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I august fortalte jeg her på bloggen om det tæppeprojekt, som min mor og jeg har gang i. Vi kom ikke videre i juleferien, skønt både kant, mellemfor og bagsidestof er indkøbt, men vi når det nok, for jeg skal heldigvis til Grønland igen til maj og besøge hende (glæder mig allerede). Men faktisk handler dette slet ikke om tæppet, men om, hvad jeg har brugt nogle af resterne til. Jeg var nemlig så heldig, at jeg fik alle stofresterne fra tæppeblokkene med mig tilbage. Det meste af disse var strimler, men strimler kan bruges til mange gode ting, og der var mange fine stykker stof imellem. Da vi så var ude og handle kantstof mv. (i Speich Design selvfølgelig), købte jeg et stykke ekstra, for jeg tænkte, at det kunne være en fin julegave til min mor at sy et pudebetræk med stof, der også er i hendes tæppe.
Back in August, I told about the big quilt project, which my mother and I am working on. We didn’t get any further during the Christmas holiday, even though we had the necessary fabric for framing and the back and also the batting on hand. But we’ll get there eventually, and luckily I’m going back to Greenland in May to visit her (I already look very much forward to it). But as a matter of fact, this isn’t about the bed spread, but rather about a project in which I used some of the scraps from the big quilt. I was fortunate enough to travel home this summer with all the scraps from our sewing. Most of it was in strips, but strips are useful in many patchwork projects, and the fabrics were glorious. When we went out to find the fabric for the edge etc., I bought an extra piece of that, as I planned to make a Christmas gift of a pillow case for my mother with the fabrics used in her bed spread (to be).
Planer går bare ikke altid efter bogen, og jeg måtte opgive at få pudebetrækket færdig til julen, men nu har mor fået det som en lidt forsinket julegave. Jeg er rigtig glad for det færdige resultat. Stjernen er lavet af 8 kvadrater, der er dækket af strimler (syet henover papir efter denne tutorial). De fire kvadrater skar jeg over diagonal til spidserne og syede sammen med baggrundsstoffet. Derefter skar jeg alle firkanter til igen, så de var ensartede i størrelsen. Denne langsommelige grundige tilgang har ført til de mest præcise spidser i sammensyningen, som jeg endnu har præsteret. Ren lykke! Jeg quiltede stjernen “in the ditch” samt to indre stjerner, mens baggrunden er quiltet med tætte lige linjer, og jeg er meget glad for den endelige effekt. Heldigvis blev min mor også glad for den, og så må vi også hellere se at få syet det sengetæppe helt færdigt.
Best laid plans and all that aside, I had to abandon the attempt at getting the pillow case finish for Christmas. So instead my mother has just gotten it as a slightly delayed Christmas gift. I am really happy with the finished pillow, and luckily so is she. The star is made up of 8 squares, which were covered in the scrap strips (paper founded, following this tutorial). I then cut 4 of the squares diagonally for the tips and sewed these to squares with the backing. Then I trimmed the pieces (again) and then sewed the pillow together. The dull patient approach has resulted in the most precise points I’ve ever achieved. Pure bliss! I’m also pretty happy with the effect of the quilting, so the overall satisfaction is pretty high. Now we’d better get that big quilt finished too.
Min mor og jeg barslede en hyggelig plan i foråret, nemlig at vi skulle bruge nogle af aftenerne i sommerferie (som bekendt foregik hos mor i Nuuk) på at sy toppen til et quiltet sengetæppe til hendes seng. Jeg foreslog, at vi skulle sy “Mountain Majesties” fra Quiltville, hvilket hun var med på. Stoffet blev indkøbt i Speich Design i foråret, og da der skulle pakkes til sommerferien røg skærepladen, rulleskæreren og den store lineal med i taske. Vi fik god hygge ud af projektet og blev helt gode til at hjælpe hinanden med at skære, nåle og sy. Det var nyt for mig at prøve at lave blokke, der først skulle skæres på den ene måde, så sys, trimmes og skæres igen på en anden måde, men det var sjovt. Både mor og jeg lærte også noget om værdier i et sådant patchwork projekt, bl.a. at man ikke skal lade to mellemværdier være forskellige (dvs. enten “lys” eller “mørk”), men sådan blev toppen også et bevis for læring.
My mother and I agreed on a plan this spring. We wanted to use some of the evenings of our summer holiday (which as mentioned were spent visiting her in Nuuk) to sew the top of a quilted bed spread for her bed. I suggested that we should make “Mountain Majesties” from Quiltville, which she happily agreed on. She chose the fabric at Speich Design during her last visit in the Spring, and when I was packing for our holiday, I remembered to include my cutting mat, rotary cutter and ruler in the bag. We had great fun with the project, and were really good at helping each other cut, pin and sew. It was a rather advanced pattern for me with all the cutting, sewing, pressing, trimming and cutting, but it was fun to be challenged. Both mum and I learned more about values in such a project, among other things, that you should put two medium values in different categories (“light” or “dark”), but at least we can view the top as a learning process.
Der herskede til tider en kontrolleret form for kaos. Her er det efter, at vi har skåret 120 felter, der skulle parres lys og mørk. / At times a controlled form for chaos ruled, especially after we finished cutting the initial 120 squares, which then needed to be paired light and dark.
Derefter blev processen anderledes kontrolleret, og jeg blev drillet (kærligt) med min tendens til at lægge ting pænt i bunker. Men systemet virker altså glimrende, når man syr kontinuerligt. / Afterwards the process was more controlled, and I got teased (albeit with love) about my tendency to stack things neatly. But the system is rather good, when you are chain piecing and don’t want to get the blocks mixed up.
