tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40932891500098969392024-02-22T15:50:52.983-06:00... And In My Spare Time I QuiltLaurie @ ... And In My Spare Time I Quilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02530036325883157575noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093289150009896939.post-11794037794790647402014-10-10T18:32:00.000-05:002014-10-10T18:32:59.169-05:00Orca Bay FinishedIt has taken me nearly three years, but I have finally finished Orca Bay. This was <a href="http://quiltville.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Bonnie Hunter</a>'s 2011 mystery quilt, and my first mystery. I started it when she posted her first clue (something like "cut 350 1.5" half-square triangles") and quickly fell hopelessly behind. But I persevered, mostly on <a href="http://sparequilt.blogspot.com/2012/05/orca-bay-progress.html" target="_blank">retreats</a>, finally attaching the border at a retreat this past June. There are so many tiny pieces that there's nearly as much fabric in the seams as in the top, and it weighs a ton, but it will keep me nice and cozy this winter. It was made completely with fabric from my stash.<br />
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<br />Laurie @ ... And In My Spare Time I Quilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02530036325883157575noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093289150009896939.post-72837388293813052542014-08-13T22:17:00.001-05:002014-08-13T22:17:26.781-05:00One more retirementWhen I made the <a href="http://sparequilt.blogspot.com/2014/06/four-at-once.html" target="_blank">four retirement quilts</a> back in June, I ran out of time for the fifth one. Bill is retiring at the end on August so I wanted to get his quilt to him. <br />
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A few years ago, Bill brought several shoe boxes of neckties into work for anyone who wanted them. I ended up with a couple dozen ties, thinking that I would ultimately use them for his retirement quilt. As soon as I heard he was retiring, I started a string quilt, using the ties on a 12.5" muslin foundations, and actually got 4 blocks finished before the June party. At the party, Bill said he really liked the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZJiqbe5XNTtfZL6mLUFecz79MHp8Dzq5_RkZCiq9tbQtNE9TWJa3omkArGt0uPQCFACIB1_wZ-RSGNoFh1XgQ0eG0VcHEuzuIJB-Jv7Th3ntVKf5lhyphenhyphenGgRjFf6UYknp9rOS7eUtHrFxM/s1600/Therona.jpg" target="_blank">jelly roll quilt</a> I made for Therona and would like one in blues. Those neckties had been giving me so much grief that I quickly abandoned them in favor of the simpler jelly roll quilt.<br />
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Bill and his partner are world travelers and have been to Japan several times. When I saw the <a href="http://www.robertkaufman.com/fabrics/satsuki_2/#tabs" target="_blank">Satsuki fabric collection</a> by Robert Kaufman I knew it would be perfect for Bill's quilt. One jelly roll in the "Atmosphere" color palette and here is the result:<br />
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Bill's retirement quilt 64"x50"</div>
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And, based on his thank you note, I made the right choice to give up on those ties.</div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d;">Thank you again for the
beautiful quilt! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d;">The fabrics, design and color
are all exactly to my tasteāit is as if you had read my mind. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d;">Best regards,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 11pt;">Bill</span></span></blockquote>
Laurie @ ... And In My Spare Time I Quilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02530036325883157575noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093289150009896939.post-28748459166461611802014-06-30T12:26:00.000-05:002014-06-30T12:26:33.278-05:00Paint CansThe Dallas Modern Quilt Guild recently participated in a challenge from the Michael Miller company using their <a href="http://www.michaelmillerfabrics.com/shop/collections/cotton-couture.html" target="_blank">Cotton Couture</a> line. We were given 8 fat eighths of various pastel fabrics and given two months to create something using those pastels and any other Cotton Couture fabric we wanted. The fabric is beautiful, with a slight sheen and a beautiful hand, soft and almost silky. It is a dream to work with.<br />
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The DMQG has another upcoming challenge to find an "inspiration" and make something based on that inspiration. I found my inspiration one evening watching HGTV when I saw a Benjamin Moore paint commercial called "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO02SGi7Aj0" target="_blank">A Color for Your 3 Year Old's Mural</a>." I loved the way the colorful paint cans swirled across the screen and could see that translated into a quilt. When I saw the Michael Miller Cotton Couture fabric, all the pieces came together and I had my challenge quilt.<br />
