tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32934193614510783162024-03-13T13:14:02.101-07:00QuiltaliciousQuiltalicioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14418985632320024162noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293419361451078316.post-72895007272117771192017-11-01T03:00:00.000-07:002017-11-01T08:38:45.843-07:00Illuminating Hillside<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>This is my last Four In Art blog post.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Four In Art group will close it's doors at the end of the year.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>It's time to move onto other project and adventures. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Four In Art has been a wonderful group to be part of </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>to explore and </i></span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">develop new ideas with quilting.</i></div>
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<i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I wish all the member of Four In Art all the best </i></div>
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<i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">with their creative ventures in the future.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>When one door closes another one opens.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>One of my new adventures is designing fabric & quilts for </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Paintbrush Studios.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>My first collection will be available in the early spring.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>There are a total of 28 fabrics in it.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>I can't wait to share more about this new adventure </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>as we get closer to it's release date. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This quarter's Four In Art theme is... </span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Illumination.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For this quilt I used.... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">burlap</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I thought mixing up the textures </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">would be advantageous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I immediately started to slice and dice the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">fabric & </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">foil without </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">taking any initial photos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's a sampling of my fabric after it was cut it up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I used glue and pins to secure the hills to the black background.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yes, those silver hills are made of aluminum foil. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wanted to show how the hills were illuminating in the night sky and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">thought that they should be reflective. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I looked around everywhere for my silver fabric and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">couldn't find it, so...foil was the substitute medium.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've been using a lot of foil with an applique method I heard about from</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it wasn't hard to incorporate it into the project. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then I used<span style="color: #bf9000;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>GLOW IN THE DARK</b></span></span> thread for quilting. </span></div>
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<i>Illuminating Hillside, Simone Gautier Bradford 2017</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's a few views of the glow in the dark thread.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So photographing glow in the dark thread isn't that easy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The thread needs to sit out in the sun for a good 5-10 minutes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to activate the photosensitive thread. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then.......I run like mad with the mini quilt into the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">darkest room in the house, which for me is the laundry room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then I take the pictures with my camera while </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I can't even see anything through the lens. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This time around I tried improvisational paper piecing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">spending a half hour or so improvising on this little guy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After making a wedding dress last year for one of my older daughters </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My husband was so thoughtful and got a me </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a subscription to </span><span style="color: #45818e;"><a href="http://www.threadsmagazine.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Threads Magazine</b></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>.</b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They had an awesome pattern review for </span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://shop.tillyandthebuttons.com/products/orla"><b>Tilly & The Button's ~ Orla Blouse. </b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tilly & The Button's is located in England.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Seeing this makes me want to catch the first flight to England. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well...I loved the Orla Blouse and just had to get the pattern. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They have options for PDF downloads and paper patterns. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wanted the real deal and bought a paper pattern, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">yes all the way from England. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's my finished Orla Blouse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It has some interesting details like the collar for starters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The front has lovely partial princess seams too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The back not only has a zipper but it also has 4 darts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I chose Japanese fabric for the blouse by<b><span style="color: #45818e;"><a href="http://www.erishimatsuka.com/"> Eri Shimatsuka called Pisaraita</a>.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I inserted the zipper with Tilly's incredibly clear & concise instructions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can see the <span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>PURPLE</b></span> glue around the edge of the freezer paper. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The moon is made from <b>KONA's </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>2016</b> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">color of the year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the moon on the the background.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next I sliced and diced as I shattered the moon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">side of a black on black hexagon fabric. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No I don't need mental health. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sometimes the back of the fabric is just as beautiful as the front. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I used gray, yellow and glow in the dark thread on it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I cheated and machine sewed the binding on. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>This last project's inspiration came from another CB2 catalog.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It has different panels on it with unruly zig zags of gold. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I thought this could provide an interesting idea for a </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">project I was working on. </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> I thought it would be interesting to have each panel</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The first panel as 4 inches wide, </b></span><b style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the 2nd was 2 inches wide, </b></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>the 3rd was 1 inch wide </b></span><b style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the 4th was 1/2 inch wide. </b></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>I planned that in each successive panel I would double the amount of zig zags. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>That meant 9, 18, 36, & 72 zig zags in the first four panels from left to right. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>72 zig zags into a panel that was 1/2 inch wide!!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>I was looking at Italian cement tiles for </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>I stuck </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The tiles had endless possibilities for quilt inspiration. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Susan Snooks of Australia chose this wonderful block.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>actually I see 20 of them!?!?!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: large;">Today I am airing out my dirty laundry.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Join me as I </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">obliterate the </span></div>
