{"id":19407,"date":"2013-08-04T06:26:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T13:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=19407"},"modified":"2016-06-29T12:53:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T19:53:46","slug":"bamqg-sew-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/bamqg-sew-day\/","title":{"rendered":"BAMQG Sew Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took the day off of work Thursday and went to a BAMQG Sew Day and Workshop. After some personal drama (locked myself out of the house), I got there at 12:30 only to be faced with more personal drama (I forgot the bag that includes my rulers, rotary cutters, mat, pins, etc). Fortunately, I sat down across from Peggy and next to Amanda. Between them and Claire, I was set up to rock and roll the sewing machine.<\/p>\n

\"Sew<\/a>
Sew Day Projects<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I WAY overestimated what I could get done. I brought a Chubby Charmer filled with fabric and batting for journal covers, fabric for napkins, flannel for receiving blankets. I brought enough to survive some kind of siege that included sewing.<\/p>\n

I really only got to the journal covers and I made the parts of two and finished 3-4.<\/p>\n

My problem with Sew Days is that I want to just walk around and talk to people and not sew. If i bring my sewing stuff (and why wouldn’t I since there I have a gene that makes me physically unable to bring sewing stuff with me to a Sew Day). I really should be quite ok with socializing. Socializing is good!<\/p>\n

\"Sew<\/a>
Sew Day Work shot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A number of people had just arrived when I got there, so, despite the lock problem, I wasn’t terribly late, but I am sure I could have gotten all of my projects done had I arrived at 10am. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Still, it was great to be there. I hadn’t been to a Sew Day before and I really enjoyed it. I didn’t enjoy hauling all of my stuff, but once set up, I just plowed through [spoiler alert] journal covers. I am glad I got them done and I am well set up for journal covers now.<\/p>\n

In the work photo, you can see my stuff bottom right, Peggy top right and several other sewing machines and people towards the back of the photo. It was a great little group in our area. Big bonus? We were right near the iron!<\/p>\n

\"Monkey<\/a>
Monkey Dot Cat Bed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first thing I did was make a cat bed. I figured that anything I made after would contain schnibbles and I could use the cat bed to contain them.<\/p>\n

Also, I have four I need to make for Amanda and the homeless cats. I thought about bringing them all as they are quick to make, but decided on other projects.<\/p>\n

\"Jennifer's<\/a>
Jennifer’s Round Robin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jennifer, who usually photographs the projects at the BAMQG meetings, showed us this hexagon piece. It is a round robin for one of the BAMQG groups. I love the shape! Who would have thought of creating a hexagon?!? Obviously someone did, but it is fabulous. The whole piece looks like a mosaic floor to me.<\/p>\n

I am lukewarm on round robins and this makes me rethink that.<\/p>\n

Also, I have to give a tiny bit of credit to ‘modern sensibilities’ as I don’t think this would have shown up in other kinds of round robins. I think that if you don’t know you can’t or shouldn’t do something you just try it and there is a lot of that going on in BAMQG.<\/p>\n

Yes, Journal Covers<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Yellow<\/a>
Yellow & Pink Journal Cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What I really wanted to do with journal covers was use up the pieces trimmed from quilts that I made and had quilted. My quilter diligently saves the batting and the sides for me and one day (I talked about it in the last week<\/a> or so) it occurred to me that I could use those pieces to make journal covers. This is a great use, actually, because the trimmings are often long enough so I don’t have to cut part of a 1\/2 yard and then cut some more, so that I only have a large scrap left.<\/p>\n

When I went to Sew Day, I had in mind that I would whip up several of them. What the exercise turned into, even though I did make 3 or 4 was an exercise in design. I learned a couple of things:<\/p>\n

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  1. I don’t like just having strips of fabric for the journal covers. In the Yellow and Pink journal cover, that strip of pink that reads as a solid really bugs me. Not enough to rip apart the journal cover, but enough to put it on a journal I have already used and not carry it around for 2 months. The remedy is to cut those strips into a few pieces and pieces and piece them back together in a sort of checkerboard.<\/li>\n
  2. Batting doesn’t work for me. I took all the small pieces apart and they will go to Amanda’s cat bed project. I need to find something else that gives the cover a bit of body.<\/li>\n
  3. \n
    \"Green<\/a>
    Green & Letters Journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    Either I need to do a moderate amount of piecing or just cut a piece of fabric, like my recent Philip Jacobs journal cover and make a cover out of one piece of fabric. I do think patterned fabric, like the green and letters journal cover works. I think it works because there are blocks of color. The blocks of color combined with a bit of piece make the piece interesting. I am not a big fan of that chocolate (though it is chocolate) brown and green and yellow, but I like the letters and thinking about writing letters, or just writing, in general.<\/li>\n

  4. Leaders and enders are great. This is old news, I know. I am a big fan of leaders and enders, as my faithful readers know and using leaders and enders in the middle of the journal covers project meant that I had most of a journal cover top done by the time I got home.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    \"Leftovers<\/a>
    Leftovers Journal Cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    The last journal cover I made wasn’t finished at the retreat. I began using the leaders & enders technique to sew bits together as I made the other journal covers, but I only ended up with the piece you see in the photo by the time I left. I don’t need to make sure that the family is warm when I make pieced items, nor is there a shortage of fabric at my house, but I still can’t seem to throw fabric away.<\/p>\n

    We ended the day with pizza. Usually, not a good choice for me, but there are 5 people in the guild who eat GF diets, so we had the option of 3 gluten free pizzas! The Awesome Amanda went to Red Brick over in San Mateo and picked up pizza for us.<\/p>\n

    The crowning glory, though the Sew Day was pretty awesome, was participating in the Bill Kerr workshop. Stayed tuned for the notes on that.<\/p>\n

    All in all it was a good day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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