I don’t know why I didn’t put this up sooner, since it has been completed for quite a while, but here is the listing for my Tetris Quilt, as well as my Tetris Quilt Pattern. I’ve been commissioned to make a queen size one for Christmas, so as soon as I do that, I’ll have a pattern for that as well! I hope everyone enjoys these!
I was up super late, like 3 in the morning and I got some random ass inspiration, and I started drawing this up. Then I sat and did the math for the block, and then I picked out some fat quarters and went to town. By 4:30 I had everything cut and I started to lay it down on the table. Can you guess what this partially finished block is? One hint: It’s not a Mario mushroom.
It’s 11:00pm and I’m not sure which fabric to put on as a border. I was leaning towards the one with the fern leaves on the black background, but the grey is really framing it quite well. Any opinions? For those of you that don’t know, Zelda is an amazing video game, and part of it always takes place in the forest, so I’m really leaning towards the fern fabric, but I’m a little worried, because there is a lot of that fabric already in the quilt. What should I do? Or should I go to bed and figure it out tomorrow?
I was a couple of days behind of my sewing projects, until today that is. Now I’m mostly caught up. I have to put on the border, baste and quilt it. So hopefully I’ll get that done over the next 2 days, and then I can start work on my next quilt. I was feeling a little overwhelmed, but now I’m back on track. I can’t believe I spent all day sewing, and also had time to make homemade meatballs, spaghetti and french onion soup. It was delicious by the way!
I finished another commission yesterday! I wanted to get it out in the mail on Friday, but I finished it so late Friday night I had to mail it out today! The person who bought it will still get it on Monday, so I’m very happy! I hope she will like it too! It’s actually very similar to the one I did right before this one. I had a lot of the same fabric left over, and I was originally going to make it for my friend, but I wanted his to be a slightly different color scheme. Anywho, now I have to quilt another one this weekend, but at least that is just a large throw!
I was up until the wee hours of morning working on this beauty! I finished the quilting around 1am and then finished the binding at like 2:30. I still want to stitch in the ditch around the blocks using glow in the dark thread, but by the time I was getting around to it, my vision started to and sewing straight lines was not on the table. Hopefully I’ll do it tonight! So then, what’s next for my quilts of nerd-dom?
I’ve asked around the geeky groups I am a part of, and the general consensus was pokemon, tetris, and dragon ball. Eventually all three will be added to my Quilts of Nerd-dom line. I got really inspired and decided to make this tetris quilt top. It’s all cut, and now I just have to start sewing. I think I might make dinner first, but then after that, I should have the entire quilt top done tonight. I also have the Zelda Commission in the dryer so I’ll post pictures of that later! Wish me luck!
I was up until 4am doing all of the quilting. I was halfway done at 1:30 and almost called it quits and went to bed, but I was just so excited to see it finished that I just powered through and watched some True Blood and finished the quilting! Now tonight, I have to bind it and wash it, but also… I might take a nap first. We’ll see.
I did it! The commission isn’t due until the 25th, so that gives me a couple of days to work on it. I always find the quilting the easy part. I don’t have to pay much attention to stipple, so that’s nice. Not sure if I’m going to pin it today or what… We’ll see!
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I did it! I finished this part before I went to bed last night. Sorry I didn’t post it sooner, but I had to go to work and then do some housework. It looks really bright in the light I took the picture in, but it looks a little darker when you are just looking at it. I really love the way the colors are melting together! Hopefully tonight, I’ll finish the middle part! Wish me luck!
Eric The Quilter 