Fall Projects!

[Michelle]

Oct 28, 2020 12:34:10 GMT -5 aprilsails said:

Michelle my Mom brought back a pile of heavily starched cotton from one of her trips to Botswana, which I assume might be similar. It was a coarser weave than quilting cotton, and slightly heavier, but not as heavy or as coarse as canvas, for instance. You could definitely use it for a quilt. We mostly used it for table runners and some cushions. I would back it with something different (normal quilting cotton, flannel or minky) so it would be a bit softer. I would also maybe bind it in quilting cotton for a baby.

Thank you - great tips!

After I posted, I found this: www.stitchandyarn.com/2020/02/catty-corner-is-good-to-go.html, and she used shweshwe fabric, so i deleted my posting. I bought enough on etsy for front and back, but if it ends up not being soft enough I will use your tip for the backing and I'll just have extra fabric, maybe for her baby #2.

I want to make the quilt in the size of the throw for that pattern, instead of crib size. That way she can lay it on the floor and let baby lay on it, push up, roll over, and crawl on it, as opposed to snuggling with it.

But if I go smaller because of time constraints or chickening out on cutting that size, lol, I might use a softer cotton on the back. I love the idea of a softer cotton on the edges for a crib size quilt!

[msn06]

aprilsails good to hear the snowflake is a quick sew. I am getting the snowflake pattern and a kit from my MIL.

mrspez07 love your guild’s charity quilt. My guild didn’t do one this year as none had made a block yet for it as of our October meeting.

I completed this top this week.

[Michelle]

Oct 29, 2020 8:43:42 GMT -5 msn06 said:

aprilsails good to hear the snowflake is a quick sew. I am getting the snowflake pattern and a kit from my MIL.

mrspez07 love your guild’s charity quilt. My guild didn’t do one this year as none had made a block yet for it as of our October meeting.

I completed this top this week.

So pretty!

[mala]

Orange spice soap for my friend to give out a Christmas gifts.

ETA: I had to edit this a million times to get the photo to embed. WTF.

[caddywompus]

Oct 29, 2020 8:43:42 GMT -5 msn06 said:

aprilsails good to hear the snowflake is a quick sew. I am getting the snowflake pattern and a kit from my MIL.

mrspez07 love your guild’s charity quilt. My guild didn’t do one this year as none had made a block yet for it as of our October meeting.

I completed this top this week.

I love that quilt! What is the name of the pattern please?

[msn06]

Nov 3, 2020 11:01:44 GMT -5 caddywompus said:

Oct 29, 2020 8:43:42 GMT -5 msn06 said:

aprilsails good to hear the snowflake is a quick sew. I am getting the snowflake pattern and a kit from my MIL.

mrspez07 love your guild’s charity quilt. My guild didn’t do one this year as none had made a block yet for it as of our October meeting.

I completed this top this week.

I love that quilt! What is the name of the pattern please?

It is Novastar by Then Came June.

[caddywompus]

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Thank you! I have a bunch of scraps of holiday fabric that would be perfect for that quilt.

[Michelle]

I finally finished the quilt I was working on for my colleague who has cancer. Am giving it to her today when she rings the bell after her last chemo treatment.

Her favorite color is red, she also really likes turquoise, and she raises farm animals with her kids for FFA. That is how I ended up with this fabric choice. I didn't have a pattern but the number of comment squares and red squares worked out to make this heart, with one extra so that is above the heart from me. Backing is a long strip of the same yardage, and then a complementary fabric on the edges, which looks white from far away but it has lattice marks on it and represents a fence line in the front border and the backing. I used the black lattice fabric from this line for the border to pop the black writing on the squares. I had to sort of "block" the squares by color into black/turqouise/gold and silver/multi so that the heart stood out. I don't love the top - it sort of looks washed out. But I'm telling myself the bottom looks like land and a big pond so the top could be a sky. ha!

It is so simple compared to a lot of work that you guys do but i enjoyed doing it for her and I hope she loves it.

