tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9261414327723302632024-03-05T14:27:09.459-08:00Entropy Undoneturning energy back into matter by knitting, baking, sewing, quilting, and generally taking crafty risks!JanetKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691362489883767683noreply@blogger.comBlogger113125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926141432772330263.post-90316065556553796362015-12-09T22:35:00.001-08:002015-12-09T22:35:08.629-08:00Fun times with Jewelry and more!Gosh - it's been a year and a half since I last posted on my blog!<br />
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Thing is, I'm generally over-committed, and it's gotten worse in the past few years - so if I have a bit of time, I usually opt to spend it making something rather than blogging about making something.<br />
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But I miss documenting my creative endeavors - I don't even remember to take pictures a lot of the time if I'm not blogging!<br />
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I have big news though! I am participating in the <a href="https://bluedoorbeads.wordpress.com/more-fun-stuff/third-annual-jewelry-collective/" target="_blank">Blue Door Beads Holiday Jewelry Collective</a> this year! I am soooo excited!!<br />
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Here is the photo I submitted with my application for the show:</div>
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And here are some additional pieces I made to show and sell!</div>
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If you are in the Bay Area, please come to the show!!</div>
<br />JanetKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691362489883767683noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926141432772330263.post-86704204763676867442014-07-25T16:20:00.000-07:002014-07-25T16:20:48.632-07:00Fire, glass, and metal chapter: I'm going to the Street Fair!!<div>
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I started torch firing with a new technique after reading "<a href="http://www.paintingwithfirestudio.com/" target="_blank">painting with fire</a>", by Barbara Lewis. There is a steep learning curve, and I would prefer to take a class or workshop, but I haven't seen anything like this offered in the Bay Area (though I haven't looked at The Crucible yet). So, there are a pile of failed "experiments" at that back of my bench. I really believe that training as a bench scientist was perfect preparation for this sort of thing!<br />
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Anyways - in May, the owner of my local bead shop, <a href="http://beadinspirations.com/" target="_blank">Bead Inspirations</a>, offered customers who'd spent at least $100 this year the chance to set up a table in front of the store at the Spring Park Street Fair. I had been making a lot of bits and pieces and trying new techniques, but didn't have enough pieces or time to prepare in time. But Vicki said I'd have another chance at the <a href="http://www.shopparkstreet.com/artwine.html" target="_blank">Art & Wine Faire</a> July26-27 - that's this weekend!!</div>
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Here are some pieces as a preview:</div>
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These are the most intricate using many little enameled bits.</div>
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I made a series with just the larger pansy form as a focal piece:</div>
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I made the earring card holder from two old frames (another post maybe). The photos lost some resolution in the iPad post-writing experiments - the earrings look quite lovely in person and not at all fuzzy!<br />
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Another enamel piece - I want to make more hand cut shapes and pieces. Hopefully I will be able to sell some things and be encouraged to continue playing with different techniques and designs.</div>
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I hope some of my friends will stop by and say hello this weekend - I'm excited!!</div>
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The Fair is on Park Street in Alameda between Lincoln Ave (the Bead Store and my table will be there to the right of the bandstand) 10am-6pm - check it out!!</div>
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JanetKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691362489883767683noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926141432772330263.post-7703929297336179802014-07-24T22:03:00.000-07:002014-07-24T22:53:09.946-07:00Busy busy...textile chapter<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">When my crazed work project preparing for an FDA panel was over in March, a series of events followed that have kept me equally as stressed and busy. However, I did take a week off and kind of went crazy with my sewing machine, finishing a blanket and making a few new pillow covers for our living room.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">This one is little HST scraps from the mum quilt:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3nX84zVj8UKGCF5H1hTCasyPQBX_fR81gRqucb39e_hZ5WYUZAH1uz6-OVUDxeNAF8klUPqvZ86ud8tazhGqrwJVN7NyDglbCsDPNpDyFSCREFGVbB8uk-olMC6vbR6qqNywjldVUxJw/s640/blogger-image--2048446106.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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<br>JanetKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691362489883767683noreply@blogger.com1Alameda Alameda37.765268 -122.231296tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926141432772330263.post-74426460044148248252013-10-29T21:40:00.001-07:002013-11-01T08:40:15.805-07:00Mums for my Mum - Blogger's Quilt Festival entry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I just finished a quilt that is for my mom and her new husband - "Mums for Mum", and I'm entering it into the <a href="http://amyscreativeside.com/2013/10/25/bloggers-quilt-festival-fall-2013/" target="_blank">Fall 2013 Blogger's Quilt Festival</a> at Amy's Creative Side that just happens to be this week!</div>
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I have been collecting chrysanthemum print fabrics for a few years now - mostly half yard cuts - <b><i>28 different prints in this quilt</i></b>! I have plans for a Bargello Mums and another patchwork mum quilt with the large amount of scraps from this project - yay! It's hard to give this one away, but I can think of a better cause than my own Mum. And I can keep the next one...</div>
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The pattern is called <a href="http://sew-be-it.biz/1800_quilt_patterns/twinkle.html" target="_blank">"Twinkle" from Sew Be It</a>. I saw a finished one on display at <a href="http://www.backporchfabrics.com/" target="_blank">Back Porch Fabrics </a>in Pacific Grove, CA. I love Pacific Grove - we've been going a couple times a year lately to go to the Monterey Bay Aquarium and go tide pooling at Asilomar State Beach and just hang out at our cheap and funky (but clean) motel adjacent to the butterfly grove. There's a great yarn store there too (<a href="http://www.monarchknitting.com/" target="_blank">Monarch Knitting</a>). Anyway - the sample was made with all Kaffe Fassett prints, and a few of my mums are KF too, and all the prints together are a riot of color - so I knew what I'd been stockpiling mums for at that moment!</div>
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I built each block with some light/dark contrast and then pieced them so that you can see sort of large pinwheel shapes alternating across the quilt. It came out fairly subtle since there are a lot of mid-range prints among my mums. But I like movement in such a bright "printy" quilt and I think I got what I was trying to achieve.</div>
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I'm not terribly accomplished as a quilter, so this large quilt was a bit ambitious for me. I quilted it in 2 pieces and then attached them together. The quilting itself is a mix of hand quilting the center stars for each block, then using concentric organic wavy outline around the stars by freehand using my machine. There are a lot of imperfections that I'm not very happy about - but since the overall effect is really cool I will call it a success. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">The binding was cut from a Marimekko scrap that I got at the Crate and Barrel Outlet store - they sell scraps for $0.50 each and you can pull out pretty good sized pieces if you fish through the bins. The yardage is a great buy too, but I don't remember exact price. This piece was simple blocks of reds from light to a dark burgundy. I attached by machine and then handstitched to the back.</span></div>
