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Hey, check out our new pup! Actually he is full grown, so he isn’t a pup anymore.
Things I mention…
Check out the cover of the Spring Keepsake Quilting. What a beautiful quilt!
How to make a pinata. I’m making a clone trooper pinata for The Boy’s birthday party. I hope it turns out ok.
I talked about how to make quilting frugal in this episode. Being frugal is the new thing to do, ya know! This episode I talked about piecing frugally…you guessed it: do it by hand! Here are the basics to get you started:
- Fabric – 100% cotton is your best bet; but really anything that is stable and doesn’t stretch will do
- thread – 100% cotton or polyester thread is good.
- needles – you’ll probably want to use needles called ‘sharps’ from the quilt shop. I use size 10.
- pencil – a mechanical pencil is great for outlining templates
- a permanent marker can be helpful when you are making your templates.
- pattern – you can find lots for free on the block resources page. And don’t overlook a free source for TONS of info – your local public library!
- 1/4 inch ruler
- template material – I use template material from the quilt shop. It’s a see-through plastic. What you use doesn’t have to be see-through, but it helps if you want to fussy cut. You can use lots of things that you find around the house for this…the pioneers did!!
Thanks for listening. Have a great day!!
Kelli,
I like your podcast so much. And I like the theme. There is so much in the quilting world that a girl can get lost in tools, gadgets and machines. It’s nice to remember that women used to quilt with the simplest tools and fabric and they made beautiful quilts. Thanks for what you do and happy belated birthday! It gets a little easier as you get older by the way. Thanks! Tammy
Have you gotten my emails? I have emailed you three time from my sewstitchcreate.com address and once from my home email. I sent another email yesterday. This comment has my home email attached to it. If I don’t hear back from you, I will send you a message from my home email address to your home email address.
I am getting all your messages, I don’t know what could be blocking mine on your end.
Thanks, Kelley – and thanks for keepin up with your podcast. Can’t get enough of the quilting podicasts
I enjoyed your theme very much, just got done listening to it this morning. I believe one of the reasons that I had started hand-quilting is that it is so much cheaper than machine-quilting. And thank God for Wal-mart! A busy mom is always there and I took advantage of their fabric department.
And Happy Birthday!! Don’t let the number get you down. I’m past 35 but not quite 40 yet, but I feel that as I get older, I’m getting better.
I love the podcast but I couldn’t hear this episode. Is anyone else having the same problem?
Good stuff.