tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80619137710256206082024-02-19T09:01:09.419-06:00operation domestic goddessfiguring out this homemaking thing, with mangostreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15514375286563470593noreply@blogger.comBlogger504125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061913771025620608.post-70213262646238233212019-12-30T21:27:00.000-06:002020-08-02T21:12:03.201-05:00Sept - Oct - Nov - DecI didn't get back into sewing so much in September after the kids went back to school, because that's when I was asked to take on a major leadership role in our church ... one of these days ...<br />
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But I did SOME sewing through the end of the year!<br />
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<b>SEPTEMBER</b><br />
September is National Sewing Month and I set a goal to sew every day. I got 10 of 30. Sigh. Of course, on the 15th, I got the leadership assignment at church so that definitely threw things off.<br />
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<i>mending</i>: 3<br />
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<i>quilt blocks</i>: 4. I made four letter blocks to start working on RG's Extreme Reader quilt (even though I'm still not done with Night Sky).<br />
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<i>a skirt for ME!</i>: this was a long time coming. I even assigned it to myself as my last Faith in God pass-off - the children's church goal program that I was the leader for (so I did it myself with the girls, to encourage them along). When we wrapped up the program in September because of transitioning to a lot of new things, I had one week to just do it - park my butt down and make my skirt.<br />
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It's brown linen, made with the <b><a href="https://shop.madeeveryday.com/products/anywhere-skirt">Anywhere Skirt</a></b> instructions from Made Everyday. (This is the second time I've used this pattern - the first was for SM's theater costume in 6th grade.) It suggests you use twice your waist-measurement for a full skirt - I did about a quarter more than my waist because I wanted it pretty toned down. I ordered painted wood buttons specifically to go with this fabric, and they're my favorite thing about it.<br />
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<b>OCTOBER</b><br />
<i>Night Sky quilt</i>: the top is 100% done! And pinned in its batting/backing sandwich! HOORAY! It's 60 by 80 inches, so a scaled down twin bed size. And then I set it aside for another month to take care of some other things on a deadline ... sigh ...<br />
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<i>other quilt blocks</i>: while finishing the Night Sky top, which took some Tetris skills to get all the differently sized pieces together, I needed to just sew something fast. We had a bunch of cut 4-inch squares left from the "A Doll Like Me" doll quilt project in February, and someone had contributed a bunch of brown. They were just laying around on my table - I think one of the kids got them out - so I mixed the brown with other colors to make what I'm calling a "chocolate checkerboard." To get it big enough for a 48x48-inch back for a jeans picnic blanket, I need more brown ... Checking the scrap bins, and then I'll send out a request to quilting friends to raid their scrap bins. I have 28 4x4 blocks so far. Laid out for the photo, I like it even more than I thought I would!<br />
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<b>NOVEMBER</b><br />
<i>mending:</i> 2<br />
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<i>quilt repair</i>: Adam's mom made a quilt for him incorporating his baby blanket. We let RG have it on her bed because it's quite heavy and it acts as a sort of weighted blanket for her. Unfortunately, her autism fidget issue is that she shreds things - paper and ... fabric ... and she was rather extensively destroying the baby blanket section literally one thread at a time before we caught on. So I confiscated it from her and got some large flannel pieces from my stash. They had been intended to be made into baby blankets if we'd had a boy, but obviously that didn't happen so the fabric has just been sitting here all this time. What's left of Adam's baby blanket is now entirely enclosed and quilted under Dr. Seuss flannel and some flannel pieces left from making Adam's pajama pants - it looks kind of new but it's not really. Just a new piece added to an older quilt with some additional quilting.<br />
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<i>baptism dress</i>: TA was baptized on November 30, and per our family tradition (let's be honest - Adam insisted on this one), I made another baptism dress. It was down to the wire - I finished it the day before. The pattern was the Oliver and S Pinwheel dress, because of the flounces on the bottom. It's actually two pieces - an under-dress with the lower flounce, and a tunic over the top with the upper flounce. I made the under-dress out of lining rather than cotton because TA likes silky fabrics against her skin. The pattern idea is that the two pieces can be worn separately if the child wishes - this one can't because the lining is somewhat sheer. But that's okay. I can make her another.<br />
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It's also TOTALLY typical of this girl to insist that she wear sneakers. She hasn't worn "church shoes" in ... I don't know when she ever did. So Daddy took her to get some new white ones to wear with her white dress. The only thing missing was that she wanted white leggings to wear with it too, because that's her style - dress or t-shirt, a hoodie, leggings, sneakers. I need to get a picture of how she has styled this dress to church since her baptism: the white dress with black leggings, the white sneakers, and a black/silver zip-front puffy vest over the dress with the ruffles sticking out underneath. It actually looks pretty cool.<br />
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<b>DECEMBER</b><br />
I still have A LOT of church work (it's at least three years in this position), and even some editing work ... but WAY less than last year. Just a couple of hours here and there - not rewriting an entire freaking book in two months.<br />
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I did no sewing at all this month until Christmas day, when I spent the entire afternoon quilting the Night Sky quilt. And then some more the next day, and I got the diagonal lines done in one direction. I thought about leaving it like that because it looks kind of cool, but Mindy said that she was told that if you quilt only one direction, the quilt will eventually warp. Sigh. So I will go the other direction for the criss-cross. Then fold the backing around to the front to be the binding.treenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15514375286563470593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061913771025620608.post-4281691480507907722019-11-24T22:16:00.000-06:002019-11-24T22:16:12.358-06:00Mindy's Holiday Baking List<div>
<a href="https://theprettybee.com/pumpkin-spice-molasses-cookies/">Pumpkin Molasses Cookies</a> - soft and chewy like cookies should be, these add a nice amount of spice and variety to your cookie plate. (And I make this recipe with gluten and non-vegan.)</div>
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<a href="http://yinandyolk.com/2015/11/21/fluffy-pumpkin-souffles/">Pumpkin Souffle</a> - like a crustless pumpkin pie, this is what I'll be having for Thanksgiving this week.</div>
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<a href="http://weneedmangos.blogspot.com/2018/11/gimme-some-sugar.html">Sugar Cookies</a> - these cookies are definitely not limited to Christmas. We usually make them for most holidays, birthdays and just-because days too.</div>
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<a href="http://pinkpiccadillypastries.blogspot.com/2014/02/fairy-bites.html">Fairy Bites</a> - nothing fancy about tiny shortbread cookies with sprinkles on top, but they are requested each year.</div>
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<a href="https://www.a-kitchen-addiction.com/peppermint-crunch-snowball-cookies/?cn-reloaded=1">Peppermint Snowballs</a> - I made these for the first time in 2015 and instantly knew they would become a Christmas tradition. These are a must-make every December.</div>
