{"id":1151,"date":"2016-01-08T18:39:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T01:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2016-04-16T00:51:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T07:51:00","slug":"lets-start-with-a-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/lets-start-with-a-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s start with a finish"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s true.\"2016StartWithFinishList\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve not wanted to sew or paint or cut paper or much of anything this year, in light of recent events. However, I sat myself down and looked at my Quilty Project 2015 list, even though I knew it might depress me when I counted how many open projects I have to list already for 2016.<\/p>\n

And it did.<\/p>\n

It also reminded me that if I’m going to make any progress, I might try finishing small easy projects first.<\/p>\n

FIRST FINISH 1st\/2016<\/p>\n

First, let’s finish those gifts I wanted to give my Quilty friends in December 2015… and let’s call them New Year presents! Here’s a sneak peak of my First Finish of 2016!\"2016StartWithFinishA\"<\/a>Now that they’ve been gifted, here are the four Skinny Pinny Mats I made:\"2016StartWithFinishD\"<\/a> \"2016StartWithFinishE\"<\/a> \"2016StartWithFinishF\"<\/a>The idea came from The Patchsmith<\/a> and Green Bee Patterns<\/a>. So go make a few!<\/p>\n

FIRST START 1st\/2016<\/p>\n

Next up, the January challenge from my local modern quilting guild is to use this Improv fabric<\/a> by Carol VanZandt<\/a> in a finished project. My colleague and I split our picks, so I had Red & Neutral which paired nicely with this oatmeal linen. \"2016StartWithFinishB\"<\/a>I started cutting & sewing triangles on Monday, January 4th and two days later, I had this gorgeous HST Carpenters Wheel. By Friday, I’d pieced the B-side (which incidentally turned into the next guild challenge due in April. How Lucky!), made an internal quilt sleeve (squee!) and started simple hand quilting. Did I mention it was due Saturday?\"2016StartWithFinishC\"<\/a>\"2016StartWithFinishG\"<\/a>
\nAnd that I received much support while hand-quilting this little darling?<\/p>\n

Anywho… I carefully quilted around the wheel & star and pondered doing more. However, since this is reversible, the simple ghost image was perfect to show how I ‘unraveled’ the block for the upcoming Scale & Size challenge.<\/p>\n

\"2016StartWithFinishH\"<\/a>\"2016StartWithFinishJ\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I SO love this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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