tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39765052945419436522024-02-18T17:49:12.221-08:00Pieced NutmegPieced Nutmeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07552980900559861299noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3976505294541943652.post-7735838685013944872015-06-11T11:46:00.001-07:002015-06-11T11:46:43.136-07:00WIP Wednesday: The My First Swoon EditionThis week on my life Monday Meg gets a lesson in the days of the week! Oops...It's Thursday and I'm just now writing this. However! I have a super good reason....Remember that new job we talked about last week? Well...I got laid off after my first week :( Apparently they had been thinking about putting her in daycare and were waiting for a spot. Well one opened up so out the door I went. So this week has been a whirlwind of stress and job applications and resumes and did I mention stress??? I really hate job searching! Luckily I have found a new family and will be starting there on Monday! I'm super excited for this one as it seems like an absolutely amazing opportunity!<br />
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Hey Meg! Wheres the fabric?! I know right! So anyways, back to the important stuff! This week I've been working on my <a href="http://thimbleblossoms.bigcartel.com/product/swoon-pattern-142-pdf-pattern" target="_blank">Swoon</a> blocks! <span style="text-align: center;">I will admit that I wasn't sure that this day would ever come. When I started quilting this pattern was everywhere. </span><a href="http://camilleroskelley.typepad.com/simplify/" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">Camille</a><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">really hit it out of the park on this one in my opinion. Everywhere I looked I saw this pattern and I wanted it! I read every post I could about it and looked and hundreds of photos of different peoples versions. My favorite two are</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><a href="http://lulucarter.typepad.com/lulu_carter/2012/11/my-swoony-bed.html" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">this amazing jeweled beauty</a><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">by Lulu Carter, and</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><a href="http://camilleroskelley.typepad.com/simplify/2013/08/a-summer-swoon.html" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">this all AMH one</a><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">from the Camille herself! So....what's taken me so long? Well. This quilt was huge in my mind. I loved it sooo much. I was terrified! I wanted one SOOO badly and I wanted it to be AMAZING and it just had to be!</span><br />
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Enter my wonderful amazing and extremely patient friends. My two besties sat with me, on the floor in my sewing room. FOR HOURS. On more than three occasions. We made piles and tore them apart and made pairs and tore them apart. We must have chosen fabric for this quilt 200 times. We would have it all set and then....I would decide that I didn't like it and change it..over. and over. and over. I threw fits too...and fabric. I'm not proud! But it happened..</div>
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Then,..all of a sudden...magic! Brenna came over and we were talking about the mythical swoon quilt. At the time I had decided that I wanted an all Anna Maria Horner swoon like Camilles but I was having trouble choosing the prints (because all I wanted was the good folks that Camille used and it's out of print!) and just like magic....Brenna did it. Girl was wearing her super woman cape or something! She came in like a fresh rain and washed all my anxiety away. She just started pairing fabric and somehow had me calm enough that not only did I not throw fabric at her but we pulled fabric for TWO swoon quilts! In one night! We have been trying to pull fabric for this quilt for TWO YEARS! It was amazing. Seriously...you should have seen her. </div>
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So I have started working on this first one with the gray background. After I got the first couple blocks done and had a good rythm I've started chain piecing. It's looking so good and I'm SO thrilled to be finally starting on this dream quilt! </div>
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Pieced Nutmeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07552980900559861299noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3976505294541943652.post-20303634914241009962015-06-03T20:48:00.000-07:002015-06-03T21:23:59.661-07:00W.I.P Wednesday: The Quilt That Never EndsMy wip this week is actually a super late Christmas gift! I know right? So lame. Luckily my sister loves me anyway!<br />
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Here is a look at my original fabric pull. I added one more fabric to fill it out (some Lizzy House pearl bracelets that were the perfect purple!) but none of these original fabrics changed, that's a big deal for me..just ask my friends who help me with fabric pulls! Can we just take a minute for that background fabric? I don't feel like you really understand the amazingness of the fabric from this picture! It's this super deep rich grey that reads closer to black when you're farther away. I'm in love. It's Michael Miller Cotton Couture in Charcoal if you're wondering!<br />
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Linking up to WIP Wednesday with Lee over at <a href="http://www.freshlypieced.com/" target="_blank">Freshly Pieced</a> and Lynne From <a href="http://lilysquilts.blogspot.com/2015/06/fresh-sewing-day-and-small-blog-meet.html" target="_blank">Lily's Quilts</a></div>
