with it. We both went to see them on Easter weekend and took it to them. We were very pleased with how it turned out and so were they.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> You can't really see the quilting in the gray fabrics but they kind of echo the feathers in the yellow. </span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">Next we laid out our triangles in 12 rows with 17 triangles in each one.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;"> I started sewing mine but wasn't really happy with it. So I snapped a few black and white pictures to see what stood out. I had an area with no darker reds and an area with too many darker reds. This picture is after I was satisfied with the new layout.</span></b><br />
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Dee Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11446400288981105934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5969999795889512666.post-86039403102654252122014-03-28T08:57:00.001-05:002014-03-28T08:59:57.966-05:00Too Many Projects?<b><span style="color: #351c75;">This past week hasn't seen much sewing but it has seen a lot of planning. I've got several things in the works and I'd like to tell you about them.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> First project:</span></span></b><b><span style="color: #351c75;"> I'm working on a weighted blanket for my niece's son and hopefully when I'm finished, it will help him sleep better. I'm making it from some space fabric that he picked out. It's not really a difficult thing to make except that I'm trying to make it so that it can be made longer as he grows. So I'm making it with an inner lining that will be weighted and a cover. I've drawn the plans and am waiting for the delivery of the poly pellets (the weight) and a roll of velcro (to keep the lining from sliding around inside the cover).</span></b><br />
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<b><b><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-size: large;">Third project:</span> While waiting for supplies for project #1 and instructions for project #2, I had a desire to sew something. I found a twister wall hanging that I had laid out a while back. It's made with 2" squares - I had bought some precuts from Primitive Gatherings at Quilt Festival. So . . . I've been sewing it together. So far I have each row of 9 squares sewn together and some of the rows sewn together. </span></b><b style="color: #351c75;">After I finish sewing it, I will cut it </b><b style="color: #351c75;">with the Itty Bitty Primitive Pinwheels Tool and sew it back together. </b></b><br />
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On Monday I have a class at my local quilt shop, Quilter's Crossing, making fabric bowls. It's a class that I originally signed up for about 2 years ago. It got rescheduled several times and then I couldn't go. I've tried several times to make it and my chance is finally here. Look for some pictures next week. Of course, I've got to cut some 1 1/4 inch strips over the weekend before I go.</span></b><br />
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Have a good Friday and a great weekend! I'm off to pick up a quilt from the quilter today.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>I hope you had a fun and productive week last week, even if you didn't have spring break!<br />
Dee</b></span><br />
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Dee Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11446400288981105934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5969999795889512666.post-4167260498861553102014-03-05T09:49:00.003-06:002014-03-05T09:49:51.036-06:00A blog for me<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Well, I've decided to enter the world of blogging. I will probably only post every once in a while but thought it would be a good place to show what I'm working on. I enjoy reading other blogs and once even needed a place to blog about a BoM project that I did. I had to let someone else host my blog . . . but not anymore. Soon I will post what I am working on so keep an eye out every once in a while.</b></span><br />
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