Roundabout quilt history story.

This is a wonderful historic story about quilting that I found in a round about kind of way. It is a bit long, but stick with it as the sentiment is strong.

I think it is amazing how life works some times. I work for a magazine printer. I often research different magazines and try to find out how to contact them (not for stalking reasons, strictly business here). I happen to run across a religious magazine that I would otherwise not have read (or realy even picked up for fear of being struck by lightening immediately) and saw this article. And it is National Quilting Month. (I wonder if they know that.) So many coincidences come together so nicely some times. (Okay this one really doesn't register that high on the weird coincidence meter, but still, I'm working with what I've got here.)

I've got a really good coincidence story. I'll be back with that one. I have to get back to work. (Yeah me.)

This is why I needed the geometry.

I was not going to disturb this as it was our prototype, and it took a while to get it where we wanted it.




And we needed to make 30 of them.

And we did. Thank you very much to my sister.

March is National Quilting Month

Who knew? Well, obviously a few people. (Namely Judy at Patchwork Times.) But now I know. And now you know.

So what are you going to do about it?

I guess we need to go quilt.

I'm in!

I get so inspired by so many different things I read on line. Especially on the quilt blogs where I lurk. Judy at Patchwork Times relays a touching story and follows up with this -

"Life is short! We never know how many days we have left, nor the circumstances we’ll face but my plan is to make the best of every day I have left. Join me and do the same, ok? Let’s all do it for Wanda!"

I'm in!

Ever have one of thos 'Aha' moments when you thank your geometry teacher...

Only in my head of course. But I needed to get a whole bunch of round vases. And they needed to be a certain size. And the one I needed to match had a beautiful arrangement in it and I was not going to disturb it. But I couldn't tell what size the vase was. (It was very round, called a bubble bowl or bubble vase.)

I tried holding a tape measure in front to see how wide. Not easy, couldn't really tell. Then I tried a ruler in front and again behind. Numbers changed depending on my angle, eeek. Then I thought well I will just worry about the height, but again, lots of flowers in there that I was not going to touch. Hmm. I actually struggled with this for probably a day and a half. And then I had an 'Aha' geometry moment. (I think it is geometry.)

I remembered that there is some formula that says if you know one or two things you can get the other things. Mind you I did not know the formula by heart, but Google did. So I refreshed my mathness and saw that the diameter (which I needed) is equal to the circumference divided by PI. And the cool thing is that the circumfrence was 31.4-something inches. So very convenient! a 10" bowl. Yeah.

So when your kids say to you (as I said to anyone who would listen at the time) "WHY do I have to learn this stuff? You never use it in real life!" You can promptly correct them and relay my compelling saga. (I am so happy to be of service.)

Fatty, Fatty Two by Four

Seriously, that is the name of this pattern. Well, kind of. I modified it a little bit. I ended up making 2 lap quilts with only a few more large squares put in than the original pattern called for. They had an uneven number, and the placement was somewhat random - that kills me. I really need some structure, a pattern, a little reason in the design. Scrappy is very hard for me, so I overcompensate by overthinking the block placement. But hey, my overthinking on this one gave me two quilts I love.

I gave one to my best friend for Christmas and I kept one for me. Yeah! They were both quilted by Donna. This was another of the Friday Night Valet Sewing projects.

I need to find out what the project is for March. I need a fix!

So flippin' funny

Seriously, this is great. And I have to say, I understand completely V's point on all of it. I hope she laughs as much as I did. Later of course.