My apologizes for the lengthy blog delay, but I’m finding my Junior year at UHH extremely time consuming. I could rant and rave about all the reading and work involved, but lets skip to the fun part. I’m sincerely happy to have finished the Island Trails quilt. It turned out to be adorable and I [...]
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Island Trails All Pau!
Posted in Quilting, tagged baby quilt, Hawaii Island Quilt, Island Quilt, Topographical Quilt on October 19, 2011 | 15 Comments »
Fishy Fishy
Posted in Quilting, tagged crochet fish, embroidery, hawaii map quilt on August 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The fishies arrived! And I’m done hand stitching the locations with the exception of a few okinas and apostrophes. Next, the trail {biting nails}. Meet the fish: {Note: Isaac hand stitched the “y” in Valley, which happened to be the last letter to complete the locations. He was upset that he only caught me on [...]
- – Trailing Along – -
Posted in Embroidery, Quilting, tagged Hand Stitching, hawaii map quilt, map quilt, Patchwork Quilt Border on August 24, 2011 | 14 Comments »
I’m back to work on my Island Trails quilt this week. Yesterday, I was able to do quite a bit {thanks to my “sick” monster who kept us home all day}. First, I attached the border. I know that was really jumping ahead, but I was so over working on the small details. I decided [...]
Ready for Kirrah
Posted in Quilting, tagged Appleville Quilt, hello kitty quilt, Preemie Quilt on August 22, 2011 | 4 Comments »
This cutie was stitched up pretty quick. Finishing in at 36″ by 36″, it was a rather fast project. It’s really nice to have those once in a while. The quilting was done by a walking foot in a criss cross pattern. Simple, yet highly effective for texturizing. The frames of Appleville fabric have a [...]
Appleville + Hello Kitty = ♥
Posted in Quilting, tagged Appleville Quilt, Appleville Screen Print, hello kitty quilt on August 18, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Oh this quilt is so fun! I found a 1/4″ yard of Appleville Screen Print by Suzy Ultman {Robert Kaufman Fabrics} at our local discount fabric warehouse. It was sent over as an end of the bolt scrap and in the discount pile {insert heavenly angels singing} for only $1.50. I was at the fabric [...]
Baby Kirrah Kahu’omana’o'i’o
Posted in Family, Quilting, tagged hello kitty quilt, preemie quilts on August 17, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Sweet baby Kirrah was born WAY to early. It’s beyond me how a baby can survive at 1lb, 6oz at birth. Well, she has and she’s doing wonderfully. The staff at Kapio’lani Medical Center are among the best and what a blessing to have them just an island hop away. Kirrah is the daughter of [...]
Windmills & Threads
Posted in Quilting, tagged Back Stitch, Island Quilt, map quilt, South Point, Whale Applique, Windmill Applique on August 10, 2011 | 13 Comments »
W.I.P. There’s just something about them. Not many things can catch my eye like a windmill. The strength of their structure is so gracefully vulnerable to the power of the invisible. It’s magical. Truly, I can gaze admiringly for long stretches of time. There are bunches of them on The Big Island of Hawaii’s most [...]
Island Locations {WIP}
Posted in Quilting, tagged Beach Umbrella Applique, Hawaii Quilt, map quilt, Palm Tree Applique, topographic quilt, Whale Applique on August 3, 2011 | 9 Comments »
WIP IT WIP IT GOOD! I jumped ahead on my Island Trails quilt to step 5. Yup, it made more sense to applique the island’s locations and then hand stitch their names. Working around the hand stitched names seemed limiting. Who wants that? Am I just delaying the hand stitching? Probably. I have about 5 [...]
Appliqué {Topography}
Posted in Quilting, tagged hawaii map quilt, topographic quilt on August 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
In the interest of interest itself, here’s some topography for you. In my quest to deliver a kid friendly map of the Big island of Hawaii through fabric, I thought some topography was in order. I also found a great online map through Wikipedia, gosh I love you Wiki! But first, while browsing for some [...]
the BIG island
Posted in Quilting, tagged applique island, map quilt, the big island of hawaii quilt on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On Wednesday, I jumped ahead on my Island Trails project without showing you steps 1 & 2. This is due to me skipping ahead without totally completing them, so naughty! I had an unexpected day off yesterday, so heaps of projects were completed. 5 loads of laundry {washed, dried, folder, hung, and put away}, dead [...]
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