But...A word to the wise about Rowan pre-cuts:
But hey, the fabrics are gorgeous. I still love it! Now to figure out how I want to quilt it :)
Showing posts with label Precut Fabrics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Precut Fabrics. Show all posts
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Home is Where the Heart is
A quilt for the wall in my house. It's a mini charm pack done by Kaffe Fassett for Rowan, and I just sewed up 16 patches with it and assembled. Nothing glamorous or fancy...I just loved all the pattern together.
But...A word to the wise about Rowan pre-cuts:
They are cut HORRIBLY. They were marketed as 2.5" squares, but few were actually 2.5" and none had straight or evenly cut sides. For the cost of the pack (it was about 250 squares for around $25) the quality was really, really disappointing. I expected much better from Rowan.
But hey, the fabrics are gorgeous. I still love it! Now to figure out how I want to quilt it :)
But...A word to the wise about Rowan pre-cuts:
But hey, the fabrics are gorgeous. I still love it! Now to figure out how I want to quilt it :)
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Help! Help! I'm Being Repressed!
By now it should be obvious that my interests are...eclectic. If not, then, well...my interests are eclectic. One of my interests is medieval English history. It is fascinating stuff. And how lucky that someone else in the quilting world found it appealing somewhere too?
A few years back Lizzie House designed a line that that medieval style serfs, kings, pendants and other middle agey stuff.
I wholly regret missing out on it, but as fortune would have it, mom was given a few sample charm packs of the line when it went out of print by one of our old reps. Now when I say sample charm packs...I mean it. There were very few pieces to each pack. This quilt is made up of the two packs.
I love the colors. I wish I had more! The border is from Tula Pink's line Fox Field. Couldn't ask for a better match!
If the entry title didn't make it plain enough, I've named this quilt, "Help! Help! I'm Being Repressed!" It's not quilted yet, but I have a cool idea...I'm going to quilt it with the lines spoken by the serf in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, WHICH WILL NEVER GET OLD. I leave you with this...the video is below the gif for you heathens who haven't seen the movie ;-)
"You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!"
Friday, September 27, 2013
Work in Progress: Urban Ninja
Every now and then, instead of doing another sample for the shop, I want to dive in to something that doesn't have a deadline...something frivolous and ridiculous and for no other reason than I want to.
A few years ago, Mom gave me three of the pared down charms square packs of Andover's Swoon line. I say pared down because when one says "charm pack," one usually thinks of Moda's Charm Packs that have 40 or more pieces in it. Thankfully (for so many reasons) there are other companies doing these packs instead of just Moda - the difference is, is that their packs don't always have as many pieces in it. These packs from Andover were small - 3 colorways with maybe 5 or 6 pieces per colorway, and only one piece of each per pack.
I loved this fabric but never found a good pattern for it, and the yardage of it is long, long gone. I decided it was time to just wing it and use it. I wanted to do a quilt of Friendship Stars, the stars that to me always looked like ninja throwing stars
Friendship Star (Left)
Ninja Star (Right)
Totally the same thing, amiright.
After I sewed all the blocks, I was one block shy of a 5x5 quilt...so there's an empty space for the block that will feature the owner of all those fancy pantsy throwing stars....the Urban Ninja! I haven't drawn him out yet...but soon.
Other than being able to be silly about the ninja theme, the thing I'm enjoying most is that even though the pattern itself is simple, it's forced me outside of my comfort zone. Typically, I wouldn't just put all those colors together in the stars themselves - I don't usually work with an orgy of pattern AND color together, so having all that business in the stars was a little something different for me. Also, I'm a big fan of tonal prints in unexpected colors for backgrounds, and I don't usually use solids, but this one I did use just solids for the backgrounds. And, I prefer applique to piecing, so winging even a simple pieced block without a guide is different for me too.
The Urban Ninja snuck up on me and changed my style for this quilt! I don't know when I'll be getting it quilted...hey, maybe I'll try my hand at quilting a bigger quilt too!
A few years ago, Mom gave me three of the pared down charms square packs of Andover's Swoon line. I say pared down because when one says "charm pack," one usually thinks of Moda's Charm Packs that have 40 or more pieces in it. Thankfully (for so many reasons) there are other companies doing these packs instead of just Moda - the difference is, is that their packs don't always have as many pieces in it. These packs from Andover were small - 3 colorways with maybe 5 or 6 pieces per colorway, and only one piece of each per pack.
I loved this fabric but never found a good pattern for it, and the yardage of it is long, long gone. I decided it was time to just wing it and use it. I wanted to do a quilt of Friendship Stars, the stars that to me always looked like ninja throwing stars
Friendship Star (Left)
Ninja Star (Right)
Totally the same thing, amiright.
After I sewed all the blocks, I was one block shy of a 5x5 quilt...so there's an empty space for the block that will feature the owner of all those fancy pantsy throwing stars....the Urban Ninja! I haven't drawn him out yet...but soon.
Other than being able to be silly about the ninja theme, the thing I'm enjoying most is that even though the pattern itself is simple, it's forced me outside of my comfort zone. Typically, I wouldn't just put all those colors together in the stars themselves - I don't usually work with an orgy of pattern AND color together, so having all that business in the stars was a little something different for me. Also, I'm a big fan of tonal prints in unexpected colors for backgrounds, and I don't usually use solids, but this one I did use just solids for the backgrounds. And, I prefer applique to piecing, so winging even a simple pieced block without a guide is different for me too.
The Urban Ninja snuck up on me and changed my style for this quilt! I don't know when I'll be getting it quilted...hey, maybe I'll try my hand at quilting a bigger quilt too!
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