tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9562924276460203062024-02-22T01:30:12.807-08:00Amalie's ArmfulsAmaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641294189908573808noreply@blogger.comBlogger181125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-956292427646020306.post-21851958612739095462018-03-10T07:40:00.000-08:002018-03-10T07:40:59.363-08:00My Whimsical Flower Garden quilt..blocks 1-7Feb 24th, I sat down to start this quilt. I spent 6 hours that day working on the first 3 blocks. It was actually such a great moment of relaxation. I have been going like crazy for a while now. Between the last Sat in Jan and the 3rd sat in Feb I had a ballet performance that I was in as a pianist or worked or attended that occupied all my spare weekend moments. Of course, I thoroughly love my professional job, so no complaints about spending hours performing, but it does wear a person out! Then we spent the most wonderful 4 days at my in-laws over Presidents day weekend. Honestly, we played lots and lots of card games and board games. We only nearly a couple hundred games in our house, so we play a lot of games. But, the first free weekend, I spent nearly the entire day at my sewing machine. It was HEAVEN!! The slowness of the weekend and the project were just wonderful. <br />
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I still have a couple of these blocks that I am not fans of, so they might be changing, but here is the start. <br />
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I went back and added the faint red stitch about the flowers afterwards on this block and I absolutely love it. It really defines the petals.</div>
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I just love the green on this one!! </div>
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I love how the middle flower turned out. I love the fabric I found in my stash, I love the edging I did, I love the fussy cutting to get the purple smodges every other petal. Oh and the greens just turned out soooo fun!! I think that the palm tree leaves are kind of funny, but I am keeping with the exact pattern for that kind of stuff and it makes for something unique and fun. </div>
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I feel like I need to do some sort of color stitch of a different color around the bird, but can't decide what to do.</div>
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I sewed this one yesterday. I still haven't finished the bird. I need to stitch around it to hold it down. However, I added it because it is all ironed on. I really love the fun flowers that are opening on the bottom. I also like that this is the first flower that I made without a print. I think that will be a good to have that contrast in the quilt. </div>
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Each block takes about 2 1/2-3 hours. Between cutting each individual piece, ironing on some bonding, ironing them onto the block, stitching around the edges and adding the borders, it takes some time. However, the first couple blocks I was only bonding on some steam a seam or such on the exact portion of the fabric i needed. Then I realized that I would be using the same browns or some of the same green throughout and just bonded on a large section. That made it start going much quicker because I could just grab something from the scraps pile that is growing. </div>
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Its been the perfect project to work on because I have been in need of quiet a bit of thinking/meditating time with all the responsibilities in my current life. I am over 1/3 through the 20 blocks but hope to be half way by the end of this week. </div>
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Amaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641294189908573808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-956292427646020306.post-92206656466928312082018-03-09T08:31:00.000-08:002018-03-09T08:31:11.914-08:00Foundation Paper PiecingGuys, I have wanted to learn how to do foundation paper piecing forever. I have watched videos overtime but I have never really understood it...and it seems that sometimes the right time to learn something new also has just the right time as well. <br />
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Anyways, I watched this <a href="https://youtu.be/Xv2gKMx9CCM" target="_blank">connecting threads tutorial on youtube </a>and maybe it was just the right moment and maybe it was just the way she did it, but it finally made sense. I wish I would have seen her take the paper out because I would have liked to have seen that, but at least I feel like I have somewhere to go. <br />
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After the video I did two things. I got on amazon to purchase an add a quarter ruler. I have to post a picture of the packaging that I got it in because it was super fun and funny. I got it from Hancocks of Paducah on amazon. They taped the ruler inside the cardboard of an old fabric bolt with a bag doubled over.<br />
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Naturally, afterwards I spend time looking for a few projects to make. I found an<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BOfFeq7gDYM/" target="_blank"> instagram post </a>that linked me to <a href="http://www.threadedquilting.com/no-y-seam-feathered-star/" target="_blank">THIS PATTERN </a>called No Y Seam Feathered Star. Oh, I can't wait to make it!! I really hope that instagram link works because the pillow is just so pretty!!! She posted it on Dec. 24, 2016. <br />
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Either way, as soon as I am done with my whimsical garden, I am going to work on this technique. I can't wait to learn how to do this so I can made pretty, tiny little pieces line up so clean and perfect.<br />
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<br />Amaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641294189908573808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-956292427646020306.post-32866170084810228562018-03-08T08:10:00.000-08:002018-03-08T08:10:14.858-08:00My whimsical garden quilt...in progressBack in 2011, I purchased this pattern and wrote a post on it!! That was 7 years ago? Oh, heavens. Over the course of those years I did the following in hopes that I would get to making the quilt.<br />
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1. I cut up the 12in by 12in white background blocks and stored them in my storage room. (I eventually started using those blocks for other projects and when I pulled them out a couple weeks ago I only had 12 left of the original 20. Oh well.)<br />
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2. I copied all of the pages of the pattern and put the pieces in little ziplock bags for each block. This took FOREVER!!! I am actually glad now that I am working on this quilt that I took the time to finish all but a couple blocks like this 7 years ago, because honestly, if I had had to cut them out right now and then cut out each applique piece and then iron them on and then sew around them...ya, I would have lost steam. However, I find that my go to/get it done personality that I only have the patience for max 3 steps on a project and I will still have the energy to keep going. If I hadn't cut those papers out, I would never have gone onto each block.<br />
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3. I collected orange and green fabrics. A 1/2 yrd here or these and put them in a bag.<br />
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4. I got really frustrated a month ago with not being able to find anything I wanted in my storage room. So, I finally went and got containers for my fabric and sorted all my fabric out.<br />
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...and that was what finally did it. I saw the pattern, I saw the white cut out blocks and thought, what am I waiting on? However, as I got into cutting out the appliques for the first block I realized 2 things. If I hadn't organized my fabric I would have lost my energy really quick on this project. It is so fun to just grab the entire basket of reds and sort through for the perfect combination with the perfect orange. I still wish I had a couple more red prints but I am determined to only use what I already have, so that is that. 2nd. I am finally a point in my personal life where I can truly enjoy the journey of working on a long project block by block and not get frustrated when I don't have time or it is taking too long. I couldn't have even said that about myself 3 months ago. However, I was ready to take on a project when I have to applique 20-45 pieces per block for 20 blocks. It is going to take a couple months but here is the beginning....<br />
