>Update Japan quilts
24 Mar 2011 1 Comment
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Go to the link below to get all the news on how this went. When everything is done quilts and kits and binding I think the count was 78 quilts for Japan. Thanks ladies and a few gentlemen for helping.
http://www.aprilrosenthal.com/2011/03/23/quilts-for-japan-the-recap/#comment-520
If you still want to help and didn’t get a chance go here there is still time and you don’t have to live near me to do it either.
http://www.quiltersnewsletter.com/blogs/insideqn/2011/03/18/call-for-quilts-for-japan/
These photos are from other bloggers that had been there that day. My photos did not come out well.
My little niece helping out with the white flower head band and April’s Mom at the machine (April is the one that coordinated this event) and my middle daughter the orange blurr. Photos from the blog of Tea Rose Home not my photos.
I straightened the quilts up so we could all get a good photo for our blogs well mine didn’t come out so these are from Gracious Rain‘s blog post. Not my photo but it is my work in folding and straightening and a few of those are the ones I tied on too.
Another photo from tea rose home with me and my family in them. That is me in the back in white with black gloves on for tieing for 8 hours. My sister law in the black leather jacket next to me and another niece in the hat front right with another sister on law next to her in the black sweater. I also have nephew the blue blurr next to the sister in law in the black sweater and my three daughter here at this time helping. My husband came at the end to haul stuff to April’s vehicles. It was a family thing for us.
Me and my husband and 3 daughters
3 sister in laws and 2 nieces and 2 nephews
12 Harbaughs that is one great family I have I love them so much
another blogger there diary of a quilter
>Quilts for Japan…Help needed
16 Mar 2011 Leave a Comment
>There are people who need help, and warmth. Lets help them. This was not my doing but I want to help and go and contribute so it doesn’t matter a good idea is a good idea. My little family of five was talking Monday night about what we could do to help the people in Japan. I said I wish I knew how to donate fabric for quilts we prayed for answers for what we could do. Today my sister in law sent me an email with this information in it so here we go.
Saturday, March 19th
8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
1075 W 1100 N (church building)
Orem, Utah
Come tie quilts to be donated to Japan. If you have twin or larger sheets, batting, or yarn you can donate, bring those as well. If you already have quilts made that you want to donate bring them and drop them off. If you have quilt tops made that you will never finish here is a good place to put them to use. If you bring some already done quilts and find me there I will have some of my yo-yo crochet books available to give out (I will sign them if you like) as a thank you coming with one or more pre-done quilts (meaning tied bound and ready to go) I will do that till I run out of my books I think I have about 15 left. Hope to see you there. Sorry if i run out of books but it is the service that maters most as there are people in need. But I wanted to say thank you in a small way.
Cookies provided. 
Anyone who comes to help for at least an hour, or who donates materials will be entered to win a prize.
Please, if you’re in the Utah valley area, consider coming to help, if you’re not in the area, please donate as you are able to whatever relief effort you can.
Comment with any questions. Pass the word along to anyone who is willing to help.
Thank you, thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
more information here and here
updates here on this project
>To cut or not to cut…
16 Mar 2011 8 Comments
in butterfly room, embroidery, junking, sewing
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I got this serape about 5 years ago at a thrift store for about 3 to 5 dollars. I held on to it becasue I love the bright colors on the embroidery. This is vintage probably from the 60′s or 70′s. I have seen similar ones on the internet for between 175 dollars and 200 dollars. It said it is made out of wool so I had hopped it would felt and make a nice thick fabric to make a pencil skirt or suit skirt out of. 
May still make the skirt but it would not be as warm as I had hoped it would be becasue it did not felt at all trust me I tried several times. So here is my question is it a bad idea to cut up this. I know it has a ton of embroidery in it and I know I will never wear it as a serape. I would wear it as a skirt. Should I feel bad about cutting into this piece of fabric and in that process tossing some of the embroidery. I really would like some feedback on this. There are more photos of this on flickr sorry I had a hard time getting a good photo of it.
>Book sneak peak
10 Feb 2011 Leave a Comment
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Here is the badge I was given to show the new book”Countdown Calendars” I am in coming out in June. I love the photo the photographer too of my project in front of a window with the light streaming through it so cool. You can pre order this book by going here you will not be charged till it ships in June.
Because of this book and my contract with the publisher certain items have been removed from my blog. I will replace them and re -post those posts with new projects with a similar concept but different than the book. I will update when I have done that and give a link.
>Opening is tonight
14 Jan 2011 Leave a Comment
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With the opening tonight I thought I would show you a few pictures from some of the rehearsals. People are not in full costume in these photos. With about 50 players in the play and they average out to ruffly having 10 items a piece (some more some less) this was quite the undertaking for a 13 day project to costume. If you want to see the rest of my photos of the costumes go to the flickr album for fiddler on the roof.
>Fiddler on The Roof
31 Dec 2010 Leave a Comment
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I am doing the costume designs for Fiddler on the Roof. So my kitchen table has become my construction zone as well as a few other spots in the house. I love my family they are so patient for not having a place to eat for a while.