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<a href="https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/9857/peppermint-meringues/">Peppermint Meringue</a> - I like to make these for my gluten-intolerant friend. And they are yummy for me too, of course.</div>
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Rice Krispie Squares - no reason to include the recipe because it comes written on the box. The only difference is we use peppermint marshmallows, or you could add 1 tsp of extract to make them minty.</div>
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<a href="https://allshecooks.com/candy-cane-chocolate-fudge/">Candy Cane Fudge</a> - basically two ingredient fudge with crushed candy canes on top. So super simple but you can't go wrong with chocolate!</div>
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<a href="https://sugarspunrun.com/cookie-dough-fudge-2-0/">Cookie Dough Fudge</a> - after the first time I knew it would be made again and again. I've included this recipe in my daughter's journal because I know she'll want it when she's older. It does require more than just two ingredients, but worth the extra time (which still isn't long!).</div>
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<a href="https://www.greensnchocolate.com/coconut-orange-mini-muffins/">Chocolate Orange Muffins</a> - not just a Christmas-time muffin, but I love how these taste like the chocolate orange I always get in my stocking. I like these best as mini muffins and will also make them as lime coconut or lemon poppyseed just by swapping out the zest and one ingredient. </div>
Mindy Sebastianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03253104741470705413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061913771025620608.post-33741545281578838372019-08-31T20:05:00.000-05:002019-09-08T19:36:59.953-05:00June - July - AugustSince May, when my sewing momentum was completely shut down, I haven't done much at all. The busy-level of the summer felt a lot more hectic this year, even though last year was had the exact same pattern: 17-day vacation followed by summer theater followed by two camps, and then back to school. I'm getting old ... anyway ...<br />
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<b>JUNE</b><br />
mending: 6<br />
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zip totes: 4 for teacher gifts at the elementary school, made literally the day before school year ended. But they were done, and they were gift-wrapped and ready to go when the girls left for school on the last day!<br />
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quilt blocks: 1 - the cake block from the Spelling Bee book. My intention is to make a "Happy Birthday" banner to hang up for birthday parties and include this block, but this is as far as it's gotten.<br />
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crafting: lots and lots of "tornado streamers" for the summer theater production of The Wizard of Oz. The choreography was that Dorothy and Toto spun in circles while the Munchkins ran in circles around them, first with the dark colored streamers for the storm, and then switching to the colored ones to indicate her travel to Oz. I came up with how to do the streamers - I bought the plastic-y tablecloths from the dollar store, cut them into strips, and hot-glued them to craft sticks. We made about 150 of these (total, both sets combined) and each one had 3 to 8 streamers. It was a lot of cutting and a lot of glue, and a lot of time. But only about 10 bucks.<br />
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<b>JULY</b><br />
<i>mending</i>: 1<br />
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<i>quilt blocks</i>: 4, put together in a quilt-as-you-go small project. I did this at my friend Sarah's house in Utah so she could teach me the technique. I took a bunch of photos with the intention of posting a tutorial here, but obviously we haven't gotten to that yet.<br />
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<i>summer theater</i>: I am such a glutton for punishment. I still agreed to be the costume manager again, even though our family wasn't even IN the show this year. On the morning of THE SHOW - not the THREE dress rehearsals - Adam helped me figure out the Tin Man costume, and that gave me fits all the way through the show. Every break, I was pinning it somewhere just to keep it on the guy. We were both happy to take it apart and throw it in the trash within an hour of the final curtain!<br />
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- I'm most proud of our Yellow Brick Road - it was a PERSON! She danced, and Dorothy and crew followed her. I made the cape, and this cute girl was so excited when I told her she could keep it when the show was over. I hope she dresses up as the Yellow Brick Road for Halloween.<br />
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- a lot more tornado streamers<br />
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- mending: 1<br />
- zip tote: 1 for a birthday party gift<br />
- fabric shopping bag: 1. A new state law in Connecticut requires you to pay for any store plastic bags you use, to try to encourage people to use fabric bags. Yay for the environment and less plastic! Really, I support this. Now I just need to get my bag supply up to speed.<br />
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No photos of anything in August.treenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15514375286563470593noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061913771025620608.post-52092446610831232452019-05-31T08:28:00.000-05:002019-07-12T18:19:43.716-05:00May nothingOy. This month, life <i>happened</i>, and it happened <i>HARD</i>. I sewed one quilt block for Night Sky, and that's it. No mending, no nothing. My goal was to finish Night Sky entirely for SM's birthday, but in the first couple of days of the month, I got a Facebook message from a friend in Australia whose college-age daughter is in the US ... and everything went down the tubes while I dealt with her passport issues.<br />
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So here's the Night Sky status ... A few weeks ago, my little girls helped me lay out the finished blocks to see how they can fit together. My mistake with this quilt is that I made things of all kinds of different sizes without planning how they would fit together, so I'm kind of scrambling now. It looks really neat, but it's a rather painful Tetris game to put it together.<br />
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Twin-sized quilts are typically 90x70 inches but I cleared 10 inches off because this is going on a bunkbed. I don't want lots of overhang at the edges of the bed - the slightly smaller quilt works better for us.treenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15514375286563470593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061913771025620608.post-11863197240863229592019-04-30T19:58:00.000-05:002019-04-30T19:58:26.933-05:00April finishes- the doll quilt project was finished up with the last of the labels being attached, and shipped out to Wisconsin.<br />
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- JE's birthday dress<br />
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- a pair of knit shorts for pajamas. The Kid Shorts pattern from Made only goes up to a size 10, and three of my five have outgrown that largest size in the past few months. So I attempted to scale it up to a 12-ish size, and this was my test run. I need to make a slight adjustment on the height of the rise to the waistband, but mostly it turned out fine.<br />
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- I gave myself a deadline to finish the Night Sky quilt: SM's birthday in 8 days. I made 7 more blocks and got the second section of three done. I was trying to entirely finish the pieced top today, but got sidetracked by an emergency visit to the orthodontist. It will be done by this weekend, and then I'll have Mon/Tues/Wed next week to quilt it. The binding will be easy - the backing is HUGE because I bought super-wide flannel (120 inches instead of 60), so I'm going to flip it around to the front and enclose the edges with it. treenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15514375286563470593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061913771025620608.post-75810704743098128472019-04-22T12:16:00.003-05:002019-04-22T18:01:52.880-05:00service finish<a href="http://weneedmangos.blogspot.com/2019/02/a-doll-like-me-take-2.html">Post 1</a><br />
