August 2013

Work-in-Progress Wednesday

Aug 28, 2013CarmitQuilted projects, Quilty gifts, Work-in-Progress WednesdayAurifil, Loulouthi Tiles, quilt, quilting, Work-in-Progress Wendesday

Huh, is it Wednesday already? I’ve got a few irons in the fire at the moment, but the most pressing one (pressing! harhar!) is getting Rachel’s quilt finished. On Saturday I put together the quilt back (of which I took no photos because… I don’t know). It is, as requested, mostly black, but I added…

Half-Square Triangle Chevron Quilt

Aug 26, 2013Carmit1 CommentQuilted projects, Quilty giftsbatik, chevron, quilt, Rainbow

When you’re new to quilting everything looks daunting. You start out making lots of mistakes and doing a lot more work than you need to because you’re guessing how to do things that others have figured out long before you. I’ve not done a tremendous amount of angled sewing. It’s pretty much been straight lines…

Oscar’s Baby Quilt

Aug 22, 2013Carmit2 CommentsBaby Quilts, Quilted projects, Quilty gifts4" square quilt, baby quilt

This baby is kind of my fault. My friends and former colleagues A and J used to be just A and J until I quit to move to England. Guess who hooked up at my going-away party? And three years later, Oscar arrived, so it was only fitting that I would make him a quilt.…

Loulouthi Tiles quilt

Aug 21, 2013Carmit4 CommentsWork-in-Progress Wednesdaybatik, Loulouthi Tiles, piecing, quilt top, quilting, Sew Sisters, sewing, Stitched in Color

Checking in with my first Work-In-Progress Wednesday post. When my friend asked me to make a quilt for her daughter’s 18th birthday I got really excited. I’ve been wanting to make a version of Tula Pink’s Fade to Pink quilt for a while and having seen this version of it, I figured I could do…

Festival of Quilts 2013

Aug 20, 2013Carmit2 CommentsQuilt showsart quilts, Festival of Quilts 2013, quilting, quilting show, Twisted Thread

I’m still winding down from the Festival of Quilts and thought I’d tell you a little about it. I went to the Festival for the first time last year, at which point I had been quilting for less than a year, and it is safe to say that I was completely overwhelmed by what I…

Friday Favourites

Aug 16, 2013CarmitFlickr favouritesFlickr favourites, quilts, sewing

I spend far too much time on Flickr looking at quilts (let’s not talk of what I think of the Flickr redesign, because my mother always said that if I don’t have something nice to say, not to say anything at all) and scooping up ideas. I have dozens of quilts in my favourites, so…

City Sampler Sew-Along

Aug 12, 2013Carmit4 CommentsBooks, Quilted projects, Tula Pink City Sampler Sew-Alongquilt, quilting, sew-along, Tula Pink, Tula Pink City Sampler

I’ve never been good at long-term projects. I am easily bored and even more easily distracted, which is why I’ve resisted joining any sew-alongs making the rounds in the quilting community. Until, that is, Tula Pink published her City Sampler book. I should probably mention I don’t especially care for sampler quilts, but I was…

Just One Slab

Aug 9, 2013Carmit3 CommentsBooks, Quilted projectsquilted projects, scraps, Sunday Morning Quilts

I bought Sunday Morning Quilts when I was at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham last year (going again this weekend, stay tuned for a post!). The book, authord by Jean Nyberg of Crazy Mom Quilts and Cheryl Arkinson of Dining Room Empire, is all about scrappy quilting projects. I looked through it shortly after I…

How I came to sew

Aug 8, 2013Carmit1 CommentAboutAbout

I spend a fair bit of my time wishing ill on the UK Border Agency, but I suppose it deserves some credit, because I never would have learned to sew if not for its maddeningly obtuse and discriminatory policies. I moved to England in 2010 for my partner’s work secondment and because of a tedious…

I’m New: Please Bear with Me

Aug 7, 2013Carmit2 CommentsAboutDreamweaver, hello!, quilting, Tula Pink, Tula Pink Dreamweaver

I had to wear a tag that said that in my first corporate job. There was a little picture of a bear on it. Twenty years on, I am still mortified about it. Speaking of corporate jobs, don’t they just blow? Mine does, which is why I spend every free minute (and some not-so-free minutes)…