tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70164934509436301572024-03-14T11:54:49.206-05:00Panda Parablesthings i bake, pictures i take, crafts i make, keeps i sake.Panda Parableshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03749725342332401491noreply@blogger.comBlogger167125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016493450943630157.post-58743101889051741272015-09-28T10:00:00.000-05:002015-09-28T12:50:06.071-05:00Becalmed Sewn Goods and Quilts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have decided to "re-brand" my sewing and quilting under a new name, Becalmed Sewn Goods and Quilts. I started Panda Parables prior to being a quilter - in the early days, I posted random things here and there, recipes and travel reviews. And over the past 4 years, it's evolved to a being a place where I catalog and write about the quilts I make and not much else. I will keep this blog around but probably won't post to it very often (unless we go on a rad vacation and I feel inclined to write about it...)...But I didn't post often to begin with, so....<br />
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For the 10 of you who "follow" me, thanks! I hope you visit <a href="http://becalmedsewing.blogspot.com/">Becalmed</a>. Expect to see quilts, quilts and more quilts.<br />
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Thank you!Panda Parableshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03749725342332401491noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016493450943630157.post-13523452420241329952015-01-02T17:45:00.000-06:002015-01-02T17:45:17.685-06:00the panda quilts: #34: low volume plus baby quilt<div>
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Pinterest had me drooling over low volume quilts recently, so I finally gave one a go. A co-worker was due to have a baby boy in December, so that settled it! </div>
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I followed <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/onthewindyside/8614556860/in/photostream">this</a> for cutting dimensions. I thought I'd have enough low-volume scraps to use, but it was hard finding enough 5x5 squares to fit the bill, and I had to cut into some fat quarters and bigger fabric pieces. It was fun revisiting some of the cute animal prints that have showed up in past baby quilts. </div>
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For the quilting, I did lines around each 12" block, then stitched-in-the-ditch around each plus sign (you can really tell on the back). And good ole Lotta for the binding. For the back, I was able to use this nice Anna Maria Horner light blue print (I picked up a pretty sizable remnant at Textile, so no need for piecing the backing). </div>
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Here's me and the mom-to-be at the office baby shower (complete with giant computer monitor in the background): </div>
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Welcome, baby Ethan!!! </div>
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This quilt was made for my friend Nicole and her mystery baby #3. Nicole and her husband are the only people I know who do not learn the sex of the baby, so...gender neutral quilt! I didn't quilt when boy #1 was born, but boy #2 was the recipient of <a href="http://pandaparables.blogspot.com/2012/01/panda-quilts-3-snickerdoodle-quilt.html">this quilt</a> (had to dig way back into the archives for that one, as it was the 3rd quilt I had made!) <div>
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I started this quilt in August and planned it around this raindrop print made by Alexander Henry. I threw in orange, light blue, yellow and white solids, as well as a green lizzy house pearl bracelet print. </div>
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Maybe I've been playing too much Candy Crush, but the colors remind me of that. </div>
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When it came time to chose fabric for the back of the quilt, I was so sure they were going to have another boy that I almost used light blue fabric. But my quilting buddies rooted for a more gender-neutral orange, which made sense since mom & dad are UT alumni. </div>
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This quilt sat on the shelf for a good two months, and I suppose I was too busy/lazy (depending on the day) to send it to Alabama. And then November rolled around and I got a text from Nicole announcing, "It's a boy!" (to which I replied, "of course it is!") I sent Everett his quilt that very night. </div>
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Congrats and love to the whole family! </div>
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Panda Parableshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03749725342332401491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016493450943630157.post-86372262179930281752014-11-06T21:55:00.002-06:002014-11-06T21:55:55.892-06:00the panda quilts: #32: wonky stars quilt for a baby girl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Remember <a href="http://pandaparables.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-panda-quilts-11-king-sized-granny.html">the king size granny squares quilt I made for some friends back in '12</a>? Well, those friends are having a baby girl next month, and this is the story of that quilt. It started with this fabric, which I purchased at <a href="http://www.thefabricstudionashville.com/">the Fabric Studio</a> here in Nashville (with the intention of it being a quilt back). It's a super adorable, kinda flannel-y Japanese Kokka fabric with sheep on it - how can anyone resist sheep?! I certainly cannot. </div>
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I picked several gold/yellow and green fabrics from my stash to match this print and cut away...</div>
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...and made (9) 14" <a href="http://wombatquilts.com/tag/wonky-star-quilt/">wonky star blocks</a>. I was able to make the whole top in one evening - it came together quite quickly. </div>
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I used the sheep for the center star and planned on using it for the back, but changed my mind at the last minute. It's 85% cotton, 15% linen, and it's really soft...but I just thought it was a bit heavy to be the sole fabric for the backing. Plus, I didn't know how it would hold up to repeated washings. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBV-gZN_4m6ATsrSF7fgOtcXjCLEdtwVNu8VFiprxdXzRC3URO89YGTykOOjzoYV2_usn-HDi7Nbx17P5EuIC7cHtp99j9sdg9mzZCjG9VUg9YOz-pNCjOqvRLfpI2kqkpEi2nux_w_Cs/s1600/IMG_0638.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBV-gZN_4m6ATsrSF7fgOtcXjCLEdtwVNu8VFiprxdXzRC3URO89YGTykOOjzoYV2_usn-HDi7Nbx17P5EuIC7cHtp99j9sdg9mzZCjG9VUg9YOz-pNCjOqvRLfpI2kqkpEi2nux_w_Cs/s1600/IMG_0638.JPG" height="480" width="640" /></a></div>
