L.A. MODERN quilt guild!!!
SERIOUSLY?
One EXISTS!?
There have already been two meetings, I was not able to make the first one but was so thrilled to be a part of the second on Monday! The back story is that I found out about all the hullabaloo from Alissa (A-lisa) over at handmadebyalissa! Alissa’s the first blogger I found who LIVES in my neck of the woods and has a more modern style, so you can bet I have kept a close eye on her!Anyway, this whole modern quilt guild is the brain child of her and a few other fantastic chicks, but since it is just starting out it really is being shaped by all who are joining up so quickly. Jenny, the fab proprietor of the new Home Ec. shop on Sunset, hosted our little soirée!! Oh my how I fell in love with this place, if you are local, GO GO GO! So, we met there on Monday, and will continue doing so one Monday a month, and after the new year we will also be getting together one Saturday a month at a church in West LA to SEW! HURAH! If you are in the area at all, and have any interest in all this crazy fun, JOIN US! Chris over at Izzy Inspired joyfully made the trek from San Diego County, that’s a wooping hour and 40 minutes, folks!
ok, so here is me sharing– with great excitement apparently, my little Mr. A quilt that just came out of the dryer in ONE PIECE just hours before. Phew! I took the liberty of fuzzing out the expletive lurking in the picture! Hanging in Home Ec., in context, it is quiet funny, but not partially in a picture above my quilt and front and center on my blog! HA! To get a good laugh visit the LA Modern flickr pool with the original picture to see that and all the other quilts the girls brought to share and inspire all of is with! *the full poster says: “Make #$*& Your Self”
After all, people we ARE a MODERN quilt guild! LOL! Perhaps we will try to get that handmade print out of view next time?
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EEEEEKK! My first truely-completed-quilted quilt!
Mr. A is now seven months, and it is difficult to ignore the irony that I finished his small roll-around-on-the-floor-and-spit-up-on-it quilt the exact day he pretty much started officially crawling… that is to say moving his feet AND hands. In my defense it has been 90% finished for MONTHS, it just needed the quilting and binding but my we little Brother machine decided that it was not capable of such fancy things! BUT the fantastic news is that I got a dream machine out of the deal, so lets just say this is one very expensive baby quilt!
I wanted it to be unmistakably boy, and when searching my stash this is what I came up with, along with the realization that I don’t have much that can be used for a boy! I have plenty of almost boy stuff, but designers throw in a small flourish, a token flower or something that just tips the scale, for me, even though they are “boy ” colors. The final measurements are 21.5” x 27.”
and the back…
Out of complete inexperience and probably a bit of ignorance I had the “brilliant” idea to embroider the back to coordinate with Mr. A’s announcements. This meant I really had no choice but to do some free motion quilting and figure out how to stipple, and you know what? I love how it turned out, I think I am going to try to do this again, and I highly recommend it!
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A little quilt for my Ella & Molly too
Drum roll, please…
I am actually sewing again, it has been ages!! Don’t get too excited though, it is nothing major, I just set out to do something new, and to learn a few new skills with stuff I already had. The something new part is not a big stretch considering I am new to the entire sewing thing, nor was using something I already had. So, I perused the all powerful Internet and decided to make a little doll quilt for Ella using the brown minky she drags around with her when I am too tired to figure out how she found it again, and some charm squares I picked up from Strawberry Patches a couple months ago. I figured, #1 it would be a small project just in case I lost interest, #2 I would give my poor daughter something proper to drag around rather than two raw yards of fabric, and #3 learn some patch work skills that did not involved squares and maybe come up with something decent where the corners matched! This is the result using Moda’s Urban Chicks 1974 charm squares.
I found this depression block while searching, and it seemed easy enough since I already had pre-cut charm squares. I ended up with one block and an extra row on the top and on one side to make it usable dimensions for a doll quilt. The final dimensions are 20”x24”, and it works out quite well for baby Molly and mamma Ella.
Here are a few more pics for good measure too:
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