Which I Made A Thing
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alltoseekI made an Aubreyad fandom quilt for a friend.
This pic shows it on top of my bedspread at home before I sent it off to my friend.
It is 6'x4', lap-size. Nice for curling up on the sofa with :-)
The design is called "Attic Windows". I picked it because each piece was a nice size for showing off the print on the fabric.
(Sorry for the crappy fuzzy pics :-()
Close-up of the upper left
*The fabric in the very upper left is of compasses, but they also reminded me of Stephen's Breguet :-)
*Underneath the whale we have skeletons of various animals, for naturalist!Stephen.
*In the block to the right the island mountain against the red sky reminded me of the volcano in The Wine-Dark Sea.
*The cards are for the games Jack and Stephen played, before Jack got sick of Stephen winning all the time ;-) Also for lucky!gambler!Stephen, and less-lucky!gambler!Jack *g*
*The green fabric on the very left in the middle is bees, for the hive Stephen brought aboard in Post Captain.
*The white fabric in the middle is of various London landmarks.
*The dark blue on the right above the flying seabirds is actually a star atlas map, with compasses and images of tall ships - absolutely gorgeous! I was so happy to find that fabric.
*In the upper right we have violins and cellos and the lower left is sheets of music on yellow and white paper against a blue background - so perfect for musical!Jack-and-Stephen :-)
Close-up of the upper right
*In the upper right - Sloth! Yay! You have no idea how hard it is to find fabric with sloths on it. Hedgehogs, sure - everywhere; octopuses, no prob - but sloths? Forget it!
*More music and cellos and violins and animals.
*The white fabric in the middle on the left is a kind of old-fashioned handwriting - reminded me of the letters Jack wrote, and Stephen's diary, and the log Captain Aubrey kept, etc.
*The blue fabric in the lower left is sharks. Which are mostly gammon, you know *g*
*On the lower right are human bones, labelled - for Dr Maturin, naturally :-)
Close-up of the lower left
*The bright blue stripey fabric is of swords, much like what most naval officers fought with. Couldn't find any fabric with pistols or cannon, more's the pity *g*
*Underneath that to the left are books and quills in ink pots, for author!Dr Maturin
*At the bottom on the left we have Amazon-inspired fabric with both sloths yay! and giant river otters and all kinds of other Amazonian animals. At one point in the books we actually follow Stephen along a naturalising trip up the Amazon where he finds sloths and giant river otters and all kinds of other lovely Amazonian animals but I can't find it again - and I even did a picspam for it and everything, darn it.
*Anyway, next to those we have coffee, naturally, because neither Jack nor Stephen would ever have made it through all those books without coffee *g*
Close-up of the lower right
*The white fabric on the lower left is more old-fashioned writing, this time in lists, like the log books and the accounts Captain Aubrey and his pursers and bosuns had to keep. And the notes that Commodore Aubrey made in TMC that somehow Killick kept until Jahleel Brenton asked him about them in Fortune of War.
*The bottom right square is of all sorts of Australian animals, including the platypus, of course :-)
If you have any questions or would like to know more about any of the fabrics, please ask away! I love talking about this stuff :D
This pic shows it on top of my bedspread at home before I sent it off to my friend.
It is 6'x4', lap-size. Nice for curling up on the sofa with :-)
The design is called "Attic Windows". I picked it because each piece was a nice size for showing off the print on the fabric.
(Sorry for the crappy fuzzy pics :-()
Close-up of the upper left
*The fabric in the very upper left is of compasses, but they also reminded me of Stephen's Breguet :-)
*Underneath the whale we have skeletons of various animals, for naturalist!Stephen.
*In the block to the right the island mountain against the red sky reminded me of the volcano in The Wine-Dark Sea.
*The cards are for the games Jack and Stephen played, before Jack got sick of Stephen winning all the time ;-) Also for lucky!gambler!Stephen, and less-lucky!gambler!Jack *g*
*The green fabric on the very left in the middle is bees, for the hive Stephen brought aboard in Post Captain.
*The white fabric in the middle is of various London landmarks.
*The dark blue on the right above the flying seabirds is actually a star atlas map, with compasses and images of tall ships - absolutely gorgeous! I was so happy to find that fabric.
*In the upper right we have violins and cellos and the lower left is sheets of music on yellow and white paper against a blue background - so perfect for musical!Jack-and-Stephen :-)
Close-up of the upper right
*In the upper right - Sloth! Yay! You have no idea how hard it is to find fabric with sloths on it. Hedgehogs, sure - everywhere; octopuses, no prob - but sloths? Forget it!
*More music and cellos and violins and animals.
*The white fabric in the middle on the left is a kind of old-fashioned handwriting - reminded me of the letters Jack wrote, and Stephen's diary, and the log Captain Aubrey kept, etc.
