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myurbandreamno quilting this weekend - lauren is at dragoncon. *poutpout* i've never been, but it looks amazing.
anyway, i technically am at a point where i don't need to use any of lauren's stuff to work on the quilt, but i don't really want to work alone - i like spending time with her, and working on the quilt is a good reason. it's become our sunday thing.
last week i sewed the last edge of the stabiliser onto the tshirt layer. it's doing this freakish puckering thing, which lauren says is because the layers stretch differently. (thank god i didn't use jersey or it would have been hellishly worse!) i also rolled out the batting last weekend, to decide if a really want to use it. the answer is yes - it makes the whole thing so soft and fluffy and squishy! it feels more like a quilt as opposed to just a blanket, now. the challenge is that the batting is technically 90" wide, and my quilt right now is about 95" wide. but batting stretches! so, after fighting with the batting for a while, i finally got that pinned in place. i ended up pinning it a little in from the edge on two sides, rather than stretch it too much. but i was dumb about it, so now what i need to do is go fix it. i pinned the batting from the bottom of the layer, which means i have to have access to the bottom in order to get those pins out. but i can't take those pins out until i'm ready to do the actual quilting, 'cause that's the only way the batting is going to be attached, in some places. and at that point the green back layer will be pinned over top of the batting, all the way to the edges, and i won't have bottom-side access anymore. so now i need to go back and pin the batting in place from the top of the quilt. and i need to lay it out flat to do it.
lauren and i went to a church off 290 last week to meet up with her sca palls and do crafty things. lots of people were working with cloth projects, but there was other stuff happening too - cording, copper, wood, etc. one guy was doing the calligraphy for some illuminated texts, and it was beautiful. i commandeered the stage, since it was wide enough to spread out my whole quilt flat to work on it. that was very nice.
so, presuming i continue to have free time on weekends (which is no sure thing; i'm amazed it's lasted this long) i am getting close to being done with this thing. hurrah!
anyway, i technically am at a point where i don't need to use any of lauren's stuff to work on the quilt, but i don't really want to work alone - i like spending time with her, and working on the quilt is a good reason. it's become our sunday thing.
last week i sewed the last edge of the stabiliser onto the tshirt layer. it's doing this freakish puckering thing, which lauren says is because the layers stretch differently. (thank god i didn't use jersey or it would have been hellishly worse!) i also rolled out the batting last weekend, to decide if a really want to use it. the answer is yes - it makes the whole thing so soft and fluffy and squishy! it feels more like a quilt as opposed to just a blanket, now. the challenge is that the batting is technically 90" wide, and my quilt right now is about 95" wide. but batting stretches! so, after fighting with the batting for a while, i finally got that pinned in place. i ended up pinning it a little in from the edge on two sides, rather than stretch it too much. but i was dumb about it, so now what i need to do is go fix it. i pinned the batting from the bottom of the layer, which means i have to have access to the bottom in order to get those pins out. but i can't take those pins out until i'm ready to do the actual quilting, 'cause that's the only way the batting is going to be attached, in some places. and at that point the green back layer will be pinned over top of the batting, all the way to the edges, and i won't have bottom-side access anymore. so now i need to go back and pin the batting in place from the top of the quilt. and i need to lay it out flat to do it.
lauren and i went to a church off 290 last week to meet up with her sca palls and do crafty things. lots of people were working with cloth projects, but there was other stuff happening too - cording, copper, wood, etc. one guy was doing the calligraphy for some illuminated texts, and it was beautiful. i commandeered the stage, since it was wide enough to spread out my whole quilt flat to work on it. that was very nice.
so, presuming i continue to have free time on weekends (which is no sure thing; i'm amazed it's lasted this long) i am getting close to being done with this thing. hurrah!
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Date: 2010-09-07 03:05 am (UTC)ALSO: Try and keep a weekend near Halloween open, yeah? My sis and I might be doing another Halloween thing, and even if you could only come for a night, I REALLY want to see you! *hopehopehope*
www.humoncomics.com <-hilarious.
ME
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Date: 2010-09-07 08:13 pm (UTC)halloween? i'll keep it in mind! october is kind of going to suck for me, i'm thinking. i have two projects for work that happen in mid-october, and my mid-project review for studio is right in the middle of all that as well. and i think i have a mid-term exam also??? anyway, yeah. but the end of october, that should be fine.
halloween is on a sunday this year, so when might this potential thing be happening?
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Date: 2010-09-08 07:47 am (UTC)Sav has a thing Saturday (in Waco), and Sunday is, you know...the day before school will start up again.
But you could come Friday night and be headed back as early as Saturday afternoon! (Sunday morning, even!)
ME