Okay so I have never really took an inventory of my works-in-progress before. It's actually a little bit scary. It probably will take me all morning to get good pics so I will just start with a couple projects. This is only my first week blogging so I am still learning. I found a great tutorial for how to add the button back to Freshly Pieced! I LOVE to look at all the great projects you all are working on and am so inspired all the time. So thank you.
1. First thing I wanted to step back and look at are these napping blankets I started. For my birthday this year I asked for the book Transparency Quilts by Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr and I also got a shopping trip at the LQS for fabrics to make one. Well I ended making four. They were so fun to put together that I couldn't stop. I will say for sure that it is much harder than it looks and I could use another try but now I will have tops ready to finish this year for the cousins birthdays. I also am taking a Craftsy class taught by Weeks Ringle on Design. She's great fun to listen to and learn good stuff. I am definitely not done with Transparencies.
2. The second project I want to share is the Peace Cranes.
Well. call me crazy but I keep thinking I am going to make 1000 of them. The story behind the Peace cranes is so profound to me and the thing is that my community is located at the foot of the Los Alamos National Laboratory which is where the bomb was built that was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Anyway. I pray about that a lot and I feel like I could lay down a prayer like Sadako's. Yeah. Call me crazy but this is my blog and my sewing room so I think Imma do it. Stay tuned...
The paper piece peace crane pattern comes form Margaret Rolfe who has a great blanket pattern from the The Patchwork Place. I found two other blogs with quilters that did some peace cranes too- Aussie Kilted Quilter and Fairyland Fiber Arts. Please post Peace cranes if you have them. I'd love to see them.
I am going to link up now and then go through my sewing room today and check out all that I have going on so next week be ready cause I'm going to dig it all out! This is going to feel good. Thanks ladies and gents for the WIP check in. Now to throw a blogsphere cruise. See you there...
Wow! Those cranes are impressive! Good luck making a thousand. You obviously were gifted with more patience than I. Will you make them all into a blanket do you think? Maybe many blankets?
ReplyDeleteThe pattern that the crane comes from (see reply below) actually takes 108 cranes to make a queen size blanket! SO that's ten blankets. !!
Delete1000?! Good for you. That's actually really inspiring. What is the pattern if you don't mind me asking? And what do they measure?
ReplyDeleteHey! Its actually a foundation piece pattern that makes up a bed-size blanket in a pattern from the Patchwork Place called "The Peace Quilt" It paper-pieces up to 4 3/4 squares on point. I got the pattern years ago thinking I would never make it but it was cool. It still is cool and I'll still probably never make the actual pattern but I LOVE the cranes! Thanks!
DeleteBeautiful WIPs and best of luck with the 1000 peace cranes! Wow!
ReplyDeleteI love the cranes! And your idea to make 1000 is awesome :-)
ReplyDeleteLove the quilt tops! This is not my crane, but here is a link to one http://www.happierthanabirdquilts.com/2013/01/origami-crane-pattern-now-for-sale.html and here is her post about them http://www.happierthanabirdquilts.com/2013/01/new-look.html
ReplyDeleteI cannot wait to see your progress!! 1000 cranes in fabric is going to be amazing!
ReplyDeleteHere is a direct link to my pattern, it's free right now =)
http://www.craftsy.com/pattern/quilting/other/origami-crane-paper-pieced-block/43068