Perry Moffitt

January 12, 2009

New Squares

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I am only using the brightest colors possible these days in my sewing. I blame the cold weather and that white on beige quilt I just finished.

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I finally committed to something with a huge stack of triangles I cut early in the fall. I used some of them on my previously mentioned zig zag quilt. And the rest of the triangle stash on these blocks.

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Most of the fabric came from the fat quarter shopping binge at the Maine Quilt show. Where I was feeling very cheerful it seems.

Did I mention how cold it is? and how it gets dark so early? and how I hate taking pictures indoors? Well, until it stays light later, there will be mediocre pictures on this here website…

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I made 16 of these joyously colored pinwheels. I think they are destined to be a twin sized quilt.

UPDATE: finished quilt here

January 1, 2009

Beach Quilt for Wedding

Filed under: A Lot of Quilts,Black & White Quilts — perrymoffitt @ 8:23 pm
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Happy New Year! We are still recovering from a fantastic wedding last night, complete with balloon drop on midnight. The wedding present was done just in time, but we were having one hell of a wind storm which forced me inside for photos…img_10651

don’t mind the bird in the corner, I had to get my head well into the ceiling fan to take this picture.

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With every quilt I learn a new lesson, This time I learned that the 95% cotton batting really does shrink and make a “poofy” quilt after it is washed. I had only used it on baby quilts until now and the shrinking was hardly noticable, but with the big squares on this one, it was very obvious. So, beware the cotton batting!

 

**in process pictures here**

December 15, 2008

Old Quilt Repair

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I made this quilt about 8 years ago. It has had a hard life. It started as a duvet cover but because I used the smallest seam-allowance-known-to-man the seams started to rip free and I decided that it would be my very first machine quilting project. Imagine sandwiching batting in a duvet cover and then machine quilting it without pinning. Disaster. And then to make matters worse, I haphazardly fixed the bursting seams with a wide zig zag stich.  It came out so poorly that I didn’t quilt again for years.dscf1469

But as it was my first “quilt”, it has many fabrics that I simply love and have never had again. So, I set my mind to repairing my disaster somehow.  I ironed on 1/4″ ribbon with iron-on hem tape over all the burst vertical seams. And then to unify it  a little I ran the ribbon across all the horizontal seams. I added a new backing and then top stitched both sides of the ribbon.

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Top stitching slippery ribbon was a total pain. There was many a swear word in repairing this quilt but I think the end result was the best way I could fix it. Maybe I should have used a couple stripes of green ribbon in the middle but that aside, I am pleased with it’s new look.

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Probably not the best fix for antique quilts with other problems beside the seams, but if you have a quilt that has been bursting its seams, I recomend this very economical repair!

August 12, 2008

Inspired by the quilt show

Filed under: A Lot of Quilts,Blue & Green Quilts — perrymoffitt @ 1:27 pm
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This is the piecing for a quilt I am hoping to get done soon. The weather has been way too beautiful to stay inside and sew.  I have been moving wood piles and pulling ivy instead. August and 70 degrees, heaven!

How easy is this pattern? I can’t believe I haven’t done it before. And it is quite the stash buster too! I tend to horde blues, because I love them so much. But this helped me get rid of some weird ones that were always a shade off. The center lighter diamond has fabric from the great “vintage sheet swap” which I loved participating in!I have many plans for this pattern. I have already started a green & blue stack…

Better pictures after I get the top sewn!

April 16, 2008

one really, really big duvet cover

Filed under: A Lot of Quilts,Blue & Green Quilts,Pink & Purple Quilts — perrymoffitt @ 11:21 pm
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I blissfully started cutting for the requested size for this duvet cover and didn’t realize how really huge it is. 100 inches by 100 inches was my aim, I ended up damn close, 98 inches by 96 inches. Liz, all I can say is, your house must be bigger than mine because the only way I could take a picture was to hang it on the wall.

I am pretty happy with the pattern. Hopefully the colors work in the the far away bedroom it will be arriving at soon. Goodbye birdies, have fun in Albuquerque!

March 15, 2008

Spring, inside and out

Filed under: A Lot of Quilts,Blue & Green Quilts,Pink & Purple Quilts,The dog, Petunia — perrymoffitt @ 12:12 am
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I have an announcement. Easter is next weekend. No really it truly is! The crocuses are blooming, the days are getting longer and my quilting has turned pink. A sneak peek at the commissioned pink bird quilt

I keep kicking the cats out of the house so they can enjoy the nice weather but it ends up in a standoff. Petunia wanting to chase the cat, the cat wanting to come in. Only to have the reverse of the picture if I open the door and let each party in to the other world. Petunia wanting to come in, Mucha mocking her by looking outside, pretending not to see her.

I for one am really looking forward to Easter. Never a big holiday in my book but Paul will be back from Amsterdam for the whole week and my dad and step mom will be coming down from Maine for half the week. The house that has been so empty for these last 2 weeks will feel nice and full.

Paul promised to post some Amsterdam pictures soon. He is really busy and I think in the past few days we are starting to realize what this new job really is. He is working long hours with mostly strangers and going home to a hotel room. The past few days he has had to wear dirty clothes because he can’t find a laundromat or the time to look for one. On this side of the pond, I knew I would miss him but it doesn’t make the loneliness any easier. So this until August huh? Presumably longer, seeing that all of Paul’s work eggs are in this one basket. I guess I should have been more specific when asking Paul to find a full time gig, I should have said a full time gig in this time zone.

February 20, 2008

Duvet Cover Quilt

Filed under: A Lot of Quilts — perrymoffitt @ 11:33 pm
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The internet has made our lives so easy.

In between junior and senior year of High School I became friends with a lovely Kent, Washington girl while doing a summer theater program in Chicago. I was at that time a North Carolinian. We were pen pals and when I visited Seattle years later we hung out. The internet has kept us in touch over the years. She moved south to Albuquerque and I moved north to Philly and through the world of blogs she asked me to make a duvet cover with the Joel Dewberry pink aviary fabric

here is the jumping off point…

November 19, 2007

Wedding Lap Quilt, 6 months late

Filed under: A Lot of Quilts,Baby Sized Quilts,Blue & Green Quilts,Red & Orange Quilts — perrymoffitt @ 2:34 pm
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At least I can reveal one secret project. This happy couple got married 6 months ago and I was sewing the binding in the few moments before they arrived for dinner last night.


I found it hard to make burgundy and green (the brides request) to not look like christmas, but since it took 6 months to make, it is just in time for the holidays.

The groom has an amazing quilt from his family on their bed, so instead of trying to compete with that, I went with a lap quilt for the couch. I ended up a little smaller than I had originally planned, but they seemed happy. Maybe it is just ’cause they are happy all around. Did I mention they brought the most delish homemade apple cider??? Nicest folks ever. They will be mortified I put their picture up, I might have to blur their faces…

 

 

October 14, 2007

Batik and Print

Filed under: A Lot of Quilts,Baby Sized Quilts,Pink & Purple Quilts — perrymoffitt @ 3:45 pm
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I sometimes find it difficult to mix batik and prints but it this instance I think it worked. I had stayed away from purples because they are so tough to match. I put in a pinker purple on this one, for complete lack of another one in the same color family.

There are just so many different shades of purple. I have 2 more stacks of purple, marinating to maybe become a quilt and they are totally different families of purple.

I dropped this off along with the pink& blue quilt from a few weeks ago at the Maternal Wellness Center and learned that I had sold 2 quilts last month! Not the calm pink and blues like I thought but the outrageous circus colors that I thought would take months to sell. Lesson learned, I will be making bright colored quilts for sale henceforth!

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