Quilt/Stash Project-2020--Determined Quilter
Wednesday, October 28,2009....Week 12---Blog 23--Day 76 of 4,014
Jean Wells design/inspired scrap quilt finished!!!!
Not lovely-beautiful..but somehow interesting and appealing. Maybe..just maybe... this will be the first of the Puppy Quilts..Remember the Glenn Close/Oprah Winfrey project of incarcerated people raising puppies to be given to disabled veterans???
New information is that such a project exists at San Quentin..the California State prison..on San Francisco Bay..since that is near home, I will check-out when I return from Japan.
But..then...I will certainly have to have pictures of quilts on this blog...and a contest...to determine just what breed of puppie "goes-with this quilt....it is not "cute'.
Shouting from the "unfinished quilts"/stash drawer demanding-competing for my attention:
1. Nine 15x15 finished blocks..with wonderful Hawaii themed fabric made at Empty Spools Seminars in 2002...design by Lorraine Torrence (Seattle)...yes!!! 2002..oh dear!!!
2. A 35 x 45 inch quilt top with American/Japanese "Pink Fan" theme fabric with complicated deep purple and orange stars--design by: Determined Quilter...me!!!
The 'problem with both the blocks and the top is that new fabric will have to be bought to complete......and I have been wanting to avoid that...and yes!!! use the scraps and stash first.
..and...those projects are compelling......
..and those are decisions for after Japan.
O.K. again..I hope to blog from Japan beginning November 5....
checkn www.Traveling Together.net for information about this trip.
Happy Quilting--Determined Quilter
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Quilt/Stash Projecrt-2020--Determined Quilter
Quilt/Stash Project-2020--Determined Quilter
Monday, October26,2009....Week 12--Blog 22--Day 74 of 4,014
*&^%^&*%$#@#preparing for Japan so not much quilting time this past week.
I did finish the backing and the quilting for the Jean Wells design inspired scrap quilt..now ready for binding.
Only about 20 things on to-do list before departure so maybe that binding will get done.
...and may even be a final blog before I go.
Again I hope to blog about the quilt tour and quilt show..
Check website of Traveling Together for description of trip: www.TravelingTogether.net
Happy Quilting--Determined Quilter
Monday, October26,2009....Week 12--Blog 22--Day 74 of 4,014
*&^%^&*%$#@#preparing for Japan so not much quilting time this past week.
I did finish the backing and the quilting for the Jean Wells design inspired scrap quilt..now ready for binding.
Only about 20 things on to-do list before departure so maybe that binding will get done.
...and may even be a final blog before I go.
Again I hope to blog about the quilt tour and quilt show..
Check website of Traveling Together for description of trip: www.TravelingTogether.net
Happy Quilting--Determined Quilter
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Quilt/Stash Project-2020--Determined Quilter
Quilt/Stash project--2020---Determined Quilter
Tuesday, October 20,2009....Week 11--Blog 21--Day 68 of 4,014
SCRAPS AND STASH
*&^&*)(*!! Life happening again...nothing interesting or special--time consuming, boring ordinary hassles...and necessary to deal with and solve.
....and still..some progress to report; but not on the scrap quilt based on the Jean Wells design mentioned last in Blog 20. The scrap backing is now 95% finished.
Perhaps there will be some time for sewing this week..and..the main focus of time and energy is preparing for departure on 10/31 for the working and the Jokohoma Quilt Show/quilting tour to Japan.
Scraps and Stash...comments:
MY definitions:
STASH: all the pieces of "wonderful" fabric that could not be passed up when brousing quilt shops.
Professional quilters seem to delight and treasure and seem joyfully proud of their stash--for example, reference pictures "Collaborative Quilting"(2006) by Freddy Moran and Gwen Marston......
Good for them!!! for me this Stash fabric is a "burden"....
SCRAPS: odd remenent pieces of fabric left over from completed quilts. Scraps are both a burden and a challenge for me....what to do with them????
......why can't I just throw away????
...and, I am determined...both with Stash and Scraps......
yes..patience..patience patience...and creative challenge...
and...a happy report..Since August 14,2009 when this project and blog started I have..ACTUALLY, completed 10 wall hangings....
I hope to blog from Japan...now THAT will be a challenge.
Happy quilting..
