The quilt has been quote, bound, and run through the laundry freshly baked! Unfortunately a piecing seam did pull when it got washed, so I have to fix that and then pictures
Ok I didn’t quite complete the block this morning but I’m really close! AND it’s much smoother and less wrinkly than block 1. I figured out that tracing my stitching line really helps on such narrow pieces.
Hey if you See This can you reblog this or comment on this with a character you headcanon as aromantic, asexual, or both. It can be canon it can be founded on absolutely nothing I just need more aroace stuff on here #yay
The day is halfway gone and I still need to do 100 things to get ready for tomorrow including remember how to bake cakes, make said cake, clean the house and deep clean the pantry so that all nuts can be banished for a day. 😱
I probably would be having an easier time if I hadn't over exerted myself yesterday....
I am telling myself it will be worth it because I'm going to get a little camera treat soon.
Cake in the oven, curd and ganache in the fridge and I'm sitting down a minute before I pass out... Whoops... The curd is a little scrambled egg but the taste is apparently ok and I figure if I strain it it should work in the middle of a cake.
The big things to do are:
Deep clean the pantry and confiscate any/all nuts
Clean the bathroom
Generally tidy
Sort out washing
Assemble cake
That leaves tomorrow morning to make soup, set up a "learn to quilt" plan and do a final clean.
General tidying and washing is done, the pantry clean will occur when the cake is safely in the nut free clean fridge, and the bathroom will be my problem shortly.
In other news I have my first SLR and I'm so, so excited to learn how the fuck photography works. What a gift!
My husband described my decorating attempts as "a damp beach" but that "you like the beach!" The cake top broke and it's lumpy as hell, but it tastes good so shhhhh....
The day is halfway gone and I still need to do 100 things to get ready for tomorrow including remember how to bake cakes, make said cake, clean the house and deep clean the pantry so that all nuts can be banished for a day. 😱
I probably would be having an easier time if I hadn't over exerted myself yesterday....
I am telling myself it will be worth it because I'm going to get a little camera treat soon.
Cake in the oven, curd and ganache in the fridge and I'm sitting down a minute before I pass out... Whoops... The curd is a little scrambled egg but the taste is apparently ok and I figure if I strain it it should work in the middle of a cake.
The big things to do are:
Deep clean the pantry and confiscate any/all nuts
Clean the bathroom
Generally tidy
Sort out washing
Assemble cake
That leaves tomorrow morning to make soup, set up a "learn to quilt" plan and do a final clean.
General tidying and washing is done, the pantry clean will occur when the cake is safely in the nut free clean fridge, and the bathroom will be my problem shortly.
In other news I have my first SLR and I'm so, so excited to learn how the fuck photography works. What a gift!
The day is halfway gone and I still need to do 100 things to get ready for tomorrow including remember how to bake cakes, make said cake, clean the house and deep clean the pantry so that all nuts can be banished for a day. 😱
I probably would be having an easier time if I hadn't over exerted myself yesterday....
I am telling myself it will be worth it because I'm going to get a little camera treat soon.
Cake in the oven, curd and ganache in the fridge and I'm sitting down a minute before I pass out... Whoops... The curd is a little scrambled egg but the taste is apparently ok and I figure if I strain it it should work in the middle of a cake.
The big things to do are:
Deep clean the pantry and confiscate any/all nuts
Clean the bathroom
Generally tidy
Sort out washing
Assemble cake
That leaves tomorrow morning to make soup, set up a "learn to quilt" plan and do a final clean.
The day is halfway gone and I still need to do 100 things to get ready for tomorrow including remember how to bake cakes, make said cake, clean the house and deep clean the pantry so that all nuts can be banished for a day. 😱
I probably would be having an easier time if I hadn't over exerted myself yesterday....
I am telling myself it will be worth it because I'm going to get a little camera treat soon.
Now that this project has been delivered to its recipient, I can brag about it online a little.
I made this Elizabethan petal hussif for a friend who received an award for her historical costuming work. Hussifs were often used as sewing kits with spots for all of the notions you need for a project. Wives would send them with their husbands to war with extra uniform buttons and repair supplies. This one has an inner pouch area that can fit a small project or pieces thereof.
My friend likes owls, pomegranates, blurple, and starlight. Hopefully this mashup harmonizes nicely. I worked almost entirely from scraps already in my stash.
I self drafted the pattern, but it's approximated from this write up and Sheila Marshall's book "Elizabethan Needlework Accessories". My library didn't have the book, so I relied on Google images.
This little owl friend is a needle minder by greennerddesigns on Etsy. I chopped up a pin and stuck a magnet on there.
The lucette braided cord nearly thwarted me, but we got there in the end. I opted for fancy silk ribbon for the inner pouch instead. I swear lucette gave me arthritis.
I'm still pretty new to embroidery, so this was a real level up project for me. I used wool felt for the leaves and pomegranates to give them a little dimensionality (and to better hide any satin stitch sins) TIL, embroidering velveteen sucks.
The pomegranates are so crunchy! I fondled them frequently throughout the making of this. But the lattice stitch with tiny gold details is my favorite part.
The laurels are a symbol of the award she's receiving. I don't love how they turned out, but they hold up okay from a distance.
Blue beads are from my local embroidery shop, Country Crafts. Silver loops came from my stash. Owl scissors from onethriftystitcher on Etsy. Wool pieces are from my local wool store Black Sheep Wool.
Overall, I have some improvements to make if I ever do another one, but after some 100 hours of work poured into this little guy, I couldn't be more proud of myself. I hope she loves it and uses it until it falls apart.
After three and a half hours of squirming around on the floor, this monstrosity of a quilt is basted and ready to quilt! Now I just need the pain to die down and my energy to come back...
Ex Altiora (2024-2026) - This quilt has been planned for a long time, and has taken a while to make. It's inspired by the Magnus Archives and the fear of big places, heights, and the sea. It's the reason I met my husband, so I had to make something!
The pattern is Trail Mix but I've wiggled the blocks around so it looks like lightning.
The quilt is machine pieced but hand quilted, with the beginning of the Statement embroidered around the edge of the quilt.
This is my largest quilt to date (thank you friends who helped hold it up in the stairwell), and is the quilt I'm proudest of making. It's also the first quilt I'm thinking about exhibiting, so if anyone has any advice please let me know!