Hello, friends. We had a family emergency this morning so no video from me today. I did finish my sewing room and will share that next week.
Take care!
❤️ Jennifer
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TTMT #577 – Caught Up Or…Not!
In which I share how I WAS caught up and some GOOD NEWS!
There are a few weird sound issues in this video. If you wait until the end, you’ll find out what’s up with that.
I hope you’re all well! ♥
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TTMT #570 – 47
Pigtails…again! I think this may be the case until I can get a trim for my fancy January haircut!
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TTMT #569 – Something for the Boy
This is the one in which I’m tired but there’s a new project AND kittens at the end. ♥
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TTMT #529 – Vacation Brain
It’s good to be home, but my goodness, my head is still on vacation!
And, because I mentioned it in my video, The Batty Bat song:
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TTMT #528 25th Anniversary Road Trip!
We’re still traveling, but I couldn’t resist sharing a tiny bit of our trip so far! This one is a bit different because I did all of the editing on my phone.
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A Special Project for my Brother
It’s done!
After Christmas, my little brother gave me his whole cloth baby quilt our grandmother made for him over 40 years ago with the mission to “save it.”
The back was transparent and dry rotted. Many of the original hand ties were missing. The edges were frayed and poking out. The quilt was oddly lumpy.
I really struggled with where to start. I considered patching it, but then quickly realized it was too damaged to just be patched. It’s a quilt full of love and meaning for my brother and I wanted to make sure I did this right.
I shared the “before” quilt on Talk to Me Tuesday earlier this week and then I just dove in. I had to fix this quilt and it wasn’t getting done sitting on the table in my sewing room!
In the end, I took the whole thing apart, carefully picking out every stitch. The inside was layers of old sheets and flour sacking!
One of the layers was completely shredded and had turned into fluff, which created the random lumps. I sprinted the vintage fluff outside for birds to use in their nests.
To complete my mission to save this quilt, I hand washed the original fabric top and added a super lightweight fusible to the back for stability and to help close some of the tiny holes created by the ties.
I kept the sheet that was inside for the weight but replaced the shredded flour sacking with my favorite Hobb’s 80/20 batting. I carefully basted the top, batting, and old sheet and then serged the edges together.
Then I added a new soft flannel back, rebasting and hand tying to keep it as close to the original configuration as possible.
The back is turned to the front and stitched. The finish is as close to the same as I could make it.
I shared a photo with my brother and he’s a happy camper. It’s already in the mail back to him.
This was a very emotional project and I felt like I was communing with our grandmother while I worked on the quilt. I did record a bit for TTMT before shipping this guy off, so look for that next Tuesday.
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TTMT #402 – Snow
In a slight departure from my normal show and tell, my daughter and I share our snow-filled walk during our family holiday.
Some bad counting on my part had this quilt along originally scheduled through May. We’ll actually be finishing up in June. Thanks to my ever vigilant friend & pattern tester Amber for the correction!
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TTMT #382 – Galaxy 1824
This week, I brave the rain and humidity to share my biggest finish of the year! Watch my makeup slowly melt off of my face as I talk about the quilt I made for my son’s dorm room: Galaxy 1824.
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A Very Special Monday
Over the weekend, I received an unexpected parcel in the mail from Alida over on Tweety Loves Quilting.
There were many wonderful things in the parcel, with one very special one tied with a ribbon. When I opened it, there was a beautiful wall hanging inside:
I looked at the gorgeous quilt and I knew it reminded me of something, but I couldn’t put my finger on it right away. It was only after I walked away and into my kitchen that I realized.
Alida recreated one of my mother-in-law, Carol’s, stained glass pieces that I had shared in this post the day after Carol passed away.
The original piece looks like this:
To say I was gobsmacked is an understatement. I immediately raced up stairs to pull the photo up so I could compare. The gorgeous birthday gift is a recreation of this piece, there was no doubt about it.
Not only did Alida send me this beautiful piece she obviously worked long and hard on, but she also included two wonderful quilt tops for donation to my favorite blanket charity, The Linus Connection.
Color me speechless.
After the private thank you I sent, I had to share a huge public one. Thank you, Alida, for your thoughtfulness and generosity.
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