December
2004
Thursday,
December 30, 2004
Hip
Hip Hooray!
I was completely stalled on August until last night. I was waiting
for Cinnamon.
to pick me up, and I was muttered "August, August. Heat. hot....
barbeque."
Barbeque!
September fell into space when I thought of using a brown/baby
blue color scheme with red accents - vs. a more autumnal range
that would have been very similar to the following months.
Here's the finished
set of 12 months. I'll post when the calendar is
ready to purchase on CafePress.
Now, I gotta clean up all my scraps. Then, I'm off to test my
newly tuned up sewing machine.
posted on 12/30/2004 06:06:37 PM
Wednesday,
December 29, 2004
April!
It's dry! Only August and September to go. Happily, I got a
shot of inspiration for Sept. August has stymied all along.
posted on 12/29/2004 05:56:26 PM
February!
Obvious theme, but I still like it. It joins its friends over
here. April's done and drying.
posted on 12/29/2004 05:22:03
PM
November!
Back to the grindstone on the calendars. Yeah, I know I'm
pushing New Year's - but, hey - I do what I can.
Here's December:
Cozy bedroom for November. April is well on it's way...
Here's all of the finished
calendar images.
posted on 12/29/2004 01:57:01
PM
Sunday,
December 26, 2004
The
Mom Nod
Mom called this morning and said she loves the quilt! Hooray!
My stepsister saw it and said, "it's so you." A very
good sign, since she knows my mom, but we don't know each other.
Admittedly, it was designed for my mom's tastes, but it was
a gift for both my mom and stepdad. Garry, my stepdad, said,
"You know it's not really for me." Mom retorted, "When
I'm down in the shop [her basement hair salon], I know you'll
be upstairs under the quilt."
:)
Edited to add:
Here's mom and Garry enjoying their new quilt!
posted on 12/26/2004 10:06:05 AM
Saturday,
December 25, 2004
So
Sew Christmas!
Since my mom got her quilt today, I can now reveal it. I made
her a quilt!
The 14th I finished her quilt and that day I made my OWN
darn quilt! I'm totally smitten with it. With the polar weather
we're having, I'm rarely unwrapped from my quilt when I'm home.
Details and all the quilts (seven now, started eight and nine)
are collected
in a new gallery.
posted on 12/25/2004 11:06:06 PM
Friday,
December 24, 2004
For
the second installment of Month
of Softies, the theme was "Holiday Hang-Ups." I cast
a coupla ornamental pals I made a couple years ago:
Merry Christmas!
posted on 12/24/2004 11:05:11 AM
Tuesday,
December 14, 2004
It's
frickin' Santa's Workshop here. True to form, I'm making my
Christmas gifts. Going well, but everything is a secret.
All will be revealed Dec 26.
posted on 12/14/2004 11:21:23 PM
Saturday,
December 11, 2004
The
aforementioned man at the quilting store is Victor - a co-inky-dink
- ran into him on a train platform tonight.
posted on 12/11/2004 10:28:46 PM
Friday,
December 10, 2004
Fabric
Fix
Anne's lovely mom Elsie is visiting from Ohio and and requested
some quilt shop shopping. We first toddled off to the nearby
(nearby a lunch restaurant and our homes) Vogue
Fabrics in Evanston. Normally I have no problem with
Vogue, but last night the customer service sucked.
But I got some super fabric for a winter hat.
(You'll see it sooooon)
Then next to Quilter's
Palette in Morton Grove. Wowsa, that's a LOT of fabric
in one place. Wow. Wow. They cover a lot of fabric bases. Palette's
an apropos name, with loads of tone-on-tone stuff to built your
stash.* Loads of batiks. If you like batik fabric, you'll love
Quilter's Palette.
Helpful, fun staff. I liked that the man helping me -- talked
enough to him I shoulda ask his name. He was wearing a Lanford
(I think) Funeral Home shirt (?). I'll call him Lanford. I liked
that Lanford talked about the industry, asides about what fabric
was designed by who. Stuff I like to know. I was buying several
Free Spirit prints, who's owner is the only woman business owner
in the biz, and if I got this straight, the designer has tattoos.
Lanford and I compared tattoos. His was as badass as a quilter's
tattoo can - a simple, bold needle with a length of thread "pinned'
into his bicep. Nice.
And I like that at a quilting store you don't have to feel bad
about buying quarter yards. I can recommend getting out to Morton
Grove to check out Quilter's Palette.
Quilters confronted with a fabric buying trip either get giddy
or break out in sweats. All depends on how they feel about the
stash of fabric they already have and how many unfinished/impending
projects are looming.
I gave it some thought, and made a list of impending quilt projects:
1. 70's pinwheels, 2. Asian, 3. Lemons, 4. Red/Pink/White 30's
repro 5. Scraps 6. Stripes. 7. Dutch Wax Batiks. Not too
bad. All relatively straightforward projects, just need time.
Don't "need" fabric.
On the other hand, I have such specific tastes in fabric, that
it makes sense to look and buy the very few prints that catch
my eye. The same way I don't have to give a whole lot of thought
to safe sex because there's so few people I'd want to sleep
with.
Parameters:
• I have a very, very specific tastes in fabric.
• A single cabinet to hold all my quilt fabrics.
• I like bright colors, specific palette I always return to.
A certain, singular pink, only certain green based blues.
• I la-la-love pattern. I want pattern.
• I don't like naturalistic prints, anything trying to look
to much like something real. I.e. leaves, stones, animals, and
of that. If it's stylized...maybe.
• I like things that are geometric if they aren't too rigid.
• Don't like florals, unless they're really stylized and bold
and pop-y.
• Batiks are lovely, nice rich colors, but I don't like 'em
enough to buy enough to build a stash.
• Love tone-on-tone, but they've gotta meet the above criteria.
Here's what made the cut - no pun intended:
*Or 'stache
- shout out to Heather.
posted on 12/10/2004 11:03:02 AM
Friday,
December 03, 2004
Inadvertent Pink
I've owned my red bathmat and toilet seat cover for seven years
now. Washed plenty of times. I didn't think much of throwing
it in the wash with my white pillow covers and cases. Always
away that colors can bled in the wash, I do sort accordingly.
You never know what wash cycles will turn into a dyebath.
Jeebus! I wasn't expecting the whites to turn such a deep shade
of adorable pink. I'd be cranky if I weren't so delighted.
posted on 12/3/2004 01:43:32 PM
Wednesday,
December 01, 2004
Elephants
Abound!
Check out Teeny's friends in the Accessoried
Elephant Gallery at LoobyLu! I think Teeny would
like to play Seven Miuntes in Heaven with Cynthia Frenette's
Stella.
posted on 12/1/2004 11:24:49 AM
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