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<br />Pieced Nutmeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07552980900559861299noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3976505294541943652.post-37628291766507346802015-06-01T13:12:00.002-07:002015-06-03T21:37:16.328-07:00My Life Monday: New Job, New Car EditionHey guys! It's Monday and I thought it might be nice to pop in with a hello and some of the stuff that's been going on over here! Maybe I'll do this every Monday! It could happen!<br />
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So what's new with me? Well today is my first day at a new job. The family I was with before is taking a long vacation to India so I am working for one of their cousins now! I'm glad that it all went smoothly for the transition and I didn't have to job search again! I am now with a 1 year old and she's adorable!<br />
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Also! I got a new car! I am absolutely in love! Or....I was...Until I got rear ended a couple weeks ago :(<br />
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I finally got around to finishing this project! My wonderful Grandma new I needed a better chair for my sewing room and picked one up for me from the second hand store and it was the perfect hight! too bad the cushion cover was aweful! SO I dug out an old dress that the zipper had broken and TADA! Sparkly sewing room chair! Sometimes it pays to be a hoarder ;)</div>
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The best news of all?! My best friend is getting married in August! I am soooo excited for her! I've been busy planning her bridal shower! </div>
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Linking up to the small blog meet up with Lynne at <a href="http://lilysquilts.blogspot.com/2015/06/fresh-sewing-day-and-small-blog-meet.html" target="_blank">Lily's Quilt</a></div>
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Pieced Nutmeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07552980900559861299noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3976505294541943652.post-22022149653543488152015-05-21T11:19:00.002-07:002015-05-21T15:14:10.645-07:00Three Finished Christmas Gifts<div style="text-align: center;">
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I don't know if you remember my grand plan to make SIX <a href="http://piecednutmeg.blogspot.com/2014/12/christmas-is-coming.html" target="_blank">quilts for Christmas</a>. That I came up with only a couple months before Christmas last year? Yeah, I'm famous for that round these parts. If I have a gift completed before midnight the night before it's due my husband thinks I'm sick. True story.<br />
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Well, Christmas last year was no exception. But guess what? It's pretty hard to finish that many quilts right before Christmas. So I only managed to get three of them done in time. BOO!</div>
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Here's Little with her <a href="http://www.stitchedincolor.com/2013/10/penny-patch-beginners-quilt-along.html" target="_blank">Penny Patch</a>, holding it sideways.<br />
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Here is Middle with her <a href="http://www.incolororder.com/2011/08/giant-vintage-star-quilt-tutorial.html" target="_blank">Giant Vintage Star</a>.<br />
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And here is my beautiful Mama with her <a href="http://thimbleblossoms.bigcartel.com/product/piece-of-cake-3-pattern-150-paper-pattern" target="_blank">Piece Of Cake 3</a>!<br />
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They all loved them and that makes me VERY happy :) </div>
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Luckily I still had the bags I was making for the other three for Christmas 2013 sitting around so I finished those up and gave them to them... I know..super lame..I don't want to talk about it. </div>
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But now I have two of those three quilted and one of the three is all bound while the other is almost. Hand binding was super fun for the first quilt and a half but then lost it's luster. Oh well! too late now! I'll finish soon...ish.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I had originally thought to do two lap size quilts. But the piles are growing rapidly so who knows how large they will end up!</span></div>
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Pieced Nutmeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07552980900559861299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3976505294541943652.post-80757435817185242172014-12-02T15:19:00.001-08:002014-12-02T15:19:52.709-08:00Christmas is Coming!<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm not sure if the exclamation point in the post title is meant as excitement or panic....how about you guys?? I cannot believe that It's already December! Sometime last monthish I decided that this year I was going to make quilts for all of my siblings........There are FIVE of them people! FIVE! Now I'm thinking that this was a bad idea but I'm committed and so it's happening...hopefully.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My brother is 13 and when asked about favorite colors told me Seahawks colors....I am not exactly a Seahawks fan and I didn't want it to be a couple years from now and he's got a new favorite team and won't use the quilt anymore (ok that's probably just me being paranoid he would never dream of that...he's super sweet to me!) So I made it Seahawks colors but no Seahawks fabric and added in the black to make it even a little more different. This one turned out awesome! There are mustashes and lions and i'm seriously in love!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The next two are for my 16 year old sisters. They are SUPER close so I decided to make them matching quilts! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I couldn't get a very good picture of this one up on the design wall so I settled for this detail shot of the Horses that started it all. Once my sister saw these cotton and steel beauties nothing else would do for her quilt. So we built her colors around them. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now I'm super proud that I have three tops done...but I'm sure you're thinking...uh Meg, you only have three weeks to get all of those finished...and you I say Don't You Think I Know THAT! Then I throw fabric at you. Later I will come back and say sorry and bring chocolate though. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh! Since I know you're DYING to know....here's the original fabric pull and idea for her quilt!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was going to do 18" HST's and arange them probably in the mixed up diagonal lines second down on the left. It was gonna be kinda cool...Oh well. Maybe I'll just make one for me!</span></div>
