Monthly Archives: June 2005

the quilt is finished!!!!!

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Here it is. It’s 108″x 108″, all cotton with Warm ‘n’ Natural cotton batting. My mom came in May and helped me pick fabric, buy fabric and piece it together. Ty wanted red and khaki, so we picked two reds and two creams and pieced the top like one HUGE log cabin block.

The back is my favorite though.

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It’s a bunch of 10 inch log cabin blocks strung together with the blue I used for the binding on a field of red. Mom made the pillow shams with scraps and extra blocks. I think they’re cool.

Here’s a detail of the back.

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The quilting took me forever. I had to bring the unfinished quilt in its own suitcase with me to Boise and finish it after the wedding. I spent about 6 hours last Monday finishing up the quilting. My first estimate of how long it took me quilt it was about 12 hours, but now that I’m sitting here thinking it out more, I think it took more like 20. I bound it on Tuesday, and gave it to Tyler and Katie on Friday after we got back from our camping trip and helped them move in to their apartment.

HAPPY WEDDING TY AND KATIE!! I hope you like it:)

Joining quilt Monday

I was hoping that I would have a finished quilt to post today, but alas, it didn’t happen. Here it is on paper:

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My mom helped me pick fabric and pay for the fabric and cut the fabric and piece it together, and for the last month I have been quilting it. E V E R Y S Q U A R E I N C H. What was I thinking? I just can’t do anything the easy way. I’m swirly stippling this baby in its 108″x108″ enormity. My aching wrists are sure jealous of Amy’s mom’s quilting machine. Rolling and scrunching this king size beast into my Brother is doable– just barely.

It’s a wedding present for my brother. I hope he likes it. We’re on our way to Boise for the festivities, and to finish the quilt, and to see some real mountains, and to camp in those real mountains.

Oh, and the good news out in crafty bolg land is that Denyse Schmidt is coming out with a new book this fall! I’ve been dreaming of this since I bought my first issue of Martha Stewart Living that featured her back in like 1999. I’ve been studying her quilts (well, the tiny pictures of them I find on her website and in magazine articles) for years. It is a book that I simply must have.