tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20138904880936654892024-03-12T20:28:32.019-07:00Mary's Art MusingsMy blog is supposed to be about my art. This puts me in a real bind as I have not been doing much art, so it may also wander into friends, family, other people's art and life in general.MaryChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09431670426062121283noreply@blogger.comBlogger234125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013890488093665489.post-63633779352078140342020-09-17T17:23:00.004-07:002020-09-28T12:06:52.125-07:00Practice really does help!<p> I was inspired by <a href="http://highfibercontent.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Friend Julie</a> to participate in a drawing challenge called 'Index Card a Day' where one does a drawing a day the size of an (or on?) an index card. This was to be done every day during June and July. I used a couple of sketchbooks that I had started ages ago and filled them both up! This led to another challenge by my daughter, <a href="http://www.artquiltmaker.com/blog" target="_blank">artquiltmaker</a>, to fill up some of the many begun but not finished sketchbooks! And since then I have completed another one. That makes three this summer! The one I am working in now only has four pages left! 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But only briefly as I was trying to fill up sketchbooks. I challenged myself to draw people wearing masks! I thought it would be a good chronicle of these pandemic times and interesting to draw. I have drawn eight masked people and a masked bear (copied from the internet). Each day that I draw I find that it gets easier and easier and the drawings, I think, are better and better. So I encourage you to draw every day. Not only are my drawings better but I have found that I like drawing faces of people and dogs. And instead of only drawing in the morning I go to my studio and draw a couple more times during the day.</p><p>I mention the dogs because my Oregon daughter seems to have many friends whose dogs have died. When they do she sends me a picture which I draw so they have a memento of their beloved pet. I am in the process of painting one now. Again, no picture!</p><p>The last thing I want to mention is that in my monthly sketchbox I often get a mini pad of a new kind of paper. I am going to check them out and report on them next month.</p><p>Next month also is 'Inktober'! Check out <a href="https://inktober.com/" target="_blank">Jake Parker's Inktober</a> on the internet and join in the fun and challenge. I don't use pen and ink as a rule but found last October that it was fun and challenging. I'm planning on bringing back Eggman in some of my drawings.</p><p>Thanks for reading my blog. Tell your friends if you like it. More next month.</p><p>You can see my work on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/peggy.carroll.73/" target="_blank">instagram at peggy.carroll.73</a> and I also post sometimes on facebook as CarrollPeggy. I am however taking a little break mostly from facebook to avoid the political ads.</p><p>Mary</p><p><br /></p>MaryChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09431670426062121283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013890488093665489.post-1005655825621526212020-08-09T05:50:00.001-07:002020-08-09T05:50:52.915-07:00Silk!<p> Posted just now and realized I forgot the silk part! Since the pandemic began I have been making masks. Recently I read an updated report on home made masks and their efficacy. The newest data says three layers are preferred, silk, chiffon and cotton. I happen to have (big surprise!) a supply of silk. Since the silk quilt I have been saving it for won't come up on the list until I'm about one hundred years old I have decided to use it for masks. I also happen to have about ten yards of chiffon which I was going to make curtains out of (also way down on the list) and an endless supply of quilting cotton I am set to go on the masks.</p><p>Picture and update later.</p>MaryChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09431670426062121283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013890488093665489.post-81104863919399972172020-08-09T05:43:00.000-07:002020-08-09T05:43:27.567-07:00Paper and Silk<p> Since the last post I have been paying attention to the paper I use: the color, the texture, the size, how the color and ink are absorbed and how the pencil shows up. When I have taught a class in the past I have recommended a large spiral bound pad of Bee paper and a small spiral bound Bee notebook. I really like the small notebook because the paper is white, it takes watercolors fairly well and the spiral binding allows me to lay it open flat. </p><p>By the end of the Index card a day challenge, July 31st, I had filled up my last one and though I searched every art supply website including Bee Paper, I could not find another small one. I was complaining of this to my daughter one day and she called me on which sketchbooks I had on hand. So I went through my paper drawer and to my chagrin, I found I had enough sketchbooks to fill a small art store! The full Bee sketchbook is just beside my coffee cup. The ones below, at the bottom of the picture are (or were) empty, obviously waiting for me to fill them up! