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Project Quilting Prizes
It’s taken me a while to go through all the packages and open them up, but I finally gathered up all the prizes that I’ve won from Project Quilting. They are all so fabulous, and I really wanted to share them with you. The Fat Quarter Shop was extremely generous & gracious – they let me save up all my gift certificates to use on a bonanza of Kona Cotton solids – 66 fat quarters to be exact. I was also able to pick up some other full yard pieces of some cool fabric I have been wanting to try – it’s a cross-weave cotton that uses two colors, one in the warp & one in the weft. They are really beautiful – I think I got 5 different yardages. Kim’s Crafty Apple also send a wide assortment of hand dyed fabrics and patterns. I simply adore all of them and will be thinking of a very special project to take advantage of the hand dyed fabrics. I also received a very-much-coveted copy of Pretty Little Mini Quilts from PennyFabricArt – she has a quilt in the book too and there are others in it which are just as lovely. Whenever I got gift certificates to different shops, I usually selected fabric – I really love batik prints, solids, and BRIGHT colors as you can tell. I especially enjoyed being able to receive a Bali Pop, several yards of batik fabrics, and 200 batik charms! Those will be really fun to use in a special quilt. I also received a couple of other books, a couple of neat tools (the GIANT yo-yo is fabulously fun), charm packs, and some apple blossom buttons. I have no idea how I’m going to utilize all of these really wonderful gifts, but for now, they sit in a box together so I can marinate on them all and think of how best to use them. One prize you can’t see is the quilting that I have yet to take advantage of from Quilts by Barb. First I need to come up with an extra special quilt! I do want to thank all of the Project Quilting Sponsors for their support & willingness to part with some really lovely items, and I hope that this project continues to grow & that next season’s winners are just as – if not more – fortunate as I was to win! Happy quilting!
Behind the Scenes: Eco-Friendly? for Project Quilting
The most recent challenge for Project Quilting is over, and I just barely made it in on time. This weekend was pretty busy with the garage sale, and trying to sew in between, plus all the work I’m doing for the pattern venture. It gets to be a lot! Ditching the garage sale this morning seems to have been the right call; it rained today anyway, and getting up early and just stitching for 4 hours did the trick. It’s a wonder I don’t do hand-stitching very often – it takes forever! Anyway, I thought I’d give you an idea of what went into my project this week. It started with a bunch of black & white fabric, plus one accent color. The challenge this week said that the project must not be rectangular, and could be 3D, which sparked an idea for me. At first, my accent was going to be red, but then I seem to always pick red for my accent color. So I decided to go with green and play off of the idea of “green” building practices that Chicago is known for. I knew pretty quickly that I wanted to do a soft-sculpture of downtown Chicago, but “quickly” for me was still 2 days into the project. I started with a piece of fabric that I cut 15″ wide x 22″ long. I fused it to a Peltex interfacing (which is pretty stiff) backed that with muslin, and decided to use some leftover black & white ribbon from my “Road Trip” quilt to make little roads. I used Google Maps to get a closer view of the city so I knew where the roads were in relation to the river – I didn’t realize that the real close views show you outlines of the buildings, which was exactly what I needed for this project. Score! I free-handed the lines with a chalk pencil. I had to label the streets with stickies so I didn’t get lost. Shoot, even in my own studio I get lost in downtown Chicago! (for those following along in my pattern venture, you can see a corner of the 1st pattern quilt in the upper left!) The river had to be quilted in first. At first, I was going to make it blue, but then I asked a clarifying question to the PQ judge, and it turns out even the thread & all embellishments had to be limited to our chosen color. It worked out, because the Chicago River is pretty polluted anyway, and what started as just a recreation of a city ended up being a political statement. I used 3 different types of thread for the river and an eyelash yarn to make it stand out, then I went to town thread painting. I stopped when I got tired. Next it was time for the roads. I made the short roads first, then added the east/west