Showing posts with label 2016 FAL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2016 FAL. Show all posts

Friday, December 30, 2016

2016 Finish-A-Long :: Q4 Finishes Link-Up

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Hard to believe, but it's time for the 4th quarter of the 2016 FAL to come to a close. Your global hosts have so enjoyed hosting the FAL this year. Thank you for sewing along with us!
Before we link up our Q4 finishes, a huge thank you to our fantastic and generous sponsors:


The 2016 Q4 link for your finishes is now open below on my blog and on each of the hosting blogs. You only need to link on one blog for your finish to appear on each blog. Here are the link-up "rules":
  • Add one link for each finish. If you want to link a round up post of all your finishes, use that link to enter one of your finishes and then link the rest of your finishes separately. Please, only one link per finish, as your link is an entry into the randomly drawn prize draws.
  • Please include the 2016 FAL button or the hashtag #2016FAL in your posts.
  • Please ensure that the photo or blog post you link up contains a link or reference back to your original list so that we can verify your entry.
  • Consider becoming part of the FAL community by perusing the links of others and commenting. We all need encouragement so let's applaud each other. The 2016 FAL Facebook page is here and do follow us on Instagram @finishlong as well. Tag your photos #2016fal and #falq2yourname (substitute your name). This makes it easy for us to match your finishes with your lists. 
  • Note that our hosts will also link their finishes to share in the community, but they are not eligible for prizes.
The Q4 finishes link will stay open from now thru January 7, 2017. Link up your finishes early and if you have a last minute one, add that one later so you don't miss out. The prizes will be awarded as soon as we can verify all the entries and do the drawings, and the winners will be posted on each host's blog.

 Stay tuned for the details for the 2017 FAL. We have another great global community of hosts, some continuing and many joining us for the first time. And start making your Q1 lists for the 2017 FAL, as the Q1 list link opens on January 8, 2017! Another year means more fun and even more finishes!
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Monday, November 21, 2016

Baconrific



Where the idea of bacon emerged as a prompt for Bee Sewcial, I have no idea. But once I thought of it, I couldn't let it go. A food-related item seemed to 'fit' for A Quilter's Table, and well.... bacon.

In The Bacon Consideration, I gathered photos of both actual and superficial bacon, offering it up to my bee-mates as inspiration. As far as palette, I suggested solids such as Kona Brick, Brown, Mocha, Chestnut, Spice, Cinnamon, Cocoa, and Caramel. If a 'background' or more neutral element was needed, I asked for off-white or natural, not white-white. Linen, shot-cotton, leather, or any other texturally-interesting substrates were most welcome. Note that when I told the group to feel free to use a mix of 'fabrics', I didn’t expect them to embrace that so strongly. They included velvet, shot cotton, linen, raw silk, hand dyed cotton, suede, quilter’s cotton, and even fuzzy selvages! 

 Here are all the blocks up on the design wall, ready for the gaps to be filled in, always the trickiest part of a quilt like this.


I really liked the mix of blocks - some quite literal with their curves and all. Some much more impressionistic, like the middle block of "bacon bits." But one thing that this circle-loving group wasn't inspired to make was circles! And it came to me that the quilt needed some pancetta blocks.


I added three to the quilt, and have heard from both fans and detractors, but for better or worse, they're in there to stay. [Watch for a tutorial for this kind of layered circle block later this week.]



For quilting, I chose four bacon-imbued thread colors, Aurifil 50wt 1103 (burgandy), 2000 (beige), 2155 (cinnamon), and 2350 (copper), stitching in wavy lines across the quilt to echo that bacon essence.



The quilt, measuring 56" x 64", was finished with a faced binding, which is my favorite method for more 'artsy' quilts like this.



And then the big question loomed - where to go for a photo shoot?

Yes, the local meat market was the obvious choice! So how many of you have stood at the meat counter to pay for your bacon and steak, and posed the question, "I made a quilt inspired by bacon, so would it be ok if I took photos of it in front of your store?" Yeah. 

Much credit goes to the hubby who snagged that empty parking spot while a car was waiting to pull in, so I could get my photos!


Even more difficult than coming up with a photoshoot location was deciding on a name for this truly bacon-inspired quilt. I kept coming back to what grandgirl told me when she saw it in progress weeks ago - "It's baconrific, grammy!" And so it shall be. [Though honestly, hubby has miscalled it "baconstein" more than once, and I'm fond of that too!] 


Lastly, many thanks to Leanne, Marci, Felicity, Karen, Kari, Stephanie, Hillary, Anne, and M-R
for embracing my quirky yet distinctive prompt and working their improv magic. I for one enjoyed it immensely!

 This quilt was on my Q4 FAL2016 list! Linking up with Finish It Up Friday.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

2016 Finish-A-Long :: Link Q1 Finishes

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How can it already be the end of Q1 of the 2016 FAL?! Remember, the 2016 FAL is now global - a community of bloggers across the world are jointly hosting the FAL, and you can link your Q1 finishes with any of us and they'll appear on each blog!
First, a huge thank you to our fantastic sponsors:
Keeping with tradition, while we're all linking up our finishes, it's also "tutorial week"! Here's the schedule so you can visit them all:
Let's review just a few guidelines and then start linking up! 
  • Add one link for each of your Q1 finishes. If you want to link a round up post of all your finishes, use that link to enter one of your finishes and then link the rest of your finishes separately. So one link per finish, each an entry into the randomly chosen prize draws. If you link up your finishes early and then have a last minute one, just add it later. They don't all have to be done at the same time.
  • Please make sure that the photo or blog post you link up contains a link or reference back to your original Q1 list so that we can verify your entry.
  • Be active in the FAL community by checking out the links of others and commenting. We all need encouragement so let's celebrate each other's accomplishments. Follow the 2016 Finish-A-Long Facebook page or @finishalong on Instagram, and tag any photos #2016fal. Feel free to grab the 2016 FAL button at the top of this post if you like.
  • Just so you know, the FAL hosts will also be linking their finishes to share in the community, but will not be eligible for any of the prizes.
The Q1 Finishes linky will stay open through April 7. Prizes will be awarded as soon as all the entries and verified and will be posted on each host blog. Also, start making your Q2 FAL lists any time, as the Q2 list link opens on April 8!

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