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Laurie @ ... And In My Spare Time I Quilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02530036325883157575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093289150009896939.post-35765257925495866152014-06-12T10:19:00.000-05:002014-06-12T10:19:16.420-05:00Four at once!It's been a busy few weeks. In addition to a week-long trip to Orlando to see Miss Em and several days in Chicago for a meeting, I finished and delivered four quilts for former colleagues who retired last week. My goal, in addition to creating special gifts, was to make a small dent in all my scraps, so I used <a href="http://www.quiltville.com/" target="_blank">Bonnie Hunter</a>'s patterns for two of them. <br />
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Laurie @ ... And In My Spare Time I Quilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02530036325883157575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093289150009896939.post-64308203323555015362014-04-29T23:11:00.000-05:002014-04-29T23:11:14.765-05:00I Haven't Disappeared!I can't believe it's been over a year since I last posted. A lot has happened in my life during that year, starting shortly after my last post and culminating in my retirement in December 2013. It's all water under the bridge and I am SO happy to be retired with lots of spare time to quilt. <br />
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The daughter of one of my oldest and dearest friends got married in November, so of course I had to give her a quilt. With everything that was going on during that time, I decided to pull out a top I had made during a retreat earlier in the summer. I had intended to get it quilted to take to the wedding in Baltimore, but just couldn't get it done. So it sat ... and sat ... and sat .. until March, when I finally put it on the frame and got it quilted. It took a few more days to bind it, then all that was left was the label.<br />
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A label, no big deal, right? Hah! I usually custom print labels for wedding gifts to include a photo of the couple along with the date and place of the wedding. I keep an old ink jet printer and a bottle of <a href="http://www.cjenkinscompany.com/Bubble_Jet_Set_2000_s/3.htm" target="_blank">Bubble Jet Set</a> just for that purpose. The bride's mom sent me a picture from the wedding and I prepared everything for printing -- white fabric treated with Bubble Jet Set ironed on to a freezer paper sheet to enable feeding it through the printer. But the printer wouldn't print black. Color was just fine, but no black. The cartridge was new, but I replaced it anyway. Still no black. I found some hints online to clean the print head, which I did. Still no black. After much frustration, many sheets of paper (always test first before printing on fabric), two cartridges and several days, I finally gave up and printed a simple text label in dark blue.<br />
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So, here is the final quilt. I mailed it off, and my friend said they received it, but I haven't heard anything from them yet. I do hope they liked it!<br />
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The pattern is <a href="http://www.dontcallmebetsy.com/2012/09/introducing-mod-nine-patch-quilt.html" target="_blank">Mod Nine Patch</a> from Don't Call Me Betsy. The quilt measures 60" x 72".<br />
Laurie @ ... And In My Spare Time I Quilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02530036325883157575noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093289150009896939.post-79341114745469855972013-03-09T18:20:00.000-06:002013-03-09T19:54:03.267-06:00Not Your Grandmother's Flower GardenRemember my farmer's market hexies? You can see where I started them<a href="http://sparequilt.blogspot.com/2012/02/farmers-market-hexies.html" target="_blank"> here</a> a year ago, and a little more progress <a href="http://sparequilt.blogspot.com/2012/02/lots-of-stitching.html" target="_blank">here</a>. I've been working on them off and on since then. When the Quilt Guild of Dallas announced that their show theme for 2013 was "Edible," a couple of people said I should enter with the hexie quilt. I plugged away with that in mind and was at this stage when I decided to enter the show in late February.<br />
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I kept saying, "I'm almost done," but I wasn't! With the March 6 deadline looming, I stitched more. I took it to QuiltCon with me and stitched in the hotel room. I stitched at night while watching TV. Late on Friday, March 1, I stitched the last corner medallion in place and thought I was ready for the borders. But it needed one more outer border of red hexies, so I plunged ahead. It took me all day Saturday until about 2 a.m. Sunday morning to finish that hexie border.<br />
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I had planned to border it in red but while I was at QuiltCon I realized I wouldn't have enough, so I searched for and found a nice avocado green and a nifty diagonal stripe for a border. I got the borders sewed on on Sunday and pieced the back. Two days to go until it absolutely had to be done and it still needed to be quilted. So I took off work on Monday and Tuesday to quilt and bind it. I sewed on the label and hanging sleeve at small group Tuesday evening. I finished it just in time to take it to the Dallas Market Hall on Wednesday morning. Whew!<br />
