You've probably guessed by now when I say making a sandwich I am not talking about corned beef on rye (one of my favorites) but about a fabric sandwich. This quilt is slightly wider than the width of the fabric (darn) so this means the quilt back will need to be assembled. How I ended up doing it is to have the salvages running along the width of the quilt and the seam is aprox. 13 " from the end. Photo #1 shows the end piece of fabric being cut to size.
We all in some way or another have a day of reckoning. Mine comes when I have to clean out the refrigerator or clean off my cutting table. Today was cutting table day. It is the day that I pay for my habit of not picking up after myself. No one wants to see a picture of my messy cutting table which has to be cleared off so here is a picture of my daughter Meagan and methis weekend out celebrating my birthday! I mentio
Decided to setup a side by side view of the hot pad where the outside green and fuchsia are then used in the center. I also changed around where the black and white prints are in the design. I was having so much fun playing with these black and white fabrics I made one more hot pad with a cat peeking out from the center and then I put the matching meow fabric along the outside edge (it's a bit hard to see in this photo). Managed to put away all the fabric strunned all over the sewing room (it looked like a black and white tornado had hit
One of the fun things about what I do is taking a pile of fabric and making something useful out of it. I have already blogged about making this black and white block design (see Contrast) but I played around with it a little more today. This block has a bit of a Valentine theme about it without screaming it. While making it into a hot pad, I got the idea of flipping the colors around for the next one and putting the lime and fuchsia fabrics along the outer edge and the circle and dot fabrics in the center. It would then be a matched set, in my mind anyway. Maybe this afternoon....
What better way to celebrate ones birthday than by giving ones customer a great deal, which I am doing in honor of my birthday, which is today. ALL my adult aprons are on sale for the ENTIRE month on February....a good deal indeed since you are getting 2 aprons from the price of one since they are reversible AND also 20% off the price that is stated on line so a $36 apron would sell for $28.80. BUT, (why is there always a but?) I still have to keep the stores that carry my merchandise supplied so I needed to make up a few aprons tout suite!
What I feel is the most interesting thing about my website is the blog so the blog is now the home page on my site. In order to eliminate some of the spam that the site has been getting in the form of comments on my blog, a Captcha module has been installed. This will allow people who are actually HUMAN visitors to comment....one more step to make a comment but a whole lot less aggravation for the Sandy. Thank you for your understanding.
There are those who are lucky enough to have a studio to work in.....I am not one of those. Major cutting jobs are done on a lacquered 4' X 8' piece of plywood that sits on two sawhorses in the basement and the guest room is now the sewing room. Several years ago my husband Tim built a wall in the basement to separate the storage area from my work area. Like most homes, a 6' stretch of blank wall space is hard to come by. I often gazed upon this wall and thought, what a great spot for a design wall. I never mentioned this since the wall was taped but not painted. Recently, Tim took all the left over paint we had, mixed it together and painted the wall.....YES! The time had now arrived to put up a design wall! I not only have a husband that is clever but he also has a great sense of humor. As he was squaring up the 6' X 8' piece of felt for said wall, I explained that his did not have to be perfectly square nor hang perfectly square. He then told me his motto.."measure it with a micrometer, mark it with chalk and cut it with an axe."
I love these black and white hot pads, I could make them all day. The contrast is what I like and it lends itself to using up all sorts of scraps one has left from different projects, the brighter, the better. The actual design is very simple. The center is a 4 patches consisting of 2 black (or white) prints teamed up with 2 bright prints.. Next a black and white pair is attached to the top and the bottom of the 4 patch so now you have 4 sets of 2" blocks sewn one on top of the other.
Last Sunday, us ladies from the Shelburne Arts Co-op threw fellow member, Jen Luck, a baby shower. The best part of the shower was seeing all the nice things these creative ladies made for the baby. I made "Squirt" 3 reversible baby bibs. Jen confessed upon opening them that she had purchased one of my bibs recently but as a Mom, I knew one can never have enough bibs. She then further flattered me when she divulged that she had also purchased one of my reversible children's aprons, "for later". Since my inventory of bibs was now some somewhat depleted, it was time to make some.