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This quilt makes me so happy! I hope it brings joy and light and warmth to my mom and her new husband for many many years to come. <i>(I love you, mom!)</i></div>
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JanetKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691362489883767683noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926141432772330263.post-12241633733763043422013-08-04T12:38:00.001-07:002013-08-04T12:38:51.921-07:00Basel yarn bomb!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
No Words Needed...this is a draft post I made something like more than a year ago - back when I used to go to Basel fairly often...One trip a friend and I were crossing one of the bridges in Basel and came across this awesome yarn bomb!</div>
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<br />JanetKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691362489883767683noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926141432772330263.post-32299692001768052762012-12-21T10:46:00.001-08:002012-12-21T11:37:38.741-08:00New knit FOs - a couple of scarvesConfession - these are no longer "new" FOs...but I haven't posted them yet, so this is a catch up. I'm knitting cowls and scarves compulsively lately - so much <strike>obsessing </strike>on my mind that my hands need to keep busy. I've been squishing a lot of bits of journaling, reading, crafting, holiday stuff into the cracks of my overburdened schedule in fact.<br />
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But as of today, I'm on holiday - too bad I have a million things to take care of and still some work work to do, but I am happy that I'll have the next couple of weeks away from an office or a commute and that's a fact!<br />
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First up in the catch up is my "Seattle Summer" scarf - this was a single ball of thick and thin cotton blend that I picked up at a cute little LYS in Seattle on Teen Wonder's birthday in September. Now, in December, this scarf isn't holding up to the chill, but I really like the crisscross of the thick parts. What was the yarn called, you say? Well, if I hadn't lost the ball band I would be in a position to say. but alas, that is not the case.<br />
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Okay - next up is a frilly scarf that I knit for Mr. Wonderful's mom, aka Awesome MIL. She handed me a ball of <a href="http://www.redheart.com/yarn/boutique-sashay" target="_blank">this novelty yarn</a> (Red Heart Sashay) and explained how you knit into the edge of the lacy ribbon - it was a bit tricky, but a pretty quick knit and fun results.<br />
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Then I went to the craft store and picked up a couple more colorways and some other novelty scarf yarns too - so I'll share those after Christmas since some of them are being gifted.<br />
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Linking to a couple of Friday linky parties -<br />
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And also <a href="http://sewwellmaide.com.au/2012/12/tgiff-xmas-is-here.html" target="_blank">TGIFF!</a><br />
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HO! HO! HO! Have a great holiday!!JanetKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691362489883767683noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926141432772330263.post-82824139521122742752012-12-07T23:00:00.000-08:002012-12-07T23:00:33.928-08:00some sewing: electronics cases for Teen Wonder and me<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Since I haven't been posting regularly, I actually have a little backlog of little projects that I want to share. First up today? My iPad cover. I got an iPad for my birthday, and of course needed something to protect it when I carry it around - just a simple little envelope cover with this cute Japanese doll fabric and lined with flannel. </div>
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Around the same time (well, two weeks later), Teen Wonder got a Kindle Fire for her birthday - so of course I'd already figured out how to make a nice cover for a tablet and just needed to go down in size a bit. I also made a little zippy pouch for her to carry her charging cord. I should make one of those for my iPad too!</div>
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Below is what is on my sewing table at the moment - so far, it's a jelly roll race with mostly Kaffe Fassett strips. I have a plan for the entire quiilt as a large bed size, but this is as far as I've gotten so far:</div>
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And if you are reading this, maybe you'll go over to the <a href="http://vintaj.com/wpblog/?p=17046" target="_blank">Vintaj Design Challenge and vote for my pendant - it's #6!</a> You can also see the details in my previous post<br />
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I entered my penant into this online competition on the <a href="http://vintaj.com/wpblog/?p=17046" target="_blank">Vintaj Blog</a> - winner is determined by blog reader votes. It is entry #6 - <a href="http://vintaj.com/wpblog/?p=17046" target="_blank">please check it out and cast a vote</a>! There are several lovely designs there, but I hope you will vote for mine of course.<br />
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<br />JanetKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691362489883767683noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926141432772330263.post-62023058881414136612012-12-02T10:35:00.002-08:002012-12-02T10:37:49.896-08:00Adventures in jewelry making<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When you don't blog for a long time, stuff happens. hopefully. That is, if you are extremely busy and you only have so many hours in a day, you'd probably spend your extra couple of hours each week working on something craftsy rather than blogging about how you have no time to work on anything craftsy, right? Well, that's been my MO for the past, oh, I'd say at least 5 months - since I took on some additional work responsibilities, moved Teen Wonder to college, and started a new school year with Wild Thing.<br />
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But I have done a few things while I've been not hanging out in blogland.I've loaded photos for a couple of posts so I can just do some blogging on the fly while I'm traveling this week.<br />
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Today's post includes some jewelry pieces I've worked on over the past few months, starting with my most recent - the "Elegant Twinkling Lights" pendant. You'll see this pendant one more time this week because I designed this for a little online contest at the Vintaj blog and I'll ask you all to go vote for my piece!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This piece is made with natural brass pieces from the Vintaj line combined with crystal facet beads in sort of a shimmery greenish topaz hue. I'm really happy with how it turned out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Next up some "scrabble tile" pendants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I bought these tile pendant "kits" on pickyourplum.com probably a year ago (?). I've been trying to go through my craft stash and work with the impulse buys I've made and either make them into things or give them away. These are cute, but I guess the scrabble tile thing is a bit passe. Oh well, they make cute little gifts and accent pieces to wear. I glued bales to the backs of all of these, but have only added a chain to a few. Gave one to my mom and one to Teen Wonder, and kept two for myself (below)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fall Leaves - made with Japanese paper from the Diaso store (love that place!)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This sugar tile was cut from my biochemical pathways poster</span></td></tr>
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These next two are copper enamel with my butane torch, plus some stamping. I have some additional enamel pieces that I haven't turned into jewelry yet. It's a good way to get out of my head and play for an hour or so in the garage!</div>
