As a traveling quilt teacher, my calendar is different than the rest of the world's. Instead of Halloween, I say "Houston." Instead of Father's Day, I say "Vermont Quilt Festival." Instead of New Year, I say "the day after I return from Houston."
I bought myself a New Year's present -- a new stitchery kit with 365 daily patterns.
I saw this quilt at Helen's booth in Houston and simply had. to. have. it!!!
Since my calendar is weird, I won't finish this quilt in 365 days. Instead, I plan to stitch one day's design every time I finish a project. Hopefully this will inspire me to finish up UFOs that have been languishing in my sewing room for far too long!
This incentive project is already hard at work. I finished this little test quilt:
I saw leftover bits of pre-fused fabric from a top-secret project and started thinking (always dangerous.) "What would happen if...?"
So I gave myself a few hours to see what would happen if I--
--ran the pre-fused Benartex Fossil Fern fabrics through my Sizzix die cutter and made a bunch of one-inch circles? And then drew 2" squares on a yard of gray fabric? And then rolled a die to determine how many circles I would place in a grouping? And then fused the circles to the fabric?
-- threaded Hedwig with FabuLux Cuddle, added my ViviLux, and used my walking foot to stitch along those chalk lines?
Well, this fun little quilt is what happened.
It'll stay with me for a while, be used as a sample or a springboard for a future "what if?" project, and then given away as a baby quilt or a wheelchair quilt.
Since I started and FINISHED this quilt, I rewarded myself by stitching Day 1 of my sampler.
Do you have a big goal and need daily rewards for the work? Do you want a new project for the New Year? Do you just want to play along? I brought home several of these Stitch Therapy 365 kits and they are now available in my shop. Shipping is free!
I bought myself a New Year's present -- a new stitchery kit with 365 daily patterns.
I saw this quilt at Helen's booth in Houston and simply had. to. have. it!!!
Since my calendar is weird, I won't finish this quilt in 365 days. Instead, I plan to stitch one day's design every time I finish a project. Hopefully this will inspire me to finish up UFOs that have been languishing in my sewing room for far too long!
This incentive project is already hard at work. I finished this little test quilt:
I saw leftover bits of pre-fused fabric from a top-secret project and started thinking (always dangerous.) "What would happen if...?"
So I gave myself a few hours to see what would happen if I--
--ran the pre-fused Benartex Fossil Fern fabrics through my Sizzix die cutter and made a bunch of one-inch circles? And then drew 2" squares on a yard of gray fabric? And then rolled a die to determine how many circles I would place in a grouping? And then fused the circles to the fabric?
-- threaded Hedwig with FabuLux Cuddle, added my ViviLux, and used my walking foot to stitch along those chalk lines?
--used the "bacon (wiggle)" stitch to stitch through each fused circle?
--machine bound the quilt using Cuddle and a blanket stitch?
Well, this fun little quilt is what happened.
It'll stay with me for a while, be used as a sample or a springboard for a future "what if?" project, and then given away as a baby quilt or a wheelchair quilt.
Since I started and FINISHED this quilt, I rewarded myself by stitching Day 1 of my sampler.
Do you have a big goal and need daily rewards for the work? Do you want a new project for the New Year? Do you just want to play along? I brought home several of these Stitch Therapy 365 kits and they are now available in my shop. Shipping is free!
1 comment:
Beautiful, but I love the "bacon" stitch.
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