Thursday, February 23, 2006

coffee quilt, fully caffeinated

Here are some photos of my finished quilt. It measures 4'3" x 5'6" and used up very close to 200 used coffee sleeves, at least 80% of which came from Starbucks (welcome to Vancouver!).











So much sewing. Now it's time to rest...

16 comments:

  1. Siobhan, you are hilarious!
    And the quilt, gorgeous! How do you do it??!?!

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  2. wow! that came out great! all you quiters are making me want to quilt again...

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  3. The quilt looks GREAT. I can't wait to see pictures of it at the exhibition! Congratulations again! That picture of you asleep and dreaming is hilarious. You're the best.

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  4. this looks great, siobhan!
    i love the idea behind it too. i told the boy about it, and it was enough to start him off on a rant about north american consumption. ha!

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  5. omg! that's unbelievable! wow....

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  6. Oh my goodness! that is wonderful. is is comfy?? or rough? that's an awesome way to recycle! I'm sure though you're always wanting some coffee when you use it though. love it.

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  7. a cardboard quilt... how ingenious - I like the way you used a zig zag to join it all together... or am I seeing it wrong? Good Job!

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  8. Me thinks Starbucks might pay big bucks for that.

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  9. you did an awesome job. may i know how it's done? do you have a tutorial or something? I just, truly loved it and would make one too (if you don't mind :) )

    but... this is cardboard so it's not washable right? im sorry with so many questions. i was just really amazed with the great job you did. :)

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  10. If you did the "iron plastic grocery bags to fuse them into material" trick too, you could, theoretically, water proof this.

    http://etsylabs.blogspot.com/2007/05/long-overdue-fusing-plastic-bag.html

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  11. What a cool quilt! So creative.

    Alexis

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  12. Great post! It was so pleasant to read it by the cup of hot French coffee.

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  13. Wow, sewing cardboard like that is fantastic. You can also get monogrammed coffee sleeves in a huge selection of fabrics:

    http://www.posylane.com/wrap-a-latte-monogrammed-coffee-sleeves.htm

    They could add unique options.

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  14. This is very crafty of you and quite beautiful. Also nice site.

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  15. Great Quilt. I have always wondered what i could do with those things.
    Some of my friends call me Mrs. Starbucks. Can't live without my coffee.
    ALC

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