tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59280325900844769432024-03-13T04:24:16.087-06:00audreypawdreyaudreypawdreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778150139132824073noreply@blogger.comBlogger318125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928032590084476943.post-63380430997146267022012-05-30T21:17:00.003-06:002012-05-30T21:17:45.793-06:00Honored<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have been adding my quilts to Amy's Blogger's Quilt Festival for a couple of years, since her first festival I believe, and this year she added a voting component to the mix. I am so honored and excited that my ABC I-Spy quilt was nominated in the Bee Quilts Category! It made my week to see that people had voted and selected it, so I wanted to say thank you to all of the people who did. You made my day!<br />
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Voting is open until tomorrow night, and there are some beautiful quilts nominated! Go check them out <a href="http://amyscreativeside.com/2012/05/28/bloggers-quilt-festival-vote-now/" target="_blank">here</a>. If you wanted to vote for mine, I will send you hugs and be super grateful, but the other quilts are so beautiful, too!audreypawdreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778150139132824073noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928032590084476943.post-8227188185646224052012-05-22T20:58:00.001-06:002012-05-22T20:58:42.875-06:00Blogger's Quilt Festival: Wonky ABC I-Spy Quilt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am just under the wire getting this quilt added to the Blogger's Quilt Festival this year! I am glad I made it because this is definitely one of my absolute favorite quilts. Way back in 2009, I was a member of the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/sewconnected/" target="_blank">Sewconnected Virtual Quilting Bee</a> on Flickr led by Quiltdad, and I asked the members to make me a wonky letter block to compile an ABC quilt out of. I sent everyone I-Spy fabric that corresponded to the the letter to use as patchwork background fabric to the letter, and I love the end result!<br />
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I finally finished it this past fall, but I haven't blogged it until now. I was working on it at a quilt retreat last spring in Ft. Collins, and Amanda Jean, who was an original member of the group, was at the retreat too. She made me two additional blocks to help me finish it up, which was awesome. <br />
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I found the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Word-Play-Quilts-Techniques-Patchwork/dp/1604680172/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337741601&sr=1-1" target="_blank">WordPlay</a> by Tonya Riccuci to be super helpful when I was making the additional 12 blocks leftover after the swap. <br />
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Each block is 15 inches square, so the quilt is about 75" x 90". It easily fits a full bed, which my daughter will eventually have. The last row makes up her name, which was a fun way to make 6 rows. One of my favorite pieces is that I added photos of her to fabric, which I then used to illustrate her Z block.<br />
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I really like how the back turned out, too. I used the dog pattern from the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dare-Square-Quilting-Block---Block/dp/0307462366/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337741454&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Dare to Be Square</a>, but I added a border of 2 1/2" squares and then another pink solid border to the back as well.<br />
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I want to thank everyone who contributed to my quilt, which my daughter loves!<br />
twinfibers (<a href="http://www.twinfibers.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">blog</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/twinfibers">flickr</a>)<br />
crazymomquilts (<a href="http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">blog</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/67604797@N00">flickr</a>)<br />
acommonplacelife (<a href="http://www.acommonplacelife.com/" rel="nofollow">blog</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29555561@N03/">flickr</a>)<br />
SewHelpMe (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewhelpme">flickr</a>) <br />
lucky duck day (<a href="http://www.luckyduckday.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">blog</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/21669138@N07">flickr</a>)<br />
Amy's Creative Side (<a href="http://amyscreativeside.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blog</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26135424@N07">flickr</a>)<br />
artsymomma (<a href="http://artsymomma.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">blog</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/artsymomma_on_etsy">flickr</a>)<br />
tellen24 (<a href="http://tellen24.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">blog</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14293778@N00">flickr</a>)<br />
Jacquie G (<a href="http://tallgrassprairiestudio.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">blog</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22833158@N05">flickr</a>)<br />
ritapizza (<a href="http://free-falling.com/" rel="nofollow">blog</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26166927@N02">flickr</a>)<br />
krommama (<a href="http://thehouseofkrom.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">blog</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/krom_mama/">flickr</a>)<br />
j_q_adams (<a href="http://quiltdad.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">blog</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jqa">flickr</a>)<br />