*The blue fabric in the lower left is sharks. Which are mostly gammon, you know *g*
*On the lower right are human bones, labelled - for Dr Maturin, naturally :-)
Close-up of the lower left
*The bright blue stripey fabric is of swords, much like what most naval officers fought with. Couldn't find any fabric with pistols or cannon, more's the pity *g*
*Underneath that to the left are books and quills in ink pots, for author!Dr Maturin
*At the bottom on the left we have Amazon-inspired fabric with both sloths yay! and giant river otters and all kinds of other Amazonian animals. At one point in the books we actually follow Stephen along a naturalising trip up the Amazon where he finds sloths and giant river otters and all kinds of other lovely Amazonian animals but I can't find it again - and I even did a picspam for it and everything, darn it.
*Anyway, next to those we have coffee, naturally, because neither Jack nor Stephen would ever have made it through all those books without coffee *g*
Close-up of the lower right
*The white fabric on the lower left is more old-fashioned writing, this time in lists, like the log books and the accounts Captain Aubrey and his pursers and bosuns had to keep. And the notes that Commodore Aubrey made in TMC that somehow Killick kept until Jahleel Brenton asked him about them in Fortune of War.
*The bottom right square is of all sorts of Australian animals, including the platypus, of course :-)
If you have any questions or would like to know more about any of the fabrics, please ask away! I love talking about this stuff :D
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Date: 2014-01-26 05:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-26 05:17 am (UTC)Now you know what I've been doing instead of reading your fic, or writing my own *g*
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Date: 2014-01-26 04:48 pm (UTC)*rolls around in fabric*
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Date: 2014-01-26 08:15 am (UTC)How look did it take to cut it all out and most important question of all: how did you sew it together so accurately? Is there a trick???
Well done, btw. I had to giggle about the 'non-sloth fabric' :) But find it you did!
I'm in awe!
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Date: 2014-01-26 05:01 pm (UTC)<.< Ummm... I dunno. I tried not to keep track :-) I justified everything by saying I'll use it up on another project (I'm a scrap quilter). Am already at work on another Aubreyad quilt and planning a third.
I once tried to get samples of fabric for doll clothes... Couldn't find anything, or if too expensive.
I'd recommend going to a Joanne's or other fabric store. Even a Walmart if nothing else around.
Also many quilt stores will sell scraps by the bag or weight - limited selection of scraps, of course.
The only online site I know that ships samples is Spoohflower, because they are about people uploading their own prints. It is $5 for an 8" square. But not the thing for doll's clothes, I don't think. You need to find a shop in person for that, I'm afraid. Or browse Etsy or some other craft-doll specialty site.
How look did it take to cut it all out
Not long. There were only two shapes - the squares and the trapezoids. Making the selections and deciding where to put what was the hard part :-)
For this design you need dark along the bottom and light along the side, so that limited my options.
and most important question of all: how did you sew it together so accurately? Is there a trick???
I hand sew, so when I come to a corner I just make sure all the fabrics come together at the right place. It's not hard. A bit time-consuming, but I do it when I'm watching the kids or at their appointments or sports or whatever.
I had to giggle about the 'non-sloth fabric' :) But find it you did!
IT WAS HARD! Even that one piece in the upper corner - I bought a half-yard of that and got only TWO sloths!!!
The other sloth fabric - the Amazon one - was from Spoonflower, so PRICY! I must have bought a fat quarter of it, for $12, I think? Ridiculous! Sloths are adorable! We need more fabric with sloths! :D
Thank you! :D
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Date: 2014-01-26 09:47 am (UTC)Also, where did you find all the wonderful fabric?
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Date: 2014-01-26 05:03 pm (UTC)Also lots and lots of hours spent browsing online (that's where the sloth fabric came from). But that's all the fun part - fabric shopping :D
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Date: 2014-01-26 02:49 pm (UTC)Ain't I the luckiest fangirl in the world?
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Date: 2014-01-26 05:08 pm (UTC):D :D :D
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Date: 2014-01-26 03:26 pm (UTC)"Attic Windows" doesn't really do it justice - it's more like a Cabinet of Curiosities :-)
Do you have bigger pictures, at all?
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Date: 2014-01-26 05:15 pm (UTC)I'm blessed with local quilt shops and of course the internet has everything. Even sloths. If you look hard enough :D
Fortunately animals are always popular, and the sea, and music, and tall ships (at least now they are). And that pretty much sums up Aubreyad yay! No wonder the books are so good - they combine all the best things in life :D
The design probably does have other names - like Shadow Boxes. Cabinet of Curiosities is a good one :-)
I will email you the original pics. I actually shrank them here so they wouldn't take over everyone's screens. But as they get bigger they just get fuzzier, I'm afraid. My only camera is my phone and I'm no good at taking pics with it, sadly.
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It's much easier than writing fic, honestly.
>.>
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Date: 2014-01-26 11:13 pm (UTC)That is a thing of real beauty! Those colours! They are so wonderfully matched and I love all the different fabrics - you could sit and look at that for hours just finding out all the different bits. My mum used to make quilts, so I have a little understanding of the work, and the pleasure, involved in this. Thanks for sharing, now all jessamygriffith needs is a hanging cot to spread it on!
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Date: 2014-02-25 09:53 am (UTC)Anyway, I love how you put the pieces together it looks very coherent!
And so many wonderful people on dreamwidth are a fan of the O'Brian series, I might have to read it...(I saw the film and liked it very much).
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