tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-948305164828305992024-03-13T08:20:13.015-07:00Peekamoose Mountain Quiltspeekamoose mountain quiltshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10337025654362471005noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94830516482830599.post-35022444222057084182023-03-30T11:49:00.000-07:002023-03-30T11:49:18.870-07:00Hawaii Quilt Work<p> I'm working on a quilt for my mom (and dad) that stalled out for a few years because I got stuck on the background. I wanted to piece it, but I wasn't happy with my first couple of attempts. I have now decided to piece ocean wave blocks in a variety of blues for the bottom half or two thirds of the quilt center. Here is what I'm working on this morning.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQcINSVrisk2R2vvdKfP1lZdjn0doMfCSydY1Ge9zj4gyEEtd8aYGtBFpNdNh--Ja-ZwYjT5rYttT-4Pu0hsunaJ_TU0Jpgk84MgnozFGBpOa9BJz6tT6uQFTbz5CbCAKf7nYMbhgVd_wIGK2gM-CoKWv0cirBYNKmDll1TrrkAGwdqwsnaFBgguDg/s4032/IMG_7820.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="439" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQcINSVrisk2R2vvdKfP1lZdjn0doMfCSydY1Ge9zj4gyEEtd8aYGtBFpNdNh--Ja-ZwYjT5rYttT-4Pu0hsunaJ_TU0Jpgk84MgnozFGBpOa9BJz6tT6uQFTbz5CbCAKf7nYMbhgVd_wIGK2gM-CoKWv0cirBYNKmDll1TrrkAGwdqwsnaFBgguDg/w329-h439/IMG_7820.jpeg" width="329" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfrlKEBwdgJctlxTTBM9QsM36ZvD2fWLdRtkmn9ZrT9VFYeCSQ_JAAGXypn45gBr4kQ1YYt_IgYR7XF8n53Mzh_z2O5HnApSRZSlN9Yf1rnDO1jzgqLyST7A231ulxfRtTu1I3aFVvtNCgkqn2N8Ajce3GmM2zU_esnV7fQJiv1TPsQpNTNiARp7a9/s3024/IMG_7823.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfrlKEBwdgJctlxTTBM9QsM36ZvD2fWLdRtkmn9ZrT9VFYeCSQ_JAAGXypn45gBr4kQ1YYt_IgYR7XF8n53Mzh_z2O5HnApSRZSlN9Yf1rnDO1jzgqLyST7A231ulxfRtTu1I3aFVvtNCgkqn2N8Ajce3GmM2zU_esnV7fQJiv1TPsQpNTNiARp7a9/s320/IMG_7823.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSTYYRfF4U3zHv4kuUeDOZ6Ik6wsz8SpmXYAXDMJmBJ3ZS0gfb1UQ7OVo1oh6B-lyg5tVnWW67YUMW0QLUqwurnZek6io0ITc70ajydsSi8wqekWGI7VjlSkCYrCxJk7ihg04RQ7tJHCCptkNpNtFaQMK0S9F2_Anbg2hxoYN27APknfzraERpiJ3H/s3024/IMG_7824.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSTYYRfF4U3zHv4kuUeDOZ6Ik6wsz8SpmXYAXDMJmBJ3ZS0gfb1UQ7OVo1oh6B-lyg5tVnWW67YUMW0QLUqwurnZek6io0ITc70ajydsSi8wqekWGI7VjlSkCYrCxJk7ihg04RQ7tJHCCptkNpNtFaQMK0S9F2_Anbg2hxoYN27APknfzraERpiJ3H/s320/IMG_7824.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here is how they all look together with the two new blocks. For tomorrow, I need to make more half square triangles. The next session will probably not yield any completed blocks, but lots of HST options to assemble the three new blocks needed to finish this row. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEmWfnmjzVYI_GQ1KKPeS28MSCOZGyvZTqtzpKwqmDIKg3JtjGsU1IcxpttQXZZijrlrq7xo2gTxSITAiQkGvD3AgQN0TT5oxbjpBchqwfuElOAqTANKpcSqnvm6bsQg8ZtMFVPhBp7c2yGI0u2_EN-87vkWahyLS3zHKobkSpq-TKvfThbvrnxj3j/s4032/IMG_7826.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEmWfnmjzVYI_GQ1KKPeS28MSCOZGyvZTqtzpKwqmDIKg3JtjGsU1IcxpttQXZZijrlrq7xo2gTxSITAiQkGvD3AgQN0TT5oxbjpBchqwfuElOAqTANKpcSqnvm6bsQg8ZtMFVPhBp7c2yGI0u2_EN-87vkWahyLS3zHKobkSpq-TKvfThbvrnxj3j/w477-h358/IMG_7826.jpeg" width="477" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>peekamoose mountain quiltshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10337025654362471005noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94830516482830599.post-78794802675422972862022-05-14T14:08:00.008-07:002022-05-16T13:48:13.367-07:00The Butterfly Quilt and a Table Runner<span style="font-size: medium;">I recently finished a quilt for a little girl who has some debilitating health issues. It is a version of Edyta Sitar's butterfly quilt, which I have wanted to make for some time. </span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHtBe5EtHNxECn0U_alIleVDVgtLl4R9xWQ-XCxbEUFjBm4PfQqZzRL-3Od4aCP1V_7_IQCGfhu76xPIdbsu3xnMDIEUkjxlY0w-k41oz77zndI_NimfPjonXl9m0-fFCHSx7SZTv1TDO49CTYsMw6uUyXEz9uUh7KM7bAJTqeXdoPJkx3MjPRMvP4/s4032/IMG_4199.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHtBe5EtHNxECn0U_alIleVDVgtLl4R9xWQ-XCxbEUFjBm4PfQqZzRL-3Od4aCP1V_7_IQCGfhu76xPIdbsu3xnMDIEUkjxlY0w-k41oz77zndI_NimfPjonXl9m0-fFCHSx7SZTv1TDO49CTYsMw6uUyXEz9uUh7KM7bAJTqeXdoPJkx3MjPRMvP4/w300-h400/IMG_4199.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Given the circumstances of the child receiving the quilt I thought this would be a great opportunity to give it a try--it is so fresh and pretty. I have Edyta's book, <u>Handfuls of Scraps</u>, and in that book is a miniature version of her butterfly quilt. I adjusted the size to make a bigger block so that I could make this little girl a twin size quilt. Before making the full size quilt, I practiced with a little table runner that I gifted to my sister.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP8rVGKkUwy6BqxXX_6ID82R6xN2tocttN0B96no6mpRzd5wHMhT_hV7r54okiNA4G3V83Lwg8F4KPASnWz9xIeuc-1p1RItlhZlkoiUSWS29Dvm-AipRt_VVu0MTFJpEkNzQelAfsjseEwJl5sJ8vhtrm7H8z_u4ALRuxcPY7DnVk9QwwkUIKMDiy/s4032/IMG_3249.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP8rVGKkUwy6BqxXX_6ID82R6xN2tocttN0B96no6mpRzd5wHMhT_hV7r54okiNA4G3V83Lwg8F4KPASnWz9xIeuc-1p1RItlhZlkoiUSWS29Dvm-AipRt_VVu0MTFJpEkNzQelAfsjseEwJl5sJ8vhtrm7H8z_u4ALRuxcPY7DnVk9QwwkUIKMDiy/w480-h640/IMG_3249.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOHmeWqWDkr_hNW5XPaAsoOY5wsVBL38TASEef7NNserD45bn8EEnM_BxCLG-sPhFYdvLbZ351MwcYdaaqz4qe7QWB2GZkeXDtJuUT-7JStlJDpm7XLdw10RkhubJwVsM79OiU87TjjE1skNvLTkxzOHYd1C0o3mu8Wm-QuukG5eOkR_1w9W0-lmaf/s4032/IMG_3250.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOHmeWqWDkr_hNW5XPaAsoOY5wsVBL38TASEef7NNserD45bn8EEnM_BxCLG-sPhFYdvLbZ351MwcYdaaqz4qe7QWB2GZkeXDtJuUT-7JStlJDpm7XLdw10RkhubJwVsM79OiU87TjjE1skNvLTkxzOHYd1C0o3mu8Wm-QuukG5eOkR_1w9W0-lmaf/w300-h400/IMG_3250.