Before I reformatted my blog, I had a PDF of a WIP worksheet. I have had a request to put it back up so here it is:
This will open a PDF file that will print out on a half-sized US Letter sized sheet. What I do is cut the paper in half prior to inserting in the printer.
Today’s Flashback doesn’t go back that far – to June 25th, 2009. The quilt is Batik Confetti.
This little quilt was an exercise in the ”stacking the deck” method of cutting blocks. Basically you stack the fabrics in a deck (a stack of fabrics 5-6 or more) and then cut them all the same. Then you shuffle them so that different fabrics are with other fabrics.
The fabrics for this quilt came from my first ever quilting retreat. We swapped 6″ batik squares with everyone. It was fun and I got a lot of different batiks to play with. When I got them, I had no clue what I would do with such an array of blocks. While reading different blogs, I came across the quilts made with this method. I then had a light bulb moment and thought back to those blocks still in my stash.
Would I do something different if I were just starting this quilt today? Yes. I would only take five 6″ squares in one “deck” and cut them one way and then another set and cut them differently (on different angles), and so on. I still love the quilt how it is, but it would be a bit more interesting if the triangles were a bit different from one another.
I quilted this myself using a walking foot and strait concentric lines inside each triangle with grey thread. I wanted to emphasize the triangles.
Thirteen Reasons I Quilt
1. I like to fondle fabric.
2. It makes me “loose myself” in the project.
3. I create something beautiful.
4. I can give a gift that is homemade.
5. Gives me something to do with all the fabric I buy.
6. When I finish a quilt I feel I can buy more fabric.
7. I like to cut the fabric into smaller pieces, just to sew them back together again.
8. I love to snuggle under a quilt that I have made.
9. I love to see my kids under quilts I have made.
10. I love to use technical terms around my husband to see him squirm to figure out what they are.
11. It is great to hear “Mom, that is beautiful” when I am working on something new.
12. I love to see what everyone has made at guild show-n-tell and on other’s blogs to give me ideas for future projects.
13. My grandmother and my mother both quilted and I feel more connected to them since they have passed.
I ordered a book a while ago and it just got delivered today. The problem is that I ordered this book before I decided to not buy any more fabrics for a little while to get my WIPs under control.
There is at least 4 quilts I want to make in this book, the cover quilt included. This book is not going to help that goal of no new projects for a while.
Dear Santa,
Although I have not been that good of a girl this year, I still think I deserve to get the Glace Frosted Windowpane Quilt Kit from The Fat Quarter Shop.
Yes, I have way too many WIPs, didn’t keep the house clean when I was in the midst of a project, and dinner was fast food way too many nights to count when I got involved in a project. I still managed to get a few projects completed and stayed caught up with 5 BOM projects (at least for 6 months strait) at one time. I really think that this is an elegant quilt and would love to add it to my WIP list. Santa, if you don’t get this for me, I won’t ever get to make this quilt… and I LOVE it! I promise that 2010 will be the year of the quilt and work hard to get all my WIPs done and quilted.
Quilted dreams forever,
Kim