I’ve got this app on my phone called Timehop that shows me posts from social media I made on that day in years past, it’s pretty cool! This month it’s been reminding me about all the college auditions and honor groups Liam was doing last year – there was a LOT of things going on!… Continue Reading
After my first round of testing the new neutral grey pure dye, I was surprised at how light the 4% DOS/OWG of this dye was. I was a bit worried because I’d batched it for a shortish, coolish amount of time, so I dyed another round of fabric, starting at 2% and going up to… Continue Reading
A couple of months ago, a new Procion MX dye was released that’s actually a pure grey – one single molecule is responsible for the color, rather than the mixtures that all grey and black Procion MX dyes have been up to this point. I finally got around to ordering some from ProChem and dyeing some different concentrations of it… Continue Reading
Here’s a picture of all the greys squares and rectangles I would need to make a queen size Scrappy Swiss Cross quilt (yardage and cutting requirements found here): (You can’t see every single piece, there are lots of stacks 4 and 6 pieces of fabric high). I do believe that most of those are different… Continue Reading
Well, I’ve been cruising along, keeping really busy! I’ve been able to find #15minutesaday most days to keep working on my Scrappy Swiss Cross quilt. A couple days I haven’t had the energy/time, but on other days I’ve spent more than 15 minutes, so it’s evening out! Most importantly, I got the next session of… Continue Reading
Once I’d confirmed that the sizes of each piece I’d planned for a 12.5″ block would work, I set about cutting up all my grey scraps into background pieces. It was slowish going, because I had scraps of all shapes and sizes. At some point, I ran out of scraps and then was able to… Continue Reading
Yesterday I laid out my plan to sew a queen size Scrappy Swiss Cross quilt; I’m going to try to spend #15MinutesADay working on it. Because I dye all the fabric I use to make things, most projects I do start with fabric dyeing. Because of that there’s always a fair amount of planning, and… Continue Reading
I’ve got a lot of things up in the air this semester, but I’d like to see if I can actually find a few minutes each day to work on a quilt that I desperately need to make for my bed, the one we use now is shredding, and although I’ve got a couple of… Continue Reading