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The red disc in the second pendant is the same size as the purple disc in the one above - both were made with old pennies.</div>
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I hope everyone has a great week! Tomorrow I'll post a link for my twinkling pendant and ask you all to vote for my design (if you like it). I'm off to Switzerland tonight for the week.</div>
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JanetKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691362489883767683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926141432772330263.post-47769388630810816002012-10-05T21:59:00.000-07:002012-10-05T22:08:39.418-07:00(almost) instant gratification...I haven't been blogging lately. I've been squishing a little knitting in here or there (with mistakes, grrr) and I took another class at the bead shop here in Alameda (<a href="http://beadinspirations.com/" target="_blank">Bead Inspirations</a>). Last time I blogged, it was about the torch enamel class I took. This time it was a cold metalwork class - texturing, punching, stamping, riveting, coloring and patinas, that sort of thing. It was fun! There is a commercial line of brass blanks and ornamental findings and charms called "Vintaj" that is pretty addictive - this workshop featured those products heavily. But I wanted to learn about stamping, riveting and different metals or patinas mostly. I've had some design ideas in my head to combine enamel, metalsmithing, and beading for some simple jewelry designs - but mostly it's a good escape for a few hours to go somewhere where you've paid good money to have fun and learn something! Personal time for me has been in short order lately.<br />
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Here are the things I worked on at the class:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This pendant was actually the result of poor punching alignment on my first square blank - I was determined to make something of it! The blank was textured with a riveting hammer, and the peridot beads I did little wire wraps to attach to extra holes. I polished the blank under the flower spray piece just a bit to make the spray and beads pop a little. It's very small and detailed, but I like it and have worn it this week.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A little book was our first project in the workshop - both the front and back covers are textured and hammered, and I stamped "SOAR" after choosing to put a bird on it (heh). My first attempt at stamping, so my "S" took 2 tries and you can see the stutter close up. I used sharpie for a faux patina - scrubbed off a bit. I need to put some pages inside and string it on a cord - maybe a little care package gift for Teen Wonder?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And these wee owls riveted to a little rectangular blank. I'm not sure they will stay. I have to complain a little about how the Vintaj rivets are too large for the Vintaj product holes - so you have to ream them out with an exacto knife - they were so thin - you can see they got hammered out from under the rivet, so I don't know if this piece will stay together yet. </td></tr>
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I got out all my old beads, findings, charms and tools too. What a crazy mess! I spent one evening while <strike>obsessing</strike> thinking about stuff at work and being insomniac, sorting through it all and organizing it. It's amazing to me how sorting through materials can result in some fun matchings and discoveries in a short period of time!<br />
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First, I wanted to try my stamping idea with a little enamel piece I made in our new workshop (I have TWO crafting areas now!!).<br />
A STAR is born:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stamped on a basic washer from the hardware store and wire wrapped to hang from the chain, along with a tiny star bead (I'm practicing wire wrapping, which I've never really done before. Maybe a class for that would be useful.</td></tr>
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I wanted to turn my little torch enamel pairs from the class into earrings too.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cute! And more ambitious wire wrapping - but Mr. Wonderful commented that he liked the wire work totally unsolicited - he said it really added a nice detail. He's so nice to me and almost always says the right thing without any prompting. Amazing.</td></tr>
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Then I got to the pile of pieces of beadwork that had been damaged or broken and hadn't seen the light of day for years - so with a new confidence in bead crimping and stringing technique that may have been partly based in reality of new mad skills and partly fueled by a glass of wine, I restrung these beautiful dark blue-purplish beads that match above earrings nicely (and they've been in the bead stash for at least 12 years!)<br />
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And repaired this lariat style necklace (??10 years gone? 9?8?) - not a total re-string, just one of the lariat ends had come unstrung...<br />
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Lastly I got brave enough to select a strong beading wire and restring the pearls that Mr. Wonderful gave me as a wedding gift - I wore them at our wedding and many many times after. Then one day one of the double strings broke and I was too afraid to keep wearing them with a single string. They are so pretty and it's nice to have them back.<br />
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I have some other little projects that I need to photograph and post too - as well as a bunch of pix from my blackberry that I took in Basel early spring of a yarn bomb project there. Totally cool! since I'm not producing much lately by way of impressive projects, at least I'll have those pix to post soon. These public knitting projects are so fascinating - I had read about several before, but stumbled on the one in Basel completely randomly and by accident!<br />
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I will see if it's not too late to link up with Sarah's Whoop Whoop! Friday party and the <a href="http://betteroffthread.com/2012/10/04/tgiff-over-the-rainbow-mini-quilt/" target="_blank">TGIFF linky</a> - I just haven't been in blog-land lately and I miss reading and looking at everyone's creativity Don't you hate when life gets in the way of your craftiness? (sigh)\<br />
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JanetKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691362489883767683noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926141432772330263.post-63981717308892069382012-09-14T21:38:00.002-07:002012-09-14T21:38:44.882-07:00Torch enamel - fun with fire!Three weeks ago, I took a class at my local bead shop (Bead Inspirations). I haven't done any beading projects for quite a long time, but I love making jewelry. It's just another great craft that I don't have enough time for. But I have a pendant from Lisbon that is copper enamel with these great details including what looks like fused wire - almost a cloisonné. I should take a photo and amend this post later but right now I'm writing from a hotel room in Olympia WA. It is move-in weekend for Teen Wonder and today is her birthday. I have some work work to do too, but we are going in to Seattle for fun this afternoon as per her birthday request.<br />
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I get the emails from <a href="http://beadinspirations.com/" target="_blank">Bead Inspirations</a> regularly even though I haven't been such a regular customer. I haven't ever taking a beading class or metalsmithing either, so even the stuff I've done in the past has all been self taught. I have always wanted to take a proper class to learn wire-wrapping the right way and expand my skills. A pair of nice earrin gs is such great instant gratification, you know? But last month a different kind of class caught my eye - Torch Enamel! Cool! I did copper enamel as a child at church camp. The craft lady was Hazel, and she was awesome! We did all sorts of things that probably a summer camp couldn't do anymore due to insurance and liability issues. Like using a kiln to fire copper enamel (Hazel did that part for full disclosure, at least most of the time). I didn't<br />
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The class was terrific! We used pennies as blanks and jumped right into it with thorough but minimal lecture to learn. Very hands on.<br />
