Somebody should have told me that it hurts the eyes to look at my blog! Look, I've changed it... I still need to learn how to customize and move things around... but at least it won't give you a headache.
I know I sort of promised that there might be big changes on the blog. but we had SUCH a great visit with the girls! We were a bit distracted by the overpowering preciousness of the little one. I'll work on it from here. Baby steps, right?
Friday, March 12, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Successful Visit With Grandbaby!
I just got back from a great two-week visit with my gorgeous grandbaby. I know what you are thinking; EVERYBODY thinks their grandbaby is gorgeous; and I think that is GREAT! But my grandbaby really IS gorgeous!
The Gramma has been stuck creatively for a couple of years now, but was recently given new creative life when presented with a little less than a yard of Kaffe Fassett fabric. It's such a particularly beautiful piece of fabric; it truly went straight to the marrow of my bones and lifted me up in a way that I hadn't been in YEARS! Here is a pillowcase for my buckwheat hull pillow that I sleep on every night, made from this same fabric:
Well, that's not the picture I thought I had, but I want to show the end of the pillowcase anyway. I got this pattern from this blog... one of my very favorite blogs:
http://exuberantcolor.blogspot.com/search/label/pillowcases
While you're there, check out the rest of her blog.... amazing! Well named! I LOVE color, and the idea of EXUBERANT color just makes me so happy!
Here's a better picture of the fabric:
Here is the next thing I made, using this "less than a yard of fabric", given to me by a friend:
Darn! Again I picked not the perfect example! In this picture, you see two adjacent pieces that are alike. NOT what I was trying to show; but since we're here... please notice that it was too much work to take apart and resew once I realized there would be two adjacent pieces from the same fabric. I am cut from a more relaxed bolt of fabric, I guess. I let the ball be what it was, and I'm letting the picture stay as it is. A very wise and wonderful quilting friend once told me not to bother redoing things, but to keep marching forward, improving as you go, leaving a history of your progress. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
The entire soccer ball is hand stitched using the English paper piecing method; the only saving grace for all those annoying card stock postcard things stuck in magazines to sell you subscriptions. I enjoy making grandmother's flower garden parts, nothing near a quilt, mind you... maybe in a thousand years. OR maybe this adorable grandchild will want the finish THE GRAMMA'S quilts. Wouldn't THAT be great?
When I got the soccer ball all finished and gave it to her, I could see that it's a little big for her right now. That's when I made the smaller ball, made just from the pentagons that I used in the soccer ball. I used this book for both balls:
http://www.amazon.com/Patchwork-Puzzle-Balls-Jinny-Beyer/dp/0972121854/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268345868&sr=1-1
I owe a big thanks to my friend, Kate, who graciously gave me this fabric, giving my creative soul a huge boost.... Thanks, Kate!
The Gramma has been stuck creatively for a couple of years now, but was recently given new creative life when presented with a little less than a yard of Kaffe Fassett fabric. It's such a particularly beautiful piece of fabric; it truly went straight to the marrow of my bones and lifted me up in a way that I hadn't been in YEARS! Here is a pillowcase for my buckwheat hull pillow that I sleep on every night, made from this same fabric:
Well, that's not the picture I thought I had, but I want to show the end of the pillowcase anyway. I got this pattern from this blog... one of my very favorite blogs:
http://exuberantcolor.blogspot.com/search/label/pillowcases
While you're there, check out the rest of her blog.... amazing! Well named! I LOVE color, and the idea of EXUBERANT color just makes me so happy!
Here's a better picture of the fabric:
Here is the next thing I made, using this "less than a yard of fabric", given to me by a friend:
Darn! Again I picked not the perfect example! In this picture, you see two adjacent pieces that are alike. NOT what I was trying to show; but since we're here... please notice that it was too much work to take apart and resew once I realized there would be two adjacent pieces from the same fabric. I am cut from a more relaxed bolt of fabric, I guess. I let the ball be what it was, and I'm letting the picture stay as it is. A very wise and wonderful quilting friend once told me not to bother redoing things, but to keep marching forward, improving as you go, leaving a history of your progress. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!The entire soccer ball is hand stitched using the English paper piecing method; the only saving grace for all those annoying card stock postcard things stuck in magazines to sell you subscriptions. I enjoy making grandmother's flower garden parts, nothing near a quilt, mind you... maybe in a thousand years. OR maybe this adorable grandchild will want the finish THE GRAMMA'S quilts. Wouldn't THAT be great?
When I got the soccer ball all finished and gave it to her, I could see that it's a little big for her right now. That's when I made the smaller ball, made just from the pentagons that I used in the soccer ball. I used this book for both balls:
http://www.amazon.com/Patchwork-Puzzle-Balls-Jinny-Beyer/dp/0972121854/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268345868&sr=1-1
I owe a big thanks to my friend, Kate, who graciously gave me this fabric, giving my creative soul a huge boost.... Thanks, Kate!
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