Category — Miscellaneous Blog Stuff

At least, I think it’s a quilt from the 30’s. The fabrics look like the reproduction ones available today. I found this quilt at a local flea market for $25. I’m sure the quilt police would be after me if they knew what I was going to do with it, but it’s destined to be cut up and used as backdrop in vintage wooden window frames and the rest made into pillows. In defense of my actions, I will say there is a number of large rips and many places where the fabric is completely worn away. (Yeah, yeah, I know some of you aren’t going for it. . .) *smile*

I like the way the quiltmaker mixed the large and small dresden plates together. Click on the pictures to enlarge them so you can see the fabrics better.

It looks like the quilting is some sort of chain pattern around each plate and then it’s repeated in the first border.

I *love* the way the outside border uses the pieces of the small dresden plates. . .

and the way it just curves right around the corners.
Sewing on the binding took some work!

I’m in the middle of revamping several of my websites–this one included–so I haven’t gotten a lot of piecing done in the last month. The need to have a little more income is forcing me to work on “work” related things. I thought I’d make some posts as I update and rearrange things here and at my other quilting website. My next post is about the first-ever finished quilting project.

on this blog, at least. I saw this on Julie W.’s blog, but Debra has tagged us all.

THE ABC’S OF MY QUILTING STYLE

• A- Artist? Yes, I am and you are, too! One hundred years from now any quilts you or I have made will be hanging on someone’s wall or in a museum (if it’s well-preserved enough) as art. Therefore, you and I are artists–quilt artists. (I realize you were looking to read about my favorite quilt artists but I’m going to save that for another post.)
• B- Best Blogging Buddies? I don’t have one yet, but I do read a few quilty, homesteading, and spiritually uplifting blogs on occasion.
• C- Crazy or Sane Quilting? Hopefully somewhere in between; somewhere that will let me go either way when the mood hits.
• D- Dyeing or Stamping? Would like to try dyeing some day.
• E- Essential Item? A sewing machine in good working order.
• F- Favorite Fabrics? Definitely batiks. I could buy them just to buy them but I don’t because I’m committed to not acquiring a large stash… I *will* use what I buy and I *will* only buy what I’ll use!
• G- Great Quilt Design? Uses a range of tints, tones, and shades in each color (or hue, if you prefer) and a large variety of fabrics… if 5-6 is good; 50-60 is better! (I hope I used all those color terms correctly. I can never remember all that color theory stuff. LOL)
• H- Hand or Machine Quilt? Both. I love to hand quilt; but being practical, I saw the need for a machine quilting setup. I want to get more quilts done!
• I- Indispensable Notion? A sharp blade in my rotary cutter. Oh, and my rotary cutter must be able to cut both for left-handed as well as right-handed people without turning the blade because I switch hands rather than turn the fabric.
• J- Janome or Bernina? Bernina and Brother
• K- Kits or Original Designs? Original designs. I agree with Julie W., who said, “Picking fabrics is my favorite part of quilting!”
• L- Life in the Studio is? Better than chocolate.
• M- Most Projects Made in One Year? I haven’t really been quilting that long (since 2003) nor that consistently until last summer (July 2006) so the answer is five. (See “Completed Quilts 2006″ in sidebar)
• N- Number of Gadgets? Hmm, I dunno. Do I need to count? You can’t make me. LOL
• O- OH, I wish I hadn’t. . . . .? Joined three different email groups in 2006 that were all working on year-long quilting projects because I haven’t kept up with the pace.
• P- Pet Peeves about Quilting? I *do not* enjoy putting binding on a quilt in the summertime. It’s just too hot here in the desert to be sitting under a quilt even in the air conditioning.
• Q- Quilt Show? Would like to go to Houston or Road to CA some day. I will go to the local one put on by the quilt guild and one in Henderson, NV put on by the larger guild our local one belongs to.
• R- Reason to Rip Out? I like to be precise, but only rip out when the mood strikes. Life is too short and I want to get quilts done!
• S- Sewing or Knitting? I can knit, but quilting is my passion!
• T- Tag, you’re it! If you haven’t already done this one, consider yourself tagged.
• U- UFOs? I don’t like to think of them as UFOs… I have 20 WIPs (that’s all I’m admitting to) and 3 UFTs.
• V- Vexing Quilt Pattern? Would probably be something with a lot of curves that required more pinning than I like to do.
• W- Wishlist Item? Max Throat for my PC Quilter
• X- Xtra Fabric you will never use? Around twenty southwest-looking FQs and about 8 yards of other southwest fabric that I bought to make a quilt for my parents’ southwest decorated bedroom, who later decided to go with a northwoodsey, cabin-like decor in their new bedroom. [sigh] I don’t like southwest decor…
• Y- Your Biggest Goof? Marrying my ex-husband?? No, no, just kidding… He’s really an all right guy and I do have 4 charming and beautiful children as a result of my marriage. You meant quilting, right? I try to forget them so I can’t think of a *biggest* goof; however my *latest* goof was telling DD-R that I’d machine quilt her 110″ x 110″ quilt on my machine quilting frame (see post: The Quilt That Was A Bear)
• Z- Zip! (and voilá it’s done!) That would have to be my springtime garden because I don’t see how I’m going to get *it* done and quilt, too!

I was just trying to figure out how to put up the html coding for the quilting webring and messed everything up! I guess I won’t be getting as much piecing done today as I thought. LOL Okay, back to work trying to fix this mess. Maybe a different theme. . .

Update later in the day:
I’ve spent the day updating to the latest version of Wordpress and trying to get widgets installed so I haven’t done a lot of piecing. I also haven’t gone grocery shopping nor to the LQS–have put that off until tomorrow. I changed the theme and hope to have widgets working soon so I can update the sidebar easier and add the code for the quilting webring among other things. When I reinstalled Wordpress, of course, it deleted all the others links and pages I’d created earlier in the week. I’ll have to spend some time tomorrow fixing all that up again. [sigh]

I’m off to do some more piecing before I go to bed.

Piecing: 5 days of 5