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I made a little pillow!

Working on the Designer Mystery quilt from 2022 for Fat Quarter Shop. The original finished quilt with the fabric they gave out was really nice.

I clearly don't have that fabric, so I'm winging it with my stash during No-Buy Stash'tember. There were 12 blocks sent out over last year, plus the finishing blocks (4 corners & center, plus log cabin star blocks).

So I'm basically cutting and sewing one block a day until I get to the hellish finishing instructions.

These are the first five blocks. The last pic is how the original pattern with the Nantucket Summer by Moda fabrics.

Me: stashbusting is going great! I'm using up the fabric I have instead of buying more!

Friend: Hey [store] has fat quarters on sale.

Me: Mmhmm

Friend: they're 50 cents each

Me:

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and yes everyone at the time did try and peg this as some trauma response to my my mum dying when i was 6 and therapise me out of it like. cool theory! unfortunately you see i was Like This when she was alive

the very cool not at all annoying thing about having a parental death (or i guess really any singular major traumatic event? probably?) when you're very young is that people will literally blame every problem on that for the rest of your life forever. if you had symptoms syndrome before no you didn't

Simple pattern again, very easy to get done in a few hours after I finished work for the day.

Made this one a touch smaller then the other one, and I think I like it better this way. Less waste of fabric too.

Turned out 63” by 72”, which is a nice couch throw. I used seven different prints and a off white/beige for the background and I’m thinking that I might quilt it in gold thread.

Or maybe beige.

… or maybe blue if I really want the quilting to stand out on the outside border. Idk. We’ll see when I get it on the long arm and do a thread audition.

Huh. I just realised this could be done with fat quarters instead of meterage. Four blocks from each fat quarter and you could pick as many as you needed to get the size you wanted. The blocks are only 9.5” unfinished.

Mardi Gras 2024

When someone threatens you with damnation to Hell and it's like

Okay. What. So I can fuck around dirty style with Lucifer all day, everyday?? Have you forgotten the teachings of Lil Nas X so quickly?

what if. I tried to make myself a skirt.

love hate relationship. with sociology. this quarter. on one hadn sociology. the subject. very cool very interesting. enjoying. on the other hand. my teacher is on some bullshit sometimes

Did I need to buy a fat quarter bundle today? No

Do I have a pattern in mind for it? No

Am I ready to start thinking about a quilt yet with everything else I'm working on? No

But... woodland animals drinking tea. There was no helping it.

YEEEESSSS!!!!!!!

He’s just the most!

Crafting update: - the scrap quilt top is done but I've made zero progress on actually quilting it - I did get to the local quilt shop to get some batting this weekend though! - I also got some fabric. Shrinking my fabric stash is going...not great lol (it's super cute fabric though and I am excited) - I made a Large Mothman plushie body! it still needs wings, eyes, antennae, and maybe arms, but it's coming along - I also made chicken and dumplings! with extra veggies because there were veggies in the fridge to use up - I'm working on crocheting some scarves, because my brother learned to crochet and wants to make the whole family matching scarves for christmas but there's a lot of us and it's a short timeline so I'm making some of them too