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JanetKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691362489883767683noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926141432772330263.post-82180721384350874592012-09-08T14:54:00.001-07:002012-09-08T15:02:40.660-07:00T-shirt quilt finish! (finally...)At long last, I have finished Teen Wonder's T-shirt quilt!<br />
Yay!<br />
A few weeks ago I was ready to have a nervous breakdown over this thing - It's long so it can cover her dorm bed...and I had a heck of a time basting it. bleh.<br />
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But here it is in all it's glory! I'm happy with how it turned out, and Teen Wonder loves it.<br />
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The backing is the Polka Dot extra wide backing fabric from Moda - I like it, and it looks great; however, it was less substantial feeling than regular quilting cotton. Maybe partially because I pre-washed it which is a step I do or don't do for the backing depending on whether the front fabrics were pre-washed. I did a very simple organic (i.e. not marked or straight) "straight" line quilting at 2-4" apart running up the length of the quilt. I mainly want it to hold together and I didn't leave any negative space for fancy quilting (not that I know how to do fancy quilting!). Plus I like that the minimalist approach doesn't distract from the random T-shirt themes and motifs.<br />
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Teen Wonder takes off tomorrow with her dad to drive up to Portland. I'll fly up Thursday and move her into her dorm in Olympia next Saturday.<br />
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I'm excited for her, but it's starting to dawn on me all the little ways we will miss her here.<br />
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I'm linking up to some of the Friday finish parties - it's been quite awhile since I've posted. Busy times for me lately! Please follow these links to find more awesome projects posted by talented people:<br />
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TGIFF is hosted at <a href="http://quokkaquilts.blogspot.com/2012/09/tgiff-september-storyboek.html" target="_blank">Quokka Quilts</a> this week!<br />
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JanetKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691362489883767683noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926141432772330263.post-89514730968338709802012-08-10T22:19:00.001-07:002012-08-10T22:34:40.442-07:00Marimekko tableclothWe have a Crate and Barrel Outlet store nearby in Berkeley. I don't get over there very often, but it is fun to go for many reasons. A couple of times I've bought really nice fabric there and used it for projects. They usually have yardage of Marimekko designs, and I usually love love them...<br />
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Like the huge bulletin board/wall in our kitchen:<br />
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This nook area looks WAY different today, but I don't have time at the moment to take a new photo. We love having a whole wall to pin things onto!<br />
(btw: I used a <a href="http://shisomama.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/how-to-homasote-bulletin-board/" target="_blank">tutorial here</a> for a fabric covered large homasote bulletin board)<br />
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I used a similar fabric to <a href="http://entropyundone.blogspot.com/2011/06/when-you-just-cant-put-iron-board-away.html" target="_blank">cover my ironing board </a>last year. I had picked up a few yards of each not knowing what I'd do with them, but they were ?? I don't remember, but less than $5 a yard I think. <br />
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More recently I did the same thing, but I had a specific project in mind - a new table cloth.<br />
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Now, this is exactly the kind of project I had in mind when I got my serger for a birthday present a couple of years ago. I figured I could whip out new tablecloths and napkins like crazy with a rolled edge stitching.<br />
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And I serged the edges of the seams to prevent any unraveling since we wash our tablecloths a lot.<br />
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I was making placemats with the scraps, but I made a mistake and had to abandon that project for now. Between kid stuff and a HUGE increase in my job responsibilities added to travel to 3 cities in the past 3 weeks...well. Let's just say that I took photos of this table cloth at least 3 weeks ago. And I don't have any other finishes lately, or much activity in the craft corner.<br />
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I did find a bunch of photos on my Blackberry of a yarn bomb project that I saw last time I was in Basel (late June) - I will download and post some here after my vacation this week. It's pretty cool.<br />
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And also <a href="http://blossomheartquilts.blogspot.com/2012/08/tgiff-i-spy-giveaway.html" target="_blank">TGIFF</a>! (where there is also a little giveaway!)JanetKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691362489883767683noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926141432772330263.post-51613518653360052322012-07-13T21:28:00.001-07:002012-07-13T21:34:57.021-07:00Last minute Whoopursepalooza!Last minute entry to the Purse Palooza! (button on your right!)<br />
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I made a cute little framed clutch using U-Handbag's Fortune Cookie pattern (and frame).<br />
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The fabric is matching the piece I used for my messenger bag makeover posted last week. It's from the Laura Gunn Lantern Bloom collection. I love this fabric! The lining is a bit of Denyse Schmidt to coordinate.<br />
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I didn't enter the messenger bag in the Purse Palooza because strictly speaking, I did not make the bag - I just gave it a lovely facelift. But I will say that the Palooza inspired me to make some bags in the past couple of months, so even though winning a contest is always a longshot with so many talented people out there - this event was quite effective!<br />
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I will also link up with the fabulous Friday linky parties, as usual:<br />
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And <a href="http://quiltmatters.blogspot.com/2012/07/tgiff-growing-up-is-easy-to-do.html" target="_blank">TGIFF over at Quilt Matters</a><br />
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<a href="http://piecefullife-elizabeth.blogspot.com/2012/07/show-off-friday-finished-lingerie-bags.html" target="_blank">Show-off Friday with Elizabeth at Pieceful life</a><br />
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I have gotten so many of these, that I've donated several, or even left them behind in the hotel room if they are particularly poorly made or too big to take home (like wheelie backpacks from China, for example). Once in a rare while I will save one to use, usually as a beach bag or something where I don't mind it getting ruined. This past April, at the European liver congress ("EASL"), we got pretty decent canvas messenger bags. Sponsored by Roche and all Fair Trade and organic and stuff (hey, good job employer - it's nice to be proud of your conference bag!).<br />
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I immediately thought "hey, I should just hack this to somehow not look like a conference bag anymore 'cuz it's actually pretty decent and a good size with a good length strap for cross-body carriage". Wel yl, last weekend we went to the Alameda County Fair, and I wanted a bag with a long strap for the day. Why couldn't I use one I already had? Well, that takes away my excuse for spending an extra 15 minutes (okay, it may have been a little longer) to transform this bag.<br />
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Inside is simple with a single side pocket, but all completely finished with a full lining (not the norm for most conference bags). The strap is a little scratchy and did shed a little on my black jacket at the conference. I might make a cover for it later, but not within this15 minute window of time.</div>