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Pieced Nutmeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07552980900559861299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3976505294541943652.post-15319874027725983712014-11-11T11:11:00.001-08:002014-11-11T11:11:20.669-08:00Oh Hello!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've been doing a lot of thinking lately. That meant that I didn't have much to post about. I've been thinking about what I want this blog to be and how I want to manage it. One of the things that has become very clear is that I need to have better pictures. The phone pictures suck. Unfortunately I don't own a better camera and on top of that I was having A hard time taking pictures that weren't at night!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My awesome friend came over (well quite awhile ago but whatever!) and helped me take some good ones with her camera. So I do have a bit of something to show you today!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(You can tell how long ago this was since i'm in a skirt and a t-shirt at 6 at night! Right now as I type it's only 43 degrees out...I know this might not sound bad to some of you but i'm COLD!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But mostly this is a post to tell you that I might not be blogging for a little while again while I try to work out what needs to be done. This is my way of trying to be accountable. I'm writing this here in hopes that it will keep me motivated to get it together!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wanted to get some good pictures of the finished quilts that I've made and still have at the house with me. So here are a few of those with a bit of story. Most have their own post and I'll link those here too :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here is the <a href="http://piecednutmeg.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-husbands-quilt.html" target="_blank">WSU quilt</a> that I made for my husband. I learned a lot about what NOT to do when sewing with minky! I haven't tried another since but I think I know some different things to try next time! Maybe I'll do a post sometime about my struggles. I should probably find some solutions first though!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Here is my finished <a href="http://piecednutmeg.blogspot.com/2014/05/penny-patch-progress.html" target="_blank">Penny Patch</a> quilt. I realized when we got back inside and I looked at all our photo's that I hadn't gotten a good shot of the full quilt for this one! GRRR. Oh well. I got some cute draped ones on this bench so that's fun :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is the first quilt I ever made! The picture could use some editing buuuuut.....I'm really super awful at that. So maybe if someone wants to come and teach me?! K thanks!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've been making a TON of these bags lately! Mostly for family (The one in back moved in with my mom) They are super great and super fast and AMAZING scrap buster projects! I started with the thimbleblossoms <a href="http://thimbleblossoms.bigcartel.com/product/rainy-day-sewing-pattern-167-pdf-pattern" target="_blank">Rainy Day Sewing Patern</a> and then changed the dimensions to fit my scraps and the sizes that I wanted. The pattern is wonderful! I've been sorting and ironing all my scraps the last couple days because I have the urge to make a TON more!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And here's a picture of me and the Husbeast. You can see that he is very impressed to be dragged into quilt pictures. (Don't let him fool you. He actually loves helping out!)</span></div>
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Pieced Nutmeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07552980900559861299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3976505294541943652.post-89539836115693115102014-07-05T10:08:00.000-07:002014-07-05T10:08:00.112-07:00Six Bags In Four Days<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I used <a href="http://fortworthfabricstudio.blogspot.com/2014/05/sassy-summer-tote-tutorial.html" target="_blank">this sassy summer tote tutorial</a> from Fort Worth Fabric studio but used a different decoration instead of the dresden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For my mom, two grandmas, and myself I made a <a href="http://store.figtreeandcompany.com/Downloadable_Mini_Stitch_Pattern_From_Fig_Tree_p/993e.htm" target="_blank">stitch</a> block from <a href="http://www.figtreequilts.com/" target="_blank">Fig Tree and Co</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Isn't she adorable?? Well she thinks so anyways lol!</span></div>