Determined Quilter
Tuesday, October 20,2009....Week 11--Blog 21--Day 68 of 4,014
SCRAPS AND STASH
*&^&*)(*!! Life happening again...nothing interesting or special--time consuming, boring ordinary hassles...and necessary to deal with and solve.
....and still..some progress to report; but not on the scrap quilt based on the Jean Wells design mentioned last in Blog 20. The scrap backing is now 95% finished.
Perhaps there will be some time for sewing this week..and..the main focus of time and energy is preparing for departure on 10/31 for the working and the Jokohoma Quilt Show/quilting tour to Japan.
Scraps and Stash...comments:
MY definitions:
STASH: all the pieces of "wonderful" fabric that could not be passed up when brousing quilt shops.
Professional quilters seem to delight and treasure and seem joyfully proud of their stash--for example, reference pictures "Collaborative Quilting"(2006) by Freddy Moran and Gwen Marston......
Good for them!!! for me this Stash fabric is a "burden"....
SCRAPS: odd remenent pieces of fabric left over from completed quilts. Scraps are both a burden and a challenge for me....what to do with them????
......why can't I just throw away????
...and, I am determined...both with Stash and Scraps......
yes..patience..patience patience...and creative challenge...
and...a happy report..Since August 14,2009 when this project and blog started I have..ACTUALLY, completed 10 wall hangings....
I hope to blog from Japan...now THAT will be a challenge.
Happy quilting..
Determined Quilter
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Quilt/Stash Project-2020
Quilt/Stash Project--2020--Determined Quilter
Wednesday, October 14,2009.....Week 10--Blog 20---Day 62 of 4,014
A quickie today...
Yesterday, Tuesday, October 13 the first big California storm of the season--rain!!!rain!!!rain!! wind!!!wind!!! wind!!!--an absolutely guilt free quilting day....
and a "demanding job"--using scraps,scraps,scraps and more scraps to complete the backing for the 39x32 inch scrap quilt based on the Jean Wells design mentioned Monday.
The back now 90% finished.....lots of "creative/inventive'" piecing.
Will it be wonderful??? Probably not...who could/would want it???
But!!! some psychic itch will be satisfied...and I will be fulfilling my goal of zero scraps/stash by 2020.
( Maybe this will be the first of the Puppy Quilts.....featured on Oprah with Glenn Close this spring/summer..a project where prisoners raise puppies and then those puppies go to disabled veterans..--yes!!-- a worthy cause...and more about that another time.)
Happy Quilting--Determined Quilter
Wednesday, October 14,2009.....Week 10--Blog 20---Day 62 of 4,014
A quickie today...
Yesterday, Tuesday, October 13 the first big California storm of the season--rain!!!rain!!!rain!! wind!!!wind!!! wind!!!--an absolutely guilt free quilting day....
and a "demanding job"--using scraps,scraps,scraps and more scraps to complete the backing for the 39x32 inch scrap quilt based on the Jean Wells design mentioned Monday.
The back now 90% finished.....lots of "creative/inventive'" piecing.
Will it be wonderful??? Probably not...who could/would want it???
But!!! some psychic itch will be satisfied...and I will be fulfilling my goal of zero scraps/stash by 2020.
( Maybe this will be the first of the Puppy Quilts.....featured on Oprah with Glenn Close this spring/summer..a project where prisoners raise puppies and then those puppies go to disabled veterans..--yes!!-- a worthy cause...and more about that another time.)
Happy Quilting--Determined Quilter
Monday, October 12, 2009
Quilt/Stash Project-2020
Quilt/Stash Project-2020--Determined Quilter
Monday, October 12,2009......Week 10-Blog 19---Day 60 of 4014
Well..again Life Happens....and I have not blogged for a week--October 5.
Amazingly, however, much accomplished in the finish-stash-scraps project.
First I found super good, bright pink-red dottie fabric at Jo Ann, a California?? chain fabric and craft store...not my usual/prefered place to shop..probably had not been there for at least 3-4 years.
Now..a blue-black-pink dottie quilt, my original design based on templates from Carol Liebzeit (Empty Spools Seminars-February/March 2005; and Louisa Smith (Empty Sp0ols Seminars--August-September 2005)is complete!
