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Author Archives: Emily
My First Quilt: Sandwiched & Basted
Taking up all available floor space in my craft room, here’s the robot quilt sandwich – quilt top, cotton quilt batting, and the backing. I combined two fabrics from my pile of thrifted sheets to make the back. I hand-basted … Continue reading
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My First Quilt: finished quilt top!
Yay! Now for the next step – basting and quilting the quilt. First I have to figure out where to buy batting, though. And what fabric I want to use for the back. I have a feeling this is going … Continue reading
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My First Quilt has a face!
I have to be honest, I wasn’t entirely sure about this robot quilt for the first few rows of blocks. Then his face appeared out of four blocks, and I was reassured that it is really cute. I’ve decided to … Continue reading
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My First Quilt: Making Progress
Making progress – 9 of 30 blocks done (unless I decide to lengthen the quilt, in which case I’m only at 9 of 35 blocks done…). Toes shown for scale.
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Reversible Fabric Shoulder Bag
For Christmas, I got a reversible over-the-shoulder bag that is the perfect thing for taking all my stuff to work with me – it fits my lunch bag, wallet, keys, etc. and rests nicely across my back when I bike … Continue reading
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Easy Wall Decor
A few days ago I was hit with a spell of “I’m-very-bored-and-stir-crazy-but-nothing-sounds-interesting-to-do.” I suggested we rearrange our furniture. My husband declined. We ultimately decided to move our ancient TV and (broken) DVD player to our craft/storage/guest room, and replace it … Continue reading
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My First Quilt: Choosing the Fabrics
My first step in starting my first quilt was to figure out which fabrics to use. I wanted to stick primarily to what I already had on hand, mostly so I don’t feel bad about spending money on new fabric … Continue reading
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My First Quilt
Over the past few months, I’ve been tossing around the idea of learning how to quilt (or rather, putting the random scraps of knowledge in my head into practice and seeing if a quilt results). Through a happy convergence of … Continue reading
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Reversible Fabric Headbands
I’ve been on a bit of a headband kick lately – especially because these fabric headbands are so quick to put together. Most hard headbands with plastic inside them hurt my head after wearing them for a few hours, and … Continue reading
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Reliving Childhood Crafts: Melty beads
Melty beads, fuse beads, whatever you call them – I had totally forgotten about this craft until I saw packs of them in the dollar bin at Michael’s just before Christmas. I grabbed a cute penguin kit for my sister … Continue reading
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