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Edyta Sitar uses machine applique on her projects, but I really prefer hand applique, so that's how I got the butterflies onto the quilt. I started out with a layer cake from Tula Pink for the butterfly wings, but I found that I started to get bored with those prints and decided to use some scraps to round out the group, which I like much better. I have also seen versions of Edyta's quilt with stems and pieced nine-patch flowers in the sashing. They are so pretty I added some to mine. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZEKHuNBT4TRIKUAqZEOnyE61VVD6JWYFbgm9eVTBdW0H6aembzUIY44JVG8bsPhFIGVnhZ7gANjRKkvDlUDvlPphYcMPX0kVoT3_iM1zJwqHGbpgWDKF_guhL9j0tmDEEVV6dMutFHnyJK9jEaBoklJmk-i69qFkLbxR3OYOrhi1Mb83sA7TJvIEs/s4032/IMG_3440.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZEKHuNBT4TRIKUAqZEOnyE61VVD6JWYFbgm9eVTBdW0H6aembzUIY44JVG8bsPhFIGVnhZ7gANjRKkvDlUDvlPphYcMPX0kVoT3_iM1zJwqHGbpgWDKF_guhL9j0tmDEEVV6dMutFHnyJK9jEaBoklJmk-i69qFkLbxR3OYOrhi1Mb83sA7TJvIEs/w300-h400/IMG_3440.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI6ZDt2nfnlZxpe1U3eVLa40Ej53PhCNa1fp8rO05Whe4ZEgjYHdGnAscPYpI_PS-qIPHJTN1y1B64e0pgMVJKIV3J4b9uPLZG9SXhjnLb9MlH6qq3q41EPJt-FPZNAi0UpHmsBGAnYjVZPjZtZi4pPjxiVD5sJbEizeXZvkIQF_ByYyEvdA9E1NkZ/s4032/IMG_3743.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI6ZDt2nfnlZxpe1U3eVLa40Ej53PhCNa1fp8rO05Whe4ZEgjYHdGnAscPYpI_PS-qIPHJTN1y1B64e0pgMVJKIV3J4b9uPLZG9SXhjnLb9MlH6qq3q41EPJt-FPZNAi0UpHmsBGAnYjVZPjZtZi4pPjxiVD5sJbEizeXZvkIQF_ByYyEvdA9E1NkZ/w300-h400/IMG_3743.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> I intended to quilt this on my machine, and so when I made my sister the runner, I practiced some ideas for the quilt. When it came to the quilt though, I felt compelled to hand quilt it. I think it makes such a big difference in the overall texture of a quilt when it is hand stitched.
I had some trouble also deciding how to bind it. I went with a spring green. I hope it brings out the green in the stems and leaves and complements the butterflies and flowers.
I really like this quilt. It's such a simple concept but it's so pretty. I haven't seen an example of this quilt that I don't love. I hope that it brings comfort to its new owner.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcDmjV1CvVXMWPHSsTUX5jx_24ZBxsZgWMjHWpv2NP_IMyowbDuVobEWOGB9Na3nsHEUp64qy_nlkKu_ez2wlsjcaKwWQm4gpISF1v4Cc8VqDMTmtdkRtUdSC7-a3K9G6aYmzNJXYZFZoh9oaqUoFL0wuyOlOA-vWs1E1FcyFDFts2LVSJuflPe0SL/s4032/IMG_4121.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcDmjV1CvVXMWPHSsTUX5jx_24ZBxsZgWMjHWpv2NP_IMyowbDuVobEWOGB9Na3nsHEUp64qy_nlkKu_ez2wlsjcaKwWQm4gpISF1v4Cc8VqDMTmtdkRtUdSC7-a3K9G6aYmzNJXYZFZoh9oaqUoFL0wuyOlOA-vWs1E1FcyFDFts2LVSJuflPe0SL/w300-h400/IMG_4121.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwOQUIABtAvK-cDUGjFRiBIIfVDdJLBcviGqgjt0jYd-0axVi8AUxgyYQbo9s2-73kXaoIPo7R9iIQ2WdKv0Kc2Okbs8rRDKIYmqAfbstmd5y9WQYRNYYXMFvqdVjDOSWgCzo3yl1ONfIjXIKk9xHWJl7h6OZTFf_BEwOAo14U6kn7YSKi5kcfN5nh/s4032/IMG_4199.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwOQUIABtAvK-cDUGjFRiBIIfVDdJLBcviGqgjt0jYd-0axVi8AUxgyYQbo9s2-73kXaoIPo7R9iIQ2WdKv0Kc2Okbs8rRDKIYmqAfbstmd5y9WQYRNYYXMFvqdVjDOSWgCzo3yl1ONfIjXIKk9xHWJl7h6OZTFf_BEwOAo14U6kn7YSKi5kcfN5nh/w480-h640/IMG_4199.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div></div></div>peekamoose mountain quiltshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10337025654362471005noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94830516482830599.post-87802247011605525532022-05-12T19:42:00.000-07:002022-05-12T19:42:52.896-07:00Wagon Wheel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>I made this version of Denyse Schmidt's Wagon Wheel from her book <u>Denyse Schmidt Modern Quilts Traditional Inspiration</u> for a family friend who came to stay with us for a few months last spring.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMsLEaBW01UY5_BnzqKvv4dNXP_eqnKvpG1P_1LuWd19ifXvkqv-9rq5KWeFagTxTlFxn3byyCvq0L5IDPaopwrauLdJ_F_yK444cBSd6RQQ7iYkUxD2rmiMAnOMkJzqquY_yuCe8-HZ9YerwBwSZgVWwnmigvlPhq8KcDp6Lz0MigTGVu9hPR43pV/s4032/IMG_4353.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="435" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMsLEaBW01UY5_BnzqKvv4dNXP_eqnKvpG1P_1LuWd19ifXvkqv-9rq5KWeFagTxTlFxn3byyCvq0L5IDPaopwrauLdJ_F_yK444cBSd6RQQ7iYkUxD2rmiMAnOMkJzqquY_yuCe8-HZ9YerwBwSZgVWwnmigvlPhq8KcDp6Lz0MigTGVu9hPR43pV/w326-h435/IMG_4353.jpeg" width="326" /></a></div><p></p><p> She's a teenager, so I was looking for something that would appeal to a kid her age and this felt like a good fit. My daughters advised me on the color scheme and I left out the sashing, feeling that it was too fussy. I used stash fabrics for everything but the back, and I don't think I even took a picture of that. I machine quilted it loosely with vertical lines every 2 inches. She used it on her bed while she was here and then took it with her when she returned home to New York.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipYKyksuCCkNadW-xT5mS0qC_rczXDouvDbdwLcVTMi2hsLXBMN-w801eGcMe-1hMh3WPPZI9Ja-KCSSxa7Fm_U-ThUTBY6L29UFe4lNf3mcj_61eg256Na01BiDHEDLH59cZGeLEoGy2ChRJ5rX2VvLD-F02XfWYyZC1NsoF6ZYV661qr_klvObrz/s4032/IMG_3807.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipYKyksuCCkNadW-xT5mS0qC_rczXDouvDbdwLcVTMi2hsLXBMN-w801eGcMe-1hMh3WPPZI9Ja-KCSSxa7Fm_U-ThUTBY6L29UFe4lNf3mcj_61eg256Na01BiDHEDLH59cZGeLEoGy2ChRJ5rX2VvLD-F02XfWYyZC1NsoF6ZYV661qr_klvObrz/w300-h400/IMG_3807.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgczNGMykY5UVTN_ywIc-kPGbXlYIDBxjZxo8SlnVbhba9vSYQp6ovch9JZT9p_djJH5XWLLZxmhcoQEJQpX5WlxyEi0K1CifO-sFRrkuhOw2eMMtEDw6rSrsvtuiuSrNeJJ_Zc2zVB9a3usDKB_kSv6s0JutZvVZdqOKtJYRkbomWF6JR_wxup2ovI/s4032/IMG_3809.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgczNGMykY5UVTN_ywIc-kPGbXlYIDBxjZxo8SlnVbhba9vSYQp6ovch9JZT9p_djJH5XWLLZxmhcoQEJQpX5WlxyEi0K1CifO-sFRrkuhOw2eMMtEDw6rSrsvtuiuSrNeJJ_Zc2zVB9a3usDKB_kSv6s0JutZvVZdqOKtJYRkbomWF6JR_wxup2ovI/w300-h400/IMG_3809.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDXZMnxB2wMQc_MixIxOHz7mRE_XOuZrbrCqI2V4fNkL95pEot0ikF7LDrCqGGxkvbYGcurYyOvXklOJBab061Cbfs_rPdxQHIAz7tS5QTHuUpla3c9NqhIOl8Ny955lT7ls9sTpaPxAclz5hKYJKh9jFCYpDjjQVVxoAPrXpcscx1dxAhiS9_6VTg/s4032/IMG_3811.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDXZMnxB2wMQc_MixIxOHz7mRE_XOuZrbrCqI2V4fNkL95pEot0ikF7LDrCqGGxkvbYGcurYyOvXklOJBab061Cbfs_rPdxQHIAz7tS5QTHuUpla3c9NqhIOl8Ny955lT7ls9sTpaPxAclz5hKYJKh9jFCYpDjjQVVxoAPrXpcscx1dxAhiS9_6VTg/w300-h400/IMG_3811.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p>I enjoyed making this quilt. The curves were easy and I think it's a happy quilt. The whole quilt comes together quickly because the pieces are large and so are the blocks. The hardest part was choosing the fabric. 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I finished a quilt. It is made up of large hexagons and was fairly straight forward to put together.
