November 2009

2008.1 (unnamed)

Date: 
17 August 2008 to 6 October 2008
Recipient: 
Mandy
Pattern: 
Broken Dishes
Level of completion: 
Completed and given away
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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

Date: 
11 November 2008 to 8 January 2009
Recipient: 
4x4 and Spitty (aka Jim and Tracey)
Pattern: 
Double Wedding Ring
Level of completion: 
Completed and given away

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

Date: 
28 January 2009 to 18 April 2009
Recipient: 
Lexie
Pattern: 
Cosmosdust
Level of completion: 
Completed and given away

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

Date: 
4 April 2009 to 2 August 2009
Recipient: 
Asai
Pattern: 
Bargello
Level of completion: 
Completed and given away
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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

Date: 
8 August 2009 to 30 September 2009
Recipient: 
Brian and Suzan
Pattern: 
Double Wedding Ring
Level of completion: 
Completed and given away
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(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.

Speed Racer

Date: 
3 October 2009 to 17 October 2009
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

Date: 
13 October 2009 to 17 October 2009
Recipient: 
Beth's son Liam
Pattern: 
Disappearing Nine-Patch
Level of completion: 
Completed and given away
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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

Date: 
28 September 2009 to 1 December 2009
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

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.

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

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:

Discothèque

Date: 
14 November 2009 to 4 January 2010
Recipient: 
Emily (Jon and Ashley's daughter)
Pattern: 
Drunkard's Path
Level of completion: 
Completed and given away

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.