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Thank you, Amy for hosting the <a href="http://amyscreativeside.com/2012/05/18/bloggers-quilt-festival-spring-2012/" target="_blank">Blogger's Quilt Festival </a>again this spring! If you haven't yet, you should head over <a href="http://amyscreativeside.com/2012/05/18/bloggers-quilt-festival-spring-2012/" target="_blank">there</a> to see all of the beautiful quilts!audreypawdreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778150139132824073noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928032590084476943.post-76844139208697527182012-03-23T10:58:00.000-06:002012-03-23T10:58:50.828-06:00Little Apples Dress and Nightgown-Finish it up Friday!This has been a productive week! Last weekend, I attended the Front Range Modern Quilt Guild Meeting in the morning on Saturday and the sew in the afternoon. I started cutting out this dress, and I tried to sew it together while I was there, with no luck since I forgot to bring the pattern instructions! I thought I remembered how to make this style dress because I had made so many before, but I was combining patterns-it didn't help that I was talking while I was sewing.:)<br />
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Ever since our Front Range Modern Quilt Guild retreat a couple of weeks ago, I have been wanting a serger. Actually, I wanted one before that but I had never seen one in action, so I was a little bit afraid of them. After the retreat, I set up my rss feed in Google Reader to subscribe through Craigslist to any mention of serger that came up. About four weeks later, this Janome popped up, and I called them up that day! I actually was searching through Colorado Springs (an hour south of me), Denver (where I live), and Birmingham (where my mom lives). It was fascinating to me that in Birmingham over that time period only a few sergers were listed, but in Denver, there were 2-3 sergers a week!<br />
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It works beautifully and the previous owner had only used it sporadically for burp pads over the last five year, and she had not used it at all this last year. I got such a great deal on it, and it looks brand new. My birthday is coming up in a few weeks, so this is my birthday present! At the sew last Saturday, my friend <a href="http://weshallsew.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Melissa</a> showed me how to thread it, and now it is working like a champ! There were at least four new sergers bought after that retreat, so I suppose we all drank that serger kool-aid.:)<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-69hiGxwLEjw/T2xrrj-zVSI/AAAAAAAAFmY/U6Se0Lbdm8E/s1600/I+love+sushi.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-69hiGxwLEjw/T2xrrj-zVSI/AAAAAAAAFmY/U6Se0Lbdm8E/s1600/I+love+sushi.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> I posted about my Sushi Quilt <a href="http://audreypawdrey.blogspot.com/2012/03/i-love-sushi.html" target="_blank">earlier</a> this week, but I wanted to share it again since this is my Finish It Up Friday post.:) I finished sewing on the binding last Friday night, and I brought it to our guild meeting on Saturday, which is always a great motivator to finish! I was a pattern tester for Sonja Callaghan of <a href="http://artisania.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Artisania</a>. She designed this "I Love Sushi Quilt" using paper piecing. It is such a fun quilt to make, and I am in love with how it turned out! The pattern is super easy to follow, and it will be available soon for sale. I will definitely be posting when it is up for sale, and you can keep an eye out at her <a href="http://artisania.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">blog</a> or in her <a href="http://artisania.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank">shop</a> to grab your own pattern! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I am linking up with Amanda Jean at her <a href="http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/2012/03/finish-it-up-friday-week-20.html" target="_blank">Finish It Up Friday Post</a>! I am off work for Spring Break starting this afternoon at 3, and I must say that I am looking forward to sleeping in until 7 and going to the Zoo next week! The icing on the cake is that it is going to be absolutely gorgeous here in Colorado with the high near 78(!) on Sunday. I plan on being outside as much as possible to soak up that beautiful sunlight and going to the park as much as possible, too. I miss going to the park when it is snowy and cold outside. Maybe I can even sneak a lot of sewing in between now and next Friday to have another project to share soon! Have a great weekend everybody! Thank you for stopping by!</div>audreypawdreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778150139132824073noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928032590084476943.post-1639144393887600352012-03-21T11:59:00.001-06:002012-03-21T12:39:09.617-06:00{WIP} Wednesday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>I am joining in with the fun over at Freshly Pieced this week for <a href="http://freshlypieced.blogspot.com/2012/03/wip-wednesday-out-of-here.html" target="_blank">Work in Progress Wednesday</a>!<br />
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My big finish this past week is my "I Love Sushi Quilt!", which I do love so very much.<br />
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-need to blog about two dresses I finished this week!<br />
-need to finish putting together the top of my Swoon quilt. It is finished, but I don't think my sashing was very accurate because it doesn't lay flat on the floor. Therefore, I am contemplating ripping it apart and starting over-with the sashing only!<br />
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-make two more dresses-have the fabric just need to cut it out and sew!<br />
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On the back burner:<br />
Geese in the Forest Quilt<br />
Two(!) Nine Patch Quilts (all the nine patches are complete, need sashing, etc.)<br />
Craftster Lap Quilt Swap Batik Quilt-top is finished<br />
Star Quilt a Long-top is finished<br />
50 States Swap Quilt-stalled forever until I figure out how to make this work<br />