roads, then north/south. Wouldn’t you know it… I ran out of road ribbon! I am praying at this point that I can manage to find another spool. In the mean time, I tried my hand at stitching up the buildings. This one I made on my sewing machine, then stuffed it with polyfil, then handstitched the opening to close it. That took forever (problematic since by this time, it’s Thursday) and I couldn’t control the shape very well. As I thought about the eventual tiny buildings I would need, making buildings this way was also impractical. So I decided I needed to basically upholster the buildings. This required a trip to the fabric store, which I needed to visit anyway for the ribbon. Ok – ribbon problem solved – but before I can do any more building construction (tee hee) I needed to finish the roads. No quilting can be done once you’ve attached buildings! On the back you can see the river has waves in it – but the front pictures don’t tell the story as well. I also couched some yarn around the outside edge to finish it off. To make the buildings, I picked up some high-density upholstery foam from the fabric store. It just happened to be green (phew) so I thought it would work well for my purposes. I raided my kitchen for a serrated knife with an offset blade (I seem to be doing that a lot lately, and more & more kitchen utensils are finding their way into my studio!) to help me cut the foam into reasonably recognizable building shapes, using the map of Chicago as a guide. I particularly liked the Trump Hotel (it’s a 5-sided building) and the House of Blues. HOB was pretty challenging to execute in foam (had the foam been any thinner I would have tried running it through my die cutter) so I chose to stack buttons instead. Here’s a view of the city before upholstery began: Before I could upholster them, I had to label each building, with its position, and the direction it faced. Each building was hand cut, and sized to fit the spot it was in, and also contrast in size & height with the buildings surrounding it. So I couldn’t just dump them in a bag and start upholstering them.Here they are, all labeled and playing happily in their little basket! I grabbed an assortment of black, white, and green fabric scraps, and headed to my living room for a couple of days of meticulous handwork. The first couple of buildings were turning out so much better than the first one did. A lot of the future buildings took some fussy turning and fitting – most of my scraps were about 3.5″ wide, so some of the larger buildings needed creativity & compromise to use so that I didn’t have to cut from new yardage. You can see in the photo some of the buttons I auditioned, plus the labeled spaces for the buildings. Unfortunately, I was frantically stitching to finish and didn’t get any additional in progress shots, but here are the finished pictures. The buildings are skewered to the quilt through the road, using pins that match the color of the building, and the whole thing sits on a movable pedestal that allows me to change the shape & height of the sculpture. Here’s an aerial view of the whole thing, but I really like the side views best. Happy quilting!
United Concensus – Finished Quilt for Project Quilting
With the quilt sandwiched and ready for the finishing touches, I am ready to unveil it! Remember that this quilt is named “United Concensus”, and is intentionally misspelled because I intend to update this quilt with 2010 census data as soon as it is released. The finished quilt measures 43″ square from the tips of the largest prairie points. The back of the quilt was made with leftover blocks. I ended up making extra blocks because I replaced some of the blocks on the front with blue centers instead. You can see in some places the free motion stars that I added after the quilting was finished and the backing had been added. I may get the urge to add more over time, but for now, it’s fine. The large open space in the lower right corner is for the legend I’ll be adding once the 2010 Census results are published. After I finished quilting the words to the Star Spangled Banner, I had a little bit of extra room to play with. So I added the date and signed my name in quilting! I love this shot because you can see the prairie points really well, but I also hate it because of the stray thread hanging from it. Oops! Here’s another nice photo of the quilting: And one more: I’m really happy with how this turned out, although I haven’t quite gotten the hang of photography to get the lighting correct outside of a light box. But still – I’m happy with it & proud of my quilting! Now I need a serious nap. I feel like I’ve been awake for 4 days straight finishing this. Happy quilting!
