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02-04-2015, 01:45 PM
#1432
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Hello, my name is Mary Katherine and I stopped working on my DJ quilt. Sigh!
I'm so desperate to get back at it (I hate how it haunts me and mocks me on the wall) I've joined a DJ group starting next week at our guild. ( Read- I need someone to give me homework ) Boy, will they be surprised to learn I have 135 done. I'm so easily distracted.
OOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooh look........Fabric
I'm so desperate to get back at it (I hate how it haunts me and mocks me on the wall) I've joined a DJ group starting next week at our guild. ( Read- I need someone to give me homework ) Boy, will they be surprised to learn I have 135 done. I'm so easily distracted.
OOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooh look........Fabric
02-04-2015, 02:12 PM
#1433
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Location: Queensland Australia
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Oksewglad your minis are beautiful and congrats on making so much money.
JeanieG thank you for your kind words, it is nice to be back working on it.
Anael and QuiltE I hope you are going to stay on my case this year and get me to the finish line.
Sorry can't help on the yardage question, as I am using a LOT with the sashing so I purchased 2 full bolts of a Robert Kaufmann Fusion.
JeanieG thank you for your kind words, it is nice to be back working on it.
Anael and QuiltE I hope you are going to stay on my case this year and get me to the finish line.
Sorry can't help on the yardage question, as I am using a LOT with the sashing so I purchased 2 full bolts of a Robert Kaufmann Fusion.
02-04-2015, 02:47 PM
#1434
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Location: Ontario, Canada
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MaryK ... not like you have been sitting on your duff, or anything!!!!!!!!!
So, don't tell them that you have so many done.
Each time you report in to them, you can say I did three blocks this week/month or whatever ... and they will never know your deep dark secret!!!
As for someone to do homework with .... geesh ... that's why we are here!
W4Me ... time to mush MaryK along!
So, don't tell them that you have so many done.
Each time you report in to them, you can say I did three blocks this week/month or whatever ... and they will never know your deep dark secret!!!
As for someone to do homework with .... geesh ... that's why we are here!
W4Me ... time to mush MaryK along!
02-04-2015, 02:57 PM
#1435
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MaryK...I think you can't see the forest for the trees I share your blog with my GD's (8 and 10); they are amazed.
Thanks for the kind words regarding the minis. You know they are what I love to do...
Sewglad you guys can chase DJ to the finish line together.
I share your blog with my GD's (8 and 10); they are amazed.Thanks for the kind words regarding the minis. You know they are what I love to do...
Sewglad you guys can chase DJ to the finish line together.
02-04-2015, 04:00 PM
#1436
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Originally Posted by oksewglad
........Thanks for the kind words regarding the minis. You know they are what I love to do..........
If they aren't small enough, you could always downsize them further ......
02-04-2015, 04:14 PM
#1437
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MaryKatherine - ooh, 135 blocks. Show us. Yes, we are a support group, even though not all of us are working on a Dear Jane. (QuiltE has me wavering as I came up with a really cool works4me twist. Darn her anyway.)
By the way MK, we expect you to tell us what your homework is so we can make sure you do it. And maybe others can as well.
Did you say fabric? Where?
By the way MK, we expect you to tell us what your homework is so we can make sure you do it. And maybe others can as well.
Did you say fabric? Where?
02-04-2015, 07:31 PM
#1439
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Location: Knot Merrill, Southern Indiana
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Hellllooooooooooo!!!!!
I'm baaaack!!
And I have FINALLY, officially started my DJ on January 1, 2015!! Woot woot!!
As a reminder ... I'll be doing all of the blocks and setting them with a center medallion and "radiants" to each corner and edge, and a single border - then the triangles. In between the "radiants" is lots of negative space for some very clever long armer to go to town on. It will finish a large King. I've chosen the "Peppered Cottons" which are shot cottons by Pepper Cory from StudioE. I originally had Kaffe Fassets shot cottons, but I found the shots from StudioE locally (which meant I could see the colors next to each other as opposed to ordering online), and I like the quality of StudioE line better than the line from Kaffe. My color way is a basic beige for the background of all the blocks, the sashing and the negative space, and then three gradient colors for blocks in "saffron", "Persimmon" and "Rust" with a touch of light green here and there on some of the blocks. The colors will be grouped together in a sense, and the placement of each block and the color for each block was chosen carefully. I spent close to a year planning and mapping it all out in DJ software.
My method is that I lopped of a chunk of the beige, a chunk of saffron and a chunk of green and I'll work through these colors, the order of blocks that I make is predicated upon which color the block uses, starting with A1.
My design wall is otherwise occupied and given that these blocks are going to take a LONG time to finish, I wanted them "stable". So I opted to baste each block to paper and keep it in my book with a printed copy of the block and notes on the block (finish date, method used and # of pieces). A complete history.
Without further ado ... I give you A1, A4, A6, A8 & A12 (at the rate of 5 per month I should finish piecing in about 4 years).
I'm baaaack!!
And I have FINALLY, officially started my DJ on January 1, 2015!! Woot woot!!
As a reminder ... I'll be doing all of the blocks and setting them with a center medallion and "radiants" to each corner and edge, and a single border - then the triangles. In between the "radiants" is lots of negative space for some very clever long armer to go to town on. It will finish a large King. I've chosen the "Peppered Cottons" which are shot cottons by Pepper Cory from StudioE. I originally had Kaffe Fassets shot cottons, but I found the shots from StudioE locally (which meant I could see the colors next to each other as opposed to ordering online), and I like the quality of StudioE line better than the line from Kaffe. My color way is a basic beige for the background of all the blocks, the sashing and the negative space, and then three gradient colors for blocks in "saffron", "Persimmon" and "Rust" with a touch of light green here and there on some of the blocks. The colors will be grouped together in a sense, and the placement of each block and the color for each block was chosen carefully. I spent close to a year planning and mapping it all out in DJ software.
My method is that I lopped of a chunk of the beige, a chunk of saffron and a chunk of green and I'll work through these colors, the order of blocks that I make is predicated upon which color the block uses, starting with A1.
My design wall is otherwise occupied and given that these blocks are going to take a LONG time to finish, I wanted them "stable". So I opted to baste each block to paper and keep it in my book with a printed copy of the block and notes on the block (finish date, method used and # of pieces). A complete history.
Without further ado ... I give you A1, A4, A6, A8 & A12 (at the rate of 5 per month I should finish piecing in about 4 years).
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