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Since finishing these 3 blocks 2 weekends ago, I have finished 3 more blocks. I will have to post them soon. I am so glad that I also waited until after I finished the mini bird house quilt and buying the border fabric for that quilt because it is going to be absolutely perfect for this quilt. I am not going to add all the circles from the pattern on the border. I just know that I will get to that point and not be interested. I will try and keep up with posting each block as I do them!! I will also take some close ups of each block the next time I post pictures.<br />
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Hope you enjoyed!!Amaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641294189908573808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-956292427646020306.post-41568340787925766812018-03-07T07:52:00.000-08:002018-03-07T21:17:30.143-08:00St Patrick's Table RunnerSince my last blog post, I have finished 2 large quilts and several small projects. It seems like I either take the time to quilt in my spare moments during the day or to post pictures. Either way, it is super fun to constantly be working on things.<br />
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Yesterday, I went and spent 6 hours at my best friends house and we whipped up a fun St. Patrick's day table runner. We copied the idea from a post I saw on instagram from the quilt shop Pines and Needles. Their <a href="https://www.pineneedlesonline.com/shop/Whats-New/p/Feeling-Lucky-12K-Table-Runner-Kit-24946-x32437922.htm" target="_blank">kit</a> is super super cute, but we already had some St. Patrick's fabric so we made up our own dimensions and sewed away. I got all the fabric at JoAnn's except the green stem which I found in my stash.<br />
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I think it turned out super cute. I loved the size on her table. I love the darker black with golden horseshoes fabric. Each block in the 4 patches end up being 4 inches before being sewn together. Final dimension of our project is 31 1/2 by 14 inches.<br />
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Hope you enjoyed.Amaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641294189908573808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-956292427646020306.post-68749608042193604522018-02-19T15:09:00.000-08:002018-02-19T15:09:40.477-08:00The legacy of Hawaiian shirts and their subsequent quiltsBack in 2011-12, I was out in my in-laws storage shed with my mother-in-law as she was going through boxes of dress up clothes to send home to our house with us. She pulled a box of fabric off the shelf and I asked her what it was. For several years she had asked me how to make a rag quilt and I didn't realize that the reason she wanted to know how was so she could use this fabric she had been storing for several years and make one for her bed. The box of fabric were left over pieces of fabric from her mom's own stash of Hawaiian shirt making. If you want to read that whole story, you can click <a href="https://amaliesarmfuls.blogspot.com/2018/01/hawaiian-scraps-king-quilt.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> to read my post last month on the legacy of this fabric and it's importance in my husbands family. <div>
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I wish I had the pictures I took during that time still. But they were lost in a computer crash many years ago. The picture of this massive Tupperware box (2 feet by 3 1/2 feet and 2 feet tall) full of all the scrap fabric from her mom's sewing adventures. We brought the box back into the house and I sorted through it as she asked me if it was enough fabric to make a quilt for her California King sized bed. I knew it was especially if she was going to make a rag quilt. It was just a matter of what size to make each of the squares so that I could use more scraps than less in the stack. I had her get out her rotary cutter and cutting mat and I cut out a few squares to show her how to make it. After one day of my vacation I realized that I really just needed to take the box home and make the quilt up myself. So, we headed to JoAnn's, purchased the batting, I packed the box in our truck and headed home. </div>
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I was probably 6 months pregnant with my second child at the time and I knew that I would need to really spend some serious time working on it so that I could finish it before our own life changes happened. I spent many many many nights pulling out the scraps, ironing them and cutting them into squares and strips. In the end I made the squares 5 inches like a charm pack size and I also made all the strips in 2 1/2 in strips like a jelly roll. It was A LOT of squares and in the end a lot of batting as well. I spent a week sewing all the square together, and another week putting those squares into rows. I used my bed to lay them out to make sure that nothing looked weird in the layout and I just kept sewing. I used the kitchen floor in the rental unit upstairs from us the day that the people moved out to lay out and spray and pin the second quilt I made to get it ready to machine quilt. I was 8 1/2 months pregnant so yes, me crawling around on my hands and knees putting in all the pins was surely just crazy!! </div>
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I was at my in-laws this weekend on vacation and finally all these years later, got pictures not only on my phone (which I have done and lost several times over the years) but also, got on my computer to make sure they made it here to my blog. It was such great timing since I have been systematically going through and posting all my old projects to be able to see these quilts in person again and also, sleep in a bed that had one of the quilts on it. </div>
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I end up making not only the California King sized rag quilt, but a queen sized jelly roll strip quilt. They turned out awesome. The queen sized quilt was a surprise but we were able to get them to my mother in law that year for her birthday when she came up to see our newborn son when he was born. I had so much fabric left over and I did another post of that fabric and the quilts I have made from that fabric <a href="https://amaliesarmfuls.blogspot.com/2018/01/hawaiian-scraps-king-quilt.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>. </div>
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Amaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641294189908573808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-956292427646020306.post-67836325970875605102018-02-11T08:00:00.000-08:002018-02-11T08:00:27.486-08:00Summer dresden in progressI didn't just spend the last month catching up on posting all the different quilts and projects I have worked on through the past 4 years. I have also been sewing a ton. When I cleaned out my fabric shelves in my storage room, I found a bunch of unfinished quilts. So, I put them in a box and brought them into my kitchen to work on. This dresden quilt is one of the ones that I found. I had finished sewing the pieces together on 3 of the 4 dresdens but I had not attached them to the backing and I had not decided on the border fabric or center circles. I took them to my husband's grandma's house during a visit and I whipped stitched them to the backing. I think that their progress is turning out super awesome. Since I took these pictures I have actually added borders and got the backing fabric cut. I will post pictures when I get some batting and get it quilted. But here is the progress. The fabric was a line called Riviera from Connecting Threads back in 2008.<br />
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Amaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641294189908573808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-956292427646020306.post-39365594872205119432018-02-09T08:00:00.000-08:002018-02-09T15:13:54.511-08:00Sewing Machine Review, for KidsBack in 2015, my daughter was 5 and had really taken and interest to sewing. I had found a found a used, small craft sewing machine at the thrift store for $2. After a couple months of trying to put the bobbin back on the little thing, I was ready to be done!!! However, she couldn't use my machine because I was always using mine. So, I did some research on sewing machines to purchase a machine for her for Christmas. At 5, I think the main thing I was concerned about were the speed and having a foot guard. I end up buying this cute Janome machine. Janome 001Graceful Portable Sewing Machine.<br />
