tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33894922197043743892024-03-17T22:02:35.627-05:00splendid calmquilts. textiles. acrylic. mixed media. screen prints. photography.Jessica PierreAugustehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234214995010087766noreply@blogger.comBlogger171125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3389492219704374389.post-89386799141747838492012-11-08T09:11:00.002-06:002012-11-26T08:51:21.589-06:00Christmas Table Topper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last January when all the Christmas fabric was on sale I bought yardage to make two table toppers. My sister loves to bake and also enjoys sweets, so I used this Timeless Treasures fabric called Christmas Treats from their Holiday collection.<br />
fabric in the center of her table topper and surrounded it with a Moda marble in red and a green polka dot fabric.<br />
I used leftover red and green fabric to make a scrappy back.<br />
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Polka dot bindings always look so cute, so I used the green polka dot on this project.<br />
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I gave this to my sister for her birthday in May so that she could display it this holiday season.<br />
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Now it's time to start on the second table topper, which I am planning to make for myself. Although right now, I can't even think of what that fabric looks like.<br />
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<br />Jessica PierreAugustehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234214995010087766noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3389492219704374389.post-41266095237974443632012-10-17T14:30:00.002-05:002014-01-23T13:34:22.087-06:00WiP Wednesday...It's been a while<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lately I have been working on a wedding quilt for my cousin. Her wedding was about three weeks ago, and I am still not finished. I would love to show pictures of it, but <a href="http://thetipsyquilter.blogspot.com/">Robin</a> is nosy and would read this and see photos and then she would start hounding me more than she already has been. "Where is my quilt? When are you going to finish it? What's going on with that quilt you were supposed to give me at my bridal shower?" It just doesn't stop. ;)<br />
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This week I have been doing some sewing in the evenings and hand sewing at work, but my allergies are starting to do their thing, and I haven't been as productive as I would like to be.<br />
I am happy to say that Sunday I will home and sewing all day. I don't have a single thing scheduled, I don't even plan to get out of my pajamas. So I will put most of my focus that day on working on Robin's wedding quilt (and getting caught up on ironing my laundry) and hopefully finishing a few other projects too.<br />
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The <a href="http://austinmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/">Austin Modern Quilt Guild</a> is participating in a <a href="http://austinmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/2012/09/pincushion-swap.html">pincushion swap</a> with some other guilds. In my closet the other day I found two blocks that were pieced using <a href="http://cauchycomplete.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/scraptacularity-part-ii-lets-get-crazy/">this tutorial</a> from <a href="http://cauchycomplete.wordpress.com/">Completely Cauchy</a>. I sewed the blocks together to make a pincushion and I like it. I'm not sure it will be my final pincushion to turn in for the swap, we'll see. This just needs pressing, stuffing and the bottom sewn shut.<br />
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Last Christmas my sister gave this hook rug project to my brother. She had the hook rug about half way done and told him that she would finish it and return it to him. He had the choice of having her (by which I mean me, the sibling that owns a sewing machine and knows how to sew) finish it into a wall hanging or a pillow. He chose pillow and so I helped her sew some fabric on to it this weekend while we were visiting family in Fort Worth.<br />
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When I reorganized my studio a few months ago, I bought this basket and decided that I can keep as many scraps that can fit in this basket but not more than that. It is starting to overflow, so I plan to make more blocks like the scrappy pincushion blocks shown above. I really like the scrappy style of those blocks, I'm planning to try to make a few monochromatic blocks to see if I like that more than the "close your eyes and grab some fabric from the basket" method I used before.<br />
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When Robin and I made <a href="http://splendidcalm.blogspot.com/2012/01/grandmas-quilt-for-her-82nd-birthday.html">this quilt</a> for our grandma, I ended up with three string pieced blocks left over. I'll decide this weekend whether to make a fourth block and sew them together into a wall hanging, table topper or pillow, or if I should make these into three potholders. I may just keep this project for myself. I hardly even finish anything that I plan to keep for me and I love these colors. <br />
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I am selling at a holiday show at the end of this month, so yesterday I pulled this mess out of my closet. Some of these need binding and a partner to be pinned to, and some of them may need to be photographed for <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/splendidcalmtextiles">my Etsy shop</a>. I'd like to get binding on them this weekend so that I'll have plenty of hand sewing to keep me busy at work next week.<br />
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And because a person can never have enough pot holder sets to sell, I have this great vegetable fabric basted and ready to be quilted for new pot holder sets. I'll be selling these in a three piece set with a decorative kitchen towel. I bought some fruit fabric too and will get it basted after this one is quilted and cut.<br />
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There are so many more projects in my studio that are half way done or almost done or waiting to be started, but these are my main focus for now.<br />
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I'm linking up with Freshly Pieced today, you can visit her site to see what other people are working on this week.<br />
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<br />Jessica PierreAugustehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234214995010087766noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3389492219704374389.post-72775440908171280192012-09-25T13:55:00.000-05:002012-09-25T13:55:41.681-05:00Quilted Pillow Class, my teaching debut!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Over the last several weeks I have been preparing to teach a sewing class at the awesome north Austin fabric store, <a href="http://remnantsfiberculture.blogspot.com/">Remnants:fiber[culture]</a>. I will be teaching a Quilted Pillow Class on <b>October 6, from 1:00 to 4:00 pm. </b><br />
You can contact Jessica Sloan at Remnants for information on signing up for this class and also ask about the other classes on her schedule. The quilted pillow class costs $35 plus the cost of the supplies you'll need.<br />
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This class will help those that have a basic knowledge of sewing who are ready to delve into the quilting world. The fourteen inch pillow top is essentially a four-patch quilt block with two borders on it. Students will piece the pillow top, layer batting behind it, and then quilt it on their own machine. Then we will finish the process by sewing an envelope back on to the pillow top and the project is finished!<br />
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After completing this class, students will have the confidence and knowledge to move on to sewing a hundred more quilted pillows, or to begin a larger project like a baby quilt or quilted wall hanging.<br />
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At the beginning of September a group of my friends and family met me at Remnants to be my students in a practice class so that I could run through my curriculum and see how many hours we'll need to finish the project. I'll start by saying that this group was a chatty bunch! The class took (two hours!) longer than expected, but I know that was because most of them already knew each other and had things to discuss other than the pillows that I was teaching them to sew together.<br />
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Despite that, they were an incredible group of students and really helped me to prepare my curriculum and lecture for the class. <br />
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So join us at Remnants on October 6 for a fun-filled afternoon of sewing and learning new techniques!<br />
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Jessica PierreAugustehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234214995010087766noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3389492219704374389.post-54892090918534356232012-07-08T16:31:00.001-05:002012-09-25T12:59:58.176-05:00Vacation updateMy grandpa's birthday party yesterday was lots of fun, I will write more about it in my blog post about his quilt.<br />
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This morning I bought a coffee from Starbucks and then got to work cleaning my kitchen. It would be more fun to be sewing all week, but I really do need to do some Spring cleaning...and by Spring, I mean mid-July. :)<br />
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Today I got my new table for my studio. The saw horse legs are from Ikea and Robin's fiance, Pete, put those together and made the table top for me. He put laminate on the top, rounded the corners and edges, and it looks great! I had to rearrange some canvases on the walls because the table is taller than the one I had there before. I wish that I had taken some before pictures of my studio before these changes took place, but I didn't think about it until I started moving lots of things around.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">my new table, all moved in!</td></tr>
