Next step: quilting both quilts.
Warning: this is going to take a while. :)
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Showing posts with label sewing. Show all posts
Monday, April 23, 2012
Batter Up: 2nd Inning
Thing 2's baseball quilt is now all pieced together.
Next step: quilting both quilts.
Warning: this is going to take a while. :)
Next step: quilting both quilts.
Warning: this is going to take a while. :)
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Batter Up: Update
After seeing the first draft (pre-quilted) version of Thing 1's quilt, Superman insisted I make one addition.
And when I say he insisted, I mean he insisted.
At first, I just thought he was kidding. But then he made it very clear that he was 100% dead serious.
So I made the addition.
And when I say he insisted, I mean he insisted.
At first, I just thought he was kidding. But then he made it very clear that he was 100% dead serious.
So I made the addition.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Batter up!
Most of my craft projects lately seem to be projects I'm doing for somebody else. Either because they are paying me to do it (Yay!) or because I'm making it as a gift.
So I'm happy to take a break and work on a project for me (well, really for my kids, but still...).
My twin sons will be turning 5 in June. And their room is still decorated using the theme we chose for their nursery.
We have finally decided the time has come to update their room to a little more mature theme. We (with their help) chose: baseball.
A few months ago, I started looking for baseball linens for their bed, but I was disappointed that I could only find either a specific team or general sports together (baseball, basketball and football). But I wanted something that was just general baseball.
It was also around this time that I started making t-shirt quilts. So Superman, being the brainiac he is, suggested I make them t-shirt quilts using all baseball shirts.
Ding-ding-ding!
I started by raiding his closet. Then surveying shirts that Thing 1 and Thing 2 had almost outgrown (unfortunately I'd already given away all of their smaller size shirts). Then, I hit up our local Goodwills. Multiple times.
And finally, I had enough t-shirts to make two twin size quilts. So this past week, after I finished Laya's quilt, I started cutting and laying out both quilts.
So far I have only sewn together the top for Thing 1's quilt:
Next I will work on Thing 2s.
And then, my favorite (for creativity) and least favorite (time-consuming) step: quilting.
So I'm happy to take a break and work on a project for me (well, really for my kids, but still...).
My twin sons will be turning 5 in June. And their room is still decorated using the theme we chose for their nursery.
We have finally decided the time has come to update their room to a little more mature theme. We (with their help) chose: baseball.
A few months ago, I started looking for baseball linens for their bed, but I was disappointed that I could only find either a specific team or general sports together (baseball, basketball and football). But I wanted something that was just general baseball.
It was also around this time that I started making t-shirt quilts. So Superman, being the brainiac he is, suggested I make them t-shirt quilts using all baseball shirts.
Ding-ding-ding!
I started by raiding his closet. Then surveying shirts that Thing 1 and Thing 2 had almost outgrown (unfortunately I'd already given away all of their smaller size shirts). Then, I hit up our local Goodwills. Multiple times.
And finally, I had enough t-shirts to make two twin size quilts. So this past week, after I finished Laya's quilt, I started cutting and laying out both quilts.
So far I have only sewn together the top for Thing 1's quilt:
Next I will work on Thing 2s.
And then, my favorite (for creativity) and least favorite (time-consuming) step: quilting.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Bunting
I have a confession: I don't get bunting. (aka banners or penants)
Imagine my Jerry Seinfeld impression: "What is the deal with bunting?"
Bunting, bunting, bunting. It's EVERYWHERE! It has invaded Pinterest. There is bunting spackled all over my favorite crafting blogs.
Especially burlap bunting. God, people LOVE their burlap bunting.
Sometimes literally.
But I just don't get them.
I mean, sure.... they are cute, or pretty, whatever. But they just hang there. And they are almost always temporary decoration.
People make birthday bunting.
Christmas bunting.
Halloween bunting.
Thanksgiving bunting.
Easter bunting.
New baby bunting.
Just-for-the-helluv-it bunting.
If there is a life event, like say today being a Tuesday, bunting enthusiasts can find a reason to whip up a strip of bunting. (Although, I did search "bowel movement bunting" on google images and came up with bupkis. So, apparently there are some limits. That haven't been reached, yet.)
And just where do they put all of this freaking bunting? You can't convince me everyone in the world but me has a mantle to hang them on!
And then what do they do with it after. You know, after the holiday is over... I KNOW they don't keep the bunting to reuse it next year. Because next year they are going to make NEW BUNTING.
In my mind these people have a room in their house just for displaying their old bunting.
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate bunting. All of these pics I linked to are pics of awesomely done bunting. But it's like this: I like to quilt, but my house only needs so many quilts. So instead of making a new quilt after new quilt just because it's pretty and I like to do it, I don't. And I just work on other, different, projects until the need to make a quilt (birthday, new baby, etc) arrises again.
I guess the difference is that bunting is small, so stores easier (but like I mentioned above, I highly doubt these bunting addicts are rehanging year after year), and also it is very decorational, but still....I can just not wrap my mind around the craft world's new obsession with this cute, but seeming useless craft.
Imagine my Jerry Seinfeld impression: "What is the deal with bunting?"
Bunting, bunting, bunting. It's EVERYWHERE! It has invaded Pinterest. There is bunting spackled all over my favorite crafting blogs.
Especially burlap bunting. God, people LOVE their burlap bunting.
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| www.oopseydaisyblog.com |
But I just don't get them.
I mean, sure.... they are cute, or pretty, whatever. But they just hang there. And they are almost always temporary decoration.
People make birthday bunting.
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| rosinahuber.blogspot.com |
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| chalk-jenny.blogspot.com/ |
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| blog.craftzine.com |
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| blogs.babble.com/ |
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| favecrafts.com |
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| www.thesweetestoccasion.com |
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| lavieinspirations.com |
And just where do they put all of this freaking bunting? You can't convince me everyone in the world but me has a mantle to hang them on!
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| www.oopseydaisyblog.com |
And then what do they do with it after. You know, after the holiday is over... I KNOW they don't keep the bunting to reuse it next year. Because next year they are going to make NEW BUNTING.
In my mind these people have a room in their house just for displaying their old bunting.
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate bunting. All of these pics I linked to are pics of awesomely done bunting. But it's like this: I like to quilt, but my house only needs so many quilts. So instead of making a new quilt after new quilt just because it's pretty and I like to do it, I don't. And I just work on other, different, projects until the need to make a quilt (birthday, new baby, etc) arrises again.
I guess the difference is that bunting is small, so stores easier (but like I mentioned above, I highly doubt these bunting addicts are rehanging year after year), and also it is very decorational, but still....I can just not wrap my mind around the craft world's new obsession with this cute, but seeming useless craft.
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