Fabric Friday: Munki Munki Elephants

Munki Munki Elephants a photo by clumsy chord on Flickr.

Well, it's a day late, but I was sleeping most of the day on Friday and I just never quite got around to it...

Today's Fabric Friday is a piece of Munki Munki marching elephants that I got in a scrap pack I bought on Etsy. It's the sleeve of a pair of women's pajamas, and about 10" x 12" (it's wider at the bottom, about 12" wide, and has a line of holes where stitching was picked out). It's really not so dark as it looks, but it's very thin fabric and the black table I photographed it against really shows through.

I don't think I'll ever use it, so I think I'm probably going to post it in a swap community on Flickr and see if I can get something else in exchange.

Cute though.

Fabric Friday: Mod Times Mendocino Quilt-Along

Mod Times Mendocino Quilt-Along a photo by clumsy chord on Flickr.

It's hard to imagine that these stacks of fabrics will actually make a quilt, but that's 65" x 83" worth of quilt top.

There are fifty rectangles and eight squares of Mendocino fabric. Three hundred thirty-six squares and rectangles in aqua. Three hundred ninety-three rectangles of purple.

If anyone is quilting along (Mod Times Quilt-Along) and wants to make their quilt larger, this is what I decided to do. I'm making mine nine columns across and six rows down, with no changes to the size of the pieces. It should come out about 65" x 83".

From the print fabric, you need:
50 @ 3.5 x 7.5
08 @ 3.5 x 3.5
From the border fabric:
049 @ 1.5 x 9.5
100 @ 1.5 x 7.5
108 @ 1.5 x 5.5
016 @ 1.5 x 3.5
120 @ 1.5 x 2.5
From the background fabric:
240 @ 2.5 x 4.5
096 @ 2.5 x 2.5

I very much hope that I got the numbers right when I was figuring out what to cut - I don't have very much spare purple and what what left I cut into 2.5" strips for binding. I really want to finish the quilt with that purple framing the edge, but I don't know if I'll have enough length left to do the entire way around. I may have to piece it with other scraps or to use some aqua (I do have a fair chunk of that left). I could try buying more of the purple, but I don't recall what colour it was and I'd be concerned about dye lot anyway. (Looking at the inventory at Simply Solid Fabric, where I bought it from, I think it might be Kona Raisin, but it could be Hibiscus or Dark Violet or some other very deep, dark purple.)

It took me a few hours today to cut all of that, and now my legs are tired, cramped, and sore, and I've got a headache to end all headaches. But hopefully I'll get started sewing tomorrow, because I'm excited to see what it'll look like.

Fabric Friday: Black Binding

Binding a photo by clumsy chord on Flickr.

This is a bit of a boring fabric Friday post, at least after the previous two weeks of Mendocino and Neptune fabrics. I guess I could have photographed the wad of fabric I stuffed in the wash machine today - 3 yards each of deep dark purple and light airy aqua - but this was what was closest to me.

It looks like such a lot of binding, seeing it rolled up like that, but it should be just about 12 inches or so longer than I need for the Super Secret Project that it belongs to. Well, the project isn't so very super secret, but it's something I've not posted online in years and years. Not quite my oldest WIP, but not too far off from it either. I can't actually remember how long ago I made it, but it's probably from the early 2000s.

Anyway, when I squared up the quilt top, I saved all the cuttings of backing fabric, and that's what I used to make the binding. I'm not sure what company produced the black fabric, but it's a very, very tight weave, and it feels very different from Kona cotton, which I've gotten used to using this last couple of years. The blue fabric is some of the leftovers of the fabric I used for a skinny border on the quilt. The bit of it that I have left says Exclusively for Fabricland/Quiltville, but has no other information about the name of the line or anything else.

I wanted to have this attached last week, so that I'd at least have the binding partially sewn to the back, but I haven't even started pinning it on yet. Maybe later today.

Fabric Friday: Tula Pink's Neptune

Fabric Friday: Tula Pink's Neptune a photo by clumsy chord on Flickr.

For a long time I didn't really get this line, it just somehow didn't work for me, and then it did. I think I saw a few quilts that used it spectacularly and then I just wanted it. A lot.

Thank god this and Mendocino are my only hard to find, out of print favourites, because I'd go broke if I were also trying to find Flea Market Fancy and... I don't know. Other expensive OOP HTF fabrics.

I kind of want to make something traditional but not with this - traditional blocks like log cabins, but non-traditional in the sense of being a mishmash of those blocks - not layed out in a grid with sashing and two borders. Maybe. We'll see. I bought the honey bun first, thinking about making log cabins, but of course on honey bun wouldn't stretch to far as just log cabins. So I've started sort of mentally cataloguing other blocks I think would work with these prints. I'll have to sit down and draw something out one day. (And add it to my mental pile of Someday Projects.)

Anyway, I'm done buying OOP fabric, so what I've got is all I'll have to use. (The top two rows are all FQs, then the rest of them are half yards except the bottom right green, which is a yard.)

Fabric Friday: Fabric Glutton

Fabric Glutton a photo by clumsy chord on Flickr.

This is my precious, precious pile of Mendocino fabrics. I wish I could figure out what to do with them, but whenever I search for pictures of quilts people have made with this fabric, mostly I get to feeling like they've wasted what they had. (What a horrible attitude! I think I've seen too many quilts the chop up the mermaids into unrecognizable bits. But at least they've made something, whereas all I've done is horde mine up. (I did use some in this purple quilt top. And I have a Future Project in the works which will use the brown w\ orange seahorses print.)