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Spring Baby Quilt

5/31/2023

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A former co-worker of mine being due to have a baby late May this year, I decide to make her a quilt.  I use a partially-plundered charm pack I got secondhand, supplemented with some scraps from my stash.  It goes together in three nights: 1 to make the pinwheels, 1 to make the borders, [a fabric shopping expedition to find the backing], and 1 to quilt it.  Though it was quick and easy, I am delighted with the colors, and proud of my quilting. 

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Designing a Print

5/29/2023

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I have often admired One Block Wonder (OBW) quilts, and vaguely considered making one.  But since making one involves buying the same panel or print six or seven times, it's an expensive buy-in.  So when I discovered a website that would mock-up what a OBW quilt would look like with any given fabric, I decided to have some wholly digital fun, for a buy-in of $0 and 0¢. 

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Bargello... plugging along

5/26/2023

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A quick update.  As I mentioned last time, I have been following the tutorial put out by Donna of Jordan Fabrics.  I have made one improvement on Donna's method, which I'll explain briefly.  And I've learned a little more about myself, which will inform my future quilting choices. 

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Songbirds Quilt

5/24/2023

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At Pioneer Quilts in Milwaukie, I find this panel of songbirds, part of the Art Journal collection by J. Wecker Frisch for Riley Blake Designs. It calls to me... "Sew with me," it twitters!  I liked the rich colors and old-book-etching style. 

I bring it home and coordinate it with fabric in my stash.  The green is from Moda's Grunge Basics line, a popular and versatile quilting cotton that is first dyed, then printed with artsy scuff-marks, for a deep, saturated base and a textured surface.  I bought it for my Dandelion quilt, and have since used it in many paper piecings.  The red floral is a cotton remnant, possibly curtain fabric, that I bought from Fabric Depot when it was still in business.  I initially intended it to be a dress or shirt, but never made it.  Now I will use it for a habitat for songbirds.  I like how its colors look like they're from the same old-timey book as the songbirds. 
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Tritanomaly Quilt

5/4/2023

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Ambivalence is a fruitful inspiration: when I sorta-like and sorta-hate something, the incongruity fidgets in my mind, and won't settle until I make something with it.  Tula Pink fabric is such an inspiration for me.  What I love is the creativity of the prints, the hidden critters and swirling flowers and whimsy of them.  What I hate is the busy-ness.  According to her website, "Tula comes from the 'more is more' school of design where there is never enough space and always room for that one last thing," while I firmly believe that detail without focus is clutter, and clutter stresses me out.  Finally, there are her colors, which are bright and fun and neon... and like minor notes, just slightly off from what you might find satisfying.  It's hard to match or co-ordinate with her prints, unless you work with other prints from the same collection.
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So naturally, I buy several yards of Tula Pink fabric... because it bugs me and I like/hate it.  What can I make with this?  From Tula Pink, I have Who's Your Dandy (PWTP183) in orange and Out Foxed (PWPT184) in pink.  For a sorta-solid, I have a green wood-grain print from Riley Blake Designs (C12356) and for a dark contrast Jazzy by Michael Miller (#CX-8102). 

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