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Pieced Nutmeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07552980900559861299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3976505294541943652.post-63626632398632522562014-07-03T08:00:00.000-07:002014-07-03T08:00:00.174-07:00The Husbands Quilt<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My Husband begged for a quilt from the moment that I started my very first one. He wanted a blue one. I didn't feel like making a blue one. Blue is not my favorite color. Aqua I love! Royal blue? No. He will still get a blue quilt (with gray and black and maybe a bit of green to lessen all the blue) but for now I made him his OTHER quilt request.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A WSU quilt! Those are his toes you can see. He absolutley loves it. That's the important thing. But I have to be honest...this thing was AWEFUL to make! First of all those half square triangles are pretty big..but there is still a TON of them on that thing. and sewing that many squares together into rows got REALLY monotonous. Especially since I couldn't chain piece because I KNOW I would have messed up the layout...and that's kinda the whole point of the quilt ya know?! So that was my first problem...severe boredom...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Next problem?? I used the stich and flip method. The backing is minkyish and so it didn't need any batting so this seemed like a great idea right? NOT IF YOU LIVE IN AN APARTMENT! There was NO good place to lay it out and smooth it down for each row. so there are puckers. Some are very large. Some I managed to mostly tame when i flipped the back over to bind (nevermind how much trouble the minky was for binding the corners!) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">THEN! it came apart at some seams in the wash! He still loves it, and I learned a lot...but this was seriously the quilt from hell for me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Was that sufficiantly whiny?? If you didn't quite understand how aweful that quilt was just let me know...I'm sure I can think of other things to complain about ;)</span></div>
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Pieced Nutmeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07552980900559861299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3976505294541943652.post-24422756016694585222014-06-29T10:16:00.002-07:002014-06-29T10:29:24.392-07:00Shop Hop!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hey guys! I'm back! Shop hop was AMAZING! SO.MUCH.FUN! Also...spend all the money...oops! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My Grandma flew in from Kansas to do this with us. Mom rented a mini van and my two grandmas, two younger sisters, mom and I all piled in! <span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">1300 miles, 5 ferries, 5 major bridges, 2 hotels, 6 people, 51 quilt shops, in 5 days!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then they sat like this for awhile before I sewed it all together. Now it's all basted and ready to be quilted! I'm practicing my FMQ to hopefully be able to finish it that way!</span></div>
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<br />Pieced Nutmeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07552980900559861299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3976505294541943652.post-2338816690093711172014-05-24T23:24:00.001-07:002014-05-25T21:12:09.442-07:00Where In The World Is Nutmeg??<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh hello! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Are you still out there my dear quilty friends?? I guess things have been a little crazy lately. But really...mostly...honestly..I got a little discouraged. I didn't feel like anyone was listening and talking to an empty internet wasn't much fun. Only guess what! In order to get people to follow your blog...you have to actually be writing one! Isn't that weird?! Anyways....lets try this again shall we?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So! What HAVE I been up to? Well here's a quick summary and I'll get some posts up with some details starting tomorrow! I'm gonna be so much better about blogging this time I promise! (I mean probably. Maybe. Possibly. I'll try OK!)</span><br />
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<br />Pieced Nutmeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07552980900559861299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3976505294541943652.post-45072654379364779732014-02-12T23:05:00.000-08:002014-05-25T21:11:02.965-07:00Color Intensive<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have been taking the <a href="http://www.stitchedincolor.com/2014/01/color-intensive-registration-opens-today.html" target="_blank">Color Intensive</a> online class from Rachel over at <a href="http://www.stitchedincolor.com/" target="_blank">Stitched In Color</a> and so far I am really enjoying it! I'm learning to be more thoughtful and aware in my color choices, instead of just running with my first instinct! (although I'm sure that I will still be doing lots of that as well!) It's helped me to bring a little more meaning into my choices and helped me focus the message that i'm trying to send with each particular quilt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm REALLY enjoying the mosaic challenges too! My sewing room is a bit of a mess and I have WAY too many projects going right now so digging into my stash for some of the assignments sounded more like a chore then fun, but with these mosaic challenges I'm using online fabric stores and that's much more manageable! Here are the two that I have completed so far!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is my spring time challenge. The theme for mine was "springtime in seattle", there always seems to be a bit more grey to our spring than anything else! Put we do get some pops of those brighter colors! (if only in the clothes I'm wearing LOL!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This class has been amazingly fun so far and I can't wait to find the time to take some more quilting classes!</span></div>
