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A no-sew blanket made from suiting yardage I bought on sale at the beginning of summer. Just removed threads around all the sides to fringe it so it wouldn’t fray when washed.
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A Steno Pad for My Thoughts
Blah, Blah, Blah. Connect the dots. This blog is now an archive only. No new entries will be posted, please visit our new blog here.Posts filed under 'sewing'
Ruffled Past Dress
I have a dress with a brilliant bit about the dress. It fits me great and the sleeve is also the shoulder. So the sleeve sits on your shoulder then you have one upper torso piece and three pieces in back (center panel and two lower panels attaching to sleeve piece) plus the skirt. The sleeve then ruffles a bit and you can see where it attaches to the dress front panel, right above the chest, where the ruffle details is sewn down. I drafted a pattern from the original dress and made this one. (Melissa made a rubbing of a dress in the past which gave me the idea of trying to do the same with the original dress which I did with moderate success.) Came together without a hitch actually. I picked up this great fabric and pleated trim while in Portland and made up the detail around the collar hoping to get a bit of an antique feel. The photos are crap but you get the gist. Right now, it’s just a no frills belt giving it a waistline, might go back in and add some elastic but dang if I don’t feel trapped sometimes under elastic. I thought I best get on it since someone thought doing an outdoor show at the end of June in the middle of the South would be fun. Ha! I’m sure Chattanooga will be awesome but I’m packing a cooler, I know that much.
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The Map Quilt
This quilt was the result of me falling hard for this quilt Abby made from HI + LOW (which I originally saw Lena post here). You’ll see I loved it so much that’s her same design almost exactly–the only differences are perhaps the quilting and the binding. It’s made with four handkerchiefs from MUJI featuring the cities of London, Paris, New York and Tokyo (who has our heart). You can buy the handkerchiefs online here. My mother quilted this one mostly along the subway/street lines of each city which is absolutely perfect. She gave it to me for Christmas and while visiting her over the holidays I was able to sew on the binding and complete it. The completed size is about 39″ x 39″ so a very manageable quilt project. Plus, since you only have to sew together the four handkerchiefs the quilt top is done in a speedy minute.
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Wander Woven Weave Quilt, done.
This quilt was me wanting to work in a traditional 9 square block since this was really my first decent sized quilt. I had handed over the top to my mother and asked her to quilt it for me as a gift at some point. Once again, I got nervous about it given my moderate success at machine quilting lap sized quilts. My mother has amazing machines and talent but little time at the moment so she ended up finding a professional in her neighborhood who does offer long arm quilting. I don’t have her name or business contact information but will try to get it. My mom is able to just walk the quilts up to her door so I’m all about it. This quilt is so different from the last one, definitely all traditional for my taste, but that feels so good, too. It’s like comfort food. My mother sewed the binding on it for me this past weekend as my birthday gift.
Cut in June 2008 / Sewn in Sept. 2008 / Completed in March 2011
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The Meandering Line Quilt is done!
You can view the whole quilt here. There have been quite a few finished quilts around here lately. I am on a mission–with the help of my mother! This one was machine quilted by Carol Ann’s Quilting in Savannah before we moved but I finally bound it recently. We went back and forth a bit on the quilting and I absolutely love the final decision she made to do a wavy line in the ditch between all the strips. It was a very pleasant surprise for me as I wasn’t sure this was possible with long arm quilting since I really didn’t want an all-over pattern but was too afraid to try quilting something so large on my machine. I could see endless waves of puckers and folded fabric if I did it so I opted for having it quilted on a long arm. This quilt is probably between a full and queen size. The fabrics are discussed in the link below, see comments from August 2009 link. The backing is a pre-washed lightweight linen.
Cut in October 2008 / Sewn in August 2009 / Completed March 2011
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Ruffled Scarf
Another for the neck, half-bandanna/half-ascot/half-scarf bit. A ruffled-edged triangular shaped piece with extra long ties. This one is made of linen and it hangs so much nicer than the one from earlier this week which was cotton. What follows is some handiwork on the phone camera to show you.
Which just means that for clothing, I’m becoming all linen, all the time. The two dresses (here and here) that I made last summer get tons of play–even now in the winter. I just throw a cashmere sweater (where did I even get this sweater??) underneath the one and I’m good to go. My hope is to get some more dresses sewn in the upcoming, we shall see.
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