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I love this pattern so much and it is so well written. One of the things that I love is that she has options for you to customize it. For example, the rice bowl can be a bowl of rice, or a bowl with just chopsticks, or a bowl with chopsticks and rice. I had so much fun making it, and it was great practice with paper piecing. Everything is very well explained, and she also has <a href="http://artisania.wordpress.com/tutorials/" target="_blank">tutorials</a> on her <a href="http://artisania.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">blog</a> (artisania.wordpress.com) if it is your first time paper piecing. Go check out her <a href="http://artisania.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank">shop</a> for all of her awesome patterns!<br />
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Here is a quick summary of everything else that has been going on around here:<br />
-First Annual <a href="http://www.frontrangemodernquiltguild.webs.com/" target="_blank">Front Range Modern Quilt Guild</a> Retreat- We had this last month, and it was so much fun. I stayed up way too late sewing and chatting (mainly chatting) each night-3 A.M. the first night! We have such a great guild, and it was so much fun to be surrounded by people who also like quilting and sewing as much as me. I sat across from <a href="http://www.realphotography.com/traci/" target="_blank">Traci</a>, and we really had way too much fun talking into the night. She made so many outfits for her little girl! She also convinced me that I need a serger because she was amazing switching back and forth between her sewing machine and the serger. I shared a room with her and with Marta, who is so fun. Marta just started a <a href="http://www.frommartawithlove.com/" target="_blank">blog</a>, and she is making a beautiful Swoon quilt. Amy did a great job recapping all of the fun on her blog, <a href="http://www.stitcherydickorydock.com/2012/03/retreat-recap-some-big-news.html" target="_blank">Stitchery Dickory Dock</a>, with a group picture because I did not get one! I barely took any pictures the entire weekend, which is shameful, but I was having too much fun! <a href="http://weshallsew.blogspot.com/2012/02/wip-wednesday-852.html" target="_blank">Melissa</a> also did a great job recapping the fun that this weekend was, so go check it out <a href="http://weshallsew.blogspot.com/2012/02/wip-wednesday-852.html" target="_blank">here</a>, too.:) These are just a few of the awesome people that I am so lucky to be in a guild with! I went to bed Sunday night at 6:30 before my 2 1/2 year old daughter. I was happily exhausted.<br />
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-Met up with other moms of young children from the guild to go to a trampoline center for the kids one Saturday, which was a blast. My daughter had so much fun, and I didn't know they had places like that for kids! <br />
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-Bought a Zoo pass for this summer a couple of weeks ago. The weather over Spring Break, which is next week, is supposed to be unbelievably nice (high 70's this weekend!), so we are going to the Zoo soon!<br />
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-Bought a serger off of Craigslist! It is an early birthday present, and you can get sergers for a great price off of Craigslist. I set Denver, Colorado Springs, and Birmingham (where my mom lives) on a rss feed for sergers in my Google Reader, and anytime a serger popped up I knew that day. I will share more details later, but it was interesting how many showed up in Denver or Colorado Springs (at least a couple a week) and how few showed up in Birmingham (I think two over an entire month!). <br />
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-This past Saturday we had another guild meeting and a sew day! I learned how to thread my serger from <a href="http://weshallsew.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Melissa</a>, and cut out a dress, which I then proceeded to sew wrong.:)<br />
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-I have also been hanging out with my daughter, and we were going to the park every day last week enjoying our lovely spring weather until Thursday, when she became sick, but she is on antibiotics and seems to be doing better. <br />
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I hope all of you have been doing well! I have more projects to share soon!audreypawdreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778150139132824073noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928032590084476943.post-64772169553044944022012-02-06T11:37:00.000-07:002012-02-06T11:37:26.721-07:00Swoon-Blocks Finished!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Fyky1kLgusw/Ty_UYZvwYYI/AAAAAAAAFko/ZWVmzfa46WA/s1600/finished+blocks.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Fyky1kLgusw/Ty_UYZvwYYI/AAAAAAAAFko/ZWVmzfa46WA/s640/finished+blocks.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>This past week, I have been chugging a way on my Swoon blocks, and I am so happy to say that I have finished all of the blocks! I am so in love with how it is turning out. I love this fabric line so much.<br />
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This is one of my favorite blocks. I just love the red and the focus it gives the block.<br />
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My husband was out of town at the beginning of the week, so once Z went to sleep I sewed a couple of hours each night. Friday we had a snow day, so I snuck in an hour before everyone else was up, 2 1/2 hour nap time (Friday, Saturday and Sunday), and I stayed up way too late Friday and Saturday finishing these. I am so glad I did because it feels so good to have these blocks completed! I am going to work on the sashing this week, and I hope to have it basted in order to quilt it at the first Front Range Modern Quilt Guild Retreat in two weeks! I can't wait!<br />
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As of this afternoon, I am up to four Swoon blocks! I have been having a lot of fun pairing the story prints to the background fabrics. I love the scarf print in the outside rim, and I am going to try to use a little bit of it in each block I think. I think it will help it all tie together in the end. My goal is going to be to complete two blocks a week, which seems doable at this point. It will ultimately end up on my daughter's big girl bed when she graduates from her crib.<br />