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Thursday was preview night. I decided to go see the quilts in relative peace, even though I plan to also go on Sunday with some friends. When I finally found my quilt, what did I see but a ribbon! My last minute quilt had won an Honorable Mention in the Show Chair's Theme category!! Not bad for my first ever quilt show!<br />
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We each had to provide a Christmas gift for 2 other people. My quilter niece and I had each other, so we bought each other fat quarter bundles and other quilty goodies. Mr. T had his sister, my sis-in-law. I had already started a quilt for her before we knew we were getting names, so I made it for him to give her.<br />
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I used charm packs of<a href="http://www.kathydavis.com/ambrosia.html" target="_blank"> Ambrosia</a> by Kathy Davis for Free Spirit. At first I used only the charm packs in the squares, but it was WAY too busy, even for me. So I unsewed several blocks and added in some solids to break up the busyness. I was happy with the result and my SIL loved it.<br />
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The DMQG retreat was a couple of weeks later at the <a href="http://www.compasscentre.com/" target="_blank">Compass Centre </a>in Mt. Calm, Texas, so I took everything with me and started on my version of Simply Woven. The first problem I encountered was that my jelly rolls did not have as many strips as the pattern called for. Luckily, there is a shop in the Compass Center that had some near-solids in coordinating colors so I bought enough to make up the difference. Once everything was cut, I started piecing. It's not a hard pattern but it takes FOREVER! I worked on it for two complete days and finally finished the top (I thought) on Sunday morning. I hadn't paid any attention to the size of the finished quilt, which was 72"x96", about twin sized. I don't have any twin beds, so when I got home, I took out one row, made one more block, and sewed it back together so it measures 84"x84". I like the square size much better, and it will fit over my queen sized bed.<br />
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Laurie @ ... And In My Spare Time I Quilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02530036325883157575noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093289150009896939.post-5068189208878465462012-11-16T23:13:00.000-06:002012-11-16T23:18:51.313-06:00AlohaNo, I'm not in Hawaii, although I wish I were. We spent 2 weeks there last year just before Christmas, a few days in Honolulu and the rest in a condo on the beach in Maui. It was a wonderful vacation. We lived in Hawaii many years ago when Mr. T was in the Navy, and have been back several times on vacation or business. I've come to dislike Honolulu for its traffic and crowds and even the North Shore of Oahu is no longer quiet and sleepy. Maui, on the other hand, was fabulous. Of all the islands, Kauai is my favorite, although I haven't been back in many, many years.<br />
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Our last day in Maui was Christmas Eve, with an afternoon flight back to Dallas that got delayed until quite late. We had to be out of the condo by noon, so after some last minute sight seeing, we went shopping. I made the family take me to the <a href="http://www.mauiquiltshop.com/" target="_blank">Maui Quilt Shop</a> in Kihei before it closed. It's a wonderful little shop, filled with lots of Hawaiian patterns along with fun and contemporary fabrics. I picked up a couple of traditional Hawaiian applique patterns -- I might even make them some day.<br />
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My real find was a packet of Hawaiian bark cloth charm squares. Bark cloth is the traditional fabric of aloha shirts. These were lovely florals in reds, blues, greens, and yellows. I just had to buy it.<br />
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When I got home, I found some white on white cotton with a floral pattern that looked like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumeria" target="_blank">plumeria</a>, a popular flower used in Hawaiian leis. I didn't want to cut the charm squares so I decided to just sash them in white. I started the quilt last spring while on a retreat at <a href="http://www.quiltagiousquarters.com/" target="_blank">Quiltagious Quarters</a> in Celeste, TX.. Several people said it needed cornerstones, so I raided a dark blue batik from another project (still WIP) and used that. I finished it a couple of months ago and it's now hanging in the <a href="http://libraryblogs.utsouthwestern.edu/LibraryNews/2012/10/dallas-modern-quilt-guild-exhibit-warms-and-brightens/" target="_blank">DMQG exhibit at my library</a>.<br />
