So the Lego Paperpunch Giveaway is now closed, and the winners were randomly selected. And the winners are…
(drumroll please)
Comment number 3 and comment number 7! Congratulations to Sherry and Michelle. I will be in contact with you by email to get your shipping info.
I hope you all continue to check back for future giveaways as well as some fun tutorials I will be posting in the new year.
In the meantime, Merry Christmas to all of you!
Photo courtesy Crazy Mom Quilts
Two days ago I read the post on Crazy Mom Quilts about how to calculate fabric requirements for making quilts. As I read through the very clear instructions I realized that the calculations could be automated in an Excel spreadsheet. So I built two spreadsheets. The first one tells you how many charm squares you need if you are just making a charm square quilt (no sashing, no borders, etc.) The second one tells you your fabric and cutting requirements for one of the lovely 9 patch quilts you can see to the right.
For both files you can either select a standardized size quilt, or you can specify the dimensions you would like (think non-standard or square). The calculators will get the final quilt size as close to your original dimensions as possible, but it will always round up to accomodate sashing and fixed block size.
For example, if you want a 40″ square charm quilt:
Charm squares are 5″, 4.5″ after seam allowances. Forty inches divided by 4.5″ is 8.8889 charm squares across. The calculator will round up to 9 squares across, and then it will also tell you the final dimensions you can expect for your quilt. In this case it would be 40.5″.
If anyone wants to double check my math on these it would be greatly appreciated. I am fairly confident in my calculations, but I would definitely feel better if someone else were to also take a look at it.
Click here to download the Charm Square Quilt calculator
Click here to download the Nine Patch Quilt calculator
Until next time, may life continue to inspire you!
Photo courtesy Craft: blog.
This giveaway is now closed.
Ok, Kaizer Peeps, it’s time for my first giveaway!
You may have seen the post over on the Craft: blog about the Lego paper punch being sold by Muji. The paper punch that is only being sold in Japan. Well, guess what? It is extremely popular here, too. They cannot keep them in stores. They have sold out twice already and won’t have any new ones available until Christmas Eve. But guess what, kiddies? I have two of them on the way to my front door! And I’m giving both of them away.
What do you have to do to enter the drawing? Just leave a comment! Comments will close at noon (Tokyo time) on December 24, at which time I will be randomly selecting the two winners. Oh, and I will be adding a couple of extra surprise goodies in with the paper punch.
Good luck, and may life continue to inspire you!
Miss Kaizer
That’s my new nickname in the office. Patient Zero. I very suddenly started feeling ill just over a week ago, assumed I had come down with a nasty cold, and just got on with life. Well, two other guys I work with got the same thing. One fell ill on Friday and the other yesterday. Both of them went to the doctor and were promptly diagnosed with swine flu.
Yep. Everyone in the office blames me. I’m like the kid on the playground with cooties.
So this weekend I got started digging through the piles of unfinished projects stacked all over my apartment. Trust me, there are a lot of them. I grabbed the nearest thing that needed to be worked on, and ended up with some finished hot pink straps for children’s tote bags. Woo-hoo! Straps for five tote bags done. May not seem like much of an accomplishment, but the straps are one of the parts I dislike the most. So much ironing. And I do NOT like ironing! But once the straps are done, the tote bags tend to come together quite quickly. Especially since the appliques for the bags are already done and sitting in another pile of unfinished project pieces.
Then I found this pile under some felt:
Um, yeeaaahhhh. Kinda wishing I had left the felt where it was. Out of sight, out of mind, right? But now this big pile ‘o mess is parked on my ironing board glaring at me. Judging me. “You should have finished this long ago! We will haunt your waking hours until you finish this most dreaded component of the project! Aarrrrrrrrggg!!!” Yeah, those strips of fabric are half-pirate. Half-pirate and half-Jabba the Hut. The fabric equivalent of a tell-tale heart. Gah!
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December 24, 2009 5:48 am | 
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