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You should definitely check out the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1904864@N22/discuss/" target="_blank">flickr pool</a> where there are such amazing blocks! I can't believe there are over 850 people in the group now; there are going to be some amazing quilts!audreypawdreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778150139132824073noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928032590084476943.post-55100249547866853232012-01-23T06:17:00.001-07:002012-01-27T11:26:15.694-07:00Baby Girl Plus Quilt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xb43rS7HedU/Tx1c-sv5pzI/AAAAAAAAFjw/rbxJY_wQVb4/s1600/Baby+Girl+Plus+Quilt.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xb43rS7HedU/Tx1c-sv5pzI/AAAAAAAAFjw/rbxJY_wQVb4/s640/Baby+Girl+Plus+Quilt.JPG" width="510" /></a></div>This past week I finished a plus or cross quilt for a new baby girl. I wanted to try this pattern because I have seen it floating around, and I really like the way it shows off fabrics. Each of the squares finishes at 4.5". It is approximately 36" x 45", and it is a good crib size quilt. It was a lot of fun pulling out different fabrics from my stash, and using some scraps up to finish it. I really tried to balance low, medium, and high tones with this one, and play with different patterns, while trying to create a "girl" quilt that wasn't pastels. I am sending it off to the recipient this week, and I hope she likes it!<br />
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I am linking up with <a href="http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/2012/01/finish-it-up-friday-week-12.html" target="_blank">Crazy Mom Quilt's Finish It Up Friday</a>! Go check out all the other finishes over there this week!audreypawdreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778150139132824073noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928032590084476943.post-25528874250335652082012-01-19T21:22:00.000-07:002012-01-19T21:22:12.625-07:00Swoon!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K6GeFIDYW5I/Txjp8qv-9LI/AAAAAAAAFjk/l5YdMm59cio/s1600/Sherbert+Pips+FQ.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K6GeFIDYW5I/Txjp8qv-9LI/AAAAAAAAFjk/l5YdMm59cio/s640/Sherbert+Pips+FQ.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>Last year I was dedicated to finishing up quilts, so my reward this year is the opportunity to start new ones! Yay! I have been hoarding two fat quarter stacks that I used birthday money last April to buy since last April with the idea that I would make my daughter two matching twin sized quilts for her future twin beds when she moves up to a big girl bed. Right now she is 28 months and quite happy in her crib still, and we don't plan on moving her until it is necessary! So, I am planning ahead. <br />
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I was determined to wait until I found a pattern that I loved for her bed(s) before I used up my precious Pips. I love the <a href="http://dsquilts.com/fabric_and_patterns.asp?PageID=83" target="_blank">single girl quilt</a>, and I seriously considered that pattern, but I felt like a lot of the people would end up decapitated, which is never a good thing. :) I do plan on making one of those eventually, but not with my pips. It is such the perfect pattern for a little girl though! I do plan on making a throw using some of my scraps from this project and others that blend to put into this room eventually... <br />
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This past December I finally decided on the Swoon pattern, and all of a sudden it became a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1904864@N22/" target="_blank">quilt-a-long </a>hosted by <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_286022282">Katy.</a><a href="http://imagingermonkey.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> </a>This was my fortuitous moment where I decided that I was supposed to make this quilt!<br />
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Last weekend we had a sewing day with the Front Range Modern Quilt Guild, which is a fabulous group if you live in the Front Range area of Colorado from just south of Colorado Springs to Denver/Boulder (you should definitely join!), and my friend <a href="http://craft-happy.blogspot.com/2012/01/first-block-for-swoon-quilt.html" target="_blank">Kari</a> was making a block for the Swoon-a-long, which I had already joined but hadn't started cutting. She figured out a way to make the block a little easier by omitting some of the seams, but the caveat is you need a little more fabric. I decided this was the way to go, and I quickly jumped on board. <br />
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So, I made this block on Monday and finished it on Monday! I did have to rip and rip and rip, but I would have been doing that anyway. I think that happens anytime you are trying to beat the clock of when nap time ends! I really love it, and Kari has a abbreviated version of how to do it on <a href="http://craft-happy.blogspot.com/2012/01/first-block-for-swoon-quilt.html" target="_blank">her blog</a>, which will make sense if you have the pattern already.:)<br />
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I am very excited about this swoon-a-long, and if you haven't already joined, now is the perfect time!audreypawdreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778150139132824073noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928032590084476943.post-89666557004154635532012-01-02T16:57:00.000-07:002012-01-02T16:57:50.909-07:00Goodbye 2011-Hello, 2012!I didn't mean to be away from this space for so long. Things became incredibly busy around here with working full time, going to a fabulous quilt retreat, having guests for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and loving on my two-year-old girl. I have been sewing away, but I didn't have time to take pictures or upload them or much of anything on the blogging front, which means I have new things to share!<br />