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So proud of my crew of 12 little girls who were so eager to serve other children! Made by kids for kids!treenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15514375286563470593noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061913771025620608.post-21163958968923079322019-04-21T12:30:00.000-05:002019-04-22T12:45:13.809-05:00crazy cat girlI'm not sure if she's a crazy cat girl, or a cat crazy girl ...<br />
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This is the child who, about a year ago, wanted to get rid of all of her clothes, and get all <i>new </i>clothes ... with cats on them. I saw this print online and figured what the heck. So I bought the fabric to make this dress for her, and happy birthday to our newly-minted 9-year-old!<br />
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I hadn't worked much with knit before, so I went for it and bought some higher end, more expensive knit for this. SO cute! SO soft! SO annoying to work with! The edges curled like nobody's business. I had to pin the crap out of it, seriously like every inch. I could steam it flat with the iron, but as soon as the heat went out of it, it curled up again. Now that it's done, it's a fabulous dress, but making it took awhile because of having to go so excruciatingly slow.<br />
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The pattern is the <b><a href="https://oliverands.com/shop/digital-girl-on-the-go-dress-top-sewing-pattern.html">Girl on the Go dress from Oliver+S</a></b>. The fabric is <b><a href="https://www.madeeveryday.com/blush/">Cat Nap Pink by Dana Willard</a> </b>in the Blush collection.<br />
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And because this is the 500th POST!!!!! - I actually have an unopened copy of the Girl on the Go pattern that I will give away on April 29 (because that's the next 9 day, for my 9-year-old). US/Canada only. Comment what your hints are for working with knit fabrics because whoa, that was less than fun.treenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15514375286563470593noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061913771025620608.post-68817289638500700072019-03-31T19:05:00.000-05:002019-04-28T10:54:51.128-05:00March notes1 - <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/nannysbabiestoodollslikeme">A Doll Like Me</a></b> doll quilts: I quilted the 7 I had pinned, pinned the other 6, and quilted all of them. In three days. I was on a roll. I took them to a friend who showed me how to do binding. While she did 12, I did one. In the same amount of time. Yeah. I'm a rookie and she's super experienced.<br />
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I am now handstitching on the "Made by kids for kids" labels. 4 done, 9 to go.<br />
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2 - Night Sky blocks: 2 more.<br />
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3 - six bean bags for hopscotch<br />
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4 - "thread drawing" on a skirt to "decorate" it for my I-hate-plain-clothes girls.<br />
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5 - costume pieces for JK's birthday party: no-sew fleece dragon wings for JK and TA, a big stuffed dragon tail for JK, and a glittery top with a high-low hem for JE. I used the Girl-on-the-Go pattern from Oliver+S for the top.<br />
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treenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15514375286563470593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061913771025620608.post-22258892357968163162019-03-15T17:11:00.000-05:002019-03-26T17:12:18.585-05:00skirt "decorating" RG does not like plain/solid colored clothing because it's "boring." Last spring, I made her a basic skirt in plain blue linen-ish-weave fabric for Colonial Day at school (in April or May, but forgot to put it in the journal notes). They didn't have calico prints in that time period, so sorry, Kiddo, your skirt is boring.<br />
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Once Colonial Day was over, she still had this perfectly good, brand-new skirt. So I've added some fun details, and NOW I will put it in the sewing journal! (I probably should have just left it alone for future Colonial Days at school, but whatever.)<br />
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I have the sewing book <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1440211612/ref=s9_wishf_gw_i1?ie=UTF8&coliid=I1CFQ9WET8V0A8&colid=2X8TPKG0BFD4R&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=right-3&pf_rd_r=1BH1E1SDHENKFRFDWCRS&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=481918071&pf_rd_i=507846">Stitch by Stitch</a></b> from the writer of the <b><a href="http://whip-stitch.com/blog/">Whip-Stitch blog</a></b> (which is posted on far too infrequently for my liking), and in one of the "learn your machine" exercises, the "assignment" is to figure out thread-drawing. You drop the feed dogs on the machine - the little teeth that pull the fabric under the needle - and change the foot to a free-motion foot. Your hands are now 100% in control of how the fabric goes under the needle.<br />
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I like flowers and garden scenes, and they're easy to draw. So that's what I did. It probably looks like a little kid drew it, because it was my first attempt at anything of this sort. But I like it and I don't care what anyone else thinks about it. I don't see THEM trying to draw with thread!treenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15514375286563470593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061913771025620608.post-53397693563374946382019-03-07T14:41:00.000-06:002019-03-07T14:41:04.554-06:00February tangents<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I think I would have fewer tangents if it weren't for Project Quilting. Thankfully the season is only 6 challenges long, so I will have less distractions soon. (But I have a way of distracting myself with other projects so I don't know if anything will actually improve.) Anyway, here is something <a href="https://kimlapacek.com/2019/02/10-3-bigger-than-a-breadbox-challenge-3-of-project-quilting-season-10.html">Bigger Than a Breadbox</a>. I was just going to focus on all the projects I had already started, but then I saw <a href="https://www.simplesimonandco.com/2019/02/with-all-my-heart-quilt-pattern.html/">this</a> while scrolling through Facebook, and thought it'd be easy enough to make a small doll quilt. I have lots of 5" squares, picked a few and off I went. The actual quilting isn't my best - the back is quite wrinkly - but I think it's pretty cute. A non-pink heart for Valentine's Day (although I was tempted by some pink and purple .. that may have to happen later). </div>
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While basting the blue heart above, I also basted this project too - I finished the top for this table runner before Christmas and now it is all done! It was made from scraps from a quilt that is .. sadly in the UFO pile. All the blocks are done, but it hasn't turned into a top yet. It is on the list to finish for Christmas this year, and hopefully a second Christmas quilt as well - I have a stack of fabric but haven't settled on a pattern yet.</div>
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I've kept up with my <a href="https://sewfreshquilts.blogspot.com/p/harry-potter-quilt-along.html">Harry Potter quilt</a> until now. Ron here was a little late (typical) and Luna is still in pieces. Her glasses look quite intimidating, so it keeps getting pushed aside. I won't let myself go too much farther without picking up the UFOs and turning them into completed projects. This one is slated for a friend's baby due at the beginning of April so I can't wait much longer!</div>
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Speaking of Harry Potter... one of the challenges from Project Quilting this season was <a href="https://kimlapacek.com/2019/02/10-4-pixel-play-challenge-4-of-project-quilting-season-10.html">Pixel Play</a> and I had been eyeing this beautiful Hedwig from the <a href="https://www.kellifanninquilts.com/p/harry-potter-sewalong.html">second QAL</a>. Even though I didn't start it until Thursday (and the deadline is always Sunday) I eeked it out just in time. I turned the 12" block into a pillowcase for my friend's birthday and she loved it.</div>
