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Collection of What I Have Made in 13 Months!
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Confessions of A Quilt-aholic – The Oppression of Scraps
Does anyone else feel like their scraps are coming to get them! I do! I try to cut so geometrically that I am left with minimal scraps! I literally figure out my block pattern by seeing how much of each fabric I have. That degree I’ve almost finished in Financial Mathematics, and my love of Geometry make planning out a quilt quite easy! I try my best not to have scraps and I still have quite a few! I take my scraps from each quilt and put then in a ziplock bag and put the name of the quilt on each bag and the month and year I made it. This way, if I need a scrap for something, I can find it quite easily by remembering what quilt it was in and then just find the bag! I also love doing a nice scrap quilt to help dwindle my scrap collection! Continue reading
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Finished the Quilting and Binding!
Today has been a very productive day! I finished the Etsy Zelda Quilt! Currently it is in the washing machine, and I’ll post pictures after it is washed! I quilted it with grey thread, and then used a fun bright backing! I’m really digging it and hope the Etsy customer will too!
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Finished piecing the Etsy Zelda Top!!!
Just finished the quilt top late last night, and today I am quilting it and putting on the binding! I’m quite excited for it to be done! Now that the top is all pieced, I’m so excited to start quilting it. All I need to do is find a backing and start pinning!
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Here are some sassy E Cards and such for everyone!
Etsy zelda Quilt Update! Aug 9th
Finally made some progress on this quilt! After a week of mild setbacks, I made quite a bit of headway this week. After a broken AC which made ironing quite annoying, and the treads on my machine not working properly. There was a hunk of thread stuck in the back of the treads under the plate, so I had to do quite a bit of digging to find it, and vacuumed it out! I love my shop vac, it is the only thing powerful enough to get everything out. I really should clean my machine more often! Haha! One of these days, right?
Anyhow, this quilt is my first Etsy sale, and I want it to be perfect, and I didn’t want to half-ass any part of it. So I waited until my conditions improved and now I rocked it amazingly! I love the way they greys come together and make a weathered stone feel. The last one I did was supposed to be a weathered landscape look, so I used greens, browns, and greys. That gave the illusion of mossy rocks and dirt, but this grey stone one is equally as beautiful! I’m really proud of it, and I cannot wait to finish it and get it in the mail for my first customer! I hope she’ll love it!!!
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I Found These In My Closet!
Looky what I found! I’m thinking maybe I’ll post these later on my Etsy shop! I’ll definitely be giving one of these away with every purchase of a quilt!
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Shop of the week!
So, twice a week I will be posting links to shops from fellow crafters that I like! So here is the first one!
This shop is called Anni’s Crafts and I tres love it! Everyone should do me the favor of checking it out! Click on the picture to go to her etsy shop!
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Started The Background!
I feel so far behind were I would like to be on this quilt. The air conditioning broke at my townhouse, and it is just too hot and humid to sit here and iron fabric all day. Gross! Today is much better though and I started doing the background for this quilt. I’ve decided to go and find a slate grey that will help those light grey pieces blend better, so when I leave the house later, I will go on and find some! I’m really excited!
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Today’s Project – Etsy Zelda Quilt
I sold a quilt on Etsy! It is the first one I sold through Etsy and I am just shaking with intensity! I’ve been rifling through boxes of fabric looking for the right stuff, and sure enough, I got it together! I’m excited to make this one! That, and I’m excited for the colors the person picked out! Greys and Golds, so here we go!
Eric The Quilter 