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I have to go get ready for my cousin's wedding now, it should be a fun night, but I am running late! I hope to post more vacation news tomorrow after I get back from the gym. We'll see how much I can Deadlift these days, wish me luck!</div>
Jessica PierreAugustehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234214995010087766noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3389492219704374389.post-75416813988436586572012-07-07T09:06:00.005-05:002012-07-07T09:14:26.424-05:00Let the vacation begin!Today is the first day of my week long vacation. I originally had plans to tell no one about my vacation and stay inside my house for nine days and do nothing but sew and listen to podcasts. But that is unrealistic, isn't it?<br />
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Last night I spent some time doing some cleaning that has been on my list for months. I organized my pantry.<br />
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I cleared off my patio and threw away the old, dried out firewood that has been sitting out there for way too long. I still need to clean my chairs and pillows and hang my bird feeders. I may get a rug to put out there, and I also thought about hanging a large screen to block some of the afternoon sunlight. I feel like the big sliding glass doors let so much heat in to the apartment, and a screen could cut back on that somewhat.<br />
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I squared up the big, heavy T-shirt quilt that I am working on for a client and cut binding strips, but have not sewn them together yet.<br />
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This morning I planned to go to the gym for their bootcamp class, but my wrist is hurting a lot. I have an old sprain that bothers me sometimes and on the Fourth of July my cousins and I played tetherball. Sometimes I get so involved in something that is a lot of fun, and I forget to be careful not to aggravate these kinds of injuries. So I have decided to wrap my wrist, skip the class, make some tea and sit down to write a short post.<br />
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I do have some fun things planned for this week:<br />
Saturday - I am getting a manicure, then going to my grandpa's 90th birthday party in Rockne. My family is expecting over 400 people to be there for his celebration and <a href="http://thetipsyquilter.blogspot.com/">Robin</a> and I made a quilt to give him, we each pieced one side, similar to my <a href="http://splendidcalm.blogspot.com/2012/01/grandmas-quilt-for-her-82nd-birthday.html">grandma's birthday quilt</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">sneak peak of Grandpa's quilt, blog post coming soon</td></tr>
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Sunday - I have the morning and afternoon to sew and to work on Robin's wedding paper system (it is almost time to mail invitations out!), I need to get a few things from <a href="http://ikea.com/">Ikea</a>, and then I am headed to <a href="http://www.texasoldtown.com/">Texas Old Town</a> for my cousin Judith's wedding. I am making <a href="http://www.sewdaily.com/blogs/sewdaily/archive/2012/01/18/spring-stitch-is-here.aspx">these place mats</a> for the wedding gift and will have them ready by the time they get back from their honeymoon. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Judith's citrus place mats</td></tr>
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Monday - first personal training session at the nearby powerlifting and bodybuilding gym, <a href="http://bigtexgym.com/">Big Tex Gym</a>. (did you know that I was a powerlifter in high school?) Then bootcamp at <a href="http://www.austinselfdefense.com/">Austin Self Defense</a> if the morning workout hasn't taken me out completely.<br />
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Tuesday - physical and donation at the plasma bank, lunch with friends, and an afternoon with my stepson Xavier. I am planning to go visit fellow local art vendors, Ian and Megan of <a href="http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/repurposed-toy-planters-by-pla-142322">Plaid Pigeon</a>. They sell adorable potted plants, and they are going to put some succulents in to some pots that I have on my fireplace hearth. I also have a handyman coming over to hang some shelves in my sewing studio and try to fix my washing machine.<br />
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Wednesday - sewing! Lots of sewing planned for today, including sewing some pillow cover samples for a class that I will be teaching in August at the amazing fabric store, <a href="http://remnantsfiberculture.blogspot.com/">Remnants:fiber[culture]</a>, and then bootcamp in the evening.<br />
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Thursday - another plasma donation. <a href="http://www.biolifeplasma.com/html/plasma_derived_products/what_is_plasma.html">Plasma saves lives</a> and I am using the money that I make donating to save for a new car. More sewing, I also have things to do around the house like cleaning, organizing, sanding and staining my antique chair, updating my Etsy sites and editing photos for this blog. And there is an Austin Modern Quilt Guild meeting in the evening, we will be voting on new officers and announcing committee members.<br />
Friday - I'd like to spend some time painting, I have so many blank canvases on the walls of my studio and it would be great to take some new work to First Thursday next month. More sewing and cleaning up around the house, in the evening I will drive up to Fort Worth to spend the weekend with my dad's side of the family.<br />
Saturday - My aunt says we are going to the <a href="http://www.peachfestivaltx.com/">Peach Festival</a> in Weatherford. I don't know anything more about that. Hopefully I will feel like getting some sewing done when we get back to the house.<br />
Sunday - Sewing and visiting with the family, then driving back home in the evening to get ready for the work week.<br />
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I already know that I probably won't accomplish as much as I hope to, but I'm going to do my best. I work such long hours during the week and my commute to work is about an hour each way, so I have gotten behind in sewing projects, household tasks and my online commitments like blogging and keeping my Etsy shop updated. I'm using this vacation time to work on all of this and try to get back to a place where I feel like I am no longer drowning in my to do list.<br />
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Have a great week at work!Jessica PierreAugustehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234214995010087766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3389492219704374389.post-72340278964745359832012-05-30T00:34:00.001-05:002012-05-30T00:35:34.303-05:00W.i.P. Wednesday, real progress for once<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, I am disappointed that I haven't posted anything here in over a month. But there are tons of projects going on right now, and I will try to update you on what is happening. Today I am piecing this T-shirt quilt together. I am hoping to get it pieced and ready for quilting by this Saturday, which may mean an all-nighter Friday night.<br />
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I bought some <a href="http://www.thangles.com/">Thangles</a> and tried out my 1.25 inch template. I have a few good half square triangles, and a few that weren't lined up so well. I like the template, I just need more practice using them.<br />
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I finally cut the pieces for the two picnic blankets that I will be making for two sets of twins that I need birthday gifts for. I am using this adorable Michael Miller Backyard Baby collection. I cut out squares for the top of the blanket, and folded and put away all of my extra fabric.<br />
I am happy to report that I finally finished ironing, folding and organizing my entire fabric stash! The only thing I have left to do is fold my larger amounts of yardage around some mini cardboard bolts that I ordered from Amazon.<br />
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I have an Etsy custom order for a pair of these pot holders. They need binding and then they will be ready to ship. <br />
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I participated in a color wheel swap with the Austin Modern Quilt Guild. I received 56 five inch squares (I think) and I decided to quarter them in to two and a half inch squares. I have four stacks of 108 squares and I will be piecing them together in to a postage stamp quilt.<br />
There were four fabrics in the swap that I decided to remove from the layout, I replaced them with similar color fabrics from my stash.<br />
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Over the long weekend I spent a lot of time organizing my fabric stash and my works in progress. I got this T-shirt from the Austin Modern Quilt Guild and decided to piece it in to a wall hanging for my studio. I added a border of scrappy orange fabrics that I won as part of a giveaway on Jen Carlton Bailey's blog, <a href="http://www.bettycrockerass.com/">BettyCrockerAss</a>.<br />
I took a little break from cleaning and organizing to piece this top together, I added a teal border outside of the orange border, I sandwiched it with batting and an orange backing fabric. It is waiting to be quilted now.<br />
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This fabric comes from a sample quilt that I was going to make for <a href="http://remnantsfiberculture.blogspot.com/">Remnants: Fiber [Culture]</a>. I made a mistake in the piecing and just bought the fabric from the store instead. I don't know exactly how this will turn out but I have some fabric pieced together and I will just continue in that direction. <br />