Note: Books--Louisa L.Smith: "Strips 'n Curves-2001" and "A New Twist on Strips 'n Curves-2007 "
Then, as described last Monday, October 5, the four 12x12 inch quilt blocks inspired by Jean Wells design that "shouted-demanded" my attention. The fabric in those blocks have scrap fabric dating back to my quilting beginning in 1997. so 12 years---.unbelievable..yes??
Now!! I have completed 39x 32 inch quilt top using more 'ancient' scraps and scraps.
( Yes... I do hope to achieve the knowledge and competence to get pictures of the completed quilts on this blog soon...but realistically probably not until after I return from Yokohoma Quilt Show in Japan on November 15.) ( And..yes I do hope I can/will blog about the quilting tour..show anbd other adventures in Japan.)
Big rain predicted for tonight/tomorrow...so an absolutly guilt free quilting day..Yes!!!
Happy Quilting--Determined Quilter
Monday, October 12,2009......Week 10-Blog 19---Day 60 of 4014
Well..again Life Happens....and I have not blogged for a week--October 5.
Amazingly, however, much accomplished in the finish-stash-scraps project.
First I found super good, bright pink-red dottie fabric at Jo Ann, a California?? chain fabric and craft store...not my usual/prefered place to shop..probably had not been there for at least 3-4 years.
Now..a blue-black-pink dottie quilt, my original design based on templates from Carol Liebzeit (Empty Spools Seminars-February/March 2005; and Louisa Smith (Empty Sp0ols Seminars--August-September 2005)is complete!
Note: Books--Louisa L.Smith: "Strips 'n Curves-2001" and "A New Twist on Strips 'n Curves-2007 "
Then, as described last Monday, October 5, the four 12x12 inch quilt blocks inspired by Jean Wells design that "shouted-demanded" my attention. The fabric in those blocks have scrap fabric dating back to my quilting beginning in 1997. so 12 years---.unbelievable..yes??
Now!! I have completed 39x 32 inch quilt top using more 'ancient' scraps and scraps.
( Yes... I do hope to achieve the knowledge and competence to get pictures of the completed quilts on this blog soon...but realistically probably not until after I return from Yokohoma Quilt Show in Japan on November 15.) ( And..yes I do hope I can/will blog about the quilting tour..show anbd other adventures in Japan.)
Big rain predicted for tonight/tomorrow...so an absolutly guilt free quilting day..Yes!!!
Happy Quilting--Determined Quilter
Monday, October 5, 2009
Quilt/Stash Project-2020
Quilt/Stash Project--2020--Determined Quilter
Monday, October 5,2009........Week 9-Blog #18--Day 53 of 4,014
Scrap/Stash Wonders.......Jean Wells....Sisters, Oregon Outdoor Quilt Show
My grandmother was a quilter; I learned to sew beginning in 6th grade, at mandatory Home Ec. classes in Omaha, Nebraska (educating (indoctriating?) girls to become wives, mothers, 'HOMEMAKERS).....well I am forever grateful for that traditional start. I sewed clothes for myself through high school; and made simple garments for my kids when they were little.
I came to quilting "late"---taking my first class at a Community College in the fall of 1997; making my first quilt for a grandaughter's first birthday...I have proud pictures...
..and I have in my scraps still.... fabric from that quilt. oh dear!!!!!
I have written before, how unfinished quilt tops, blocks finshed..but not put together and other random scraps, stash, blocks seem to manifest--shout!!! "do me..do me".
Happened again this past weekend...four blocks, 12x12 inches, "demanded" my attention.
These blocks are a variation of a methodology and design learned in a class with Jean Wells at Empty Spools Seminars in 2001...amazingly, they have fabric from that very first quilt made 12 years ago.
Well..I will use all those scraps.......and completing that quilt will be a challenge...and a relief.
Then Jean Wells.....see: jeanwellsquilts.com....maybe investigate her last book: "Intuitive Color and Design for Quilters".
Jean is a quilter, author, quilt store owner...and creator of the exceptional Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show held every July in Sisters, Oregon.
I have been to Sisters in 2000,2001,2002 for 2-3 days of class and the show...and again in 2005 with the Heritage Tour of Oregon....all happy experiences...
Well..the "ancient" scraps/Wells quilt is now in process--I'll keep you posted.
Happy Quilting..Determined Quilter.
