I missed the Maker Faire in San Mateo this year. I was busy making other stuff. But my most of my family made it…and they made this 4 second video at the Tinkering Studio set up by the Exploratorium.
I can’t wait for the sequel!
I mentioned that I forgot to look at the layout on the ‘Stacks’ quilt from the Modern Quilts Illustrated Issue #1. A number of comments and some other inquiries later, I suppose it’s much less of a mistake than I thought.
SO – here it is…
Mine ends with the long horizontal pieces of green, while the Stacks instructions and cutting inventory ends with the short ones. You would’ve thought I’d have figured out something was wrong when I put the pieces together and ran out of the longer strips of green, but still had plenty of the shorter pieced ones.
No. I did not.
In fact I went ahead and cut more longer strips of green. And didn’t realize there was a difference until I was writing the previous entry.
I blame the dogs for distracting me and sitting on all of the pieces as I was piecing.
They are not feeling least bit guilty or defensive.
My rule of thumb is that if there’s one quilt in a magazine that really I think I’m going to make, I’m happy. I got a copy of Modern Quilts Illustrated issue 1 by Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr. I’m a fan.
I was motivated enough paging through to churn out “Stacks” the first of the three quilts in this issue. You got a sneak peak of it in the previous post with Murphy sitting on the quilt top. I managed to drag the top out from under Murphy to quilt and bind it yesterday. And as you can see….Murphy is back on top.
I lured him back into the house with a treat and took these shots sans dog.
You’re welcome.
I made my version with natural linen for the ground and various scraps of green fabrics for the zig zag part. (See if you can find where I forgot to look at the layout and went my own way.) And because quilts made without Minkee backing these days are preferred these days in this household by dogs and people alike, the backing is this fun daisy printed Minkee.
piecedgoods 