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Instead, I used this Lizzy House print from the Cat Nap collection. </div>
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I wanted a break from the sewing machine, so: adventures in hand binding, part 3 (in which I watch the movie <i>Carrie</i> while binding).<br />
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Here's me with the mama-to-be at the baby shower (+ an adorable little boy). </div>
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I am so very excited for these guys & can't wait to meet their little lady (she'll be here around Christmas). </div>
Panda Parableshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03749725342332401491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016493450943630157.post-15566814723187938252014-11-06T20:30:00.000-06:002014-11-06T20:36:41.144-06:00the panda quilts: #31: dense triangles for an outdoor modern quilt show<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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A local fabric shop (<a href="http://www.thefabricstudionashville.com/">the fabric studio</a>, 221 Chestnut St., Nashville) called for submissions for an modern quilt show to be held in conjunction with the neighborhood's monthly art crawl, so I jumped at the chance to contribute something. With no specific baby in mind, I set about to create this quilt.<br />
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I had a vision in my head - lots of empty space, triangles - and planned the quilt around all my leftover kona stone fabric. In retrospect, this wouldn't have been my #1 fabric choice, but I went with it, all in the name of thriftiness. The floral print is an older Japanese Lecein print, and the weight is slightly lighter/more sheer than regular quilting cotton. </div>
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It's been so long that I can't even remember what size I cut the blocks (to be used for half-square triangles). I played around with several layouts: </div>
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...but none of them really fit what I had in my head. I cut the HST units smaller, and came up with this:<br />
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From there, it was time to quilt it. Again - I had a vision: very dense straight lines. It took awhile, and midway I began to feel as if i was making a glorified UHaul packing blanket. (A google image search led to this - look at this rad packing blanket!)</div>
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Anyway, back to this quilt. Since I was entering this in a show, I hand binded (hand bound?) it and promptly dropped it off to Nancy at the Fabric Studio. </div>
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I had to go and check out all the other quilts, and I was so proud to see my lil quilt up there with all of the beautiful quilts (seriously - look at the one to the left of mine with the purple & pink half moons, made by <a href="http://www.lindsaysews.com/">Linday Sews </a>- GORGEOUS!) </div>
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Here's me with my quilt: </div>
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Nancy wrote a fantastic wrap up of the event <a href="http://thefabricstudio.blogspot.com/2014/09/outdoor-modern-quilt-show.html">here</a>, with tons of pictures of the other quilts. And if you happen to live in the Nashville area - most definitely check out her shop. She carries a perfectly curated selection of modern fabrics and I am happy she set up shop here. </div>
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This quilt is back home with me, and I don't know what to do with it. Since I posted pictures of it on social media, I'd feel funny gifting it to a baby someone, as I really do carefully think about the recipients each and every quilt I make (I wouldn't want it to seem like an afterthought). I still do have plans of one day having an etsy shop or selling at a craft fair, so perhaps I just need to squirrel it away. But until then...it's all washed and folded atop my shelf waiting for a home. </div>
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Panda Parableshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03749725342332401491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016493450943630157.post-51285909892900974602014-11-03T18:02:00.004-06:002014-11-03T18:17:54.952-06:00the panda quilts: #30: rectangles for a happy marriage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's not every day that your baby sister gets married. And this not-every-day occasion certainly deserves a quilt. I made <a href="http://pandaparables.blogspot.com/2012/01/panda-quilts-5-sashing-rectangle-modern.html">Courtney a quilt way back in 2011</a>, where it quietly lived a too-small-to-fit-on-the-queen-size-bed life for the past several years. So it was perfect: I'd make the newlyweds-to-be a queen size quilt!</div>
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Courtney and Brian's bedroom is blue, and I covertly snapped a picture of the wall color as my frame of reference. </div>
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This wonderful triangle print designed by <a href="http://leahduncan.com/">Leah Duncan</a> became my basis for fabric selection.</div>
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Typically, I like to mix and match prints from different designers and lines, but I used only prints from <a href="http://www.artgalleryfabrics.com/cgi-bin/fabricshop/gallery.cgi?Category=85">Duncan's Tule collection</a>. I also picked a few Kona solids to break up all the prints. I went with a very simple <a href="http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/quilt-patterns/quilt-throws/stacked-rectangles-quilt">offset rectangles pattern</a>, cutting the blocks 10x5, and it came together relatively quickly (considering the size). I didn't photograph the back - I used the <a href="http://carolynfriedlander.com/">Carolyn Friedlander </a>Architextures Crosshatch in White (108" wide - first time not piecing a large back!) </div>
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I contacted <a href="http://www.all-sewn-together.com/">my local long arm quilting gal</a> about quilting this one for me (too big a job for me to tackle...) and she came up with a neat meandering triangle design to compliment the triangle print. It turned out great. I was SO ANXIOUS to give it to Courtney and Brian once it was back in my hands, but I waited a few days and gave it to them at their wedding shower. They had no idea I was doing this for them so I was happy to surprise them with it. </div>