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<span class="vmod">"the sea shimmered in the sunlight"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as I am eating ALL the roasted pumpikin seeds from </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Type one word, eat a pumpkin seed, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">type 2 words, reach for more pumpkin seeds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See my predicament????</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I decided I just can't have the blues becasue........</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh, and look at that cute Brony shirt.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and probably his last quilt for a school assignment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(He was a quick learner and did a great job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back to reality.... I traced the word 'azul' meaning blue in </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I chose this word becasue I lived in Brasil for a summer </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I then drew 3 circles to encompas the word azul. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It looks more meesy on the quilt than it did in my mind. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We've owned 3 purple sofas. Here are a couple of photos of #2 purple sofa. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Four generation photo after our first daughter, Claire, was born.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The sofa looks more red here due to poor lighting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I used to wear a lot of purple, we've owned 3 purple sofas, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but I really hadn't quilted in purple before. I thought it was time to experiment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I decided to draw some lines on a piece of paper. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I then cut it into strips on the diagonal and taped it together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then I cut on the diagonal from the opposite direction and taped again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the final mock up, mind you I did this in bed at 11pm,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and my husband couldn't understand why I was doing 'crafts' in bed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was doing this in bed because at the time, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I thought I had a bright idea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I used some <b><span style="color: #351c75;">PURPLE</span></b> silk from one of Claire's semi formals,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I added some equally vibrant orange for balance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and copped and sewed....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and chopped and sewed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I stopped chopping at this point and spray glued it on a gray background.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was afraid the spray due would show through on the silk, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lucky me I won the quilting lottery today and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the spray glue didn't show through. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I decided to leave all the raw edges exposed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I started quilting my chopped up purple silk with straight lines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then I quilted a bunch of circles that matched the orange fabric.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A good artist knows when to stop. Well....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I kept going thinking more is better. I forgot that less is more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Remember how I said a good artist knows when to stop?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well... after I stippled the word <b><span style="color: #351c75;">PURPLE</span></b> I knew that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I went straight to the internet and found<b><span style="color: cyan;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">electron scanning microscope</span></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and printed </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on white fabric after I cut them out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Butterflies actually have </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">SCALES</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> on their wings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was originally interested in designing a modern twist on a Dresden Plate, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but then I got out my wedge ruler and I said good bye to the Dresden Plate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The low volume fabric was a Christmas gift from my friend Lisa Johnson. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was happy to find a home for it. Since the photos are a little more</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">technical in nature I thought the technical drawings on the fabric was a good match. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I included two butterfly eggs in the quilt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from my last quilting project and needed to be replaced. I learned my lesson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I thought the silk had some reflective qualities that </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. You might get sick and need to make your quilt in one day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This projects' inspiration came from a children's book called</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By Susan Arkin Couture</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>I picked this book up at an overstock book sale in<span style="color: #990000;"> Ann Arbor, Michigan</span>. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>I taped it together then cut out the individual pieces for each piece of fabric. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>I managed to use every single word from the book. </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I decided this fabric would be used </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as background fabric. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I chose to use the following fabrics for the letter B.</span> </b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the story a neighbor's house burns down. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wasn't quite sure how to show flames coming out of the house, </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but I happened to have chili pepper fabric on hand. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.4545459747314px; text-align: left;">which can lead to death. </span></span></b><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.4545459747314px; text-align: left;">Other strains of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.4545459747314px; text-align: left;">E</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.4545459747314px; text-align: left;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.4545459747314px; text-align: left;">coli</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.4545459747314px; text-align: left;"> can cause</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have to say this is one of my favorite hills. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It not not only is a horizontal hill, but it ended up in <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">3D!</span></b></span></div>
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<b style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided</b><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>to keep the bac</b></span><b style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">k of the </b></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>something!</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I found all sorts of fun fabric at</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">One of my all-time favorite books is </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>The Screwtape Letters</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Screwtape, </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">who teaches a junior devil about the art </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of tempting the enemy (which are the </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">humans). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">about with </span></span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">fire </span><span style="color: #444444;">extinguishers</span></span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I titled the quilt </span><b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><i>Smoke Screens,</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">because this is Screwtape's intent... to have the smoke</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">problem that is at hand. Essentially we're blinded. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">With this scenario people are going </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">through </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blue thread was used in the bottom half of the quilt </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to represent the flood that the fire extinguisher is being used on. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also added a some red, in the very narrow binding, </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to help draw the eye across </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the quilt, to provide </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">some balance to that HUGE extinguisher. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">total chaos in a lost battle. </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">This is where Screwtape and his minions want us to be,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">lost, distracted, exhausted and confused about all our efforts.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Personal Note: </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I have found many parallels between </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>the temptations from the adversary and the </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>instruction from Screwtape. To me, CS Lewis' genius lies in </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>understanding the enemy and discerning his </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>intents, purpose and temptations with us. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I have been training Kyokoshin Karate for 7 years. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>if you are to fight an enemy, you need to study </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>so that you can be triumphant. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>And so it is in life...</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I found this ribbon at Tai Pan I was thrilled!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got started cutting off the wire edges and attempted</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">them together and I came up with the quilt top </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that is below. (I started on this project in March 2014)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I was piecing the </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">because burlap is full of fibers that cross each other. Secondly I </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">gave it that name because of the quilting motifs criss-cross all over</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the surface of the quilt.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of the fabric and burlap I wanted to do something else unique for the </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">binding. I decided to use a faced binding, that is invisible from the </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">front, but I shredded some of the burlap and put it on the left side.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There aren't any tutorials on line for how to shred burlap ribbon and</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Quilting was completed in September 2014, just in time to enter</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it into the Road to California show, only to get the reject reply from</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">them a few months later.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This quilt is probably the 3rd quilt I actually</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">quilted myself. After taking a Free Motion </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this year I am working on my quilting skills and</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now my question is, "Do you quilt what you </span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">like and know? Or do you quilt what the </span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">judges want and expect?" I think all artists </span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">struggle with being true to what they know</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">how to do, and wanting to meet the expectations </span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of what a client expects, (in this case...a judge).</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think that both can </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">work together, </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but it's </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">through time and </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">experience that we gain </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the knowledge </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that we need. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I noticed at Road to California there were lots</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with quilting motifs. Is this what the judges </span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">look for in a good quilt? Or is this what separates</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">show quilts from the others? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One thing I have learned as a graphic designer</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently went to a quilt exhibit in Anaheim at the Muzeo Museum. They had all sorts of traditional quilts. Honestly, when I walked into the modern quilt room I thought I'd walked into a room full of paintings. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a wonderful Yo-Yo quilt by an unknown quilter. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been estimated to be made between 1930-1940. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are approximately 14,000 individual yo-yo's in this quilt. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are a few things I can surmise about this unknown quilter. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She was obsessive, probably needed a break from the realities of life - </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so she quilted as an escape. Don't we all have our escapes?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some run away to their man-cave, other's have a Girls Night Out,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">some eat, other's exercise, I quilt. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Close up of crazy yo-yo quilt.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This sampler was made between 1900-1920, possibly in Pennsylvania.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Yellow Brick Road by Shelia Frampton-Cooper was a favorite. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I loved her extemporaneous placement of the yellow brick road</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">amongst the vibrant red, oranges and blues. I had a chance to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">incredibly engaging and happy to discuss her artwork and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">the process for each piece. Her quilts are covered in thousands</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">of dense rows of stitches that are about 1/8 of an inch </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">from each </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At first I thought the quilt was a painting,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but upon closer inspection I realized it was quite</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another favorite of mine was </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I loved the simplicity of this quilt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's basically 4 large pieces</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alone/Together by Sherry Kleinman was </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a shot </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">at reality! She took photos from life, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">turned them into drawings on her ipad, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">then quilted them on her machine. All the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">scenarios in her uniquely shaped quilt are of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">people that are together, but ignoring each</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">other because they are paying more </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">attention to their electronic devises than to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the people in the room.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> How many times </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">scene that is in the detail to the right? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our current generation tends </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to spend </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">more time alone, </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">even when we're </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">together.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The shape of the quilt also reflect the title of being</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alone/Together. The 3 panels are hanging from a top</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our Family Tree also by Sherry Kleinman was fun to see</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">juxtaposition to her other quilt. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She custom printed </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fabric with her ancestors names for </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the quilt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She appliqued a portrait of her present f</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">amily</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with the names of family all the way back to 1600's and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">who we are today." We are made from DNA of our past</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ancestors. It totally makes sense. I thought it was interesting </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">different in nature about people. One is about closeness </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of families, the other </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is about the distance</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> between people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll post some photos soon of my trip to the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She bought some of this fabric a while ago when we were together.. so I knew she'd love it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Attaching one of the 4 zippers on this thing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's actually a really good project to help improve zipper installation skills. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the fabrics that are inside the zipper compartments. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are from the Indelible line designed by Katarina Roccella for Art Gallery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">see them inside of the zipper pockets. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And finally... the outter zipper. It really wasn't super challenging to make, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but that's only because I had a sample from a friend (lucky me)! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It always helps to have the real thing infront of you for the first go at it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I quilted the outter shell of the Sew-Together-Bag with a windy motif </span></div>