United Concensus – Quilting
The whole time I was making this quilt, I kept singing the Star Spangled Banner – our national anthem. It’s a hilarious song to sing because it’s really easy to mix up the lines, and also if you start the song in the wrong key, you won’t be able to sing the refrain because it will be too high to hit the note. My original idea for the quilting was to do some free motion stars. Then I thought I would stitch in the ditch. Finally, somewhere just after the halfway mark, I decided that I was going to actually quilt the words to the Star Spangled Banner. Literally. The whole thing. Until I found out that SSB actually has four verses. So I settled on the one everyone knows best – the first verse. Next I had to work out how exactly to write it so that the lines were straight and fit on the quilt. I decided that I would just run the lines together – not pausing for punctuation or sentences or paying attention to the actual structure of the verse. To do this, I used Golden Threads paper that I cut to the size of my quilt top, then using my cutting table as a grid for straight lines and a white chalk pencil, I wrote out the words in cursive. I had to erase in some spots and start over, but I managed to get it all written without too much trouble. I then pinned sections of the paper to the quilt & batting only, and free-motion quilted one line at a time so that all the words on that line connect together. After the quilting was done, I just ripped out the paper. I’ll likely be finding those little bits all over the house for weeks to come. I’m really sorry to not have pictures of this part of the process – the camera was dead and I didn’t have time to wait to charge it. If you’re interested in seeing how this is done, just leave a comment and I’ll make a video or something if there’s enough interest. Now, the biggest fear I had was in misspelling a word. After a bit of handling, the chalk rubs off the paper and you can’t see the lines very well. Well, my fear came true when I came to “rampats”. Ummm… isn’t there another “r” in there? So I had to unstitch a couple of letters and squeeze in the “r”. I’m willing to bet though that you wouldn’t have known this if I hadn’t pointed it out (again – sorry about the “before” – no time to wait to charge the camera!) The only tell-tale sign if you look closely is that there’s an extra start/stop between the “p” and the “t” where I restitched the “a” and added the “r”. Phew! I went back later to cross the t’s and dot the i’s (which I did with little stars.) I added a couple of free motion stars before realizing that those would actually be the perfect way to attach the backing in certain spots, so I stopped adding stars for the time being. With the quilting out of the way, I was in the home stretch! I used some of the leftover yellow & leftover blocks to piece the backing, and then I cut squares for the prairie points. Prairie points are easy if you know the finished size you want. You just double the finished size + 1/2″ for seams. So for a 2″ finished point, cut a 4-1/2″ square. Easy peasy! Then, you just fold across the diagonal, press, then fold back across the second diagonal and press. Squares in the center, half finished prairie point on the right, completed prairie points on the left. You can make so many of these so fast. I varied the sizes for mine so my edge could be a little bit wonky like my blocks. It made it impossible to estimate how many prairie points I would need, so I just made a ton of them and figured I could always make more. Prairie points are so addictive! I should use them more often in my quilts. Originally I’d intended to use mostly blue and throw a few plaid ones in there for a little pop of color, but once I started positioning the prairie points, I decided they looked a lot better alternated. Positioning them on the quilt was pretty straightforward; the only thing to really watch is at the corners, you don’t want to overlap the prairie points – you want to butt them up next to each other so they look like a mitered corner. I nested them across the quilt & then basted them close to the edge. Once the basting was done, I squared up the top, laid the backing on top, and pinned it together leaving an opening for turning. In this picture, you can still see remnants of the Golden Threads paper – to make sure I got all the paper out, I had to sit down with the quilt and go line by line with a pair of tweezers. Home stretch for this one! This is the point where I needed to stop and get ready for my friend’s wedding. I wore a sari! Happy quilting!
More About United "Concensus" for Project Quilting – When In Progress
My pattern for this quilt called for six different sizes of blocks, ranging from 2″ finished to 12″ finished. I designed this quilt layout in EQ6 (yes, I have EQ7 but haven’t installed it yet! I know!!) first by drawing the squares as a block, saving that block as a quilt layout, then starting a new quilt using that layout, and inserting my wonky stars block (that I also drew in EQ6.) I took my pattern to the local quilt shop (Quilt Play in Grayslake, IL) along with a couple of samples of the red & blue centers I intended to use. The ladies there helped me audition about 10 different bright yellows before settling on the one which looked best. I didn’t mind the block centers being scrappy, but I really wanted to control the palette on the yellow stars. They also helped me audition a couple of fabrics for the binding, but I held off on buying anything because I thought having the