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvpkvKEncpKkE1bpiteTVrAdYiMmwSCNQUy5FKlZiDpTyIYlCStURChssMEnJolj2wjNQmo-U7sQ-kOI9cLfmAkjw3Ec7XpXUHvTtxrrn4zSP7JM4KA4KHSXJjW7XxGsx0ZCz0FSGTypQ/s2048/20200707_064335.jpg" style="display: inline; padding: 1em 0px;">I pulled out the two black o</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvpkvKEncpKkE1bpiteTVrAdYiMmwSCNQUy5FKlZiDpTyIYlCStURChssMEnJolj2wjNQmo-U7sQ-kOI9cLfmAkjw3Ec7XpXUHvTtxrrn4zSP7JM4KA4KHSXJjW7XxGsx0ZCz0FSGTypQ/s2048/20200707_064335.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvpkvKEncpKkE1bpiteTVrAdYiMmwSCNQUy5FKlZiDpTyIYlCStURChssMEnJolj2wjNQmo-U7sQ-kOI9cLfmAkjw3Ec7XpXUHvTtxrrn4zSP7JM4KA4KHSXJjW7XxGsx0ZCz0FSGTypQ/s2048/20200707_064335.jpg"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGQi-xuufuK-tPTLky_Dl0giR2geZIqJn3s8qlYe2CkUiUdUmwL7hNZGmT_H4MACyM3nytRVdUUZZyqCx50F4X2csgZSoP5o-KUor1YVC7EAXsq32WKijqyq0JfvzIPCZssmkechZ8iuA/s2048/20200707_064335.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGQi-xuufuK-tPTLky_Dl0giR2geZIqJn3s8qlYe2CkUiUdUmwL7hNZGmT_H4MACyM3nytRVdUUZZyqCx50F4X2csgZSoP5o-KUor1YVC7EAXsq32WKijqyq0JfvzIPCZssmkechZ8iuA/s640/20200707_064335.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="display: block; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-top: 1em;">nes with the elastic attached and have been using them since the middle of June. </span><span style="color: black; display: inline; padding: 1em 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvpkvKEncpKkE1bpiteTVrAdYiMmwSCNQUy5FKlZiDpTyIYlCStURChssMEnJolj2wjNQmo-U7sQ-kOI9cLfmAkjw3Ec7XpXUHvTtxrrn4zSP7JM4KA4KHSXJjW7XxGsx0ZCz0FSGTypQ/s2048/20200707_064335.jpg" style="display: inline; padding: 1em 0px;">These are bound like a normal book giving a two page spread if one wanted to use </a>that feature. The paper is hot press (which is smooth) watercolor paper, probably 140#. It is very nice to paint and draw on as it doesn't buckle when wet. The downside for me is that it is creme color instead of white. I think the watercolor doesn't glow like it does on white. But they are a good size and sturdy and I had them so am using them. 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I only had one photo on my computer and I did post that. It was a poppy mural, in progress, at my cousin's house. All my art photos are on my phone (over 2000 of them!). But today I moved some to this computer and will post them.<br />
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This is copied from a picture off of Facebook and is done in pencil. Pencil is my very favorite media. I like both graphite and color pencils, with graphite being number one favorite. And did you know that pencils have always been made with graphite and never with lead? Amazing but true.<br />
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I recently subscribed to "Sketchbox", a monthly delivery of luscious art supplies. It is $103 every quarter, I think. I have it paid automatically so I've forgotten exactly how much it is. In the June box I received a tin of Cretacolor pencils. <br />
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<img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMcUQHThHsIQVFpx6eo4u8xLlzw4D0WeWISN_4Yis44Pw-zHHh1087Vqcmx-LSnOCmKRsfvTtznklPw0Koizh4bc5Qeyg5rBtfLxUurRuX49uiRedpqNeyM0Q_0O6dMI071hS6d5in9ng/s320/20200713_135708.jpg" width="320" /><span style="text-align: left;">This brand has been a favorite of mine for several years. The graphite is very smooth- no 'rocks' in the graphite to scratch the paper or leave a holiday. The set came in a tin with HB, 2B, and 4B regular pencils, an Ebony pencil which has a thick, soft and very dark graphite. Also included are three graphite sticks, 2B, 4B, and 6B with the 2</span><span style="text-align: left;">B double sized. Lastly, there is what is called a polishing cloth which is a small piece of fine leather to rub over your drawing to smooth out the pencil lines. When I was in school we used what was called a chamois and was produced from and endangered goat. I'm glad that has changed.</span></div>
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An old standby and also a nice pencil is the Mars Lumograph. I have many of these in several hardnesses from 4H to 6B. My full set is also in a tin.<br />
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This morning I drew my ICAD project using the Mars pencils. I chose them because of the wide variety of hardnesses. I started out with an H because, used with a light touch the lines will not be seen in the final drawing. As it turned out I only used the H and a 2B. Patience and many layers gave me the values I wanted. The final drawing took about two hours and is only 3 1/2" x 5". One of my professors did portraits on full sheets of watercolor paper which is 24" x 32"! Her work was gorgeous and she was quite an inspiration. I wish I could remember her name.<br />
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This is one of my Montana daughter's chickens, Buffy the vegetable slayer! She appears to be thrusting her head forward, looking around a corner for a tasty morsel.<br />
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Next time I will post my other mural and talk about either pen and ink or watercolor pencils. Or maybe about paper which is super important in the final look of the drawing.<br />
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Stay tuned!MaryChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09431670426062121283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013890488093665489.post-37780216574153652312020-07-02T09:31:00.001-07:002020-07-02T09:31:35.847-07:00The Overwhelming Desire to Write and DrawAfter reading Artquiltmaker's blog this morning I felt the overwhelming desire to write my blog again. I was surprised and pleased that it was still here!<br />