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Like any project, gathering up materials takes longer than you plan for. But it didn't take me long to locate this piece of fabric in my stash - just a FQ or so size scrap. I also found some brown bias tape in the huge stash of trims and tape that my mom recently brought me - my grandmother's old stash (I need to make a post just about that soon). I used Heat&Bond to fuse it to the outside cover of the bag by 1) cutting a piece of each to fit the front of the bag with about 1/2" extra at the top edge. I fused the interfacing to the fabric, trimmed it a bit to fit, and then pressed the 1/2" under to give a clean edge where I wouldn't be able to attach binding tape. Gotta love Heat&Bond! I haven't used it much before, but I just peeled off the paper and pressed the fabric onto the bag - easy peasy!</div>
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After fusing the fabric on, I just stitched the binding tape onto the bag, and then stitched across the top to secure the edge of the fabric. I just folded the ends of the tape under on each side before stitching so I wouldn't have any raw edges. And Presto!<br />
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I love me some instant gratification - don't you? And not only do I have a new messenger bag that I love, but I saved something from being tossed out.<br />
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I hope everyone is having a great weekend! I'm actually in Pacific Grove (Monterey) for a few days with the kiddos - Mr. Wonderful's birthday present this year is a little time without us to do whatever guy stuff he never gets around to when he's busy being a family man. We kinda miss him though. But the fog is getting lighter so it must be time for us to go to the beach!<br />
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Linking up with Whoop! Whoop! at Sarah's <br />
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and <a href="http://quokkaquilts.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">TGIFF at Quokka Quilts</a> (I can't get the button to work properly today, oops!)<br />
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<center></center>JanetKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691362489883767683noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926141432772330263.post-60539421647627673272012-06-29T14:33:00.000-07:002012-06-29T14:33:13.412-07:00Class of 2012 - party on with DIY cupcake stand and more!It's actually been 2 weeks since Teen Wonder graduated - yay! It has been a bit of a crazy month all in all, since end of school year always involves a lot of extra kid-ventures and parties. I didn't take enough pictures of any of it...but that's usually because I'm living in the moment, right? That's a good thing.<br />
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Anyway, we threw her a graduation open house party the day after graduation and invited all manner of family and friends - anyone who played a big role in Teen Wonder's life. After a lot of preparation, and an unnecessary amount of anxiety on my part, and help from my mom and Mr. Wonderful, it all turned out quite fabulous! So, I just wanted to share some of the DIY bits that I put into the party...<br />
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First up? A cupcake stand. I decided early on to have cupcakes rather than a big cake because for an open house that made more sense. I found a great place that made and delivered the cupcakes, but I realized after ordering them that I didn't have a cupcake stand. I didn't want to just lay them all out on a platter, so after looking at cupcake stands on Amazon I looked for tutorials on making your own. I didn't follow a specific tutorial, because I decided to go the easiest route possible. A trip to the Thrift store scored me all the materials for about $10 - three white plates (one a little smaller than the other 2), 2 candlesticks, and a little class dish for the base.<br />
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Assembly was super easy - I just put the E6000 on the bottom of the glass dish and stuck it on the bottom of one of the larger plates, then did the same for each of the candlesticks.</div>
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After drying for a few hours, I put glue on the other end of the candlesticks and stacked the plates into 3 layers. Dry overnight and voila! But actually I was glad I made it a week early because the E6000 took a couple of days more before the smell was not detectable.<br />
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And here it is loaded up with cupcakes!</div>
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The dessert table looked awesome! I made the banner by printing the letters on yellow cardstock and my mom strung a ribbon through two holes in the tops to hang it.</div>
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Teen Wonder and my mom made the sugar cookies, and I made the little grad caps using mini PB cups and little dark chocolate wafers (there are a few tutorials out there about these caps too - not my own invention!)</div>
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And how much fun is it to order custom M&Ms? A lot!</div>
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Lots of good food, lots of balloons, and a little crepe paper made up the rest of the party prep indoors.</div>
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Outside to greet people were more balloons (including a mylar bouquet that attacked guests when the wind gusts came through), and my mom (calligraphy artist) decorated the front window with window chalk markers. I made a Class of 2012 flag with a scrap of muslin, and iron-on design made in Word, and some Washi tape.</div>
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Finally - when the open house started and no one was here yet, we broke out the photo albums and champagne and had a few minutes to relax! </div>
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I do wish I'd taken a photo of the punch bowl too - I made punch with orange sherbet, tropical juice blend, and sprite - it was a HUGE hit!</div>
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Since it's Friday - let's link up! </div>
<center><a href="http://www.confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/search/label/whoop-whoop"><img border="0" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5167/5372122697_1c845b829a_m.jpg" /></a></center> and TGIFF at <a href="http://ssparrowinflight.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Sparrow in Flight</a> this week<br />
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Last weekend I finished this bag. It's been crazy around here, and I actually became obsessed with finishing it I think because I had so much stress about Teen Wonder's graduation and party plus all the end of year activities with Wild Thing's school, baseball team, etc. But also it had to be really awesome because this isn't just any bag. This was a sweater re-purposed. And not just any sweater - but a sweater made by a good friend. A sweater made with love and numerous hours and lovely Icelandic wool yarn. My college room-mate J. made this sweater for me back in the mid-80s. I thought I took a "before" photo of it, but haven't located it yet. If I do I'll amend the post to include it. But I'll tell you it was big and roomy (and I'm not small!), with a shawl collar, and it was covered in bobbles (those things are not easy either - well, at least they are way time consuming to knit).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>The J. Sweater before - the lighting is a bit green because the photo was taken in our basement right under the fluorescent lights. But you can see the amazing work it took to knit this up!</i></b></td></tr>
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The thing is, after I moved to California in Fall, 1988, I probably could count on one hand the number of occasions that I could wear this sweater. My sensitive skin meant that I had to wear a full turtleneck underneath, and did I mention it was nice Icelandic wool? I think I took it to the mountains a few times and played in the snow fully warm and protected from snowballs in this sweater. But I rarely traveled with it even when I went places I could use it because it was pretty bulky to pack. But no way could I get rid of such a special gift!<br />