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I didn't plan this quilt ahead of time. I was cutting some 3 inch strips for another project and decided that I could cut an extra 2 inch strip and use them for a project later. I wasn't sure what would become of them but it wasn't long before I had decided to make hexagons. My other top was on hold as I waited for some background fabric to arrive, so I went ahead and made them up. I chose to hand quilt it. I like look and feel of hand quilting on a finished project, and I also really enjoy the process of handwork.
This quilt is bright and happy. It will make a very sweet gift for someone, although since I made it on a whim I don't have a recipient in mind. I hope it finds a happy home soon.
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Scraps are kind of a big issue with quilters. I know I'm not alone when I sometimes feel buried in them. I've done lots of looking online and I even have some books on scrap quilting, because as much as I hate to throw them away, I struggle to make the most of them. In my scrap bins, fabric looks sad. I know there is tons of fabric in there, and I even like a lot of it, but it is so much harder to use because when I go looking for a piece it has to be both big enough and the right color. Then it needs to be individually cut. Last year, I took the bins to my daughter's middle school where I ran a quilt club. We worked on half square triangle projects, and they used my scraps for the fabric. I was sure that would shrink my scraps, but by March, when school went remote, 13 kids had used the bins, and I couldn't see a dent in the fabric. When I got the bins back home I decided it was time to be purposeful about using scraps in my quilt tops. After all, I really enjoy making my own thing. I don't tend to buy entire lines of fabric because I prefer to mix lines and come up with my own combinations. I like to put fabric together in my own way, tweak patterns or sometimes just make my own. And I don't have to churn out a quilt or two a week to support my family. Fast or easy quilts don't necessarily excite me. I quilt because it brings me joy. So if it takes me extra time to cut out fabric and find a home for it within a quilt top, that's okay. <br />
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To this end, I started making a few quilts before my kids finished school last spring with an aim of making some scrap heavy quilts. I chose a couple of scrap quilts I've seen around online. I wanted to give a quilt to my youngest son's kindergarten teacher to thank her for the excellent care she took of him and his class, both in person and remotely. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQL8TTNEU6-vD9hM4NDf6-3A4rPd3tlhkrOBAj4hvLyoHVlZwcRyYpMXQ7PNJTaKE9lrFQOse9mu_Tf-H1V3-yokE1jKczQbZ4vcLUrDeViDr456Giea9K8uguVvVHKeRAGCXfIS1DUuo/s2048/IMG_1997.jpeg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQL8TTNEU6-vD9hM4NDf6-3A4rPd3tlhkrOBAj4hvLyoHVlZwcRyYpMXQ7PNJTaKE9lrFQOse9mu_Tf-H1V3-yokE1jKczQbZ4vcLUrDeViDr456Giea9K8uguVvVHKeRAGCXfIS1DUuo/s320/IMG_1997.jpeg"/></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikGhWZeJU3W-ZofsLSGOWV3KL6RVcsf6vh9i7A0B1dJAx2KZb3wwM4IxCCu2hlnFRw0uidQG-YqzU7RJbdGW_ZxqlGpj6ANYmjHTvaOPkQpSGgaAI7yckNvAw589AXtCiEqprqCu3D8Ik/s2048/IMG_1999.jpeg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikGhWZeJU3W-ZofsLSGOWV3KL6RVcsf6vh9i7A0B1dJAx2KZb3wwM4IxCCu2hlnFRw0uidQG-YqzU7RJbdGW_ZxqlGpj6ANYmjHTvaOPkQpSGgaAI7yckNvAw589AXtCiEqprqCu3D8Ik/s320/IMG_1999.jpeg"/></a></div> <br />
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I also made a half square triangle quilt. Because I have more blue scraps than any other, it seemed like a good idea to start there. That and the fact that most people consider orange (my go-to color) to be nice as an accent at best. Anyway, I found a layout for a half square triangle quilt that I really liked on pinterest, and cut a bunch of my blue scraps into squares. The other half of the squares were cut from a white fabric, I think from Hawthorne Threads. I made up 100 half square triangles and put the top together. Then I decided to practice machine quilting the white portions of the quilt.<br />
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For the quilting design I tried using my environment as a jumping off point. We go with our kids to the beach to tidepool when there are few enough people to stay safely distanced. Between this and reading Pagoo with my kids, an excellent book by HC Hollings about a hermit crab and life in the tide pools, my mind was really stuck at the beach. I tried to quilt the purple muscles that cluster together on the rocks into the white diamonds on the quilt. It does look cool, but my daughter told me she thought I was going for peacock feathers, so although I'm happy with it, I don't know if I can say I nailed it. When I was finished with the white parts, I had to make a decision about the blue fabric. I probably didn't need to quilt it, but I felt that it would be better with some quilting in it. My first thought was to do a bit more machine quilting, but I really enjoy the look and feel of hand quilting, so I went with that. Overall, I'm happy with the finished project. Plus, this did cut back on some of my bigger scraps.