Someone commented on my blog recently that they LOVE my website so I think it is time to give credit where credit is due. Wichita Webmasters http://wichitawebmaster.com/ helped me get my website up and running. These guys are wonderful to work with! They first sent me out to other fiber art websites so I could get a feel of what was out there and what was possible. I actually found a site on my own that I rather liked so I sent them out to have a look. They then sent me to a site they had designed recently which was my jumping off point. I expressed to them what I wanted the site to look like and what I thought would work well for me and so began the fine tuning process.
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You've probably guessed by now when I say making a sandwich I am not talking about corned beef on rye (one of my favorites) but about a fabric sandwich. This quilt is slightly wider than the width of the fabric (darn) so this means the quilt back will need to be assembled. How I ended up doing it is to have the salvages running along the width of the quilt and the seam is aprox. 13 " from the end. Photo #1 shows the end piece of fabric being cut to size.
We all in some way or another have a day of reckoning. Mine comes when I have to clean out the refrigerator or clean off my cutting table. Today was cutting table day. It is the day that I pay for my habit of not picking up after myself. No one wants to see a picture of my messy cutting table which has to be cleared off so here is a picture of my daughter Meagan and methis weekend out celebrating my birthday! I mentio
Decided to setup a side by side view of the hot pad where the outside green and fuchsia are then used in the center. I also changed around where the black and white prints are in the design. I was having so much fun playing with these black and white fabrics I made one more hot pad with a cat peeking out from the center and then I put the matching meow fabric along the outside edge (it's a bit hard to see in this photo). Managed to put away all the fabric strunned all over the sewing room (it looked like a black and white tornado had hit
One of the fun things about what I do is taking a pile of fabric and making something useful out of it. I have already blogged about making this black and white block design (see Contrast) but I played around with it a little more today. This block has a bit of a Valentine theme about it without screaming it. While making it into a hot pad, I got the idea of flipping the colors around for the next one and putting the lime and fuchsia fabrics along the outer edge and the circle and dot fabrics in the center. It would then be a matched set, in my mind anyway. Maybe this afternoon....
What better way to celebrate ones birthday than by giving ones customer a great deal, which I am doing in honor of my birthday, which is today. ALL my adult aprons are on sale for the ENTIRE month on February....a good deal indeed since you are getting 2 aprons from the price of one since they are reversible AND also 20% off the price that is stated on line so a $36 apron would sell for $28.80. BUT, (why is there always a but?) I still have to keep the stores that carry my merchandise supplied so I needed to make up a few aprons tout suite!.JPG)
There are those who are lucky enough to have a studio to work in.....I am not one of those. Major cutting jobs are done on a lacquered 4' X 8' piece of plywood that sits on two sawhorses in the basement and the guest room is now the sewing room. Several years ago my husband Tim built a wall in the basement to separate the storage area from my work area. Like most homes, a 6' stretch of blank wall space is hard to come by. I often gazed upon this wall and thought, what a great spot for a design wall. I never mentioned this since the wall was taped but not painted. Recently, Tim took all the left over paint we had, mixed it together and painted the wall.....YES! The time had now arrived to put up a design wall! I not only have a husband that is clever but he also has a great sense of humor. As he was squaring up the 6' X 8' piece of felt for said wall, I explained that his did not have to be perfectly square nor hang perfectly square. He then told me his motto.."measure it with a micrometer, mark it with chalk and cut it with an axe."
I love these black and white hot pads, I could make them all day. The contrast is what I like and it lends itself to using up all sorts of scraps one has left from different projects, the brighter, the better. The actual design is very simple. The center is a 4 patches consisting of 2 black (or white) prints teamed up with 2 bright prints.. Next a black and white pair is attached to the top and the bottom of the 4 patch so now you have 4 sets of 2" blocks sewn one on top of the other. .JPG)
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Last Sunday, us ladies from the Shelburne Arts Co-op threw fellow member, Jen Luck, a baby shower. The best part of the shower was seeing all the nice things these creative ladies made for the baby. I made "Squirt" 3 reversible baby bibs. Jen confessed upon opening them that she had purchased one of my bibs recently but as a Mom, I knew one can never have enough bibs. She then further flattered me when she divulged that she had also purchased one of my reversible children's aprons, "for later". Since my inventory of bibs was now some somewhat depleted, it was time to make some.
Someone commented on my blog recently that they LOVE my website so I think it is time to give credit where credit is due. Wichita Webmasters