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After I learned to knit in 2004 and also learned about felting, I wondered if there would be some way to convert all the lovely knit fabric of the sweater into something else. I made a couple of felted purses, and liked how the knit fabric transforms to a strong bag worthy material. But I didn't have the nerve to suggest this to J. until I had some clear idea how it might look like. Anyway, this bag design emerged after felting the sweater and spending a few months looking at it and trying to imagine how it would look in various forms before I would even make a single cut. And now this is the end result:<br />
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I cut the sleeves off first, and then opted to flip the sweater upside down and make the ribbed bottom band of the sweater the upper edge of the bag. I ended up cutting the sweater at the arm pits, and I snipped out the collar to use for the purse flap. I did a modest box shape at the bottom corners of the bag to give it some shape.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">The handles and lining were constructed using some ultra-suede leftover from my dining room re-upholstery project back here. I will say that I probably wouldn't opt to do this again even though I love the look. I just don't have an industrial strength machine, so multiple layers of ultra-suede and felted wool were extremely hard on my machine. And my fingers!</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjukMH3EGA3M5RerwLsoYrpGjg2eN0S7X1F2xzWANdCgsft3qPwW-nEfH8Pc51kBUN9ZcDVkYzn3p0W90ouSPRRHr4uClUdqZTE_rJlBTSGjGN50LYgQzu1JSYFz48s9Pd7DdMIscm7ID8/s1600/J-sweater-purse-inside.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjukMH3EGA3M5RerwLsoYrpGjg2eN0S7X1F2xzWANdCgsft3qPwW-nEfH8Pc51kBUN9ZcDVkYzn3p0W90ouSPRRHr4uClUdqZTE_rJlBTSGjGN50LYgQzu1JSYFz48s9Pd7DdMIscm7ID8/s1600/J-sweater-purse-inside.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="text-align: center;">Inside there is a full zipper divider pocket, so the bag can be more or less a zippered bag with my wallet and any other valuables. I added a smaller patch pocket inside with a pen slot and space for notebook and cell phone. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">I love the look of the hardware details on the handles, and there is a magnetic snap in the flap. The flap looked nice alone - the angle at the bottom of the ribbed flap is a nice detail. But still a little unadorned, so I made a little fabric flower to finish off the look.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I hope J. will approve - there are a lot of mistakes that I learned from, but none that diminish the end result significantly. It's a good size for a laptop or folio and books. It's less suitable to a number of fat lumpy things just because the depth of the bottom is not very large. It's also seasonable most of the year here in the Bay Area.</span><br />
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And there is still some bobbly felt that I may be able to use in a second smaller bag or something!<br />
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I am entering this bag into the <a href="http://www.sewsweetness.com/2012/05/purse-palooza-2012.html" target="_blank">Purse Palooza over at Sew Sweetness </a>. If you are a fan of hand-crafted purses and bags, check it out! <br />
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Friday Linky parties!<br />
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<br />JanetKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691362489883767683noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926141432772330263.post-69817185849036095392012-06-01T12:39:00.000-07:002012-06-01T13:00:11.885-07:00Friday Finish - Fat Geese in all their glory!YES! I finally finished binding this quilt and put it through the wash.<br />
I. love. this. quilt.<br />
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I remember spending so much time with graph paper and colored pencils agonizing over the design when I started this quilt.. I wanted to use the warm HSTs and the cool ones to create a ziggy sense of movement across the quilt. I was really happy when I f<a href="http://entropyundone.blogspot.com/2011/04/lifein-which-you-should-always-expect.html" target="_blank">inished the top way back when</a>, because I really felt like I'd gotten the effect I was looking for. I didn't come up with the pattern - I took it from a Fat Quarterly Zine - Issue 1 (see original below). It was designed by Katy at <a href="http://imagingermonkey.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">I'm a Ginger Monkey</a>. It's a fun way to arrange HSTs to make these large flying geese - and you can see there are a number of ways to design with different fabric and quilting choices.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/imagingermonkey/4434304759/" title="Fat Geese on a fence by ImAGingerMonkey, on Flickr"><img alt="Fat Geese on a fence" src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4037/4434304759_766de2afbe.jpg" /></a>
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I used a zigzag quilting pattern for my version - I'd like this think I decided on this to enhance the ziggy color movement, but I think it just seemed like a fun way to shadow quilt along each side of the HST seam lines. The back is made simply with two pieces of flannel from the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3zInKwK52eHXJ9QUPXtWbFuui7_0bKwUZj-m2irL4jXXAN2KRkn_vVeva-6wR176CuwG6thwidVOD7bbcaWot_iy_Nv42ukutUzLFXigku2BUe_DwfHzj7swxJoyUzvM-dBh0Txs6J_Y/s1600/WeeWoodland-bundle-450.jpg" target="_blank">Wee Woodland fabric line</a> - the majority of HSTs also use charms of the same line, but there are quite a large number of other things mixed in there from my stash of scraps and charms.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">I think that upside down you get a more zigzag feeling, but maybe I'm just smitten with the quilt from any angle.</span><br />
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Gratuitous close up shots. I like the little bunny. There are lots of little "I spys" in this quilt like that, though I didn't do any real fussy cutting.<br />
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Happy Friday to everyone! I'm linking up with the usual suspects, so visit these parties and check out some more eye candy on the web!<br />
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Last year, <a href="http://entropyundone.blogspot.com/2011/05/and-now-for-something-completely.html" target="_blank">Teen Wonder was "Vocaloid Rin"</a> for cosplay and I made a relatively elaborate costume for her. It was fun, and I like making costumes, and especially for my kids.<br />
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And this may be the last one I make for Teen Wonder, as she's graduating and going off to college in the fall.<br />
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This year? Fiona from the Gender-bender episode of "Adventure Time". Adventure time is our favorite show to watch as a family - it's on cartoon network on Monday evenings (the new episodes, but it's on other times as well). I've featured <a href="http://the%20finn%20hat%20-%20not%20really%20a%20tutorial.../" target="_blank">Adventure Time once before</a> when I endeavored to make a Finn hat for Wild Thing for Christmas. The regular version features Jake the Dog and Finn the Human. The gender bender version (just one episode) features Cake the Cat and Fiona the Human.<br />
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I made a hat with longer ears that stick up (the challenge)<br />
I made a backpack<br />
I made a blue denim miniskirt.<br />
I made a Cake.<br />
I found the longest striped socks I could.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>The full effect! She just needs a large pink jewel that transforms into a sword. I know, I know. But I ran out of time!</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Close up of the backpack - completely improvised using felt and flannel and a big button and a functional zipper so it can actually be used to carry stuff around in.</i></b></span></div>
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It's been 3 weeks since my last <strike> confession</strike> post. I do have an almost finish to share - my Fat Geese Quilt top is now a quilt. I'm hand stitching the binding, but it's proving to be a longer task than I planned. Firstly because it is pretty large (72in x 72in), and secondly I used a pre-washed flannel for the backing and maybe I need to go dig out a sharper needle! Just a couple of preview pix:<br />
