I slot my square ones into the bookcasw next to my ironing board/cutting table. The long ones are currently tucked into a space on my messy, overloaded counter. And the 12.5 inch square one is stored on top of a bin.
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Thanks for the ideas! I 3d printed a holder for the square rulers that I think will work well. For hanging your rulers, does anyone use command hooks? If so, which ones? It’s hard to figure out the size of the hooks without physically testing them.
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This question reminded me that I do have some rulers hanging here at the apartment. I can’t remember which command hook size it is exactly, but it looks like this:
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I use these Command hooks. They’re what I had in my stash from previous Christmas stocking hangers. They work great.
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That’s exactly what I was looking for, thank you!
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Ooh, I really like that pop of bright blue!
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Thank you. The blue is more muted than the pic, but it does make the block.
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Beautiful!
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Both of your color schemes are lovely and seeing them all together really projects what they will look like put together as a quilt!
I love the pops of blue in your new one and then the ones you have previously done!
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*I, Immaculata, offer Summerween mug rug as a goal list entry
I, Immaculata, offer Surprise quilt as a small personal finish and a goal list entry
I, Immaculata, offer Grab Bag swap scrappy potholder as a goal list entry
Front and back, 100% from scraps
I’ve had some old BOMs cut out for months, hopefully I can finish them soon.
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I recognize the quilt pattern! It is one of the favorite ones I did…I still haven’t finished quilting it, but the top is done! Lovely!
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-I MistressJennie, submit Sit down and do quilt math & write proposal for Illinois Star Block class at Allerton for my goal list entry.
This may seem like a bonkers goal and submission, but it was a heck of a lot of work. I had hoped to get this class proposed and submitted for the Fall term at Allerton, but summer was too chaotic and I missed that deadline. They just sent out an email asking for submissions for Winter classes, and I ended up writing up proposals for 3 classes; Sewing Simple Gifts (where students sew 3 simple gifts for the holidays) which I’ll teach in December, another round of my Scrappy Mugs Class, and finally, this proposal to make the Illinois Star wall quilts. I had to figure out the cost to put together kits for the students, and instructor fee for that long of a class. It will be an all day session, and if I keep it to 2 colorways for the kits, I can do them for $33 per person. (I can’t believe that these little 23" wall quilts need about 2 yards of fabric each!) This was hours and hours of work over the last 4 days.
I’m hoping to cut some portions of the kits from the scraps of the one I already made, since I really don’t need much of the red, gold, light purple, and light green. Then hopefully a second colorway from mainly stash fabrics, minimizing my initial outlay for supplies. (Since I never know how many people will sign up, but I definitely need to have the kits together in advance.)
Meanwhile… The person who schedules the classes is putting together a Fiber Arts Retreat for February, and wants either the Mug Rugs or Wall Quilts to be one of the classes on offer. People registered come for 3 days, and pick their own adventure in classes during that time. They held an Art themed one in July. This was their schedule: The Farms: Art Retreat Schedule - Allerton Park & Retreat Center
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Today’s Bingo prompt is:
Use a dark colored fabric
I will get the September prompt and BOM up tomorrow. LittleBookLover has been having some restless nights, so I’m going to head to bed shortly. Hopefully tonight will be a night full of good rest and we’ll sleep in in the morning 
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Yours was Halloween-themed as well I think? Hopefully you can finish it in time for Halloween this year. I’ve now made the pattern twice and simple straight line quilting only took me an hour or so. It’s a great pattern for showing off prints, and very simple and fast to complete.
I was a bit bummed about how it turned out after washing. I washed and dried it on a cool / gentle setting like I usually do,but it seems like the black fabric shrunk a lot more than the other fabrics.
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We have now entered the last month of the quarter!
September Prompt:
R, N, 3
September BOM:
Ribbon Star Quilt Block - nominated by @marionberries
If you haven’t submitted an entry for the quarter 3 challenge yet, this is the month to get it done!
Quarter 3 Challenge:
(July 1 - September 30)
Create your own fabric and use it in a project.
For this challenge you don’t have to literally create your own fabric (though you could), it’s more like create the pattern/design on the fabric. Ice dyeing, tie dyeing, cyanotyping, batiking, painting, inking, block printing…any way you choose to alter a preexisting fabric to make it your own will work for this challenge.
Examples:
Fabric scraps used to create a new fabric - by @marionberries
A bit of an ice dyeing tutorial - by @Edel
Solar Printing - an in depth tutorial - by @MistressJennie
Fancy fabric made with stamps - by @Edel
Ice dyed cyanotyped fabric - by @Edel
Goal List:
Feel free to update your goals throughout the quarter. You can earn a ticket for every goal you share and complete!
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I finished July’s BOM finally (I had cut the fabric for that mid-July and it was in a pile next to my machine ever since …) last night so now I’m looking at August’s BOM. I think @marionberries is the only one who has finished it so far?
It looks like a really nice block but I feel like I do need to do some quilting math first, because the instructions call for cutting and piecing on the bias and that’s definitely not what I’m going to do. I like that @MistressJennie 's example has a lot of different fabrics. I still have enough of my BOM fabrics left to finish a few more months, but I’ve only got smaller bits of each fabric. A block like this will stretch them further. I’ve got 6 finished blocks now and I hope to get 9 out of these fabrics.
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@Immaculata for the August BOM, I went off script and just made HSTs for the corners, flying geese, and then an economy block for the center. I didn’t follow the instructions. I’m running into the same issue with my fat quarters, sometimes the instructions call for making multiple hst or flying geese at a time, which takes larger cuts out of the fabrics, and it’s not efficient use with fat quarters.
And then there is the math involved with sizing up or down to get a 12 or 9 inch block. Keeps my mind a bit sharper.
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Yeah, I just used the Two at a Time method to make the HST’s, to avoid stitching cut bias edges unnecessarily, and avoid waste. Then I did my preferred Flying Geese method and an Economy block. Since I did the block at 18”, I did double stitches when making the Flying Geese so the off cuts would be bonus HST’s. I think they (the bonus HST’s) came out to 3”, which is useful in some other blocks, or for scrappy projects.
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I Edel submit. Twenty minutes of organising and Stopping for a snack! As a bingo prompts.
I sorted stuff into colours, put since fabric away, pulling out fabric for a new top. Then I stopped-am stopped- for a snack. But my sewing-mojo seems to have deserted me.
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