I forsee…

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A recently refurbished license plate cover in this car’s future…

I gotta know…what do you think?!

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Go Lobos!

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Sul Ross license plate cover after 9 years of faithful service.

Let me tell you a little story about a car. It was the first new car that was my very own, purchased in 2002. It was a cute little silver Saturn SL2 and I loved it. It was a faithful car that did everything I asked it to do. One of the first things I did for my car was to buy a license plate cover from my Alma Mater, Sul Ross State University.

Well, my faithful little car was wrecked a couple of weeks ago, but not after 9 years of to-ing and fro-ing. The car, fortunately, was the only casualty in the accident. The car was totaled earlier this week and claimed by the insurance as salvage.

When cleaning out my little car and saying goodbye for the last time, I remembered my license plate cover from Sul Ross. While sobbing in the front seat (yes, really, I was very sad!), my darlin’ husband removed the plate cover for me.

It has seen better days. Almost a decade of Texas weather had taken its toll. There was a crack on one side from when my kids were younger and, for whatever reason, thought the bottom of the plate cover was a handle. Yeah.

My first thought was to get a new cover, but looking at it, I realized that I held a piece of my first little car in my hands. It wore my Alma Mater’s name proudly for all those years, so why shouldn’t a new car, too?

So…this is what I did.

After scrubbing the cover with soap and water and allowing it to dry, I enrolled the help of a paper clip and my handy E6000 and glued together and reinforced the crack.

See, that’s not so bad!

Next, I covered all the chrome bits with painter’s tape.

Sheesh, that is seriously faded!

Now, for some primer.

White paint followed…ready for some color!

I used my favorite metallic Lumiere paint from Jacquard and gently (very gently!) painted the letters with a sponge brush.

And now a clear coat of Polycrylic and it’s almost there…

Ta-da! Almost as good as new!

Now, I just need a car to put it on…

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PoD Week 28

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This is your weekly reminder that The Project of Doom, A Harry Potter Block of the Week Mystery Quilt, is taking place over on Harry Potter Paper Piecing (hp_paperpiecing on Livejournal).

Today’s pattern is Week 28!

Edit: Livejournal is currently experiencing downtime. For a direct link to this week’s block photo, click here. For this week’s pattern, click here.

Join the Project of Doom on Livejournal to talk PoD, share photos, questions and stories!

Coming soon – a PoD-related challenge with faaaabulous prizes!

Previous Patterns:

Links go straight to posts including block samples. If you do not wish to see photos of the blocks, click this link for previous posts.

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Aces High, a new pattern from Sewhooked!

TTMT #120 – Talking Too Much

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In which I prattle on about my new peg board, The Project of Doom, mail I’ve received and probably a few other things. I was feeling quite chatty when I recorded!

Add your Sewhooked photos to my flickr group and you might be featured in a future post!

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Something New

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I have a new custom-stamped thumb ring that I bought for myself to commemorate my years as part of the Harry Potter fandom. This quote kind of sums it all up for me.

Made by foxwise.

EDIT: Thanks to the generosity of Rose, owner of foxwise, you can now get 15% off your purchase using the coupon code SEWHOOKED. How awesome is that?!

Talk to Me Tuesday later today!

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Looking back at “Tails”

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Miles “Tails” Prower
74″ x 94″
made 2008, photographed July 2011

Once upon a time, I made a quilt for my son. The coolest part about this quilt is that he designed it himself. He was 10* at the time.

With a tiny bit of help from me, my kiddo created this chart using an image he loved of his favorite video game character. The main part of the quilt, excluding the solid pieces of fabric at the top and bottom, is made of 1,054 individual 2″ squares.

I pieced almost all of the mosaic while at retreat with my bee in 2008 on my Singer 301A. I remember chain piecing from different colored stacks of 2 1/2″ squares that I had cut beforehand. I pieced and pieced…and pieced, all along following the chart and keeping track of everything with Post-It notes!

Much of the following is taken from a post I made over on Fandom Quilts back in June 2008, after I’d completed quilting and binding the quilt.

The blue sparkle background fabric was cut in 2 1/2″ strips (except the top and bottom, which were wider), with the other colors all being 2 1/2″ squares (2″ finished). I quilted 2″ squares to give the illusion that the entire quilt was made from squares. You can still see the chalk lines from the grid I drew on the solid fabric.

The entire quilt was quilted on my home sewing machine using a walking foot and straight-line quilting.

Hanging from the side of our trampoline (photo taken in 2008) just for SCALE. You can see the quilting better in here. I think you can also tell that there are two colors of orange, and the subtle difference between the white and off-white. We gave this trampoline away earlier this year, 2011.

This awesome swirly red fabric was chosen by the kiddo for the back.

For quilting, I outlined the major shapes (the white quilting in the pic is one of the hands). When there were more than two or three blocks of the same color, I quilted around to echo the outside shape.

Grid quilting the top and bottom of the quilt created the illusion of 2″ squares on the solid top and bottom pieces of the quilt top.

If you’ve made it all the way to the end of this post and you like what you see, visit The Quilting Gallery’s Quilts for Little Boys contest and vote! There are lots of great quilts there to see, including “Tails!”