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Reward for a job….done

Emily — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:44:32 +0000

When I first started my tee shirt quilt project I decided that, knowing myself, I needed some incentive to finish the job. So I only bought the fabric needed for the top and the batting. I left the binding, quilting materials, and backing as a reward for at least partially completing the project. And here we are, many many months later and I finally completed the top and bought myself some new fabric. I went with silver broadcloth for the binding and this beautiful fabric from Amy Butler’s new line Soul Blossoms:

I ALSO bought new embroidery floss and a giant embroidery hoop. Anna Maria Horner inspired me to try out hand quilting. Now, I completed enough sewing projects at this point to know that I will regret the choice to hand quilt my first quilt at some point during this project. Who are we kidding, I will probably regret it at many points. But it looks so lovely when Anna Maria Horner does it.

And finally, I know this is a little overdue, but some pictures from New Years. We stayed in this year, made a great dinner, and drank champagne. We even made it until midnight. The dogs were not as excited:

Happy New Year!!!

Carhartts and Stars

Emily — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:53:03 +0000

Even though I was extremely excited to hang out with the new puppy this weekend (see the previous post), as it turns out, new puppies can’t walk, see, or hear. So I had a little free time on my hands. And I decided it was time to work on my Carhartt overalls. I chose my overalls because a) I use them for working/playing outside, so it won’t matter too much if it didn’t turn out how I planned and b) I’ve been strangely resistant to buying embroidery stabilizer and the canvas is stiff enough not to need it.

My little embroidery hoop was probably not built to handle this type of project, but it held up great. It’s really looking like spring here and I’m looking forward to some hikes and a chance to sport my new stars. What are you doing for spring?

Weekend Adventures

Emily — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:52:03 +0000

Maine has been having amazing weather lately! Even though I’m secretly hoping we’ll get some more snow for snowshoeing before the winter is over, I can’t complain about warm days days. Along with that, I finally broke down and brought my sewing machine to school. It’s usually at home so that I’m not tempted to skip studying for sewing, but I’m only human. So the machine has taken up residence in the study room. So sewing machine + beautiful weather = excellent weekend.
I finished up my tablecloth, shown in the previous post and even did a little embroidery!

Note the bright pink embroidery hoop. It was a good Valentine’s Day this year.
My roommate and I had a unintentional crafting afternoon and she used an old colorful seed bag to make a tote. It’s pretty amazing and it carries everything! The rest of the weekend was taken up with friends, Winter Olympics, and a walk in the woods with my Valentine and his brown dog. No complaints.