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And finally, the longest running project on the list - the last of the <strike>Squared Away</strike> Twilt blocks were completed! (Can't call this one Squared Away because it wasn't originally included.) I ended up doing a second blue pinwheel to bring my total block count to 48. That is a LOT of blocks! Trina finished hers up as well and we both got them in the mail.</div>
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All of our blocks. I'm still playing with the layout, and leaning towards a grey sashing with cornerstones. And that border. Did some math - I need over 300 2.5" squares to make a double-wide border. Good thing I've got over 400 cut then! It's going to take a lot of time to get this finished, and with a July deadline I better not put it off for much longer.</div>
Mindy Sebastianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03253104741470705413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061913771025620608.post-23740640806158087362019-02-28T22:15:00.000-06:002019-03-01T11:42:31.833-06:00February's list<b>Quilting</b><br />
1 - Squared Away: the last 4 blocks are DONE!! Hooray! I did the final two sets - dark green and purple, and got everything boxed up and into the mail for Mindy. I was apparently so excited to get them done and out the door, I didn't even take pictures of the last block. Ha! I just got her last two blocks a couple of days ago, so as soon as I get the doll quilts done and on their way, I can lay out this quilt and start putting the full top together. Hooray!<br />
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2 - Night Sky: 5 more blocks made, and section 2 of the quilt put together. So the entire top section is now done, and it's 60 inches across. The plan is to make it 80 inches long - right now, it's at 33. I was running out of the gray in the top center spinner, so in the bottom left Hunter Star, I used the gray scraps from SM's apron from last year's theater costume. It will be fun for her to have that memory incorporated into her quilt.<br />
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3 - Letter blocks: one so far, for a new mini quilt project. I got this <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Its-Sew-Emma-ISE-916-Spelling/dp/0996632271">quilting book called Spelling Bee</a></b> by Lori Holt and it literally is the instructions to make every letter of the alphabet, both upper and lower case, plus a bunch of punctuation marks and some fun extra bonus blocks. The globe was the one that got me to buy the book. I have so. many. ideas. of what to do with the letters.<br />
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4 - 15 doll quilts to be sent to <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/nannysbabiestoodollslikeme">A Doll Like Me</a>:</b> the two TA and I made a year ago, the star one that JE started in January, AND 12 more made this month by our church activity group. My part of the 13 made in the past 60 days:<br />
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<li>cut 230 squares, other people brought more and we had probably around 1000</li>
<li>made the "Made by kids for kids" labels</li>
<li>after the activity, I finished 4 of the quilts at home</li>
<li>made 7 quilt sandwiches, 6 to go but I ran out of pins</li>
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Another woman from church, who donated some of the fabric, has agreed to do the bindings. Bless her forever!<br />
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1 - two more scripture tote bags ... I made the ten in January for the church activity girls and had a little fabric left over. So I made two more for my girls who didn't have bags for church items. For our family, the "quiet" materials are sketchbooks and writing utensils (pens, pencils, markers, etc).<br />
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2 - more service sewing, this time for <b><a href="https://www.daysforgirls.org/">Days For Girls</a></b>. My church's women's organization is part of an interfaith group that makes fabric reusable menstruation products to be taken to developing countries, where the women and girls don't have hygiene items during their cycles. The original intention was to give girls these products so they don't have to miss school during their period, but I'm sure it's spread further than that. Our local group is getting a shipment ready to send to Senegal this spring and I went to a Saturday sewing day this month. I have a schedule conflict for the Saturday in March, so I brought home 25 shields to finish here, and a friend will take them back. They're done and ready to go.<br />
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SM goes with me - she and her friend JM put snaps on one of the pieces, and they're knocking out quite a few service hours!<br />
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<b>Mending</b>: 8treenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15514375286563470593noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061913771025620608.post-39381694514164987242019-02-16T16:07:00.002-06:002019-02-22T14:31:40.430-06:00A Doll Like Me take 2<i>Last</i> February - a year ago - there was a sewing challenge from the blog <b><a href="https://needleandfoot.com/">Needle and Foot</a></b> to make doll quilts for <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/nannysbabiestoodollslikeme">A Doll Like Me</a></b>, a single-woman shop that custom-makes dolls to match children's limb differences. I set a target for our family to have everyone make one - six or seven (depending on Adam) ... which we did not meet. TA and I were the only ones who made any, and those two lonely little quilts have just been sitting here ever since.<br />
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But those two little quilts - staring at my kids for almost a year - have certainly raised awareness in our house. Recently, JE needed to do a service activity for her church award program, so her star blocks last month were the start of a new doll quilt to donate. I need to block in the background fabrics for her, since that's even a bit out of my own range, but she was excited about making the star blocks.<br />
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Then it was JE's turn to choose the church activity for a Wednesday evening - she wanted to sew doll quilts to donate. So proud of my girl for choosing service instead of just playing games!<br />
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We had five adults to manage the ten girls, plus a 5-year-old little sister who was tagging along with Mom, at our evening activity - two per sewing machine. All the girls chose their fabrics and how they were laid out, and got to take turns sewing on the machines.<br />
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We labeled them "<b><i>Made by kids for kids</i></b>" and they really were. My own daughter, TA, was working with me at my machine, and she and her partner KA charged right in there. If I even looked away, one of them would be right there at the machine. They did not need help, thankyouverymuch! At one point, I walked away entirely to check on some other kids and my work buddies had two rows done by the time I got back.<br />
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<b>Status</b>: 9 flimsies done, 3 more with the squares in rows but the rows need to be attached because we ran out of time. So a total of 12 from the church activity, because when <i>our </i>5-year-old little sister heard that her friend got to make one, she wanted to do one too. So we did. The three from home (2 done last year, JE's stars) make a total of 15 to be shipped when we're done.<br />
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<b>Next</b>: I brought everything home to square them. Some got a bit wonky, and one had to have the last row taken completely off and redone. I need to figure out batting - I thought I had some fleece I could use, but it's not going to work out. Then I'll pin them into their 3-layer sandwiches and do just basic straight-line quilting. Another woman from church said that she'll do all the bindings for me - hooray!treenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15514375286563470593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061913771025620608.post-43366210295562259182019-02-07T13:26:00.001-06:002019-02-07T13:26:20.991-06:00so much for mom sewingI went downstairs to work on some quilt blocks. I did not. I untangled yarn and threaded needles over, and over, and over. For the entire two hours Dad and the big girls were at church. Seriously. As soon as I had one taken care of, the next needed a refill on her needle. It was a constant rotation. Plastic canvas and yarn, and these girls are ready to get their craft on!<br />