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3. It has all the basic necessary stitches. Here are the specs right off amazon's website.<br />
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4. It is the perfect sewing speed for a young child. It is a medium-ish speed..doesn't go faster.<br />
5. Threads the same as my Bernina sewing machine, so my daughter is learning exactly how to thread that when I give her permission to sew with my machine. There are easy to follow arrows on the machine itself.<br />
6. It fits my bobbins from my normal machine. Probably not a big deal to anyone else, but if I have a bobbin of one color already somewhere in the house, I don't really want to create a second one. Laziness and hopefully thriftiness.<br />
7. If you are into having a fun color....there are a million of options of color. I bought this machine on Amazon and got an amazing deal on it that Christmas. Always make sure to check current, past and lowest prices on camelcamelcamel.com for all Amazon products so you can see the overall trends through time.<br />
8. With the small complaints that I have below, I honestly think that this machine is going to last a really really long time and get a lot of good use. The manual is easy to understand and follow. When my daughter forgets how to do something when threading the machine, she pulls it out.<br />
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1. #4 above--not a good machine for an adult looking for a take along small machine on a quick get-a-away. You will want to pull your hair out at the slowness of the speed. It can't be adjusted.<br />
2. There is NO light. When I bought this, I thought, that won't be a problem. We will always be sewing in a well lit room. But it absolutely sucks. You can't see the needle to thread it without picking the machine up and putting it in the light or shining a flashlight on it. Also, it turns my daughter off from sewing. She will think she is sewing straight but can't see it really well and then gets frustrated when she has to unpick it. (However, I found a solution to this problem that I have posted down below)<br />
3. The bobbin holder, while easy to open, a little hard for my daughter to thread and pull out in the right place. It has to loop around twice and she usually forgets the second one.<br />
4. The thread holder in the top back of the machine has fallen off the machine twice. Not only that, over time it slowly falls backwards so the spool of thread almost won't stay on. When I see this I can pull it off the machine and pop it back in, but I think that if my daughter were to do it, she might break the part. I might just have a faulty one, but it is annoying.<br />
5. There is no on-off switch. So, if you don't want it to accidentally push the foot, you need to unplug it from the wall.<br />
6. The foot pedal: tiny. I think I should maybe put that as a pro for a little child, but even my daughter finds that it is so small and light weight that it really moves around and she has a hard time pushing it down. But, I would also expect with a lighter weight machine to have lighter weight parts. I just wish this one had a bit more weight or substance.<br />
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Here she is threading her machine. She is 7 1/2 in this picture and it comes easily now, just takes time like I would expect it to take for a younger child.<br />
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Her jealous brother watching her use her machine. He just needs a power tool...but what to give him, I have no idea. He is just toooooo young!!</div>
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You can see in the picture above that she is really bending over to see what she is doing. You can also see just how dark it is in there. I got on Amazon to look for some kind of light to attach to her machine. I found the following. It is amazing!!! Look at the light that it produces. Yes, I used the sticky attachments and permanently attached it to her machine. Obviously, I am not going to be taking it off since it was meant for the machine and also we can't handle the machine without the light. I am sooooo excited. (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072V2YNLM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1" target="_blank">I purchased this light Jan 2018</a>.)<br />
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(Before attaching)</div>
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Madalynn checking out how I was attaching it</div>
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The bright LED's</div>
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From the front.</div>
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LED lights are bright, and these pictures make them look even brighter, but they are not as florescent as they appear. Now that the light problems is handled, it really is such a good machine for her. I am glad that I purchased it and I am grateful I found a fairly cheap solution to my major problem with it...even if it took me 2 years to do it.<br />
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<br />Amaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641294189908573808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-956292427646020306.post-54412972272807278582018-02-08T08:00:00.000-08:002018-02-08T08:00:01.570-08:00Madalynn's first quilt....when she was 5!!Back when my daughter was finally old enough that I felt like I could leave her with my machine for a few minutes and she wouldn't kill herself, I pulled out a rag quilt I had cut up many years beforet never finished. It was the perfect combination of pink and purple fabrics. It was also the perfect beginning quilt. The lines don't have to be straight to make the x's across the center of each block and it doesn't totally matter if all the blocks are lined up straight.<br />
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I was thinking about this quilt when I was sewing earlier this week. I had given my daughter a bunch of fabric that I have that I won't use and she was sitting on the table sewing. The next morning while she was at school and not next to me, I really felt lonely while I was maching quilting a UFO quilt from 2008 and looking at her doodle/sketch book and her unfinished project.<br />
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But, it got me to get out the picture of her first quilt and it made me so happy that I have spent quality time helping her sew. She not only finished cutting the batting for the rag quilt, but she sewed each square together, laid them out in the pattern you see in the quilt and then I helped her bring the rows one by one into the kitchen and keep them in order while she sewed them together. But, except sitting and watching each square as she sewed to monitor...since she was still only 5 nearly 6, I did nothing else. Man, I love this girl. I can't wait to see what she creates over the years. She is quite the artist in her own right.<br />
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The final quilt. I put it out each year now on the back of my couch and it is so perfect. I love her and I love the quilt. </div>
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Her 3rd old brother trying to help. man, they were so small!!!!</div>
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1st. I have wanted to purchase new fabric for a LONG time. However, I was determined that I couldn't buy anymore fabric until I finished the stash of unfinished quilts and at least 1/4 of all the fabric in my storage room. When I purchased this fabric, it was to refreshing and greatly cherished. Even though I just picked out some matching fat quarters I thought would be great together, I was very aware that I was being conscious of my budget and yet thoroughly enjoying the chance to buy something that would forever make my heart happy. <br />
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2nd. I have been wanting to make fun quilts that are not holiday themed for a LONG time. However, that was the fabric I originally purchased so I plugged away at using it. When it comes to summer, except my 4th of July quilts, I really don't have any other quilt to really put up, so it was time to remedy that situation. <br />