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Here is the drawstring bag that I have had sitting on my table for months and months. I am making four of them, the outside section is finally pieced for one of the bags. I found the tutorial on the amazing blog, <a href="http://freshlypieced.blogspot.com/2011/10/12-gifts-of-christmas-lego-storage.html">Freshly Pieced</a>.<br />
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In April I spent an afternoon visiting and sewing with two girls that I used to take care of full time. Grace decided to make a scottie dog pillow (very frustrating, I will post pictures later) and Faith decided to make <a href="http://www.made-by-rae.com/2009/02/free-buttercup-bag-sewing-pattern/">this purse</a>. We didn't finish either project in April, their attention spans don't allow them to sew for five hours and I lost my helpers to a video of Tangled. I finished Faith's purse strap over the weekend.<br />
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I am making a set of place mats to give my cousin as a wedding gift in July. I found the pattern in the Spring 2012 issue of <a href="http://www.interweavestore.com/Sewing/Magazines/Stitch-Spring-2012.html">Stitch</a>. They are going to be round and look like slices of lemon, lime, orange, and grapefruit. I have everything cut out except for half of the tear drop shapes. <br />
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I am making this hounds tooth quilt as a gift for my sister's birthday. I bought the pattern from <a href="http://www.vanessachristenson.com/">V and Co</a>. I took a break from this quilt because I ran out of fabric and had order more of the Kona Robin's Egg online. However, this weekend, I uncovered a yard of each of these blues under a stack of stuff in my studio. I am glad to find the fabric that I originally bought so that the colors will match but I am frustrated that I bought another four yards of fabric that I don't really need. I'll use it eventually, but it also is annoying that I have so many projects going on right now that I can't keep track of where all of my supplies are. <br />
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Yesterday, I also made these blocks for the Austin Modern Quilt Guild block swap that is going on right now. I got behind in turning in my blocks, I am almost caught up now so that I can turn in blocks at the June meeting.<br />
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Our grandma made him a Milky Way quilt (friendship stars and four patches) in shades of blue as a high school graduation gift. He took that quilt with him on every deployment until the year that it was stolen from him on the ship. It was very sad to hear that the quilt our grandma worked so hard on was gone. She is getting older and can't make a new quilt for him, so Robin and I decided to make one.<br />
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I found a more modern way to layout friendship stars on the wonderful blog, <a href="http://www.freshlemonsquilts.com/?p=1514">Fresh Lemons Quilts</a>. We chose three batik fabrics, two black and one blue, and used Kona Medium Gray for the negative space and quilt back. We added in my scraps of the beautiful Alexander Henry Regent Skull. I used it to back <a href="http://splendidcalm.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-made-this-quilt-for-my-wonderful.html">this quilt</a> for my brother, and we used almost every bit of what remained in my stash for Ron's quilt.<br />
We spent a few weeks sewing together many, many half square triangles
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game of <a href="http://www.tetris.com/">Tetris</a>, trying to figure out where everything fit and make sure that all of our points were facing the right way. <br />
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During the week I pieced together a few sections of the quilt, and Robin made the last half square triangles and star centers that we needed to complete the top and add a few stars to the back of the quilt.<br />
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On Friday night Robin came over to my house around 10 p.m. (after I finished babysitting for a friend) and we started sewing. I continued piecing the top together and she put together two clumps of stars for the back of the quilt and finished the quilt back with Kona Medium Gray.<br />
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We like to listen to a podcast or a stand up comedy special while we sew and here is a list of everything we listened to Friday night.<br />
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Paul Mooney: It's the End of the World <br />
Paul Mooney: Analyzing White America<br />
Brian Regan: The Epitome of Hyperbole<br />
Jim Gaffigan: Beyond the Pale <br />
<span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1335203857_1">Nick Swardson</span>: Seriously, Who Farted?<br />
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The Hangover<br />
Daniel Tosh: Happy Thoughts<br />
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If that seems like a lot to listen to in one night, that is because we sewed this quilt until 8:00 a.m. on Saturday morning! There was no time for sleep, we showered and gathered up our things and headed off to start the quilting process.<br />
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We pay by the hour to rent time on a long arm quilting machine at a woman's house. She is there to help us thread the machine, help us fix any mistakes and answer any questions we have. But we are getting better at figuring out how to fix our own mistakes and help each other get the quilting finished.<br />
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Robin and I decided to quilt this with straight lines. The spaces between the lines vary in width, from a half inch (Robin's favorite) to an inch and a half. I like the dense quilting too, but it makes the process take longer.<br />
I had the job of quilting and Robin was there to tie off my threads and pin down some rebellious seams that weren't ironed completely flat.<br />
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I am linking up to this fun festival on <a href="http://www.canoeridgecreations.com/">Canoe Ridge Creations</a>.<br />
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Recently, <a href="http://thetipsyquilter.blogspot.com/">Robin</a> and I spent an afternoon with one of our cousins and we all worked on this quilt. It came together pretty quickly with three of us sewing, pinning and ironing seams while listening to one of my favorite weekly podcasts, <a href="http://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/">Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!</a><br />
We decided to make this <a href="http://www.ut.edu/">University of Texas</a> quilt and donate it to the silent auction that is a part of this year's <a href="http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?pg=entry&fr_id=40710">Relay for Life</a>.<br />
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We sewed the top together using a disappearing nine patch method in three fabrics, burnt orange UT fabric, a solid white and a solid black fabric. We backed it with a marbled black fabric.<br />
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Robin quilted this on the long arm machine using a free hand meandering stitch with burnt orange thread.<br />
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The silent auction will be held this Sunday, April 1st from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. The event will be at <a href="http://playlandskatecenter.com/">Playland Skate Center</a> at 8822 McCann Dr. There will be food and drinks for sale, roller skating, and lots of great items to bid on in the silent auction.<br />
One of my teammates, <a href="http://indigoblend.blogspot.com/">Debra King-Isaacs</a> has donated a stretched canvas painting, titled Clara. <br />
The <a href="http://austinmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/">Austin Modern Quilt Guild</a> also donated a quilt, I helped to organize that project and quilted it on the long arm last Saturday.<br />
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I joined a Color Wheel Swap within the <a href="http://austinmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/">Austin Modern Quilt Guild</a>, and I chose to contribute the green and blue-green colorway. These are my two fabrics, I cut 56 five inch squares out of the green fabric, now I just need to cut out my blue-green squares and I will be ready to trade these for 112 squares of different fabrics that represent the entire color wheel. I am thinking about cutting the squares even smaller and making a postage stamp quilt, but I haven't decided for sure yet.<br />
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Some progress has been made on this secret quilt for a family member. I still don't have any blocks sewn together, but I put some more of these strips together and I should be ready to cut them soon.<br />
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My family is participating in The American Cancer Society's <a href="http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?pg=entry&fr_id=40710">Relay for Life</a> event on April 27th. Our team name is <a href="http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?pg=team&fr_id=40710&team_id=1063143">Goertz Family Ties</a>, so I am appliqueing ties to t-shirts and they will say Goertz on the back. I added a button to my blog; if you want to make a donation to our team to help the American Cancer Society beat cancer and create more birthdays, click the button on the top right of this page and donate to our team. Thanks for your support!<br />
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There is a <a href="http://remnantsfiberculture.blogspot.com/">new fabric store</a> open in Austin and I agreed to make a sample quilt to hang in the shop. These are my fabrics and the pattern, now I just have to get started on it. <br />
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The Kickstarter widget on the right side of my blog provides you with an opportunity to support this new fabric store in the Austin area. Click on the widget to learn more about Jessica and her plans for the store. She needs more help reaching her fundraising goal!<br />