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Trina and I have been working on the <a href="https://academicquilter.blogspot.com/p/squared-away-bom.html">Squared Away</a> block of the month for the past year. We got to the end and I didn't like the bonus square (and one other). So I broke the rules and picked one I liked! I found this Monkey Wrench block <a href="https://www.generations-quilt-patterns.com/monkey-wrench-quilt-block-pattern.html?fbclid=IwAR1UVfFA1CCNT2SBaHNjZ6t-8YZfZ7Sw9BN6vCUVhR-3ZMCYWGiq8l-yzLo">here</a> but it used a paper piecing method, which wouldn't have matched the rest of the quilt. So I had to figure it out on my own. It was pretty straight forward, but to help Trina out when she was ready to make her own I made up this little tutorial.</div>
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-Use your 6" squares to make eight HSTs. - <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnx6r1-4bLY">VIDEO</a> </b>on how to make magic 8 HSTs.<br />
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-Mark four of the white squares with a diagonal line. Put it RST on the purple rectangle. Sew on the line (shown in red in the picture below). Trim a 1/4" seam allowance (green line). Press open. <i>Note</i>: Make sure your diagonals are either going ALL one direction or HALF the other direction. Either way works, just be aware of them. I made them all going one direction, so that's what the pictures with show.</div>
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Start with the HSTs. Sew them in pairs. To keep it quick I just made them all the same direction and rotated it in my final placement.<br />
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Add a purple/white rectangle to TWO sections. (You can't do all four at once! Ask me how I know.) While you are at it you can add the lone white square to another one of the p/w rectangles.<br />
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Finally, sew the two larger pieces to the center strip. Press and admire!<br />
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Mindy Sebastianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03253104741470705413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061913771025620608.post-55387190471237828772019-02-01T21:44:00.000-06:002019-02-07T13:22:04.950-06:00January in ConnecticutI'm finally sewing a lot again! Hooray! I missed it. Now I need to get back into blogging too, so things get their own posts throughout the month instead of a big photo dump at intervals.<br />
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<b>Clothing</b><br />
1 - circle skirt for SM - I watched the <b><a href="https://www.madeeveryday.com/2015/10/new-video-how-to-sew-a-circle-skirt.html/">video from Made Everyday</a></b> and used her instructions. It was pretty intimidating at first because of the curve, and sewing directly to the elastic. And ... yeah, don't look too closely at that part. Good thing her shirt covers the top! But it's sufficiently twirly for her, so she's happy.<br />
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2 - peasant top for RG - <b><a href="http://www.thingsofcloth.com/documents/adult-size_peasant_blouse_tutorial.pdf">tutorial from Things of Cloth</a></b>. It's the same pattern that SM is wearing in the above picture, that I made last spring (yep, these are two different shirts in the pictures!). Now RG has one as well, but she's worn it only the one time. ???? Maybe because she has deemed it a spring shirt? Or maybe it will end up in SM's drawer. The peasant top I made for SM last year has been worn SO much that it's becoming very, very thin.<br />
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8 blocks for 3 different quilts ... 4 for Squared Away - I'm FINALLY getting back to it! Just two more colors left - dark green and dark purple.<br />
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JE and TA wanted to try their hand at machine sewing, and they worked with me on 2 blocks each. I did all the cutting (I don't trust kids yet with the rotary cutter - I gashed my own finger with it a few months ago), and I helped them with the machine. JE learned chain-stitching, which she thought was nifty.<br />
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JE made two of these star blocks with her own selection of fabric, to be put into a doll quilt. She did the chain piecing for all the half-square-triangles (HST), and was excited to put them all together into one star.<br />
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TA has plans for her own twin-sized quilt for her bed, which obviously I've not made yet ... happy to have her assistance! She did two blocks as well. We're using the <b><a href="http://intrepidthread.blogspot.com/2016/06/pixie-summer-house-quilt-along.html">house block pattern from Intrepid Thread</a></b>.<br />
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1 - Ten canvas tote bags for a church activity. The 10 girls in my group decorated them with fabric markers, and hot-gluing ribbon and fabric flowers and "jewel" sparkle thingies to them. Yes, I could have bought them. But buying 10 would have cost $45, and the fabric cost only $15. I had the time to make them, and I have other ideas for blowing my budget money this year.<br />
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2 - While I had the craft supplies out, JK found some leftover fabric circle flower things kicking around, and decided one needed to be a hair clip. <b><a href="http://weneedmangos.blogspot.com/2019/01/stylin.html">Sure, why not!</a></b><br />
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3. Edge stitching on a large piece of fleece to make into a throw blanket for the TV couch.<br />
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<b>Mending</b>: 5treenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15514375286563470593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061913771025620608.post-63029288946701479322019-01-31T22:36:00.000-06:002019-03-03T22:14:52.219-06:00January in Canada<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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So far this year I've been sewing pretty much constantly, with a <a href="https://mindycreates.blogspot.com/2019/01/grady.html">drawing</a> added in there for good measure. My house may suffer for it, but it isn't like I can keep up with the mess anyway so I might as well have fun.</div>
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Project Quilting <a href="https://kimlapacek.com/2019/01/project-quilting-mystery-quilt-along-wrap-up-and-link-up.html">mystery quilt along</a>, </div>
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so LOTS of 2.5" squares for that.</div>
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I just didn't like the original blue one.</div>
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Now that we both approve, I need to make a second one.</div>
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NEW PROJECT! <a href="https://sewfreshquilts.blogspot.com/p/harry-potter-quilt-along.html">Sew Fresh Quilts</a> is making a Harry Potter quilt!</div>
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It is more exact that I've ever had to be, but super fun.</div>
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I'll just be doing the first four blocks instead of the whole thing. </div>
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I started a mini quilt with economy blocks, because I think they're fun. </div>
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I plan on donating it to A Doll Like Me <a href="http://weneedmangos.blogspot.com/2018/02/doll-quilts.html">like last year</a>.</div>