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3rd. Since I started sewing, I have always wanted to make a quilt with circles or round points in the quilt top. They are just so beautiful to me. This quilt really did satisfy that need. <br />
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4th. On my list of things I still want to do is make a yellow and grey themed quilt, take a break from Hawaiian fabric for a little while and make all the mini's in ..... book. That is the book that I used to make this quilt.<br />
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Isn't it just so pretty!!! I can't get enough of it. I really really love the border fabric I found to compliment the other colors and I used it as the center small square on all the blocks to pull it into the quilt itself. I LOVE big borders. Hence the huge turqoise border. <br />
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When I brought it by one day to show my best friend, I knew that she really loved it. I was concerned that I would have enough fabric to make a whole new quilt and I needed a couple Christmas presents. So, I made 6 blocks but split it up into a set of 3 blocks for this table runner for my best friend and 3 pillow covers for me, my husbands aunt and my own aunt. I drove out to my best friends new house which is now an 1 1/2 away from my home as they recently moved and dropped it off before Thanksgiving. I was slightly proud of myself for not waiting until the last moment this year!!! Hurrah!! I think that I might have just enough fabric left over to make myself a table runner here in the next couple months. That will be a fun fun project!!<br />
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Hope you enjoyed!!Amaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641294189908573808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-956292427646020306.post-20820436398852883722018-02-06T08:00:00.000-08:002018-02-06T08:00:01.293-08:00Finished Christmas Dresden Quilt Is it true? Am I coming back to post a finished picture of this quilt? Yes, yes I am. Here it is!!<div>
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From a finished dresden that needs to be attached to backing...<br />
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To trying to decide if I should do a white center on the block or a Christmas colors center circle....<br />
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To the beginning where I have no idea what to say next. Haha! But I have so much to say. I purchased an acrylic dresden ruler when I started this project. I have used it many times and it was totally worth it. I knew that I had always love and had a fascination with dresden's so it was super fun to have a great tool to use to make them. I don't care for attaching the centers of the blocks. It is definitely not my favorite part. However, I learned to make a cardboard center piece, sew around it like an English Paper piecing piece, iron and pop out the middle to get the exact shape. </div>
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In the end I did decided on the white interior. When the Christmas fabric was there it seemed just so muddled and hard to see the outside shape really well. I tried to machine quilt the middles with a continuous circle. Yep, that was a total fail. I don't really care for how it turned out and there definitely must be a better way to do it than I did, but it was fun to try. </div>
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The border fabric is some of my favorite Christmas fabric I have ever sewn with. When I found it at JoAnn's one year, they didn't have a full yard. It was the first time I have ever asked them if they could find a place that had a few yards. I knew then that I would just cherish it and use it for everything. It just had the right amount of deep red with a small gold print that it would go with most Christmas fabrics with more traditional colors. They found a place with a whole bolt....all the way in Salt Lake city on Redwood Road. I had some errands I needed to run that direction, so I packed up my child, drove up and got the rest of the bolt. Now what..probably 5-6 years later, I am glad I did it. I still just love it each time I cut it and attach it to something. </div>
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Amaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641294189908573808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-956292427646020306.post-89310677465124226122018-02-05T08:00:00.000-08:002018-02-05T08:00:14.402-08:00Fall 2017 Springville Art Museum Quilt showEvery year the Springville, Utah Art Museum has a quilt show. I try and go every year because they are just so much fun. For a long time in our house, we did Friday Museum days. We are surrounded by hundreds of free, family friendly museums. It is so fun. I would take my kids to a variety of art shows, cultural museums, children's museums, history museums, old villages and buildings, forts, etc. We loved it. I couldn't keep up after my daughter Kindergarten year because I had to work a friday afternoon class the past year. However, we do make special trips to see the things I am most interested in. This years quilt show had a whole floor of red and white quilts on the children's exhibit floor. They had the opportunity to create quilt blocks with shapes on paper. It was so much fun!! I got to walk around taking pictures and enjoyed the quilts while they had a great activity to do. <br />
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They finished right as I finished looking at and admiring the 30 plus quilts. It was a super fun day.<br />
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Then we headed up stairs to the 10 or so galleries that were full of quilts upstairs and the kids each picked their favorite quilt to take a picture with.<br />
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It is so inspiring seeing the artistry of these various quilters. I hope that I can enjoy many more years of creating and being inspired by others.<br />
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Hope you enjoyed. Amaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641294189908573808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-956292427646020306.post-69506238821451631662018-02-04T08:00:00.000-08:002018-02-04T08:00:07.435-08:00Valentines Day quilts #2As I was typing up my post about my best friends Valentines quilts, I started thinking about how we both purchase fabric at the same time that year. I purchased a couple panels, a charm pack and a couple yards of fabric for backing and binding. My panels also sat in a pile of unfinished projects for many years. As I was pulling out my Valentines quilts this year to decorate, I was realizing that it is one of my largest collection of quilts. Christmas, Fall, Halloween and the 4th of July certainly compare in the sheer volume of fabrics that are fun to buy, sew with and finished projects. But, I think I secretly love Valentines Day the most. Why? Because I love bright colors. Anything pink as well. I am a sucker for pink. When my husband and I were first married, I wore mostly pink. I have tamed down so much now that I usually wear black or white with an under color. Life just changes a person I guess.<br />
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Here are a few of the panels that I put up that I just love. Sandy Gervais did a lot of the fabric lines that I got these panels from. At the time it was a cheap, easy way to get a quilt up. I now prefer actually sewing and piecing a quilt even if it means that I have a month during the year that is not as full in my quilt area as other months.<br />
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I seriously love the fabric on the edge of the 2nd panel. I love the print, the color and how it really makes the two little love birds color just pop.<br />
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I started following canoeridgecreations on instagram a couple years ago. I have loved watching all her posts. She posted a <a href="http://www.canoeridgecreations.com/2016/01/free-tutorial-fresh-mini-quilt-club.html" target="_blank">free tutorial online</a> that I immediately just grabbed right up and sewed up one day. It is such a nice, little, easy to sew mini-quilt. I used lots of scraps that I have. (Mostly stuff from my daugher infant room that I swear I now know I bought 5x's too much fabric for but even with everything I make from it, the pile never gets smaller!!!) This is absolutely one of my favorite quilts I have ever made. I stipple stitched in the heard area and did a straight stitch through the white to finish off the machine quilting.<br />
