Saturday, June 7, 2014

Cutting It Out

120 pieces of felt are all cut and ready to start the next stage of assembly.

40 pcs. is about 3" high.  Arthritis yo.

40 pieces of felt is about 3" high.
That's enough to give me phantom hand aches just thinking about it again.
Now imagine 3 stacks of these and you'll have an idea of why it took me nearly a month of constant cutting in the evenings to get them all done.

I've started embroidering these ornaments already and am making nice progress now that the Feathers Quilt is gone for a few weeks.
There won't be too much to report for the next month as I finish this order up, but I can promise you that I already have my sights set on a second quilt and Fiona's Renaissance costume for this year, not too mention completing 2 more Lil' Twister Stockings for Chris and I (before Christmas!).


Happy Sewing!

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

The Feather Quilt (part 4)

 38 blocks are squared up.

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Laid out, sewn together and neatly pressed to make 5 rows of funky feathers.  Those rows are about 72" long, this is a very huge quilt.

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 Sadly, the backing fabric I had fallen in love with only had 5 yards left on the bolt and I most definitely needed 5 1/2 yards of fabric.
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 I went ahead and bought the 5 remaining yards not sure how I was going to add in another 1/2 yard of fabric.  Once I was home and laid everything out on my floor I realized that I may have just "painted myself into a corner".  I had to walk away for a full 2 days before I could look at it again, I was that aggravated. Finally, after tearing thru my fabric stash and much creative cursing, I found a few coordinating strips of fabric from an old Moda jelly roll.

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I was hesitant to cut my backing seeing as it was already short, but I did it anyways and in the end it was the smartest move I could have made.  Not only did it give me enough length to complete the backing, but it added another mod feature to the normally "boring" back of the quilt.

It was shipped out Memorial Day weekend for quilting and I couldn't be more relieved to have it off my sewing table and floor for that matter.

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