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All the hubbub of the wedding and reception is now over, and I am so thrilled to have a new brother-in-law. Brian just fit right into the family dynamic. I couldn't be happier that my sister found the right guy to complete her life. Congratulations, Courtney and Brian! May your lifetime together be filled with adventure, laughter, communication, patience and love.</div>
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This quilt was made for one of my husband's co-workers. His baby girl was due to arrive soon and I wanted to make something adorable. I had a small piece of a pink woodland fabric (riley blake "enchant" by natalie lymer) and thought it would be great for this quilt. Bunnies and foxes and hedgehogs and deer! </div>
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I had some leftover squares cut from the <a href="http://pandaparables.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-panda-quilts-19-turquoise-peach.html">circle baby quilt</a> I made last year, and the colors matched perfectly. I've had that other floral fabric in my stash for years and the colors worked well with it, too. The coral/pink could be quite brash if not balanced with something more subtle. </div>
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a very simple design, but adorable factor: achieved! </div>
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I was born in southern California and went to the same school with the same kids from 1st grade until the middle of 5th grade, when my family moved to Tennessee. One of my best friends was a girl named Ronnie. She was the middle of 3 sisters just like me, and I have a memory of bringing my cassette of the Cure "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me" to her house in the Hollywood Hills. After I moved, we wrote letters to each other for a few years, but the communication trailed off during high school and was non-existent during our college years. Flash forward to the invention of the Internet! And Myspace! And at once, I was reconnected with a slew of people from my grade school days in California. In 2008, I took a trip out west for a mini-reunion of sorts - a group of us went to the school carnival. During that trip, I stayed with Ronnie and it was like our friendship hadn't skipped a beat in 21 years. I knew just because you were friends with someone at 10 doesn't mean you'll have any sort of connection at 31 - but we did! During that trip, Ronnie told me she was expecting her first child. A second child followed shortly after the first. And in 2011, I was out in California again and got to meet baby #3 a few days after she was born. Which brings us to this quilt - for Ronnie's baby number 4. I gifted <a href="http://www.jellycat.com/">Jellycat </a>stuffed animals to all the other babies, but that was before my quilting days, and I was happy to make something for her new son, born in May.<br />
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I wanted the <a href="http://cloud9fabrics.com/fabrics/seven-seas/">Seven Seas</a> print to be the focal point and picked the solids accordingly.<br />
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Welcome baby Xander! I hope to make it out to CA soon and meet you!Panda Parableshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03749725342332401491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016493450943630157.post-54636410740726194342014-04-07T20:50:00.003-05:002014-04-07T20:51:16.597-05:00the panda quilts: #27: subtle squares baby boy quilt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I made this quilt for one of my old college roommates - this superbly kind girl and her guitar-wielding husband are expecting a boy any day now. I've been wanting to use this <a href="http://www.monaluna.com/category.php?category_id=5">sheep print</a> in a baby quilt for awhile now (i had even curated a neat bundle with some black/white print fabrics) - and figured now was the time to finally use it. however, i ended up scrapping the other prints in favor of a mostly white quilt. Maybe it's dangerous to give a baby a predominantly white quilt, but perhaps he'll be a non-messy baby (?!?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So says the <a href="http://www.monaluna.com/item.php?item_id=124&category_id=5">monoluna website</a>, <i>"</i><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"><i>Hill and Dale from the Taali collection is graphic landscape of rolling hills, grazing sheep and modern flowers. It is reminiscent of an abstract Scandinavian scene and coordinates with the rest of the Taali collection." </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I quilted straight lines on a diagonal - I really like the way the three lines look together. AND...I hand-sewed the binding for the first time! (I followed </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJvDOEFlJ4s" style="font-family: inherit;">this</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> youtube video for help). I've always machine stitched everything in the past for the sake of time, but I have an </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">(unspoken)</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> goal to try new sewing & quilting things out this year, so I thought I'd give hand sewing a whirl. All in all, it went very well! I enjoyed working on it while sitting on the couch, watching Harry Potter movies with the mister, rather than being solitarily cooped up in my sewing room. </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">(Side note: i had a broken rib at the time. </i><i style="font-family: inherit;">be careful cleaning your bathroom, kiddies! bath mats can be slippery sonsaguns. </i><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">It happened the day prior, but i spent several days </span>convincing<span style="font-family: inherit;"> myself it wasn't that big a deal. an X-ray (and my inability to move without whinging) a few days later revealed otherwise). </span></i><span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't think I'll hand sew everything from here on out, but if time allows, I will definitely do it again. </span></div>
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QUILTS FOR BOY/GIRL TWINS! This was such a fun treat, making quilts for twins! Fabric selection was a no-brainer. I planned the girl quilt around the strawberries from <a href="http://www.windhamfabrics.com/cgi-bin/fabricshop/gallery.cgi?Category=649">Heather Ross' Briar Patch</a> collection & the boy's around <a href="http://cloud9fabrics.com/happydrawing.html">Ed Emberley's Frogs</a>. I wasn't concerned with 'matching' the two quilts, but there was some continuity with the oranges and greens.<br />
