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Showing posts with label scrap buster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scrap buster. Show all posts
Thursday, February 5, 2015
"I See Your True Colors Shining Through": Lighting Problems
Labels:
lighting,
quilts,
scrap buster
I get excited about colorful+creative textiles, quilting & improvisational design. Making fabric is just as thrilling as using it! Join me in my studios, and on both blogs while I cut, stitch, dye, paint, and print my way through life. There's always something new to investigate here! Contact me at julie@pinkdoxies.com
Friday, January 30, 2015
Show and Tell and Pet Project Show
There have been many occasions lately where someone has asked me if I had a card.
In the age of smart phones, do people still carry business cards?
According to my daughter at university, students there are encouraged
by professors to carry business cards.
Several other friends said they always cards on their person.
Where have I been?
Labels:
bags,
business cards,
Kate Spain,
scrap buster
I get excited about colorful+creative textiles, quilting & improvisational design. Making fabric is just as thrilling as using it! Join me in my studios, and on both blogs while I cut, stitch, dye, paint, and print my way through life. There's always something new to investigate here! Contact me at julie@pinkdoxies.com
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Jelly Beans and Chocolate
We had a snowy weekend here,
and I don't know what quilter doesn't translate that as,
"So sorry! We can't make it because of the weather," and
"Hip hip hurrah! I get to stay home and SEW!"
Just don't share that with friends and family.
They won't get it,
and they won't think it's funny!
and they won't think it's funny!
Labels:
Fat Quarter Shop,
Log Cabin blocks,
quilts,
scrap buster
I get excited about colorful+creative textiles, quilting & improvisational design. Making fabric is just as thrilling as using it! Join me in my studios, and on both blogs while I cut, stitch, dye, paint, and print my way through life. There's always something new to investigate here! Contact me at julie@pinkdoxies.com
Saturday, January 10, 2015
100th Post and 1st Linky Party
I had hoped to have this done today, but life takes precedence. I made this wall hanging for my sewing room wall to remind myself that it's not the destination--it's the journey. I have been blessed by all the wonderful people I've met through Pink Doxies and quilting. One hundred posts, and dozens of new friends. Thank you.
Labels:
party,
scrap buster,
selvages,
wall hangings
I get excited about colorful+creative textiles, quilting & improvisational design. Making fabric is just as thrilling as using it! Join me in my studios, and on both blogs while I cut, stitch, dye, paint, and print my way through life. There's always something new to investigate here! Contact me at julie@pinkdoxies.com
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Selvages and Pieced Oversized Tote WIP
Okay folks. I'm smitten. I'm, totally, head-over-heels Gaga over selvages.
They are like gingerbread on a house to add the final zing.
Labels:
bags,
Daydream,
improv,
Kate Spain,
scrap buster,
selvages
I get excited about colorful+creative textiles, quilting & improvisational design. Making fabric is just as thrilling as using it! Join me in my studios, and on both blogs while I cut, stitch, dye, paint, and print my way through life. There's always something new to investigate here! Contact me at julie@pinkdoxies.com
Monday, January 5, 2015
Orphan Blocks and Selvages
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bags,
Daydream,
improv,
Kate Spain,
orphan blocks,
scrap buster,
selvages
I get excited about colorful+creative textiles, quilting & improvisational design. Making fabric is just as thrilling as using it! Join me in my studios, and on both blogs while I cut, stitch, dye, paint, and print my way through life. There's always something new to investigate here! Contact me at julie@pinkdoxies.com
Friday, January 2, 2015
Salvaged Selvage Bag
Allow me to prepare you for a wee bit of rambling today, but there are pictures.
New Year's Day was quiet here inside, and very cold and windy out. There was a fire in the hearth, hockey on the t.v., and fast food for supper. I had almost the whole day to sew, and since the year was new, I wanted to try something I'd never done before. Selvages. Wouldn't they look cute on a little zipper bag?
Labels:
scrap buster,
selvages,
sewing room,
Studio E fabrics,
zipper bags
I get excited about colorful+creative textiles, quilting & improvisational design. Making fabric is just as thrilling as using it! Join me in my studios, and on both blogs while I cut, stitch, dye, paint, and print my way through life. There's always something new to investigate here! Contact me at julie@pinkdoxies.com
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Progress of My Zipper Bag Project
Labels:
scrap buster,
zipper bags
I get excited about colorful+creative textiles, quilting & improvisational design. Making fabric is just as thrilling as using it! Join me in my studios, and on both blogs while I cut, stitch, dye, paint, and print my way through life. There's always something new to investigate here! Contact me at julie@pinkdoxies.com
Friday, December 19, 2014
No Rest for the Weary
Remember a few days ago when I was looking forward to my week alone with my husband? I was planning to sew my days away with little responsibility, take walks with the dogs, etc. Well, let me tell you, it didn't happen quite like that.
All week long I've run like a crazy woman. I've refereed more llama disputes than I could imagine, been spit on because I got in the middle, and have had mulitple flashbacks to the early days of mothering 5 kids. The other family dogs came yesterday afternoon for a total of six. Three over 50 pounds, and 3 bad dachshunds. It was a sleepless night while the new dogs got used to regular house noises. We were all up by 4:30. While trying to get medications out for one big dog, the other two played chase in the living room, and took out a lamp. One doxie didn't want to eat, but I coaxed her into it. She then threw up for the next several hours. Oh, dear, I hope it's not contagious.
(Did I happen to say today's my 27th wedding anniversary?)
So, while I babied the sick dog, the rest have had a couch day. They slept, I finally got the new lights for the tree on, and you can see the little church and Santa finished the decorations. Now it feels like Christmas time.
I did squeeze in a little time to sew.
This is the other pillow top done for dear son's new house. I'll get it all together before he's home from vacation.
This, next, is a Christmas present for the in-laws. It's a dog bed top for their Scout. My mother-in-law has always had a thing for birds, and loves Charlie Harper prints. Harper did a fabric line with winter birds, and it was a perfect match. Some of the fabric was in a panel of sorts, and I had to be creative to work those into a bed top. Two rows go up, and two go down. No matter how the bed is turned, half the blocks are in the correct direction. I think it adds interest to the top. The sashing is a grey with hatch marks.
I quilted the blocks at about an inch apart, and the sashing in between closer to 1/2".
I think his prints give so much character to the animals.
All six are sleeping hard, and I think I'm going to sneak downstairs alone.
Remember the saying, "Let sleeping dogs lie."
I'm off to sew alone.
Labels:
dog beds,
pillows,
scrap buster
I get excited about colorful+creative textiles, quilting & improvisational design. Making fabric is just as thrilling as using it! Join me in my studios, and on both blogs while I cut, stitch, dye, paint, and print my way through life. There's always something new to investigate here! Contact me at julie@pinkdoxies.com
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