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It’s not early in the week, but it is finished!

Posted on October 9, 2008

I may have mentioned that I hoped to have my second quilt finished early this week.

Well, I suppose that Thursday doesn’t qualify as ‘early’, but I’m pleased to say that I did finally finish it. Let’s just say that it would have been finished earlier if I hadn’t procrastinated so much about binding it.

In my mind, I imagine that part to be the worst part, and can easily talk myself into starting a new project, rather than doing it. Once I get started on it though, I realize that it’s not nearly as bad as I make it out to be. I think I may actually be getting better at it too. I can say that with certainty because not only did this one go faster, but I only made myself bleed once! That’s progress, people! (Unfortunately, the location of the stabbing was my chin – obviously I’m holding my sewing up WAY too close to my face!)

After a lot of deliberation, I went with the brown floral for the binding. I considered a solid color, but couldn’t find anything locally that I liked well enough. Morgan claims that he was the one who picked this fabric for the binding, so I guess I’ll have to give him credit – job well done – I love the final look!

I’ll be keeping this one as well. Morgan’s already claimed it as his couch quilt, so now we have a his and hers. It’s good, because we really didn’t fit too well under the zig zag quilt (though we did try!)

Fun with the Holga

Posted on October 8, 2008

Morgan gave this camera to me for Christmas last year. I hadn’t seen one before, so I had no idea why he thought I might want this plastic GI Joe-type camera (turns out it was the perfect gift, by the way!). I won’t take the time to list all the attributes of this camera, but if you want to read more about the Holga or Lomography, you may want to check here or here.

(photo from www.lomography.com)

What I can tell you is that it takes great photos. Not great as in the great you come to expect from a digital camera, but great in the unexpected — the blurry photos with light leaks and lots of vignetting. You can’t expect a full roll of nice photos, but quite often there are one or two which are just perfect (or if you’re like me and you leave the lens cap on, you’ll end up with a full roll of lovely black photos!)

These are a few taken at the end of the summer (and the black and white ones last winter). Once I get more film, I hope to head out to take some fall foliage photos. And then maybe some photos of my new quilts. The aged, blurry look may be perfect for quilt photography!

By the way, the camera also comes in black, in case you want one but you don’t want people to look at you strangely (although they’ll still ask why you’re carrying around a plastic toy camera!).

P.S. I have the Spotted Squares (dotted squares, squared dots – anyone have an idea for a name?) top completed, so now I need to get to work on the back. I still love it, and I’m lookging forward to showing a picture of it soon!

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Seeing Spots

Posted on October 6, 2008

I was on a roll starting and completing one quilt before starting another, but that’s gone out the window. I blame it on my fabric scraps, really. I’m not sure I can assign blame to an inanimate object, but I’m certainly going to try. Because really it’s because of the fabric scraps (and my love of looking through the box of scraps) that I’ve started another quilt before finishing the binding on the Katie Jump Rope quilt. oops!

Last night as I dug through my scraps, I discovered that I had a lot of fabric scraps with polka dots. I can’t resist polka dotted fabric, and I guess it’s obvious since I was able to pull out a large variety of them.

I decided to do 8″ squares using these polka dot fabrics and solid white. I alternated using the polka dots as the center square with a white border and then the reverse – a solid white center with the polka dot border. I have 20 done so far, and I’m loving the look.

It’s funny, but most of the time I have an idea for a quilt and I know that I’ll love it when completed, but I sometimes don’t love it as much when putting it together. On this one though, I’m already wild about it. I don’t know if that means I’ll feel less excited when it’s done, or if I’ll love it even more…