Welcome to Season 11 of Project Quilting! Find out more here . I am excited to do my first project of the season. I'll post a blog entry for each project (6 total). I understand why you might think "binary life" refers to the current discussion of gender norms in society. This quilt has nothing to do with gender. Binary in this case refers to technology. I'm a software engineer. I've been into computers since i was a kid. Computers and the internet at their basic level are a series of 0s and 1s, aka Binary. My original plan when i got this challenge was to do a binary binary quilt with a whole lot of zeros and ones pieced from scraps. Life got in the way. Saturday morning and i still haven't started. I knew i wanted to do the challenge so i sat at my machine, grabbed some scraps and tried to create a 1. Then i created a 0. Ok, easy enough. But i don't want to make a zillion of them. I turned to the internet to find out the calculation...
Project Quilting Season 9, Challenge 6: Scraptastic Monkey's Naptime 38" x 50" I create in Schaumburg Illinois There are 26 unique fabrics used, all from my stash. This is the 6th and final challenge in Sason 9 of Project Quilting. I've learned a lot, had a ton of fun and been immensely inspired. Monkey's Naptime started with gathering a bunch of scraps. I have a ton I can use. I decided to use holiday themed fabrics that were already cut up into 2.5 in squares. I had a nice light purple fabric to accompany the holidays. I wanted to do something besides squares, so I chose pinwheels. I liked the idea of doing a lot of chain piecing. So I started quickly. I found a sashing fabric that would not clash with any holiday pieces, so I cut it up and pieced the rows together horizontally. Then I did each row to each other, with sashing in between. The squares are not perfectly aligned, but I like them. When I counted up my pinwhe...
I love chocolate I have a quilting class today (saturday) ghat i had to prep A LOT of fabric for. And i hsve had plans all week long , including tonight. So i took a spare 45 min and created this. I call it "chocolate mice". Its a mousepad and it has chocolate fabric. 6"x 10" I create in Schaumburg Illinois
Congrats on carving out some time to complete your PQ12.1 challenge piece!!
ReplyDeletewhat fun! Love your creation ;)
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