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This is the quilt that <a href="http://thetipsyquilter.blogspot.com/">Robin</a> and I are working on together. This is for a family member who is on tour in Afghanistan with the Navy right now. These are three and a half inch half square triangles, I am really excited to see it progress and start becoming an actual quilt top rather than a bunch of pieces of fabric.<br />
Can you see my <a href="http://www.ahfabrics.com/">Alexander Henry</a> Regent Skull there in the middle? Oh, how I wish we had more of this for the quilt, I pulled every little piece that I had in my stash, and I hope that it will be enough for the quilt. We searched all over the internet and in stores around town, but haven't been able to find any of this popular fabric for sale. <br />
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Part of Relay for Life is a Silent Auction. It is being held on Sunday, April 1st at Playland Skate Center in Austin from 5:30-8:30 p.m. There will be many great items to bid on in the auction, including this University of Texas at Austin quilt that Robin and I made with our cousin Sarah. It is 64 by 50 inches and has a dense, all over meander quilting pattern in burnt orange thread.<br />
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I am also working with the Austin Modern Quilt Guild to finish up a quilt that our members made for the silent auction. I am sewing the binding down this week, and I will post pictures of that soon.<br />
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The Austin Modern Quilt Guild is featuring a member each month to help fellow guild members (and the general public) learn more about each other as a person and as a quilter.<br />
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This month I am so excited to be the guild member in the spotlight. Head over to the Austin Modern Quilt Guild blog to read the <a href="http://austinmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/2012/03/member-spotlight-march.html">article about me</a> and what led me to try my hand at quilting in 2009. <br />
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Feel free to comment here or over on that blog post. I really appreciate all the kind comments I have received about the article so far.<br />
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Also, this weekend is going to be a weekend full of sewing and spending time with family; so I will have lots of pictures of quilts next week. Today I will show you a quick project that I worked on while visiting Aunt M and the rest of my dad's family in Fort Worth two weekends ago.<br />
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These sun visor covers were easy to make for my Honda, and now that old brittle batting in my visor can stop raining down on me every time I pull it down to block the sun.<br />
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My cousin and I are working on a quilt for her brother. I have more half square triangles sewn and cut, but I need to square them up. There are so many that I am not looking forward to it, and I have less than half the HSTs that will make up the entire quilt top! Robin has the rest of them, I wish we were a bit further along on this project. <br />
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Here is another block for the <a href="http://austinmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/">Austin Modern Quilt Guild</a> Block Swap. I am hoping to make a donation block this weekend.<br />
The quilt guild is having our March meeting in a brand new Austin fabric shop, <a href="http://remnantsfiberculture.blogspot.com/">remnants:fiber[culture]</a>, owned by fellow guild member Jessica Sloan. On the right side of my page I posted a widget for her Kickstarter fund, please consider donating a few dollars to help her with some special plans she has for decorating the shop. <br />
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My family is participating in <a href="http://austinrelay.com/">Relay for Life</a> this year in south Austin. <a href="http://thetipsyquilter.blogspot.com/">Robin</a>, our cousin Sarah, and I are making this <a href="http://utexas.edu/">University of Texas</a> Quilt for the Relay Silent Auction.This is half of the top, there will be two more rows of five blocks. I have a black Moda marble for the backing, and solid black for the binding.<br />
You can donate to our team by clicking <a href="http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?pg=team&fr_id=40710&team_id=1063143">here</a>. The money helps the American Cancer Society in their quest to create less cancer and more birthdays. <br />
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Here is the beginning of a quilt for a family member. I am using Kona solids, <a href="http://www.fabricworm.com/rokakocosola.html">Lagoon</a> and <a href="http://www.fabric.com/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductID=5a32bbf8-6d7d-4a3e-a1d9-3c65542e137e">Robin's Egg</a>. I don't want to say much more than that, except that I need to cut these strips apart but I have to buy the right ruler first.<br />
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I wish I had gotten more accomplished over the last week, but the only thing on my calender for Sunday is a family lunch and then I hope to sew all afternoon! It has been nice to take a little break after finishing the T-shirt quilt and I have so many meetings and events scheduled that it is hard to get much finished during the week.<br />
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Also linking up with Manic Monday on the blog <a href="http://sewhappygeek.co.uk/">Sew Happy Geek</a>.<br />
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Hello! Wednesday again! This keeps sneaking up on me; I took some photos last night, but I should of done it during the day. These photos aren't great.<br />
Regardless, I have been very busy and I have a lot to show you. I just had a four day weekend which was really great. I spent most of my time working on this t-shirt quilt. I will be quilting it on Saturday. There is still a lot of work to do, I may have a late night Friday night, but it will get done. It is becoming more of a horizontal layout than I intended, I may have to take those four big pieces on the right side and line them up in a horizontal row at the bottom to create a more vertical layout.<br />
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Every so often I needed a break from this quilt, so I worked on a few other things this weekend. These are some half square triangles for my cousin's quilt that I mentioned <a href="http://splendidcalm.blogspot.com/2012/02/wip-wednesday-09.html">last week</a>. <a href="http://thetipsyquilter.blogspot.com/">Robin</a> and I created a layout with 90 friendship stars, which means we have to sew 180 pairs of squares and then cut them in to 360 half square triangles. So far I have sewn and cut 20 squares, and squared up two HSTs. So...there is a long way to go!<br />
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I also worked a little more on this <a href="http://freshlypieced.blogspot.com/2011/10/12-gifts-of-christmas-lego-storage.html">Lego bag</a>. These strips for the outside of the bag have been sewn together in groups of four, leaving me with 10 big pieces. There is still a lot of work to do on this.<br />
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Here is the mess next to my computer desk as I work on Robin's Save the Date cards for her September wedding. I got my desk for free (found it next to the dumpster!) and I am thinking about buying a new one from Ikea with some of my birthday money. This desk is big enough for my computer and nothing else. I don't have room to write or even set my printer. The printer lives in the closet and I get it out and set it up on the floor when I need it. I think I am overdue for a new desk.<br />
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I ordered this coral stamp from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/stampoutonline">Stamp Out Online</a>, an Etsy shop that was incredibly helpful and accommodating while working with me to get the coral looking just right for the wedding stationery. The shop has several great stamps and can create custom orders. I plan to order a stamp from their <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/stampoutonline?section_id=6417312&page=2">girly business section</a> soon.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">second draft of STDs</td></tr>
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Recently, I joined the <a href="http://www.stitchedincolor.com/2012/01/scrap-attack-quilt-along.html">Scrap Attack</a>, hosted by <a href="http://www.stitchedincolor.com/">Stitched in Color</a>. There I read about this <a href="http://cauchycomplete.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/scraptacularity-part-ii-lets-get-crazy/">scrappy piecing method</a>. I tried it out last Wednesday and came up with this ten by ten inch block. I will eventually contribute it to the <a href="http://austinmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/">Austin Modern Quilt Guild's</a> Block Swap, but I need to make it bigger. I really like this method and how crazy the block turns out. I pulled out scraps randomly and only paid attention to not having the same color next to each other. I plan to make more of these scrappy blocks using a monochromatic color palette.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scraptacular block</td></tr>
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Here is my sister's table topper. I pieced the back over the weekend without planning it out, I just added fabric until it was big enough. I am still thinking about how to quilt this and whether or not I will add heat resistant batting to it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christmas table topper</td></tr>
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I am linking up today with <a href="http://freshlypieced.blogspot.com/">Freshly Pieced</a>. Stop by
and take a look at some other crafty blogs!<br />