This quilt was gifted to my daughter's violin teacher for Christmas. She has been Paolina's teacher since 2013, until she switched instruments -- she's now working on the stand-up bass. We wanted to thank her for her many years of work with our daughter. Good teachers are more than just people who deliver content to students. We will always value her, both for her skill and her care.
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Over last summer, fall and winter I worked on and completed a quilt for my youngest son. He had an old quilt on his bed, one that I made in college with reproduction 20s fabrics. I no longer like those fabrics and found them to be totally ridiculous on my 5 year old's bed. Since he was/is learning to read, I thought it would be fun to make him a word search quilt that he could interact with and find hidden words and messages. Some of the words are really beyond him still, like <i>creature </i>or<i> astute</i>, but there are others in there that are perfect, like his name and <i>boy, poop</i> or <i>Mommy loves me</i>. I spent quite a bit of time during the summer and fall hand appliquéing all the letters to fabric. I used Kona black for the letters, chose a font from my computer, enlarged it and then made templates of the entire alphabet. Then I cut squares from all the low volume, whitish fabric I had for the background squares. I made a drawing of what I wanted the finished project would look like, and then made a list of how many of each letter I needed to stitch. I started with words I wanted to make and then filled in all the letters around them. I did lose at least one word, <i>silly,</i> when my boys came into the sewing room and rearranged my letters for me while they were waiting on the wall to be stitched together. By the time I realized what had happened, it was really too late. I chose to let it go. The only unpicking I did was a set of letters that spelled <i>SOB. </i> I just couldn't let that go.<br />
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When I had all the letters finished, I machine pieced them together, added a couple of borders to make it big enough for his twin bed. I looked at several different backing options, a few of which I really liked. <br />
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Ultimately, I went with the owls. I just thought he would really enjoy them. Once basted, I hand quilted it using valdani size 12 cotton thread. The thread was a variegated grey-blue, and most of it was pretty light. Using a big stitch really makes for a fast hand quilt. I like the look of it and it feels great. <br />
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I made a pillow in the same style for one of my daughters and hand quilted it with a tradtitional small stitch. Comparatively, it took much longer to complete, but I thought it also quilted up beautifully, so either are good options.<br />
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This spring as part of our distance learning I sent a picture of the quilt to my son's teacher. I think she had them working on word searches and thought she'd enjoy it. She sent it to the entire kindergarten class and had them find as many words as they could as one of the their daily activities. Miles chose to do his on his actual quilt. We had fun. <br />
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The only thing I would do really differently if I were to make this quilt again, is to change the words. He's already on to other things. This year he's into nature in a big way. We've been watching our caterpillars eat our plants and turn into butterflies. We've been watching and identifying the birds in our backyard. We've counted lizards and learned about them, and watched the moon and the tides. He no longer wants to play the piano, but would rather take violin lessons, and at 6 he can do so much more than he could just a year ago. But I guess that's the nature of childhood and parenthood. The quilt captures a moment in his childhood. I could make him several more on his way to manhood and each would be a different quilt.<br />
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I originally planned to make two quilts, one for each of my sons. However, after much deliberation, my older son has requested something completely different. He would like me to make him a platypus quilt. Something with a big platypus in the middle, either pieced or appliquéd, with a green background and lots of other animals on the sides. I haven't begun the work for that quilt yet. I thought maybe something in the style of Elizabeth Hartman, but lately I've really been more excited about mixing pieced work with applique. So maybe I'll do some piecing in between or around appliquéd animals? Drafting that will take some energy and time. I have some other projects to finish up before taking on this new project. <br />
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Frequently, I heard ideas sprinkled throughout my interactions with the community that rang true, especially from their teachers. Mostly it reinforced what I already believed, but occasionally there was a message tucked into a conversation that I needed for myself. One time, when I was talking with a teacher about kids finishing projects, she said it was like a muscle. You finish one project, and you are better able to begin and see the next project through to its finish. Basically, it's a good practice. I have no problem with this concept. I believe in it. But sometimes I hit an obstacle trying to put it into practice. <br />
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Right now, as I (and every other parent around the world) homeschool my children for an unknown amount of time, I am revisiting some of these valuable lessons and asking myself important questions. How do I want my children and myself to spend each day? What is the right balance between work and play? What makes an experience valuable and how do I make sure that my family is nourished, body and soul, through this time? As I navigate my way through assigned work and "enrichment" offered by the public school system, I am startled by the stark difference between it and the Waldorf community. One is a "do it all" approach and one is methodical and slow. What is right for my family and how do I find a balance that keeps my children tapped into their school community while being true to the things I believe have value? Like all people who embrace the Waldorf philosophy around the world, I limit technology at my home, so online curriculums are hard for me to embrace. I believe young children should have tactile learning experiences without much screen time. So I have begun building projects based on the learning my children need to be doing. Reading practice, math practice- yes. But also projects that let them think about the natural world, how things work, and art, and writing. Games that make us laugh and help us be together. And puzzles. I love puzzles. <br />
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My kids found this guy in our house.</td></tr>
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We are making gardens and studying backyard birds. We are looking into building birdhouses and how to attract specific species of birds to our yard. We are drawing pictures and thinking about flight. We are reading fantasy books and writing about what we see each day. Each day we try to dig a little deeper, find out something more or just take time to see our surroundings. We need to water our garden, make our food, engage our bodies and our brains. And right now, that's a lot of work. <br />
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But I am also thinking about myself. I find so much pleasure in quilting. It brings me peace, and grounds me. It connects me to the moment, but also to the past and future. I delight in texture and color. I love the finish, but I really love the process. I like to make quilts from patterns and from my head. I have so many ideas that I sometimes have trouble staying with a project all the way through to its finish. I suspect I'm not alone in this. As a result, I have a pile of WIPs that have been neglected for a long time. Some of them have been waiting years to be finished, but somewhere along the way they were set aside, and if not abandoned all together, they have certainly been neglected. I haven't lost interest, I just hit a road block in each of them. I see that I haven't embraced the practice of taking a project to its finish. That's not to say I haven't finished anything. In fact, I've been fairly productive. But I also have plenty of room to grow in this area. <br />