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Pieced Nutmeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07552980900559861299noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3976505294541943652.post-3555977591839190552014-01-29T20:36:00.002-08:002014-05-25T21:10:43.105-07:00My Penny Patch Quilt<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I decided I wanted to join in on the <a href="http://www.stitchedincolor.com/2013/10/penny-patch-beginners-quilt-along.html" target="_blank">Penny Patch Quilt Along</a>...but I knew going in that there was absolutely no way that I was going to stick to their schedule...it was just too close to the holidays when I found it! So I started by choosing my fabric for it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I changed the pattern a little bit from how they did it in the quilt along. In her original quilt (<a href="http://www.stitchedincolor.com/2013/02/a-vintage-tangerine-finish.htmlhttp://www.stitchedincolor.com/2013/02/a-vintage-tangerine-finish.html" target="_blank">Vintage Tangerine</a>) She had plain four patches as well as the penny patches and I decided that I liked that better. You know what that meant though? Yah...quilt math...bleck! I survived it though! And here are my cute little four patches!</span><br />
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Pieced Nutmeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07552980900559861299noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3976505294541943652.post-91191167557754072462014-01-12T08:00:00.000-08:002014-05-25T21:10:14.457-07:00Stash Sunday!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Pieced Nutmeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07552980900559861299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3976505294541943652.post-36699119815466773962014-01-06T19:36:00.001-08:002014-05-25T21:09:57.399-07:00Holiday Wrap Up<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh goodness it's been a long time since I posted anything! The holidays got a bit crazy for me this year!</span></div>
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Pieced Nutmeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07552980900559861299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3976505294541943652.post-88126762222239484832013-12-03T19:24:00.001-08:002013-12-03T19:24:22.444-08:00Holiday Tragedy!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Well I killed my sewing machine :( I tried to fix the timing by myself and ended up dropping a nut down into the machine and now I can't find it! Oh well....The husband let me buy a new one for Christmas so all is not lost! More soon :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Also apparently I need to add this link in here to claim my blog on bloglovin? Wish me luck that this works!!</span></div>
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Pieced Nutmeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07552980900559861299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3976505294541943652.post-11451111327170255752013-11-24T18:29:00.001-08:002014-05-25T21:09:30.115-07:00My First Quilt<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I found the pattern for my first quilt at one of my very favorite local(ish) quilt shops. <a href="http://www.sistersfabric.com/" target="_blank">Sisters Fabric</a> in Chehalis,WA. They have a HUGE selection and often order entire fabric lines! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They had a sample on the wall that I loved but they didn't have a pattern. They wrote me a little how to at the counter and showed me the confetti kit that they had used to make it. There was a ton of fabric in it too so my best friend and I decided to split it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I Didn't forget about my first quilt! I just decided that I should start the story before that! So for posterity's sake here's my little story about how I got into quilting!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Growing up my mom and I went on the Western Washington Quilt Shop Hop every year. For more information you can check them out <a href="http://www.washingtonquiltshophop.com/About_Us.php">Here</a>. But basically a bunch of quilt shops get together and each of them designs a block. Then they put together packages with either all or most of the fabric you would need for that block and directions to make it. You go from shop to shop (there are TONS of shops to get to!) and you get a free block at each stop! Super fun! You get to see all kinds of quilt shops that you might not otherwise have gotten to see. They almost always have fabric sales on too!</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We learned about this one year when my Nama was visiting from Kansas. She is a quilter and so we would always take her to the quilt shop when she visited. They told us all about it and one year mom and I decided to go. I was in awe of all the beautiful fabrics and so I would bring along whatever money I had and buy fabric while we were out. I ended up with quite a stash before I even knew how to sew!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There's me, my two little sisters, mom and Gran on the shop hop one year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So that's how I started collecting fabric and where I first got interested in the idea of quilting. More on my First Quilt to come!</span></div>
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Pieced Nutmeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07552980900559861299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3976505294541943652.post-58632707902886719392013-11-17T12:33:00.000-08:002014-05-25T21:07:35.822-07:00Hello World<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hello world! My name is Meg and I've decided to start a blog!</span></div>
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