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the start of my munki munki quilt

Posted on July 13, 2009

I’ve been collecting fabrics for this quilt for some time now… you already know that I’m a huge Heather Ross fan, and for the past several months I’ve been collecting bits and pieces of her munki munki fabrics.

farmers-market-block

I really must blame give credit to Rachel for this, my latest obsession. Many months ago she generously shared a bit of these prints with me, and since then I’ve been kind of addicted to finding other prints (as many of you know, this now involves buying munki munki pajamas in large enough sizes just so I can cut them up and reuse the fabric for something else! sad, really…)

calypso-block

I’m going for a soft, muted color palette for this one – it really does remind me of spring/summer… new grass, clear skies and the sun’s rays… it’s a perfect match for our bedroom color, so I’m hoping I’ll have enough fabric to make it queen sized.

corn-block

These are smaller blocks, so I have many (many!) more to make before I can show you a completed quilt top… so for now, just this peek at a few blocks…

sea-block

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open for business!

Posted on July 10, 2009

I have a new shop!

If you had asked me even as little as a month ago, I would have told you I didn’t want to sell online… however, I do want to continue making new quilts, and I suppose that means that I can’t continue to keep all of them! (or else we need to find a bigger house!)

You can click through to my shop using this cute shop button Morgan made for me

For the moment, you’ll find several baby quilts, including the 4 small ones from yesterday, and the lovely A Sprinkling of Hexagons. In the future, I hope to have a few larger quilts and maybe some smaller items – bags and such… oh, and perhaps at some point I’ll sell some of my extra fabric. We’ll see!

I hope you’ll take a look and let me know what you think!

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in which one quilt becomes four…

Posted on July 9, 2009

So this is perhaps a sad story (well, sad for me, anyway), but with a happy ending, so all is well…

I started this quilt to use up some scraps. The inspiration was the back strip of scraps on the abstract quilt. I decided I’d like an entire quilt with strips of scraps alternating with white. I cut a ton of scraps and got it all sewn together…

And here’s where the sorta sad part came in… everything looked good until I went to square the top up. No matter how I tried, it never appeared to be straight and square. I kept trimming the sides, and it still looked crooked (and not in a good, wonky kind of way!). Even when it measured correctly, it was definitely still off. Perhaps it was just an optical illusion, but whatever it was, I just couldn’t go ahead with it. And I don’t even generally have a problem with things being perfectly straight! (imagine what my brother (or anyone else with OCD tendencies) would think!)

So instead I chopped it into four pieces. And while I’m sad that it won’t be a quilt I’ll be able to use, it does make for four very cute baby quilts. Perhaps the perfect stroller quilt? (or maybe even a nice wall hanging!)

Cute, cute, cute (and cute!)

Each quilt measures about 25″ x 35″ and each one has a variety of all of my very favorite fabrics (lots of flea market fancy in there!). They’re each backed with a different fun printed fabric with a coordinating binding.