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Linking up at Jay Bird Quilts for Scrappy Sunday. I am so excited about the scrappy block that I made, and I am going to use this link up opportunity as a motivation to continue building those scrappy blocks.<br />
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I bought four fabrics from the remnants section of <a href="http://www.joann.com//">Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft</a>, cut them in to 6 by 8 rectangles and took them up to Fort Worth to get help from Aunt M and Grandmother. They explained to me the problem with the fabric I had chosen and then helped me rework my quilt design. I originally bought the pink polka dot that you see in the quilt, a yellow and white striped knit fabric, a green fleece fabric, and the cotton butterfly fabric that is in the quilt. <br />
I learned that it doesn't work well to combine different types of fabric and that it is best to use all cotton fabric when quilting.<br />
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Aunt M has lots of bolts of fabric in her sewing room closet and she gave me the green polka dot fabric, the light pink swirl fabric,the dark purple backing, and the solid white. I bought batting and more of the butterfly fabric from the store and set aside my knit and fleece fabrics.<br />
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My aunt C does not sew but she has a great eye for color and
layout. She and I laid the blocks on the floor and tried arranging them
several different ways. We eventually ended up on these diagonal lines
of color and I was very happy with that solution.<br />
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I had not planned on adding these three borders or the white
sashing in between the blocks, but I am glad that my grandmother
suggested it. She is a traditional quilter, as is Aunt M, and they love
to add a border to a quilt. Or two or three borders. <br />
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Aunt M has an embroidery machine so I used it to embroider Macey's name on the lower right block of the quilt top.<br />
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I pieced the top with their help and supervision and then Aunt M taught
me how to sandwich the quilt and baste it with what seemed like a
thousand safety pins. She showed me how to stitch in the ditch and gave
me some clear thread for the top and I used a dark purple for the bobbin
thread. You can see my stitch in the ditch lines on the back of the quilt. <br />
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After that I learned how to square up the quilt, piece the binding together and sew it on to the front of the quilt and blind stitch the binding to the back of the quilt. Piecing the binding strips together was the most difficult part for me. You have to get them lined up just right and I was always off just a bit. Aunt M would look at it and say, "No, rip it out. Do it again." She said that so many times during my first few tries at piecing binding, but practice makes perfect and these days my binding looks pretty goo...moat of the time. <br />
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I think overall this project turned out well for my first try at making a quilt. I gave it to Macey for Christmas in 2009 and she LOVES it, even now two years later. She calls it her Jessica blanket and has it in bed with her for naps and night time.<br />
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I am not sure who "owns" the green and brown blanket these days, but it is about time for me to make a quilt for Bruce. There is a third baby in the family by now and he and Macey each have quilts from me, Bruce needs one too.<br />
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<center><a href="http://quiltstory.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img alt="Fresh Poppy Design" src="http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/ad311/freshpoppydesign/fabrictuesdayfinalcopy.png" /></a></center>Jessica PierreAugustehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234214995010087766noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3389492219704374389.post-30727276146806690042012-02-08T00:36:00.000-06:002012-03-22T14:52:06.921-05:00W.i.P. Wednesday 09Last Saturday I spent eleven hours at a quilt retreat and had an amazing time. I took my sewing machine with me but never took it out of its case. I spent the day cutting fabric for several projects that I am ready to get started on. I cut fabric for two <a href="http://freshlypieced.blogspot.com/2011/10/12-gifts-of-christmas-lego-storage.html">lego bags</a>, one Christmas table topper, and one <a href="http://vandco.bigcartel.com/product/houndstooth-quilt-pdf-pattern">hounds tooth quilt top</a>. I helped to make a quilt for a fellow <a href="http://austinmodernquiltguild.blogspot.com/">Austin Modern Quild Guild</a> member's new baby boy. I snacked on some yummy food, drank a couple of <a href="http://www.ohbeautifulbeer.com/2012/01/shiner-wild-hare-pale-ale/">beers</a> and of course chatted with all the other ladies at the retreat.<br />
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With the help of another of our cousins, <a href="http://thetipsyquilter.blogspot.com/">Robin</a> and I will be making a
<a href="http://www.utexas.edu/">University of Texas at Austin</a> quilt as a Silent Auction
donation for this years <a href="http://austinrelay.com/">Relay for Life</a>
event. We are calculating yardage and buying fabric this week and plan
to put the quilt top together on an upcoming Saturday afternoon.<br />
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year I am the team captain for my family's Relay for Life team <a href="http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?pg=team&fr_id=40710&team_id=1063143">Goertz Family Ties</a>.
You can make a donation to our team to help support the American Cancer
Society in their quest to create a world with less cancer and more
birthdays by clicking on this <a href="http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?pg=team&fr_id=40710&team_id=1063143">link</a>. Thank you for your support!<br />
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Back to sewing and current projects: <br />
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Soon I will have to post photos of the wedding stationery that I am designing for <a href="http://thetipsyquilter.blogspot.com/">Robin</a>. I
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It is a big undertaking and I work on it a little at a time. I need to
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Robin and I are also starting a quilt for her brother, the fabric is almost all cut out and ready to start piecing. We will have to make 180 half square triangles! I will have photos of that soon. </div>
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These roses were a belated birthday gift from my hair stylist, Kristal. Isn't that sweet?!<br />
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The blue and green block that I made for the AMQG Block Swap is part of Faith's Solstice Stars Series on her blog, <a href="http://www.freshlemonsquilts.com/">Fresh Lemons Quilts</a>.<br />
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Valentine's Day will be here soon. I finished these sets of towels just in time. I made two sets of pleated towels from fabric that my cousin <a href="http://thetipsyquilter.blogspot.com/">Robin</a> and I chose at <a href="http://hobbylobby.com/">Hobby Lobby</a>.<br />
I read about this towel idea in <a href="http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/">American Patchwork & Quilting</a>. The tutorial is called Jolly Holiday and was designed by <a href="http://annagriffin.com/collection/decorativefabrics/index.html" id="yui_3_2_0_13_1326814667301111">Anna Griffin</a>. She designed this tutorial to make pillow covers, but the editor of the magazine reworked it for kitchen towels. I made a few other sets of these which you can see <a href="http://splendidcalm.blogspot.com/2012/01/pleated-towels.html">here</a>.<br />
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These towels are fun to make and really cute when they are finished, but right now I have so many projects in the works and deadlines coming up, that I am mostly just glad these are done and off of my table. I originally planned to make two more sets of these towels for other family members, but I don't have enough of the solid fabric and I decided to save those white towels to use later. I am thinking about making Halloween towels for myself and for a friend with the <a href="http://www.hawthornethreads.com/fabric/designer/alexander_henry_house_designer/ghastlies">Ghastlie fabric</a> that I love. <br />
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The funny thing about these towels is that when Robin was at my house last week and saw them, she thought that the light pink set was hers and the black set was mine. I told her that she chose the black fabric at Hobby Lobby and I chose the pink fabric, but now I like the black set more. She said she likes the pink set more. </div>
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I am taking both sets to her house tonight and she can choose which ever towels she wants. (I hope she chooses the pink set.)</div>
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Happy Valentine's Day!</div>
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I posted these on <a href="http://craftsy.com/">Craftsy</a> as part of Project Cupid.</div>
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</div>Jessica PierreAugustehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234214995010087766noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3389492219704374389.post-51953612624808350972012-02-03T12:39:00.000-06:002012-02-03T12:42:07.867-06:00A quilted birthday gift<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last month I turned thirty. I had a great birthday week; it started out with cupcakes and tequila shots on the Tuesday before my birthday and didn't stop until Sunday when my family met for lunch at <a href="http://www.polvosaustin.com/">Polvos</a>.<br />
