Perry Moffitt » bird quilt

Red and Pink Scrap Quilt

perrymoffitt — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:52:24 +0000

Before my fan-tab-o-lus vacation I spent many an hour sewing like a demon to have lots of things for the Lansdowne Arts and Crafts Fair. Which was subsequently rained out, of course. The enrollment $25 seems to have been non-refundable which is kinda lame, but the plus side is my etsy store now has lots of good stuff in it and my new retail outlet; Birthmark is also well stocked for a while. I even managed to make a new quilt to show at the fair, which was so fast and easy it makes me want to whip a couple more out. I had been saving all these little scraps for a mega scrap quilt but the pink and red were just too appealing together…

the birds seem to be popular for baby dresses, hopefully the same holds true for quilts.

I am working on a blue and brown quilt for a wedding right now, but who knows if she reads the blog so no pictures until later…

Seedlings and Sewing

perrymoffitt — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:39:58 +0000

just some pictures from our works in progress this weekend…

Philadelphia is in the midst of a heat wave, record breaking 90 degree temps has brought summer before spring, so planting has been put on hold until it cools off, a strange way to think of spring planting…

And a WIP quilt, a variation on a coin stack quilt, whipped up with the precious scraps from my red-pink phase…

Yellow and Green, Bento Box Variation for Baby

perrymoffitt — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:16:22 +0000

I finished the commissioned quilt last night and just finished the indoor photo shoot because it is raining. Too bad the world series can’t move inside! There is a lot of excitement in Philly is about the possible rain cancellation today. Anyway, the quilt->

What is that white ribbon doing in the middle two squares? I ran so disastrously low on that bird fabric that the ribbon fudged me the extra inch I needed. I should have added some more on the border to make it look a little more involved, such is the problem with 20/20 hindsight.

I love the minke on the back. I should say I love the minke now that I learned how to use it. I used some Heat -n- Bond lite to baste the minke to the batting. I made a disaster of a couple other projects with minke because it has a terrible tendency to stretch and bunch and this eliminated the problem completely. I had some early moments of anxiety because it felt like there was a sheet of crinkly newspaper in the quilt before I washed it. But a hot wash and a tumble in the dryer has it feeling like a soft cozy quilt.