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Just finished my February blocks for Hexie Harvest! I really love the contrast in the colours I've chosen, the dark background makes the rainbow colours really pop!
Below are the blocks I've made so far, from left to right, the patterns are called Kindling, Mistletoe, and Rosemallow. Mistletoe is my favourite, I love the way the intertwining of the pieces creates movement in the block!
I can't wait to start the next set in March!
A project for a friend, from chaotic notes app sketch to finished quilt!
My goals for this project were to:
-use designs and colors directly inspired by my friend
-build confidence in foundation paper piecing, with the aim to understand the rules so I can design my own patterns eventually
-use as much scrap fabric as possible whenever possible
The grey background, the spines of the book designs, and the improv blocks were all made from half square triangle and strip scraps left over from a wedding quilt made for mutual friends. I think that means my friends’ quilts are siblings. ❤️
This was my favorite part, improvising fpp blocks with small scraps. No rules just right. (Ok some rules- for each block use many blues, use green once, balance with grey. But I made those rules up arbitrarily so I don’t mind following them)
The blue background fabric and border fabric were originally three thrifted shirts. I used fpp technique to make the striping precise.
I listened to a lot of tinglers while making this quilt, and in my opinion this gift for my friend proves love is real. Chuck Tingle is a very inspirational and influential artist for me. I have enormous respect for all his work and I find myself more motivated to create because Chuck trots his trot.
Just two buds and a quilt that proves love is real.
There is so much joy in watching my friends enjoy something I made. I love you guys!
I’m very happy with how this quilt turned out. I was able to pull mostly from my scrap bags for the top, the rest was reclaimed shirts. Foundation paper piecing is sometimes referred to as a technique that creates a lot of scrap, but I’ve found it to be a good way to use scrap. The extra step of piecing solids into a large enough shape to fit the fpp pattern didn’t seem to effect the overall construction, as long as I ironed the seams open. (Fpp does create paper waste though, which I can’t yet figure out how to reuse.) I certainly increased my confidence with fpp and I’m really excited to use the technique more. Best of all, the quilt helped keep my friends warm on a very cold weekend. I’m very lucky to know and be known by them.
Thank you for reading, please enjoy Jasper in his favorite spot: the forbidden blanket. I moved him from his spot many times because I was worried about pin pricks but he kept coming back. The beloved boy loves a basted quilt.
Patterns are Tall Tales by Kate Basti, North Star by Full Bobbin Designs, and Dragonfly by Full Bobbin Designs
With the $3.31 Quilt caught up, I've moved back to working on Chilhowie!
I got sick and wasn't able to keep up after clue no.5 was released, but after a little work today, I've finally finished it!
So excited to move on to clue no.6!
I decided my goal for this year is to knock down some of my fabric stash and I’m gonna do it in the least responsible way possible:
A king-size postage stamp quilt.
I’ve done the math on this. 2 inch squares to start. 1.5inch squares finished, with ¼ inch seams. Goal is to not buy any additional fabric for it (aside from the backing fabric and potentially the binding).
It’s going to be square, so the overall dimensions are not traditional king-size but well within the dimensions of a traditional king.
I originally chose 70x70, which comes to a grand total of 4,900 pieces of fabric, and 105in by 105in. My thought was I could break the quilt up into smaller pieces and work on a few blocks per weekend. I settled on individual blocks of 25, 5x5, and 4 per weekend. This would let me finish the quilt top by the end of the year (assuming I can knock out 16 in the next 10 days).
But then I did some more thinking about it. I want to do a checkerboard pattern with my low volume fabrics and brights, and I discovered the easiest way to divide up the checkerboard and not have to alternate blocks was to do an even number division.
So then.
70x70 doesn’t divide up as nicely into small, manageable blocks. Could I have done 10x10 blocks? Sure. But that sounds fiddly and lame.
So then.
I thought ‘72x72 is even more quilt to love and also divisible by 8′. By using 8x8 blocks, so 64 pieces of fabric, which can be pieced as 16-patch blocks and connected (very manageable; a 16-patch was one of my first quilts), I only need 81 blocks. If I do 2 blocks per weekend, starting this weekend, I can definitely finish the quilt top by the end of the year, with time to finish the whole quilt.