Last October, in an attempt to jump start drawing I, successfully, participated in 'Inktober', an ink-along by Jake Parker. Pen and ink are not my favorite media but I completed it which made me happy.<br />
The sad thing was I did not continue drawing much.<br />
At the time I was teaching a class in the Delta College SICL program called Watercolor/Color Theory which forced me to study, paint and develop class content. That ended just before Thanksgiving. <br />
Unfortunately, due to the Covid 19 pandemic the Spring and Fall classes were cancelled. I had planned to teach Beginning Pastel in the Spring. When we thought only the Spring would be cancelled I was relieved because I would have more time to develop my rusty pastel skills. I attempted that and found that the pastel dust really aggravated my annoying allergies and asthma. As soon as I put those pesky pastels back in their boxes and in the cupboard the asthma began to get better. So no pastels for me.<br />
June and July presented a new opportunity to draw and paint in the guise of 'Index Card a Day'. The premise is doing an index card sized (3x5) art piece a day during June and July. I have been pretty successful at that and have found it has made me think about the kind of art I love to do and to wonder why I wasn't doing it.<br />
So, do I have you wondering what I love to do? Good! Think about what kind of art you love to do and DO IT!<br />
Here a sample of what I love to do.<br />
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This is one of the kinds of art I love to do. It is a mural on my cousin's fence. When looking for examples of art I found that I have not downloaded any of my art to this computer! So, later today, I will struggle with that and show you my absolute favorite art in my next post.</div>
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MaryChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09431670426062121283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013890488093665489.post-55338013827491604942015-09-16T19:41:00.002-07:002015-09-16T19:42:45.759-07:00Another top!I just finished another top for a nephew. It will be a quilted throw like the last five I have made this summer.<br />
Have one more to make and am using a panel for it.<br />
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Received the Scrapitude cutting instructions recently and am going to do a little of that while I listen to the ball game.MaryChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09431670426062121283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013890488093665489.post-58051450426940923962015-08-31T22:27:00.004-07:002015-08-31T22:27:36.056-07:00August 2015I gaveupbloghong on my computer as it !ept blowing away my work. Just discovered I can blog on my new tablet! I heard a big DUH from all of you in the blogosphere! Be nice.<br />
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Anyway, the big guy and I visited family on Washington State in July and there were seven kids who didn't have quilts. I got three made while we were there for five days and have finished two more since we got home. Working on one now and just bought a panel for the seventh one ---- whew. Pictures below.<br />
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<br />MaryChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09431670426062121283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013890488093665489.post-13337985229384783512015-03-05T18:11:00.002-08:002015-03-05T18:11:35.791-08:00Three - count them 3 finished!After three days of procrastination induced MY QUILTS NEED TO BE DONE BY FRIDAY insomnia, my quilts are finished! Three of them. Two have only been in the works for the past year as they are block of the month ones but the third has been in my quilting line for over twelve (!!!) years. Delivering them to the Manteca (California) Quilters Guild show tomorrow morning.<br />
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<br />MaryChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09431670426062121283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013890488093665489.post-7228766182279681632015-01-08T21:19:00.003-08:002015-01-08T21:19:56.978-08:00Thursday, again alreadySo, it is the second Thursday of the year and I am blogging, as promised.<br />
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Didn't make it to Saturday sampler last Saturday. Yesterday, when I picked up my block for the month I changed my class time from 11:45 to 9:30. A group from the mini group I just joined all go at 9:30 so maybe that is the push I need.<br />
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Speaking of the mini group, yesterday was the second time I've gone to the group meeting - the last two Christmas parties don't count as we didn't sew. I didn't have a machine to take as when I got my little brother back from friend Patty I forgot the foot pedal! So Tuesday night I assembled a bunch of blocks that I needed to cut and a quilt I am sewing the back on and took that.<br />
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Today was the first day in about two weeks that I have been home - big sigh. I was going to sew but by the time I had fixed breakfast and cleaned up, made a birthday card and took it to the post office the big guy got home and wanted to take me to lunch. We went for GF pizza and salad at Mtn. Mike's down the street. Then a trip to Jo-Ann for yarn to make a scarf for a friend.<br />
