November 2009

2008.1 (unnamed)

November 4, 2009 — domesticat

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quilting

Date:

17 August 2008 - 6 October 2008

Photoset:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/domesticat/sets/72157606793177705

Recipient:

Mandy

Pattern:

Broken Dishes

Level of completion:

Completed and given away

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technoquilting complete!

While technically my first quilt, I didn't do all of it. Heather pieced the first 49 squares years ago, and handed off the rest to me to finish due to time constraints. A few years later, I finally decided it was time to get started.

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Red Shift

November 4, 2009 — domesticat

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quilting

Date:

11 November 2008 - 8 January 2009

Photoset:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/domesticat/sets/72157609032438244

Recipient:

4x4 and Spitty (aka Jim and Tracey)

Pattern:

Double Wedding Ring

Level of completion:

Completed and given away

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Red shift

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Smaller beds next time

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The giving of 'red shift': 'this is the part where I'm gonna die'

The surprise wedding gift. Intended only to be a full-sized quilt, I learned they were saving up for a king-sized bed, so I went on a frantic fabric hunt. I managed to find all the fabrics, and increased the quilt to a king-sized quilt. The corners contain runes with meaning to Tracey embroidered in black thread on the black fabric, and the backing is Georgia Bulldogs fabric for Jim, a Georgia fan.

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Star Stories

November 4, 2009 — domesticat

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quilting

Date:

28 January 2009 - 18 April 2009

Photoset:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/domesticat/sets/72157613043153779/

Recipient:

Lexie

Pattern:

Cosmosdust

Level of completion:

Completed and given away

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entrusted

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Ready, set, technoquilt!

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Plus eight or minus ten

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This is why.

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Quilt festival : the story of 'star stories'

Now that she's seen it, I can explain: this quilt is for Lexie, a co-worker of mine. Our logo has books and stars in it, so I thought a star quilt would be perfect. The star fabrics were contributed by co-workers -- they are all fabrics with memories for the givers. For more about how this quilt came to be, see domesticat.net/2009/01/entrusted

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Lights over Lothlórien

November 4, 2009 — domesticat

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quilting

Date:

4 April 2009 - 2 August 2009

Photoset:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/domesticat/sets/72157611329642325

Recipient:

Asai

Pattern:

Bargello

Level of completion:

Completed and given away

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Travel and quilt photos

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See? It looks planned!

Originally intended to be my first quilt of 2009, this project was delayed a few months by 'star stories' needing to take precedence. This is a green-blue-white bargello quilt, whose colorway was shamelessly stolen from screenshots of Lothlórien from the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

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Serendipity

November 4, 2009 — domesticat

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quilting

Date:

8 August 2009 - 30 September 2009

Remove from sewing machine, throw on floor

Photoset:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/domesticat/sets/72157621985290616

Recipient:

Brian and Suzan

Pattern:

Double Wedding Ring

Level of completion:

Completed and given away

Blog entries referencing this quilt:

Too sleepy to sew

(Have I mentioned how absolutely worth it those Marti Michell templates were?) Worked on as a side project while stumped on the quilt "Dragon's Fire." Expected to put it aside when I knew how to lay out "Dragon's Fire," but this quilt came together fast and was ready to go to the quilter's before I had my plan for Dragon's Fire ready to go.

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Speed Racer

November 4, 2009 — domesticat

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quilting

Date:

3 October 2009 - 17 October 2009

Photoset:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/domesticat/sets/72157622510898572

Recipient:

Adelyn (Mandy's daughter)

Pattern:

Disappearing Nine-Patch

Level of completion:

Completed and given away

Intended to be a lightning-fast baby quilt. I can't move forward on "Dragon's Fire" until my design software is back up and running, so I might as well knock out a quickie quilt in the meantime. Since it's small, and I've never done a small quilt before, I'm going to attempt to quilt it myself. EXPECT HILARITY.

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Dream of the Green Turtles

November 4, 2009 — domesticat

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quilting

Date:

13 October 2009 - 17 October 2009

Photoset:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/domesticat/sets/72157622581393356

Recipient:

Beth's son Liam

Pattern:

Disappearing Nine-Patch

Level of completion:

Completed and given away

My first 'commission.' Beth asked if I'd be willing to do an easy aquatic-themed quilt for her son Liam. She provided nine fabric options, of which I chose eight (seven front, one back).

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Dragon's Fire

November 4, 2009 — domesticat

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Date:

28 September 2009

Photoset:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/domesticat/sets/72157622352703393

Recipient:

Jason & Crystal

Pattern:

Triple Irish Chain

Level of completion:

Completed and given away

A belated wedding present for Jason and Crystal. Promised to them on their wedding day so, obviously, this quilt is not a surprise.

That isn't to say there aren't a couple of tricks up my sleeve. You guys should know me better than that by now.

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Quilting section now available

November 4, 2009 — domesticat

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I've been focusing a lot of my creative time into working with fabric this year, not writing. I finally decided to create something that's been wanting for some time here -- a custom content type here on domesticat.net for my quilts.

Pretty simple, really: it uses the flickrfield module of CCK to let me link easily to flickr sets and individual images. I've set up http://domesticat.net/quilts as the landing page for all quilts. For people just wanting to keep up with only new quilts, there's http://domesticat.net/quilts/rss as well.

I'll integrate those posts into my RSS feed in a moment or two.

Yay technology!

Today's Drupal story: Do as we say, not as we do

November 6, 2009 — domesticat

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I think every Drupal admin's had this day at least once ... okay, twice ... fine! Five or six times. Name changed to protect today's lucky survivor:

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Discothèque

November 19, 2009 — domesticat

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Date:

14 November 2009 - 4 January 2010

Photoset:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/domesticat/sets/72157622681189793

Recipient:

Emily (Jon and Ashley's daughter)

Pattern:

Drunkard's Path

Level of completion:

Completed and given away

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Discothèque: the plan becomes clear

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Mission accomplished

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Wherein the seamstress falls over and snores

So far, this one's pretty simple. It's just a way for me to play around with a lot of the scraps I have on-hand. The idea is to use the Drunkard's Path templates that Jeff gave me for my birthday, and play with color. It's going to be a child's quilt, simple and bright. I'm turning the wedge pieces inward to create circles. Should be six columns wide; each column will be its own color scheme. I'll fade from dark-interior / light-exterior on one side to the opposite (light-interior / dark exterior) on the other.

Colors are based on the scrap I had lying around: pinky-purply, red, blue, green, brown, and black.

I have an idea of who it might be for, but it's early yet. We'll see. Yep, that's who I thought.

Oh, the name? The circles and intense colors reminded me of the colored gels used in stage lighting.

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