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Who friggin stencils on a quilt? #thisguy WIP: quilted placemats for gifting.

Who friggin stencils on a quilt?

#thisguy

WIP: quilted placemats for gifting.

Inspiration: Nalbinding, Jackets, and Tolkien There’s this layered look (seemingly mostly popular in Japan) for men’s clothing that I’m digging more than I can say. Some of these coats make my fingers itch to make some patterns and get sewing.

Inspiration: Nalbinding, Jackets, and Tolkien

There’s this layered look (seemingly mostly popular in Japan) for men’s clothing that I’m digging more than I can say. Some of these coats make my fingers itch to make some patterns and get sewing.

So I was sitting there last year, in the mountain of crumpled paper left by Christmas morning, and felt horrible at all the waste. My internal conversation went something like this: For next year, I should probably make some gift bags out of fabric that would be reusable. But inexpensive cotton tends to be sort of thin. It would have to be lined. If it’s lined, I might as well use something not-Christmassy, so they will be reusable and reversible throughout the year, too. Birthdays, whatever. And I should make them in generic sizes, too. We should do this. Agreed? Agreed, Smeagol. Agreed. And then I got caught up in keeping the One Ring from being tossed into the fires of Mt. Doom, so I only remembered only a few weeks ago I was going to do this. Good thing they’re quick work. They’re especially quick if you make patterns and go into an assembly-line sort of production, making a bunch all at once.

So I was sitting there last year, in the mountain of crumpled paper left by Christmas morning, and felt horrible at all the waste. My internal conversation went something like this:

For next year, I should probably make some gift bags out of fabric that would be reusable.

But inexpensive cotton tends to be sort of thin. It would have to be lined.

If it’s lined, I might as well use something not-Christmassy, so they will be reusable and reversible throughout the year, too. Birthdays, whatever.

And I should make them in generic sizes, too.

We should do this. Agreed?

Agreed, Smeagol. Agreed.

And then I got caught up in keeping the One Ring from being tossed into the fires of Mt. Doom, so I only remembered only a few weeks ago I was going to do this. Good thing they’re quick work. They’re especially quick if you make patterns and go into an assembly-line sort of production, making a bunch all at once.