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To-do list!

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Alyson| 3 Comments

Here it is, the post you’ve been waiting for! The monumental to-do list of DOOM!

  1. Word baby quilt
  2. Rail fence baby quilt
  3. Monster Baby quilt
  4. Monster Baby quilt
  5. Wonky zig-zag Baby quilt
  6. Baby quilt (pattern undecided – for march)
  7. Nautical quilt (etsy store)
  8. Nautical flags  quilt & pillows (gift): http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2011/06/how-to_nautical_flag_napkins.html
  9. tap pants: http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2011/07/how-to_make_a_custom_pair_of_t.html
  10. Halloween costume (undecided! – Caleb)
  11. dragon skirt Cancelled since I used the fabric on the tie project!
  12. finishing touches on 2 bags (etsy store)
  13. finishing touches on 2 other bags (gifts) 
  14. Men’s shirt pillows (etsy store)
  15. Refashioning vintage Saks jacket
  16. Adjustments to dress from goodwill
  17. Touch painting art quilt series
  18. hash out ideas for Christmas gift
  19. screen printed rabbit quilt (etsy store)
  20. jelly roll floor pillow: http://www.modabakeshop.com/2011/07/jelly-roll-floor-pillows.html
  21. Obi Belt: http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2011/08/how-to_quilted_and_beaded_obi.html
  22. Patchwork puzzle ball: http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2011/07/how-to_patchwork_puzzle_ball.html
  23. Simple kid’s tie (for Caleb, 8/20) Blogged
  24. fabric containers/boxes for smaller project storage
  25. reorganize the fabric stash
  26. small kaleidoscope quilt (gift)
  27. large kaleidoscope quilt
  28. Winter robe set for Katrina
  29. Summer robes for Angela
  30. Program pouches (Valerie’s Wedding, 8/20) Blogged
  31. Creative prompt cards, series of quilts
  32. Renn Faire costume commission
  33. Teach Jenna to use her sewing machine :-)

 

That’s it for now, more laterz.

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Where do I begin…

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Alyson| Leave a comment

Clearly, this blog isn’t working for me.  I don’t know what it is.  I’ve been sewing, not as much as I would like, but still…sewing.  I have things I could post about, and I don’t. Maybe I got out of the habit.  Maybe I’m just uninspired to write.  I can’t put my finger on it.  BUT, I’m not ready to give up yet!

I do think part of me is a little OVER-stimulated.  There are a lot of ideas floating around in my head, things I want to make, things I want to write about… so one of the things I’ve been contemplating lately is a to-do list.  I used to be the queen of to-do lists.  I had these amazing lists in college filling up brightly colored paper with the smallest handwriting I could muster and sparkly stickers that I would reward myself with and magically, THINGS GOT DONE.  So I think I will start a sewing to-do list here, just to keep track of the things I want to do.  I’ll keep it going and strike of things that I done, and maybe even develop a little icon form myself so I can get stickers again.  Because who doesn’t love stickers? (Well, I don’t really love stickers when Caleb insists on sticking them all over me, but that’s besides the point.)

So that’s that. I have a plan.  To-do list to follow.

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It’s been a while…

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Alyson| Leave a comment

My husband tells me that even though I can’t write much about what I am currently working on, I should make a post to that affect.

But I know you want to hear more than that, now don’t you?  Like, where the heck I have been for the last 5-ish months? And what’s been going on in the world of hasty quilting? And what even happened to that crazy art show I was taking part in?  Well, I’m here to answer all of that. Just sit on back and make yourselves comfortable.

At the end of August we visited the beach and to make a very long story short, I broke my leg. If you know me in person, you’ve certainly heard all of the gory details and whining and complaining already. I had surgery to put things back together and although it was my left leg, leaving my sewing foot free, I just couldn’t manage sewing for a while. I crocheted a little bit from my place on the couch, but other than that, not much crafting was going on. I finally managed some sewing in the form of a Halloween costume for my little man.

That doesn’t explain what happened from June to August, though, I hear you cry! Well…I was occupied with Artomatic; then I was just occupied. The weather was just too beautiful, the sun was too shiny, the days were too warm. In other words, I have no excuse. Maybe I just needed a wee vacation from the flurry of sewing that lead up to Artomatic. Unless you REALLY want to psychoanalyze my brain, we’ll never know.