top finished would lead to a better selection. I sized the quilt primarily based on what could be easily cut using my AccuQuilt strip cutter. So if the pattern called for me to cut squares at 4-3/8″, I just went ahead and cut at 4-1/2″. I figured I could square them up later. [[Now, this caused me problems later on as you'll see when the quilt develops, because I was not consistent in the direction of rounding, nor did I remember later that "finished" was not "finished" until it was squared up to the size called for in the pattern!]] The wonky stars are imperfect triangles, so the size of these did not really matter – they just needed to be at least as large as half of the square they were being attached to. So I only cut two sizes of triangles – 3″ and 2″. This was really an advantage for me because I cut 320 triangles in three passes of my 3″ strip cutter. First pass, cut the strips. Second pass, rotate strips 90 degrees to cut squares, Third pass, rotate 45 degrees to cut half square triangles: It took about 5 or 6 minutes to do this, cutting 8 layers at a time. You really don’t realize what an advantage this die cutter has over rotary until you have a project like this to work on.When I have a project like this to chain piece, I like to lay the project in a cookie sheet so it can sit next to my sewing machine. It makes it easier to move if I need the table for something else. So here’s a shot of me in the assembly process: All the pieces fit on the tray and I can just chain piece the entire quilt, one after another. First stitching one triangle in a wonky way, pressing, and then adding the other in a wonky way After the triangles are stitched to the background square, they have to get squared up to the right size again: That’s a job for my Shape Cut ruler which is perfect for this task. I stack them 4 at a time (the seams make them really bulky so that’s the most that can be reliably cut) and square up the sides first, then I rotate and square up the other side. The first block I finished was Texas: How do I know it’s Texas? Well, this is the second largest block at 10″ finished, and according to 2009 population statistics, it’s the second most populous state in the union – separated from California by about 12 million residents. See, you’re learning something today! As I finished blocks, I stuck them up on my design wall: You can see my printed “key” on the right to help me lay out the blocks. Some of them would stick to the wall on their own, but as I added more blocks, they didn’t all want to stay up there, so I started pinning them to the wall. At this point, I’d finished piecing everything but the 2″ finished stars: I had to work myself up to finish those. They were so tiny and so numerous – I had to make 14 of them! I had a couple of VERY late nights (or should I say early mornings) to finish them. Once those were done, I could start assembling the top. The way this quilt is laid out, some seams are shared so it’s easy to piece sections, but at the end of the day, there were still a LOT of set-in seams. I’m glad I wrote a tutorial recently on doing set-in seams, or I might not have remembered that I know how to do this. When I started assembly, I recognized right away that my 2″ finished blocks needed to be squared up. They were cut at 1-1/4″ wide, but should have been 1-1/8″ before I rounded. I knew those needed to be squared because I had some plain 2-1/2″ squares to stitch them to. So I had no problem squaring these up. The problem started when I needed to stitch these pairs to the next size block – they weren’t long enough. So instead of checking the measurements on the rest of the blocks, I just started adding squaring strips to make them big enough. I figured a couple of these would be needed anyway because I wasn’t insane enough to try to piece or cut a block that was 8-7/16″ finished… but I didn’t check. I’d pieced quite a lot of these blocks together before I realized that I needed all the squaring strips because my blocks were the wrong size in the first place: Also, for one of the block sizes ,I rounded the size down so it could be cut easily, so that one had to be squared with a new strip anyway. A fleeting thought did cross my mind about taking all the seams out, squaring them, and doing it right, but I decided that I would only allow one level of insanity per project. It’s a good thing there wasn’t a size restriction on this one though, because after all was said & done, it was nearly 3″ bigger than I’d planned. Phew! I finished piecing the top on Friday evening at 6PM, which was perfect, because I needed to run back to the quilt shop for binding and they close at 7. When I got to the store, I went looking around for red, white and blue, and located a blue Swiss dot that one of the ladies had shown me on Wednesday, and I also found a lucky red plaid with all my colors in it! I took about 4 or 5 fabrics to the front to audition, and settled on the blue dot and the plaid. Originally, I had thought of doing a regular straight binding, but after looking at the quilt a plain binding just wouldn’t do. Also because of the time constraint, straight binding takes me longer because I like to hand stitch to the back. I knew I’d only be able to finish this if I pillowcased it, and that seemed to plain. The perfect solution came from inspiration at the quilt shop – a quilt they had hanging with prairie points. That seemed ideal, and I could get a wonky look by varying the sizes of the prairie points. Next up… my inspiration for the quilting!! Happy quilting!
