New Site is Up! Follow me there!

It's moving day online!

My new site is up and live just in time for Sew Mama Sew Giveaway day! 

http://www.athousandneedles.com

I'm really rather excited about the new name and the logo and pretty much everything about all this.

I've been able to move all the old posts over so there shouldn't be any lost content.

{sew}allegorical has been really great but it was time for a fresh place. The name was just something I threw together one day and never fit quite right. The new name/logo already makes me so very happy. 

I've loved getting to know all my online friends and I really hope you'll follow me along over there. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to port any subscriptions/followers over so you'll have to re-subscribe. Up on the new site is an RSS button, a BlogLovin button and a form to fill out to subscribe by email. I think that's got everything covered. 

I hope all y'all will grow into this new site with me. I've got some great things coming including some publications, new class announcements, patterns and maybe even my very own little fabric store. 

Thank you so much to everyone for all the inspiration and support! 

<3 Al 

Maintenance! And a Question..

Just a heads up!

The new site is being worked on so there's going to be some maintenance going on around here.

Hopefully I don't just delete everything or something crazy but I'm working on moving the posts over so that I don't have to lose content.

So if things look a little funny around here...I probably pressed a button that I shouldn't have.

I'm so very very very excited for the new things happening and the new site where everything can be under one matching name.

I hope you'll follow me over there. Since Google Reader is going away I'll be setting up a different reader service on the new site. When the site is public, I'll be sure to include a post with different following options.

If you have a moment could you please let me know your current preferred reader? I don't want to force anyone to use one specific reader so I'd like to provide at least two options.

I know things have been quiet here! Thank you so much for putting up with me during the site move ;)

Wordless Wednesday

Friday Five - Out of the Studio Edition

I've spent the past few days out of my studio and instead working in the dining room.

It's been warming up here and my dining room has a great set of sunny french doors.
There's not a lot of sun in my studio, which is great for my fabric but sometimes I just want to work in full sunshine.

Now I'm glad I kept my old iron and my ugly table ironing board. It's perfect for setting up shop somewhere else:

Yesterday was spent cutting. And cutting and cutting. Cutting papers. Cutting fabric. And cutting ribbon to wrap it all up.

The warm weather inspired me to spend some time restocking hexie kits in the shop.

Trying sometime different this time around. First cutting kits by color and soon cutting some kits by line.

I've also been gathering up stray projects that need to make their way into the studio to be finished.

Some hexie flowers for Hush Bella:

And some Tiny Tumblers that I had cut down at Fabricate for the Tiny Quilt Club: 

I'm not exactly sure what my studio desk looks like right now. 

Maybe I'll be completely crazy and not check on it until Monday. 

Maybe. 

Friday Five

This week all five projects happened to be shoved into one corner. 

I've been working on something big that I needed the desk space for and this is what the other side looks like right now.

It's composed of:

1. More scrappy trip blocks

2. X plus pieces, cut but not sewn

3. Rows for Scrap Vomit in the purple/red box

4. The blue box is overflowing with HST for smorgasquilt. I want it to be a monster so I just keep making them between projects.

5. And a muslin for a bust adjustment. 

What a wreck. 

Wordless Wednesday

An experiment that I'm not quite sure I like. 

Going to let it sit for the month before seeing if I want to quilt it. 

Friday Finish - Farmer's Wife

The five things on my desk don't matter much this week.

They're awesome but not nearly as awesome as a finished Farmer's Wife top. 

My baby is done and I don't think I could possibly be happier. 

All the weeks. All the tiny triangles. All absolutely worth it. 

I knew the traditional layout wasn't right for me and after some wonderful advice from a friend I staggered some strips of Michael Miller's Clown Stripe in between each block.

I love the movement the stripes give this quilt. And the breaks from all that color.

This layout meant that I needed an even number of blocks so I put together this quick little star and added it in. 

Which worked out perfectly because those pumpkins were a purchase from my birthday trip to Nashville and I'm really excited that they got to work their way into my quilt.

112 blocks. Set into 14 rows of 8. 

Long enough that I can completely hide under it. Or run around the house with a fabulous cape. 

I've gotta part with my baby for a little while. She's off to the longarmer to get a bit of pumpkin treatment. 

Binding is proving tricky for me at the moment. I can't decide what I want. So I think that the time away will give me a chance to really think about it. Then I can look at it with fresh eyes when it gets back home. 

...I haven't even gone to the post office and I miss it already.