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s i finished my shabby chic quilt gifted to my mother s sister who just turned 80 i bought several packets of precut triangles when we went to keepsake quilting this summer and added a few more from my stash and a niece has just given birth to a baby boy hooray an excuse to finally use those oceanica panels i found this blue bubbly batik in my lqs and practically swooned i m so glad it came out as i d imagined the front the back and because older siblings shouldn t be left out when a new kid arrives a puppy for big sister you ve seen this before every year i go to gozzi s and take the same photos here s my favorite colored turkey from the farm this year and a group shot some folks have a good steady hand others do not i always start with grand intentions in this case hungry happenings adorable pie turkey and end up feeling like i have the artistic ability of a third grader oh well it tasted good hope your days are colorful too posted by grendelskin at 11 41 am 9 comments labels g b quilts friday november 9 2012 sandy s a big ole meanie she knocked us out for a while we were powerless for several days and for several more we had no telephone or net access but the house and my humans are intact and we lost no major trees so we are among the very fortunate the upside of having power but no communication is time to craft i finished a mess of crochet and quilting projects word to the wise it s much easier to crochet than to sew when working by candlelight here is one of my finishes are any of you playing with konda s latest quilt along it s my first foray into mini quilts and i ve got to tell you i love it here s my mini number 3 from her book i chose to make it a halloween quilt another first ok i hear you but if you squint a bit you ll see a pumpkin several bats and some ghosts this is her flying around in circles pattern finishing at 16 square it was a total blast easy and satisfying when i left you last time i offered up my bag o selvages as an incentive to back threadbias on kickstarter alas the project did not get the backing it needed to be kickstarted hope is not lost however the community is very much still in place and they re going to try to fund the software directly through the site so you can still back them and be a beta tester if you wish and the selvages go to jyllybean jylly i m emailing you now look to your inbox so you can send me your snailmail just for fun here is number one from the quiltalong mosaic and number two fire and rain i need to re bind this because it popped eek every quiltalong is a learning experience and this one is no exception but konda s schedule has a built in get it done break so i have time to do it and keep on schedule for the rest of the quiltalong posted by grendelskin at 6 54 am 3 comments labels giveaway quilts monday october 22 2012 threadbias giveaway note i m piggybacking on katy s post hoping to snag a few more supporters for threadbias kickstarter campaign have you heard about threadbias yet it s a free community for quilting and sewing enthusiasts with sharing of projects forums and groups shops for fabric and for patterns with freebies yay a personal corkboard and more now the community is great and i ve signed up but i ve not posted much yet i m really in it for the software one of the founders alex is a coder by trade who with his wife and sister found a huge gap in the tools available to quilters and decided to create their own it ll be a cloud based that means you don t have to download it to your computer application you can use to design your quilts you can upload pics of your own fabrics and with a click here and a click there insert your own fabrics into your own design do other programs exist that will do this for you sure they do if you re willing to spend lots of money for the install disks and store everything on a single workstation and then get a phd in geekology to learn the software to my knowledge there is exactly one product intended specifically for quilters there are other apps meant for other primary uses that you can use for designing your quilts but the learning curve is steep and there will be huge pieces you don t use because they don t apply to quilting so much with the threadbias tool you ll pay a subscription fee for access to the software easy to use easy to pay for sounds like a great deal to me i grilled alex pretty heavily at sewing summit and he knows his stuff both in terms of programming and quilting we discussed some of the really geeky bits architecture platform but also how a user would change all of their triangles from fabric a to fabric b for instance and i can honestly say there was no oh yuck moment while he was showing me the tools it s going to be drag and drop friendly very intuitive so you can think about your quilt instead of which axis goes where and which filters apply and all that nastiness the threadbias team has an open campaign on kickstarter to fund this new quilt design tool you can