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One of my favorite things to do on New Year's is look back at everything I have made over the previous year, so I am going to share that quickly here.<br />
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This past year I finished four quilts: scrappy disappearing nine patch, a yo-yo quilt, sewconnected and sewconnected 2.<br />
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1. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/25560921@N03/5466809244/">Scrappy Disappearing Nine Patch</a>, 2. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/25560921@N03/5906551949/">Yo-Yo Quilt</a>, 3. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/25560921@N03/6169283222/">Sewconnected Quilt-Back</a>, 4. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/25560921@N03/6160231330/">Sewconnected Quilt</a>, 5. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/25560921@N03/6623681079/">Back of Wonky ABC Quilt</a>, 6. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/25560921@N03/6623701253/">Wonky ABC I-Spy Quilt</a><br />
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This year every quilt I made I absolutely love!<br />
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I also worked on several smaller projects throughout the year.<br />
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1. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/25560921@N03/6182762187/">A Line Fall Dress</a>, 2. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/25560921@N03/6183280388/">Shearwater Kaftan in Loulouthi</a>, 3. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/25560921@N03/5846135114/">DSC_0147</a>, 4. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/25560921@N03/5780833107/">Memorial Day Weekend 038</a>, 5. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/25560921@N03/5748883822/">hexagon pillow</a>, 6. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/25560921@N03/5725824545/">Tablerunner</a>, 7. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/25560921@N03/5706932926/">FRMQG Mug Rug Swap</a>, 8. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/25560921@N03/5687055726/">back of tutu</a>, 9. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/25560921@N03/5640577770/">Pincushion I paper pieced</a>, 10. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/25560921@N03/5483644761/">School House Tunic</a>, 11. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/25560921@N03/6623554043/">Apron!</a>12. Not available<br />
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This coming year I would like to complete the following projects:<br />
-6 dresses for my daughter <br />
-Dog Quilt-(almost finished!)<br />
-Sherbert Pips Quilt-two of these!<br />
-start my Farmer's wife quilt<br />
-baby quilt for my new niece or nephew born in June 2012<br />
-another baby quilt<br />
-Geese in the Forest Quilt-started/ need to finish<br />
-Christmas Quilt for next year<br />
-String Quilt<br />
-Spring tablerunner for my mom <br />
-Finish one more wip<br />
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I am hoping setting these goals will help me get them done! Happy New Year everyone!audreypawdreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778150139132824073noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928032590084476943.post-88156898830954574442011-11-01T06:19:00.000-06:002011-11-01T06:19:00.075-06:00Little Owl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HytRBQqXdoI/Tq_iCITQmKI/AAAAAAAAFes/g6zmBboIKLs/s1600/DSC_0028.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HytRBQqXdoI/Tq_iCITQmKI/AAAAAAAAFes/g6zmBboIKLs/s640/DSC_0028.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
I made my daughter, Z, an owl costume for Halloween this year. It is the first year that I made her one, but it was a lot of fun to make! She is an owl, which I don't think a lot of people got. Everyone thought she was little red riding hood, which doesn't make sense to me because her cape isn't red. I forgot to add an orange beak to her hood which might have made a difference. That is okay because she looked cute!<br />
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I used the Children's Corner Lucy pattern for her dress, and I used the cape pattern from Growing Up Sew Liberated for her cape. I then cut out many "feathers" for her cape and dress, fused them on using lite bond, and then sewed around each feather. The cape is size 3-5, and she is two so it should fit for a while. <br />
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She was so cute. She said, "I'm an owl. Hoot! Hoot!", and then she would move her arms up and down to flap her wings.:)<br />
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The weather was perfect. It was in the sixties when we started trick or treating and clear, unlike last week when it was snowing and we lost power for over 30 hours! It is supposed to snow tonight, too.;( I am glad it held off until after Halloween!audreypawdreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778150139132824073noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928032590084476943.post-77503435501851022882011-10-30T15:50:00.000-06:002011-10-30T15:50:02.370-06:00Blogger's Quilt Festival<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> Hi, everyone! It is time again for one of my favorite blogging times of the year-Amy's Blogger's Quilt Festival! It is always so much fun seeing so many beautiful quilts and finding new blogs to love.<br />
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For this round of the festival, I want to share my yo-yo quilt that I finished this past summer. I first started this quilt in 2003, and it is the first quilt I ever started. I really didn't realize what I was getting myself into when I started making it; I just knew I wanted to make a quilt; I didn't have a machine, so it would have to be all done by hand. I am so proud that it is completely pieced together by hand without using a machine at all.<br />