Mindy Sebastianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03253104741470705413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061913771025620608.post-4079791624838366662019-01-22T17:43:00.003-06:002019-12-04T09:32:29.242-06:00chicken and spinach sauteAdam was being inventive awhile back and created this really good recipe. We liked it so much that he hurried to write it all down before he forgot what he did ... which is a good thing, because when I made it tonight for dinner, he'd completely forgotten that he made it at all!<br />
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2 chicken breasts, diced<br />
1 onion, chopped<br />
spinach - choose your own quantity<br />
sundried tomatoes - choose your own quantity<br />
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salt and pepper<br />
1/2 tsp grains of paradise<br />
1/2 tsp lemon extract<br />
1/2 tsp orange extract<br />
1/2 tsp almond extract (you could just leave this out if necessary due to nut allergies)<br />
1 tsp oregano<br />
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In skillet with olive oil, saute the chicken, onion, spices and extracts. When the chicken is cooked through, add the sundried tomatoes. Cook until soft. Then add the spinach and stir it around until it's wilted.<br />
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You can eat at this stage. OR you can make it into a sauce to put over pasta. We poured straight cream over the whole thing, and added a splash of apple juice. Yum.<br />
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treenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15514375286563470593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061913771025620608.post-21389807314747205362019-01-21T17:36:00.000-06:002019-01-22T17:36:48.792-06:00stylin'So fashionable for age 5.<br />
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<br />treenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15514375286563470593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061913771025620608.post-72742663397994160482019-01-15T14:59:00.001-06:002019-01-15T14:59:37.287-06:002019 To-Do / 2018 Ta-Da!I know this sort of post isn't required, but I really like to see my to-do list become a <i>Ta-Da! List</i>. 2018 was full of fabric and sewing. It was wonderful! My posting dropped off those last few months (my personal blog is at least six months behind!), but I was still very busy - my sister got married and I made four dresses for the flower girls! And the twin quilts (or Twilts and I've started to call them) that I talk about below...<br />
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<li><a href="https://weneedmangos.blogspot.com/2018/03/maple-mission.html" style="font-family: "Josefin Sans"; text-align: center;">Maple Mission</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Josefin Sans"; text-align: center;">: My own design! My parents love it.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;"><span style="background-color: white;">2 <a href="https://weneedmangos.blogspot.com/2018/02/doll-quilts.html">Doll Quilts</a>: Made for and donated to A Doll Like Me.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://weneedmangos.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-stitch-in-time.html">String Bean</a>: My first Project Quilting challenge, and the string piecing I wanted to do.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://weneedmangos.blogspot.com/2018/07/mini-pink-doll-quilt.html">Mini Pink</a>: Little doesn't always mean faster. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;"><span style="background-color: white;">2 <a href="https://weneedmangos.blogspot.com/2018/10/narwhal-quilt-1.html">Narwhal Quilts</a>: Started and finished in time for two new nieces!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Christmas Cake Quilt</b>: All the blocks finished. Hoping to finish in 2019. I also started a <b>table runner</b> with the scraps!</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;"><span style="background-color: white;">Block of the Month <b>Twilt</b>s: This is probably where I put in my most sewing hours, and yet I haven't posted about it at all. Trina suggested we do the <a href="https://academicquilter.blogspot.com/p/squared-away-bom.html">Squared Away Block of the Month</a> on Academic Quilter and then share blocks with each other. I've made <i>44</i><b> </b>10" blocks - two identical sets of 22, half for me and half for her. So much work!! We haven't gotten the last of the blocks sorted out so I can't finish it yet, but I've been cutting even MORE little squares to make a scrappy border for it. Countless hours of work, but I love it!</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;">As for my non-quilty sewing, I actually accomplished most of what I had hoped to. My color challenge fizzled out, since I didn't give myself any rules. And I never made jackets - which I should do soon before Cupcake grows out of the pattern!</span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;">two sets of pajamas and a sleep sack</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;">six towel baby bibs</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;">two Mckenzies</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi74lAxu6paxZXAfDb2yuDVeJa_rzPvz1L8-BlpLNV4BNxDnuZ5wyEjZxcoAAphxU4pcThlu_FYb6tgp6e9eyzcr6CpYgu06bluVnj1qOwOrPXPM5fZtFiUeDDRU50SWJ5LGMbjzhqiAi5C/s1600/DSC00723.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="927" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi74lAxu6paxZXAfDb2yuDVeJa_rzPvz1L8-BlpLNV4BNxDnuZ5wyEjZxcoAAphxU4pcThlu_FYb6tgp6e9eyzcr6CpYgu06bluVnj1qOwOrPXPM5fZtFiUeDDRU50SWJ5LGMbjzhqiAi5C/s320/DSC00723.JPG" width="185" /></a></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;">two baby peasant dresses</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;">four <a href="https://weneedmangos.blogspot.com/2018/07/quilt-square-baby-toys.html">baby crinkle toys</a></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;">two <a href="https://weneedmangos.blogspot.com/2018/04/ishi-dress.html">Ishi dresses</a></span> for Easter</li>
<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;">four <a href="https://weneedmangos.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-alder-skirt.html">Alder skirts</a> for me</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;"><a href="https://weneedmangos.blogspot.com/2018/05/maggie-remix.html">Maggie Mae</a> sheepy top</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;">matching <a href="https://weneedmangos.blogspot.com/2018/07/we-match.html">My Little Pony outfits</a> for me and my daughters</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;"><a href="https://weneedmangos.blogspot.com/2018/05/maggie-experiment.html">MLP purple top</a></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;">Strawberry top x4 (two for my girls, two for a friend - they wore them for family photos!)</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;">four TMNT drawstring bags, plus four Christmas ones</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;">six eye patches</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;">Quilt-As-You-Go placemat for a church activity (and helped with many others)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;">Sailor Mercury costume pieces</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;">six Garden Party dresses (two for Christmas)</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;">four Everyday Necktie (two for Christmas)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;">and mended 49 items.</span></li>
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This year I hope to work on Christmas projects (including at least one [maybe three!] quilts) throughout the year, so I can give more homemade, meaningful gifts. (I'm so over the commercial aspect of the holidays it isn't even funny.) I've got ideas for ornaments and a few other surprises, so I hope the week after Christmas is full of project posts. <span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Josefin Sans;">I want <b>another skirt</b> and I've already got some Ravenclaw flannel set aside. Cupcake will be needing <b>more pajamas</b>. For quilting: </span><b style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Josefin Sans";">paper piecing</b><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Josefin Sans";"> and </span><b style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Josefin Sans";">hexagons </b><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Josefin Sans";">are still on my list, and I've added </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Josefin Sans";"><b>economy blocks</b> (unicorn fabric?), perhaps as a <b>pin cushion</b>. Lots of ideas but I also want to be flexible enough to join in on Sew Alongs as I am inspired (I've already got my eye on a few blocks from this <a href="https://sewfreshquilts.blogspot.com/p/harry-potter-quilt-along.html">Harry Potter</a> one). Happy sewing to you!</span></div>