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Picture taking is not my favorite thing. I am not that good at it. The lighting is often off and the pictures are often crooked. Sorry. These posts are a journal for me, so while I take plenty of time to create what I love, I spend...not as much time on the picture taking. Haha!!<br />
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Many years ago I started making a long table runner to my piano to put underneath all the stuff I keep on there to teach piano. I now have one for every month and it is soooo fun!!! Then I started making a few table runner's for fun because they are so easy and quick to pull together and finish. I put the second posted on my kids books bookshelf. I made the first table runner the a Sandy Gervais line of fabric. The second one I made from the fabric I decorated my daughters infant room with.<br />
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Do you see my chatbooks?? When I realized in 2016 that I couldn't keep up with this blog let alone a blog about my family and their lives, I knew that I needed to do something that would help me keep up with journaling. It is important to me that I keep track of our lives in some fashion. It helps give me a sense of purpose. Honestly, chatbooks are so incredibly cheap and easy. When I either add up to 60 photos manually or through my instagram account, it automatically prints. I have 3 days to check it out and make sure that the cover photo is what I want and edit pages I might want to take out or keep. My kids LOVE reading them. I find them all over the living room as they relive moments in their lives. Best decision I made in a long time. If you haven't hear of them, check them out.<br />
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Back to the post at hand, not only do I have quilts to hang, table runner to lay across things in my home, but Valentine's Day was the second holiday I really created pillow covers for. Back in 2014, I posted a post about a <a href="http://amaliesarmfuls.blogspot.com/2014/11/christmas-dresden.html" target="_blank">dresden Christmas Quilt</a> I was making. I am shortly going to post a finished picture of that quilt, but I absolutely love dresdens!!! But they just take so long to cut and iron on that I decided that I couldn't handle making a full quilt of them for Valentines Day. So, I made a 16in pillow cover with a dresden. Of all the pillow covers I have made it is definitely my 3rd favorite. (Wait until you see my new Halloween one late next week!!! Oh, and my fall one...or my embroidered/quilted spring one. Yep, I can't wait to post the millions of pillow covers I made this Christmas.) As it was actually the first dresden I ever completed, I take a lot of pride in it...even if the middle circle was a complete fisco and not a real circle anymore when you look closely.<br />
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I have been collecting red fabrics with gorgeous prints for many many years. I have yet to make a fun quilt with them, but I did make this pillow cover three times for 2 other people and myself this past Christmas and I just love this one!! I didn't use a white background to applique it on, I used a muslin. I think it just made it have such a warm color that I wonder why I use white so much.<br />
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Whoo blurry!!! I will try and take a better picture of this pillow cover soon. This was a leftover block from my pieced-block-panel quilt. Not my favorite at all, but worth a mention.<br />
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Ya, clearly this pillow cover is not on a 12in pillow form. But I couldn't find my other 12in pillow form so I put it on the 10in until the other one reappears.<br />
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Couple all those with the two I made a long time ago....<br />
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and I am near complete with my Valentines Quilts. You can find the last two <a href="https://amaliesarmfuls.blogspot.com/2009/01/valentines-day-wall-hangings.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://amaliesarmfuls.blogspot.com/2008/11/wall-hanging.html" target="_blank">here</a> in other posts in the blog before. True to form, now you can finally see a finished project because in the original post it was just the top. These were both some of my first experiments doing machine quilting on my domestic machine. But the chocolate/pink quilt was my first quilt quilted with a darning foot. I will never go back to taking everything to a long arm quilter. It is so much fun to do it myself. I have the intention this year of branching out and perfecting some more stitches because I default to the stipple stitch nearly everytime. </div>
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Amaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641294189908573808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-956292427646020306.post-80876556675883217662018-02-03T08:00:00.000-08:002018-02-03T08:00:12.850-08:00Valentines Day quiltsMy best friends birthday is Feb. 3. Every year I try and made something for her birthday. It is a really fun task. Back in Jan 2015, I went by her house to have a sewing day with her. One year when we were first married we had gone fabric shopping and had each purchased from Valentines fabric. I had worked through half of mine. She had got a top partially done and had been putting the top up to decorate for a couple years, but had never got it quilted and bound. So we finished all the tops of both a mini-quilt and also a table runner for her kitchen. I took the quilts home that night and over the course of the next few days, I finished quilting and binding them. They turned out so fun!!<br />
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We made the table runner from my favorite table runner pattern, <a href="http://farmfreshfabrics.com/little-charmers-ii-pattern/" target="_blank">little charmers II</a>. I linked a google search site I found the pattern. I am not a affiliated with them. It is super easy and just made with a 5 in charm packet. <br />
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There were three small interior block pieces left over when we finished the quilt. So I surprised her with a second extra table runner when I dropped them off for her birthday. I loved the colors of valentines day. I loved the fabric prints that people make for Valentines day. I wish I could remember the fabric lines of these quilts so I could post their names, but they came from a line in either 2008 or 2009.</div>
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Hope you enjoyed. Amaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641294189908573808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-956292427646020306.post-13488615666382168712018-02-02T08:00:00.000-08:002018-02-02T08:00:23.241-08:00Grey/Orange/Blue Crib QuiltRuss cousin had purchased a variety of fabric. She had say down to make a scrappy quilt from those fabrics. However, she didn't own a machine and she had fabrics of every type of material from minky to cotton to polyester to flannel to knit in the stack. So, she bought it by my house. I laid all the pieces out that she had cut. I squared them off to make the quilt square, added some backing to the knit pieces to they wouldn't stretch and whipped up the quilt before her 4th baby was born. I am still in awe that this as so long ago. Not only has she had her 5th child, but that child goes to school next year!!<br />
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I love the fabrics that she chose and the white fluffy minky on the back really made it such a fun quilt. It was yet another great memory to find this quilt I had forgotten I made and revisit the pictures. <br />
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I was all packed up for an 1+ drive out to my best friends house to sew. Her birthday is this weekend and I thought it would be fun to sew something up for her and spend time together. I sent her picture after picture as I was in the fabric store looking for the right combination of fabrics and this is what we decided on. <br />