Monday, October 5,2009........Week 9-Blog #18--Day 53 of 4,014
Scrap/Stash Wonders.......Jean Wells....Sisters, Oregon Outdoor Quilt Show
My grandmother was a quilter; I learned to sew beginning in 6th grade, at mandatory Home Ec. classes in Omaha, Nebraska (educating (indoctriating?) girls to become wives, mothers, 'HOMEMAKERS).....well I am forever grateful for that traditional start. I sewed clothes for myself through high school; and made simple garments for my kids when they were little.
I came to quilting "late"---taking my first class at a Community College in the fall of 1997; making my first quilt for a grandaughter's first birthday...I have proud pictures...
..and I have in my scraps still.... fabric from that quilt. oh dear!!!!!
I have written before, how unfinished quilt tops, blocks finshed..but not put together and other random scraps, stash, blocks seem to manifest--shout!!! "do me..do me".
Happened again this past weekend...four blocks, 12x12 inches, "demanded" my attention.
These blocks are a variation of a methodology and design learned in a class with Jean Wells at Empty Spools Seminars in 2001...amazingly, they have fabric from that very first quilt made 12 years ago.
Well..I will use all those scraps.......and completing that quilt will be a challenge...and a relief.
Then Jean Wells.....see: jeanwellsquilts.com....maybe investigate her last book: "Intuitive Color and Design for Quilters".
Jean is a quilter, author, quilt store owner...and creator of the exceptional Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show held every July in Sisters, Oregon.
I have been to Sisters in 2000,2001,2002 for 2-3 days of class and the show...and again in 2005 with the Heritage Tour of Oregon....all happy experiences...
Well..the "ancient" scraps/Wells quilt is now in process--I'll keep you posted.
Happy Quilting..Determined Quilter.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Quilt/Stash Project-2020
Quilt/Stash Project-2020--Determined Quilter
Friday, October 2, 2009........Day 50 of 4,014
Scraps in the Stash--Seeking Inspiration and Solutions
First --Report...Success!!! The "not-named" Freddy Moran designed "dottie" wall hanging...with the backing and binding from the new fabric--yellow with white dots is finished!!!
The Quilt Angels were with me on Monday when "they" gave me this fabric...it worked! and the quilt-wall hanging looks good.
Then....as every quilter knows, there are two major catagories of stash......
1. "hunks'' of maybe quarter to full yards of fabric bought...and not used in a particular project..or bought in the mind space.."oh--that is wonderful--just have to have it".
2. the small scraps of fabric left over from a quilt project--maybe pretty small 2 x2 inches..1 x 6 inches...but "too good" to throw away.
so...seeking inspriation on "what-to-do" with these small "orphan'" scraps I remembered the Scrap Quilt class I took with Roberta Horton at Empty Spools Seminars (Asilomar-Pacific Grove, California) in 2001....and this lead me to Roberta's 1998 book, "Scrap Quilts-the Art of Making Do" (Amazing!! my super good local library actually has a copy).....well..a couple of possible ideas--and maybe some Follower to this blog will find just the right solution to her/his scrap problem....This investigation lead me to get out my Roberta scrap quilt--not great...and not awful either......so Thanks!! Roberta
Another source of scrap inspriation is my 'dottie' mentor Freddy Moran--whose genius is color, and using litterally hundreds of different fabrics in her quilts....I recommend "Colaborative Quilting" 2006 by Freddy Moran and Gwen Marston....and their idea of a Parts Department (another day to discuss that concept--which unfortunately I have not yet followed).
However....notable in this book are the studios of Freddy and Gwen (again a discussion for another day ) and their cabinets and shelves of "stash"----I would being have serious melt-downs if I had either of those stashs..
Finally for today; in the mail this morning..final information for the November 1-15 quilt-tour/Yokohama Quilt Show trip to Japan.....happy anticipation!!!
Happy Quilting--Determined Quilter
Friday, October 2, 2009........Day 50 of 4,014
Scraps in the Stash--Seeking Inspiration and Solutions
First --Report...Success!!! The "not-named" Freddy Moran designed "dottie" wall hanging...with the backing and binding from the new fabric--yellow with white dots is finished!!!
The Quilt Angels were with me on Monday when "they" gave me this fabric...it worked! and the quilt-wall hanging looks good.
