Tag: Alaska

  • College Fjord is Done!

    College Fjord is Done!

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    Allison Rainville

    Sewing buttons on with a machine is SO much easier and less painful! I really wanted to get it done before a year had passed since I took the photo (June 23, 2024), and I just squeaked it under the wire. Just as a reminder, here’s the original image: And…

  • Getting Closer

    Getting Closer

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    Allison Rainville

    The College Fjord quilt top is finished! Well, the quilt-as-you-go portion is done, and it mostly came out well. It’s only slightly wonky, and while there are some things that are clearly not “right,” the overall effect is exactly what I was going for. I will save the final reveal…

  • Now that the Holidays Are Over

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    Allison Rainville

    I took the week of Christmas off, and in between wrapping gifts, celebrating with my family, and reorganizing my sewing room, I was able to get a little more of both the College Fjord and Hus Ved Havet quilts done. I decided once and for all that I wasn’t going…

  • And the Quilting Begins

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    Allison Rainville

    I finished up the vertical strips yesterday and started the quilt-as-you-go method of sewing them together today. It’s slow going. As I’ve always said, my ability to match seams in bargello quilts is quite frankly abysmal, so nothing lines up properly. You’d think that because I strip-pieced the sky, all…

  • Making Progress All Around

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    Allison Rainville

    It’s been a couple of weeks, and I’ve slowly been working on these three different quilts. The Oregon waterfall quilt has been glued in place and the edges have been sewn over. I used several different stitches to sew the edges, and I’m very happy with the results. I’ve put…

  • And It Comes to a Screeching Halt

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    Allison Rainville

    I tried. That fabric that I substituted in – yeah, I didn’t have enough of that. I don’t have enough of that. So I have gotten this far, which you’ll notice isn’t a heck of a lot further than last time I posted. And so the hunt begins. I know…

  • Halfway Done

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    Allison Rainville

    In between loads of laundry today, I was able to get to the halfway point of the College Fjord quilt. And now I’m at a bit of a standstill. Some notes on what has changed since the last picture: This is 29 columns. There are 54 total, so I’ve completed…

  • It’s 9:30pm…

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    Allison Rainville

    …do you know where your seam ripper is? I do. My seam ripper and I are by now rather good friends. Math has never been a strong skill of mine. Add in seam allowances, and whoo boy. We’re all in for a rocky ride. I’m beginning to remember why I…

  • I Might Be Onto Something

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    Allison Rainville

    I think I got this! Over this past weekend, I had a full day to spend in the sewing room, so I started out working on a very overdue gift, but then had some time left over. I started sewing more of the double-wide strips, and I took out some…

  • And the Sewing Begins

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    Allison Rainville

    I found sky blues. Seven of them, to be exact. A new-to-me quilt store in Rhode Island had a whole wall of solids, and I was able to come up with the blues I needed. They have all been washed and cut, and I have sewn all of the sky…