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I follow <a href="https://kimlapacek.com/">Project Quilting</a> and have done <a href="http://weneedmangos.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-stitch-in-time.html">one</a> or <a href="http://weneedmangos.blogspot.com/2018/03/happy-scrappy-baby-toy.html">two</a> of their challenges -- sew a project, from idea to completion, in one week, within the suggested theme. Right after Christmas they hosted a Mystery Quilt, which sounded quite intriguing. So I jumped in on it! Lots of tiny 2.5" squares. But half way through I figured out what it was going to say - I heart PQ. Which is great, but I've only done a few of their challenges so it isn't super inspirational to me. So I spent some extra time to add MORE squares and came up with this:<br />
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It is 16" x 42" and is hanging up above my sewing desk. I adore it. Aside from being first finish of the year, and my first mystery quilt, it was also the first time I had made fabric from scraps (the heart), the first time using low volume fabrics (not just white on white), and my first time using decorative stitching to attach the binding (which was harder than I thought it would be). Lots of firsts, lots of fun.<br />
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And then immediately after finishing that I started the first challenge of Season 10: <a href="https://kimlapacek.com/2019/01/10-1-hope-springs-eternal-challenge-1-of-project-quilting-season-10.html">Hope Springs Eternal</a>. Start the timer, I've got one week.<br />
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Sunday: Project Quilting posts the first challenge of Season 10, Hope. Perfect. I had a stack of grey and yellow fabric just waiting to be turned into a baby quilt for a friend. And what is more hopeful than a brand new baby! I finally settled on this <a href="http://www.kitchentablequilting.com/2018/04/april-giant-block-tutorial-giant-block.html">Giant Block</a> from Kitchen Table Quilting and got started. I added an extra block in the middle to feature the little lamb fabric - my first economy block! It was fun to make and I want to make more in the future.<br />
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Monday - Wednesday: Making the top. Aside from adding the center square I followed the directions for the 36" square and added a 3" border around it. I like how the grey and yellow play together.<br />
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Thursday: My favorite sandwich is a quilt sandwich. Actually, basting is one of my least favorite parts of quilting, because I just can't seem to get it right and always end up with wrinkles in my backing. But this time wasn't so bad - I used grey flannel for the backing and it stuck to my rug just enough to keep everything pretty flat while I pinned!<br />
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Friday - Saturday: Quilting. I had to keep it simple to make sure I got it done in time. To keep it even faster I used the backing for the binding - and it's the only way I can manage to get the binding to look decent.<br />
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I hope my friend loves this for her baby due next month. I hope it brings a bit of sunshine as she adjusts to being a mom. And I hope that baby is healthy and happy and brings great joy to family and friends.<br />
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Mindy Sebastianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03253104741470705413noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061913771025620608.post-54460349545679536152018-12-31T18:45:00.000-06:002019-01-07T06:54:50.787-06:00December journalThis month was the closest I came to no sewing at all. I've been working on a book project all fall - ghost-writing a memoir for someone else. The manuscript deadline was dropped on me out of nowhere, and I had only 10 days to get it done, reviewed, and submitted to the publisher. After being so completely furious that I cussed out the author for destroying Christmas for my family, I worked nonstop for a week (my kids ate a lot of store-bought pizza) until it was submitted at 1 a.m. on a Friday night. Mr. Author went with me to the school to pick up my kids that day, in the middle of our 15-hour marathon push to the end, and my 5-year-old wouldn't even look at him, much less give him a high-five. She had informed me that morning, "After today, I don't want you to work with him anymore, Mommy." Noted. <div>
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So, with all of THAT, there went all my Christmas energy, any Christmas activities, and any Christmas sewing.</div>
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What I did instead was I took my DC map embroidery project with me on our Christmas break trip to Tennessee and Virginia, and worked on that while at my husband's sister's house. It was nice to have something productive to do instead of watching TV. I didn't quite finish the entire bottom section of the quilt, but I came awfully close! The whole project still has a LONG way to go and I doubt it will be finished in 2019, but I hope I can get a lot closer to that. </div>
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And that concludes my 2018 year of sewing! I'm not going to do an entire review post like I have before, because I've done all the monthly journal posts. Just click on "review" in the index and you'll see my 2018 months all neatly in a row. I didn't finish any quilts this year, which is my one disappointment - I did want to do that. Other than that, I'm happy with what I did! </div>
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For 2019, I have no new projects I'm adding - I still have a huge list I wrote out last summer that needs to be done! Mainly the four quilts for my kiddos. I have 5 kids, and I finished JE's quilt ages ago ... 2 years? I started on SM's quilt right away after that, but 2 years later, the pieced top is nowhere near being done. I'm making the Squared Away for JK. RG and TA are planned but nothing is started. It's way past time to get ALL my kids their quilts. I also have fabric that I bought to make myself a skirt AGES ago, seriously, I think 6 years ago. It's way past time to make that skirt too. </div>
treenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15514375286563470593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061913771025620608.post-55850587537490865102018-11-30T19:34:00.000-06:002018-12-06T06:58:28.169-06:00November journal1. Loads of fabric pumpkins. I lost count, but there were more than 30.<br />
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2. Two more Squared Away quilt blocks - I did make two of this block, but when I went to take the picture, I realized I'd put one of them together wrong. Fortunately, I just need to take one of the side rows off to turn it around.<br />
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I'm excited to do a lot more sewing this month! I spent the summer traveling and doing theater and camps. This entire fall has been totally sucked up with editing a book. Ya know what? It's December tomorrow. I'm self-employed, and I don't work during Christmas! I'm doing service, and baking cookies, and sewing for my kids!<br />
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If anyone needs me, I'll be in the kitchen. See ya.treenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15514375286563470593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061913771025620608.post-57615453524470499442018-11-29T06:57:00.001-06:002018-11-29T06:57:44.386-06:00gimme some sugar!Welcome, blog hoppers, to the Virtual Cookie Exchange hosted by <b><a href="https://www.justletmequilt.com/">Just Let Me Quilt</a></b>! Thank you for including us, Carol! We are sisters who live at opposite ends of North America.<br />