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Didn't buy enough of the hairy stuff so will go back tomorrow for another skein.<br />
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By the time we got back I could barely keep my eyes open and had to take three loads of laundry off the line and hang it in the house as it was sunny but too cold to dry outside. Which reminds me, I have to check the bathroom - I put a heater in there to dry the first load. It is probably a sauna by now.<br />
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Thanks for checking in MaryChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09431670426062121283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013890488093665489.post-67482577816245954622015-01-01T09:11:00.000-08:002015-01-01T09:11:43.493-08:00Happy New Year 2015!Now is the time for my yearly resolutions. Here is one that only matters here - I resolve to blog once a week - on Thursdays.<br />
And one that matters to me personally - draw and paint more.<br />
I am having a very nice Christmas. Did you know it is still Christmas? Today is day seven of the 12 days of Christmas.<br />
In honor of the fifth day (five golden rings -remember the Miss Piggy rendition) and the visit of my all grown up grandson I threw a party. My Central Valley friends had never met him so I invited them over for coffee and gingerbread. It was a lot of fun and my house fairy cleaned like a mad woman so the house is presentable for a couple of days.<br />
I sewed for a half an hour yesterday. Got one more basket almost finished.<br />
So, Happy New Year. Blog at you next week!MaryChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09431670426062121283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013890488093665489.post-62305922661260010012014-11-24T13:07:00.002-08:002014-11-24T13:07:32.378-08:00Cuffing a Christmas stocking<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I know I promised more about the Houston show in my last blog post but I'm on to other things right now and am excited about a tutorial from Jenny Doan of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM8SpP3qIi8&feature=em-subs_digest" target="_blank">Missouri Star Quilt Company</a>. I've been making Christmas stockings out of silk scraps from a project my former quilting buddy and I made eight years ago.<br />
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I've been embroidering them in the style of Victorian crazy quilts and embellishing with sparkly clear glass beads.<br />
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The first two have antique lace as the cuffs but the one I am currently working on is more masculine and I didn't want to put lace on it. The tutorial above showed me how to easily attach a cuff.<br />
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This is my second foray into Christmas stockings this year - I made a magic one for our new granddaughter during the summer. It is six inches long but when Santa fills it on Christmas eve it magically grows to hold all the gifts.<br />
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You may be wondering why I need so many stockings. Our young man and his parents have them and the new baby has one, the Big Guy and I have them. So here's the deal: our Church, St. Basil's Greek Orthodox Christian Church, along with all the other churches in our archdiocese, have a Christmas luncheon which uses the proceeds to support and help pay off our seminarian's school loans upon graduation. This year the luncheon is here at St. Basil's and I am helping the chair stock the boutique.<br />
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So I will donate these to the Boutique at the luncheon along with some home grown, pesticide free, oregano and some lavender sachets our youngest daughter taught me how to make. The sachets will be made from orphan blocks. The shape of the sachets is from the chicken pincushion tutorial from the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyvomCiN9Oo&feature=em-subs_digest" target="_blank">Missouri Star</a> Quilt Co.'s tutorial sans beak, comb and tail feathers!<br />
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The boutique is being set up on Friday the 5th of December. If you have any items you would like to donate contact me for the address.<br />
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I am sitting in Hobby airport in Houston waiting for my flight home after spending the past five days with my Texas cousin and attending the International Quilt Festival. I was also lucky enough to connect with another cousin on my dad's side of the family. The two cousins and I went out to lunch and spent a good part of the afternoon together. The trip was a gift from my daughter <a href="http://artquiltmaker.com/" target="_blank">artquiltmaker</a> who also came with her college roommate.<br />
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My mom's side cousin invited the three of us to stay in her very lovely home in The Woodlands, north of Houston. The stay turned into a big slumber party. We were a super compatible group. <br />
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Lunch with the cousins was Thursday (I totally pigged out at the Cheesecake Factory. They have a great gluten free menu, including 'Godiva' cheesecake).<br />
