This week I've got stuck in with some old and new projects and been really quite productive:
1: Double Irish Chain Quilt - you're forgiven if you've forgotten that I ever started making this one!
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| Fully sandwiched and basted using Quilters Dream Cotton Request in white rather than natural to keep the crispness of the white fabric - do you have any idea how sore my knees are now?! |
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| The diagonals are marked out ready for quilting using a Clover Hera marker |
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| A section of free motion quilting - might take a while, I've done 5/18 sections and my shoulders are killing!!! |
and 2: A Baby/Lap Quilt - part of the collection I'm putting together ready for opening my Etsy Store so no photos just yet.
On Friday Flicky and I had an unsuccessful trip to the Social Security office in Jersey City. It's not how either of us wanted to spend a Friday afternoon but our Green Cards arrived the week before Christmas and now we need to apply for our Social Security Numbers so that, if we want to, we can work and maybe set up an Etsy store!!! When we got to the SS office, as instructed by my husband, we discovered they moved last March and it was too late in the day for us to get over to the new location on the other side of Jersey City. Well what are two girls supposed to do when they're all dressed up and nowhere to go? What's that? Are you feeling it too? Can anyone else smell fabric???
What a perfect opportunity to visit the Marimekko store on 5th and 23rd Street, Manhattan - I was excited to check out the gorgeous fabrics, there're some great designs and colours there. I didn't stay excited for long, though - the patterns are really large, they'd look great for whole cloth quilts but I'd suggest nothing smaller than a twin, if you started cutting and piecing the fabric I think the fab design would be lost and you'd very probably have pieces that were one solid colour. Still I thought maybe I'd like to use some of these cottons so I asked a sales assistant what price they are - now are you sitting down or at least holding on to something? ... she tells me in a voice that says "if you have to ask you can't afford it"
What a perfect opportunity to visit the Marimekko store on 5th and 23rd Street, Manhattan - I was excited to check out the gorgeous fabrics, there're some great designs and colours there. I didn't stay excited for long, though - the patterns are really large, they'd look great for whole cloth quilts but I'd suggest nothing smaller than a twin, if you started cutting and piecing the fabric I think the fab design would be lost and you'd very probably have pieces that were one solid colour. Still I thought maybe I'd like to use some of these cottons so I asked a sales assistant what price they are - now are you sitting down or at least holding on to something? ... she tells me in a voice that says "if you have to ask you can't afford it"
$53/yard.
Yeah you really read that right but just to be sure that you don't think I've done a typo
$53/yard.
Now this fabric is cute but it's just 100% cotton - no special finish, no handsewn embellishment.
So guess what Flicky and I did?
We left and I'm thinking we won't be back again in a hurry (but don't hold me to that cos it was really cute ;) ).
We left and I'm thinking we won't be back again in a hurry (but don't hold me to that cos it was really cute ;) ).
Guess what we did next?
We headed to our Manhattan LQS and here's a look at what we bought for a far more reasonable $9.88/yard with my NYC Metro Mod Guild discount.
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| 'captain redbeard by De Leon Design Group for The Alexander Henry Fabrics Collection 'Launch' by Lesley Grainger Design for Robert Kaufman 'Googlies' by Michele D'Amore for Benartex |
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| 'Ric Rac Rabbits' by Marisa and Creative Thursday for Andover Fabrics Inc 'The Red Thread' by Marisa and Creative Thursday for Andover Fabrics Inc |
I'll use these fabrics to add to my 'Etsy Store' collection, just need to get my Kona Solid colour chart out, pick some gorgeous colours to go with them and order it online. I think I'll save that job for tomorrow. Oh, and I guess at some stage I'm going to have to head over to that relocated Social Security office! :)
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