We had a great lunch and a lot of fun. My sister made a <a href="http://allrecipes.com/recipe/irish-car-bomb-cake/detail.aspx">trifle</a> that somehow contained three different kinds of alcohol, it was delicious. Robin gave me a table topper that she made using several fabrics from the <a href="http://www.fatquartershop.com/store/stores_app/Browse_Item_Details.asp?Shopper_id=8185231014488185&Store_id=499&page_id=23&Item_ID=57384&Parent_Ids=">Moda Circa 1934</a> line. <br />
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I love the colors and the pattern that she used. The five big X shapes create a bold pattern, and then the next time I look at it, the diamonds stand out to me more.It has a lot of visual interest.</div>
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She quilted it on the long arm machine with a free hand meander pattern. It feels strange knowing that she was at the quilter's house without me, and without telling me about it. We usually talk about all of our quilting ideas and projects.<br />
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I really love this table topper, it looks great in my dining room and works well with the red accent wall. <br />
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<br />Jessica PierreAugustehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234214995010087766noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3389492219704374389.post-24242421334064750332012-02-01T00:00:00.000-06:002012-02-01T12:19:32.858-06:00W.i.P. Wednesday 08There are so many projects going on right now, I will do my best to make a complete list.<br />
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I just finished the custom order of note cards this week. They will go in the mail soon.<br />
I never did find time to make Valentine's Day cards to send out to family. That was disappointing, but I have to stop giving myself so much to do at once.<br />
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I took on a t-shirt quilt custom order, I plan to have it ready to quilt on February 17th. The woman gave me the t-shirt that her husband wore on their first date and I am planning to put it on the back of the quilt next to the label. She is also giving me fabric that was the backdrop in their wedding reception photo booth that I will use in the back of the quilt. I am excited about this quilt, it has so many sentimental elements.<br />
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My mom brought me a stack of my brother's t-shirts from his high school days of choir, drama, and national honor society. He has two shirts from his senior year that she was hesitant about cutting up without knowing if he was finished wearing them.<br />
So she called him and they had the following conversation, which I think is hilarious.<br />
Mom: "I am thinking about using these t-shirts in a project that I am working on. Is that all right?"<br />
Ivan: "What do you mean, you're having Jessica sew them into a quilt?"<br />
Mom: "What?? Never mind about that thing you just said, just let me know if I can use these shirts."<br />
Ivan: "Sure you can sell them at the garage sale or whatever."<br />
I told my mom that the next time she sees him she should hand him $3.75 and tell him that those shirts were a hit at the garage sale.<br />
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<a href="http://thetipsyquilter.blogspot.com/">Robin</a> and I are making arm chair and head rest covers for our grandparents new recliners. The home decor fabric is difficult to work with, but really we are just making six squares so it isn't too much of an undertaking.<br />
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I quilted the Zoology quilt for my friend's baby last Saturday. I was getting frustrated during the quilting process, but it looks fine. I just need to sew on the binding and make a label. The baby was born on Monday, and I went to visit them at the hospital yesterday.<br />
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I am still working on Valentine's Day towels. My plan is to finish those this week. Robin isn't shy at all, at my house last Friday she said, "Can you finish up those towels for me because Valentine's is only two weeks away." Yes ma'am.<br />
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This Friday Robin and I are going to get busy cutting fabric for her brother's new quilt. I'll post more about that later. <br />
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This Saturday I am going on a quilt retreat for the day. I have several piles of washed and ironed fabric that are waiting to be cut for particular projects. I think it will be tiring (and boring) to cut fabric all day long, but it really needs to be done and I know it will be rewarding to go home with several projects that are ready to be sewn together.<br />
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Yesterday morning I got a phone call about another t-shirt quilt, that has a May 19th deadline.<br />
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I got an exciting new book for my birthday, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bags---Modern-Classics-Clutches-Satchels/dp/1607053888/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328045218&sr=8-1">Bags - the Modern Classics</a> by Sue Kim. I chose the first bag that I want to make and bought fabric last weekend. I'll cut out the fabric on Saturday but I probably shouldn't start that until I finish my carrot purse. I have not made any progress on that since the last time I posted about it.<br />
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I am working on two quilt blocks for the Austin Modern Quilt Guild. We are having a six month block swap. I will make one block to swap with another guild member and another block to contribute to a future donation quilt.<br />
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I am making a floor quilt similar to <a href="http://splendidcalm.blogspot.com/2011/11/floor-quilts.html">these</a> that I have made in the past. The difference with this one is that both sides are made of laminate fabric. I plan to put it on the ground in my booth space when I sell at art shows. I have a great antique <a href="http://splendidcalm.blogspot.com/2011/03/multi-tasker_23.html">high chair</a> and <a href="http://splendidcalm.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-addition.html">baby buggy</a> that I will put on the quilt and display my floor quilts in the antiques.<br />
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I quilted <a href="http://www.hawthornethreads.com/fabric/designer/maude_asbury/kitchy_kitchen">Kitchy Kitchen</a> fabric on Saturday to make new potholders. Eight of them have binding machine sewn on and four of them still need binding. Then I will hand sew all of the binding to the back. I will be selling at an art show this Thursday evening, that is a great time to work on binding because it brings people in to my booth. They wonder what I am doing and they come over to ask about it.<br />
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A list of projects that are on my work in progress table that I continue to make zero progress on. I am hoping that by listing them out here, I will be motivated to work on them and get them off of this list.<br />
fall leaves pot holders<br />
apple pot holders<br />
coffee cup pot holders<br />
fabric for new textile wall hanging<br />
sample onesie quilt<br />
pine cone ornaments<br />
watermelon table topper<br />
four drawstring toy bags<br />
firewood bag for the hearth<br />
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There are probably more things to add here that I am not thinking of now. I will try to keep this list updated.<br />
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On Christmas Day my mom, sister and brother came over to my house for breakfast and gifts. I made my own Christmas tree this year, thanks to an inspiring photo on <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/">Pinterest</a>.</div>
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I got up early and made breakfast for the family. French bread has to soak in an egg mixture overnight, so Christmas morning I only had to add a few more ingredients and put the casserole in the oven. </div>
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I had a little time after cooking before the family arrived, so I logged on to <a href="http://pinterest.com/">Pinterest</a> again to find an interesting way to fold my napkins. I bought these napkins at <a href="http://target.com/">Target</a>; maybe eventually I will make my own. I love this napkin fold, it creates a little pocket to put your utensils in.</div>
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Over breakfast (which included mimosas, yum!) we talked about a possible zombie apocalypse and all the things we would need to do in order to survive. My sister asked lots of thought provoking questions about what each of us would contribute to a new society of humans that was surrounded by zombies. I would sew everyone's clothes and other necessary textile items, of course.<br />
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We took a few family photos; it is hard to look good from this angle, but our silly photos are fun to create. Our 2009 Christmas photo is still my favorite. I printed it on to a <a href="http://splendidcalm.blogspot.com/2011/01/pillow-for-my-momma.html">pillow that I made for my mom</a>.<br />
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Head Stack 2011 has become our new catch phrase, every time we mention our Christmas Day events.<br />
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After that we sat by the tree and opened gifts. I received lots of great things, but the funniest thing was the little surprise I found when I opened a gift from my brother. He is in his first year of college and did a great job shopping for the family and helping my mom to wrap his gifts. (Except for two bags of gifts that he handed to me on Christmas Eve and asked me to wrap for my mom and a few other people. I finished those up at 2:30 in the morning.) But he is still young, and a boy, and so he didn't notice that he added some trash to my gift.<br />
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After gifts we made hot chocolate and egg nog lattes, prepared a snack and sat down to watch Malibu's Most Wanted.<br />