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Laurie @ ... And In My Spare Time I Quilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02530036325883157575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093289150009896939.post-86001589126170643272012-10-20T21:49:00.000-05:002012-10-20T21:49:19.197-05:00Silent AuctionI attend a regional professional meeting every year in October. For the past several years, there has been a silent auction of donated items to raise money for scholarships. I never contributed anything, feeling that the $20 or $30 that is usually paid for an item was likely to be less than I'd paid for it in the first place. But last year I made a lap quilt, about 50" square, a fractured nine-patch made out of leftovers in my stash. The bidding was intense and the final bid topped $150. So this year I made another one, again out of my stash. It was slightly bigger, at about 60" square. The bidding was not as intense, and the same person won it again this year, for slightly less money.<br />
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I sewed the binding on during the 5-hour drive to Lubbock. I had to pin the quilt to the wall of my hotel room to take the picture. Unfortunately, the battery in my camera died and I had to use my phone, so the picture is not the best.<br />
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It's always hard to part with a quilt that I like, but I'm consoled that it was for a good cause.<br />
Laurie @ ... And In My Spare Time I Quilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02530036325883157575noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093289150009896939.post-84501588324231784032012-09-02T17:51:00.001-05:002012-09-02T17:51:33.808-05:00A GiftI received a charm pack of Juggling Summer by Moda at a DMQG meeting a couple of months ago. <br />
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It sat on my cutting table for awhile, getting moved around but not opened. I wasn't particularly crazy about the fabric on top, but when I finally opened the pack and saw all the rest of them, I changed my mind. I love the colors and the patterns really speak to me. In fact, I liked it so much, I went online to see if I could get some more and discovered that it won't be available until October. Dang!<br />
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I need to make a quilt for a fund-raising silent auction in October, and what better way to raise money than with something that was free in the first place. So I started looking for patterns that used single charm packs. After browsing around for awhile, I found Jungle Path by Jessica Kelly at the <a href="http://www.modabakeshop.com/2012/06/jungle-path-baby-quilt.html#more">Moda Bake Shop</a>. It's a baby quilt, and used a jelly roll too, but I figured I could work around that easily enough.<br />
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I decided to use a light gray for the thin sashing and solids for the block borders. I used all the boldly printed charms along with enough of the subtle ones to make 25 blocks. I didn't cut down the charm squares as the pattern says to do, leaving them at 5", and ended up with 10.5" finished blocks. I haven't sashed them yet, but I put them up on my design wall to see what they look like together.<br />
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<br />Laurie @ ... And In My Spare Time I Quilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02530036325883157575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093289150009896939.post-52610102655768803342012-06-21T14:08:00.001-05:002012-06-21T14:08:33.420-05:00An Amish experimentIt is my tradition to make a quilt for every person on my staff who retires. I will usually ask them what colors they like, then create a quilt of my own design. Laura, who is retiring this month after more than 30 years of service, went a step further and sent me a picture of an Amish quilt and said that was the style she wanted. It was a very traditional "square in a square" pattern that is usually associated with Amish quilts. I did some research on different styles, but ended up returning to the simple design.<br />
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I bought several fat quarters of Kona solids and started piecing. (How nice to have access to so many beautiful solids these days!) I had to get a full half-yard for the outside border and more for the back, but the fabric requirements were really minimal. As I was piecing, all I could think of was how I was going to quilt all this wide-open space! My standard stipple/meander was not appropriate for the Amish style. It needed feathers and grids. I have a longarm, but <strike>I'm not very experienced with</strike> can't yet do feathers and straight lines, and a gift is not the place to experiment! So I marked the quilt with a stencil for the center and surrounding triangles and a ruler for the grid lines everywhere else. Then I spent hours on my Janome quilting all those lines.<br />
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After I bound it last night, I tried to get off the marker lines. They were supposed to come off with water, but they didn't very well. I ended up nearly soaking the quilt and had to put it in the dryer (did I tell you her party is today?) so it would be dry. I hadn't prewashed the fabric, so the beautiful, smooth quilt is now wrinkly -- and some of the marks are still there. Aaarrggghhh! <br />
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While I was on retreats for the past two weekends, I started and completed a donation for the WRAP project.<br />
