{"id":2636,"date":"2009-07-25T06:31:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T13:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2016-06-28T17:42:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T00:42:04","slug":"catch-up-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/catch-up-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch Up Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have come across some interesting websites lately. Also, many things have been running through my mind. As a result, today is Catch Up Saturday! That means that you get a bunch of random links, some photos that have been hanging around, and other miscellaneous stuff.<\/p>\n

\"Janome<\/a>
Janome 9K<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1. In my post, Caring for Tools<\/a>, I talked about taking my Janome 9000 into be repaired. Cost=$$$$$. The monster needs a new screen; apparently it could not be recalibrated.\u00a0 What a shocker; I need to find a consulting job to cover the cost. Anyone want to buy a quilt? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

The cost notwithstanding, I have more good things to say about Lafayette Sewing Center<\/a>. Before they started the work, they called me and went over the estimate with me very carefully. I spoke with Audrey who said that she wanted to make sure I wanted the work done and understood the costs so I wouldn’t get sticker shock. No assumptions there! Great service.<\/p>\n

2. Suzanne Cabrera did a series of drawings of her home<\/a>, which I really like. They are simple in an architectural kind of way. She has added comments about various pieces of furniture, which satisfies my need for words. She also has a sense of humor in her drawings, which I appreciated in her post about learning to cook with her husband<\/a>. See them at her blog, An Open [Sketch] Book<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3. Felt Food (FF). I love felt food. It makes me smile. I first got interested in felt food when I heard CraftSanity podcast episode #66<\/a> (what else? My one source of craft information!) with the owner of Lilly Bean Market<\/a>, Hillary Seabolt. Her sandwich is still my favorite. I saw some pictures of felt food somewhere recently and that has reinvigorated my Felt Food Mania and led me on a multi-day Felt Food Flickr Journey (F3J).<\/p>\n

Flickr<\/a> has tons of FF to show. There is a group called Handmade Felt Food<\/a> with such fabulous creations as elaborate birthday cakes<\/a>, cups of coffee and espresso<\/a>, sushi, shrimp stir fry<\/a> and a pancake breakfast<\/a> and ice cream treats<\/a> and I am also quite fond of Sam McLean’s full on turkey dinner<\/a> and …. The list goes on and on.\u00a0<\/a>. I am going to save up for the felt gingerbread house<\/a>. That is much more up my alley than making a real gingerbread house – or perhaps I’ll sew a felt one. I could put some of the decorations on with Velcro and change them. Or, perhaps I’ll buy one. You can also make your own FF from patterns created by Umecrafts<\/a> or you can make a Lilly Bean Market cherry pie from the pattern on Martha Stewart website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The F3J led me to general felt creations such as softies (we called them stuffed animals back in the day; apparently that term is no longer PC), including a journey around London by Lumpy Bear (made\/arranged? by GiantButton<\/a>), felt sea creatures including a Hammerhead Shark<\/a> and squid<\/a> and an unzippable ocean complete with islands by Lizette Greco<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You have to look at this stuff to believe it!<\/p>\n

4. Stewart, Tabori & Chang and Melanie Falick: Once again, I was listening to CraftSanity podcast #30<\/a> the other day (I really do do other things besides listen to CraftSanity, I promise). Melanie wrote Knitting in America<\/a>, seminal book on the state of knitting in the US. She is the craft editor at STC AND has her own imprint. WOW! I have heard of her before, because I love STC books and she is the editor who acquires them. I really loved hearing about her journey to that job and found a lot of similarities to my life (you can stop laughing now, thanks).\u00a0 She gave really practical ideas about getting a book published, especially in the area of writing a book proposal. Thanks, I needed that! That was really food for thought for me, since I have a dream…..<\/p>\n

You can follow Melanie on Twitter at STC_Craft<\/a> or take a look at her website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Tessalated<\/a>
Tessalated Tile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

5. Beth sent me this image when she lived in England. I had asked her to take photos of mosaics and tile. This is a particularly good design for quiltmaking, because it would just be squares and rectangles. Yes, you would have to plan a bit, if you were doing anything more than a 2 color quilt, but it would be quite stunning once finished. Note the L shape at the top.<\/p>\n

6. Toy-a-Day<\/a>: This project is definitely like the Creative Prompt<\/a> (which you should join) but much more intense. The Wild Things characters, KISS, Pikachu, the Mario Bros, Michael Jackson and Michael Gorbachev are all included in this project. I noticed that the author has PDF downloads of some of his toys so you can make your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have come across some interesting websites lately. Also, many things have been running through my mind. As a result, today is Catch Up Saturday! That means that you get a bunch of random links, some photos that have been hanging around, and other miscellaneous stuff. 1. In my post, Caring for Tools, I talked … Continue reading “Catch Up Saturday”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[309,86,326,330],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","tag-blogroll","tag-off-topic-crafts","tag-off-topic-general","tag-other-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}