What are you recycling in your sewing area????
#51
Well, Christina, I try to get off at 3, bc DH gets home a little after four. It's amazing what I can do in an hour and a half!! I try to "look busy when he gets home. Supper is usually ready. :lol: Only kidding of course. I'm certainly not kidding myself. He knows exactly what I'm up to. :roll:
#53
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Originally Posted by GailG
I also use the hard cases that come with eyeglasses. (My glasses are always on my eyes. :lol: I put a piece of magnetic strip in the bottom. When I carry handwork, the eyeglass case comes with me. There is even a tiny pair of scissors that fits into my little kit.
#54
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I hear ya Christina...your not off key, lol! i too find that if i turn on music while in 'sewing cave' that i am more relaxed and stay on track and just have the most fun. I sing with the radio too, so maybe we could start a 'quilters quartet'. woo hoo! C
yeah, i have to pull myself out of cave to go cook, but having to eat at certain times of day helps keep me on track. wish I had a dishwasher though.
yeah, i have to pull myself out of cave to go cook, but having to eat at certain times of day helps keep me on track. wish I had a dishwasher though.
#55
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I have been on a quest to use up leftover quilting pieces. For the last 2 months, I have been making shopping bags, Quiche Caddys, Purse's and totes and Messenger bags for my wife, and a couple of wall hangings. Here is the link: http://good-times.webshots.com/album...oTdlH?start=12
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I will tell you a little secret. I started making those diagonal squares with no particular thought in mind as to how many I would need or what I was going to do with them. I was having so much fun I didn't pay attention to how many I had made. Well 2 weeks later I looked at the stacks and stacks of little squares, and said to myself. "What have I done"?. So all of those various quilts starting from "The quilt from hell" were made with those large stacks of small diagonal squares. Even the 4' x 8' Library quilt. The ladies at the library approached me to make a quilt for permanent display in the library. So I said sure. I ran right home and got to work using more of those stacks of squares. I still have a drawer full of them and I never open that drawer as it might cause me to run screaming out of the room and never to return again. Well, maybe not that bad, but I have been putting off doing anything more with them for, oh I don't know, 20 years or so. I have included the remainder in my will so that might tell you something.
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#58
Originally Posted by quiltncrazy
I hear ya Christina...your not off key, lol! i too find that if i turn on music while in 'sewing cave' that i am more relaxed and stay on track and just have the most fun. I sing with the radio too, so maybe we could start a 'quilters quartet'. woo hoo! C
yeah, i have to pull myself out of cave to go cook, but having to eat at certain times of day helps keep me on track. wish I had a dishwasher though.
yeah, i have to pull myself out of cave to go cook, but having to eat at certain times of day helps keep me on track. wish I had a dishwasher though.
On weekends, of course, if I prepare a meal for the clan, we clean up after the meal. (And we use a lot of paper products. :U)
#59
Originally Posted by John
I will tell you a little secret. I started making those diagonal squares with no particular thought in mind as to how many I would need or what I was going to do with them. I was having so much fun I didn't pay attention to how many I had made. Well 2 weeks later I looked at the stacks and stacks of little squares, and said to myself. "What have I done"?. So all of those various quilts starting from "The quilt from hell" were made with those large stacks of small diagonal squares. Even the 4' x 8' Library quilt. The laides at the library approached me to make a quilt for permanent display in the library. So I said sure. I ran right home and got to work using more of those stacks of squares. I still have a drawer full of them and I never open that drawer as it might cause me to run screaming out of the room and never to return again. Well, maybe not that bad, but I have been putting off doing anything more with them for, oh I don't know, 20 years or so. I have included the remainder in my will so that might tell you something.
John
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I had been thinking about cutting mine into strips, since I like strip piecing better than putting squares together.
#60
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If you take a square and cut it across the diagonal from point to point. Then match that diagonal to another of a contrasting color or other color combination that you like, and put the good sides together and then sew along the diagonal. when you fold the now sewn together pieces out and press it flat you have a square made up of 2 different triangles that make up a square. I hope that is clear. enough. In the case of the squares I made they came out to be 1-1/2" squares. and it takes a lot of them to make up a large quilt. over 1500. They were very popular during the late 19th century and were known as 1000 piece quilts.
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