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mcvl

mcvl
Date Joined: April 2, 2014
Last Online: September 27, 2014
Birthday: June 5, 1943
Country: United States
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About Me

I'm a passionate quilter with a house full of fabric. I've figured out that the only way to enrich my stash without enlarging it is to swap.

I'm writing a book (very slowly) about the design of geometric repeat quilts. My assistant, Scot, and I make small quilts to demonstrate all the different tactics available for making quilts more interesting. Our motto is "Never make another boring quilt."

What to do with so many small quilts? They're too small for a regular child's quilt, so we're donating them to the preemie ward at a local children's hospital.

Loyal fans of Joan Ford's ScrapTherapy books, we use our Accuquilt to cut our scraps into 2", 3.5", and 5" sizes. Then we have scraps of scraps; those we use to make Victoria Findlay Wolfe's Made Fabric. And then we send the scraps of scraps of scraps plus all our stray threads to a papermaker in Missouri, who turns them into wonderful imaginative paper. Nothing goes to waste.

We love almost every kind of fabric, especially Kaffe Fassett, Brandon Mably, and Philip Jacobs, Amy Butler and Parson Gray, Malka Dubrawsky, Marcia Derse, and Lotta Jansdotter, but also Barbara Brackman's wonderful reproductions, 1930s feedsack prints and Denyse Schmidt's modern variants, batiks of all kinds, zebra stripes, Liberty, Kathy Doughty's wonderful Wandering Mind collection, damascene and baronial cottons, mill book cottons, Provençal prints, M&S Aboriginals, the great Jay McCarroll for Free Spirit, Dutch wax African prints, Japanese cotton both traditional and novel, ordinary sweet little florals, leaves, and vines, and every stripe and plaid that ever lived. We scour eBay and etsy for interesting vintage fabrics, and we're good customers at Spoonflower.

What /don't/ we like? Flannel. Commercial images and movie tie-ins. Solids. Laurel Burch. Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Hanukkah, Passover, and Kwanzaa fabric. Fabric with words that are meant to be read (as opposed to words that are there just for texture). Hearts and Valentines.

As you might imagine, we like all colors, the primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries, the bright, the murky, the sophisticated, the naïve. We have a special fondness for fabrics whose color you just can't name, they include too many colors.

Ratings

LainieO rated for 2 1/2 Fabric Strips on Jul 22, 2014
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Comment: Thank you for the strips.
PatCoad rated for 2 1/2 Fabric Strips on Jul 22, 2014
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PatCoad rated for Quilt/Sewing Swap Questionnaire on Jun 5, 2014
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cake4me rated for Charming Charms-Private on Jun 4, 2014
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Comment: Thank you so much for the great charms. Will add them to my stash of charms for my next project.
crochetjunkie rated for Private cj & mcvl on May 14, 2014
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Comment: I got the stationary today! Thank you so very much! It is amazing! if you need more vomit squares, let me know and I'd be happy to send more! You went above and beyond what I expected!!
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Comment: Thank you for sharing your answers with me on this swap. I enjoyed reading your responses. blessings,
Gixxychic rated for Quilt/Sewing Swap Questionnaire on May 11, 2014
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Comment: Thank you for particing in the questionnaire! I hope to be creating some fun swaps soon!
cake4me rated for Quilt/Sewing Swap Questionnaire on May 10, 2014
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Comment: Thank you for sharing. It sounds like you are busy sewing all the time.
8bitgeek rated for Quilt/Sewing Swap Questionnaire on May 8, 2014
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Comment: I enjoyed reading your answers! Thank you for sending a link to your blog too, I will definitely be checking it out. Good luck on the book!
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Comment: Thank you for sharing your questionnaire answers. Best wishes on your book endeavor.
perkl8r rated for Charming Charms for MCVL and perkl8r on Apr 19, 2014
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Comment: Oh these are nice!!!! I think my favorites are 1930's prints. Thank you!

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perkl8r on Apr 8, 2014:

Greetings @mcvl and welcome to Swap-bot. Please take a few minutes and fill out your profile so we can get to know you and so that we'll know your likes and dislikes when it's time to swap.

I am looking forward to our private swap as soon as your profile is ready.

thank you and happy swapping!

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