{"id":2100,"date":"2012-04-02T14:10:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T18:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2012-04-02T14:59:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T18:59:46","slug":"a-new-quilt-project-underway-plaid-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/?p=2100","title":{"rendered":"A new quilt project underway \u201cPlaid Stars\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

It took me ten months to finish David’s guitar quilts.<\/p>\n

I moaned.  I procrastinated.  I knashed my teeth and wailed.<\/p>\n

So guess what I started on this week?<\/p>\n

Another quilt \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Yeah, yeah, I know but even if chain piecing will never fill my heart with rainbows and butterflies, I love the look of quilts. That means if I want to enjoy, I have to sew them.<\/p>\n

This time, I’m doing a far simpler quilt from the Winter issue of “Simple Quilts and Sewing”<\/a> called ‘Plaid Stars’.<\/p>\n

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It’s a nice quilt, with lots of rich colours, but not overly busy or scrappy.  I’m thinking of making this for a friend of ours.  He’s older, and I wanted something classic and masculine but not fuddy-duddy or fussy.<\/p>\n

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Almost all of the fabrics are from Connecting Threads<\/a>.  They were a new to me online fabric company and I have to say, I’m very impressed.   The prices are hugely competitive (some of the prices were under $3\/yd).  Shipping to Canada was a breeze, too, which is often not the case and more than reasonable.   I placed my order on a Wednesday and by Monday at lunch, my fabrics were on my front porch. The quality of the fabric is very good, too.   I will definitely be ordering from them again.<\/p>\n

The sample quilt was done in flannel but frankly, I don’t find much modern flannel holds up.  It pills and fades.  If I’m going to put the time in, I’d rather use a standard quilting cotton.  I have three shades of burgundy-red, three of olive green, a lovely gold print and a creamy white with a small tan print.<\/p>\n

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I ended up picking up the few fabric colours I couldn’t get from Connecting Threads locally and despite the fact that I was only getting 2 1\/2 yds, they cost me almost as much as the rest of the quilt fabrics put together.<\/p>\n

Look at the backing fabric!  It’s really ideal for the colours of the quilt and it was a steal at $4 and change\/yd.  It really has all the right tones and even echoes the plaid theme that the front has going on.<\/p>\n

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I’ve already got the quilt cut.  I strip pieced the green strips over the weekend and have started marking the snowballs and half square triangles.  It’s a much faster quilt than David’s guitar quilt, especially since I’m only making one.   We’ll see how it progresses.   I’ve still got lots of spring projects I want to get done, including an adorable embroidered coat I’ve been working on for the past little while. I’ll show you some of my progress pics of that project soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It took me ten months to finish David’s guitar quilts. I moaned.  I procrastinated.  I knashed my teeth and wailed. So guess what I started on this week? Another quilt \ud83d\ude42 Yeah, yeah, I know but even if chain piecing will never fill my heart with rainbows and butterflies, I love the look of quilts. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,18],"tags":[151,150,153,15,152],"class_list":["post-2100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quilting-2","category-wip","tag-connecting-threads","tag-easy-quilts","tag-plaid","tag-quilting","tag-red-and-green"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions\/2129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}