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Now that I have some time at home, I'm really going to try to tackle those projects, or at least some of them. I picked out a few projects to start. I have three main pieces to complete. One is a traditional Old Maid's Puzzle quilt. I pieced several blocks from Anna Maria Horner's Luminous (maybe 2) line. I almost never make an entire quilt from one collection of fabric. It just isn't for me generally. In fact, I never buy an entire line of fabric. But in this case, I bought it thinking that I had a use for it and then when I found I didn't, I thought I could repurpose it. I wanted to keep the collection together because I loved the drape of the fabric. I have a shot cotton quilt that is my favorite, and I felt that this would be a similar feel. I did a sample block out of Kona cotton, just to test it out, and found it was a lot of piecing, but nothing difficult. And then I started working with the woven fabric. All the points were difficult to get right. The fabric slides around and as pretty as it is, I found it was not really fun to piece. I got through seven of the sixteen blocks, put it away, and only pulled it out when I was moving my sewing room a few weeks ago. I decided to complete a block a day, and planned to have it be a 64" square throw. Then my daughter decided she really liked it and would like it on her bed. She sleeps on a top bunk, so the quilt doesn't need to be generously sized. Too big and the bed is difficult to make. So I thought I could add one more row of blocks to the bottom and it would be perfect. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough of any one piece of fabric to make that work. So I came up with a second idea. I would cut pieces out of my scraps to make 4"x5" rectangles and piece 2 rows of them as a border for the top and bottom. But, as I worked on that, she didn't like it. I checked in with the rest of my family, who didn't like it, and then I texted pictures out to my extended family, who didn't like it... <br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">About 25 years ago, my mom took me to meet some Amish quilt makers in Lancaster Pennsylvania. She has never quilted, but I was already hooked and she did her best to nourish and encourage my passion. I didn’t know any hand quilters and was struggling to figure out how it worked. So, we went to Lancaster, where my mom had a connection to some kind women and we chatted with them about their quilts. While we were chatting with one quilt maker, her husband came home and somehow we decided that I needed a quilt frame. The husband asked us to come back in the morning and when we did he had a miniature quilt frame that he had built during the night. I remember him saying that we couldn’t bring a full size frame back with us on the plane, but we could take the model and show it to a carpenter who could make it for me. And that is what we did. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When I got it, I set it up and used it a bit. But then I put it away in favor of hand held frames and it stayed in my mom’s garage until I moved back to California a few years ago. Since then it has lived in my garage. But a few months ago I took it out and put it in my living room. It has held many quilt tops since then, but more as a hanger, as I thought about setting up the frame.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We started with a bare frame. Then we attached scrap pieces of canvas that were cut to the size of the poles and stapled them to the frame, allowing a little overhang to try to make it easier to pin a quilt to it later.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Once that was done we had to measure the quilt we wanted to put on the frame. Then we adjusted the bottom of the frame to be the same size as the quilt top. That was difficult because the holes don't seem to match up well to many different sizes. After working at it for a bit we were able to get it close enough to attach the quilt on the top. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">After setting it up, both of my daughters gave it a try and we had fun working for a little while. Then we tilted the quilt up and pushed it against the wall so that we could have dinner. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We did this a couple of days ago and I have been enjoying it and using it throughout the day. I do love how it can be moved around the room and stowed against the wall when not in use. I think it helps to protect the quilt and also is really practical with a busy family in the house. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">-I'd like to be able to hold it steady while quilting. We are going to add a peg to the sides to accomplish this. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">-We also need brakes on the wheels to keep it from moving unintentionally.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">-I'd like to get more positions drilled into the bottom of the frame so that it is easier to adjust it to the correct size for the quilt I need.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">-We are getting some different clamps to make it easier to attach the frame at the corners and also some clamps that will help hold the quilt onto the sides instead of pinning there. It is difficult to get the pins in because of the width of the wood. </span></div>
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-My biggest question is about adding the quilt to the frame. I don't think I need to baste it in the future, but I'm not sure. Also, I'm wondering how to keep all the layers smooth while the turning happens. I think there is probably a way to do this, but right now I think I will have to lay everything on the floor, flat, attach the layers together to the side of the frame and start turning. I'm not sure if this will work though, because I think it may bunch up the bottom at the middle. </div>
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It took much longer to finish this quilt than I originally anticiapted. First because I decided to hand quilt it and second because I bumped my niece's birthday quilt ahead of it and decided to hand quilt that one as well. I've also had a few different projects that I've been trying to keep up with, so there have been plenty of distractions, but I did finally finish this project. And it is a pleasure to have it on my bed. <br />
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Actually, it has been on my bed for a bit now, beginning right in the middle of a heat wave. I finished up the binding poolside at my brother's house. We spent some time there this summer working on our swimming skills, burning off extra energy, having fun and staying cool.<br />
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I really do like this quilt. <a href="http://www.peekamoosemountainquilts.com/2018/04/blue-strings-wip.html" target="_blank">As I mentioned before</a>, I saw the idea online somewhere, I think it was maybe a post from the <a href="https://www.themodernquiltguild.com/" target="_blank">MQG</a>? Anyway, it works for my bed because it is clean, but not plain. All the blues mixed together do have energy, but it doesn't feel busy. Maybe that's because of the solids. It also has great texture, just like <a href="http://www.peekamoosemountainquilts.com/" target="_blank">Scarlet's quilt</a>. <br />
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I worry that it will be torn up, with all the use/abuse it gets from my kids all over it. Every night, they take a detour into our room and jump right on the bed instead of going to the bathroom to get washed up. And then there's the reading. On the one hand, I love that we lounge on a lovely quilt, on the other, it will shorten the quilt's life. I knew this when I made it though, and I made it to be used, so I am doing what I can to accept this and enjoy it while it lasts. <br />
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One of my favorite things about my own kids is their intrepid ideas when it comes to color. Sometimes, they end of with a hot mess, and sometimes their color combinations are refreshing or exciting. But I'm always inspired by the way they go after it and come up with something interesting. Which is exactly what I loved about Scarlet's order. </div>
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I liked the idea of an irish chain for this project because it can be chain pieced quickly and still look great, and I knew I could get all of her colors in without much trouble. When I talked with my sister about the quilt, she told me the only way she could see me going wrong was for the quilt to be too tame. Scarlet likes colors, and they need to be bright! <br />
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I wasn't happy with the beginning work on this project, which was the chained pieced portion, so I ultimately decided to go the long route and cut and place each individual piece. Doing this allowed me to bring in more fabrics. I had a bunch of different yellows, reds, purples and oranges in my stash, so I felt that this would be a great way to use some of these up without having to go buy a bunch more. I also cut up and used some of my daughters' old Peek skirts that I was saving for special projects, which makes it a bit more special for me. This solved the need to buy more fabric, but made the project considerably more time consuming. </div>
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Before starting the project I had intended to machine quilt it. I kept that plan right up to the moment when I needed to begin the quilting part and realized I didn't want to do that. Instead, I opted for a variety of celtic designs on the larger blocks, taken from a book I bought about 25 years ago while visiting Ireland, and then to finish the chain blocks with the same little xs I have been using for my <a href="http://www.peekamoosemountainquilts.com/2018/04/blue-strings-wip.html" target="_blank">blue strings quilt</a>. <br />