For the record, 72x72 is 5,184. 108″x108″.
Soooo. In order to simplify the process, I made more work for myself. And… I’m not mad about it. My stash can handle it.
Everyone watch out, he's got the fabric out!
Kansas water experts are sounding an alarm decades in the making: Farmers and ranchers in the state’s western half must stop pumping more water out of a vast aquifer than nature puts back each year or risk the economic collapse of a region important to the U.S. food supply.
That warning is setting up a big and messy fight for the annual session of the Kansas Legislature set to open Monday.
The Kansas Water Authority is telling lawmakers that Kansas needs to break sharply with its decadeslong policy of slowing depletion while still allowing water levels to drop in the Ogallala Aquifer. The aquifer covers roughly 175,000 square miles (453,000 square kilometers) in the western and Great Plains states of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming and South Dakota.
Most of those states have areas where depletion is a problem, but the call in Kansas to “halt” the declines has farmers, ranchers and politically influential agriculture groups preparing to battle proposals that would give them less control over water and possibly could force them to cultivate fewer acres, buy expensive new equipment or turn on a dime to grow different crops.
Imposing the Water Authority’s policy means agribusinesses that drive the region’s economy would have to consume less water — perhaps as much as 30% less in some areas. Lawmakers also would have to decide whether local officials would keep driving conservation efforts or if the state would be in charge.
“The easy part was making the statement. That didn’t cost anybody anything,” said Clay Scott, who farms in southwestern Kansas. “We’re going to have to start paying for it, and we have to decide how that gets divvied up.”
Kansas produces more than 20% of the nation’s wheat and has about 18% of the cattle being fed in the U.S. The western third of Kansas, home to most of its portion of the Ogallala, accounts for 60% of the value of all Kansas crops and livestock. That’s possible because of the water.
The recommendation on the Ogallala from the water authority, a planning and advisory commission, is a response to data showing that since widespread pumping began around 1940, much of the Ogallala has lost at least 30% ofits available water and more than 60% in places in western Kansas. The Kansas Geological Survey had a team in western Kansas this week to measure well depths for updated figures.
“There are wells that are starting to run dry already, so this isn’t a distant problem in some areas,” said Tom Buller, executive director of the Kansas Rural Center, a nonprofit that promotes sustainable agriculture and family farming. “There isn’t a lot of time to solve the problem.”
The Water Authority’s recommendation comes as much of the western U.S. continues to suffer through a megadrought fueled by climate change. Parts of Kansas have had drought conditions for a year, and more than half the state has been in extreme drought since mid-September.
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Dear world, here is my handquilting progress on The Orville New Horizons Moclan quilt.
IMG_9428 by Louise Wackerman Via Flickr: SMQG Charity Quilt Icy Blocks- Not my work!
Striped Stars Mini Quilt by Isabelle Selak
70 ’s style quilt made of vintage fabrics by ompompali Claudia Via Flickr: When I was a little girl I envied the children in my picture books because they always seemed to sleep under beautiful patchwork blankets and it looked so cozy! (Like the pictures from books I have included above - found here www.flickr.com/groups/vintagechildrensbooks/pool/42945836…). In real life I knew no one who had such a quilt so I couldn’t see whether the cozy impression was true. Many years have passed since then and I thought it high time to make myself such a quilt. Actually this is the first quilt I have ever made for myself - the other ones I made were always given away. I have been collecting my vintage fabrics because I wanted my quilt to have the vintage feel from my picture books. Sometimes you just have to return to your childhood dreams and I am completely happy with my very first own quilt!
Mingled by Debbie Via Flickr: a Faith Circle quilt for do.Good Stitches
do Good Stitches - Bliss circle by annabelle gardner Via Flickr: September’s strings quilt
Sugar and Spice Picnic quilt -Girls in the Garden blog by Lori Via Flickr: Sugar and Spice fabric with pattern Picnic (modified to fit a queen bed). For my youngest daughter
Crazy quilt made as a wedding gift by bride’s friends, 1890, from the collection of the Chemung County Historical Society
Windmill Blades Log Cabin Quilt: Ca. 1890; Virginia, US
TPPEAR - Carefree Quilt by Elizabeth Williams Via Flickr: Processed with VSCOcam with c1 preset
