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the morose beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02649391256664859345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1468085484458138030.post-92185516911151501442017-09-12T08:17:00.000-07:002017-09-12T08:17:03.098-07:00The Creative Process: Hogwarts House Quilt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Y'all, I am a huge fan of half square triangle quilts. I pin every type of pattern I can find on Pinterest and then, when I need to make a new quilt I scroll back through to find something new. Maybe it's really boring to use the same technique over and over again, but Im obsessed with the patterns that can be made from half square triangles. I'm thinking about doing something fun with flying geese and other traditional blocks pretty soon, but in the meantime I'm gonna ride out this HST kick!<a href="http://imquilternity.blogspot.com/2013/11/half-square-triangle-values-quilt.html?m=1"> I found this sample on Pinterest a few weeks back from Quilternity's Place</a>. When I decided to make a Harry Potter inspired quilt for a pregnant friend, I went scrolling back through my boards and new it was perfect! I tweaked a few things, obviously, but this might be one of my favorite yet!</div>
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I am also currently trying to burn through my fabric stash and trying to not buy any fabric for any sewing projects. I bought a round of fabric in the beginning of May and only picked up more recently for an upcoming project because I really wanted something with polar bears for a friend. The Restraint!!!! So for this HP quilt, it took a lot of arranging and rearranging, but I had all the fabric I needed for all the house colors without having to purchase any! The hardest part was Ravenclaw only because I could've sworn Ravenclaw colors were blue and silver, but It was blue and bronze! Finding fabric that looks "bronze" is not easy, but fortunately I had a decent amount of tans and gold that I feel like it really came together.</div>
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The shrinking never fails to amazing me! I love watching quilts get smaller and smaller as you piece them together! It used to annoy me because I wasn't good at planning my seam allowances and my quilts were turning out smaller than I anticipated. Now I love watching it happen!</div>
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I am surprised how fast the quilting went on this one. I thought it was going to take all day, but I finished it just a few hours with coffee breaks. I used rainbow quilting thread, but the lighting in my apartment is not great to see it. The background looks really neat with rainbow stitching showing up in person really well against the dark blue background.</div>
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The finished product! I am so so so happy with this quilt! Picking the binding color was tough as I was worried it would clash or blend too much with one of the house sections, but I think the white looks good. The person I made this for identifies with house Ravenclaw so I threw in some extras for her babe including a raven beanie and magic quote shirt. This might be the last quilt I make for a little while so I can have some time to get some other projects going, but I feel like this was a solid note to rest on!</div>
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<br />the morose beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02649391256664859345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1468085484458138030.post-46082392163544373172017-09-09T23:27:00.000-07:002017-09-09T23:27:00.249-07:00The Creative Process: Fox Quilt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Last year I purchased the <a href="http://ohfransson.bigcartel.com/product/fancy-fox-quilts-pdf-quilt-pattern">Elizabeth Hartman fox pattern</a> to make stockings for the <a href="http://themorosebee.blogspot.com/2016/11/what-i-made-bee-creative-stocking-swap.html">Stocking Stuffer Swap with Bee Creative Swaps</a> and was able to use it again this year to make a full quilt! One of my friends recently had a baby and did a woodland creatures theme for the shower and nursery. I'm super pumped with how this once came out! I think it might be my first time making a full quilt with without simple squares or half square triangles!</div>
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For the fox face I used a bunch of miscellaneous plaids and flannels I had in my stash. I though the dark green background would work well for a forest-y look. Plus! I already had it and didn't need to buy anything for the top of this quilt! Always a plus. Some of the fox faces pop out better than others against the dark green, but I like the variety.</div>
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I also did something I've never tried before with the binding which was combine a bunch of scrap together. It look a while to cute and figure out which pieces were long enough to be worth using, but I love the look of it! I even mixed in a few pieces not cut on a bias and it honestly came out perfectly fine.</div>
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The backing was the only thing I purchased specifically for this quilt. I saw it at a quilt shop in Portland and knew it would be perfect for when I finally got around for making this quilt! I love the way in came out, but I'm looking forward to digging back in to some more half square triangle patterns!</div>