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Friday cousin V came with us to the IQ Festival with the attitude "I have no interest in quilting". We walked around looking at quilts for the morning, had lunch at Papasitos Cantina in the Hilton (Gluten free menu, didn't like the rice or refried beans - Tex/Mex doesn't please my California palate) then visited the vendors. About half an hour in V decided she was going to do the "Learn to Quilt" session with West Houston Quilt Guild. She's hooked! Bought fabric, ruler, rotary cutter, and mat (not all at the show - more later). <br />
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We stayed at the show from open at 10 a.m. til close at 7 p.m. and we probably only saw one quarter of it!<br />
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Enough for now. I have places to go and things to do. Will continue in a couple of days. <br />
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<span id="goog_1780236399"></span><span id="goog_1780236400"></span>MaryChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09431670426062121283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013890488093665489.post-7724618554935955352014-10-18T23:07:00.001-07:002014-10-18T23:07:52.817-07:00I haven't blogged in a very long time - I have thought about it, does that count?<br />
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The summer flew by! It finished up with our second annual trip to Montana to see our youngest daughter, her husband and new baby girl. I fell in love with our baby girl! Being a grandma is second only to being a mom. I love it! We spent three weeks in Montana and worked really hard, if you can call helping to take care of a baby hard! We loved every minute of it and look forward to our next trip.<br />
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Of course a big part of getting ready for the trip was making a quilt.<br />
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I quilted it myself and did get the binding on before we got there but couldn't find the picture of it finished! The center section inside the small black border was a challenge at <a href="http://mantecaquilters.com/" target="_blank">Manteca Quilt Guild</a>. It is the answer to a sudoku puzzle done in fabric. I added the black, red and green borders to make it 'drag around' size for the baby. It is currently a 'tummy time' mat.<br />
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While we were there we visited the town of Whitefish - a touristy and cute town with a great quilt shop. Left the bag with the shop name at our daughter's - sorry but am sure I will be back there before too long. I had seen a quick quilt on one of the <a href="http://www.missouriquiltco.com/" target="_blank">Missouri Star quilt Company's</a> great tutorials and figured out a quicker way to make it. My version of a 'quilt as you go'.<br />
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I picked a line of Moda fabric including a pack of 2.25" precut squares, five 1/4 yard WF pieces, a yard and a half of backing (the orange and yellow piece) and instead of batting I used white cotton flannel. I sewed the quarter yards together along the WOF for the top, then the quilt sandwich along the top. I placed the precuts on point along the four seams and sewed them down along the pinked edges of the little squares from top of the quilt to bottom and back up the other side. when those were sewn on I sewed a big zig-zag line down the center of each color of fabric. <br />
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I used another color from the same Moda line for the bias binding. I made the binding using another tutorial on continuous bias binding from <a href="http://www.missouriquiltco.com/" target="_blank">Missouri star</a>. It was really slick! I got more that enough binding for the forty-four inch square quilt.<br />
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When I started this quilt I thought I would finish it in a couple of hours - HAH! I did get it done before we left and probably only spent about eight hours on it which really isn't much. and I think it turned out well. Our daughter liked it! So now the baby girl has two quilts.<br />
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Back on the home front I have been making basket blocks from the 'Buck-a-Block' club at <a href="http://www.quiltersquarters-stkn.com/" target="_blank">Quilter's Quarters.</a> I realized that I was just fooling around as I had three quilt tops in the pipeline that really need to be finished. So here is a picture of the basket blocks and look for more to come on my adventures in quilting (as opposed to piecing).<br />
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MaryChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09431670426062121283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013890488093665489.post-6604655152857783052014-07-11T23:49:00.000-07:002014-07-11T23:49:18.979-07:00A Surprise Visit!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yesterday, about four o'clock, I got a phone call from <a href="http://www.apaperaddict.com/" target="_blank">apaperaddict</a>. She and my granddog, Beene, would be here to visit for a couple of days in two hours! She is the daughter who thinks nothing of mopping the ceiling - while just yesterday morning I had mopped my kitchen floor for the first time in forever! Was so glad I had as that meant I only had to vacuum, clean the bathrooms, empty the trash and pick up the stuff I had pulled out of the closet earlier this month and thrown on the couch. Oh, yes, and get rid of the spider webs as it is not yet Halloween, nor time to sprinkle them with Christmas glitter! <br />