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<br />Laurie @ ... And In My Spare Time I Quilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02530036325883157575noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093289150009896939.post-50822217944070628662012-05-13T23:27:00.002-05:002012-05-13T23:33:02.177-05:00Orca Bay progressI was fortunate to be able to go on two retreats over the past two weekends. Each was at a different place -- <a href="http://www.cuttersparadiseretreat.com/">Cutter's Paradise</a> in Royce City and <a href="http://www.quiltagiousquarters.com/">Quiltagious Quarters</a> in Celeste. They are both very nice retreat centers and the groups were so much fun. I even got a lot of work done.<br />
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I have been working on Bonnie Hunter's Orca Bay quilt since she <a href="http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2011/11/its-orca-bay-eve.html">first announced it</a> as a mystery quilt. I had never done a mystery quilt and just decided to try it. Her first comment in the first posting (which doesn't seem to be up anymore) was "no whining." That should have been a clue. This quilt is full of little pieces, hundreds of little pieces, thousands of little pieces! I have great admiration for anyone who actually completed it in the 7 or 8 weeks of the mystery. I fell behind quickly and still haven't caught up -- but two retreats have helped me make a significant dent!<br />
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Over the past few months, I had already assembled several components of the quilt. I had made the blue string blocks:<br />
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During the first retreat I finished the 350 1 1/2" half-square triangles, the 64 red string blocks, and cut an additional 700 1 1/2" triangles.<br />
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This is two of eight rows completed. I WILL finish this! (Dang! I just noticed two of the blue string blocks going in the wrong direction. Do you see them? At least it's not too late to fix it!)Laurie @ ... And In My Spare Time I Quilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02530036325883157575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093289150009896939.post-20806017440165336312012-04-11T00:20:00.000-05:002012-04-11T00:20:48.843-05:00DMQG Wonky Cross Quilt<span style="font-size: small;">The Charitable Projects Committee of the Dallas Modern Quilt Guild asked each member to create an 8-inch wonky cross block out of fabric of their choice for our first project. We collected them a few months ago and I said I would finish it off. I joined all the blocks at a Saturday Sew, then set it aside. The holidays and life got in the way, but I finally got to it this past weekend. This month's challenge was to recycle something into a quilt or block, so I used a donated home dec fabric panel for the back. It is polished cotton chintz and looks like it was a drapery panel at one time. I took out the top and bottom hems and the stiffening that was sewn into each side hem. It was the perfect width for the top. I quilted it with a panto on my longarm, the first time I've done a panto.</span><br />
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I bound it with donation fabric also. (I'm the keeper of all the donated fabric, so I have easy access.) It was stiff with the polished cotton on the back so I threw it in the washer and dryer to see how it would turn out. It's now nice and soft and wrinkly. It should make someone happy!Laurie @ ... And In My Spare Time I Quilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02530036325883157575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093289150009896939.post-18655247752854834622012-03-25T22:50:00.000-05:002012-03-25T22:50:18.123-05:00Car Trash BagsI haven't been doing much quilting lately, except to make my 9 blocks to trade next month and put the border on my current bee block. Miss Em has been home on spring break and I've enjoyed spending time with her, even if she beat me at bowling yesterday. Well, we each won a game and decided to call it quits when we were both ahead. She left this evening and probably won't be home again until the end of the semester in May. I miss her already.<br />
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Yesterday was also my birthday. In addition to bowling, Miss Em and I had lunch together, then Mr. T joined us for dinner at my favorite seafood restaurant. One should not have to cook on one's birthday!<br />
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Miss Em surprised me by telling me she wanted a car trash bag like <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/5559199509756469/">one I had pinned on Pinterest</a>. So, today before she left, I made her one. I made it just like the tutorial, but had to shorten the strap considerably.<br />
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It's sitting on the front seat in the first picture and hanging from her emergency brake in the bottom pic. I liked how well it turned out and how dead easy it was, so I decided to make one for myself, too!<br />
