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UPDATE: I've taken new photos of this quilt and added a tutorial to help you make your own temperature quilt!  You can find the new and improved blog post HERE .  Thank you! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ta-da!  My beautiful temperature quilt is finished! In a cruel twist of fate, the weather outside is too terrible to take quilt pictures out there, so this indoor picture will have to do for today.  I'm not risking frostbite just to get a nicer picture for my blog! UPDATE: Here's a picture of it outside.  I struggled to photograph this because every single block has so much meaning to me.  None of the photographs I took really do it justice. I've been posting about this for the last year, so there isn't much more to say about it.  I love the random color placement (I'm not good at balanced scrappy) and the freehand orange peel quilting (the grid w...

It's January and that means two things: 1. It's time to finish up all of those lingering projects that I started in 2018 and tidy up the sewing room a little bit. 2. New projects everywhere on Instagram!  Quilt Alongs (my weakness) galore!  New fabric from holiday sales sitting in piles everywhere! How to choose, right?  First of all, we had the air ducts cleaned last week so I did end up tidying up most of my sewing room - didn't want the duct guys to mess up my intricate "floor storage" system!  I should have taken a picture of the clean floor, but it was messy again almost as soon as the guys had left and I ran the vacuum cleaner over the carpet quickly.  You can, however, see that my secondary sewing table is turning into quite the fabric pile. The most important part of that picture, however, is my temperature quilt  under the needle being quilted!  I'm doing freehand orange peels (taking advantage of that grid) and it's turning out beau...

My first finish for 2019 is the newest quilt from The Fat Quarter Shop, Starling !  For this quilt, I used one of the new Color Master boxes from Art Gallery Fabrics .  I decided to take the name of the quilt pattern literally and use the gold box , especially after I fell in love with this  Connect the Stars fabric for the background! One thing to note is that the boxes are random, so the fat quarters you see in the picture are not necessarily the ones you are going to get (mine don't match the product listing!).  It's a fun way to build a scrappy collection. Two of the fat quarters had a bit more white in them, so those got pieced together into strips and used on the back of the quilt.  They look much better there than they would have chopped up on the front.  You may also notice that I couldn't resist piecing a couple of tiny moons into the center block of my quilt - that giant square was just begging to be spiced up a tiny bit! This ...

There's something about January that just makes me want to clean up lingering odds and ends.  This scrap quilt has been done for several weeks except for patching a small hole I tore I on the back during quilting and taking photographs to share with everyone.  I'm happy to say that with the new year, I've buckled down and done both, meaning there's one less item on my WIP list (or at least there was until I started a new quilt this week!). This quilt is made up of 40 of the blocks from the 100 Days 100 Blocks 2018 quilt along .  I upsized the blocks to 10" each with the intent of making two baby quilts.  But when I finished I realized I didn't really need two baby quilts, so I just sewed the two of them together to make one epic couch quilt.  Or maybe it'll end up on someone's bed; it's long enough that it takes all three of my boys to hold it up for a picture!  Either way, it was a "free quilt", made entirely from my scraps and just...

A new year of goals starts today, and there's only one logical one to start the year off with: finishing my 2018 temperature quilt!  This quilt was so fun to make - if you are considering making something like this I would highly encourage it!  I didn't get to start mine until the second week of January last year so you still have plenty of time to choose a design and buy fabric without being too far behind. In my quilt, the outer solid fabric represents the low temperature each day and the inner print fabric represents the high temperature each day.  Most of them are blenders, but special days are marked with fussy cut fabric. My last five blocks will be incorporated into the quilt label on the back (365 doesn't divide into a nice grid for a quilt).  I also made a chart to show what temperatures the colors correspond to; my lovely mother-in-law did the embroidery of the numbers for me. Now I just need to finish the back, quilt, and bind!  I'm link...