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In the early afternoon my sister left to visit her boyfriend's family, my mom went home to take a nap, and my brother went home to play a new video game. I had a great Christmas with my family, our time together was a lot of fun.<br />
I had the rest of the day to myself to sew, get caught up on some ironing, and plan out some new quilt projects. I made a fire, opened a beer, and appliqued these outfits for a sweet little boy that I know and his sister, she will be born in February. <br />
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Side note: When I gave the shirt to Q. a couple of weeks later, he said, "This isn't a Christmas gift. These are just clothes!" He was not impressed with my sewing ability or his one of a kind gift.<br />
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Two years in a row I have managed to set off the smoke detectors when I try to light my first fire of the winter season in my fire place. Somehow the flue gets closed during the year, but I don't realize it and the next thing I know my apartment is full of smoke. This year though, I made a successful fire without setting off any alarms...<br />
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...and then I tried to iron some laundry. I have a new blouse that is made of some rayon or polyester; I don't know exactly because I removed the tag. It has an undershirt and a sheer top over that, and for some reason the manufacturers put the tag on the inside of the sheer top so it is visible when I wear it. That makes no sense to me and so I cut it out. I thought to myself that the tag probably says Use a Cool Iron, but that never gets any wrinkles out, so I thought I would iron it just a bit. Just for a second or two.<br />
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This set off the smoke alarm nearest to me, which in turn set off all the others ones in the apartment. It didn't take very long to get those quiet again and then I set to work cleaning my iron. And I threw my shirt in the trash. I have decided to make an effort not to buy clothing made of that material anymore.<br />
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I had a wonderful Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and then a week long holiday from work. I went to Fort Worth to visit my dad's family, which was fun and filled with more adventures. Including this:<br />
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egg mixture. Combine butter and remaining sugar; drizzle over top. Bake,
uncovered, at 400 degrees for 25 minutes. Sprinkle with blueberries.
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I am finally getting around to writing about all the fun activities that happened over Christmas.</div>
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My mom's large family always has a Christmas Eve party. We used to have this party at my grandma and grandpa's house, but they are getting older and my grandma has been having a harder time with her leukemia lately and she can't host our holiday gatherings anymore.</div>
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One of my aunts lives right down the road from my grandparents and she is so nice to have everyone over to her house for our celebration. I made these delicious sesame seed green beans for the occasion. They are simple to make and so yummy. </div>
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My brother is a Christmas Eve baby and my younger sister is usually the baker of our family birthday cakes. (Last year she made me a delicious margarita cake!) But this year she has been so busy that the task sneaked up on her, so I told her that I would make a cake for Ivan.<br />
I looked around at the grocery store trying to come up with something more exciting than a yellow cake mix in a box. I found a recipe for chocolate cake with chocolate frosting on the back of a package of baking chocolate. Then I found a bag of Andes® Crème de Menthe Baking Chips, delicious! I asked my sister to help me figure out how much baking chocolate I could replace with the Andes baking chips without making it too minty or not minty enough. I think it came out well except that I had a hard time getting the icing on the sides to look very good. <br />
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When we arrived at my aunt's house I sprinkled some mint baking chips on top and put in those adorable candles. I only wish that I had remembered the glass cake stand that I have at home instead of bringing that plastic one. Ivan seemed to enjoy his cake and I am glad that so many family members were there to celebrate with him.<br />
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The other exciting thing about Christmas Eve was the quilt that <a href="http://thetipsyquilter.blogspot.com/">Robin</a> and I made for our grandma for her 82nd birthday. You can read more about that <a href="http://splendidcalm.blogspot.com/2012/01/grandmas-quilt-for-her-82nd-birthday.html">here</a> and <a href="http://thetipsyquilter.blogspot.com/2012/01/happy-82nd-birthday-grandma.html">here</a>. <br />
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I have made some progress in other creative areas so I'll tell you about that.<br />
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I bought the white towels that I need to make my <a href="http://splendidcalm.blogspot.com/2012/01/wip-wednesday-06.html">Valentine's Day</a> towels. When I am finished they will look something like <a href="http://splendidcalm.blogspot.com/2012/01/pleated-towels.html">this</a>.<br />
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I bought a basket to house my fabric scraps. New rule in the sewing studio: my amount of fabric scraps may not exceed what can fit into this basket.<br />
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I have a custom order to make 40 note cards from a customer that bought two sets of cards from me in December. He was visiting Austin from Washington D.C. and came by my First Thursday booth. It is exciting to have customers from across the country! I have paper, note cards, ink and stamps. Now I just need the time to sit down and assemble them.<br />
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I'm also planning to make Valentine's Day cards to send out to friends and family. I have addressed all the envelopes, and chosen the paper, stamps, ink, ribbon and thread. Now I just need to cut up the paper and sew it down onto my cards. Then write in them, seal them up, put stamps on them and mail them out. I have plenty of time, right? There are only 48 cards...<br />
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I was cleaning the house the other day and I found the pattern for <a href="http://splendidcalm.blogspot.com/2012/01/wip-wednesday-06.html">this purse</a> that I am making. I was so excited to find it, and I also went to the store to get another copy of the instructions for the double sided fusible interfacing that I am using for the purse handles.<br />
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I ordered the rest of the fabric that I need for a secret quilt top that I am making for a family member. All I can say for now is...Kona Solids... (and I found it in my mailbox today!)<br />
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I haven't made any progress on the baby blanket for my friend <a href="http://abbeyaldridge.blogspot.com/">Abbey</a>. The blocks call out to me every day when I come home from work, "Square us up! Pin sashing strips to us!" But so far it hasn't happened. (That baby will be here next week! Eek!)<br />
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I bought Christmas fabric after the holiday to make two table toppers, one for my sister and one for me. I washed and ironed the fabric. Now I am just waiting for my sister to tell me the width of her table so that I can cut the pieces out.<br />
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I am making plans with my cousin Robin to make a quilt for her brother. He is stationed in Afghanistan right now and we are hoping to finish a quilt by April so that he can get it when he comes home on leave. I will post more about that later. We are fabric shopping this weekend.<br />
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Oh, yes. Today is my birthday and my family and friends have lots of fun things planned. Yesterday my cousins, aunt and I went to trivia at the sports bar and they brought cupcakes and we had tequila shots! Tonight I am going to <a href="http://torchystacos.com/">Torchy's Tacos</a> with my cousin Sarah for dinner. Tomorrow night I'll have dinner with my good friend <a href="http://abbeyaldridge.blogspot.com/">Abbey</a> at <a href="http://www.themonumentcafe.com/">Monument Cafe</a>. This Friday a group of my cousins along with a couple of friends, <a href="http://pforpeanuts.com/">Mackenzie</a> and <a href="http://omw2slimjenn.blogspot.com/">Jenn</a>, are going to see a <a href="http://drafthouse.com/series/master_pancake/austin">Master Pancake Theater</a> show at <a href="http://drafthouse.com/">Alamo Drafthouse</a>. On Sunday my mom, brother, sister and a few aunts and cousins will be having lunch at <a href="http://www.polvosaustin.com/">Polvos</a>. I am so excited for all of these fun birthday events, I have already started thinking of how I will design my thank you cards. I'll post some pictures when they are finished.<br />
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I am linking up with <a href="http://freshlypieced.blogspot.com/">Freshly Pieced</a> today, check it out!<br />
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These towels are a birthday gift for my friend Mackenzie. She bought
two sets of pot holders that I made using this fun P & B retro
kitchen fabric. After receiving those she said she would like to have
some matching hand towels. I showed her the pleated pillow tutorial that
I had recently read in <a href="http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/">American Patchwork & Quilting</a>. The tutorial is called Jolly Holiday and was designed by <a href="http://annagriffin.com/collection/decorativefabrics/index.html" id="yui_3_2_0_13_1326814667301111">Anna Griffin</a>.
