Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Round Up Week 23: Slow Start

In the Studio with Lauren: Class 3 Session 3:
Bias tube appliqué for Celtic designs and Indian Kolam

The class was presented well - I'm getting the hang of hand sewing.  Last week finished my first ever hand stitched binding to finish a quilt because of these classes.

The homework for the Bias tube applique actually had two examples to try out, but they were large I thought for me. Instead I used the technique to make another heart.  From a distance, the work looks rather nice - it's the detail look that shows the rough concave and convex points...

To make the bias tubing I cut a strip from a cereal box and inserted that to get the seam so it was in the center of the tube when pressed - easy peasy!  If I were going to make a larger, more beautiful piece I can see how purchasing the metal tubes would be very useful in making flat tubes.



The lesson this week was on couching - but she used the machine instead of showing hand methods. Actually my machine is not stitching well so I will find a tutorial online to help me do this by hand.

I searched for mechanical sewing machine repair in San Diego and now have a name to try out having the machines maintained.  The previous place more than doubled their prices and I had to return the machine to have the repair refined as it did not work the first time.  So I want a new place for this work.

Five Star Resources:


Megan at Tiny Orchard Quilts has many useful, creative and innovative projects.  Very professional presented.  There are so many tutorials, I had a difficult time picking out a few as examples:

How to Change the Size of a Quilt Block! Make A Block Any Size with These Tips!
How to Calculate Fabric Requirements for a Pattern! Take Your Sketch to a Quilt Pattern!
Gradient Quilt Tutorial: Choose Your 3 Favorite Colors to Make this Easy to Piece Quilt!
The Easy Way to Get PERFECT 1/4" Seam Allowances! Improve your Accuracy and Stop Losing Your Points
Beyond the Free Motion Quilting Basics: Combining Designs and Resources for New FMQ Motifs

Megan will be starting a new summer QAL that will probably be wonderful to do.  I'm in a rush to finish up my bookkeeping so I can start the end of the month. First post about this now at:  https://tinyorchardquilts.com/blogs/news/summer-skies-medallionalong


Darlene Michaud - Videos on piecing, semi-quick recipes, and new series on decluttering to get ready for a cross country move. She is a one person production and posts something when she is inspired to do that.  For her lesson videos she plans ahead and at least usually thinks about the best way to present an idea. Sometimes she includes a lot of personal background information. She does not always post things that the quilt police would approve of.

I'm interested now to see her documenting getting rid of stuff in preparation for putting her family home on the market so she can move from Maine to Mississippi (to be near her son and away from the snow). 

She used to have videos (Organized so you could see progress each month or quarter) where she shared how much money she was earning from doing all the videos, but I can't find the link to that now.  But when I first found her she was making a few hundred a month, then it grew to I think a few thousand the last time I looked.  It was interesting to see the behind the scenes of all that part of YouTube business.

Here are some examples:

Make 2 Half Rectangle Triangle Quilt Blocks at Once
Stained Glass Quilt Block Tutorial
Apple Raisin & Walnut Cornbread - Darlene's Concoctions - tried this delicious!
Brown Sugar Walnut Ice Cream - No Machine, No Cream, 3 Ingredient Base
Crumb Quilt Adventure - https://tinyurl.com/y9zcg63f
Quilting with Darlene - https://tinyurl.com/y3752cyn
Crazy Crumb Quilt Adventure - https://tinyurl.com/yajctndh
Quilt Block Party - https://tinyurl.com/ha4uq2u
Postage Stamp Quilt - https://tinyurl.com/y4tw3tow
Easy Quilt Blocks - https://tinyurl.com/y742k6cc
YouTube Business - found one video https://youtu.be/6uLT3NwrLEk
A-Maze-ing Quilt - https://youtu.be/ocN4r6yWwio - pattern for $1


YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXBQx7Mn77PQ46tRPpW9-oQ/videos
Website: https://quintessentialquilting.com/

Cindy Seitz-Krug.  A few years ago she set out to create and share a free motion quilting design based on starting with a grid.  I keep going back to her videos for inspiration. 

I may use this design in my wavy line quilt... (but enlarge so I do once for every block in the quilt).

Week 16 of "A Grid Design Every Week"; Flip/Flop Baptist Fan
https://youtu.be/lT27dWBgRXI

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I went thru my clothes, looking for a certain shirt, and in the process realized that some of the things I had put away had stains.  So plan to go thru again and pull things out - wash the ones that need it and then give them to Goodwill.

I also had a plan to go thru the books on my shelves in the bedroom - There are a few I have put aside, but I am hoping I can come up with some way to group things and then to be able to give away many more.  I decided that anything that had to do with teaching reading or writing I would just let go, so that will be easy.  But then there are cook books, learning language books, math books, novels I haven't read.  So already this is difficult to do.

All I can do is what I can do....

Oh, both of my sewing machines now need maintenance beyond what I can do.  I found a new guy, highly recommended on Yelp - but he will be on holiday until July.  So for the EBHQ classes the last weekend of this month I will just use the time to watch, and cut fabric in preparation for sewing later....







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