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Sunday, March 1, 2020

instagram quilt fest 2020 kick off

apparently quiltcon also meant lots of photos involving my face... but emily, this isn't instagram.
this is a blog!
yes, i know that... but i'm also tracking my plans for the month of march here just to be accountable.
two years ago, i was super on top of posting daily since i was new with the sacmqg and really wanted to dive in to it all. last year, i was a little wishy washy on making posts successfully for whatever reason... but year 3, i'm back and ready for action!
i'm still riding my quiltcon high, and i'll ride it until i can't no more.
(ugh... now old town road is stuck in my head)
but one thing that victoria findlay wolfe mentioned is that when her daughter was young, she still made the time to quilt by trying to get herself at least 15 minutes a day. granted, i don't have small children running around my apartment (or any children, just to be clear) but with my whack work schedule, i'm here there and everywhere and by the time i get home some days, i want to sew but just let myself zone out.
i'm behind on getting my ufo challenge on track (still finishing january's quilt top for me, plus february's has only been touched once... and now it is march...) so hopefully carving out 15 minutes minimum a day will help keep things rolling so i can squeeze a few other things in here and there.

so here's to a happy instagram quilt fest, and be sure to follow along at #igquiltfest2020 and me specifically (i'm sure all 4 of you readers are by now) @wereradletshug

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

disney mini quilt swap 2016 - peter pan

these past few months, i participated in my second ever instagram swap, and this was the one i had been waiting forever for! i missed out on the first round of the disney mini quilt swap, and waited anxiously for a second round to be posted. i spent forever dreaming of the up! quilt that was created, yearning for a chance to get my disney crafting on and then it finally happened. i was signed up, and then assigned my partner and then it was time to get brainstorming. she listed up and peter pan as her favorites, particularly for her baby's nursery. i figured if i took the easy way out and made the house quilt i had been pining over, i just couldn't be able to give it away. instead, i challenged myself and took on a peter pan themed idea and after i finally had my vision came up with a design of my own. i went for the clock scene where peter flies off to neverland, sans darling children since i didn't want to overwhelm the mini quilt. i took it to alaska with me, and did nothing. it sat around for days, and nothing. finally, inspiration hit and i was able to power through this mini quilt in the final hours before send out, and i couldn't imagine it looking any other way. first off, here are the extras i made to go with it :)

lisa was in town for a little while in march, and she helped me power through this sew together bag. it totally helped having someone who had made one before walk me through getting it pieced together to know what the heck i was doing. i also screen printed a onsie for the little baby to be. my partner and her husband were not finding out the gender of the baby, so the up house was a perfect "neutral" tie in. the sew together bag was made from colors she listed as her favorites, which i happened to find in the sprinkle line of cotton + steel. i pretty much wanted to keep it for myself!

on to the mini quilt!
it clearly has a little bit of everything going on.
the clock face portion is paper pieced, while the body going down was a few pieces i just sewed together to give it some shape other than being a big square. i added the sky to the side, and then got to cross stitching the numbers on the clock face. the face of the clock was smaller than the cross stitch pattern i had found, so it took some creative measuring to get the numbers in a spot that made sense. i created the clock hands on my own to figure out what time to make it so it somewhat matched the scene in the movie. lastly, peter was appliqued on with some coordinating gold fabric left over from the quilt i made my sister for her wedding (to be blogged soon!) since a dark shadow wouldn't show up too well for the sky and the typical peter pan green just didn't blend well. overall, i am very pleased with how this ended up!

and there you have it!
i don't know how many instagram swaps i'll be doing anytime soon, but if disney round 3 pops up, i'm sure i'll be in!

Friday, January 2, 2015

365.2014 - week 52

i suppose i can't just leave this post without anything said, given that it is the FINAL post for my 365 project of 2014. throughout the entire project, i think i only missed two days, which is quite impressive. i'm super glad i chose the instagram route for this, because it made it SO much more accessible, sharable and less awkward to not have to pull out my gigantor camera (case and point, day 364 at leatherby's where kenny asks me what i'm doing. all i had to say was, "instagramming." ha)
i have already compiled my blurb book to have this physically printed up like my last one and just need to figure out what the heck i'm going to put on the cover... perhaps i'll skim through some of the instagrams that didn't make the 365 cut. anyways, i'm excited to be back to "normal" posting and not feel like i have to be sure to do something before midnight, though i am certain i'll still have the urge to post daily. let's see how 2015 goes, shall we?
here is a small handful that didn't quite make the 365 cut, but were still some of my favorite moments (and also proof that i didn't just take pictures all year, but was even in some of them)