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Scarlet had a birthday in April and I wanted to get the project finished as my birthday gift to her, so it really started to take up most of my sewing time for a couple of months. In the end, I finally finished it, a bit late, but in enough time for my mom to take to her when she went for the birth of Scarlet's baby sister in late May. </div>
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This is not my favorite quilt, aesthetically speaking. I do love the texture. The little quilted xs make it extra soft. And it is made with much love. I backed it with a red flannel that I thought would be cozy for her in the Wisconsin winters. But despite the quilt lacking appeal for me personally, she loves it. It is apparently just what she had in mind. I tried to send progress pictures to her along the way to get her opinions and make sure we were heading in the right direction. I wish that I could have been there to give it to her personally, but I love that she loves it. And I love that she knew to come right to me for this quilt. <br />
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It was a quick and very satisfying project. I admired the pictures from the book, and I love seeing it at home on my couch. <br />
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As I was playing with the shapes I realized it could be fun to turn the pieces so that the center piece was split and situated on the four corners. It would change the block in cool ways... I may try that next and have a set of related pillows! <br />
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This pillow cover was initially started as a throw quilt from a pattern in Jen Kingwell's book <u>Quilt Lovely</u>. It is a sweet little quilt, and, if, like me, you enjoy hand piecing, really enjoyable to piece. But by the time I had a few of the flowers together, I realized it was going to have to be a long term project because I have so much to do ahead of it. So I decided to use it to cover a bare pillow form that needed a case. I had to work out the layout a bit because I wanted a flower in the middle of the case, but it wasn't difficult and I was able to piece and quilt the project over a couple of weeks in spare minutes while waiting for kids in classes or at pick-ups and end of the day sewing. <br />
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I fussy cut a few of the flowers, but felt that some of the flowers didn't need that treatment.<br />
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I tried out a few different backgounds, but picked a light shade of blue in the end, feeling that it receded into the background and let the flowers speak for themselves. <br />
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Here is the finished front panel, ready to quilt. I didn't pin it because it just fit in my 18 inch frame. I began quilting traditional small stitches, but pulled them out in favor of bigger stitches and some embroidery floss. <br />
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<br />peekamoose mountain quiltshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10337025654362471005noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94830516482830599.post-37273458308656596812018-05-16T11:26:00.000-07:002018-05-16T11:26:25.338-07:00Laura's New Baby QuiltI've had my babies, but my sisters aren't quite done yet. One of my sisters will have her third baby at the end of the month. Sadly, they live thousands of miles from me, but that doesn't dampen my excitement about this baby's arrival. In fact, I've been working on a quilt...<br />
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I have tried to make a quilt for each new arrival in the family. Each baby gets his or her own quilt that is different from all the other quilts in the family, and this baby is no exception. For this one, I have drafted my own pattern from a block that I liked in a Jinny Beyer book. I had to relearn some geometry to do it, but I have really enjoyed the process. <br />
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First I pulled out my compass and straight edge and a journal and figured out enough geometry to make the sketch. <br />
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Then I made a new sketch, blowing it up onto butcher paper to the size I wanted it to be. And then traced it onto freezer paper to make templates. There are lots of pieces that have to fit together in just the right way for this to work out, so I had to make plenty of notes both on the freezer paper template and on the butcher paper, which I used as a map so that after cutting the freezer paper I could refer back if needed. Once the freezer paper was cut I ironed it to my fabric, traced around the templates and roughly cut out the fabric. Then I started sewing. <br />
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I had a really different idea for the center piece when I began the quilt. I thought I would fussy cut a flower from a Kaffe Fassett print and sew it in. When that was actually done, it looked sloppy to me, like I had just gotten tired and stuck it in there to be finished. So I tried a few other options, but none of them spoke to me.<br />
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Finally, I decided to draft another center, this time with a star that I could use to pull in some of the fabric in the outer circle. After a bit more work with geometry, and a star with too many points, I figured it out, repeated the freezer paper template process, stitched it up and added it to the larger circle. <br />
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That worked better. I love the little bears. Actually, I ordered more, because they are super cute.<br />
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Once the center circle was complete I needed a background. I ordered some daily linen from the Purl Bee. I'm also using daily linen for the background of my Grasshopper quilt, a block of the month program through Sarah Fielke, and I thought it would be beautiful and a great opportunity to practice working with linen if I used it for this second project as well. It is a bit tricky, and I put off cutting out the center circle for several days because I was scared I would mess it up. There is so much movement, it feels a bit like working with water. But it is soft and really a pleasure to touch. Anyway, the circle went it without any real problem and the top is finished! Now for the quilting...<br />
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This is a baby quilt. I saw a version of this quilt on a blog somewhere and thought it was really sweet, so I made my own. I finished it a few months ago and forgot where I saw it now.<br />
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I thought it was good color practice, which is something I am looking for right now. I am happy with this project.<br />
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Here is a new small project I started recently. This block came from a tutorial at <a href="http://filminthefridge.com/2017/03/06/checkered-garden-a-tutorial/" target="_blank">Film in the Fridge</a>. The blocks are coming together fairly quickly, once I've chosen the fabric. Colorwise it is going reasonably well. It will be busy, but fun when it's finished. <br />
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I think I need six more blocks, but at least three. It's a bit of a jumble right now. I'm not put off by it, but I do think they need a little help looking like they all belong to the same quilt. A bit of mustard in each new block may do the trick, since it is already in four of the six blocks. The two bottom blocks have no mustard, but I'd really like to use them anyway. I'm hoping that with more blocks, I can scatter those and it will be okay. If not, I'll have to remake them with mustard and put these in another project somewhere down the line. <br />
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Right now I have a ton of quilts in progress, probably too many. But there are some projects that need to be at the top of the pile. A quilt for my bed is one of those. My current bed quilt is now so worn that the top is disintegrating off. The batting underneath is coming out and the whole thing is looking really sad. <br />
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My bed gets used everyday, obviously, by my husband and me, but also gets frequent visits from our kids. I like that they curl up on my bed to read, or if they want to talk to me when I'm in my room. Sometimes I hear them jumping on my bed when I'm downstairs. So, the quilt that lives on that bed needs to be pretty sturdy. It is not the place for an heirloom. However, I would love to have something there that makes me feel good as we live with it, and on it, for the next several years. </div>
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After some deliberation, I chose to make a string quilt for my bed. I've never made one before, but it's something I've wanted to try and seems like a great quilt as you go project. So, not an heirloom, pretty sturdy and utilitarian, but also with the potential to be beautiful. </div>
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I've seen a ton of versions of string quilts, but my favorite was one I think I saw on a MQG site. I wish I remembered where exactly, but the maker had used old jeans to create and entirely blue string quilt. It was spectacular. I loved it. </div>
