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I visited my family in Alberta last week and was determined to spend some quality time not sweating my ass about my inbox. (Being on satellite internet helped a lot.) And come hell or high water I was going to finish something.
I set out to finish handquilting the giant beast I have— thinking I would just post up on the back porch and stare at the ground squirrels while working— but that was not in the cards. Because my mother has been learning to quilt as well.
You see, my mom has been learning quilting in fits and starts over the years. A table runner here, a rag quilt there, but not really a focused effort beyond making someone a gift or destashing the mountain of polar fleece she has on hand from making us kids clothes in the nineties and early aughts.
It wasn’t until my severely burnt out and depressed self came home for Christmas this past year and asked her to teach me to quilt that she also decided to learn conventional piecing quilting. She wasn’t able to teach me, but she shared her craftsy login with me and we stared down a bunch of YouTube videos together. She also drove me through the icy Alberta freeze to the quilt shop in Canmore and gave me two sizeable lengths of fabric she’d taken in from my Oma to bind and back the Frankie and Momo quilt I made in January.
Since then, she’s been motoring along on quilting projects and gifts at the rate that could only be maintained by a retiree determined to destash her, my grandmother and my oma’s lifetimes of built up fabrics. My mom, also being one of the rare people in this world with an honest-to-god pension, learns any new hobby by buying gadgets and toys for the hobby.
This is all to say: My mom has an accuquilt. This is a little crank power fabric die-cutting machine that is very very cool. And after using it to zoom through the cutting for a little sawtooth star block I got it in my head that I could probably do a simple start-to-finish quilt while I was visiting. (I wanted to play with the toy more)
(Yes I know that this is very silly and wiggly, but I was testing things and goofing around so be nice)
So it was off to that Canmore quilt shop again, in much nicer weather. And I dug out some coordinating colours from their sale section for blocks, backing and binding for less than thirty bucks. I then fed all the twoonie priced fat quarters through the diecutter and wound up with more than sixty charm squares in about half an hour.
That’s pretty fast— all my cutting at home happens on a coffee table and wrecks my back. She’s also got one of those fancy Stripology rulers so I was able to cut my entire binding in literal seconds. It’s witchcraft.
Put together a simple repeating layout and we were off to the races!
My mother also has a fancy new sewing machine with a start-stop button, thread cutter and more feed dogs than god. So I was able to zip through assembly WAY faster than on my ancient hand-me-down brother machine from the eighties. (Who I still love)
The whole quilt top was together before I knew it, and I’m getting less and less clumsy with my corners every time I do this so I was really happy. Used a Hera marker to make guides for the quilting, which surprised me by how well it held up to handling. I can probably recreate the effect with a clean butter knife at home!
Quilted the whole thing in rush and sewed the binding on in the car on our way to and from dinner. I somehow managed to not get carsick doing it too, it’s astounding. Im really happy with the results even though it’s a very simple design. This is the fastest I’ve done a whole little blanket like this and I’m glad I got so lucky with the sale fabrics available.
(Lucy also gave her approval once we got home yesterday, even though she wasn’t there to supervise.)
10/13/2023. Photograph with Nendoroid Kirby. Digitally adjusted Levels, to make photo darker...SPOOKIER! lol
DIY hockey mask made from construction paper, packaging paper, thread, and masking tape. Holes punched with needle tool (from ceramics class). Red marks drawn with Crayola Super Tips marker. Needle, thread, and masking tape used to hinge strap to mask. Eyeholes punched with diecutter/hole-puncher.
Dagger from Nendoroid White Blood Cell. Temporarily adhered to Kirby's hand using museum putty.
Rock prop from an articulated Epoch Sol Badguy figurine.
Someday I’ll have my own die cut press. Xmas designs and ridiculous patterns are coming! #bobsfoam #Bahrsports #DieCutter (at Bobs Foam Factory) https://www.instagram.com/p/B09CIURj-SW/?igshid=1eyx75t6u2tnf
Last calls for bids over on my EBay account, I have quite a few craft related items up for grabs. There is two hours and under for bidding! The Marilyn fabrics are lovely furnishing fabric remnants and would make lovely cushions or bags! I do combine postage too! Thank you for looking insta-chums ❤️ https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/163504598734 #ebayseller #ebay #ebaysales #ebaysellers #fabric #fabricforsale #vintagejewellery #vintagefindings #diecutters #rubberstamps #stamping (at Harrogate, North Yorkshire) https://www.instagram.com/fannilovesfufu/p/BtWCSgglOkY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1v23gc1txdbwp