Posted in News
… and the notions organizer I made got an honorable mention! I’m amazed to be listed alongside the other gorgeous entries. Hurry, go look at them right now!
Thanks again to Generation Q Magazine and Thomas for holding this great challenge.
They’ve posted photos of all the projects on the Gen Q Mag flickr stream, too, so check out what everyone else did, while you’re at it.
Posted in Crafting
The awesome people over at Generation Q Magazine and Thomas Knauer put together a bit of a challenge for 30 lucky people—including me. Thomas sent us 40 2.5″ squares and challenged us to create whatever we wished using all 40 squares, adding only solids.
My brain has been in organize, organize, organize! mode, so rather than a quilt or pillow of sorts, I ended up making an organizer for notions, so that I can easily tote around the ones I use regularly. It’s approximately 7″×11″ when folded closed (but a bit bulging, when full).
Posted in Quilting
I haven’t been sewing much in the past week or two, but I have made a bit of progress on the Organic Spins quilt. Most of the hybrid-pieced-to-applique pinwheels are complete, and I’ve spent a lot of time with the iron pressing under edges of some of the smaller ones that are just going to be made of triangles with no piecing.
But somewhere along the way, I found that I might be a bit masochistic at heart, because for some strange reason, I’ve decided that I should hand applique them all down. I’m not sure why my brain would insist upon this course of action, since I am not hand-sewing’s biggest fan (an understatement), but it hasn’t been that bad, thus far. It certainly has allowed me to not be tethered to my machine.
