My youngest grandchild has fallen in love with Elmo from Sesame Street. She even got to meet him recently at MommyCon and gave him a big hug. So of course this grandma had to dig into her fabric stash to find some Sesame Street fabric and make her a little tote bag. 🙂
Not long ago, Hillary Clinton blamed her loss in the presidential election of 2016 on married white women voting the way their husbands or sons told them to vote, for Donald Trump. This married white woman particularly enjoyed this rebuttal to Mrs. Clinton’s remarks.
Not surprisingly, when I tweeted that I’m marking my 8th anniversary on Twitter by leaving it for Gab, my tweet immediately disappeared from my feed. Way to prove my point, guys.
Twitter has begun openly shadow-banning people it doesn’t agree with. I can’t support a system like that. I will miss some of the people I’ve met there, but they can always come visit me at Gab.
I’ve always liked Kaffe Fassett’s quilt fabric lines, but I never thought I had the kind of artistic eye needed to use them in a way that would look good; they’re so bright and busy that they intimidated me.
Then, last fall at the Quilt Expo in Madison, WI, I saw a Kaffe quilt hanging in a vendor booth that was both stunning and easily made. Right there and then, I decided that I wanted to make a quilt like that, just as soon as I could find a good deal on a Kaffe layer cake.
Before long, Missouri Quilt Co. came to the rescue with a special deal on Kaffe’s Peacock layer cake. I bought it and eagerly awaited its arrival. Once it arrived, I was not disappointed. Oh, the possibilities of a fresh new layer cake!
I cut into it that very weekend (which is so not like me!). I put a favorite video on for background music and started cutting these luscious squares in half. Some were not perfectly square, however, so I had to be careful and cut them one at a time.
Once they were all cut in half, I began sewing them end to end, cutting some in half again (crossways), using the traditional Bricks pattern. I laid them out in 12 columns of 6 ½ rectangles each. In a matter of hours, the 52” X 60” top was done.
I had a long leftover piece of an Italian sheet that I’d used for quilt backing a few years ago. I sewed large bleached muslin rectangles to either side of it to make a back for my new Kaffe quilt.
After layering the top and the backing with silk batting in between, I quilted it using delft blue Aurifil thread in a meandering design with hearts sprinkled in.
The binding was made out of coordinating fabrics from my stash. I love this quilt!
Thanks to technology, careers with promise are always changing. This article lists nine areas that bode well for future work, because they are all areas where it’s expected there will be future growth. If you have a teen who doesn’t know what they want to do with their life, reading this article might give them a few ideas.