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About a year ago I ordered a bunch of blues and some white fabric (for the center string) and cut tons of strings. I started sewing it all together, but the lack of variety in the project and the fact that I needed so many blocks nearly bored me to tears. So it has taken me some time to get it done, mostly at night.<br />
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I finally did finish all 64 blocks, but I still had to attach the backing. I know there is a way to do this while making the blocks. It might have been the sturdier option, it would certainly have been more efficient, but I don't like the look of the extra sashing. Anyway, after putting the whole thing together I still needed to think about how I was going to attach the backing. I originally thought I would machine quilt it together, but the blocks are 11 1/2 inches wide, so it would need more reinforcing than just in the seams and that might mess up the look of the quilt. I also considered tying it, but that didn't seem sturdy enough or comfortable for people who plop down on top of it for a bedtime story...<br />
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I finally chose to use a very simple hand stitch. Again, it was something I saw online, I think from Jen Kingwell. I think she said they reminded her of a sashiko stitch. It looks more like kantha to me; sashiko is so precise and controlled. But I really like it for this project. It also has the benefit of giving the quilt a softer finish. The big downside is time. It will take me many more hours to finish, so I'll have to wait another few months before getting this guy on the bed.<br />
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Last year I signed up for Sarah Fielke's Block of the Month Program to make a quilt called "Down the Rabbit Hole". I thought it would be a good project for me and a challenge to get it done. <br />
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It is a pretty big quilt with a lot of handwork, which I love. I also loved how she had several options in case the maker didn't want to do rabbits along the border. I opted for cats, because I love them and almost always have at least one cat living in my home. I realize that cats are not for everyone, but I've never understood why that is. I really seem to have an affinity for them...<br />
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Anyway, I loved her patterns generally, but I don't think she's a cat person. I say that without judgement, but I felt I needed to rework the cat profiles a bit to match my picture of a great cat. Here is what I came up with. I used her general pattern, but then worked on the heads and chests especially. After I sewed the leaping cats down I wished I had reworked their hind legs too. I think they are much more rabbit than cat, but <i>c'est la vie</i>, it was done and I wasn't about to unpick it. I felt that the cats in the original pattern were a bit boxy; in my version they look almost Egyptian. One of my favorite things about cats is how beautiful and sleek they are -- always graceful, usually with a bit of attitude. Definitely different from a dog- or a bunny. <br />
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Actually, I enjoyed the process so much that I signed up for her 2018 programs. Both of them. I'm not sure why I'm doing both, because I have a long list of WIPs and projects that I need to start and finish. More than I can actually finish really, but I guess I'm doing it because I had that much fun. I'm also using them as exercises to work on my skills, both in sewing and color. I like that she brings a real sense of play to her quilts and that she uses traditional concepts in interesting ways. <br />
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To truly finish this quilt, I actually have to quilt it. I pulled my quilt frame out of the garage (its been out of use for more than 20 years, so it is time to get it working again) and realized that it isn't big enough to accomodate this size quilt. So, I'm working on that... <br />
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My mom has had the same stockings for me and my siblings for as long as I can remember. Somewhere in my early childhood she found some felt stockings with little girls and boys on them and really loved them. Originally, she bought one for my brother and one for me. I think she later went back and bought one for each of my sisters. Anyway, she has kept them all these years and now uses them for grandchildren. However, she has many more grandchildren than she had children, so we need more than the original set of stockings that hung in our house as kids. Over the years, she has found different stockings that she liked for each new child, but this year she needed a stocking for a new grandchild and a repair to my original stocking. She brought them over and asked if we could fix the old one and make a new one in the same style. <br />
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I've made some repairs and replacements for these stockings in the past. About 20 years ago, one of the original three was destroyed somehow and I replaced it for her by copying the original, construction and all. They were made with glue and sewing machines. I was able to finish the job quickly, and it has held up well. </div>
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I have always thought they were cute, but I really prefer hand stitched for such small sentimental projects, so this time I opted for a slower finish, but one that honors and freshens the original stockings at the same time. </div>
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I sewed everything by hand, except for the hanger on the back, which I thought should have some heavy duty reinforcing. I also added some embroidery to the dress and apron, changed the style of the hair and face, and added little red bells as the berries on the the apron. I'm really happy with the stocking and I'm looking forward to making another one next year, since I have a sister who is expecting a baby this coming April. </div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Recently we had a couple of birthdays to celebrate. One for a friend of my daughter, turning 11, and the other was for my 11 year old niece. Generally, I really don’t like birthday culture for children. I think it is pretty commercial, and children get lost in the shuffle of stuff. That said, I don’t want neglect to give a gift, either, so I feel better about it if I can make the gift. It allows us to really spend time thinking about the birthday child and make something that can really be enjoyed, while leaving the worst of the consumer mentality behind. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My daughter Lucia has been using a bag/purse to carry around her important possessions, like her sketch pad, colored pencils, a quill, ink, her book and I’m not sure what else. She actually has a collection of a few different bags that she uses depending on how she wants to accessorize. She mentioned that she would like for me to make her a messenger bag, so I thought this might be a great opportunity to make a few. One for her and one for each birthday girl.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Up-Sew-Liberated-Handmade/dp/1596681624/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1503538456&sr=8-1&keywords=growing+up+sew+liberated" target="_blank">found a bag</a> that wasn’t too big, but that had an adjustable strap and wasn’t too difficult to make. Lucia and I dug up some cute cotton/linen fabric and got going. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">These bags were easy to make and they turned out really cute. In fact, my son James mentioned that he’d like one for himself so that he can take it with him while he explores and use it more as a nature bag. </span><br />
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I recently finished this quarter log cabin quilt with some scraps I've been trying to use up for some time. I still have enough scraps to make another baby quilt, but I'm very happy with this finish. I bought this fabric to make <a href="http://www.peekamoosemountainquilts.com/2016_01_01_archive.html" target="_blank">my nephew a baby quilt</a> almost two years ago now. My first go at the scraps ended in these <a href="http://www.peekamoosemountainquilts.com/2016/05/courthouse-steps-finish.html" target="_blank">three bags</a>, but I had intended to make a full size quilt. The blocks just didn't come together quite like I had envisioned. It's funny, because the same thing happened with this quilt. <br />
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I began putting together some courthouse steps blocks, but ended up feeling that they were just boring. I'm not sure why that keeps happening, because I really like the block. After putting a few together and realizing that it wasn't going to work for me I decided to chop them up and try a different kind of setting. There is just so much more energy in the quarter blocks.<br />
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I began working with a limited color palette, but then changed my mind and started putting together whatever I had in combinations that appealed to me. <br />