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For the Froggy Quilt - triangles again, my good ole 99 formula (9 rows of 11, plus the half triangles for the ends)...9 Orange, 18 blue stripes, 27 Green, 27 blue, 36 Frogs.<br />
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For the girl quilt, I made a bunch of half square triangles. I paired up the lotta orange crosshatch with a solid orange; 2 pink lizzy house prints, and the little clover flowers with solid white (representin' my 3 favorite fabric designers in this one: Lotta Jansdotter, Lizzy House and Heather Ross!) I wanted the strawberries to be the focal point.<br />
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I could post about 10 pictures of different HST layouts I entertained... It was so fun arranging, then re-arranging all the possibilities. Dangerous work for an indecisive person.<br />
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The babies were born a few weeks ago - yippee! They live around the corner from me, so I have a feeling I'll be seeing lots of these two kiddos over the years. (Sorry for all the pictures- I managed to document these fairly well).Panda Parableshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03749725342332401491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016493450943630157.post-17165748379010092362014-04-05T22:25:00.000-05:002014-04-05T22:25:13.425-05:00the panda quilts: #24: 1001 peeps quilt for asher<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I made this quilt in January for one of the Mister's old high school pals. He had stopped by our house a few months prior - as he passed through my sewing room, he expressed a bit of interest in my fabric cabinet, and knowing I'd be making him a quilt soon, I had him look through and see if anything stood out to him. He said something about one of the <a href="http://lizzyhouse.com/">lizzy house </a>1001 peeps prints, so i decided to use up all the prints I had in the collection for the quilt for his soon-to-arrive lil boy. I really like the whole collection - lizzy's take on arabian nights - and the colors are really beautiful. </div>
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We were able to hand-deliver this one - here's the quilt draped on Asher's crib: </div>
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This was the last quilt finish for 2013. Because I went on vacation right after Christmas, I had to finish this one up in time for the mid-January baby shower I was co-hosting with 4 other gals. The mama is one of my dearest friends and I wanted to give her something she and the baby would treasure. It was (kind of) a custom quilt - she looked through my <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/katiehaas/quilts/">pinterest pins</a> and pointed me in the triangular direction. She also let me know she wanted a lot of white and pinned some fabric choices as well. I wanted to surprise her A LITTLE and thought I was doing so with the Joel Dewberry Navy Herringbone fabric. Unbeknownst to either of us, she chose that very fabric to make window pelmet boxes! So...that worked out well!<br />
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I used my standard triangle quilt count for this one (9 rows of 11 triangles, plus the 18 half-pieces for the ends) but was a little more scientific with how many of each i used (to give a little more balance & to make sure white was the most predominant 'color').<br />
9 Raindrops, 27 light blue, 27 Herringbone, 18 Gray, 36 White = 117 triangles. I outlined the triangles to create a diamond quilting pattern and used gray for the binding. <br />
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The back of the quilt was a single piece of a really interesting navy & white print - the company is based in Denmark & I've only seen it on Hawthorne Threads and a few shops on etsy, so I don't think they have wide US distribution. It's a very scandinavian print, for sure, and I enjoyed using something not as widely recognized in the fabric world. <br />
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My friend cried when she opened the quilt, so... mission accomplished! Baby boy was born in February and I spent a rainy Sunday afternoon with the family a few weeks later. I fed him a bottle and (tried to) burp him. I didn't know I could feel that sort of love for a friend's baby; I thought such a feeling was only reserved for my own family. Panda Parableshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03749725342332401491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016493450943630157.post-4043288145623751982014-04-05T19:46:00.000-05:002014-04-07T20:51:44.369-05:00the panda quilts: #22: half-square triangle sampler quilt for my in-laws<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Since I have made quilts for everyone in my immediate family [still need to do one for my nephew though], i decided to make one for my in-laws for Christmas '13. I chose the fabrics right away - a few older <a href="http://cloud9fabrics.com/naturewalk.html">Cloud9 prints</a> + a few others - thought the colors were perfect for them. I had 5 YARDS of Kona Stone sittin' around (ordered a bunch for a different project and the shade wasn't right), but thankfully it matched perfectly with all these prints.<br />
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I had bookmarked <a href="http://www.incolororder.com/p/block-of-month.html">this pattern</a> awhile ago and went to work. I HAD SO MUCH FUN MAKING THE BLOCKS. Working on a Sampler Block quilt really reminded me of the <a href="http://pandaparables.blogspot.com/2011/11/quilting-101-first-quilt-wrap-up.html">first quilt I made</a> two years ago.<br />
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I've been doing lots of all-day marathon weekend sewing sessions as of late, but making these blocks reminded me that I can sew for an hour or two after work, too. I used slightly larger sashing strips than recommended in order to make the quilt just a little bigger. I quilted straight lines around the blocks, but also ditch-stitched some of the geometric shapes within the blocks (it really shows up on the quilt back. Big thanks to my quilting buddy Lana for that suggestion!)<br />
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I also used my little quilt labels for the very first time and sent the quilt off to Indiana just in time for Christmas.</div>
