So I mentioned I was taking a brief intermission from working on the Cafe. I’m planning on getting back to that on Monday so don’t fear! :biggrin: Anyway I wanted to give you an glimpse of what I’m doing now: I’m working on the Dorm Room diorama/ roomset. What? What am I talking about? LOL! Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut…..
What if I could do the “Dorm Room” on the Small Living Room base (aka the Friday Monologue room) ? I’d use the wall with the door in it (after all it’s a dorm so who cares too much about that?) So I decided what the hell? I’ve got the walls handy (I just need to give them a couple coats of paint & some skirting boards) toss the beds in and a barbie desk (and wardrobes) and there it is! Ready to go!
The great thing about this is that if I’m careful & tweak things just right–I might actually be able to start proper episodes & photostories for the Quinlan Chronicles.
- I’ll have the local cafe
- A student Dorm room
- Maybe a student Lounge if I decide to use the Small Living Room set as that (and I don’t see why I couldnt??)
Then really–at least as far as the student stuff goes—I’ve got just about everything I need! (Ok not everything but a lot!) and I can use the same base & part of the walls from August’s Living Room set for a student classroom if I decide I need to do some of those shots in the psys!
Ok so anyway, I was taking a break right???
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigght! 
I saw a thing called a ticker tape quilt. There’s an awesome tutorial that made me feel it was doable: SewMamaSew . So I wanted to try to make one. I’m not all that good at quilting (up to now I’d never even completed a quilt) so seeing one that made me feel like “hey, I can probably do that!” was nifty. So I got to work on it–after all if I was going to make a dorm room (for multiple people) different bed treatments would be needed etc.
This is how it sort of started out:
I was lucky that the rolls of scraps I’d gotten last time at the fabric shop had a LOT of small prints. It helped make the quilt seem a little more in scale than it would otherwise have done.
After all the sewing (and sorry they’re small but they’re still pain in the ass things to sew) I washed it roughly a couple of times in very hot water. I wanted to get the patch pieces to fray (I wasn’t sure if they would since I’d prewashed everything before hand) and I wanted the base of the quilt (white) to have that kind of rumpled/used look that they get. (I’m not sure how well you can see that in the pics)
I know, not a lot to look at and not really a palette that I would have chosen… Which led me to wonder which of the students it would be meant for?
Yeah. Looks like Eff has claimed it!
Anyway that’s what I was working on the last two days. Overall I’m happy with it and I learned as I went along which is good. I doubt I’ll ever be a “quilter” since it’s so fussy & nit picky (and part of the reason I liked this kind of quilt was that it seemed to be less-so than usual).
Comments?
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That looks great! It turned out really well!
Thanks Kitty! It’s because you cheered me on with it! :happy:
I just LOVE how that quilt looks! And it seems perfect for Eff.
Thanks Diana!
Eff seemed to have claimed it so I guess that’s how it goes! It turned out better than I expected since I was running short of fabric & stuff!
This seems completely doable (yours looks great!), even for someone like me who never tried quilting before. I would like something like that for Pauli. :cheerful:
Ursula you could totallllllllly do one of these for Pauli! If you can sew 1:6 clothes (and I know you can) you can do this! :biggrin:
This is also something you could do completely by hand. Only thing to be aware of is that I added fishing sinkers into the binding so that it would drape better when it was on the bed.
It seems very well done and I like how you take pictures, everything seems so real! :biggrin:
Thank you Kizzy! I appreciate that you like my photos–I looked at some older photos I took a few years back & I think I am improving XD
I still can’t wrap my head around how you could make this is such small scale. :dizzy: It’s amazing. (The sinkers were a great idea too.) I love how it looks all worn, now. It probably reminds her of home
Perfect, perfect, perfect! And, wow, those are tiny prints. You’re so lucky to have found those.
You know C, I had a hard time too! Considering I haven’t really quilted before (except for the blocks I made…and lost LOL) I was a little intimidated…had to pick colors, had to find the fabric…and had to hope I didn’t screw up since I didn’t have enough of anything for a “Do-Over”!!!
Yeah I came up with the sinkers after I’d tried wiring it and still couldn’t get the quilt to drape right (I probably wouldn’t have had such an issue if I’d used silk or uber thin batting but oh well). The sinkers aren’t perfect (and not child safe!) but they do the job…kind of like the lead weights you can get for curtains & drapes).
The quilt came out looking great
Looks nice and “homey” definitely a perfect item to bring to a dorm as a reminder 
Great Job as always.
Thanks Will! Iam glad with how it turned out (although half way through I was starting to think it was going to end up in the trash.) Especially when I breathed too hard and pieces flew all over!!!
Wonderful job! It looks so warm and comfy. I love your touch with making it look “well loved”. Eff is a lucky gal. And what a great idea with the fishing sinkers. I was wondering how you got such a nice drape. Very nice. I wish I would get off my but and sew more. This would be one of the things I would so love to try. Until I stop being lazy I guess I shall just live through you and your work.