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We sat at her kitchen table and cut up all the applique pieces and got them ironed on. I made the pattern 148% bigger than the original, so it came out to 12" by 28" final quilt top. <br />
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The flower on the top of the bird house I thought was a dragonfly the whole time, but it turns out it is just a flower. Haha. I find that to be funny. It had taken me too long to pick out fabric that I had to leave to head home before we got the quilt quilted and bound. So I came home yesterday and got it all finished. I think that it turned out super great and can't wait to see it to her with her family for her birthday party. <br />
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Until I as sorting through pictures, I had completely forgotten about this quilt. However, I love how it turned out and am glad that they asked me to make it. They just had baby #3 and I feel like time has just flown. It was a really great thing to revisit this picture and remember how grateful I am for the time I have spent sewing for others. </div>
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My favorite part of following each block was reading the history of each block..its origins. The lady on Tales of Cloth said that she got a history degree and she really enjoyed the history part of finding each block she added to her quilt and doing a tutorial on those blocks.<br />
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I made two of each of the blocks for a grand total of 98 blocks. It was a long long process over the course of 3 months. However, it was totally worth the work. I followed each <a href="https://www.talesofcloth.com/search?q=red%20sky%20" target="_blank">tutorial</a> and made each quilt block. The last 6 blocks, I did hurry through to finish. But that was so that she could get it for Christmas. The following pictures were the only ones that I took sadly, but they definitely give the scope of the project. I end up making one queen sized quilt for my aunt, one twin size for me and then I took the left over blocks and made them into some pillow covers. I purchased all the fabric from Connecting Threads and washed it with a color catcher just in case before sewing.<br />
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I am terrible at math. Instead of trying to figure out how long and wide to make it, I just laid out a queen bed spread and made the block match. This picture was taken just 3 hours before a my sister in law was in a horrible car crash. I thought I would have all night to finish the quilt and instead spent the night rushing to the E.R. to wait hours to pick her, her step son, son and ex-husband up at the hospital. Thankfully they survived a crash where they didn't see traffic stopping over a hill and rear ended someone at 65 MPH. Seat belts save lives people!! They walked away with no broken bones. It was a miracle. </div>
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Hope you enjoyed.Amaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641294189908573808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-956292427646020306.post-73259568611067137622018-01-30T08:00:00.000-08:002018-01-30T08:00:10.326-08:00The blue, yellow and white quiltMay 2014, I got a call from either my best friend or her mom. They were trying to get a binding put on a quilt for her brothers wedding. But it was a crazy time of year for a wedding with kids graduating from high school and college and life in general. So, I offered to help them sew it on and whip stitch it. Her sister dropped it off at my house, I stayed up late and got it done that night. 2 days later, it was off to the wedding. I took really bad pictures of the quilt with my old phone at the time. But, when I was sorting through all my old pictures looking for a quilt I made 5 years ago, I found these and I was a great memory.<br />
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<br />Amaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641294189908573808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-956292427646020306.post-27416947258041560952018-01-29T11:36:00.000-08:002018-03-07T21:26:36.508-08:00Do one thing every day that makes you happyDo one thing every day that makes you happy. Ok, I did that today. I found this pillow top after I saw it on my blog when I was searching for another post and wondered where I had put it. I knew that I had never finished it. When I sewed it, I didn't have a rectangular pillow form at the time. I eventually bought the form and couldn't remember why I bought it!!! So it never got finished. I found it in the middle of a stack of fabric.<br />
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I had to add another inch on the top and bottom border at the first post of this pillow cover in <a href="https://amaliesarmfuls.blogspot.com/2009/03/hm-what-do-you-think-of-material-i.html" target="_blank">March 2009 (yikes!!)</a> But, I grabbed some white scraps to add as backing that I pieced together and got it on the pillow form. Yay!! It only took 20 minutes, but man, it took too many years to finish that project.<br />
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Ironed and looking great with a finished edge </div>
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I am happy. I got to sew today, I finished a project today, I love the final product and I am grateful for the time to do something I enjoy. I hope that anyone who reads this, takes the time to live in the moment today and do something they love!!<br />
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<br />Amaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641294189908573808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-956292427646020306.post-13824157299583177252018-01-28T08:00:00.000-08:002018-01-28T08:00:52.730-08:00My best friends quiltThere was that one time that I had my best friend pick out fabric of her choice, a quilt pattern she loved and then it got put on the top of my sewing shelf in my storage room and didn't move for 4 years. Ya, that all started in 2012 after she saw my <a href="https://amaliesarmfuls.blogspot.com/2011/08/summer-picnic.html" target="_blank">Summer Picnic</a> quilt. My Summer Picnic quilt was the first quilt I really ever did that I made a lot of HST and the first quilt I had ever learned how to square the pieces off to make everything line up. I wasn't quite ready to do that again. At the time it seemed so tedious!!! (Granted, the amount of time I had to sew was limited since I had a newborn infant and a 2yr old, was working 3 jobs, and was worn out all the time.) How funny that 4 years later, one of my favorite things to do it make quilts with lots of little pieces and square them off. <br />
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In Jan 2016 I decided it was the year to finally get the quilt done. It had been a couple years since my best friend and I had had a good amount of time to get together. My schedule was always just so busy with work. I told her I had got the fabric out, cut it up and got it ready, but I really needed help sewing the pieces up. If she sewed them, then I could square them off. The time went so fast when we did it that way. It was amazing. I felt bad because it was her birthday present that year and I was asking her to help me make it, but it turned out so cute!! I really wish that I had had double the amount of fabric to make me one, but I love mine with the 1920's replica prints. She has a house decorated with super fun sunflowers and country themed wood. So, it really matches her home and that's what matters. <br />
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Someday I will get to making my Moda Frivol #8 and I will have another fun, small quilt like this that really brightens any room with the warm colors and the awesome solid white background.<br />
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Hope you enjoyed!! Amaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641294189908573808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-956292427646020306.post-70870011668041411452018-01-27T08:00:00.000-08:002018-01-27T16:22:34.181-08:00Quilted Place-mat weakness!!!Guys, I was pulling out some placemats to use for a game night at our house tonight with some neighbors. I totally have a weakness for holiday and seasonal items. But as my life has gone on, I have really tried to limit them to sewn items in my house. How often to you use place-mats? For nice dinners right? On occasion maybe a nice Sunday dinner as a family, or a at home date night with a spouse. However, as rare as I use them, I just LOVE having them.<br />
