Leah Day at The Free Motion Quilting Project did a wonderful post about copyrighting quilting.
Its a long post- but a great one.
Copyright issues seem to be cropping up with increasing frequency in the quilting world and I for one would like to try to stem this flow, or at least open your eyes, to the very real threat looming for our craft.
What is this threat? Where is it coming from?
It is coming from within our own ranks. Quilters with a certain penchant for copyright and legal wrangling are turning our open, creative craft into a mine field of rules, regulations, licensing, attribution, and copyright lockdown that it's enough to make anyone set down their rotary cutter and sell their sewing machine.
And these particular Copyright Nazis (I really can't think of a better name for them) are not just vocal, they are flexing their arm powerfully enough to include copyright notices within quilt shows.
read more here: http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/2012/03/copyright-terrorism.html
Friday, March 30, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Books feeding the kid
I wanted to share this from my facebook page to keep it somewhere else. I love my dads response!
what would you do?
Sunday, March 25, 2012
my purple heart
The quilt guild that I go to was having a class using the "twister ruler"
We had to have the top this far along before class.
I have said before that I like this purple and green combo. Some of this you may recognize from this post
This is the ruler.
You had to line up the lines on the seams and cut carefully around it. This is not as easy as it sounds since you couldnt move the ruler. Many people jumped from one side of the table to the other. Me? I have taught myself to use the rotary cutter in my left hand :) It works ok for the smaller cuts.
so after cutting out all the squares- they needed to be sewn together
and add the border
(there is one twisted the wrong way- oh well)
I love the back of the quilt with all the seams
Then finish it off!
Zeke likes to think all quilts are for him.
I had to piece the back from my leftovers. There wasnt much let to work with :)
I quilted it using the walking foot on my machine.
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| (i dont know which side I like better) |
signed and you can see that after I bound it (I had put the binding on the front first and I dont like that!) that I used a fancy flower stitch from my machine.
This quilt is going to be for squid when she is born.
Friday, March 16, 2012
my first bag
I have a craft group that tries to meet each friday. It doesn't always happen.
We are very informal. Really its just a reason to get together and eat some yummy foods that people bring.
I had never made anything with a zipper before- so this is my first attempt- and I think it turned out pretty good.
and the back:
We are very informal. Really its just a reason to get together and eat some yummy foods that people bring.
Everyone brings their own craft. Most of the time people bring knitting or crochet. Its not easy for me to bring my quilting- but sometimes I lug my machine around.
Last night I had a quilt guild meeting and workshop on how to use the "twister ruler" (more on that after the quilt is done) so I had my machine in the back of the van.
This was perfect since one of the ladies - Emily- offered to teach a couple of us how to make bags/ put in zippers.
I hauled out my machine and all my paraphernalia (which isnt that bad) so we had 2 machines and a serger to use.
This is what I made:
its a small pouch 7x6.5.
I figured out how to make it so the print remained directional as well.
I had never made anything with a zipper before- so this is my first attempt- and I think it turned out pretty good.
and the back:
Thank you so much Emily!
baby quilt for Anna
Anna was one of the 5 baby quilts that I needed to make for March/April.
She is actually due on Sunday the 18th I think.
I did cheat on hers by using a panel and a piece of fabric for the backing.
I did the wavy quilting pattern with the walking foot on my machine.
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we had a shower at church for her.
thats her son looking on
and her hubby
and here are some more pictures from the shower
Christina's baby quilt
Christina is 3 weeks ahead of me in her pregnancy.
She came over one day after I told her I would be making her a baby quilt. We sat down together and went though my fabric stash. I have only known her since Sept? so I wasn't totally sure about what colours she would like.
She picked out a pannel that she liked and I had matching fabric for it.
At first I thought about cheating and just making it with a piece of fabric on the back and the pannel on the front- but she wanted a pieced quilt from me.
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| see the water drops? Im glad it wasnt raining when I wanted to take the picture |
When I measured the remaining fabric from this other baby quilt, I realized I didn't have enough to do the original plan. So I modified it by adding plain blocks beween the pieced blocks.
The plain blocks are not very plain as it was a busy print.
I liked how it turned out with the colours surrounding the blocks.
So this was the quilt I was working on when my machine bit the dust. but before that even happened Christina was put on bed rest and her shower had to be cancelled!
She is now off bed rest since she reached 37 weeks.
Christina was so happy to get it!
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