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robes de coeur karen roy s sewing robes de coeur blog quilting clothing menswear womenswear self made patterns commercial patterns hats miscellany about blog quilting clothing menswear womenswear self made patterns commercial patterns hats miscellany about qe1 quilt goose in the pond 4 11 2025 0 comments one day while trawling the internet i found on point quilter s blog post about a quilt called geometric garden and the blogger s use of electric quilt software to reverse engineer the block i was struck by how cool the antique quilt was and immediately saved it in my inspiration folder for later the part that most caught my eye is where the two stripes intersect with the 9 patch because that creates a mini staggered effect it looks more complicated than it is and it places the seam allowances where they don t conflict read more 0 comments meadow quilt finished 3 29 2025 2 comments back in 2019 i started this piecework by making paper templates and using scissors to cut out mini triangles and so on my friend not yet quilting mentor kept watching me do it with a face that said you re doing it wrong i could show you but she didn t impose and i m the sort who has to do it my way first that way i figure out what problems need solving afterward i appreciate learning better techniques i also get bored with beginner projects and kits so i start with a vision beyond my capacity and ride the struggle bus the whole way that s just how i am read more 2 comments haberdashery quilt pattern 12 30 2024 1 comment this pattern is haberdashery by lori holt of bee in my bonnet co someone gave it to me and i can t find it on her website though it looks like it was part of her currently unavailable fashion fun collection so i don t know if you can buy it it might have been an exclusive in fat quarter shop s sew sampler subscription box the repeating motif of hats is darling and simple enough to be a palate cleanser between more complicated projects this is a quick project a few nights of cutting and counting squares until i have enough a few nights of assembly and the top is now tucked away in a bag of to be quilted items i don t have much to say about the sewing however i d like to honor lori holt s wish from her about me page on her website my wish is that my designs will inspire others to create and will also instill the desire to pass down the valuable lessons of days gone by taught to us by our mothers and grandmothers read more 1 comment lilac roses baby quilt 12 23 2024 2 comments another baby is joining my family my previous nieces are my sister s children but this niece to come is my brother s for my other nieces i ve been making big girl quilts when they are a bit older but in this case as i haven t met my sister in law yet i decide to make a baby quilt to welcome the mother into the family as well as to wrap and cherish the baby once she s born my brother told me his wife s favorite color is lilac read more 2 comments alcott s 9 patch quilt 3 30 2024 1 comment alcott s 9 patch finished every crafter has half finished projects sometimes we let them go half finished for someone else to play with last year i acquired a bunch of fabric from someone else which included twelve hand sewn nine patches the stitching was pretty close to the raw edges only an eighth inch seam allowance which made me nervous about fraying in the wash but i was charmed by these sweet lopsided nine patches and decided to set them in some brown scraps leftover from another crafter s plundered kit read more 1 comment my first quilt so heavy 12 26 2023 3 comments i am visiting my mom for christmas look what she has on her bed read more 3 comments micro mini quilt 11 27 2023 2 comments last year at the northwest quilters guild s festival of quilts i saw a selection of mini quilts most were doll bed sized i remember looking at them and thinking two things simultaneously 1 what s the point of a tiny quilt and 2 i can make it tinier so one day i took a post it note for foundation paper and marked one inch squares on it within those squares i marked the lines of a pineapple block this picture shows several stages of the process in one frame the back of the quilt top half made half bordered half un papered but let s look at more pictures read more 2 comments fabric collage 11 10 2023 3 comments last night i pulled out a bunch of scraps and some double sided applique web and tried my first fabric collage as i worked i was thinking of water and aquatic plants but subsequent alterations make it resemble mountains more i was in a creative zone and took few pictures so i ll describe verbally what i did with reference to the pictures i do have read more 3 comments the discourse around gee s bend quilts 11 10 2023 4 comments i have mentioned before that i dislike gee s bend quilts this is a rare opinion people tend to love gee s bend quilts or at least praise them good for them i am all for people loving art that speaks to them what interests me today is the squirming cringe i feel when i say i don t agree why do i feel constrained to pad my opinion when i give it in a lot of stuffing about how great the quilts are really even if they re not my thing that psychology interests me more than the quilts themselves the george f landegger collection of alabama photographs in carol m highsmith s america library of congress prints and photographs division read more 4 comments couture brute 11 4 2023 1 comment an outside hall at mt hood community college hereafter mhcc what i dislike occupies more brainspace than you might expect i worry at it like tonguing a cut in my mouth trying to quantify what i dislike and why sometimes in creative assimilation i make what i don t like and so become a connoisseur then like a cut in my mouth the thing heals and i forget it ever bothered me most things have some beauty if you look close enough today i contemplate brutalist architecture the brutalist design philosophy and how it might be expressed in thread the photos in this post are all my own of mt hood community college in gresham oregon usa read more 1 comment previous karen roy quilting dressmaking and history plied with the needle sites i enjoy the quilt index r quilting wonkyworld categories all 1910 s alteration antique dyeing embroidery general hand sewing history lacemaking mending menswear millinery modern elizabethan musing other sewing philippians 4 8 project diary quilting regency retro self made pattern self made pattern terminology victorian vintage archives april 2025 march 2025 december 2024 march 2024 december 2023 november 2023 september 2023 august 2023 june 2023 may 2023 march 2023 february 2023 january 2023 december 2022 november 2022 october 2022 september 2022 august 2022 october 2021 september 2021 august 2021 july 2021 june 2021 may 2021 april 2021 august 2020 june 2020 may 2020 april 2020 march 2020 january 2020 december 2019 november 2019 september 2019 august 2019 july 2019 may 2019 april 2019 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