Crafts

Sewing fever

October 14, 2011

I can’t stop myself. Thankfully. I really needed to get a wiggle on with the craft fair stuff. This is the start of my Christmas fair items. Quilted Christmas trees! This is just the start. Of course it still needs decorations on it. I made this by making a big strip of a quilt-as-you-go quilt [...]

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Stuck

September 18, 2011

I got busy sewing today and decided to do a disappearing nine patch for my Kona solid quilt top challenge. We were given one charm pack – a pile of 5 inch squares which contains all the colours in one of their lines. I made a pile of squares. It’s a simple pattern, but looks [...]

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A quiet night in.

September 15, 2011

Nothing says exciting blog post like a title called, “A quiet night in.”. I did have a lovely night in, reading the magazine I picked up at Chapters yesterday, which happens to have Cynthia’s birdies on the cover. I have also decided not to keep going with my original idea I had for a quilt. [...]

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Under the bunting

September 6, 2011

I had a lovely day in…made a little crockpot dinner and sewed up this bunting for the welcome back meeting of the quilter’s guild on Thursday. We’ll all sew some up and then trade them and take a new one home with us after the meeting. Bunting has been a project I’ve seen plenty of [...]

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Sleep

August 13, 2011

Despite being late this morning to the quilting bee in Abbotsford – I blame the traffic with a touch of poor planning – I was able to get my first word completed! This is the first word in the phrase, “Sleep peacefully, wake joyfully”. Completing the rectangular block was quite satisfying, as I could read [...]

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Don’t forget the Roller Girls

August 11, 2011

Roller Derby has made quite the comeback. I haven’t been to an official event recently, well, make that, ever, but I do remember one name from the oldie times of Roller Derby – Skinny Minnie Miller. I should go check out an updated version of this sport. It used to be WWE wrestling style on [...]

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Yarn bombing is beautiful

June 25, 2011

After a quick search on the internets, it turns out these people are responsible for beautifying the bike racks along the bike lane on Dunsmuir between Granville and Seymour Street. They really did a great job. Nearly every single rack is covered with either a crocheted or knitted sleeve of yarn. I think it looks [...]

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It really was easy peasy!

June 19, 2011

As you can see, the Easy Peasy Points WAS pretty easy – thanks to Mike for taking my photo in the standard quilting pose out on the balcony. Don’t look too closely, there’s a couple of squares that don’t quite line up. I think next time, I’ll sew shorter rows together – this time I [...]

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Three baby turbans

May 22, 2011

Here are the three knitted baby turbans I made using more or less the same pattern. These three models were the closest things I could find to the size of a baby’s head – my Kewpie doll, a baby watermelon, and a teddy bear shaped money bank. Since all the hats are made with different [...]

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It doesn’t look like much now…

May 10, 2011

but this is going to become one mean baby turban. In turquoise – I think that’s a unisex enough colour for a baby. I should be finished it in the next couple of days. It’s shaping up nicely, but it’s starting to look a little big on the top again. I really want it snug [...]

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