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Mine is smaller and not quite so deep, but it fits my car perfectly, hanging from the gearshift. Now I'll have somewhere to put that trash besides on the passenger seat.Laurie @ ... And In My Spare Time I Quilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02530036325883157575noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093289150009896939.post-59084035949503131212012-03-14T23:02:00.000-05:002012-10-21T14:21:50.376-05:00Block ExchangeA small group I belong to is doing a monthly block exchange. Each of the 9 of us makes 9 of the same block, all in batiks. Then at our monthly meeting, we each get one of each of the other's blocks. It's taken us several months to figure out how to actually do the exchange without getting confused, so that everyone ends up with 9 different blocks. Someone usually accidentally takes two, or misses one, so that it doesn't come out even in the end. We finally just pass each stack around the table, each person taking a block until they are all gone, then pass the next stack. This month's exchange went perfectly -- except we had an absent member, so someone had to collect for her and she will have to bring her blocks next time.<br />
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I love all the different batiks and when the quilt is all finished, they all look fantastic together. Here is a picture of a finished quilt (not mine, unfortunately!):<br />
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I did the same block swap a couple of years ago with an online group, but that one is still a WIP. :) All the blocks are together, but I haven't sashed them and then there's that border! I've got the black and white checkerboard sewn on the piano keys, but I still need to assemble it all. Sounds like a good retreat project!Laurie @ ... And In My Spare Time I Quilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02530036325883157575noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093289150009896939.post-68607667755997572002012-03-02T00:01:00.000-06:002012-03-02T00:01:22.192-06:00Vacation and croquetI'm spending some time with a long-time friend in Boca Raton, FL this week. I brought my Farmer's Market hexies and stitch when I have a chance. But the most fun today was a visit with another friend who took us to lunch at the <a href="http://www.croquetnational.com/">National Croquet Center</a> in West Palm Beach. We ate a yummy lunch on the verandah overlooking the manicured lawns with white-clad players knocking croquet balls around. Who knew??<br />
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The pics were taken with my cell phone, so they aren't the best. But trust me, it was beautiful!Laurie @ ... And In My Spare Time I Quilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02530036325883157575noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093289150009896939.post-18776393482403927902012-02-21T22:22:00.000-06:002012-02-21T22:22:54.122-06:00Lots of StitchingWhat was supposed to be a long, 3-day weekend of quilting turned out not to happen. Mr. T's 92-year-old aunt passed away on Saturday, so we had to drive to Louisiana for the funeral, which was this morning. I took along my <a href="http://sparequilt.blogspot.com/2012/02/farmers-market-hexies.html">farmer's market hexies</a> and did lots of basting and stitching during the 10 hours of driving over two days.<br />
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I finished the large green, blue and orange block before we left. The blocks will be joined with dark red hexies. I stitched one of them to the green to see what it would look like. The smaller, unfinished blocks were basted, then stitched together in the car while listening to an audiobook of The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler. It sure made a long, boring drive go much faster!Laurie @ ... And In My Spare Time I Quilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02530036325883157575noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093289150009896939.post-71999095182209612502012-02-14T22:59:00.000-06:002012-02-14T22:59:38.501-06:00Knitting!I have not knit since I was in college. That was an awful lot of years ago. But last month at one of my quilt group meetings, Marti was knitting a ruffled scarf. It looked easy, she said it was easy, that the yarn does all the work, that it doesn't matter what size or kind of needles you have. She promised to show us how if we brought the special yarn and needles to the next meeting. So, last night, armed with a skein of beautiful yarn from my friend Karen's shop, <a href="http://www.yarnandstitches.com/">Yarn and Stitches</a>, and an ancient pair of needles, I learned how to knit a ruffled scarf. It still feels awkward, but I'm making good progress. And I LOVE the color!<br />
