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Showing posts with label harry potter blanket. Show all posts
Showing posts with label harry potter blanket. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 20, 2021

2-Years in the Making Harry Potter Quilt Blanket

Since I picked up quilting again I thought it would be nice to make quilt blankets as a wedding gift. My friends Jomar and Celine were set to do their church in July 2019. I started the project a month before their wedding thinking I would finish the quilt project in time for their wedding. I was dead wrong. 

It took two years and a month, multiple trips across Taiwan, Japan, Australia, the Philippines, the US, South Korea and what-not before I finished it in Singapore. The culprit was the tiny triangle highlights which required painstaking precision by hand. Aunties would fawn over me whenever I would sew in-flight (hahaha). I think it took me a year to finish the triangle highlights of the blanket. Here's how I made it --


The funny thing is I also ran out of fabric! I still don't know how to estimate the amount of fabric needed and I was very busy at work. I ended up waiting to get enough fabric before I could finish the project. One thing I did not anticipate also was the blanket got quite heavy to work on. I had to work on my stamina and energy so I could finally finish it. Sweetie had to help me carry it around and fold the blanket (Miggy helped me with the Wonder Woman quilt blanket project).


I chose Harry Potter as a theme because Celine loves HP a lot. I love working on themed quilt projects too because it gives me a reason to buy licensed fabric (quite expensive though haha). Celine and Jomar have just celebrated their second church wedding anniversary. I have to figure out now how to send this baby to Canada. I hope it gets to them in time for autumn! 

Day 18, Gratitude Challenge, An item you use everyday. One thing I'm really grateful for at the moment are the medications I drink everyday. It's keeping me alive! So I'm really grateful to all the scientists who figured out how to make meds to help keep me well! Without the medications to help with blood clots and pulmonary embolism I would have probably been long gone by now. Thank you dear scientists! 

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Sunday, March 21, 2021

Sunday Blanket Wrestling

Happy Sunday everyone! I hope you all had a good rest this weekend. I'm happy to say that I'm progressing nicely the last few days. I think I have figured out what's slowing me down. I just had to make a few adjustments. I just need to keep firm in my belief that I will get better and get well. 

I got up a bit late today. I ended up sleeping late because I took an afternoon nap again (happened again today!). It's okay, I listened to my body and it wanted to rest. I've been keeping busy with my quilt projects. I'm currently working on a bag for my ironing wool pad and mat. I also finally completed the materials for the Harry Potter blanket. 

Blanket wrestling lol. 


I worked on sandwiching the HP blanket with the wadding and back fabric. Oh my it's so heavy. It was like wrestling with three bolts of fabric haha. I made some headway, but got exhausted. Promptly fell asleep on the couch. I left the blanket on our bed. Will need Sweetie's help later to fold it. Remind me never to make another king sized blanket! 

How was your weekend?

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