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<br />Quiltalicioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14418985632320024162noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293419361451078316.post-18328696038785689052015-01-15T11:50:00.000-08:002015-01-15T12:00:42.170-08:00New Year, New Sewing Adventures<div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #45818e;">Not only is January my favorite month because I get to celebrate my birthday, but it provides a time for a new start. I </span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>LOVE</b></span><span style="color: #45818e;"> fresh beginnings because it allows for a clean slate, and who doesn't like a clean slate? Have you ever had a day you just want to do-over? Well...that's what January provides, time to up the ante and make new plans to re-evaluate what's been done and move forward.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #45818e;">Recently on NPR I heard that researchers have determined when we speak negatively to ourselves we think negatively about ourselves (duh...makes sense to me.) Examples of this are, "I feel fat," so now you view yourself as fat. The researchers interviewed on the show recommended that speaking positively to yourself in the third person produces fantastic results. I tried this recently and I'd like to share with you what happened. </span></span><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Honestly I felt a little silly talking to myself, but this is how it went.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Complete 6240 push ups this year. How you do it:</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>10 push ups every morning & evening, 6 days a week, </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>with Sundays as your rest day. </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Push ups are still painful, and sometimes down right </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>NOT FUN AT ALL, but....I'm slowly improving. </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The first time I did a push up 6 years ago I couldn't even do one!)</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the end of the day I had cheered myself on so many times that I wasn't as tired. I was happier and willing to keep moving forward. I felt accomplished, especially since I now had my own little fan club (in my head) cheering me on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and that you have ALMOST every thing wrapped.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did make 2 trips to Joann's this week. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I bought my first package </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">only </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to break </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4 of them on one project!</span></div>
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Quiltalicioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14418985632320024162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293419361451078316.post-20367128776032254552014-12-15T09:18:00.003-08:002014-12-15T09:18:38.673-08:00No Peeking<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been making Christmas Cards, but they still need to be assembled. </div>
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Look for our card in your mail box early next week. </div>
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I put in a zipper on a a really cool gift.</div>
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These are pillowcases made with French seams. My favorite is the typewritter fabric.</div>
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Found some fun Chanukah pasta for a friend. </div>
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We've been invited to our first Chanukah party this year. </div>
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Finally found a good use for the chalk borad heart garland I bought to use at Claire's wedding reception, but didn't use at the reception. </div>
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I made up this little decorative font and decided to use it more this Christmas.</div>
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More chalk board fun. I put this one up in the kitchen. </div>
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This banner stretches across the entire front of the kitchen.</div>
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Just had to make a banner for our church Christmas Party. </div>
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As I was hanging this sign I accidentally mis-spelled Chrismtas. </div>
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Christmas isn't just about getting things done though. </div>
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Our family has been attending for about 8 years now. </div>
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<br />Quiltalicioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14418985632320024162noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293419361451078316.post-77726613790664779982014-12-05T10:16:00.000-08:002014-12-05T16:04:56.128-08:00BEST GIFT EVER.... The Sew Together Bag<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Haven't heard back from the Vatican yet, I guess there's competition.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love opening it up to find the jumbled up text inside. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just so you know, seeing a font out of place like this makes me smile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are some links for making your own sew together bag. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My friend<b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Elizabeth</span><span style="color: #999999;"> from </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">OccasionalPiece.wordpress.com</span></span></b><span style="color: #999999;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">has two fantastic tutorials about making this bag. Elizabeth has posted a link to purchase the instructions on her blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">#1 </span>http://occasionalpiece.wordpress.com/?s=sew+together+bag&submit=Search</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>Elizabeth has also posted a mini sew together tutorial.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">#2 </span>http://occasionalpiece.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/mini-sew-together-bag/</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #999999;">Happy </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">Christmas</span><span style="color: #999999;"> Sewing!</span></b></span></div>
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<br />Quiltalicioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14418985632320024162noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293419361451078316.post-89231218947240101902014-11-27T11:36:00.003-08:002014-11-27T11:45:17.493-08:00647 Miles & 448 Inches<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently we took a little trip and drove <span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>647</b></span><b> <span style="color: #6aa84f;">miles.</span></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is what most of the road looked like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> finish binding </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">448 inches on a quilt. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> This ginormous quilt sat on my lap for the <b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">ENTIRE TRIP.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The quilt was fun to make for <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Claire & Conrad,</span></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but this may be my first and last time I make a quilt this <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">BIG</span></b>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was just so much material to work with on my tiny Husky Star sewing machine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I even borrowed a friends sewing machine just so I could do an appliqué stitch.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lisa Johnson did a wonderful job quilting the abacus design! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which added it's own element of challenges. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Happy Thanksgiving! Eat lots of PIE!!!</span></div>
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