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Christmas and crafting go together for me. I was just beginning my sewing adventures when I came across <a href="https://www.familyfriendlyfrugality.com/how-to-sew-a-ruffle-dress-a-quick-3-tier-ruffle-dress-tutorial-for-a-little-girl/">this tutorial</a> for a tiered skirt. I pulled out the small stack of Christmas fabric I had been given by my mother-in-law and tried it out. Once I saw it on my toddler I was hooked! Now, five Christmases later, I have started quilting along with making clothes for my two daughters, so many of my holiday gifts are made from fabric.<br />
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But this couldn't be a cookie exchange without some sugar! Our family made tin-foil-covered plates of cookies to give to our friends and neighbors as we went caroling every year. As we got older, and many of the siblings moved out, Emily was in charge of the peanut butter chocolate chip cookies and I made the sugar cookies. </div>
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I now make these sugar cookies multiple times a year. I play with food coloring, cookie cutters and cookie stamps. I've made several cookie bouquets. Last Christmas I painted them with dyed egg yolk. And for Halloween I added crushed candies for a stained glass effect. I've swapped out the vanilla for peppermint extract a few times, or even turned them into lemon or pumpkin sugar cookies. This is just the best go-to sugar cookie recipe for soft, chewy cookies.</div>
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Cream together <b>3/4 cup butter</b> and <span style="text-align: center;"><b>1 cup sugar</b>. Add <b>2 eggs</b> and <b>1 teaspoon each of salt, vanilla and baking powder</b>. Stir until smooth. Add <b>2 1/2 cups flour</b>, one cup at a time, incorporating it fully before adding more. Refrigerate the finished dough for 30-60 minutes before cutting into shapes, or immediately roll into balls and smash lightly to flatten. <b>Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes</b> on a non-greased baking sheet.</span><br />
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<li>You can freeze both dough or baked cookies.</li>
<li>When using food coloring, add it before the flour for even color. To blend colors make two (or more) batches and then pick small pieces from each to roll out together. Or you can add color to finished dough - it will be more saturated and will get all over your hands. </li>
<li>To make egg yolk paint, simply add some food coloring (and water to thin it out if you'd like) to some egg yolk. A little goes a long way, so one yolk can be used for multiple colors. Paint on the cookies with a clean paintbrush <i>before</i> you bake them!</li>
<li>I used lollipops but jolly ranchers or other hard candies would work for the stained glass. Crush it and use it to fill in the cut out shapes. Bake as normal with parchment paper on the pan, but let it rest on the pan a few extra minutes afterwards to harden.</li>
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<b>TRINA</b><br />
There's a back-story with the sugar cookie recipe. Because there's a bit of an age gap between us - I'm the oldest, and Mindy is the 7th of the 8 siblings in our family - it didn't occur to me until we were adults that the recipe story hadn't been shared until one day Mindy said something like, "I heard there's a story about this recipe and a shirt but I didn't know if it was true." Well, I do! Because I was there!<br />
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Once upon a time, Tawnia (#4 of 8) was about 2 years old and wearing a shirt with Cookie Monster and a bunch of words on it. Eric and I were 7 and 8, and it dawned on us that those words were a recipe. Did it really work? Was it a <i>real </i>recipe for Cookie Monster Sugar Cookies? So we asked our mom to try it. Tawnia was plunked up onto the counter, still wearing the shirt, while we read off the ingredients and measurements. And it worked! The best sugar cookies! We read it off the shirt at least a couple of times, usually while Tawnia was wearing it, before Mom got around to writing the recipe on a piece of paper. It has been our family's go-to cookie recipe for decades now, all because of a 2-year-old's shirt.<br />
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And now - seriously, just last week - I learn that <b><a href="https://www.thekitchn.com/cookie-monsters-famous-cookie-dough-recipe-175725">it originally came from a book</a></b>.<br />
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<i>Trina's real-life, un-staged messy kitchen with sugar cookies. </i></div>
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<i>Bring on the frosting and the sprinkles! </i></div>
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My go-to is three-ingredient fudge, which I first found on <b><a href="http://www.madeeveryday.com/2011/12/day-14-3-minute-3-ingredient-mint-fudge.html/">here on Made Everyday</a></b> with these ingredients:<br />
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Chocolate mint is my FAVORITE. I wondered if it would also work with white chocolate and peppermint, so I tried my own variation.<br />
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Put all three ingredients - the both entire bags of chips (12 oz chocolate chips) and the full can of sweetened condensed milk - into a microwave-safe bowl and nuke it for a minute at a time for 3 minutes, until it's all soft enough to stir and blend together. Then spread it in a pan lined with parchment paper and let it set. That's it! Seriously!<br />
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YUM. If you get super-peppermint-y chips, I've actually had this turn pink in the past. Pink fudge is AWESOME!!! And it won me the Most Creative Dessert at our church's Christmas party a couple of years ago.<br />
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treenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15514375286563470593noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061913771025620608.post-13975561140384363092018-11-28T21:42:00.001-06:002018-11-29T08:17:27.798-06:00black friday boycott - craft day!My sister-in-law and I had an awesome Black Friday! No shopping - we didn't even leave the house. Instead, we raided the bin of blocks that Adam made for the girls years ago that rarely get played with anymore, and played with mod podge, craft paper, and paint. I had some letter stickers for "Joy to the World" and little teeny wood letters for a bit of 3-D-ness on the "Happy Christmas" sign. That one needs to have a couple of holes drilled into it so I can loop craft wire through to hang it up.<br />
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My halls are a little more decked now ...<br />
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I cut the fabric in a 9x18 rectangle - I bought a bunch of fat quarters at the fabric store and cut them in half. So quick. I also used fall-ish scrap fabric I have kicking around in my sewing area. I ran the side seam through my sewing machine so the girls would have time to make more rather than spending the whole evening on just one.<br />
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At the activity, the girls handstitched the bottom to pull them closed, stuffed them, and sewed the top closed. I have a lot of scrap felt that they used to make stems and leaves.<br />
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Each of the girls had time to make two - one to give and one to keep. They were SO excited to keep a fabric pumpkin, and they really were very cute. Both the girls and pumpkins.<br />
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The girls LOVED it so much that I sent all their moms the link so they could make more at home to keep for themselves. I was told later that a couple of them did.<br />
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When I got them home, some of them needed some extra stitching on the bottom because it wasn't tight enough. I did large side stitches with colored embroidery floss for the pumpkin "grooves." I also made more so our gift bags would have two each.</div>
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I loved the variety of colors they chose to put together.<br />
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I never got a picture of all of the pumpkins in one big pile because we started giving them away before we finished them all. We made more than thirty all together. If you have time tomorrow, or maybe for next year, they make a great little centerpiece or are fun to put on a shelf or windowsill! </div>
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