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Hi! You've landed on the Polkadot Chair blog!! My name is Melissa Mortenson, and I'm so glad that you are here!
I'm a Mom to 3 great kids, married to a wonderful guy, and feel lucky to be living in Kentucky!
I love to sew, craft & create... this blog, named after a chair in my craft room, is a peek into my little world.
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Tag Archives: patterns
Simple Chevron Quilted Throw
This post first appeared on the Riley Blake Designs Blog.
One of the most frequent comments I get is ”I’d like to make a quilt but I don’t know where to start”. With this in mind I designed this simple quilted project that would be a great place to start if you’ve never made a quilt before. If you are an experienced quilter, it would be a fun way to show off some of your favorite fabrics.
DIY Frame Clutch Ideas
Next week I’ll be attending the Alt Summit in SLC. I’m excited but admittedly a bit nervous. I don’t want to feel like a fish out of water as I’ve heard there are some insanely talented people attending.
I’ve started to pull a few things together to take with me, and resisting the urge to buy a whole new wardrobe!
Summer Pillows- with free pattern :)
I’ve been having fun getting our outdoor room put together this year. The weather has warmed up and we find ourselves spending time out there most evenings.
More sneak peeks
The Stash Books blog has got a great sneak peek at the upcoming Moda Bake Shop book Fresh Fabric Treats.
One of the sneak peeks on their blog may or may not be the project that I contributed to the book…
and I may or may not posted said sneak peek above… *wink*
Once I get the go ahead from Moda I’ll share more details about my project for the book (there are actually 3 patterns included with my project!!)
Tagged moda, patterns, quilts
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Padded iPad case tutorial
I broke down and got an iPad2 for me.. I wasn’t sure I wanted one until I saw all of the great magazines you can get on it now. I have a bit of a “paper clutter” problem and I thought this might cut it down a bit. I also wanted to check out the new apps for sketching to see if it would be a good “idea notebook” and so far so good… (if you are curious I’m using the penultimate app and griffin stylus to sketch).
Posted in accessories, sewing
Tagged easy gift ideas, journey, patterns, sewing, tutorial
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Soft ‘n Snugly Baby Quilt
Recently I needed to make a baby quilt for a gift, but didn’t have much time and not quite enough material to make what I had in mind.
Then I remembered my friend Traci makes these really cute rag quilts with fabric scraps and I thought maybe I could try to do something similar.
As I was sorting through my scraps I got the idea to make a quilt of all of my different “soft and textured” fabrics. Since babies like lots of different textures I thought it might be kind of fun to make a quilt with lots of different fabrics. I ended up using corduroy, minke, flannel, chenille and satin all on the same quilt.
This is how I made it:
I started by gathering fabrics that all coordinated and cut them into random sizes. My smallest piece of fabric was 35″ long so I cut all of the fabrics to 35″ with widths varying from 3″ – 10″. I didn’t plan it out at all or think about it, I just started chopping up fabric. (yeah, I know, not always a good idea)…
I then just started sewing the strips together. I made sure the minke was not on one of the ends (it stretches and I needed to keep the quilt straight) and that no 2 “like” fabrics were next to each other. You can’t tell from the photo but I cut the 2 corduroy fabrics (the red and turquoise) opposite ways so that the wale of the corduroy was different on each one. (Just to add more visual texture).
After I thought the quilt looked like a good size I stopped sewing on extra strips. It ended up being about 35″ wide by 50″ tall.
I then quilted it with a stitch in the ditch over the seams, using more flannel as the backing. (Now that I think of it, a pieced backing may have been cute for this project).
For the binding I used some satin blanket binding. It was the first time I’ve used it and it was MUCH easier than I thought. (I bought it a while ago and was afraid to try it out!!).
After a trip through the wash and the GENEROUS use of a lint roller, it was soft and snugly and ready to give away.
I’m very happy with how it turned out. Mostly because it only took about 2 hours to make and I was able to use up a lot of scraps of fabric that I had left over from other projects.
