WiP Wednesday

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This week, I am working on a couple of things….my next Sew Mama Sew project and working on planning out what’s coming next for my blog etc.

Fabric has been pulled, measurements taken and written down and additional equipment has been ordered for Sew Mama Sew Project 4. I am actually optimistic in having this finished for the weekend (yay!! ahead of schedule).

For the blog, I have been talking to some of my quilty/blog friends about doing a series of posts on quilty basics and/or skills we have learned that scared us. How did we grow those skills? What have we learned? What would we not do again? It was proposed by the lovely Laura (@littleandlots) that it was just like America’s Test Kitchen but for quilting. So, with some luck, Monday will see the announcement and launch a blog series “Back to School”.

In the meantime, here are where the rest of my projects are:

Projects and Progress

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Project Target Date Current Status
Spoonflower Sampler Quilt  31DEC2014 TOP, BACK, BASTE, QUILT, BIND
Celestial Spheres
(Part 1)		  DEC2014  TOP, BACK, BASTE, QUILT, BIND
Sew Mama Sew
(Project 4)		 26DEC2014 TOP, BACK, BASTE, QUILT, BIND
Bjorn the Bear  31DEC2014  TOP, BACK, BASTE, QUILT, BIND
Rangers Station  DEC2014  TOP, BACK, BASTE, QUILT, BIND
Schnitzel & Boo Mini Quilt JAN2014 TOP, BACK, BASTE, QUILT, BIND
Cheri 31JAN2014 TOP, BACK, BASTE, QUILT, BIND
Jungle Ave Tapa 31JAN2015 TOP, BACK (UNDERWAY), BASTE, QUILT, BIND

QDAD: Quilt Design a Day (November)

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This is my catch-up post for November. For these catch up post please take a look at the library of associated palettes over on the Facebook page.

01 November
Playing with minimal geometric shapes and placement for this design.

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02 November
I was playing with a cross block and then angles coming out from the cross. The widths of the lines also differ. I love this cooler palette.

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24 November
This was my week for providing the photo and color palette for inspiration. I find a saturated color palette challenging….so that was first up. Picture was taken in Hong Kong.
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25 November
New Zealand has the most amazing native forest areas and I thought this would make a great cooler palette.
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26 November
On or recent trip to Savannah, there was so much inspiration around us. I love this old candy store down on the river front.
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I loved the neutral color palette and the pops of green and red. I tried to also convey those surprise pops of color in my design. This is one of my favorite designs of this month.
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27 November
With the other cooler palettes for the week, I wanted a warm palette.
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My interpretation of the photo inspiration is not really one of my designs I liked.

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30 November

The color palette and inspiration for this design came from Anne over @ Play Crafts. I loved the inspiration it was of lakes, and snow-capped tree covered mountains. This is by far my favorite design in a while.

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A short month this time, as life just got busy.  I am happy though that maybe half of the designs have potential of actually being made 😉

If you would like to make or use one of my designs, please email me (ml_wilkie(at)hotmail(dot)com) or leave a comment below. I am happy to talk with you on options and provide the relevant measurements etc. or have you test out a pattern. Also, if you use one of my designs, please use the following text to credit me the design: “Designed by Michelle Wilkie @ Factotum of Arts”.

Winner of Sew Mama Sew Giveaway

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Thank you to all those that were kind enough to leave comments. There were some great ideas for tutorials. The main areas folks wanted more tutorials include:

  • Learn the basics *
    • Quilting/piecing
    • Paper piecing/ English Paper piecing
    • Curves
  • Lessons on design, color and fabric selection *
  • Pouches/ Bags /Pillows
  • Free Motion Quilting/ Machine quilting

* indicates that these are areas in which I will look into for 2015.

Using random.org, the winner was #120 Quiltingmod – Afton Warrick!! I will be emailing you shortly to talk through the details.