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I can't wait to finish this one - it's been quite awhile since I finished the top - and it's already a hit around here even though you risk getting stuck with a needle in the thigh if you throw it over you at the moment.<br />
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Okay, how many of you have broken TWO walking feet in the space of a year (or maybe 2)?<br />
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I basted my Fat Geese quilt from oh so long ago, and was quilting along a few days ago when things just stopped moving. And I noticed that the plastic (!) shank was broken off on one side. dammit!<br />
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It was totally my fault that the first one got broken - the Janome foot that came with the machine. This one was a Kenmore and looked totally different. Mr. Wonderful picked it up at the local shop for me and the guy told him (repeatedly) that "they are the same" and "it will work fine". Well, it did work for awhile, but I'm just too abusive for a plastic shank I think. Especially since I'm trying a bigger quilt and I haven't worked out how to manage it with my standard machine.<br />
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I may need to dust off the ancient Singer that's sitting around and use it to work on the quilt this weekend. I know I have a walking foot for it, but I don't know what kind of condition it's in. (sigh)<br />
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Anyway, this meant that I had time to finish my Lanesplitter skirt. I'm wearing it right now! To the office and everything! And I'm about to go home and have a date night with Mr. Wonderful and I'm going to wear it!<br />
I really love how it turned out with one exception - I used the wrong type of yarn for the waistband - too bulky. It adds to my waist which is not flattering for anyone. But under a jacket you can't notice.<br />
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Lanesplitter is a knitty.com pattern in case any of you want to try it. I'll be loading pix up on Ravelry later - you can find the pattern there too I'm sure. I used Silk Garden by Noro - you knit alternating two balls with out of synch color striping to get this effect (knit, purl, knit knit the rows over and over switching yarn every two rows). It's knit on the bias - just a big rectangle that you stitch up and then knit on a waistband (use a smaller cotton blend would be my advice - I just used Mission Falls cotton because I had a complementary color).</div>
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Pretty cool! Happy Friday too! I'm going to link up to some parties before I sign off!<br />
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This is my "Dot Couture" quilt - made from Urban Couture by Basic Grey using the "Dot Party" pattern that was published in Quilts and More (now available as individual pattern from Jaybird Quilts. Actually I think the pattern name in the magazine may be different. But I'm 99% sure the actual pattern is the same, but without options for other sizes figured out for you. </div>
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I'm going to attempt to link up to <a href="http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sarah's Whoop Whoop!</a> party and also at <a href="http://thepeonyteacup.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">TGIFF hosted this week by The Peony Teacup</a>!</div>JanetKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691362489883767683noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926141432772330263.post-10190797664180259432012-04-13T19:23:00.000-07:002012-04-13T19:23:14.758-07:00oh, is it really Friday? okay, lemme show you my Honey CowlI haven't had much time to do anything crafty lately - and when I do it's back to 10-15 minutes here or there. Or portable knitting (and crochet as I shared last week!).<br />
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So, this week I finished my Honey Cowl. I really like it. I like the whole "cowl movement" that seems to have happened. I love my scarves, but they seem to drift around on my and then next thing I know I'll have a long tail getting caught in the car door. Flapping in the wind. yup.<br />
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I think I showed this way long ago as a WIP - it has been an on again/off again project for me. Nice and portable, but lower priority than, say, learning to crochet to make Piggy slippers (big hit! yay!)<br />
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Super easy but interesting stitch - the pattern is called "<a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/honey-cowl" target="_blank">Honey cowl</a>" - I'm thinking because of the honeycomb look? Anyway, it's available as a free download on Ravelry.com if you want to check it out. This one is made of Rowan Cashsoft which has some amount of cashmere. It's a really neutral color and that's very unusual for me unless I'm knitting for Mr. Wonderful. But I'm loving it so far.</div>
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Cody thinks it should be a cat cowl. But he is sadly mistaken.<br />
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Have a great weekiend! I'm going to do some link-ups for this Friday evening post:<br />
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<a href="http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Whoop Whoop! with Sarah</a> <br />
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TGIFF is over at <a href="http://quiltmatters.blogspot.com/2012/04/tgiff-mod-1600.html" target="_blank">Quilt Matters </a>today<br />
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And if you want to see what I've been up to with the <a href="http://gardenvarietydiabetic.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Health Activist Writer's Month Challenge</a> - that's been pretty interesting with a different writing prompt each day. Haiku, letter to my 16 y/o self...all kinds of shenanigans!<br />
<br />JanetKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691362489883767683noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926141432772330263.post-2697058541732758962012-04-06T10:29:00.000-07:002012-04-06T10:30:29.226-07:00This little piggy went to Market...Actually, THIS little piggy has been to Tucson, Nutley NJ, and San Diego all in the space of 3 weeks. The last trip was a spring break family mini-vacation...but my point being that I haven't been at my sewing machine or craft space for over 3 weeks. But fortunately, knitting is portable so I usually have something on the needles to work on.<br />
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I've also taken on a couple of writing challenges lately - one was to write in a Gratitude Journal every day during Lent. The other is that I'm participating in the <a href="http://gardenvarietydiabetic.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Health Activist Writers Month Challenge over on my other blog.</a><br />
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My Friday Finish this week are these "Pudgy Piggy Slippers" (I'm playing with my camera settings and post-processing, so the colors are a bit different. I guess the bottom photo is more accurate, but I like the top photo.<br />
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Here is the story about these slippers. My super cute niece and god-daughter sent me a letter several weeks ago with one of those free patterns that you can pull off a tablet hanging in the yard aisles at Michaels. For these slippers. She "fell in love with them" and her mom told her that while she couldn't make the slippers, her Aunty Janet could. (!)</div>
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Only problem? I don't know (or didn't know) how to crochet. So I went back and reviewed some of the Crochet School lessons at CraftyMinx. Then I had to go to redheart.com to download a full size version of the pattern because my old eyes couldn't handle the teeny version from the craft store. The pattern is all done in SC (single crochet), so I thought I could tackle it.</div>
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And of course because it's my first crochet experience, I had to rip out the first slipper after the second one looked better and more correct...so it was actually a fairly "big" project. But I can single crochet like nobody's fool now - increases, decreases, circles...Next project needs to use some other stitches so I can learn those too.</div>