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<br />Panda Parableshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03749725342332401491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016493450943630157.post-10880449524696622692014-04-05T18:57:00.001-05:002014-04-05T18:57:26.072-05:00the panda quilts: #21: animals for arlo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just counted and there's SEVEN finished quilts I need to write about! So forgive me if I'm short on words, but I have a lot of catching up to do! I started this one in late Autumn for a baby boy named Arlo. a baby named Arlo needs a quilt with animals, so that's just what i did. i scrappy-cut little bits of various animal fabrics (many of these made appearances in other baby quilts! i see something from <a href="http://pandaparables.blogspot.com/2011/11/quilt-2-holden-baby-quilt.html">Holden's quilt</a>, the doggies from <a href="http://pandaparables.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-panda-quilts-12-13-few-more-baby.html">Beau's quilt</a>, the turtles from <a href="http://pandaparables.blogspot.com/2012/01/panda-quilts-3-snickerdoodle-quilt.html">Gregory's quilt</a>, an elephant from <a href="http://pandaparables.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-panda-quilts-10-triangle-elephants.html">Raylee's quilt</a>, etc. I guess it pays to save scraps...) i used grey, red and green as the basis for the animal blocks, then alternated with the bold blue. i truly enjoy making patchwork quilts and this one was no exception. I love catching glimpses of the quilt whenever I look through my instagram feed. and Arlo happens to be extraordinarily adorable so I love catching glimpses of him as well. <br />
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<br />Panda Parableshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03749725342332401491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016493450943630157.post-56302616858247889942014-02-12T22:44:00.002-06:002014-02-12T22:44:59.940-06:00the panda quilts: #20: lotta jansdotter california king quilt for our bed<br />
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we got a new california king-sized bed when we moved last march, and since then i've wanted to make a quilt for the bed. i've hoarded most of <a href="http://www.windhamfabrics.net/cgi-bin/fabricshop/designer.cgi?designer=28">lotta jansdotter's windham fabrics</a> since they first debuted in 2011. at one count, i had about 40 (!!?) different yards of her fabric from the 3 collections (echo, glimma, bella). So...it seemed perfect to use her fabrics for the bed quilt. the thought of seeing the fabric each and every day on my bed just seemed like the natural thing to do. she's by far my <a href="http://jansdotter.com/">favorite designer</a> (fabric and otherwise) and i don't imagine ever growing tired of the patterns or the colors. <br />
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i decided to go pretty simple design-wise for the quilt. because of the large size, i didn't want get too involved in something that would take me months and months (who has time for piecing intricate blocks with so many gift quilts on the horizon?!) i chose about 30 of the fabrics (most of the ones in my stash, except the pinks and oranges) and cut strips 8 1/2" in length. from there, i cut random-sized widths and pieced the rows that way. it was as random and improvisational as i've ever been, and the strips came together surprisingly fast. i ended up with 9 rows, each about 120" long. i played around with a few layouts (horizontal stripes? vertical? sashing or no?) <br />
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i decided on horizontal with sashing strips (i used kona snow). i used all lotta for the back, as well (picked up extra yardage of a few prints during a mega fabric.com sale!)<br />
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all along, i knew i didn't want to quilt this one myself. but i also knew i wasn't 100% pleased with my <a href="http://pandaparables.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-panda-quilts-11-king-sized-granny.html">outsourced-quilting experience</a> from before...but as luck would have it, i talked to a girl at <a href="http://pandaparables.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-panda-quilts-19-turquoise-peach.html">this</a> baby shower who told me about her mom's local quilting business, <a href="http://www.all-sewn-together.com/">all sewn together</a>. i am SO very pleased with the whole experience. nanette showed me all the quilting options & was incredibly patient with my indecisiveness. i even changed my mind about the design after sleeping on it (from <a href="http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/2009/12/105-overlapping-arches.html">'overlapping arches'</a> to <a href="http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/2009/08/day-2-etch-n-sketch.html">this one</a> instead) and she was receptive and understanding. because she's also a fan of more modern-style quilts, she understood where i was coming from and what suited the look of the quilt. she did the binding for me, HAD IT FINISHED IN ONE WEEK, and was affordable. if you happen to need quilting services in the nashville area, i wholeheartedly recommend this place.<br />
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after i picked the quilt up, i snapped these pictures, threw it in the wash, and we've been snuggling with it ever since. i love it!!!<br />
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looks like i'm finally back on track and blogging about these baby quilts in real time. i finished this one up last week & presented it to the mom-to-be at her baby shower last saturday. i realized that i've shipped away more quilts than i've given in person...and this made me aware of the fact that i get butterflies whenever the recipient opens the gift. i wonder if i am alone in this, or if this is a common phenomenon when people give handmade gifts? regardless, i believe it was well-received by my sweet friend & i hope her baby girl snuggles on it for years to come.<br />
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knowing full well that i'd make her a quilt, i had my friend look at my fabric stash while visiting my house to see what sort of colors or prints she was drawn to. with that in mind, i decided to go with turquoise and peach as the main colors for this one.<br />
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<a href="http://pandaparables.blogspot.com/2011/11/quilting-101-first-quilt-wrap-up.html">back when i took quilting 101 with alexia abegg, "the saucer block" was one of the ones we learned in class for our sampler quilt. </a>the sampler quilt lives on our couch (it's the go-to tv-watching lap quilt around here)...the saucer block has remained my favorite block, so i thought i'd re-visit it for this quilt.<br />