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I could also call this my "traveling quilt" because it has definitely traveled. When I started the quilt, I was living in Birmingham, AL, then I got married and moved to Ft. Payne, AL where we lived for about a year. We then moved to Denver, CO, which is where we live now. It has traveled across the country with us as we have moved several times. I have worked on it while driving from Denver to Hobbs, NM to visit my brother, sister-in-law, and new niece, and it has been to Destin, FL several times over the summer to visit with my family. It traveled up to Newport, VA one New Year's Eve to go to a concert, and it has also been to San Francisco, Dallas, Atlanta, and New Orleans. I even worked on it on the ten hour drive from Denver to Yellowstone National Park several years ago. Many of my friends have seen me working on this from time to time over the last eight(!) years, which is so different than the quilts I have worked on with the machine. I like that it has traveled so much, and it was easy to take with me since it was hand sewing. <br />
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The finished quilt is 56 yo-yos across by 56 yo-yos down with the yo-yos being approximately 1-5/8 inches across. It is 90" square, which I think makes it a queen size quilt. It has 3, 156 yo-yos!<br />
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I ordered these book club stichettes a couple of months ago, but it took me a while to get started on them; I don't know why since they are so much fun! I am almost done with my second one, and it only took me a couple of days! The pattern is from <a href="http://www.weewonderfuls.com/store/book-club-stitchettes-all.html">Wee Wonderfuls</a>, and you can <a href="http://www.weewonderfuls.com/store/book-club-stitchettes-all.html">order it here.</a> When I went to link up, I saw that she has patterns for Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring, too! I need the fall one because it has little girl with a pennant saying "Go!". Wouldn't that be perfect on the front of an a-line dress in your team's colors? I am definitely going to have to make a little Auburn girl!<br />
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The dress took about two hours to make, including cutting out fabric and a quick run to the store for buttons. I love it with her new fall boots she got for her birthday last week! I need to make more of these for her this fall. It has been a while since I have made little dresses!<br />
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I love this print by Anna Marie Horner, too. I may have to order some more so that I can make a skirt! I bought the fabric and the pattern at the Fancy Tiger in Denver.<br />
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Way back in April, I attended a retreat in Ft. Collins that Amanda Jean of <a href="http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/">Crazy Mom Quilts</a> was attending as well. I was working on my A block to finish up my sewconnected quilt, and it was fun because she was also in the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/sewconnected/">Sewconnected Virtual Quilting Bee</a> with me. She offered to make me a couple more letters, and I jumped at the chance to not have to make 14 more blocks. So a couple weeks later I mailed off some fabric to her and then mailed more this summer because I kept finding fun additions. Last week, she mailed me my "G" and "R" blocks which I love! Didn't they turn out great?<br />
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Thank you, Amanda, again for making me such awesome blocks! Maybe I can finish piecing the top together this weekend. I might squeal with glee at this top when it is complete!:)audreypawdreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778150139132824073noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928032590084476943.post-18050541478331666652011-09-21T14:50:00.002-06:002011-09-27T21:10:19.294-06:00Sewconnected 2 Quilt Finished!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Wbg0UO3yKTg/TnoufX6D2tI/AAAAAAAAFcU/PMx3xiKTkNc/s1600/6160231330_47775e9cf2_b.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Wbg0UO3yKTg/TnoufX6D2tI/AAAAAAAAFcU/PMx3xiKTkNc/s640/6160231330_47775e9cf2_b.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />
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I finally finished my Sewconnected 2 Quilt this past weekend! This quilt has taken me quite a long time to actually finish, but I am so glad I did because I love it! I gave it to my daughter for her 2nd birthday this past Monday, and I finished sewing the binding on Saturday night. It is 69 x 96 inches-hung sideways!<br />
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I am going to try to take another picture where it isn't so bright because the sun washed out the colors of some of the blocks...<br />
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I wouldn't have been able to make this so lovely, if it weren't for all the blocks sent to me from the other members of my swap, who were all amazing partners who made such beautiful blocks!<br />
Thank you! I listed everyone who sent me blocks below with their flickr account first and their blog second. Go check them out! They are all so talented! If you would like to see some of the blocks up close, I created a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/audreypawdrey/galleries/72157627600502403/">gallery on flickr</a> of most of the blocks I received (some blocks wouldn't post to the gallery?)<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jqa/">jqadams</a> <a href="http://www.quiltdad.com/">quiltdad</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/artisania/">sonjaartisania</a> <a href="http://artisania.wordpress.com/">Artisania</a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/artisania/"><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ritapizza/">ritapizza</a>-<a href="http://www.mochistudios.com/">mochi studios</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/marilynkb/">marilynkb / </a> <a href="http://marilynbutler.blogspot.com/">Marilyn Butler</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/maddieandme1/">maddieandme</a> <a href="http://maddieandme1.blogspot.com/"> blog</a><br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirbylou/">kirbyloulou</a> <a href="http://www.kristenunraveled.blogspot.com/">Unraveled </a> <br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sudi-laura/">isaacsmama</a> <a href="http://www.adventuresofafabricjunky.blogspot.com/">Adventures of a fabric junky</a><br />