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I liked them both, but settled on the second. I picked a simple, Japanese inspired design for the quilting. It is hand quilted with a variegated purple pearl cotton, number 12, I think. <br />
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Linking up to Finish It Up Friday at <a href="http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Crazy Mom Quilts</a>.peekamoose mountain quiltshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10337025654362471005noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94830516482830599.post-59571756938050209602017-08-14T08:42:00.000-07:002017-08-14T08:42:00.612-07:00Two Finished Quilts<div style="font-family: Chalkboard; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I finished this log cabin baby quilt recently and thought I’d post it. I wanted to work with red. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I love log cabins and decided to try one enlarged block and see how I felt about it. I like it. I backed it in some fabric I picked out for my nephew's quilt, I think it's Tula Pink. I ended up going with something different for Isaac, but I really love how bright the backing is. It is quilted with a square "spiral" in the center red square and then has some all over flowers. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It would be fun to do a few oversized blocks, maybe four square blocks or six if they were rectangular and not square for a larger quilt. I keep coming back to the idea of making a large quilt using shot cottons, because I love the feel of the finished quilt and I enjoy quilting them, but I find that the colors are not usually as bright as I like. I have enjoyed using Kaffe Fassett’s stripes; they are beautiful and have the same soft texture. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I also finished this cross quilt, or addition quilt, for my son's kindergarten teacher.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">She was a great teacher for him, warm and loving, but also had tons of energy. She is a marathon runner and she ran every morning with her class. It was a great way for my son to use up some of his energy in a very positive way. Anyway, she retired and I felt like I wanted to send her off with a lap quilt.</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">That last picture is a bit dark. I finished it in the middle of the night before the last day of school... Here are a couple of others...</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I am working on a new long term project. This is for my parents as an anniversary - thank you gift. They will celebrate their 51st wedding anniversary this autumn and they took our entire extended family to Hawaii this June. While we were there I collected everyone's handprints and asked my husband to make sketches of some of the experiences we want to remember. We turned them into images that resemble the petroglyphs that can be found on the island. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Now that we're home, I've ordered some fabric and begun the process of appliquéing hand prints onto some fabric using a technique that I love, I think it's called back basting, and embroidering the "petroglyphs". I'm asking some family members to help with the embroidery, especially capable grandchildren. I'm working on the outer border first because I think it will be at least half, if not more, of the work of assembling the quillt top. I have five more hands to appliqué for the border and lots more embroidery, but here's what is happening so far. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This isn't related to quiltmaking, but I'm also re-reading Michner's book </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">Hawaii</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">. I read it many years ago as a very young teenager and remember it fondly. I zipped through it back then, but now I'm struggling. I think its because I know how it ends. He's good, and really makes you care about his characters, and I just don't want to go where I know the story will take me. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Vivian’s storm at sea baby quilt top has taken me forever to finish, but I’ve finally got it done. I started it back in October, and it was a project I worked on slowly over the last few months. It was a bit like quilt therapy; half celebration of a beautiful new little person, and half sadness and stress over the political reality of my country at the time of Vivian’s birth. It’s a disturbing juxtaposition: a perfect, uncorrupted child born into my family, and a jaded, corrupted president who is attempting a hostile takeover of my country. While the political climate in our country is alarming to say the least, baby Vivian is doing well. She is waking up to the world around her and has two very silly, and mostly sweet big sisters to show her the ropes. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In the last couple of weeks I’ve been thinking about how to quilt this.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I have always hand quilted the quilts for the babies in my family.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I had intended to do the same with this project but have been thinking recently that it would look better machine quilted. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I found a piece of fabric I’ve been holding onto and got it washed up for the back.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It’s</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">a Michael Miller print called Rain Dot.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It isn’t quite big enough, so I think I’ll sew it to a piece of solid blue to make up the difference and get going. </span></div>
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I did a lot of sewing for Christmas last year. One of my favorite projects was a collection of brooches I made for most of the women and girls in my family.<br />
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I used the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Folk-Embroidery-Contemporary-Projects/dp/1446306291/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484960632&sr=8-1&keywords=modern+folk+embroidery" target="_blank">Modern Folk Embroidery</a> and made my first couple using Nicholson's embroidery designs, and then I started playing and made up some of my own designs. I had a great time doing it and I really like how they turn out. I even "borrowed" one to wear to my husband's holiday work party. <br />
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When I was considering the project and talking it over with my mom, I thought that while cute, they might not be ideal for children. She mentioned that it would be really great for them to have a pretty pin to wear on their coats. I thought that was a good idea. I live in Southern California where the weather is almost always warm, but many of my nieces live in Wisconsin and they spend several months of the year wearing thick winter coats when they are outside. Now they have a sweet little accessory to wear. I even made a really small one, straight from the book, for my littlest neice, Vivian.<br />
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I've been pretty upset about our political reality since the election, but last weekend was particularly bad. When I returned home from the march I felt a need to work with my hands so I started working on a few political brooches. My girls each wore one to school and really connected with other kids and even some teachers over the marches. One girl even asked if she could have one (which she will get!). I also ordered some pink yarn to start making pussyhats. One of my daughters wore one during the march, but my other daughter voiced an interest in having one as well. <br />
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With Trump acting more like a dictator than a president, working quickly in an attempt to eliminate essential democratic institutions, like the free press, it is important for masses of people to continue to act politically to resist his agenda. Voting and marching are not enough. It is important to put pressure on local, state and national representatives to use their power to uphold democratic values and frustrate Trump's agenda and to donate what we can to free media (such as NPR) to ensure that accurate information continues to be available to everyone. <br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">My niece Scarlet’s favorite color is red. And she’s kind of interested in letters.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So for Christmas, I made her some felt letters, using a tutorial from <a href="https://www.purlsoho.com/create/2014/08/28/hand-sewn-felt-alphabet/" target="_blank">Purl Bee</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This was a fun project, and my kids really had a good time playing with them before we wrapped them up… </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I think I could have added a few extra vowels and a few extra useful consonants (T, S, M, R), the ones that get a lot of action. And I may still do that, but I didn’t have enough time before Christmas. </span><br />
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