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<a href="http://alexiaabegg.squarespace.com/">alexia </a>has a pattern for a similar circle quilt in her book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Love-Projects-Featuring-Fabrics/dp/1607056267/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1378771636&sr=8-1&keywords=liberty+love">"liberty love,"</a> so that also proved to be a source of inspriation. (it's called the "goodnight fairy tale quilt" in the book). however, in class we made 12" squares, so i used that template rather than the one she provides in the book (which yields a 10" square). alexia uses subtle cream/neutral prints for the background, so i did the same (a cute moda fabric + some leftover heather bailey from my first quilt). i pulled the various turquoise and peach prints from my stash bin for the saucer centers.<br />
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the blocks came together with relative ease (although those curves were a little trickier than i remember!) i added a border (kona snow) & i think it ended up around 40"x40". good ole straight horizontal lines for the quilting, and lizzy house pearl bracelet for the binding. <br />
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this quilt is for emelia elizabeth, who came into this world just two days ago. emelia's mama tommie is my sister carrie's best friend & i've known her for 25 years. this is baby #3, and once again i didn't do this whole quilting thing when the first two were born (sorry, ellie and reuben). <br />
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i picked out the purple dandelion fabric during <a href="http://www.textilefabricstore.com/public_html/">textile's annual sale</a> (it's an older <a href="http://www.ahfabrics.com/">alexander henry</a> print). i used kona amethyst, aloe and snow to coordinate, as well as this denyse schmidt print from joann:<br />
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i didn't know what sort of pattern to use for this. i trolled <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/freshmodernquilts/">flickr</a> and <a href="http://pinterest.com/katiehaas/quilting/">pinterest </a>for inspiration, and finally decided on <a href="http://www.freshlemonsquilts.com/">fresh lemon's</a> greek cross block from <a href="http://www.freshlemonsquilts.com/?p=1113">this tutorial</a>). i found <a href="http://quilting.about.com/od/quickpiecingtechniques/ss/halfsquaretria.htm">this tutorial</a> for a quick-piecing method very helpful & time-saving.<br />
greek crosses are another one of those things that seem to have hundreds of different layout possibilities. these were just two i tried out:<br />
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after making quilts for both of my sisters, my dad, and countless baby quilts, i was beginning to feel a little guilty about not having made one for my husband. i kept my eye open for fabrics he may like and patterns he may find appealing, but the quest for the perfect combination of both kept this quilt un-made for a quite awhile. plus, i know how particular he is about EVERYTHING, so i wanted this one to be just right. i can't even remember how the decision was ultimately made, but i pulled a stack of some <a href="http://www.robertkaufman.com/fabrics/kona_cotton/">kona solids</a> (windsor, sage, yarrow, chocolate and medium grey), asked him if he liked the color combination (he did), and ordered 2 yards of each.<br />
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from there, i set out cutting a bunch of triangles with my trusty <a href="http://creativegridsusa.com/products.cfm?item_num=CGRT60&ref=c">creative grids 60 degree triangle ruler</a>. (i cut them at 6"). i played around with different layouts and asked for his input. i love the hundreds of permutations that occur with triangles... <br />
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we decided on organized rows, double brown. (no go on the moon print, but i was able to use those in <a href="http://pandaparables.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-panda-quilts-17-moony-triangles-for.html">tracey's baby quilt</a>). i spent the month of february sewing row-by-row whenever i'd get a chance (our house had sold but we weren't closing/moving til mid-march, so i had some spare sewing time again). i finished about half the quilt top before the move. <br />
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i can't remember when i got back to work on the other half, but it was
well after we had moved in and unpacked. 17 rows of 21 triangles = 357
triangles. it's about 60" wide by 90"long, approximately the
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for the back, i did something a little cheesy, but i incorporated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_jersey">championship racing stripes</a>, a nod to the mister's love of cycling. and kind of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bianchi_Bicycles">bianchi </a>celeste back there, too (it's the kona sage from the front). you can really see the diamond-shape quilting on the back.<br />
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says he: "i love it." he plans on taking it out on tour with him, so this quilt will see the likes of a stinky 15-passenger van, lots of states, some drippy taco bell fire sauce, and maybe some laundromats on the way. it's ready for adventure. <br />
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side note: i used <a href="http://quiltersdreambatting.com/dream-wool.htm">quilter's dream wool batting</a> for the first time; normally i use the natural select cotton. i've washed and dried the quilt a few times and i'm seeing crazy amount of "bearding" with this. i didn't even know this term existed, but when i googled "wool batting fuzzy problems" (or something like that) i learned that <a href="http://quiltersdreambatting.blogspot.com/2012/04/bearding-and-pokies-bane-of-quilting.html">this sometimes happens.</a> it has to do with science! and molecules! (if i think of it this way, i feel slightly less disappointed). i'll definitely stick to using regular cotton batting from here on out. Panda Parableshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03749725342332401491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016493450943630157.post-55500595268212493562013-08-26T21:02:00.000-05:002013-08-26T21:08:48.357-05:00the panda quilts: #17: moony triangles for baby brandon <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Skipping #16 (a special quilt for the Mister....years in the making) to tell you about the 17th quilt I made: a triangle quilt for my cousin Tracey's baby boy (Brandon, born on July 30). I didn't know how to quilt when her first two kiddos were born (sorry Mairead and Connor), so I was excited to make a quilt for baby #3.<br />