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I have been making good progress on my ABC quilt! I have all of the letters done, except for one "R" and one "G", and a friend is making those for me. Woohoot! Here are all the letters I have made recently... <br />
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"Y" is for yarn, yaks, yachts, yin and yang, yo-yo, yogurt, yoga, and yield or yeld.:) Look at the yield sign closely...<br />
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"Q" is for quilt and queen. "Q" is hard to find!<br />
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"V" is for Volkswagon, vans, valentines, vampires, vulture, victrola, venn diagram, violins, and vegetables! <br />
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"Z" is for my daughter Zerah and Zebras! I think this is my favorite because it has my favorite person on it! It was fun finding pictures and printing it on this printable fabric for her.<br />
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"X" is for x-rays and xylophone.<br />
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As I continue to work on my ABC quilt, I have come to a dilemma. I am not sure if I want to add sashing between the letters or not. I am at a standstill on making letters while I wait for some friends to send me a few other pieces and for fabric I ordered to arrive, so I thought I would go ahead and start adding the sashing between the letters for those that I have.<br />
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Once I did, I am not sure I like it this way. I think the extra white may detract from the letters themselves, which is what I want to stand out. Plus, it is 75" across without the sashing. With the sashing at 2.5", it will be almost 90" wide and crazy long, which will be harder to quilt on my own machine. Without the sashing, it will be 75" x 90", which is a good full size quilt.<br />
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I have decided on how I am going to make the back, so I spent yesterday during nap time cutting around 40 2 1/4" x 5 3/4" blocks of some of my favorite fabrics. I am really excited about the back!audreypawdreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778150139132824073noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928032590084476943.post-13801929854720492452011-07-24T13:50:00.003-06:002011-07-24T13:58:07.455-06:00WIP: ABC I-spy quilt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OsMsggiwX6c/Tix1dWK2nVI/AAAAAAAAFaY/1GxkC6-Tv9c/s1600/WIP+July+24.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="396" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OsMsggiwX6c/Tix1dWK2nVI/AAAAAAAAFaY/1GxkC6-Tv9c/s640/WIP+July+24.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>I didn't mean to be gone from this space for so long, but I have been working on a few things including my ABC quilt! I am so excited about how it is coming together, and I am now in the home stretch. <br />
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"K" is for kites, kisses, kangaroos, keys, king, and koala.<br />
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"O" is for oranges, owls, and octopus.<br />
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"J" is for jellybeans, jigsaw puzzle, jacks, jewelry, jack-o-lanterns, and "jump, puff. jump, jump, jump." <br />
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"I" is for ice cream, iguanas, ice cream shop, India, Italy, and Ironing board. <br />
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"L" is for lions, lemons, lettuce, leaves, lobster, ladybugs, letters (mail), other letters, and lawnmower. I love the lawnmower! <br />
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"N" is for nurse, numbers, and nest.<br />
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I still have g, q, v, x, and z left to go. Plus, I am going to write out my daughter's name, so I need another e,r,a, and h.<br />
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I wish I had some of the Heather Ross volkswagon bus print for "V". I am going to try some of the printable fabric to draw out some designs for v, q, x, and z. All I have for y is a little bit of yarn fabric, and I can't think of anything else except including some yellow fabric. For Z, I am using zebras and pictures of my daughter. I have a little x-ray fabric and a xylophone, but it isn't enough for the entire square. I did find something that may work for q, but it is in progress as well.<br />
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Hope everyone is having a great weekend!audreypawdreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778150139132824073noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5928032590084476943.post-21482684091852342252011-07-05T19:12:00.000-06:002011-07-05T19:12:07.200-06:00Yo-Yo Quilt is finished!<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6552F7Tm_Do/ThOvh_Pk19I/AAAAAAAAFXE/Jtk4f2LYN34/s1600/DSC_0040.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" height="425" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626033357963188178" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6552F7Tm_Do/ThOvh_Pk19I/AAAAAAAAFXE/Jtk4f2LYN34/s640/DSC_0040.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a><br />