Behind the Scenes: United "Concensus" for Project Quilting
Yes, I know that “consensus” is spelled with three esses, and not two cees. But my quilt is named United “Concensus” for a particular reason, and I’ll try to explain why. The challenge for the most recent “Project Quilting” assignment was entitled “Stars Over America” and had very few restrictions. If you used red, white, and blue, you had to use at least one other color, but you weren’t required to use those three colors. That’s it.I actually refused to look at the challenge for a couple of days, because I had so many things on my plate last week that I was worried that looking at it would stress me out and I wouldn’t get to the things in front of it on my list. So it wasn’t until Tuesday that I actually looked at it, and really late that night when I came up with my concept & knew what I was going to do.When I read the theme, I knew I wanted to make stars, and the first technique that came to mind was Gwen Marston’s “liberated” star block. This is actually an AWESOME block to make when you’re in a hurry, because your points don’t have to match, and in actuality, the more wonky they are, the better they look.I also knew that I wanted to have a star represent every state, like it does in our flag. That meant piecing 50 blocks. You might think that only someone insane would think to do something like that when they have to completely finish a quilt in 4 days, attend a wedding, and cut 100 pillowcase cuffs in that same timeframe too. But you would have been wrong. It’s not the insane person who thinks to do something like that; the insanity is in COMMITTING to doing such a thing, and then actively making the attempt.What made it worse is that I chose an accent color (yellow) for which I actually did not have a suitable fabric choice in my stash – which meant a trip to the fabric store. But once I drew out the block, I knew only yellow would do. Here’s a pretty rough sketch: In reality, the wonky blocks won’t be nearly as uniform, but it does give an idea. I first sketched this block plainly so I knew for sure that there would be 50 units (actually there are 60 because I thought I’d include the US territories too) before adding the star blocks. The largest block is 12″ finished; the smallest is 2″ finished. Yup… you read that right. I designed a quilt that required pieced wonky star blocks (no paper was involved) that started with 1-1/8″ squares. Are you convinced yet that I am certifiable?After I drew this, I thought that it would be cool to add information about each state, and actually write this in the blocks, so I went hunting for the day of statehood, the state capital, and population. That’s when it hit me: this is 2010, and we just completed the census. Wouldn’t it be cool if each block were named based on the population size? Therefore the largest block would be the state with the largest population, and vice versa. Well, based on 2009 population statistics, the 12″ block would be California – so I decided that I needed a focal point, which made me change the center block to blue. I also changed the “extra” blocks from magenta to a mix of red & blue. Now the second biggest state by population is Texas, and that block has a red center. Now, from that, you might start to infer that there’s some sort of political meaning behind all of this – red states, blue states, with red being dominant to show how right wing conservatism is sweeping through the nation, swallowing up the free-thinking, liberal tree-huggers, blah blah blah. Well, don’t get your undies in a bunch. The color of each block was dictated purely by aesthetics and my willingness to make extra blocks when I decided that a particular section didn’t have enough contrast. The sketch is nice, but things are different when you have things on your design wall and they don’t quite look right, and you have to do something else to fix it.Although I’ve abandoned my idea of writing the state names & information directly on the blocks (I was too scared to either make a mistake or worried that I would HATE the way it looked & ruin the blocks permanently), I did decide to do two things. One, I named the quilt, purposely spelling “consensus” incorrectly because I DO intend to tie it to the census. Two, once the census numbers are released, I will print a large “legend” for the quilt to give the information I had originally planned to hand write.Wait until you see how this turned out! Happy quilting!
Feeling Quite Quilt Accomplished Today!
PHEW!!! It has been one of those weeks, can I tell you? Last weekend was the Grayslake Arts Festival, which is right up in my neighborhood, so I took the opportunity to do a solo show. One of my fellow quilting buddies from the Chicago Modern Quilt Guild was kind enough to drive out and help me (thanks Emily!) Outdoor shows require tents, and that’s a heck of a thing to set up by yourself, not to mention manning a booth all day long by yourself. The show went extremely well, and it really affirmed my suspicion that my pieces are really much more suited for art fairs than craft shows. The thing about art fairs is that you really need to prepare & apply 6 months in advance. Now that I’ve done an outdoor show alone, I have pictures of my set up, and that will really help my applications for next season’s round of shows. In any event, I ended up selling my Batik Beauty, I Spy a Red Square, and Fire Over the Mountains #3 quilts – all to the same buyer! Well, because of my laziness over the last 6 months, all of them needed labels, and two of them needed sleeves. Anyway, this long story was just to say that I made labels for these quilts (actually, I made 5 labels, but I’m still behind!), the sleeves for both, and stitched them all on. In addition, I wrapped up my Project Quilting entry which I called “Nine Pins” – the block centers are actually wearable art pins that are about 2.5″ square. Those will get listed in my Etsy shop soon. I like the quilt for displaying the pins, and think I’ll keep adding to it over time as pins get sold and removed. I also fixed 6 pillowcases that were incorrectly made at a recent charity event. I have to tell you, I don’t normally curse at things, but there were a couple that made me really want to mouth off a few. The person didn’t cut the cuff the right width, so when they attached it to the body, it wasn’t wide enough. Instead of stopping, the person sewed up the case anyway, but didn’t match the edges or keep a consistent seam. In some places the seam was narrower than 1/8″ and there were barely 2 threads keeping it together! In the end, I just hacked off the damaged pieces with my rotary cutter and then stitched them back together with my serger. Anyway, other than the pillowcase repair, I had a good day. I still have a ton of finished pillowcases to wash – hopefully it’s just one more load and I can call it a day and do my own laundry. Happy quilting!