Næste del af projektet bliver at vælge stof til kanterne og sy det i rammer omkring toppen, derefter skal der selvfølgelig vælges mellemfor og bagsidestof, og så glæder jeg mig til at hjælpe med at quilte den, næste gang jeg er på besøg langt nordpå. / Next part of the project will be to pick out fabric for two edges around the top. Then we’ll need to find a fabric for the back and some batting. I’m looking forward to helping mother quilt this beauty next time I’m vacationing in the far north.
En af mine kusiner blev student tilbage i juni og inviterede på festivitas i den anledning. Desværre ville vi på det tidspunkt allerede være i Grønland, så vi måtte melde afbud. Det ærgrede mig noget, for jeg ville godt have set hendes ansigt, da hun åbnede pakken fra mig (ok, også fra resten af familien, selvom de mest biddrog med arbejdsro). Jeg havde nemlig besluttet, at det rodede stjernetæppe skulle gives til hende. Sådan får projekter pludselig andre modtagere en gang imellem, ligemeget hvad man egentlig selv havde tænkt, da man startede. Hun blev rigtig glad siges det, og hun har skam også takket mig flere gange allerede, så jeg er bare glad for, at jeg gav det til hende.
One of my cousins graduated from High School in June, and we were invited for the celebration in July. Unfortunately we’d already be in Greenland at that time, so we had to pass. I was sad that I couldn’t be there to give her a hug and say congratulations, but also because I’d rather like to see how she looked, when she opened my gift to her. This was because I had decided, that the “Stars in the Scrap” blanket was going to be a present for her. Thus projects suddenly change their intended recipient, nomatter what you thought at the beginning. Happily she loved it and has told me so several times already, so I’m really glad, that I made it for her.
Jeg havde lidt travlt til sidst, så jeg forsøgte mig med at sy den sidste kant fast på maskine via et tutorial fra Red Pepper Quilts, og det gik rimeligt (pga. mine manglende evner, ikke pga. tutorialen). Ikke perfekt, men godt nok, og i det mindste blev tæppet færdigt i tide.
I was rather pressed for time at the end, so I tried out a machine binding tutorial from Red Pepper Quilts, and it worked well enough. Not perfectly (due to my lack of skill, not due to the tutorial), but well enough, and at least the blanket was finished on time.
Det færdige tæppe efter vask og tørretumbling blev fotograferet på den nærmeste parkeringsplads aftenen inden afrejse til Grønland. Jeg quiltede først den sidste zigzag på kanten efter at afslutningskanten var syet på, for på den måde kunne jeg få spidserne til at gå helt ud.
The finished, washed and tumbled blanket was photografed on a nearby parking lot the evening before we went to Greenland. I only quilted the last zigzag on the edge after the binding was sewn on. That way, I could get the points to go all the way to the binding.
Jeg elsker, hvor tydeligt man kan se quiltningen på bagsiden (fleece med en indsats af forsidestoffet). Det er det mest komplicerede quiltning, jeg har prøvet endnu, og det har bare givet mig mod på mere. Mon det er snart jeg skal prøve frihåndsquiltning?
I love how clearly you can see the quilting on the back (fleece with a strip of the front’s fabric). It is the most complicated quilting I’ve tried yet, and it’s only given me appetite for more. Perhaps I’ll attempt a free motion quilting soon?
Det er måske lidt svært at se, men stjernerne og zigzaggen i kanten er quilted med to typer glimmertråd – man kan aldrig få glimmer nok, vel?
It is perhaps a bit difficult to see, but the stars and the zigzag on the edge are quilted with two types of sparkly thread – you can never have enough sparkle in your life, right?
En lang weekend indbyder til feriestemning og fri leg og muligheder for at afprøve ideer. Både indendørs og udendørs er det blevet til hyggelige forsøg.
We have a 3-day weekend now, which is perfect for relaxing, and for Platini around and testing out ideas. The testing has been going on both inside and outside so far.
Udendørs er det blevet til familiens første forsøg på havedyrkning nogensinde. Nu har vi fire tomatplanter, 20 jordbærplanter og en krukke med rabarber. Der er stadig hverken græs eller noget der ligner havemøbler, men vi er begyndt, og vi havde en hyggelig dag med jord og vand og sol i går. Gode forslag til hvad vi ellers kunne forsøge os med er velkomne, men det skal helst være nemt at holde.
Outside, we have made an attempt at growing produce. It’s the very first time we’ve had anything resembling a garden, so we are pretty excited. We now have four tomato plants, 20 strawberry plants, an a big pot with rhubarb. There are neither grass, or hedges, nor furniture in our garden, but we’ve begun, and we had a wonderful day in the sun playing with dirt and water yesterday. Any suggestions as to what we could attempt next are welcome.
Indendøre har jeg moret mig med min lånesymaskine (der viste sig at være en Husquana, men stadig vældig god). Jeg har afprøvet min ide til quiltningen af stjernetæppet på et pudebetræk, som blev fremstillet til formålet. Jeg tror, det kommer til at virke fint, dog skal der en lysere tråd til alle de lige linier.
Indoor I’ve been having a good time with the borrowed sewing machine (which turned out to a Husquana). I have tested my idea for the quilting of the stars in the scraps blanket on a pillow case purpose made for the test. I think, I’m pretty happy with the result and ready to move onto the larger project.
Min yndlingsdetalje (bortset fra brugen af sølvtråden – elsker det Bling, den giver) er nok de små femtakkede stjerner, jeg har quiltet på enkelte af felterne. Det giver lige den sidste prik over i’et. Glæder mig til at se, om det virker ligeså godt på tæppet.
My favorite detail (apart from the silver thread – I just love the Bling it gives) is probably the five-point stars quilted randomly on some of the patches. They dot the i’s for me. I am rather excited to see if it will work equally well on the blanket.
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