So that brings us up to now. I decided, in a wave of medical bills related to the broken leg, and a fit of insanity, that we needed to spend as little money as possible on the holidays this year. To that end, I am sewing, sewing, sewing myself silly on Christmas gifts. This unfortunately means that I can’t tell you much about what is going on until after the holidays because some of the gifts I am making are for folks who read this blog. I do promise to post what I can before the holidays, plus a few holdovers from the summer that I never got around to.  Hang in there, the sewing hiatus is over!

Before I forget, in other important news – I moved my etsy shop from wonderlandquilts.etsy.com to hastyquilter.etsy.com. If you had me bookmarked, please update your bookmarks. And if you didn’t have my bookmarked, then go and bookmark me. In the new location. *natch*

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Yesterday there was S.E.X.

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Alyson| 2 Comments

Minds out of the gutter, please. We’re talking “Stash Enhancement eXpedition”, thankyouverymuch.

A close friend of mine found an local interior decorator who was moving offices/going out of business/changing things up (we’re not quite clear exactly what the situation is) and was invited to take a look at the stuff that the interior decorator was getting rid of. She was astonished to find that ”stuff” included ROOMS full of fabric: samples, yardage, upholstery, silk, cottons…

My friend kindly invited me to join her yesterday for some free S.E.X. (if she knew that that is what it is called, I think she would unfriend me immediately) and I happily agreed, though I have to admit I was a touch skeptical. We arrived, and the decorator informed us that we were last on her priority list, first being her staff, second being charity and third, us. This was FINE WITH ME.

The fabric selection was astounding. Being a quilter, I could happily take even the small sample-sized fabric squares. By the time I left, I had 3 trash bags FULL of fabric & even a number of beautiful trims, and they STILL hadn’t finished clearing out the back room. Of course, it turns out that the fabrics I really wanted were in the back of the back room. My wonderfully, amazingly, awesomely fantastic friend volunteered to go back today and pack up even more fabric for me, along with some pillow forms and other wonderful things.

Last night I cut open my garbage bags and sat in my living room sorting fabric.  Quilters cottons, tiny pieces, medium pieces, yardage, shears, other, and trims.  I have ideas for about 50% of it. 

Keep your eyes out for some fabulous carpet bags and vintage style baby quilts to appear in my etsy shop soon!

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Artful Dilemmas

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Alyson| Leave a comment

I decided that I would make my full moon celebration quilts 12″ x 12″. I have nothing attached to that number; there is nothing significant about it, it’s just an easy one for me. I have a 12.5″ x 12.5″ ruler, and I trim the edges when the quilting is done so I’ll have nice straight edges and the quilt will be 12″ x 12″. Easy as that.

There is a continuation of the journal quilt project going on. It’ll be an online exhibit only. And since my plan is already to make journal quilts, why not enter them? But here’s the dilemma. The journal quilts are going back to the old format of 8.5″ x 11″, vertical orientation. And I had already decided on 12″ x 12″. In fact, I’d already started creating a quilt for the series in 12″ x 12″. I could cut it smaller. I have little to no problems doing that. But I’m not sure that I want to do it, just to get the quilts into a show. I could just finish this one and complete the rest in the smaller format and just not enter this one as one of the three in the show, but I kind of wanted them all to be the same size to tie them all together. I’d like to make the decision before I start quilting the piece, so that I don’t have to quilt unnecessarily. Free-motioning is a lot of work, dontchaknow, and especially when you are working in a small format, every stitch counts.

In addition to that dilemma, I feel like the quilt I’m working on needs more, and I was thinking about putting in a snowy landscape below the moon, but I really didn’t want these quilts to be quite so…literal. It changes the whole perspective of the quilt and it would be changing the point of it almost completely and I’m not happy about that either. But you can’t force art and I am feelin’ the landscape. If only I can make it look as good as it does in my mind.

So anyway…didn’t work on it yesterday because a) I was tired and b) dilemmas.

Any thoughts?

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