Quilting Taking Over My Life
May. 11th, 2015 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76Due to Squiddle not wanting to nap today until forced, my daily to-do list has exactly two things crossed off it. Did I write? Did I edit my homework? Did I use the exercise bike? Did I make lemonade from all those lemons I juiced? No. But I paid the bills, mortgage, and salted away the monthly money toward Squiddle's college education. And I got the next quilt basted.
For Mother's Day, I quilted a small quilt for my mother. It was a top I'd found at a thrift store and purchased specifically to practice my free-motion quilting on. She made the fatal mistake of saying in my presence that she liked the colors, so I quilted it with her in mind. It has her name, mine, Wonderful Husband's, and Squiddle's, along with the date of gifting, quilted in. It also has my handprint, WH's, and both of Squiddle's quilted in. I got it done, bound, and given on time.
Next in the queue was/is a strippy quilt from this pattern, sized up to a twin bed size. It's for Squiddle, once he gets big enough to move to a larger bed. Mostly it's me going through my stash of blue fabrics for three projects at once (this, Piece and Quilt's star blocks sewalong, and two "sweet sixteen" checkerboard blocks of each blue) and not even making a dent, grr. But this quilt is now basted together and ready to be quilted, as soon as a make a 3" radius half-circle template to mark the quilting pattern. Clamshells! In contrasting thread, because I'm feeling bold.
Also, apparently my mother was talking up her gift quilt today at work (yes, she's gone back to work part-time) because one of her coworkers wants to commission me to make a double bed sized quilt from her daughter's baby clothes. I need to canvas etsy and see what the going charge is for that size.
And, tomorrow night's the quilt guild meeting. Apparently I won the block lottery last month when, due to Squiddle, I had to leave the meeting obnoxiously early, so I have twentyish flag blocks to pick up. Wonderful Husband is thinking of finally getting his US citizenship, so maybe they'll go into a quilt for him to commemorate that?
For Mother's Day, I quilted a small quilt for my mother. It was a top I'd found at a thrift store and purchased specifically to practice my free-motion quilting on. She made the fatal mistake of saying in my presence that she liked the colors, so I quilted it with her in mind. It has her name, mine, Wonderful Husband's, and Squiddle's, along with the date of gifting, quilted in. It also has my handprint, WH's, and both of Squiddle's quilted in. I got it done, bound, and given on time.
Next in the queue was/is a strippy quilt from this pattern, sized up to a twin bed size. It's for Squiddle, once he gets big enough to move to a larger bed. Mostly it's me going through my stash of blue fabrics for three projects at once (this, Piece and Quilt's star blocks sewalong, and two "sweet sixteen" checkerboard blocks of each blue) and not even making a dent, grr. But this quilt is now basted together and ready to be quilted, as soon as a make a 3" radius half-circle template to mark the quilting pattern. Clamshells! In contrasting thread, because I'm feeling bold.
Also, apparently my mother was talking up her gift quilt today at work (yes, she's gone back to work part-time) because one of her coworkers wants to commission me to make a double bed sized quilt from her daughter's baby clothes. I need to canvas etsy and see what the going charge is for that size.
And, tomorrow night's the quilt guild meeting. Apparently I won the block lottery last month when, due to Squiddle, I had to leave the meeting obnoxiously early, so I have twentyish flag blocks to pick up. Wonderful Husband is thinking of finally getting his US citizenship, so maybe they'll go into a quilt for him to commemorate that?