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Well, I got it all done before she got there and still had time to go to the store and get food for dinner. I didn't think a sliced apple with peanut butter on it, my usual fare (as the big guy is dieting and cooks garbage - I mean food - I find inedible) would do for company dinner ;=)<br />
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I really should have worn my glasses while cleaning. I missed many spider webs. Apaperaddicts only comment was that I needed her cleaning lady for about a month! I had no argument for that - but really, one day after madly vacuuming one can't even tell I did it. At least when I sew I have something to show for it for years!<br />
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I helped her with a project last night, too.<br />
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We are calling this her car angel because she is on a road trip in her new car. She has a month to spend traveling.<br />
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Tomorrow we are going to wedding number three in the last six weeks! I have given up making quilts as gifts because of the time they take and the cost. I want to concentrate on quilts for me for a change. But I still love making gifts for my friends and just completed the third set of pillowslips for our friend who is the bride tomorrow. I unfortunately forgot to buy wrapping paper and a card. Apaperaddict had a great idea. She suggested I fold them like fancy napkins and just put a ribbon around them. It worked out great!. There was even room to slip the handmade card in.<br />
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Isn't that cute?!<br />
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So, now I get to work on the sudoku wallhanging. And putting together the block of the month blocks, and the Saturday sampler blocks. And the quilt for our granddaughter.<br />
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I also finished the raggedy quilt and washed it and took it to artquiltmaker's and put it in her dryer. Had to iron the elephants parading border as it got very wrinkled. The colors are not good in this photo, either. I just today figured out how to turn on the flash. I am slowly beginnng to understand the blankety blank smartphone.<br />
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MaryChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09431670426062121283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013890488093665489.post-56083834228130831652014-07-01T16:07:00.001-07:002014-07-01T16:07:14.770-07:00Hooray! I'm sewing again!After about three weeks of no sewing I got out of my car and out of my big comfy chair and back into my sewing room last night. Just before going to bed I started digging around in my unsorted stack of fabric looking for something appropriate for a raggedy baby quilt border. I found some elephants on parade that is perfect!<br />
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<br />Got up early, made coffee and went in and started sewing. On a new project. Just to get myself energized. Only one block. Can't wait to get back to it. Incorrigible, I know.<br />
<br />If you have made a raggedy quilt you are probably wondering why I need a border. Weeeeelllll, once again, it is a measuring failure. The quilt was just a tad too small to be useful. I used my Viking to join the border and batting (as you may know raggedy quilts are quilt as you go). Am not happy with the back side stitching but not taking it out and will use the featherweight to do the other three sides. Sorry, I haven't taken any in progress pictures of this one.<br />
<br />Tomorrow I am sewing with my guild micro group (only two of us) on the ribbon baby quilt for Roller Derby Daughter who will give us grandchild number two the first week of August - a girly one.<br />
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<br />MaryChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09431670426062121283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013890488093665489.post-20591485889171910462014-06-24T09:10:00.001-07:002014-06-24T09:10:46.454-07:00Munsel Color System once again.I haven't blogged about the Munsel System in quite a while but this morning while sitting in my BFFs garden with <a href="http://artquiltmaker.com/" target="_blank">artquiltmaker</a> Jaye shared a tweet with me that had beautiful pillows which used
the Munsell System, either on purpose or intuitively, to good effect.<br />
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This is red and teal, complements with green-yellow and purple as discords.<br />
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I love the Munsell System, the colors always work! <br />
<span id="goog_48255506"></span><span id="goog_48255507"></span>MaryChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09431670426062121283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013890488093665489.post-54019517880358604372014-06-04T09:36:00.003-07:002014-06-04T09:36:38.883-07:00Tutorial Glutton<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Neither of the pictures in this post are related to the post! Decorative only (coludn't post without pictures!).<br />
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I recently started watching tutorials by the Missouri Star Quilt Company ( <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/MissouriQuiltCo" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/user/MissouriQuiltCo I </a> love all the different quilts Jenny makes and how simple they are. <br />