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When I was putting my Halloween place-mats away, I thought of the perfect drawer to put them in my kitchen. Without a doubt, if my husband opens that drawer and sees them there, he will probably have a comment to make. Not a bad comment, but a comment nevertheless. He is completely supportive of my work as a musician, my quilt hobby, my house decorations, but he can't seem to understand my place-mat fetish. He doesn't understand my want to have lots of colored dishes. Plain white really are practical and useful at anytime, but this is my much cheaper passion for having fun place settings when we have friends over...(which honestly, we do party quite a bit and have dinners and board game nights with friends several times a month so we aren't completely without moments to use them.)<br />
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I made Valentines place-mats back in 2014. I pieced together left over fabric from my daughters infant quilt and made the most ENORMOUS napkins. Haha!! They are sooooo big when I put them in my lap that I laugh everytime we use them. Oh, and what was I thinking making them white!!! But I still use them because they are just so pretty.<br />
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I made Spring place-mats back in 2015. I was in the fabric clearance section at JoAnn's waiting for my number to be called at the cut counter and saw the fabric. I knew immediately that it was the perfect fabric for something fun. They didn't have enough of the pink fabric to make a full setting of 8 napkins. So, when I was at another JoAnn's location later that week, I checked to see if by happen chance they would also have the fabric on sale. Sure enough!!! Ah!!! I found the perfect amount to complete my set. Score!!<br />
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When we got married, someone gifted us a nice set of black everyday placemats. I found this cute little tea kettle print fabric in the remnant bin at JoAnn's and made a set of four of these napkins. They are just fun and playful.<br />
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I bought <a href="http://www.love-to-sew.com/merry-santa-placemat-sewing-pattern/" target="_blank">this place-mat pattern</a> 2 weeks ago on eBay to make some Santa placemats for next Christmas for me and my husbands aunt who collects Santas. I am super excited. Then I will need a fun summer one....or a set of nice fall ones....maybe then I will be satisfied. Maybe.<br />
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Hope you enjoyed.Amaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641294189908573808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-956292427646020306.post-63031736950998757902018-01-26T13:08:00.003-08:002018-01-26T13:08:41.335-08:00Scrappy Quilt finished!! Sometimes after I sew, I put my quilt down and just stare at it for a while. The scraps I saved for 9 years were perfect for the right time. The quilt inspiration was actually online all those years ago. However, I found it at the time that was right for this project.<br />
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When I made the summer quilt all those years ago, I made WAY too much binding. But I kept it in a pile of binding that I have from old projects. And it was perfect!!! Like literally, I planned the border widths so that the binding was the perfect length.<br />
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There were only inches left over. Dang, I wish that I had made the border one inch wider so it would have been just perfect. Haha!!<br />
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I am so glad that I had these few weeks of down time from work before Feb starts and the projects and performances I am involved in kick my butt. It is satisfying to finish projects, get a chance to post about old projects that I have finished and having a chance to really relax. I still have..what 15 scheduled posts and about 13 more of unfinished projects to post. OH, and 3 more mini-quilts I finished tops for yesterday. So hopefully I get time to sew before Feb ends and can enjoy posting more. <br /><br />
Hope you enjoyed!!Amaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641294189908573808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-956292427646020306.post-50646717830485262132018-01-26T08:00:00.000-08:002018-02-19T14:55:21.726-08:00Hawaiian scraps king quiltMy husbands grandma was widowed in her early 20's leaving her to raise two children alone. One day following the death of her husband, she took her kids and headed to Hawaii to visit a friend. While the friends were on a trip to Utah and she was watching their children for them, she met a Hawaiian man who she eventually married and 50 years later, they are still enjoying life together. After several years in Hawaii, he was able to transfer his job from the Chevron refinery in Hawaii to the coast of California and they settled down in El Segundo, California. They stayed there for like 40 years. However, age and cost of living caused them to need to move. We were and are still so excited that they finally moved to Utah. They live exactly 22 minutes from our house and my kids have really enjoyed getting to know their great-grandparents better.<br />
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Nana started making Hawaiian shirts for the men in the family many many years ago. My husband owns his fair share of "nana-made" shirts.<br />
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About 6 years ago, she started taking the scraps and started making scrappy shirts to sell at a festival in El Segundo. They really became super popular. I really love my husbands with the bright sleeves and pocket with the more subdued inner colors and color.<br />
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She is like me and kept all the scraps from her projects. In 2010, my mother in law and I were in a storage shed behind their house going through various dress-ups she had kept and wanted to send home with us. She pulled out this box of Hawaiian fabric and set it aside. I asked her what it was. It was fabric she had asked her mom for to make a quilt. However, my mother in law works full time and with her other responsibilities, she didn't have time to finish the quilt. So, I took the box home and spent 2 months cutting up all the scraps. I wish so bad that I could find the pictures of that project. It was insane. The amount of scraps made enough 2 inch strips to make a queen size Jelly Roll strip quilt and a California King sized rag quilt. When we head to Vegas next month to visit, I will finally do a post of these quilts. I have meant to for years, but each time I take pictures of the quilts they get lost.<br />
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After I finished, I asked if I could keep the small scraps. Since then I have made several lap quilts for people from the fabric. This one I made for my husbands youngest aunt, the youngest daughter of his Nana and Tutu.<br />
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The last one I made and finished this last summer for us of a few small squares I still had.<br />
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When Nana was making her move to Utah she had a 6 month period where her home in california was sold and the home they purchased in Utah was still occupied. She wanted new bedding with a fresh look for her home. She had complained that I used the fabric to make everyone else a quilt, but I hadn't made her one. So, I brought a stack of patterns by the house she was staying at and we spent an hour sorting through them. She picked the pattern from Moda's Frivol No. 8 "<a href="http://blog.modafabrics.com/2016/03/its-a-frivolous-friday/" target="_blank">Bread and Butter</a>". I immediately sort of regretted having given her that option. I mean, seriously, I squared off 1, 1138 HST for this quilt!!! This picture is only a fraction of the hours I spent just cutting my box of scraps into strips and then cutting them to the square size, sewing them together with a white square and squaring them off. I thought I would never finish.<br />
