tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80807268911197198322023-11-15T22:50:40.044-08:00starrie's sewing stuffStarriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00435595787780105293noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8080726891119719832.post-68986472965088390142012-04-19T09:00:00.000-07:002012-04-19T09:00:23.671-07:0019th June 2012... The challenge!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So I started another new project... I know i probably have wayy too many on at the same time, but I did finish my jelly roll quilt - which has been very useful since the heating hasn't been on in this house very much! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This project is the first (big thing, im not counting the baby shower gifts) that has a time limit for completing.. Not sure how that will go down. I usually like to do things at my own pace and time - which means they take forever! lol. Her 21st birthday present was a scrapbook of photos of us and our family in the recent years... Her birthday is the 19th of June... She actually got it on christmas day! (the one after, not before) so this shows how bad i am at actually completing things on time! So Im really setting myself a big challenge here!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> But so far I cut it all out, and im on row 8 out of 14. It's cath kidston fabric that came in a fat 1/4 pack. She says she likes it - but im not entirely convinced by the bright reds with everything else. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Im going to do it like my other cath kidston creation and do a block in the middle with the squares and then 2 borders. This one is going to have a block of the fat quater fabric in each corner. So a small 1" border, then a bigger, 3 1/2" border with the blocks as the corners. I think this one will all depend on which fabrics i get for the borders/binding. So im hoping to take my aunt with me as she has really good colour sense - something which i seem to have very little of!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Below is a close up of the fabrics. I still think that the red stands out too much. But i tired to keep it out of the center so there are 2 stripes nad it is not so prominent. I guess if she doesnt like it i can keep it... No biggie... If anyone stumbles across this.. please let me know what you think! I need help! </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Today I was off work, being my weekend off, and I promised myself that I was going to have a relaxing day to myself - and I managed to achieve that :]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />I made a matching pillowcase for my jelly roll quilt :</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Sorry for the mess on the bed - I dont have a lot of space in my flat so it's used as extra space to work at xD</span></div>
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This is a close up of the back side, I only had 2 smaller widths of fabric left, so I had to sew them together, then I had the idea of over stitching a bit of left over binding down the middle. I think it looks okay. Better than a join down the middle.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> These two are pictures of it all on my bed :] I really like it, it seems really summery, even though its freezing here today! I can't wait till it's hot and I can just use it on its own. (again sorry for messy room)</span><br />
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I also decided to make my easter pressies today. Sounds weird, but my mum is on a cholesterol lowering diet so she can't have chocolate eggs, my sister is on a diet and I am trying to be healthy! So I was in the haberdashery shop in the village and I found not only do they sell fabric and wool, but also felt xD I was very excited by this prospect and promptly bought 6 sheets along with some of her new range of buttons and some broach backs. </div>
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Armed with these supplies and my flower book I made these this afternoon:</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> I have to say that the pictures dont do them justice! I'm going to see if I can take some better ones. The top one is turquoise and purple. Dark purple. It just doesn't look like it...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">These two seem okay :] they are the cutest to me, and the blue one will be going to my little sister and the red/pink one to my Mum :] I hope they will enjoy them. As for me, I'm going to keep the purple one as it didn't quite turn out as I wanted!</span></div>
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And now, as for me, I am off to rest, before I start my sister's birthday present tomorrow xD</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Today I planned to just post about my Jelly Roll</span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">quilt, but in my blog feed was this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/copyright-terrorism.html</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I think it's really interesting and I then spent the next hour leafing through various other peoples blogs and comments about stuff - to me it's kind of sad in various ways and now I'm really scared to sell anything that I might make. Though I doubt anyone would buy it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So I guess I need to say (or don't need to say? I have no idea now) that this quilt was designed with Terrain by Kate Spain for Moda Jelly Roll!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It's finished :D</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I spent all of my day off on tuesday quilting it - it was a fab day off :] away from everyone just quilting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My actual stitches aren't amazing, but considering it's the first big(ish) quilt I have quilted on my machine - it was hard to manoeuve, just because my table isn't big enough! When I had it rolled up long ways it draped onto the floor and pulled it. So i ended up with chairs all around me in this weird kinda half circle catching the quilt so it didn't pull too much! Looked insane, but did work :]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So here is my "in progress" photo for the free motion quilting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Some of it was quite uneven, but overall I'm really proud of it and the effect that it makes on the texture of the quilt. I'm addicted to the feel of things, if they don't feel nice, I can't have them anywhere near me. But this feels so nice, because it's all 100% cotton, and the stippling makes certain areas raised and some not xD it's great.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A couple of weeks ago on my last weekend off (maybe like 3 weeks now >.