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<br />the morose beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02649391256664859345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1468085484458138030.post-44440331351897965732017-09-06T23:05:00.002-07:002017-09-06T23:05:45.852-07:00Out & About: SF Etsy Team Marketplace<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
After my last post about new beginnings, I thought taking some time to get reinspired and reconnect with the handmade community would be a great first step. The local Etsy team in San Francisco was doing a few weekends of pop up markets so I decided to check it out and see what the SF craft scene was all about.</div>
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I found most things felt somewhat similar to marketplaces I'd been to before which was honestly super encouraging for me. I was worried the handmade craft world would feel like it's taken off and gone way beyond me at this point. I don't know if I was worried about my skill level, my trend awareness or what. The whole time I thought "yeah, I could totally make things that would be appropriate to sell here!" and it was a huge relief!</div>
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My favorite vendor by far was <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/bottleofclouds">Bottle of Clouds</a>! I think I loved her stuff because it was very similar to the jewelry I used to make for The Morose Bee as far as aesthetic goes. Cute, silly, random, and awesome earrings and broaches!</div>
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My spoils! I ended up picking up mostly gifts for other people, but the beet earrings from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/bottleofclouds">Bottle of Clouds</a> are for me. I had a great time and felt like everything was cute and very reasonably priced. I'm hoping to get my act together and join the SF Etsy Team! I just want to refine my shop a bit more before I put myself out there. I feel like things for The Morose Bee in San Francisco are looking up!</div>
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Patchwork Show- November 4th<br />Jack London Square, Oakland, CA</div>
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Renegade Craft Faire- November 11 & 12<br />Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA</div>
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Yesterday I received my termination receipt from the state of Texas for Made With Moxie. I was both sad and relieved to finally be completely finished with that short lived company. I could have put a lot of effort into it and really tried to hustle in San Francisco to make that little mobile art company happen, but I felt totally fried. I spent a lot of time owning and managing small businesses, sacrificing my personal life, spinning my wheels financially, and being in a continuous state of being overwhelmed. I knew owning a creative business was never going to make me a millionaire, but I loved my work. At some point, the hustle starts to eat you up from the inside. I couldn't help but wonder if I was doing Made With Moxie because I felt like I needed to. Working at pottery studios was most of my adult life. Maybe I was just caught in the flow? Mindlessly ordering pottery and making flyers with paint splatter stock photos because it's all I'd been doing for the last 8 years? I started to lose momentum, but eventually other things in my life started to fill up the space. I wanted to sew all of the time and not just paint. I was working at a preschool and really enjoying interacting with kids on more areas than just art. I did a ton of roller derby officiating and travel. I wasn't really focusing on my business 100%. And when the abrupt time came to move to San Francisco, it just felt right to pull the plug. It was all rather unceremonious. I made a post on Facebook to my friends, but just sort of went about deleting all my website and social media accounts without any real mention of what I was doing on a professional level. Now that my Certificate of Termination has arrived, it feels necessary and cathartic to write this.<br />
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Ironically, this weekend is the big Contemporary Ceramic Studio Association Convention. The one I went to for my business. The one I've taught classes at. And friends I made through that industry are posting about their travels and packing on social media. It feels strange not only to not be going, but to not even have realized it was coming up. What's even stranger is I don't really care.<br />
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So now I'm back at the beginning. Just me and The Morose Bee.<br />
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I'm not sure where to go next. I have a lot of jewelry and I'm working on adding new sewing projects into the mix. Although I've been making so many dang quilts, I'm not sure if I'll ever get to them. No longer being tethered to the ceramics industry means I can do whatever I want and that feels wonderful and terrifying. I know I want to keep making and maybe even do a few craft shows again, but I feel like I need to find my voice as a maker again. What is it that I want to put into the world? The San Francisco Etsy team has a market this weekend and that feels like step one. Take a little time to browse beautiful things made by other people and reassess. It's been so longer since I've been to a handmade marketplace, I don't even what's "cool" anymore! Are people still into owls? Is everyone still making soy candles? What's going on, crafters?!<br />