At the end of the tutorial is a short explanation by the executive
editor on how to dress up a kitchen towel using the same pleated fabric
idea.
Mackenzie said that she liked the look but also wanted to
add some sort of closure so that her <a href="http://pforpeanuts.com/">toddler twins</a> wouldn't be able to pull
the towel off the rack and drag it around on the floor. <br />
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found these snap closures on a strip of white fabric at the craft
store and cut it into four small sections. Sewing the pieces to the
towel proved to be difficult because the presser foot and the buttons
kept getting in the way of each other. Eventually, I just removed the
foot and sewed them down without it. <br />
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I made these Aggie towels as a White Elephant gift for my family's
Christmas Eve gathering. Lots of my cousins, aunts and uncles are Texas
A&M University Alumni, and <a href="http://singingcadets.com/IvanDixon.php">my brother</a> is a freshman there now.<br />
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used my aunt's embroidery machine to sew the word 'Howdy' on each towel
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fabric folded into pleats. There is a one inch strip of fabric at the
top of the pleats to give it a clean line.<br />
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My aunt Janet received these towels in the White Elephant gift exchange;
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good home. My family had lunch at her house yesterday to spend time with
my aunt and uncle who are visiting from Colorado, and Aunt Janet had a
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I have plans to make a few sets of <a href="http://splendidcalm.blogspot.com/2012/01/wip-wednesday-06.html">Valentine's Day towels</a>, and after making these two sets, I think the Valentine towels will be slightly different. The fabric is cut, the towels have been washed, I bought matching thread yesterday, and I have started folding the pleats and pinning them down.<br />
My sewing machine is being cleaned and serviced, and hopefully soon I will get a phone call letting me know it is ready to be picked up.<br />
I have been without it for eleven days so far and my projects are beginning to stack up. <br />
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I love that the world can work this way. I know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Michael and through the powers of generosity of spirit and technology his situation has been brought to my attention. <br />
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Michael was recently diagnosed with stage four cancer and his family, which
includes a wife and three children, need help paying all of his medical
bills. The benefit will be held on Saturday, January 14th at the Salvage Vanguard Theater in Austin from 5 to 8 p.m. There will be local musicians, a silent auction, kids activities and food. Donations can also be made on the <a href="http://web.me.com/rmaestas/adamsconcert/Welcome.html">website</a> if you are unable to attend the benefit but still want to contribute.<br />
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Kristin met with me today and selected three of my things to add to the auction.<br />
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I hope that the event will be a success tomorrow and I am glad that I had the opportunity to make my first donation so early in the new year.<br />
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I am working on several things in the New Year. My work in progress table is stacked high with projects that were started last year, so I am hoping to work twice as much to clear out old projects while still completing new projects.<br />
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A good friend of mine is having a baby soon and these are a couple of blocks for that quilt. I fussy cut animals from Michael Miller's Zoology in Lagoon for the centers of these wonky log cabins.<br />
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When I was visiting family in Fort Worth after Christmas, my aunt and I cut out the backing, sashing, borders, and binding. <br />
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This week my Janome is in the shop having its yearly cleaning and some repairs done. I feel lost without it. But it gives me time this week to square up the 12 blocks and get my binding pinned together so it is ready to sew when my machine comes home this weekend. I am working on the assumption that it will be ready for me to pick up on Saturday, because I really want (need) to have it this weekend.<br />
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This purse was started last year in November when the quilt guild went on a retreat. I have the bottom of the purse completed. The outside fabric and interfacing as well as the lining fabric and its interfacing are put together and ready for the handles to be attached. The handles are on hold because I lost the instructions for the double sided fusible interfacing and need to go to the store to get more.<br />
Actually the entire purse is on hold while I try to find the pattern for it.<br />
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I was packing up some work to take with me for an evening of babysitting a friend's son and I thought I put the instructions in my bag so that I could sew the flower together while he slept. But I think I may have put the instructions in my bag of recyclables instead. It was by the front door so that I could take it outside on my way to the car. When I got home and looked around the house for the pattern, I realized I may have accidentally recycled it. I went out to the bin at 11 p.m. and tried to look around but I didn't have any luck finding it. So I am going to wait a bit and see if it turns up in my sewing studio, and if not I will buy a new pattern so that I can finish this purse.<br />
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I cut out two types of Valentine's fabric so that I could make some more sets of kitchen towels. <a href="http://splendidcalm.blogspot.com/2011/11/wip-wednesday_30.html">I made some</a> for Christmas gifts last month. I really like the way these turn out, I am going to try to finish pinning the pleats this week so that this weekend they will be ready to be sewn onto the towels. Also, I have to go to the store and pick up some more white towels.<br />
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Robin and I talked about what kind of quilt to make for our grandma, who is usually a very traditional quilter. Our quilting styles are more modern, and I struggled a bit deciding how to bring traditional and modern quilting styles together into something that I could be proud to have made and that my grandma would enjoy using.<br />
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In planning this quilt we decided that it would be fun to each make our own sides of the quilt without telling the other person what we were working on. I had no idea about Robin's choices regarding color palette, block design, or decisions about using a modern vs. traditional style.<br />
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I thought about our two quilt tops a lot in the months that we were piecing them together. Will the two sides work together? Will the colors clash? Are we making two very similar things and there won't be enough contrast between the two? Whose crazy idea was this to keep our quilt tops a secret from each other? (It was Robin's, I'm sure. She is the one who usually comes up with the crazy ideas, quilting or otherwise.) <br />
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In the end, our two quilt tops worked together very well. We both used blue and green fabrics, and my batiks have a hint of pink in a few of the fabrics, which works well with her pinks and reds. We quilted it using a light blue thread and a heart pattern, but we set the quilt up on a long arm quilting machine that I wasn't used to using, and to be honest, I did a poor job of quilting it. My hearts were more square than round, my points were more often loops. And so we decided the best thing to do would be to rip out all of the quilting and try again. Ripping out quilting thread on the 48 by 60 quilt took a couple of weeks and then we went back to the quilter's for round two. </div>
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The second time around we chose a light pink thread and Robin quilted it using a free hand meandering pattern and it turned out very well. We squared it up, and realized that we needed to make a couple of repairs to Robin's side, you can read more about that on <a href="http://thetipsyquilter.blogspot.com/2012/01/happy-82nd-birthday-grandma.html">her blog</a>. </div>
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We chose one of Robin's Moda red fabrics for the binding to help bring some of Robin's red over to my side of the quilt. Robin pieced the binding together and I sewed it down to the quilt and made the label. </div>
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