Coming of Age – Recycled Quilt for Project Quilting
Recently, I finished another quilt for Project Quilting, and I wanted to give a little bit more back story to the quilt. Before we get started, let’s get the shameless begging out of the way: would you mind taking 10 seconds to go vote for my quilt? I promise the story is worth your vote! Now, on to the story. It starts with this dress:That’s me, at 17 years old, at my Debutante Ball. This dress was the most amazing creation I’d ever seen to that point in my life, and I loved it the minute I saw it & absolutely had to have it. But the dress almost wasn’t mine to have. My family wasn’t exactly swimming in dough, and by that point in my life it was just me & my mom. She was doing the best she could to keep roof over head, and there wasn’t a ton of room in the budget for extravagances. Becoming a debutante was an honor, but it doesn’t mean much if you can’t go to the ball. One of my mom’s friends took pity on us and gave my mom $100 to buy my dress. Now, the best place to find a ball gown is at a bridal shop. The dresses have to be stark white, and if it has a train it must be bustled. Shoulders covered, cleavage contained, floor length, and accommodate white evening gloves. Mom took me to a local shop (not a chain) and I started to try on dresses. It was really fun, but there wasn’t anything that didn’t need significant alterations ($$) and I didn’t find anything that I liked. Well, the shop owner said she’d recently acquired some dresses from another shop that had gone out of business, and she hadn’t even looked at them yet, but maybe there was something there I would like. This is the dress she pulled out. Actually, I fell in love with the dress the very minute the miles of tulle started making their way out of the bag. I tried it on… it fit like a glove. Trying it on sealed the deal, so imagine my disappointment when the tag on the dress said $750. I remember bursting into tears, because I knew there was no way we could afford the dress, and I also knew I would never find another dress that I would love as well as this one. I took off the dress, put my street clothes on, and my mom & I got ready to leave. How do you continue trying on dresses when you already know the one you want is the one you can’t have? Just as we were leaving, the shop owner hollered, “WAIT! WAIT! This dress is on sale!” Apparently, she found another tag that was attached to the dress bag, and the price on it was… $100. Divine intervention? Or just a shop lady who felt sorry for a poor kid trying to attend a ball? I’ll never know which is the truth, but at that moment, I knew that dreams sometimes came true. I’ll stop here for now since this post is super long already… but I’ll continue the story later about how this dress ended up getting chopped into many bits and pieces to become this quilt: Happy quilting!
New Project Quilting Challenge – The Recycled Quilt
Ordinarily, I don’t do “recycled” quilt items. I prefer making things from brand-new materials. I don’t crawl yard sales or visit thrift stores. I just recently abandoned two projects that were to be made from recycled clothes. I refuse to make quilts for others from questionable materials. I have no problem upcycling embellishments… but making an entire quilt from something upcycled? Ick. Until something occurred to me, that I’d actually been talking about (to myself) recently. First, a little back story. Late last year around Thanksgiving, I contracted H1N1 – yes, the dreaded flu strain. As my flu worsened, I developed some complications, including pneumonia. I blogged briefly about my ordeal once I recovered, but the point to this is not about the flu, it’s about my mother. When she heard about my illness, she decided on the spot to drive the 18 hours to my bedside. I gave her quite a scare. Before she left Colorado, she decided to pack the car with all sorts of memorabilia from my childhood, no doubt to entertain me, but also to probably take the opportunity to clear her house of my junk. In any event… it is from that assorted memorabilia that I will select items to make my quilt. This will require some destruction of said memorabilia. Here’s hoping my mother doesn’t kill me. Happy quilting!
Project Quilting Road Trip – Panel 5
RoadTrip-Panel5 Originally uploaded by LoveBugStudios This is panel 5 of the road trip quilt. It’s finally the two of us at our destination! Sitting on the beach, in our matching beach chairs that we bought specifically for our road trips. I found a cute iron-on of a pair of flip flops (it’s glued over my shoes in the photo), and another one of a shell. This is one of my favorite pictures of the two of us together. The only fabric used in this panel is the printable fabric.
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