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It looks rather like a caterpillar, doesn't it?Laurie @ ... And In My Spare Time I Quilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02530036325883157575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093289150009896939.post-5817525310067563962012-02-11T17:28:00.000-06:002012-02-11T17:28:19.622-06:00A Pillow DayNo, not a nap day, although curling up under a snuggly quilt sure sounds good after the cold front that came through last night. Today I finally made the pillow shams to go with the new <a href="http://sparequilt.blogspot.com/2012/01/beginning.html">bed quilt</a> that I finished about a month ago. When I made the quilt, I pieced a back for it out of miscellaneous batiks I had that went with the top. There was a double strip of 4" squares through it. There were fat quarters and pieces of yardage in it. I tried twice to square it up so that it would load on my longarm, but I just couldn't get it right. I even quilted two rows that I ended up picking out. So I gave up on the pieced back. I could have taken it all apart and folded up those fabrics and put them away, but I didn't. <br />
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You can see the bed quilt in the background. I would have taken the picture with the pillows actually on the bed, but I was too lazy to make it. It IS Saturday, after all!Laurie @ ... And In My Spare Time I Quilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02530036325883157575noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093289150009896939.post-19553777190312975572012-02-09T14:43:00.001-06:002012-02-09T14:44:24.107-06:00Bee SquareThe Dallas MQG is starting a round robin bee tonight. Each of us who wants to participate will bring in a center block, up to 24" square. We will be put into groups of 4 or 5, then each person in a group will pass her square to another group member, who will add a border. Next month, the process will be repeated, with each group handing off, round robin style. We will be using bags to hold the quilts, so no peeking to see the progress on your own square.<br />
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It took me awhile to decide on a center block. I was completely undecided (read: had NO clue what I was going to do) until I saw this block on Pinterest (originally from Pitter Putter Stitch).<br />
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It took me awhile to track down the pattern, but I finally found it. It's called Circle of Geese available as a free PDF from <a href="http://piecebynumber.com/circleofgeese.htm">Piece By Number</a>. The paper-pieced pattern is repeated 4 times to make one 12" circle block. I wanted a larger center for my bee block, so I tried to figure out how to enlarge it. I tried using a photocopier, but one or two attempts failed and I gave up. I looked for another pattern, and found one with a larger circle of geese, but I didn't like it nearly as well. Then I had one of those head slapping, "doh" moments. Make FOUR circles to make a 24" block! So that's what I did.<br />
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I used Kona Snow for the background and snips from each of 48 different fabrics in turquoise, pink/red, green, and yellow/orange. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out! Now I just have to get all those little crumbs of paper out of the sweater I was wearing when I tore out the paper foundations. <br />
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I didn't need Bella gray, I need Bella silver. Aaarrrgggg!!! So, back to the store I went today, fabric swatch in hand to ensure I got the right color this time.<br />
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I should still be able to finish the top, if not the entire quilt by Thursday. We're also starting a round robin bee and I need to complete a center block for that. AND, we're swapping zipper pouches. At least <a href="http://sparequilt.blogspot.com/2012/02/zippered-pouch-swap.html">THAT</a> is done!Laurie @ ... And In My Spare Time I Quilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02530036325883157575noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4093289150009896939.post-68180686068938130082012-02-02T22:53:00.000-06:002012-02-02T22:55:17.601-06:00Farmers' Market hexies<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX-FZsXC6oO-aMQI1TTwW-kdPw_WP0pVhI6WrD-gOIM7SupAzytqIWLp_nmHSDpd6ftZsGo2IDdsdZYnmNsFIOIjb9aByat8o5ehwWUJBRgrgXR2_sO05o623Loc1unZEl-uc8pTqIxlI/s1600/100_6686.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX-FZsXC6oO-aMQI1TTwW-kdPw_WP0pVhI6WrD-gOIM7SupAzytqIWLp_nmHSDpd6ftZsGo2IDdsdZYnmNsFIOIjb9aByat8o5ehwWUJBRgrgXR2_sO05o623Loc1unZEl-uc8pTqIxlI/s320/100_6686.JPG" width="320" /></a>A couple of years ago I was gifted with about a dozen fat quarters of various farmers' market fabric. Each FQ has a different fruit or veggie printed on it. I couldn't decide what to do with it until I saw a hexie quilt on display at the <a href="http://www.thequiltasylum.com/">Quilt Asylum</a> in McKinney. The proverbial lightbulb went off and I bought some 1 1/2 inch hexie papers that day. I'm not in any hurry (thank goodness!) and work on them when I have quiet time in front of the TV or as a car passenger. Earlier this week I traveled to Shreveport and back in a day for a friend's retirement party and since I wasn't driving, I was able to baste and stitch some of my farmers' market hexies.<br />
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These are oranges, yellow peppers, and blueberries.Laurie @ ... And In My Spare Time I Quilthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02530036325883157575noreply@blogger.com0