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My current two favs are the foundation pieced Spider Web quilt and the disappearing four patch.<br />
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I tried to put the pictures in but can't lift them from MSQC's website. Go there to look at them!<br />
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Jenny uses a lot of precuts. That makes the prep for one's quilt so much faster - not much cutting! That being said, the spiderweb quilt is a stash buster so I would use my scraps instead of buy a charm pack. I would purchase her foundation piecing paper as the pack comes with about 250 pieces and appears to be quite easy to remove from the completed patch.<br />
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This has been a short and sweet post. I have to close and go watch MSQC's tutorial on pillowcases. Want to make some for a wedding present.<br />
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MaryChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09431670426062121283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013890488093665489.post-4626557139711092652014-05-16T07:51:00.000-07:002014-05-16T07:51:40.993-07:00Scrapitude - mystery revealed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I finished the mystery part of Scrapitude finally! It was hellish to cut out but quite fun and easy to sew together. I only made two mistakes which I didn't notice but artquiltmaker saw right away! They are not getting fixed as I am not a perfectionist. Now I need to figure out what I am going to do for a border. AQ had a good idea which I am going to try out. But it is secret til finished :)....<br />
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My current project is quilting the donation abc quilt. It is not going well. I ripped out the first try and am now in the process of ripping out the second try. Third time's a charm?<br />
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<br />MaryChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09431670426062121283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013890488093665489.post-10479445272808543932014-04-22T17:50:00.001-07:002014-04-22T17:50:13.096-07:00More Scrapitude cutting!!!Started putting the corner posts on the scrapitude sashing and found I had cut only half of them! Considered cutting the rest from the batik jelly roll I got at the Manteca show but then realized I have a box of 2 1/2 inch scrap blocks. So have pulled that out and, other than measuring each one, it has been an easy solution! Phew! (Visualize me wiping my brow in relief!)<br />
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This is my sewing table! The box at the bottom is my 2 1/2 ich scrap box. The computer - a little notebook - has the scrapitude directions up so I do it right. The boxes behind my Featherweight have the different pieces of scrapitude in them. <br />
MaryChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09431670426062121283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013890488093665489.post-58754230206345726362014-04-22T09:55:00.000-07:002014-04-22T09:55:07.863-07:00A Day in San FranciscoI went with Artquiltmaker to San Francisco the other day.<br />
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We had intended on going to the Asian Art Museum to see the Yoga exhibit. I misread the web site on hours of operation and when we arrived we found that it, like most museums, was closed on Monday. So we decided to do a little fabric therapy and got on Muni and took ourselves to Britex. What a candy shop for sewists! We went up to the fourth floor and worked our way down. Any fabric or notion one could possibly need or want was there. I thoroughly enjoy fondling all the fabric and notions while artquiltmaker found some fabric she needed.<br />
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We stopped by the Westfield center to scout out lunch possibilities but decided we were not hungry so toodled up to Nordstroms for sox and cocktail dresses (not to be worn together!) for a big do AQ has this summer. We found two very satisfactory dresses - wish I had taken pictures - and several pair of sox, none of them cashmere.<br />
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We had delicious chicken, wild rice and mushroom soup for lunch - hearty, healthy and gluten free!<br />
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We then wandered over to Crate and Barell to look at lamps for AQ's living room. The one she had in mind looked way too big for the space so we looked at others but without satisfaction. On our way out we saw my dream, water saver drought watering can!<br />
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The egg on the left is from the first batch.<br />
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Orthodox Christians call Easter Pascha. We dye all our hard boiled eggs red. Last year (our first in Orthodoxy) I helped dye the 700 eggs we made for the parish celebration. I was appalled when I saw that Rit dye was used! It makes a great red for the eggs but theoretically also makes them inedible as the Rit is toxic. I created a bit of a stir between the older women who have used Rit forever and the younger ones who are in the know, so to speak, regarding healthy, natural eating.<br />
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My dye changing campaign didn't change things this year, but did get the idea out and talked about. Change takes time.<br />
