1/3 yard Friendly Forest in Azalea: 2 1/2″ bindingġ) Cut alphabet rows apart.1/2 yard Tall Grass in Mineral: word sashing and hanging sleeve.If you are coming to the Creativ Festival, it will be on display in the Fabric Spark booth, #248! Keep in mind that the amount of fabric you need will drastically change depending on the phrase/word you want to spell! This mini quilt is actually quite large at 35″ x 23″. I’ve made up a little mini tutorial for the project below, with links to all of the fabrics I used, plus the gorgeous Little World in Amberthat didn’t make it in – vetoed by the fact that after it was pieced in it didn’t really match my daughter’s room so well. I love that this Tamara Kate art can inspire my little girl! She visits art supply stores like they are candy shops – she needs this mini quilt! Fabric Spark was amazing and sent me the alphabet panel and some of her other fabrics from Tamara Kate’s Nature Walk collection for Michael Miller Fabrics. She does not stop drawing – and you rarely find her without a drawing implement of some kind in her hand. I thought the isogram “Quick on the draw” was perfect for her bedroom wall. This project, however, is for my oldest daughter. But, I’m in luck and know a whole bunch of people with first and last names that start with each of the leftover letters – so, if you know me – you “might” be getting a pillow or zippy pouch ( or other sewn something) with a letter on it for your next birthday/Christmas or other random holiday! One last thing still bugged me – cutting up the panel without a use for the leftover letters. I also found a great example of a sewing isogram after I finished my project, from Sherri Noel ( great first name, btw!) – she wrote “Sew Crazy” on her sewing machine cover! Of course, you could always think up another phrase and buy two or three alphabet panels. I’m so happy to be working with Janome to present this!īut, back to isograms, it turns out there are tons of these things! I got a few from this website – “Stand By Me”, “Rocket Man” or “Rhapsody in Blue” ( plus lots more) if you are a music enthusiast and Playground, Trampoline, Ambidextrous or Subdermatoglyphic ( !) according to Wikipedia. You can also see the original sample projects from the Sewing Diaries, other past projects and the girls’ Easter Dresses. If you are in the Toronto area, I will be presenting a Trunk Show – “Be Brave and Sew” on the Fashion Arts stage at 2:30 on Friday and 9:30 am ( gulp!) on Saturday. Moving ahead for a second, this project is the last thing I need to finish before my Trunk Show at the Creativ Festival in 2 days! Wow! I am running around like crazy person over here. It’s gorgeous, but right away I was worried… my kids are too big for alphabet projects, no matter how amazing the fabric is! Of course, I now * needed* the fabric, so for a couple of days my husband and I thought of things to write with one panel of the alphabet until I Googled it and found out what I needed was an isogram: “a word or phrase without a repeating letter”. So there’s thing called an isogram, which I didn’t know about until my sponsor Fabric Spark emailed to see if I wanted to make a project with a Nature Walk Alphabet Panel.
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