Runaway October

Did I men­tion that I was par­tic­i­pat­ing in the 2009 Chi­nese Coin Quilt Piece-along? It’s being hosted by two of my favorite blog­gers: Juli­ette of Chick­pea Sewing Stu­dio and Karin of Orange Flower. Basi­cally, the premise is to com­plete a Coin Quilt some­time within the year of 2009. That’s it. No dead­lines, no require­ments or restric­tions, no part­ners, no noth­ing. How much eas­ier can it get?

Here are some of the won­der­ful coin quilts that have already been fin­ished. Aren’t these ladies amaz­ingly cre­ative, and on the ball to boot?

1. coin top, 2. DSC_6007, 3. Elena’s Quilt, 4. Quilt #4 — Stacked Coins, front

The rest of the 2009 Coin Quilt Piece-Along Flickr pool can be found here.

I am to the sand­wich­ing and quilt­ing stage on my coin quilt. I have to clean a spot on the floor long enough to get every­thing pinned together. See why it takes me so long? It’s like some­one some­where is bound and deter­mined to make me do house­work, no mat­ter how much I avoid it. These sites have been the inspi­ra­tion for my lit­tle quilt.

• Here is a great down­load­able Coin Quilt tuto­r­ial by Cluck­Cluck­Sew.
• A Stacked Coins Baby Quilt tuto­r­ial is avail­able at The Moda Bake Shop, pro­vided by Crazy­MomQuilts.
• Great Coin Quilt inspi­ra­tion at Hand­made by Alissa.
• Another Coin Quilt tuto­r­ial via Home School Blog­ger.
• MaryQuilts.com has a few Chi­nese Coin Quilt tuto­ri­als in the right side­bar, though there are many many more beau­ti­ful tuto­ri­als listed as well.
• More Chi­nese Coin Quilt instruc­tions from Field Trips in Fiber

If you feel the urge to par­tic­i­pate, please join us!

Once you get used to the new look, you may notice a new ban­ner in my side­bar for the Piece-Along Coin Quilt. Yes, I’ve joined another sew-along.

This one is being hosted by Juli­ette of Chick­pea Sewing Stu­dio and Karin of Orange Flower. Both are won­der­fully crafty ladies and two of the first crafty blogs I ever sub­scribed to. They have decided to do a quilt-along, piece-along, sew-along, what-have-you-along based around the Chi­nese Coins quilt pattern.

I’ve added a cou­ple extremely beau­ti­ful exam­ples in the post, but you can find many many more in the 2009 Coin Quilt Piece-Along Flickr Pool. The Moda Bake Shop has a great tuto­r­ial designed by the lovely Aman­da­jean of Crazy­MomQuilts and MaryQuilts has 3 tuto­ri­als, plus many other quilt pat­terns in her left sidebar.

So if you’re inter­ested please join us!

Right, I need another dead­line like I need another 2 year old. Seri­ously. But this one is right up my alley and noth­ing to stress over if I miss it. Yay!

The incred­i­bly tal­ented Orange Flower has cre­ated a chal­lenge to post one macro photo a day for every day of April. Sounds super sim­ple right? There’s even a flickr group. Make sure to check it out and def­i­nitely join us if you’d like it. It’s already got me look­ing closer at things and I’ve got a lot of ideas. Now if only I could keep the dog still long enough…

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Here’s mine for today. I cheated and took a pic­ture of my com­pleted apron for the Flirty Apron Swap. I don’t want to post the whole apron in case my part­ner is look­ing around. If you must see it, check out my flickr account — it’s buried in there.

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