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I’m not quite sure how this happens…one day my craft room is totally usable and then the next day?
Disaster area.
In the rubble, I found some books that I scooped from work. One of the books contained a very poorly translated Chinese quote. I hope you enjoy this:
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It doesn’t look much right now, but it took me a couple of hours to sew this kite into the fabric for the mug rug swap on Saturday with the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild. I was going to use another square for this project, but scrapped the whole thing after seeing this dreamy quilt on the internets. I’m very sure I didn’t use the same process as Melanie (the creator of the quilt). Her kites are perfectly spaced and I think she got her kites done in four pieces. Luckily, the theme for this project is “improv” – so, this is my take on it. I had to log cabin and sew the heck out of little kite for all the edges to finally come out in some semblance of a rectangle in the end. Slice and sew…slice and sew…uh oh…that didn’t quite line up…slice, slice, sew…FINALLY! I have four edges instead of 7. Hooray!
I even thought of a title for this little mug rug on the bus today – Gray Skies. We’ve had wonky weather this week and the idea of a happy kite in the overcast sky cheers me right up.
I’ll have time tomorrow night after work to sew one more grey border around it and then I’ll embellish it with some string and some satin ribbon on the string, so it looks like those old fashioned kites with ribbons on the tails. And of course, I need to bind it. Tomorrow could be a long night for me, but that’s okay. I don’t have to be in Abbotsford to swap it until 2:15, so as you can clearly see, I have HEAPS of time! Maybe it feels like heaps of time because it’s not 4:00 am on the day it’s supposed to be ready. I have about 36 hours to complete it. Ahead of schedule!
Just in case you’re wondering why the Modern Quilt Guild will be in Abbotsford, it’s for the Creative Stitches Show. It starts tomorrow and ends on Saturday at 5:00 at the Tradex. I’ll be manning our quilt guild booth for the last shift, so that should be delightful. I think I may even help clean up.
Best hit the hay. I’ve got more sewing to do tomorrow after work!
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The monthly meeting of Quilting Bee was outstanding tonight. I learned that orange is the colour of forgiveness. Every single day I learn something new.
We have a mug rug (bigger than a coaster, but smaller than a placemat) swap coming up, so I need to get cracking on mine. We’ll be trading with the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild at the sewing show on the 24th. So exciting. We’ll have a table for our guild there and everything. Here is Amy’s sample mug rug.
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This square represents many hours of errors and mistakes, including an entire quilt top I made that I didn’t really end up liking after I had completed it. Somehow, when I put it all together, I love the end result!
The centre square was the last of my botched 10X10 squares, that actually measured about 7.5 X 7.5 inches. Really poor measuring on my part with that one. I did my favourite thing to it – cut it into 4 squares, then re-sewed them all together, but instead of making a diamond shape with the stripes, I sewed them all facing out.
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