read all about it here and like katy i really want you to please don t make me learn cadd it s scary to help out i m offering up a giveaway i have a large pile of selvages ready to be mailed to your home i may be able to find another little goodie or two to throw in the box as well make a pledge on threadbias s kickstarter campaign and come back here to let me know you did giveaway is open to all backers of this project and will end when the funding campaign ends p s i am not affiliated with the threadbias team and know them only through kickstarter and sewing summit the only profit i will gain from their success will be the chance to have a great tool for getting my quilting ya ya s out posted by grendelskin at 7 46 am 8 comments labels giveaway sunday september 30 2012 bailey island hobo pattern review you all know aunties two and their fabulous patterns right well i finally broke down and drank the bailey island kool aid i had a roll of tonga batik pretties purchased just for this project i finished the bag yesterday i m a novice to not quite intermediate bag maker so my ignorance may shine here you are warned i m writing this because i found so few maker reviews i was unsure and procrastinated a stoopid long time over starting the bag ain t it purty it made its debut yesterday and i received many compliments the pattern itself i d call this an intermediate bag the sewing is simple enough but the first gather nearly brought me to tears ugh my wrists the strips can feel tedious i broke it up into a few sessions and that helped and i did not figure out a graceful way to sew the buttons over the magnet snaps i got them in place but it was ugly the resulting bag is very very pretty feels like it will hold up nicely to abuse the handles are a good length for my average height body and it s a great spot for that monstrous huge but lovely set of buttons you couldn t resist that time where i did not follow the pattern the pattern for the small bag has you join 12 tubes a little like the clothesline bali bag but with batting inside and then cut the resulting quilted piece in half and join the halves to make your main piece i joined 24 and cut that in half leaving me with a large piece i can use to make another bag with different binding and accoutrements or put to another use i also added a half inch to the binding strip to make the handle channel easier to contend with the pattern doesn t specify thread type but i used quilting thread a bright variegated king tut you ll need your walking foot what i would do differently next time and why i would cut my batting to 2 25 instead of 2 5 to make the foldovers neater i would pull the old visetti out of the attic for the assembly it s a lot of layers and even my reliable pfaff choked a couple of times and i broke a needle i would make the pockets a little taller i shove all kinds of stuff in my bag and these feel a mite small i m not thrilled with the magnet button placement i think i would try putting the magnet right at the top in the binding handle channel next time in theory you could put the magnets in there cover them up with the binding strip and still place your buttons wherever you wanted them i like a bag that s roomy and i can t fit a good size paperback in this one and still snap it shut the bag has a lot of body and it wants to open if you don t snap it shut so either carry a big book always a good idea anyhow or put your gallon of milk right atop your wallet if you re the kind of gal who thinks putting a gallon of milk in your handbag is a crime i apologize in my world a really good bag has to free up my hands other thoughts the big version is very very huge don t jump in to make that one unless you re carrying a lot of stuff the strips when assembled would make a fabulous small area rug and i m thinking of putting my made on purpose leftovers to this use i emailed aunties two with a question at one point their response was fast and courteous so they get extra stars for great customer service and just for fun here it is with a creepy lawn elf posted by grendelskin at 12 33 pm 7 comments labels g b monday september 24 2012 bombers and blankets things with wings was an unqualified success we had a wide variety of new quilts a gorgeous collection of wwii quilts courtesy of noted quilt historian sue reich lectures by both sue and quilt designer and novelist marie bostwick raffles origami for the kids hands on demonstrations and vendors and all of this was set in the new england air museum among the planes this was the brainchild of our good friend jackie kunkel of canton village quiltworks she certainly outdid herself the planes were incredibly cool the venue provided a cross population appeal that showed in ticket sales for the museum the lighting was terrific and we had a wide variety of quilts offered up here s a fraction of the fun for your enjoyment the super duper fantabulous b 29 was i impressed you bet with some of sue s wwii beauties even the back yard at the museum is cool if you