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The next 3 months ensued. I did spend hours working on the quilt, but of course it was regular crazy life and the holidays, so it never goes quite as planned. The next sequence of pictures shows the progress from the blocks, to laying them out, sashing the blocks, taking the layers to our church building with a sweet 15 year old from around the corner who came and helped me lay out the layers of the quilt, baste spray them and pin them together. I can't tell you how hard rolling that thing up was in my sewing machine arm. I broke so many needles. I stayed up like 72 hours straight machine quilting that thing. I listened to something like nine 13-20 hour audiobooks at double time. Not to mention the 4500 yards of white thread I went through. (PS. Sigh, I LOVE connecting threads thread in my machine.) I had hours of crying as I would get right to the middle of the rolling the quilt and then the thread would break in the machine. I had many bobbins ready to just pop in, but many times that I had to take the entire quilt out of the machine. The number of times I had my husband arranging our kitchen chairs to get the weight of the quilt up on the table and not pulling away from the machine were many!!! Honestly, I am not sure, with the exception of a quilt for my own bed, if I will ever want to machine quilt a king sized quilt ever again in my machine. However, I have learned it is possible.<br />
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There was one point where I had been up at Nana's every spare moment I had helping her lift and move boxes, unpacking, grading finals for the class I was teaching that semester at BYU, keeping the kids out of rooms with fresh paint in her house that I thought maybe I shouldn't be trying so hard to get this christmas gift done. But, what better thing to wake up to on Christmas morning than the unexpected.<br />
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If you look really close in the picture above and the one below you can see my one mistake!! The one block that is turned JUST WRONG!!! I saw it after I had already started machine quilting the quilt and there was no way I was taking it apart at that point.</div>
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I literally dropped it off late on Christmas Eve for her to open on Christmas morning. I just wanted to sleep a long winters sleep that night. I went by the day after Christmas to see it on Nana's bed. Throughout the process I had taken several blocks up and laid them out on her bed to make sure they went the exact length and width she wanted, but she had never seen it with the yellow/brown sashing I chose to put on the quilt. OH it turned out sooooo beautiful in the end!!! All those little scraps!!</div>
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Nana's birthday is in the end of Jan, so I went and found some fun fabric to make normal pillow covers and took two of the left over blocks to make tiny decorative pillows. One of her friends from Hawaii had send her the two blue pillows many years ago that she finally had a place to put them. My mother in law made her a decorative flower arrangement to go above the bed. The entire finish just turned out amazing. I still can't believe that I made that quilt from all those little tiny tiny scraps. I probably had 4 boxes on scraps and honestly only used less than one. Scraps really go a long way with a good background fabric.<br />
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So, in the end I thought I needed one more row than I end up needing. So, I had 9 spare blocks that I had stuck in my fabric stash. I pulled them out last summer and whipped up a tiny mini-quilt to put on the back of my couch during the summer months.<br />
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I just LOVE the border/sashing fabric I found at my local quilt shop. And the random 2 yard/4 inch wide strip of red fabric that I used as the middle square was just the right amount of contrasting color without being too obnoxiously different from rest of the quilt. It was simply the perfect small print design with a little flair. Did you spy the small turtle pillow cover I made? When I finally get to posting the gifts I made for christmas in 2017, you will see A LOT of baby turtle pillow covers and table runners. The fabric she used to make all those Hawaiian shirts for so many years is like the gifts that keeps on giving. I have now sewn 1 California King, 1 King, 1 Queen, and 3 Lap quilts from those scraps...not including the 5 pillow covers and 3 table runners I made this Christmas. I still have 2 boxes that are overflowing and she has more scraps from recent shirts she also made. I will forever be grateful I was able to make this bedding and give it to her within 2 weeks of her moving into her new home. I will always treasure this memory. Hope you enjoyed.Amaliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641294189908573808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-956292427646020306.post-34106604824909986792018-01-25T07:00:00.000-08:002018-01-25T07:33:30.087-08:00Quilted Christmas StockingsSeveral years ago, my sister in law told me that she had purchased Christmas fabric to make their Christmas stockings. In Nov 2016, I asked her what she wanted for Christmas. She knows that I get super busy at work during the Christmas season as a ballet accompanist with Nutcracker, my normal hours at the University and other side jobs I take on. But, honestly, I am a terrible gift person. I really have a hard time coming up with unique and cool gifts that really fit the person that is receiving them. Gift cards all the way in my house. So, when someone just tells me what they want, it is such a relief!! Honestly, a relief. Knowing what they want is so much easier.<br />
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So, she asked how hard a quilted Christmas stocking would be. She sent me this <a href="http://cluckclucksew.com/2010/12/tutorial-lined-stocking-with-cuff.html" target="_blank">link</a> from Cluck Cluck Sews website. She loved the way the blocks looked in her stockings. I told her that wouldn't be a problem at all. She came by my house one day after I had cut up the the half square triangles, sewed, ironed and squared them off. We laid them out. We made each of them different designs. It was so much fun. I actually love that each of them are different. At the time she had 2 children, but she knew that she wanted to try and have 4 so we made 2 extras. She has since had one more, so I am glad that we made the extra then.<br />
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We spent hours texting/emailing back and forth as we spent the next 2 days deciding which way the boot should face. To the right, to the left, to the right, to the left. I had started sewing together and finished two the blocks when she decided it need to be changed. I love her, unpicked it, sewed it the next one on only one of them and sent her a picture. Uh, she decided that she liked the original way better. So, I double, triple checked, unpicked it again and then got them all sewn up.<br />
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So, then the next phase started. I had my husband draw up a boot shape to make these.<br />
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I decided that I was going to quilt them with just a straight line to not take away from the designs we had made. I end up not attaching the cuff to the stocking the way that Cluck Cluck did in their tutorial, but honestly, I can't remember just how I did attach them. We used the font cf national stitches for the lettering. I cut out each letter and attached them with steam a seam 2. Then I hand stitched around the edges of the letters.<br />
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So, can you guess what happened when I was finished? There were of course pieces left over. So, I made her a table runner as a surprise gift with the left over pieces coupled with a fabric I had in my stash that matched her fabrics so well.</div>
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I like it so much, I made myself and my aunt matching table runners and gifted those as well!! Haha!! Honestly though, I just ran across the pictures of everything I sewed for Christmas gifts in 2016 and am amazed that I was able to finish all that I did last year. I can't wait to finish the posts on the other gifts I made. They were so much fun. <br />
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Hope you enjoyed!!</div>
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