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Month: July 2009

ABC Embroidered Quilt Block – Spring

Posted on July 30, 2009August 2, 2009 by Martha

This is one of the 4 seasons blocks that I am adding to the last row after Z is for Zebra. I should be working on the V is for Violin, but I was anxious to see how these blocks were going to turn out. At first I wasn’t going to put the names of…

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Vintage French/German Fabric

Posted on July 27, 2009May 6, 2012 by Martha

These beautiful vintage fabrics are from one of my favorite ebay sellers, frjoan, who lives in France.  The fabrics average about 1/4 yard and they come freshly laundered and smell great (such a treat since many vintage fabrics I purchase have that old fabric odor).  Joan also sells lovely vintage European linens — mostly sheets…

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9-Patch and Snowball Quilt

Posted on July 25, 2009October 26, 2014 by Martha

This was the first quilt I made from vintage fabric. The prints are more 40’s and 50’s so the colors are brighter than some of my other quilts. It’s entirely hand pieced, which is unusual for this pattern since it’s an easy pattern to sew on the machine. When I began to seriously quilt again…

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ABC Quilt Top WIP – A through T

Posted on July 23, 2009December 6, 2012 by Martha

For some reason, photographing this quilt top has been challenging. I tried to lighten up the photos to correct the white fabric, but now the embroidery looks washed out. I took the pictures outside, but the lighting is always so tricky — photography is something I struggle with. I’m going to redo some of the…

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Yellow Duck Quilt

Posted on July 22, 2009July 22, 2009 by Martha

The little duck quilt is tied and bound and ready for my friend’s new baby. Thank you everyone for your suggestions on the floss colors. I hadn’t thought about using two different colors of floss, but (because of your comments) that’s exactly what I ended up doing — red in the sashing and yellow everywhere…

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ABC Embroidered Quilt Block – Tiger

Posted on July 21, 2009December 6, 2012 by Martha

I love this tiger — especially the tiny hairs all over his body. I know…it’s another animal, but I had to stitch him — he was so much cuter than the tree. This is the end of Row 4 — only 2 more rows to finish. I have sewn row 3 onto the quilt, but…

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ABC Embroidered Quilt Block – Sailboat

Posted on July 20, 2009July 27, 2015 by Martha

Bunny pointed out that most of my blocks are living vs. non-living, so I thought I should do the sailboat to add one more non-living item. Callipygian suggested that “S is for sailboat” sounds better than “S is for seal” and I think she is right as well. So, here’s my new sailboat block which…

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Yellow Duck Quilt Top

Posted on July 18, 2009July 18, 2009 by Martha

This is the little quilt I’m making for one of my friends at school.  The ducks are a decorator fabric I purchased at a local fabric store that was going out of business.  At the time I had no idea what I was going to do with it (it was just so cheap), but I…

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ABC Embroidered Quilt Block – Rooster

Posted on July 17, 2009July 27, 2015 by Martha

This was a quick block, but I think it’s pretty cute. I spent most of the day piecing a baby quilt for one of the teachers at my school who is pregnant — the top will be finished tomorrow. Right now I’m finishing up T is for Tiger and tonight I’ll work on S is…

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Embroidered Linen Tablecloth

Posted on July 15, 2009March 21, 2013 by Martha

Yesterday my friend, Patti, and I stopped in our local antique/consignment shop.  I wasn’t really expecting to find anything because they don’t have many textiles and also their prices are way too high.  However, I fell in love with this beautiful hand embroidered linen tablecloth.  It had 3 or 4 little stains that didn’t look…

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ABC Embroidered Quilt Block — Queen

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Martha

This little queen was stitched mostly in the car on our trip to central Oregon and the coast. I had to change the drawing a bit to suggest a pattern I could use as the filler for the letters. I like her new necklace, and I don’t think I could have sewn that squiggly one…

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Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show – 2009

Posted on July 11, 2009February 3, 2010 by Martha

Today Gordon and I went to the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show in Sisters, Oregon, which is located in the central part of the state. It’s a cute town in a gorgeous setting — Ponderosa pines everywhere and the beautiful Sisters mountains. For the show they hang quilts (1200 of them this year) inside and outside…

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ABC Embroidered Quilt Block — Mailman

Posted on July 11, 2009 by Martha

When I started this project, I had a few rules: Each block would use one color of variegated floss. Each letter would have a pattern design — same pattern on each letter. The letter designs would stay inside the letters. The first rule has been broken twice, and now with this block I’m breaking the…

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ABC Embroidered Quilt Block – King

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Martha

This was a pretty easy block with an obvious pattern to use on the letters. Originally I was going to do the quail for Q instead of the queen (even though she looks so cute with the little king), until I managed to change her design a little bit to create a pattern for the…

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ABC Quilt Top WIP — A through J

Posted on July 7, 2009July 24, 2009 by Martha

I think the colors and the scrappiness of these pinwheels manage to pull the alphabet blocks together into more of a cohesive look (my daughter, Emily, also likes it that several of the characters appear to be waving). I sort of regret that I didn’t use a brighter color for the elephant block (and maybe…

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