re anywhere near bradley international airport it s well worth a drive past the runways to see this facility some of my favorites from the world war ii quilts provided by sue this quilt was made up entirely of sailors arm patches apparently the quilter sewed the patches onto uniforms for a living she traded cigarettes for patches to make this unique quilt she made a companion quilt in wool blues a unique signature quilt love the center block a silk victory quilt stunning another fabulous signature quilt there was plenty of non wwii eye candy too christmas tree skirt by maria using a judy niemeyer pattern judy even had her own work in the show drool mops will be on our must provide list if we do this again there were lots of airplane quilts naturally this was my personal favorite for pieced plane blocks speaking of drool i ve done a lot of hexagon watching over the past few years but i ve never seen them done quite this way before note the edging too i spent two full days walking the floors during the show and this one got more of my ogling time than any other donald gough s snippets quilt which won viewer s choice over 3 000 pieces donald and his wife eunice are prolific quilters and had an impressive array of groupies by the end of sunday jackie made this one for her husband ain t he lucky look ma v 3 0 my orange you glad bee quilt hanging at a real show a terrific quilt based on a laurie shifrin pattern mango tango note the edges of those curves they re flanges if you get a chance to take a class with laurie leap at it she s a terrific teacher with loads of color management advice and cool technique tricks more mop worthy fun look ma v 4 0 my one block wonder it took me a shameful long time to finish but i love it a pretty before fabric helps fabric is siena by p b textiles before after some of my favorites from the things with wings mini challenge thanks for coming along for the ride posted by grendelskin at 9 07 am 2 comments labels quilt show friday september 14 2012 september september let s see where did i leave off oh yeah i was so thrilled at how my orange you glad bee quilt turned out that i sent an email to the block designer to show it to her she suggested i send it on to quiltmaker so i did the morning we left for vacation a plain envelope arrived in the mail containing the fall issue of quilts from quiltmaker s 100 blocks did i order this magazine i don t remember but that s not conclusive when i finally pulled it out and read it there was my oyg in the back look ma v 2 0 and i finally finished my one block wonder this one is called camping in the back forty cause it makes me think of a campfire in august surrounded by meadow flowers i know i m a dork here s a peek isn t it fun to chop up a whole bunch of flowers put em back together and get flowers you ll get a full view later it s reserved for things with wings attendees for now we went to western new hampshire this summer and rented a lovely little cottage on a lake it was fun to drive around the lake we re in maine now we re not back in maine kayaking and canoeing and food and campfires and long drives a lovely family vacation the cottage loved those stairs the lake in the early morning i also kept up the family tradition of tyrant mom makes us hike horrible hills we went up the frankenstein cliffs trail then to arethusa falls this is a trail maybe for mountain goats i know you hardcore hikers will scoff at me 5 miles hah but this one rated moderate involves a serious rise something like 1200 feet in one mile there was genuine huffing and puffing and if i hadn t insulted my arches as my doctor put it before then i surely did with that walk but the view from the top was totally worth it arethusa falls was lovely a great end to the hike a little dry in august but they were still flowing we also saw the madison boulder get ready for some real excitement guys it s a big rock yup one of the largest erratics a rock moved by a glacier and unceremoniously dumped in the world notice that i am sparing you the dreaded covered bridge photos i had to go through it as a kid so my kids do too that s my story and i m stickin to it other nowhere else to be seen sights things with wings starts this sunday if you re in flying distance of windsor locks ct do make an effort to come there will be quilts hanging in the regular hangar right near the b 29 we ll have lectures a special exhibit of wwii quilts vendors and an origami station for the kids if you haven t seen the new england air museum this is a great time to do so it s very cool on its own but add quilts and it s insanely cool posted by grendelskin at 4 59 pm 2 comments labels quilts travel older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me grendelskin connecticut united states i can think of worse mid life crises view my complete profile labels baking 2 beading 1 books 4 clamshells 11 craft 18 da house 4 fabric 2 flowers 8 g b 62 giveaway 6 moby 4 quilt show 7 quilts 64 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