<, I'm so slow at getting around to posting things) my aunt (the good quilter) ran a private workshop for me and my friend Bekah at her house. She did a quilt top in a day the jelly roll 1600! For those who don't know this is a link to how it is done ->http://blog.heirloomcreations.net/?p=1897</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We started the day with the first step and it took us till lunch to just sew all the strips together! We had cut off the selvedges and ironed before we came. I was very dubious at this point that we would even finish by the end of the day - let alone have a whole quilt top with only 5 seams sewing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">All I can say is that it was amazing! I still don't understand the process and why it works - the person who came up with it must have been a genius lol. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But by 4.30pm (we started at 9am with 1/2 hour for lunch) all 3 of us had a quilt top! I don't have any pictures of my aunt or friends quilt tops, but I had a terrain by moda jelly roll. I'm still not sold on jelly rolls as you can't fully see all the patterns. I bought it because I fell in love with the bright flower prints in it - but when I opened it, some of them I just was *not* sold on! The crosses design I loathe with a passion, but I am trying to ignore it! But most of the are growing on me, some of them are very 70's which isn't me, but the bright colours and patterns definitely are me :]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So this is the finished product, all laid out on the only space in my flat where I can get a whole quilt on the floor:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So this is it all laid out, before I basted it - it's about 45" by 55" - not quite long enough for single beds, but I think it will do me fine, I'm planning to use it on my bed in the summer. I can't sleep without something covering me, but when it is really really hot my summer duvet is too much, and a thin sheet is too little. So I'm hoping that this will be a better compromise :]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Above is the backing I chose for it, you can't really see the design, but it's all pink and swirly and pretty :] I'm not usually a pink fan, but this just caught my eye in the fabric shop and I think it will go really well. I'm hoping I can get binding and a pillow case out of it too - I bought 4 1/2 yards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I am planning to FMQ it with a large stipple. I had a couple of practises, on how big they should be and if I can sucessfully scale it up. The first attempt was horrendous - I'm not even posting it up! This was my second attempt. I played about a bit with the machine speed and the stitch size. I'm going for stitches that are a couple of mm long and I have my machine set to the right speed for how fast I move my hands :-s Now I've got to go ahead and FMQ my first ever big project! Its only for me so it's not too bad if I mess it up. But I'd really like to at least make a half decent job of it! I think the pin removing as I'm going could be problematic, but I'm really excited to start it! :D </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So right now I'm off to have breakfast and spend a couple of hours quilting it - I've got a really pretty thread from madera called petunia :] very excited now I can't hold it in! Yayy :]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So, following my experimenting in free motion quilting I was trying to think of what to do for my friend. She is pregnant with a little boy :] It's very excting but my other friend had already made her a quilt/blankie for him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So I was really puzzled, because I had already bought the *cutest* little boy fleecy fabric that I was dying to use lol. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So I did what i usually do when I'm stuck for ideas. I trawled the internet xD I looked at Malini's blog -> http://malinisquilts.blogspot.com/ and saw her great baby changing mat :] and got some inspiration for what I did for her. It's a changing mat that I added a little strip at the top so it can be rolled up and put in a bag or something, so it's portable :]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I used the free motion stippling and I really enjoyed quilting this, it was really relaxing not to have to worry about the lines, and just go with the flow! The only bad thing was that I only bought one reel of quilting thread in the brown and I nearly ran out - it was so tight at the end, especially since I had a couple of issues with the needle and tension at the start, and I threw a lot of it away! Next time I have learnt my lesson and I will be buying *two* even if I don't need them! Hehe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My friend hasn't seen it yet (I'm waiting for her baby shower), but everyone who has keeps telling me it's too cute to change a baby on.. Which kinda defeats the object!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Oh and I forgot, I made her a little building block too, I'm hoping to make a few more of varying sizes for him, but not sure if they are good enough to give to her!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is a shot of the finished product, the front side, where I did blocks, and below is the back where it was one fabric :]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Below are two close ups of my quilting and the edges :] On reflection I should have done a bigger stipple with more space inbetween it, but it worked out okay because if it is a changing mat it needs to be quite stiff and it should hold up in the wash xD hehe</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So, latley I came across this bloggy : </span><a href="http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/">http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And I was totally inspired to do some of this free motion stuff myself, it looked so pretty and Leah makes it look so easy in her instructional videos xD</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have now learnt that it is not as easy as she makes it look!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I promptly got some scraps of fabric together and had a go! My first attempts were so bad I am ashamed to show them. But here are a few that look not totally horrendous:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I think I am definatly going to try and find a place on a quilt for this design, maybe one for my sister, I think she'd like it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Then i got carried away and made a coaster :] though I made one crucial mistake! I used the blue thread for stitching the binding >.