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So that's where I'm at. There's no amazing revelations or conclusions here yet, but I feel hopeful.the morose beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02649391256664859345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1468085484458138030.post-18730678496263421192017-07-10T08:00:00.000-07:002017-09-06T23:29:08.354-07:00The Creative Process: Bumblebee Quilt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Hey look something non-Frida related! I made a quilt for a friend a few weeks ago who was doing a whole bumblebee theme for her shower and nursery. It was a fun quilt to make and nice break to make during all the Frida-suff. She had her baby a few days ago and it's all so exciting!!</div>
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I decided to start using scraps of quilt batting and sew them together to make the batting for smaller quilts. It worked really well and I ended up doing it again for another quilt I've made.<br />
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I didn't take any good pictures for scale, but the quilt came out slightly larger than a "baby" size quilt, but not quite big enough to be considered a "crib" size quilt. I think it will be a perfect size quilt for floor play. The little nugget was born just a few days ago so I hope they find it useful. </div>
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I've been involved in dozens of class projects for school auctions over the last few years. This year I had to make an auction item for the classroom I actually teach in and I think I made my favorite item yet! Hexie pillows featuring the kids artwork! It certainly was not an original idea as I've seen a few things like this on Instagram, but I'm so so happy with how my variation came out!</div>
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First I let various kids in the class decorate premade hexies with a permanent fabric pen. The kids in my classroom range from ages 3-6 so I tried to let as many as possible make a hexie or two. Sometimes I would turn my head for a minute and one kid would have suddenly decorated a dozen of them, but I managed incorporate about half the class on the finished product. Some of them are obvious objects or words from the older children and some are just scribbles from the youngest children. The scribbly ones are kinda my favorite!</div>
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I love them so much it was hard to drop them off at school! I have several leftover hexies so I might be able to make something else to incorporate the extras and have a personal item to remember these special little people.</div>
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This was easily one of the most fun things I have ever made and I hope to have the opportunity to do something like this again in the future. I'm definitely adding it to my repertoire of auction projects available through <a href="http://www.madewithmoxie.net/" target="_blank">Made With Moxie</a>!the morose beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02649391256664859345noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1468085484458138030.post-43768831783939095372016-10-18T08:00:00.000-07:002016-10-18T08:00:41.017-07:00Experimenting with Curved Piecing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Mmmkkkk so straight up this is a post sharing the hardest thing I've made so far in my sewing experience. We had some friends getting married that are part of video gaming community that my husband is a part of. Ari had the idea that we should make them something with the logo of their group on it. I said "sure" not really thinking about it, but quickly kinda started to panic at how to approach this logo. We went with pillows as it seemed like a nice, homey, new couple type gift. I made sort of like a stencil of the logo, cut out all of the fabric and then quickly realized I had no freaking clue how to do any type of curved piecing. After lots of YouTube videos, yelling, wasted fabric, and a few moments of weakness where I almost gave up and went to pick up a gift certificate instead.....I made the dang pillows.</div>
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As you can kinda see in this photo, the fabric doesn't lay very evenly so I still have a lot of work to do in learning how to make things like this. The nice thing about pillows is that a large squishy thing is going inside so it helps kind of disguise that the piecing isn't totally flat.</div>
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I also sort of embroidered their gamer handles on the pillows. I just used hand quilting thread and not embroidery floss so it's not crazy noticeable from afar, but I think it's a nice small touch. The photo above is just me lining it out and chalk.</div>
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I don't mean to doubt myself or my abilities, but like...I'm really surprised at myself that I pulled this off! I definitely want to take some kind of class or guided project so I can get better at this kind of thing, but jeeze louise I'm pretty stoked about these pillows. I would love to hear if anyone else has good tips or experience with this kind of piecing work!<div>
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While I haven't fully gone crazy on decorated our apartment for Halloween yet, I did take advantage of some halloween scrap fabric and made some new Halloween pillows! Originally I had some fancy ideas on how I was going to do a bunch of piecing and quilting, but I've been working on so many other projects that I kind of just wanted the satisfaction of something quick and easy. So! I made these guys.<br />
