I got the pattern for the butterfly dress from Jeanne Rondeau's blog. The bloomers were from Pickled Okra.
Then I did some pattern development of my own to make PJs, a diaper, and the pink dress below. Sure hope it all fits!
Joining the Quiltsy team on Etsy and working on my listings has paid off. I have sold a quilt! Say goodbye to this one, because it is heading to Oregon soon: I have added several fabric boxes to my store (trying to get to 50 listings - at 21 right now). Here's my favorite fabric box picture. Filling it with shiny objects sure did a lot for its eye appeal: And speaking of eye appeal, I have been indulging in some instant gratification by making doll clothes for my niece who is getting a Baby Stella doll for Christmas. It has been a little challenging since I don't actually have the doll to try things on, although my sister sent me the clothes that came with the doll. I got the pattern for the butterfly dress from Jeanne Rondeau's blog. The bloomers were from Pickled Okra. Then I did some pattern development of my own to make PJs, a diaper, and the pink dress below. Sure hope it all fits!
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I have created a Facebook page for Seams Like Rain, so that I don't bore non-quilters with too many quilts on my personal page, and I don't bore quilters with too much personal stuff (that won't happen, since I hardly ever post anything but quilts). I recently joined the Quiltsy Team on Etsy, a group of quilters selling their work on Etsy. Already, I am learning so much from them. I might even sell something someday. One of the things I learned is that it helps to have more items in your shop, like 50 or more, so that your listings come up in the search more often. Since I only have 17 items in my shop, it is going to take some work to get to 50. And now for pictures. Here's a new item, a table runner that I am particularly pleased with: It is reversible. The other side is fall colors in a diamond pattern: What I am really happy about is the quilting. I quilted it with gold metallic thread in a swirly curly pattern. If you have worked with metallic thread, you know that it doesn't always go smoothly - snarls and broken threads are a common occurrence. However, I used metallic thread on both the top and in the bobbin and didn't have any trouble this time. I learned the trick on the tree skirts that I did recently. I started out using a size 80 needle for metallic thread and had all kinds of problems. Then I switched to a size 90 top stitch needle and suddenly, all was well. Here it is up close:
I liked the navigational slideshow of the previous post so much that I added it to the header of the webpage. Isn't that nifty? And now I really have to stop wasting so much time fiddling with the website - I have quilting to do.
I haven't got anything new ready to talk about here, but I don't like having my top two blog entries be about Weebly and Pinterest hacks, so here's a slideshow of previous entries. If you click on them, they should take you to the corresponding blog entry.
I recently added the Pinterest hovering Save button to the thumbnails on my Gallery. In the previous post, I described how to do that and how to get the button to be in the correct position on each thumbnail.
However, the pin description for every single pin in the gallery was the same, taken from the page description, which in my case is "quilts by Amy Krasnansky". I wanted to copy the gallery caption for the picture into its pin description. Here's the code I came up with to do that: I updated my gallery of quilt photos and got motivated to fix some issues with pinning from it. So, off with my quilter persona and on with the computer geek. Quilters, you can ignore this post, but it might help anyone who is having trouble with the hovering Pinterest Save button on a Weebly Gallery.
I enjoyed some extended sewing at the BHQG's West River quilt retreat last weekend. My biggest accomplishment was the quilting of two tree skirts. I picked up the tree skirt project at the charity quilt-a-thon in early October. Someone had donated the partially finished (and by "partially finished" I really mean "hardly started") project to the guild. I foolishly volunteered to finish it for the silent auction which is held at the guild Expo in March. You can probably tell by the picture that this was not a quick and easy piece. That's 40 wedges cut out of fabric "strata" using a 9 degree ruler and then sewn together. Since I made two, that's 80 wedges. But they are now all done and quilted. I decided to put one of them in my Etsy shop to see if it will sell before Christmas (I will give the proceeds to the guild if it does). Here are some details of the quilting which was done with gold metallic thread. They do look really rich and pretty in person.
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