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I had cut the moon triangles (part of the <a href="http://www.andoverfabrics.com/Grid.php?GroupName=Constellations">Lizzy House "Constellations" collection</a>) as a "maybe" for Quilt #16, but I didn't end up using them. So I thought they'd be perfect for this quilt. I had some leftover grey & navy triangles, and I used the beautiful white starry fabric & a Lotta Jansdotter turquoise stripe as well. <br />
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This one was a lot of fun to make. I loved the way the fabrics blended together - the colors are so calming; I am happy it went to a familial home. I still haven't met the 2nd child in Tracey's brood & I am hoping I get a chance to visit them all soon. If we lived in the same state, I know I'd hang out with them all the time. </div>
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Panda Parableshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03749725342332401491noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016493450943630157.post-12045314564885703122013-08-20T22:04:00.000-05:002013-08-26T21:03:15.677-05:00the panda quilts: #15: one for Maddox<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hey-o, it's been awhile. I suppose selling and buying a house will do that to a person. In an effort to chronicle all the quilts I make, I went back in my time machine to revisit a quilt made for Maddox, <a href="http://pandaparables.blogspot.com/2011/11/quilt-2-holden-baby-quilt.html">Holden's </a>baby brother. I can't even remember when I started this one - was it December of '12? January? Again, selling and buying a house will make your mind mush. Regardless, Maddox was born in March, and I know I mailed it off before then, so....<br />
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Maddox's family lives near to the beach & his dad can surf, so I went nautical for this one. I chose a few prints from Cloud 9's <a href="http://cloud9fabrics.com/sevenseas.html">Seven Seas collection</a>. I'm an absolute sucker for <a href="http://mlbe.tumblr.com/">Michele Brummer Everett </a>fabrics (I was a fan of her<a href="http://pandaparables.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-panda-quilts-8-9-tale-of-two.html"> Monsterz </a>collection, too)...all those critters! They're so strange and awesome and adorable! The flags seemed very Newport Beach to me, which then made me think about <a href="http://arresteddevelopment.wikia.com/wiki/Newport_Beach">Arrested Development....</a> All the while <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbXGKSQsJzA">Echo and the Bunnymen's song "Seven Seas"</a> is playing in my head.... and then this quilt is the result.<br />
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The colors are bolder than I'm used to/drawn to, but it works. A beachy blue and yellow and red to go along with the elements in the prints. I quilted sideways V's jutting from one of the sides.Panda Parableshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03749725342332401491noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016493450943630157.post-22968215932508651282013-02-04T22:25:00.001-06:002013-02-04T22:25:35.834-06:00the panda quilts: #14: Dad Quilt<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Since <a href="http://pandaparables.blogspot.com/2012/01/panda-quilts-4-small-plates-outfoxed.html">both</a> of my <a href="http://pandaparables.blogspot.com/2012/01/panda-quilts-5-sashing-rectangle-modern.html">sisters</a> got quilts for Christmas 2011, I wanted to make one for my Dad for 2012. I had bookmarked <a href="http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/projects-ideas/bed-quilts/solid-squares-bed-quilt_1.html">the pattern for this quilt</a> when I saw it about a year ago - the simplicity of the solids always struck me - and I figured it would suit my Dad quite nicely. He has shades of browns and maroons in his living room, and a really pretty comforter from anthropologie (!) in his bedroom (he has fine taste for a 60-something-year-old man), so I thought this quilt would match well wherever he decides to use it. <br />
I got a <a href="http://www.pinkcastlefabrics.com/products/kona-merlot-fat-quarter-bundle">kona cotton fat quarter bundle</a> ("merlot") and used most of those (along with some other kona solids I had)...and the main background/sashing fabric is kona stone. Merry Christmas, Dad!! <br />
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Panda Parableshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03749725342332401491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016493450943630157.post-7293025222037280842013-02-04T21:51:00.000-06:002013-02-04T22:26:59.117-06:00the panda quilts: #12 & #13: a few more baby quilts<div style="text-align: center;">
#12: doggy quilt for beau</div>
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first up, a doggy quilt for a baby boy named beau (say that 10 times fast). i still haven't given this kid his quilt yet (he was born back in november)...but i have plans to see his mom & dad in a few days, so i thought it was safe to go ahead and post it. another patchwork quilt with the same formula as the others - 99 4 1/2" squares. my main source of inspiration was the <a href="http://cloud9fabrics.com/happydrawingtoo.html">ed emberley dog fabric</a> (do you remember the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ed-Emberleys-Drawing-Book-Animals/dp/0316789798/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360034847&sr=8-1&keywords=how+to+draw+animals+ed">"how to draw animals"</a> books?) from there i chose some coordinating solids in bold colors. the straight-line outline quilting really shows up well on the back: <br />
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#13 flowers & dots quilt</div>
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nevermind that it was the first week of december, our house was on the market, and i had yet to start on my dad's christmas gift quilt: i decided to make a quilt for a co-worker who just adopted a baby girl. this one came together very quickly and i used some fabric from my stash (the dots & flowers & binding all came from the <a href="http://www.hoodiescollection.com/fabric/fabric.html">same collection</a>, which i had purchased on etsy back when i first got into sewing).<br />