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I took the other generic pillow covers off and threw them in the wash and then storage. I think I like the idea of making pillows out of scraps and changing them out regularly. I don't often make things for my own home so it's strange to make something and not immediately put it in the mail. I actually get to enjoy these for a while!</div>
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A while back when I was taking a sewing class, someone mentioned saving all their little tiny pieces for stuffing and it's like a flip was switched in my head. All of the sudden I really wanted to make rag dolls! I love the idea of using every single little piece of fabric plus I have lots of friends with kids I knew I could make gifts for. I have literally been saving every teeny tiny little bit of everything for a while now. Fabric gets freaking expensive so I'm always thinking about how I can keep doing what I love without having to spend a ton of money.</div>
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I spent a lot of time down the Pinterest rabbit hole looking at dolls to get ideas and came across a great template from <a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/264299/black-apple-doll" target="_blank">Black Apple via Martha Steward that you can find here</a>. While I ended up deviating from it quite a bit, it was good to have a starting point for scale and reference. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">During my hunt for things to do with my scraps, </span><a href="http://judith-justjude.blogspot.com.au/search?updated-max=2011-09-30T15:18:00%2B01:00&max-results=7&start=111&by-date=false" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">I found THIS tutorial</a><span style="text-align: left;"> on making fabric out of scraps using water soluble stabilizer and I knew I'd want to use for something in the future. Once I decided to make a doll, I thought it would be perfect to make a Tinkerbell dress using my green scraps from </span><a href="http://www.themorosebee.blogspot.com/2016/03/stash-busting-project-2-zippered-pouch.html" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">the clover fabric from the bags I made</a><span style="text-align: left;">. One of my friend's daughters LOVES Tinkerbell and she just had a new baby sister so the idea for Tinkerbell and Periwinkle dolls was perfect. </span></div>
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I piled all the green fabric on top of a larger piece of scrap, but first I found it very helpful to iron everything flat. Sewing the stabilizer over a bunch of scraps can be frustrating as everything jiggles around, but ironing it down definitely helped. The first few stitches where awkward, but after a while I really got into it. The idea is just to put a butt load of stitches all over it to keep the scraps secure. It's kinda like quilting except crazy and all over the place. I loved it! I used lime green, dark green, and white thread to mix it up.</div>
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Once the stabilizer washes off, it took a while to dry which makes sense considering how many layers of scraps are mashed on top of each other here. Ironing definitely helped. Once the stabilizer was off and the fabric was dry, I added in a few more stitches in areas where I could see a few strays.</div>
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3. Snowflake fabric that was in the sale section of leftover holiday fabric (woot!)</div>
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This is what my doll arms and legs look like after hours of fighting with them, pinching, tweezing, everything I could think of. Eventually one of them just shredded to pieces because I was pulling on the fabric so hard. Once I couldn't feel my fingertips from pinching so hard, I tossed in the towel and made new arms and legs out of regular fabric I had. The arms I made out of muslin to sort of match the face, but each fairies legs are made of a color coordinating fabric I had scraps of. </div>
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I did Tink first and stuffed her from the top which left the closing stitch around the top of her head. It was kinda sloppy and I almost messed up her little bun. When I did Periwinkle, I decided to go the opposite way and stuff her from the bottom. I liked that approach much better and allowed me to do her weird ass pointy hair a lot easier. It made it kinda tricky to get her legs on, but I made it work and am definitely going to stick with that approach for future dolls.</div>
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I had some leftover glitter and some fabric glue from a project several months ago so painted on a layer of glue and sprinkled some pink glitter on each set of wings. Because fairies. Their face details and little white feet dots are just done with acrylic paint. I'm sure they would be amazing to add embroidery details, but I'm not there yet. That's definitely a skill I'd like to work on for the future.</div>
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I think I'm going to continue to tweak my pattern and really personalize these, but I definitely plan on continuing to make more! I'm REALLY happy with how they came out. I have a few more friends with kids and I see a few early Christmas presents on the horizon!</div>
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