I am crocheting, knitting, sewing, weaving, fringing you name it we are doing it for the costumes with only about 15 days till performance sort of a craziness in the house. I still have to figure out how to make the tassels that go on the corners of the prayer shawls will get that done just takes time oh yeah I don’t have that but will get it done anyway. We are having so much fun doing there is no sarcasm in that at all. We are all working together it is great.My children are helping my oldest learned how to do a hand woven twisted with a crochet headband fringe.
The youngest is doing her best to be happy with all of her sisters and me tag teaming to make sure she is happy (she has had a fever of 102 on and off for 3 days). Like I said all little troopers the lot of them the littlest one I hope has made a turn for the better last night see didn’t sleep through the night yet but she didn’t feel like she needed fever reducing medicine either that was the first in 2 1/2 days. She had been counting down the mins. till her next dose before last night. I love them so much I have the best family in the world I promise.
>HS101: Pintucks
14 Aug 2010 1 Comment
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#50 thread heirloom thread
1.6/70 twin needle
7 grove or 5 grove pintuck foot (I do not own a 7 groove foot wish I did)
I am using the wrong thread in the tutorial it is so you can see it. Because of its thickness it doesn’t make pin-tucks as well as it would with heirloom thread. But you will see good examples at the end of the post.
L 2.5
- Place twin needle in machine and attach grooved pintuck foot
- When using a twin needle you need to also have two threads of course feedinging into the needles here I have used two colors so you can see them in the photos to come.
- adjust tension as needed (the bottom tension will need to be a little tighter than normal to pull the two sides of the pin-tuck together)
- pull a thread
- the first pintuck is along the pulled thread hold fabric tight in front an back of the needle. Line up the left needle with the pulled thread line so the pulled thread is hidden and reinforced by this thread.
- To line up future pin-tucks place the last pin-tuck made into the out-most groove of the pin-tuck foot. While watching the outside groove with the last pin-tuck in it stitch the next one and continue doing this till you have all made that you need. The more groves you have your foot the wider you can place the pin-tucks from one another. You can place them in other groves if you desire them to be closer. I have not ironed these pin-tucks in this photo so things look a little way but if you notice the threads I have removed you can see the stitches are straight even out a few rows.
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- leave the tails long so you can use a needle and pull them to the back of the work and make a knot to hold the pin-tucks secure.
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The photo above and the ones below are from a dress I am making that is full of pin-tucks.
On a side note you can make your first line in other ways. Such as using a wash out marker and a ruler to mark your first line ( it will not be on the straight of grain thought) and then stitch on this line use heirloom sewing thread size 80 to stitch a straight stitch on the marked line them switch to twin needle and size 50 thread for pintucks.
One other way is to iron in a crease and use that as your guide same thing is true for this as the last it will not be on the straight of grain. You can do these two other methods but they are not the straight of grain methods nor are they the traditional methods.
>HS101: tatted lace to fabric
09 Aug 2010 3 Comments
>This type is done almost exactly the same as french lace to fabric.
Use DMC heirloom sewing machine thread when doing this for real and needle size#60, #65 or #70.
For the sample I will just be using normal sewing thread so you can see it easy in the photos and it will be a contrasting color for the same reason.
prep work
1. Cut 1 piece of lace and one piece of fabric the same length
2. Prep by starching and pressing both (using clean iron, and clean board, also use spray starch) ( if the tatting is homemade out of tatting cord it may not need starting but always better to starch than not to) this technique only works with store bought lace or homemade lace that has a crochet chain added to the header edge. The header edge is the edge attached to the fabric.
How to
W=3.0-4.0
L = 0.5
- place right sides together with the lace being 1/4 to 1/8 of an inch away from the edge of the fabric (this piece of lace is handmade by me in size 30 thread then I added a size 80 crochet edge in similar color so I could use a sewing machine to attach it)
- placement
- using zig zag stitch stitch over the edge of the fabric and the edge of the lace” the chain stitch”.
- sew zig zag satin stich
- press towards fabric
- wrong side before pressing
- right side
using correct thread this is what your finished piece should look like
right side finished
right side finished
>HS101: Lace to Fabric
07 Aug 2010 2 Comments
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For the sample I will just be using normal sewing thread so you can see it easy in the photos and it will be a contrasting color for the same reason.
prep work
- Cut 1 piece of lace and one piece of fabric the same length
- Prep by starching and pressing both (using clean iron, and clean board, also use spray starch)
How to
W=3.0-4.0
L = 0.5
- place right sides together with the lace being 1/4 to 1/8 of an inch away from the edge of the fabric
- using zig zag stitch stitch over the edge of the fabric and the edge of the lace” the header”.
- press towards fabric
using correct thread this is what your finished piece should look like
>Part 26: Nightgown with tatting
28 Jul 2010 Leave a Comment
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This use yo hang on my sewing room door at our old house with the baby christening gown. I know this is real simple and plain. It is on the easy end of heirloom sewing. But what it has going for it is that someone took the time to tat that entire yoke. It does have french seams and the lace/yoke and sleeves is added in a way that is synonymous to heirloom sewing.This actually fits me but I don’t wear it.
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