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Miss Thing's Birthday was Sunday, but we were out of town - and the slippers weren't finished yet. But I'll see her on Easter - I hope they fit! I hope I remember to take a photo with them on! Here is the Red Heart photo she fell in love with.</div>
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<br />JanetKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691362489883767683noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926141432772330263.post-65257840423494959242012-03-25T20:23:00.001-07:002012-03-25T20:23:10.553-07:00My new camera bag - big Whoop!I got a DLSR months and months ago - and it's been sitting on a shelf in the original box except when I use it. Which hasn't been enough because I didn't have a bag I could throw it in to take along with me.<br />
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I got this idea from a tutorial I found online to turn a regular purse into a padded camera bag here on <a href="http://www.lilblueboo.com/2010/10/camera-bag-insert-tutorial.html" target="_blank">Lil Blue Boo</a>.<br />
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So I kept my eyes open for a suitable purse on sale and found this one at Kohls a few weeks ago. I think I paid maybe $20? And it had an umbrella too (bonus!) - I like the bright yellow color.<br />
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You need a bag with an open inside (no dividers) and a squared (rectangular actually) bottom to fit an insert into and for stability.<br />
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I needed to modify the measurements in the tutorial, and didn't follow it to the letter, but it was pretty easy - and I had all the materials (besides the bag) already on hand:<br />
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This denim repurposed from some IKEA curtains (I have a lot of this, so you've seen it before...and you'll probably see it again). I also had cardboard, 1/2 inch foam, and spray adhesive on hand. I did buy some extra velcro but that was it.<br />
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Basically, if you've made a simple tote bag with a squared bottom, then you already know how to do much of this. The only tricky part was that the math didn't seem to come out right for me first time I tried to change the measurements for the tutorial, so I used some empirical measuring to square the bottom on the second try.<br />
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Then square the corners - checking with the cardboard bottom piece to be sure the measurements look right.</div>
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Before sewing up the lining, add your velcro strips (I tried out the fusible ones and so far they seem sturdy).</div>
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The construction bits are not shown here - using the adhesive I found it was easier to stick the foam pieces to the corresponding cardboard and then insert the bottom first (with adhesive on the bottom of the cardboard too). Then I inserted the lining and fit the side foam panels in, tucking and futzing them around to be a snug fit. The tutorial instructs a handsewn finish at the top - this may look nicer, but I was feeling too lazy to do that, so I folded and pinned, and then stitched on the machine - it was tricky with the cardboard and foam panels, but they are still flexible, so with care I managed it.<br />
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And Voila! An attractive camera bag!</div>
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This bag won't suit every occasion - like it won't be particularly good for travel the way I do it, since I'd need a more multi-functional bag to carry other items too. But I can throw this in the trunk to take around with me, and I can fit my wallet and cell phone in there if I'm going to an event or something.<br />
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I would do some things differently if I make another one - there was a nice tutorial on Sew Mama Sew! awhile back that looked more flexible and very nice for example. But this bag makes me really happy for the moment. The inside and outside pockets are very handy for smaller things like memory cards and a lipstick. Handbag-like camera bags can be quite spendy, so making one for under $30 feels good.<br />
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It's already Sunday, but I was out of town on business all last week, so I'm linking up with <a href="http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/2012/03/can-i-get-whoop-whoop-butterflies-are.html" target="_blank">Sara's Whoop Whoop! Linky party</a> - it seems that the Master linky app was down due to technical issues and many link-ups seem to have been affected - so the party was extended!<br />
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It also looks like I missed the Hands2Help official signup too, but there's still time - I just need to figure out if I have the time this spring - it's another busy time! Go check out the Linky's and if you are a quilter, consider a charity quilt challenge - H2H or something else close to home.</div>
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<br />JanetKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691362489883767683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926141432772330263.post-13196230629774129532012-03-09T13:28:00.000-08:002012-03-09T13:49:22.110-08:00Happy Friday Finishes and WIPsWe needed a clock in the basement playroom/craft space, so when the Fat Quarterly Issue 8 came out recently with a paper pieced patchwork clock, I decided I'd try it...<br />
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But here's my confession - I had the templates printed out on my cutting table, and all the materials ready to go, but not the actual instructions. I still don't know what happened to them (I did print them out) - maybe they got left or dropped at the craft store. So I used the template to paper piece an applique of the pattern rather than a true patchwork. I'm pretty stoked with how it turned out! I used all scraps - even some of the teeny patchwork scraps left over from my "Circular Logic" pillow (also a Fat Quarterly project that I submitted for the reader's competition last year). So if I remember, I should link up to one of the scrap attack linky's I've spotted too. But for sure it's a Whoop Whoop!<br />
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At the bottom of this last photo you can spot one of my current WIPs - "Dot Couture".<br />
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This is a quilt pattern by Julie at Jaybird Quilts. She sells the pattern called "Dot Party", but the original version came out in Quilts and More Summer of 2010. Yes, that's how long I've had this project queued up! I bought an Urban Couture (Basic Grey) Layer Cake for the quilt, and then this plan just hybernated for well over a year. When I reorganized my crafty zone, this was one of the several planned projects I unearthed. I've been trying so hard not to buy more fabric until I use up some of the stash I have - especially the fabric stash that was meant for a specific project! All the blocks are stitched for this top, so I need to lay them out and put them together. I don't have any backing or binding fabric picked out - that is one thing I'll need to buy if I don't have anything suitable already around.</div>
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The other WIP I have at the moment is a camera bag for my Pentax DSLR that I've had for several months and don't use nearly enough. I'm hoping a cool bag will encourage me to take it with me rather than leave it because I don't have a padded bag to carry it in. But I'll have to show that project next time!</div>
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Link me up!! Go check out some awesome projects at these linky parties - and Happy Friday!</div>
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Whoop Whoop Friday with <a href="http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sara at Confessions of a Fabric Addict:</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.amylouwhosews.com/search/label/sew-n-tell" target="_blank">Sew and Tell Friday at amylouwho's</a></div>
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<a href="http://quiltmatters.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">TGIFF is at Quilt Matters </a>this week.</div>
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