love made you + other patchy goodness, in progress

several years ago (probably about 5 years now) i made the word "love" using soft letter pillows. sometime back, probably about 2.5 to 3 years ago (when poppy was but a wee little thing), i added the words "made you", thinking it would, in toto, make a neat wallhanging somewhere, someday, in our home. perhaps over a bed, or maybe even in the kiddo's space. i like the idea of those words together, because really, for most of us, it's kinda true. idealistically anyway. :) finally got around to snapping a photo this past week. (wow i'm slow.) maybe in about 5 years i'll actually get around to hanging them up. ha ha ha.

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working on some other small baby-quilt/wall-hanging sized patchy/quilty stuff. will reveal at a later date.

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taking an all day free-motion quilting course at a local fabric store on friday...i'm pretty excited.

recycled, renewed: green at heart's (tee-shirt) rugs

(image via green at heart)

how flipping cool are these handmade braided rugs by green at heart? each one is made from a plethora of recycled tees. i remember seeing these a while back on the interwebs and coveting them, but noticing one in this recent apartment therapy smaller cooler kid's room entry made me fall in love all over again. i wouldn't mind putting one under a circular table in an eat-in kitchen (over top of some kind of white or light flooring, natch). or even in a little bright bijoux of a living room, where everything else was pale. or, or! maybe even an otherwise all-white, uber-moderne austere bedroom, maybe something with white or pale pastel walls and a high ceiling? YES! but, whoa, totally breathtaking, any-which-way you might style them...

this and that

i started playing around with instagram on my iPhone yesterday...popped off a couple pictures around the house.
on top: thinking about making a zig-zag quilt. made a simple sketch on graph paper on monday, so i could get an idea of how much fabric/how many blocks i'll need to make one in queen size. i made of a few copies of said drawing so i could plan out colors. i don't think i'll be doing the colors shown; i was just having a little fun with a glass of wine and colored pencils while watching tosh.0. :P
middle: a jumper dress i made over the winter from ikea yardage. it's the same 70s vintage pattern i used to make this green jumper and this orange jumper...
at the bottom: acrylic boxes, from the container store. i like how they look stacked and arranged; they remind me of buildings in a city. poppy LOVES playing with them; taking off the tops, putting stuff inside, stacking them, etc., etc.
as with hipstamatic...i can see this app being pretty addictive. :)