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Panda Parableshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03749725342332401491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016493450943630157.post-64153230398812428112012-11-21T23:50:00.001-06:002012-11-21T23:50:42.667-06:00the panda quilts: #11: king-sized granny squares wedding quilt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of the quilting blogs I follow, <a href="http://blueelephantstitches.blogspot.com/">Blue Elephant Stitches</a>, posted a <a href="http://blueelephantstitches.blogspot.ca/2012/01/granny-square-quilt-block-tutorial.html">"Granny Squares" tutorial </a>back in January. Around this time, I got my new fancy sewing machine and decided to make a block and posted a picture on instagram. The photo was "liked" by a <a href="http://www.battletapes.com/">dear old friend of mine</a> who happened to be engaged to a dear old friend of my mister. They're special to us. So special, that at that very moment, I decided I'd make a quilt as their wedding gift. I figured it was a completely do-able over the next 9 months or so before their wedding day. <br />
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Whenever I'd get a free moment here or there, I would go into my scrap bin, pick out 2 colors, and cut and sew 25 2 1/2" blocks together. (I used Kona Snow for the "background" color). My scrap bin handled the job with flying colors, but I bought a few 5" charm packs as supplementation. <br />
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I didn't document my process very well. But every so often, I would lay out my completed-to-date blocks and snap a picture with my iPhone to check out the color composition and whatnot.<br />
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And I'd try to guestimate how many blocks I'd have to come up with to make a king-sized quilt. <br />
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In the end, I wound up with 6 rows of 7 (or 7 rows of 6...however you want to look at it!). This picture was taken before I sewed all the sashing strips. I used 3" strips between the blocks, then ended up adding about 16" all around. (I can't find the sheet I used for my sketches and calculations). If you're doing the math at home, that equals "a heck of a lot of" Kona Snow. I should've just bought a whole bolt of the stuff.<br />
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While I was piecing all the strips to the blocks for the quilt top, I decided that I was physically incapable/terrified to "quilt" the quilt at home on my machine. It was 108x100, twice the size of the largest thing I had ever done (a twin). I'll skip the whole long story about how I ended up in <a href="http://thefabricshoponline.com/">Springfield, TN</a>, but that's where I brought my quilt...<br />
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In the meantime, the bride and groom were married and it was a beautiful and fun ceremony and reception. Fast forward weeks and weeks (and weeks) later, and I finally got the word that it was done. (Not quite though...they didn't bind it! So I decided to do that myself, and I am glad I did. It made me realize that (if I should ever undertake a king-sized quilt again), I <i>may</i> be able to quilt it myself. (I was really just afraid of the maneuverability of something that size, and I handled the machine binding with patience and ease).<br />
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I wanted to photograph the quilt before passing the it off to the newly-marrieds, which posed another problem. My mister's arms weren't long or wide enough to hold the whole thing by himself. He used a microphone stand to prop up one corner and we finally put our back deck to use:<br />
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<i>Cheers, Fergusons...We love you! </i></div>
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The mister's sister is expecting her first child in December...which means I'll have a new niece or nephew soon! This was another gender neutral quilt. I picked out the raindrop print first, then the elephants...and everything else was matched from my stash (some leftover Kona solids and one of the Denyse Schmidt Joann prints). </div>
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After drooling over so many triangle quilts on flickr and pinterest, I decided it was time I finally made one. I got a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Grids-Triangle-Finished-Quilting/sim/B0017RGKCC/2">Creative Grids 8" 60 degree triangle ruler</a> and went to work...It was a super fun quilt to make and I'm eager to work on another triangle quilt soon.</div>
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amanda lives in indiana, so a few weeks ago i made the 3-hr drive to attend the baby shower. i wanted to see "pregnant amanda" and it was an added bonus to be able to give her the quilt in person! </div>
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<br />Panda Parableshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03749725342332401491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016493450943630157.post-66458641290469079232012-10-13T00:04:00.000-05:002012-11-21T22:44:22.808-06:00the panda quilts: #8 & #9: a tale of two monsterz<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A few weeks ago, I was able to complete 2 baby quilts in a few days' time (as you can see, the basic design of these two is really simple, which made that accomplishment even possible). I had some of the <a href="http://cloud9fabrics.com/">Cloud9</a> <a href="http://cloud9fabrics.com/monsterz.html">Monsterz fabric</a> squirreled away and was just waiting for the right babies to come along so I could use it.<br />
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I made this one first. I cut 6" pieces of Monsterz (Adventurez - Mint and Monterz Mash - Orange) and matched it up with some stuff in my stash: Kona School Bus (that's the orange solid fabric) and <a href="http://comfortstitching.typepad.co.uk/">Aneela Hoey</a> "Cloud Dash Stripes" from the collection "A Walk in the Woods". I made a triangle template to trace out my quilting marks; 2 rows in I realized that if you quilt a bunch of triangles, it'll look like chevrons (duh!). I used some of the leftover "Adventurez" fabric for the binding. This quilt went to a "we're not finding out" couple, and today, they gave birth to a little boy.<br />
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The next quilt went to a little baby boy who lives up the street. His mom & dad are old high school pals of my husband. Little Henry has an older brother & I figured he'd end up with a lot of hand-me-downs, so I wanted to make him something special. I used the same methodology, except this time I cut 10- 5" strips and pieced them together. Aside from the Monsterz and the "Cloud Dash Stripes," I also used one of the new <a href="http://www.jansdotter.com/">Lotta Jansdotter</a> Bella prints (the orange squigglies) and another grey print (from the <a href="http://thelongthread.com/?page_id=9490">"Quilt Blocks" collection</a>). For this one, I did horizontal straight quilting lines between all the strips. <br />
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