Then....as every quilter knows, there are two major catagories of stash......
1. "hunks'' of maybe quarter to full yards of fabric bought...and not used in a particular project..or bought in the mind space.."oh--that is wonderful--just have to have it".
2. the small scraps of fabric left over from a quilt project--maybe pretty small 2 x2 inches..1 x 6 inches...but "too good" to throw away.
so...seeking inspriation on "what-to-do" with these small "orphan'" scraps I remembered the Scrap Quilt class I took with Roberta Horton at Empty Spools Seminars (Asilomar-Pacific Grove, California) in 2001....and this lead me to Roberta's 1998 book, "Scrap Quilts-the Art of Making Do" (Amazing!! my super good local library actually has a copy).....well..a couple of possible ideas--and maybe some Follower to this blog will find just the right solution to her/his scrap problem....This investigation lead me to get out my Roberta scrap quilt--not great...and not awful either......so Thanks!! Roberta
Another source of scrap inspriation is my 'dottie' mentor Freddy Moran--whose genius is color, and using litterally hundreds of different fabrics in her quilts....I recommend "Colaborative Quilting" 2006 by Freddy Moran and Gwen Marston....and their idea of a Parts Department (another day to discuss that concept--which unfortunately I have not yet followed).
However....notable in this book are the studios of Freddy and Gwen (again a discussion for another day ) and their cabinets and shelves of "stash"----I would being have serious melt-downs if I had either of those stashs..
Finally for today; in the mail this morning..final information for the November 1-15 quilt-tour/Yokohama Quilt Show trip to Japan.....happy anticipation!!!
Happy Quilting--Determined Quilter
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Quilt/Stash Project-2020
Quilt/Stash Project-2020--Determined Quilter
Thursday,October 1,2009..........Day 49 of 4,014
WOW!! Started this project August 14,2009....now October 1...so six weeks...and..today..my first follower.....welcome.....
Brief Report;
1. Aaron's Sweet Dreams finished. It looks good!!! It took super patience to quilt because I decided I would use multi-colored metalic thread. That thread kept breaking-breaking requiring repeated..and repeated re-threading machine..so patience..patience.. patience and it was worth it!!! That little wall hanging sparkles.
2. Then..yesterday I quilted the still not-named Freddy Moran designed yellow-aqua-green "dottie" wall hanging...and I will bind with the new yellow-white dots today.
3. On the design board..almost complete another "dottie" wall hanging with still more dottie fabric from that 2006 Freddy Moran class at Empty Spools Seminars (Asilomar-Pacific Grove, California)..this is a creative challenge..because the fabric stash in compatible colors is small..and I am determined to only buy new fabric when absolutely necessary..
That stash must go..
..the up side....mental challenges keeps the dendrites growing..yes???
4. then...for today...another small "Japanese"-American stash of four fabrics....on a chest top..wispering wispering.."do me"-"do me'- ..this will be a challenge also..because. of the limited fabric.
Happy Quilting--Determined Quilter
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Thursday,October 1,2009..........Day 49 of 4,014
WOW!! Started this project August 14,2009....now October 1...so six weeks...and..today..my first follower.....welcome.....
Brief Report;
1. Aaron's Sweet Dreams finished. It looks good!!! It took super patience to quilt because I decided I would use multi-colored metalic thread. That thread kept breaking-breaking requiring repeated..and repeated re-threading machine..so patience..patience.. patience and it was worth it!!! That little wall hanging sparkles.
2. Then..yesterday I quilted the still not-named Freddy Moran designed yellow-aqua-green "dottie" wall hanging...and I will bind with the new yellow-white dots today.
3. On the design board..almost complete another "dottie" wall hanging with still more dottie fabric from that 2006 Freddy Moran class at Empty Spools Seminars (Asilomar-Pacific Grove, California)..this is a creative challenge..because the fabric stash in compatible colors is small..and I am determined to only buy new fabric when absolutely necessary..
That stash must go..
..the up side....mental challenges keeps the dendrites growing..yes???
4. then...for today...another small "Japanese"-American stash of four fabrics....on a chest top..wispering wispering.."do me"-"do me'- ..this will be a challenge also..because. of the limited fabric.
Happy Quilting--Determined Quilter
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