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Friday Felicities

September 14, 2012 by Tsoniki 3 Comments

Joining in with Felicity over at Felicity Quilts for Friday Felicities. The idea is you write down something that made you happy. Simple as that. This is a great thing to join in on since our lives can sometimes feel so jumbled, stressful, full of to-dos, homework, sports, work, and so much more. It’s easy to let the happiness pass us by as we deal with everyday issues.

This week I am happy to watch JW learning new things, or at least showing me that he knows versus keeping it to himself. He can put his sandals on by himself, and recognizes when they are on the wrong foot. He is unbelievably patient in that case. In other cases, his patience is thin, but with his shoes, he sits down and works until he is done.

I am happy excited for the Sewing Summit! I mentioned that I set my alarm to register for classes and did get most of the classes I wanted. I am still checking a couple of times a day to see if anything opens up, but no luck so far. I figure the hands on classes are in smaller spaces so they may not get any space in them and I’m okay with that.

I am into week three for one class and week one for the other. After this semester I will be down to two classes until my undergraduate degree. I am not getting super excited yet, but I am close.

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Sewing Summit and Sewing

September 12, 2012 by Tsoniki 7 Comments

The Sewing Summit is next month! I found out about the conference last year. But only after it was over. So I was determined not to miss out this year. I set an alarm on my phone to buy a ticket and again set an alarm to register for classes. I got lucky and got six of my eight first choices!

Sewing Summit Agenda

And now I need to make a name tag, maybe a carry-on bag, and a fabric envelope. There are a lot of projects I could make, but I’m also taking two classes and JW is home with me all day. He’s a busy guy so we have full days.

What am I working on –

Dr. Seuss quilt

Dr. Seuss Quilt

And three different hexagon projects, which are all moving along quickly! Here I just one, which I want to enter in the Craft Buds  Craft Book Month blog hop when the time comes.

Hexagon Project

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Finally sewing!

July 23, 2012 by Tsoniki 2 Comments

After all the folding and organizing and putting fabric into boxes and on shelves, I finally was able to sew.

I wanted to make something I could finish, so I made a cathedral window pincushion, using the tutorial linked. The button is a polymer clay button made by Lisa Clarke of the Polka Dot Cottage. I think the button is perfect.

I bought a yellow flower button for the yellow, blue, and orange pincushion. I haven’t secured it to the pincushion yet, and both pincushions are still lying flat on a shelf.

Here is another pincushion – a triangle log cabin. I ended up misreading the pattern and cut my strips 1.5 inches rather then 1.25. A quarter of an inch really isn’t that much fabric but it does make a difference! If you follow the pattern, your pincushion will be six inches on each side, mine ended up larger at just over 7 inches. Clearly I need to go back to using my 1/4 inch foot if it’s just over.

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More Fabric Storage

July 20, 2012 by Tsoniki Leave a Comment

In all of my folding and sorting, I picked a few fabrics to keep out of the larger, overall stash.

Native, cowboy, and western themed fabrics – I rarely pass up any fabric of this theme. Some of the Native fabrics are downright hilarious, and I have to have them.

I mean look at this! Little boys playing the guitar, singing, looking solemn, little girls smiling and dancing, and other little boys war whooping! Plus, headdresses and cactus’! If that’s not hilarious…

Mixing cultures is typical when it comes to Native products, which completely drives me (and so many others) crazy. It’s one reason I want to figure out fabric design. I want Native fabric that looks awesome, not hilarious.

Tone on tone fabrics, color on color. I love the look of these. On the top right is vintage sheet fat quarters, the bottom right is scraps or smaller pieces of white on white fabric.

This is a shelf on a ladder bookcase I have. From left to right: charm packs and fat eighths from Pink Chalk Studios Charming Solids monthly club, two linen fabrics, a stack of 30s fabrics, and fabric that matches the modern quilt guild colors. I bought the modern quilt guild fabrics a few months ago, when they announced a contest that included submitting a block. I still have until August to submit so I need to get on that!

Over the next month or so we’ll see if my current fabric storage system is going to work. I may need my fabrics out where I can see them, instead of in boxes on shelves. I hope it works out though, I don’t feel like I have much choice in our new place and just have to make do.

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Organizing Fabric

July 19, 2012 by Tsoniki Leave a Comment

There are numerous blog posts and sites that detail how to organize your fabric, sorting it by color, size, fabric type, or collection. I took this move as the chance to organize my fabric. I knew it would have to be refolded and sorted and decided to use Jeni of In Color Order’s method – she has a series up called the Art of Choosing, after the first few views she really dives into color so the entire series is really great. I used the second video she did for the series, on folding fabric, which turned out to take quite a while. I knew I had a lot of fabric, but refolding and organizing your stash really shows how much you actually have!

A lot of my fabric was together either for a project or still together in the bundle it was purchased in. This pic is from instagram! I’ve mentioned it once, but if you are there, my user name is tsoniki.

I packed my fabric in plastic bins, “only” two were busted up in the move, but my fabric wasn’t harmed in any way.

Batiks! I am part of a batik club at a local quilt shop in Washington. I decided to stay a part of the club, they are going to mail me my fabric each month.

After I folded I organized using her organize your stash post. I decided to keep some fabrics separate from my overall stash. The batiks being one group.

Batiks in a box! I have a lot of my fabric in boxes like this, or small plastic bins. Right now, the batiks fit, but they won’t after a couple more months – unless I use a bunch up! Better get to sewing.

 More fabric pictures to come. 🙂

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