<</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So then I got all excited and bought some great fabric (bramble patch sale... I only bought one thing at sale price! oops!) hometown by moda - i bought some with writing on with different words for home, and some swirly antique looking writing. Really pretty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And I set to work making some more coasters, this time as a present for my friends who are getting married on the 29th :]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It took me about 5 days to make them all but I'm pretty pleased with most of them, some of my corners leave a bit to be desired, but I'm hoping they wont notice or care! I did so many that i ran out of material (I bought 2 fat quaters), I chose the best 4 (most of them were horrible, it took a while to work out how wide the borders should be - as the one on the blue was just too thin) and wrapped them all up nicely and ready to go to them :]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So the fabric shop was great! I got quite a few bargains :] and I picked up a book, for £3! brilliant! it had a design for a big dipper pinwheel quilt, I loved it so much at first sight that I had to buy the fabric for it there and then! I got some really, really great purple dotty material: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It has a kind of velour-ey look and i love it :D</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Then i got some plain white with Little tiny flowers on - i tried to take a picture but it didn't really work, so I'll leave that one lol</span></div>
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<br /></div>Starriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00435595787780105293noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8080726891119719832.post-56420015789874053312012-01-26T03:49:00.000-08:002012-01-26T05:43:35.118-08:00Insomnia - among other things<div style="text-align: center;">
Last night i didn't get to sleep until 2am. Then this morning I woke up at 7am and could not sleep! It was very frustrating to say the least. But thank goodness for the internet! </div>
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I was looking for quilting inspiration for a new project - hopefully going to the fabric guild shop near me tomorrow :D they have a sale on. Though it wont make a lot of difference if I don't know what I need. Impulse buys, here i come!</div>
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Anyway, while I was trawling i found several great sewing projects, two of which are earmarked for my sister's birthday in June and one of which I just had to try out! I promised myself that I wouldn't do it at 2am, which I was very good and didn't. But when i woke up at 7am this morning and couldn't sleep, I knew it was time to get out the sewing machine! </div>
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This is the great website I found and the great little tutorial :]</div>
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It is fantastic so simple yet effective! I made two of these this morning alone! (its not even 12 yet!!)</div>
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This is the first one (praying that I can get the pictures to work)<br />
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I didn't have any huge buttons but I think the medium sized one works just as well :] I put my tablets and little bits in it to go in my handbag!</div>
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After I made this, I got kinda addicted, and may have had to make a second one!</div>
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This was some fabric that I had already and I challenged myself to do the inside a different fabric - it turned out well - just disappointed in my photography skills, you can't see the second fabric at all >.<</div>
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The only problem I have with it, is that I could *not* make the birds face the same way on the front. I think its the way I cut the squares out? Or it may be the pattern? Not sure, all I am sure of is that I spent a good half an hour at least with my friend Mr seam ripper! Eventually i gave in and kept the quirky upside down birds, I will try another time with some more fabric to see if I can do it properly xD. </div>
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They are just uber cute and a really cool stop-gap mini project while I plan my next quilt.</div>
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<br /></div>Starriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00435595787780105293noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8080726891119719832.post-14666239182672175682012-01-25T03:20:00.000-08:002012-01-25T03:20:17.414-08:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hello there and welcome to anyone stumbling across my little bit of web space :]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is a new venture for me, but i wanted to record some stuff. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />I have known about quilting for many years - my aunt is very much an accomplished quilter, she has made many beautiful projects in her time! I started a couple of quilting projects back in 2008. Seems a lifetime ago now! Since then I moved out of my parents house and into a tiny flat. It had no table and I had no access to a sewing machine! I had/have 2 hand projects on the go.<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1. 12" blocks of crazy patchwork, the idea to have a block of each colour. I am doing all the embroidery stitches by hand, which as you can imagine is taking a long time! For the last 2 years I have had uhm.. "sewers block" hating the red block, and not doing much on it recently! It's a love/hate relationship hehe</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2. A hexagons, english paper pieced quilt, making little flowers from various black and white fabrics with orange batik middles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So, back to the here and now. Neither of these have been completed in the 2 years I have moved away from home. But recently I moved to a flat that is much bigger and has a table. I dug out a kit I bought several years ago, moda fabrics, squares with applique triangles. I started that, and happened to mention to my parents that I could really do with a sewing machine now I had the space. I was only angling to get my Mums old machine, which is unused in the garage - instead I got a sewing machine for my christmas present! It was pretty cool :]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So I took it home and now I am more determined than ever to start again and to make some pretty things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This last month I made and designed my own quilt, I think I will post about that tomorrow when I'm not on a tight schedule as today :] (and i figure out how to upload pictures into this xD)</span><br />
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