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tuffet supplies

3/31/2015

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Whew! I'm sure learning a lot about upholstery supplies. I had no idea how many types of foam there are out there, or how many different thicknesses of upholstery batting. Not to mention the tools! I'm hoping by the end of this week, I'll have enough put together so that I can start making samples! I bought some beautiful silk/cotton fabric from India while I was at the International Quilt Festival and I can't wait to make a tuffet from it!

Anyway, I meet with my foam guy tomorrow. So far I have assembled a posse including a foam guy, a plywood guy, and my feet people. Not to mention my fellow Tuffetmasters! Or would that be Tuffetmistresses?

Fooooooaaaaammmmm......
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Tuffet recap

3/28/2015

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I finally made it home from the tuffet workshop in North Carolina. It was such fun and I learned so much that I felt like tuffets were falling out of my ears. But after a good night's sleep in my own bed, I'm ready to roll! Here are some highlights from the workshop!

First up: my array of strips:
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I used a set of 2 1/2 inch strips, though if you are making them from your stash, you can get away with smaller strips. However, the convenience of using a ready-made strip roll can't be beat!

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Getting a good start on my tuffet top here.

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 Several sections later and we have my tuffet top! The colors are pretty, but it looks pretty sad and droopy.

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However, add it to this (which we made on day two):

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and then we have.... almost a tuffet! Well, almost. At this point, I'd call it a pouf, but it needs to have that cute dimple to really be a tuffet. I don't have photos of me working on mine (not enough hands to hold a camera!) but I do have some of fellow tuffet affiliates.

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Sharyn is showing Judy how to make sure the tuffet is beautifully rounded without unsightly bumps.

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Here's Karena getting to know her tuffet inside and out while feeding the button cords through.

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And here is the adorable Marti showing the pneumatic staple gun who's boss.

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A few finishing steps later, add some feet and voila, we have tuffets!

Lots of tuffets!
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On the road!

3/25/2015

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I'm on my way back home from the tuffet workshop! But of course you need some photos! We have people from Kentucky, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Nebraska, to name a few! I don't know if I left any states out.

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Here's our whole class!
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Two proud tuffet masters!

I'm sitting in West Virginia at the moment. My car is quite full!

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Tuffet!

3/24/2015

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It's officially a tuffet! I will take better photos of this next week, because I am exhausted at the moment. Tomorrow I am on my way to buy foam, upholstery fiber, and feet. Then I will be heading to Chicago to visit the international quilt Festival. I will have so much to tell about… Next week. :-)

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This will be a tuffet!

3/23/2015

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It's hard to believe, but this willbe transformed tomorrow into something beautiful! I can't wait!

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Tuffet inspiration!

3/23/2015

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I'm at my tuffet affiliate workshop in North Carolina. We haven't done any sewing yet, but I can show you tuffet inspiration! These are all by Sharyn Cole.

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Aren't they beautiful? Here are my strips laid out:

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And those of Karena, my table-mate, along with a view of our workspace. We aren't actually sharing sewing tables, just the cutting table.

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I can't wait to get started! Prepare yourself for many, many photos to come. ;-)

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It's Alive!

3/21/2015

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Wow. So much has happened in the past few days. A month ago I formed unSpooled, LLC, but hadn't quite finished everything up. Tonight I'm on the road, traveling to North Carolina to become a Tuffetsource affiliate instructor, Friday I'm going to the International Quilt Festival in Chicago, and next week is Spring Break. So, I really wanted to get some things done before this two week period. Of course, life being as it is, I didn't get some things done until just last night. One of them is this website. I've been working on it since the middle of February, but wasn't quite ready to pull the trigger. But here we are!

I'm using Weebly to host, and for the most part, their templates are reasonably easy to use. Though I have a history in IT, I've been so far removed from it that my knowledge just isn't that useful any more. It's like being a really good switchboard operator and being given a smartphone. Luckily, so many things are just drag and drop, it's not a problem. I may play around with templates until I settle on the right one.

I also may copy over some of my posts from My Feed Dogs Are Down, mostly the ones that give advice or instruction. I may feature these as my very own little Throwback Thursday.
holy applique!
In the meantime, my Meg's Garden quilt was given Viewer's Choice in the Madison Modern Quilt Guild's exhibition at the Sun Prairie Quilt Show on Tuesday. The pattern is Meg's Garden from Don't Look Now.

While at that show, I got to docent for the first time, which meant I got to be one of the white glove ladies. I also got to know one of my fellow MMQG members while she co-docented (we're saying that's a word). That gave me the chance to really look the quilts that other members had entered. Seeing
them multiple times gave me time to really appreciate different things about them.

Until next time, which I'm sure will be a tuffet update, please enjoy a slideshow of the work of the Madison Modern Quilt Guild!
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