I sewed the last two yo-yos together this morning, and it feels so good to have it be finished! My daughter thinks the yo-yo's look like flowers, and she points at it and says, "flowers" which led me to take the quilt to the park and rose garden this morning to snap some pictures of it. <br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IOSquhdI4Tw/ThOvjJzSdWI/AAAAAAAAFXM/3IJSVDrW700/s1600/DSC_0060.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" height="425" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626033377977202018" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IOSquhdI4Tw/ThOvjJzSdWI/AAAAAAAAFXM/3IJSVDrW700/s640/DSC_0060.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a>I first started this quilt in 2003, and it is the first quilt I ever started. I really didn't realize what I was getting myself into when I started making it; I just knew I wanted to make a quilt, I didn't have a machine, so it would have to be all done by hand. I am so proud that it is completely pieced together by hand without using a machine at all.<br />
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I could also call this my "traveling quilt" because it has definitely traveled. When I started the quilt, I was living in Birmingham, AL, then I got married and moved to Ft. Payne, AL where we lived for about a year. We then moved to Denver, CO, which is where we live now. It has traveled across the country with us as we have moved several times. I have worked on it while driving from Denver to Hobbs, NM to visit my brother, sister-in-law, and new niece, and it has been to Destin, FL several times over the summer to visit with my family. It traveled up to Newport, VA one New Year's Eve to go to a concert, and it has also been to San Francisco, Dallas, Atlanta, and New Orleans. I even worked on it on the ten hour drive from Denver to Yellowstone National Park several years ago. Many of my friends have seen me working on this from time to time over the last eight(!) years, which is so different than the quilts I have worked on with the machine. I like that it has traveled so much, and it was easy to take with me since it was hand sewing.<br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RzVuyHRQx1Q/ThOudFqmQaI/AAAAAAAAFWU/VRJ16Qnfbac/s1600/DSC_0020.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" height="425" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626032174276166050" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RzVuyHRQx1Q/ThOudFqmQaI/AAAAAAAAFWU/VRJ16Qnfbac/s640/DSC_0020.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a>It is fun to look at and see how my fabric choices have changed over the last eight years. When I first started it, I was working at the Birmingham Children's Theatre as the charge scenic artist, and I would use scraps from the costume shop. This led to realizing that corduroy isn't the best choice to use for yo-yos! I have several 4x4 sections that are made that didn't make it into the final quilt from these early days due to the material I used; I didn't know that wool, silk, and cotton might not be the best mixture of fabrics if you wanted to wash it at home. I plan on using those yo-yos for a doll quilt for my daughter, so they can still be used and loved.<br />
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The final quilt is 56 yo-yos across by 56 yo-yos down with the yo-yos being approximately 1-5/8 inches across. It is 90" square, which I think makes it a queen size quilt. It has 3, 156 yo-yos! <br />
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Honestly, if I had known eight years ago that it would take so long, I don't know that I would have started it, but I am so glad that I did!<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The pattern is a <a href="http://artisania.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/mini-patterns-for-charm-packs/">free one</a> from Sonja at <a href="http://artisania.wordpress.com/">Artisiana</a>; isn't it so cute? If you aren't familiar with her patterns, you should definitely stop by and check her out. She has such cute ones! It took me a little while to get back into the swing of thinking the way paper piecing goes together, and I did pull out my seam ripper several times to fix a piece sewn on backwards. Overall, I like my little gnome, and now I need to decide what to do with him. Pillow? Mugrug? Placemat? Hmmm.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Go check out Amanda's block at <a href="http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/2011/07/fancy-block-friday-4.html">crazymomquilts</a> and Melinda's at <a href="http://quirkygranolagirl.blogspot.com/">quirkygranolagirl</a>!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I made <a href="http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/peach-enchiladas-50400000113921/">this</a> yesterday, and it is so good! I have never used Mt. Dew in a recipe before now, and I would never have thought of that!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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I was pleasantly surprised to see that I really don't have a lot left to do! I have huge sections that are already pieced together that just need to be joined together. <br />
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My goal has always been for it to fit a full-size bed, so with a little help, I laid it out to see how big it is on our guest bed. I think it is big enough! So my focus this week is going to be to see how far I can get with this quilt over the course of the week. I spent some time yesterday while Z was napping sitting on the back porch, swinging, and piecing parts of this together. It was a very pleasant way to spend the afternoon!<br />
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This is the very first quilt that I ever started when I didn't know anything about quilting and I didn't own a machine back in 2003 (which is way too long ago!). I had no idea what I was getting myself into; I just knew I wanted to make a quilt, and I knew I could make yo-yos so I jumped right in! 3,236 yo-yos that finish at 1 5/8" inches across later, and I am close to finishing!<br />
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If you want to make one of your own, you should join <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://sewtakeahike.typepad.com/sewtakeahike/2011/06/yoyo-along-part-1.html">Penny's quilt-a-long</a>! If I finish this one soon, I might have to hop in to make another one; did I really just admit that out loud?:)audreypawdreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778150139132824073noreply@blogger.com6