February Quilt Block
Added 2020-04-23 07:02:00 +0000 UTCHey, remember in January when I was like "I'm gunna do a diary quilt over the course of the year that summarizes each month of 2020 in the form of embroidered blocks" and then I just, uhhhhhhh, peaced out?
So I actually kept up with it!
I just didn't, y'know, keep anyone else updated on my progress.
But that's ok! Cos I made this whole friggin' movie for you about making February's design!
The embroidered text on it reads "Lemony Snicket, our potted lemon tree, blossomed and is producing tiny fruits for the first time."
Here's the first three quilt blocks:
At some point, I intend to do a post that walks through the process of how the February and March blocks were made, from concept to execution! I just don't have time right now???
OK GOTTA RUN.
Comments
I'm so excited about that whole project. Everything you touch is gold
Dwam
2020-04-26 07:14:11 +0000 UTC(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
Auros Harman
2020-04-24 21:48:50 +0000 UTCOh-ho-ho, I see what you did there
Erika Moen
2020-04-24 18:10:29 +0000 UTCSo, the image captures the moment at which the flowers are getting pollinated? Because you promised us lemon blossoms that are both delicate, and fucking.
Auros Harman
2020-04-24 02:10:36 +0000 UTC(Um also so is your embroidery, duh!!)
Danielle Corsetto
2020-04-23 17:46:22 +0000 UTCAhahaha I laughed so hard at the abruptly-ending music!! How on EARTH do you accomplish as much as you do?? I've been meaning to make a little video about how to color with crayons (but sophisticated-like u_u) and I keep pushing it back because it seems like it would take DAYS of my time. This video is amazing!!!
Danielle Corsetto
2020-04-23 17:46:10 +0000 UTCIT'S SO MAGICAL 😭
Erika Moen
2020-04-23 17:40:46 +0000 UTCOoh yeah, that sounds like a recipe for matting up your fibers 😬
Erika Moen
2020-04-23 17:40:24 +0000 UTCI love it! I've never used that wash-away interfacing although I just finished an old Erica Wilson kit from 1982 that used tear-away stabilizer. The wash-away stuff looks a lot more convenient! I'm spending forever with tweezers trying to pull out the tear-away stuff. (But this kit was wool, crewel on top of needlepoint, so wash-away stabilizer probably would't have been the best in this case.)
tim1724
2020-04-23 17:34:37 +0000 UTCI love this so much! Those ARE some delicate fucking lemon blossoms! Man I gotta get me some of that sweet, sweet adhesive dissolving pattern paper. Whaaaaat, that's magical.
Angela Graves
2020-04-23 17:14:40 +0000 UTCBullshit is in the eye of the beholder U_U
Erika Moen
2020-04-23 17:04:47 +0000 UTCOh! I've had that title on my unending list of books to eventually check out! Happy to hear it's good-- that'll bump it up a few spots on the old list ;)
Erika Moen
2020-04-23 17:04:26 +0000 UTCYeah, this is our first time owning any kind of fruit-producing tree and we were NOT expecting that it would actually 1) flower and then 2) produce legit fruit??? We thought it'd just be kind of a leafy shrub inside the house! It's all been a delightful surprise!
Erika Moen
2020-04-23 17:02:54 +0000 UTCBeautiful work. If this is bullshit then I'm thrilled to keep funding it, because it sure looks better than my bullshit. :)
The Ferret
2020-04-23 15:57:58 +0000 UTCI love this! I also love that you are making it all by hand(obviously the embroidery, but the rest which could be done by machine, but you don't have a machine). I've been doing more hand sewing the last month because I'm doing repair/mending, which most needs to be done by hand. I got a book about mending, called Mending Matters(oops, wrong one, I was thinking of Mending Life, but the other is good of course), which is beautiful and informative.
Nicole Stoddard
2020-04-23 15:17:14 +0000 UTCLovely, thank you!
Marc Pengryffyn
2020-04-23 15:02:57 +0000 UTCThis looks really cool! And pretty :)
Ama
2020-04-23 14:50:25 +0000 UTCThat came out great, love thr video!
Rachel Avila
2020-04-23 13:55:06 +0000 UTCI love this Erica, thank you! Our lemon tree in the southern hemisphere is also flowering and putting out babies, which confused me!
Chelsea Watson
2020-04-23 07:22:59 +0000 UTC
