Archive for August, 2009
Patchwork
Today was one of the hottest days of the year so far-so I decided to quilt. Really, I decided to sew and Mom said ‘We should go to the church so you can layout your quilt,’ and after that I decided to sew it together-which took all afternoon, evening and part of the night.
Here is the quilt with all of the ‘rows’ sewn together, the next step is to connect the rows to each other:
This is the edge of the quilt that was hanging off of the bed with the fabric that I used to pick all of the colors (conveniently the fabric is called ‘Emily’s Memories’ and I absolutely love the pattern). There will also be a thin border of black to frame up all the blocks:
This is the biggest quilt I have ever assembled, and it is a real headache to move around every time you need to iron a row. I will have it longarm machine quilted as my machine is not made to do something this large.
*The pattern is called ‘split rail’. Traditionally it is sort of a zig zag pattern, but I made it scrappy, so you don’t see it.
Candle Repair
I went to Ikea last week to get some candles.
I really wanted the tall ones they have, but I’m cheap and I won’t pay $16 for a candle, no matter how big it is.
I did find some pretty dark red and orange ones though (and those are the accent colors in my living room).
In their ‘As Is’ section though, I found two of the really tall ones for $3 each-they were broken though. One about six inches from the bottom, the other about ten inches from the top.
I turned them into this:
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