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In an effort to find a good alternative The Big Guy researched Orthodox dye for Pascha eggs and a friend from church got some powdered dye from an Orthodox store in Sacramento. My Latvian friend at church said she always uses the skin from yellow onions and TBG found a recipe for onion skin dye on the net.<br />
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I only had six white eggs and didn't think the brown ones would turn red, so I used the white ones and the skin from two very large yellow onions. I put the eggs in raw.<br />
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The eggs first turned a lovely shade of yellow! Not the result I was looking for but good reference for possible future fabric dying!<br />
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Then they turned the brown of the fresh eggs I had in the fridge! Maybe I'll use brown eggs next time.<br />
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Then they got even more brown.......hmmm. So I splashed in some rice vinegar like the ladies at church do. The poor eggs had cooked about twenty minutes by this time. Not being the most patient person I cheated and put a little of the store-bought, natural dye, in.<br />
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Pretty messy stuff but a great color - at least on my hands! BTW - it doesn't wash off. Gloves would have been a good idea.<br />
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I've turned off the pot and am letting them sit. Final picture coming up soon!<br />
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As you can see from the peeled egg, the shell is porous. One should not eat Rit dyed eggs. The color I got with onion skin and natural dye is very good. I did not oil my eggs like we do at church. Perhaps if I had the color would be the same as Rit.MaryChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09431670426062121283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013890488093665489.post-88847613184320064772014-04-11T10:57:00.000-07:002014-04-11T10:57:15.723-07:00Scrapitude Progress<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is one of the seven blocks I have completed in the Scrapitude project. I showed <a href="http://artquiltmaker.com/blog" target="_blank">Artquiltmaker</a> and she had positive things to say about them.<br />
Hope you like them.Jayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06285727704486805109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2013890488093665489.post-52883721959831321692014-04-04T12:20:00.002-07:002014-04-04T12:20:59.312-07:00Quilting On!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tuesday I washed our kitchen floor so I could use it to pin the ABC donation quilt. Once again measuring-challenged-Mary mis-measured and bought batt that was just about too small :( I am using it anyway since I am doing the quilting myself.<br />
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Tuesday night I couldn't sleep so cleaned up the sewing room. I hadn't straightened it out since returning from Mom's and dumping a bunch of stuff in there. I did a poor job of it but at least now I can sit at the drafting board. Oh, once again I knocked over my sewing toolbox! But I found my bone presser that I couldn't find after last time I dumped it at mini-group - yippee!<br />
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Speaking of mini-group, the day they meet has changed and interferes with my schedule so I can't go any more. Have joined the Manteca guild so maybe there is a group there I can join.<br />
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Still struggling with my new 'smart' phone but am going to go take pictures for this post. Hope I can send them to my computer.<br />
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OK, back from taking and sending pictures so will add them to this post!<br />
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Have just spent an hour trying to add photos to no avail! Ah, well. Maybe next time <br />
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Have been catching up on blog reading tonight and that has prompted me to blog! As I mentioned in my last blog, Birthday Blooms went to the quilter last Saturday. I was dithering about which quilt top I was going to put together next of the four that I have the blocks done for but that decision was, happily, made for me.<br />
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I had blocks for an ABC donation quilt for one of the charities sponsored by my guild and run by a friend at church. My friend, Dessie, pulled me aside, urgently, during fellowship last Sunday to ask if I would drive her to our church camp in June where we would distribute the quilts and spend four days with the kids and families who would be there. Well, I jumped at the chance. So I am working on the ABC quilt top and have it 2/3rds finished. I have chosen the back, a piece of yellow which has been in my stash for eons and which I don't have any plans to use for blocks. I will quilt it myself using the method Ricky Tims taught at the great seminar <a href="http://artquiltmaker.com/" target="_blank">artquiltmaker</a> sent me to in February (and I promise to blog about it soon - finishing the cleanout of my mom's house interfeared with that -and I still can't spell interfeared).MaryChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09431670426062121283noreply@blogger.com0