[lacey]

Nov 1, 2020 11:36:33 GMT -5 mala said:

Orange spice soap for my friend to give out a Christmas gifts.

ETA: I had to edit this a million times to get the photo to embed. WTF.

Do you have a soap recipe you’d be willing to share? Or a blog or something that you started with? This seems like it might be a good add on for gifts for @@@our daycare teachers@@@.

[mala]

Nov 21, 2020 19:49:20 GMT -5 lacey said:

Nov 1, 2020 11:36:33 GMT -5 mala said:

Orange spice soap for my friend to give out a Christmas gifts.

ETA: I had to edit this a million times to get the photo to embed. WTF.

Do you have a soap recipe you’d be willing to share? Or a blog or something that you started with? This seems like it might be a good add on for gifts for @@@our daycare teachers@@@.

Oh boy. Well, start on youtube with Soaping 101 and Brambleberry. They both have good beginner videos. Lye safety is no joke, so please do your research. I get fragrances from Magestic Mountain Sage, Brambleberry, and Nurture Soap, and lye from The Lye Guy. Different oils require different amounts of lye, so always run a recipe through a lye calculator, soapcalc.net is a great free one, but most suppliers also offer their own calculator free to use. The recipe I've settled on is 25% Coconut oil, 25% olive oil, 25% lard, 5% castor oil, 5% cocoa butter and 15% something else, lately almond oil, but I've also used sunflower and rice bran oil. Most soaps use palm oil, but I hate working with palm plus it has some environmental concerns so I don't use it. (some of the same concerns are coming out around the coconut oil industry :/).

[lacey]

Nov 21, 2020 20:42:54 GMT -5 mala said:

Nov 21, 2020 19:49:20 GMT -5 lacey said:

Do you have a soap recipe you’d be willing to share? Or a blog or something that you started with? This seems like it might be a good add on for gifts for @@@our daycare teachers@@@.

Oh boy. Well, start on youtube with Soaping 101 and Brambleberry. They both have good beginner videos. Lye safety is no joke, so please do your research. I get fragrances from Magestic Mountain Sage, Brambleberry, and Nurture Soap, and lye from The Lye Guy. Different oils require different amounts of lye, so always run a recipe through a lye calculator, soapcalc.net is a great free one, but most suppliers also offer their own calculator free to use. The recipe I've settled on is 25% Coconut oil, 25% olive oil, 25% lard, 5% castor oil, 5% cocoa butter and 15% something else, lately almond oil, but I've also used sunflower and rice bran oil. Most soaps use palm oil, but I hate working with palm plus it has some environmental concerns so I don't use it. (some of the same concerns are coming out around the coconut oil industry :/).

Thank you. I just went down a YouTube black hole! I’m not sure I want to put the pressure on to do soap making for Christmas this year, but I might order some supplies to try it next year.

[mala]

Nov 21, 2020 22:56:17 GMT -5 lacey said:

Nov 21, 2020 20:42:54 GMT -5 mala said:

Oh boy. Well, start on youtube with Soaping 101 and Brambleberry. They both have good beginner videos. Lye safety is no joke, so please do your research. I get fragrances from Magestic Mountain Sage, Brambleberry, and Nurture Soap, and lye from The Lye Guy. Different oils require different amounts of lye, so always run a recipe through a lye calculator, soapcalc.net is a great free one, but most suppliers also offer their own calculator free to use. The recipe I've settled on is 25% Coconut oil, 25% olive oil, 25% lard, 5% castor oil, 5% cocoa butter and 15% something else, lately almond oil, but I've also used sunflower and rice bran oil. Most soaps use palm oil, but I hate working with palm plus it has some environmental concerns so I don't use it. (some of the same concerns are coming out around the coconut oil industry :/).

Thank you. I just went down a YouTube black hole! I’m not sure I want to put the pressure on to do soap making for Christmas this year, but I might order some supplies to try it next year.

With cure time it's too late to get it done for this year anyway. Soaps need to cure for 4-6 weeks minimum to give the extra water time to evaporate and the crystal structure to form a hard bar. But definitely keep it in mind for next year!