trying to stir up some interest here. What are you working on? I am just finishing a modern style quilt top that was requested as a wedding quilt. It is not my style and has been some work getting through it. Now on to the quilting part. The quilting they want seems to be square loop meandering from what I can find online. Anyone ever do that one? Any suggestions? Some day I am going to get the window curtains/shades done for the not so new house we are in. Taria
I'm finishing the quilting on a quilt for my grandson's 8th birthday. I'm using the BQ2 pattern in U of Oregon prints. (Glad his party is next Saturday cuz it's not done for his birthday today.) When I finish this, I will finish 2 Valentine table toppers--one for me and one for younger daughter.
trying to stir up some interest here. What are you working on? I am just finishing a modern style quilt top that was requested as a wedding quilt. It is not my style and has been some work getting through it. Now on to the quilting part. The quilting they want seems to be square loop meandering from what I can find online. Anyone ever do that one? Any suggestions? Some day I am going to get the window curtains/shades done for the not so new house we are in. Taria
Sitting in lovely Ojai, CA multitasking laundry and stitching an embrroider y by Kathy Schmitz, "Be Mine". The center 8 x 10" embroidery is surrounded with piecing to create a 13 x 15" mini. There is one design for each month. Hopefully I will finish several months while here this winter. For a sewin g project I've brought my Dear Jane quilt. Again I hope to make serious hea dway on the small blocks. The first week we have been here was mostly taken with settling-in and visiting relatives about 45 miles away. Now that we a re starting our second week I think there will be more sewing time. The loc als would like some rain but we are enjoying the near perfect weather. I tr y not to gloat too much when talking with family back in Illinois suffering through snow and sub zero weather.
Last week I finally finished a small Hawaiian applique piece that has been a UFO for a couple years. I had the applique all done and had quilted all around the applique. However, I had put on a straight border and I could not figure out how to quilt the border. Last week I finally decided that it didn't need the border, because Hawaiian quilts typically do not have straight borders. I took the border off and used the border strips for binding. The quilt is done and I am happy with it.
Now I started another Hawaiian applique piece; this one is a larger wall hanging from this pattern:
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I'm enjoying the needle-turn applique, but can't work more than an hour or so or my hands hurt. I really would like a bit more magnification, so I have ordered a clip on magnifier that will clip on to my glasses. I hope that helps. Instead of cutting the pattern from the applique fabric, I cut it from freezer paper, ironed it on to the fabric and traced around it. Then I removed the paper, pinned and basted the applique fabric to the background fabric, basting about 3/8" inside the cutting line. I am cutting the excess fabric away as I go. I was afraid that my applique fabric would fray too much from handling if I cut it all in advance. I think it was easier to baste it in place before cutting, too.
I have a couple "Warm Wishes" baby quilts that I finished piecing since Christmas. Now I have to get them quilted so they can go off to the new babies that are supposed to have them.
I hadn't done much quilting in the last year or so. Instead I've done more knitting and reading. It seems good to be back at quilting.
About to finish a shoe bag for small grandson to keep his wellies in at nursery. I appliqued a lion on it as this is the animal used to identify his belongings (pre-school). It took me almost as long as a quilt!! Now its back to the Project Linus quilts I have promised myself will be finished by the end of the month!
Then it will be on to an applique heart cushion for breast cancer to go in the Women's Institute competition in the County Show. Have decided the pattern and gathered the fabrics already.
Then it will be back to ufo's.My last year's resolution was to do some finishing. I finished 1! Quilts for a certain small person seemed to take priority.
I've just finished making the top and piecing the backing for Bonnie Hunter's mystery quilt, Celtic Solstice. I'm also participating in Carol Doak's Scrap Scramble mystery, and in the RCTQ mystery quilt that Kate is doing for us. I have 3 other tops that I need to quilt!
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What is square loop meandering? I can't even picture it.
I haven't been doing any quilting at all. I've finally finished up the stack of mending/alterations that I'd said I'd do for a friend. I am hoping to get back in the sewing room today.
I have a quilt for my new grand nephew all cut out and ready to sew. It's this Pow Wow pattern -
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I've got some embroidery of the week patterns to catch up on.
I really, want to start this clamshell quilt too with some of my larger scraps -
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Now to get in that sewing room and pick a project! marcella
I'm on a knitting spree at the moment - new grandchild due in the late spring :-) Quilting is also taking a winter break as the room where I sew is somewhat cooler than the lounge/family room where I can knit while DH does things on the computer or we watch the TV.
you do know that we are having unseasonably warm weather? You must have really lucky stars because this is the warmest, dryest January I remember ever. Did you folks over there feel the earthquake this morning? Small but woke us up with a start. Problem is you lie there and wait for the second when you feel the first : ( Yikes. Taria
Sitting in lovely Ojai, CA multitasking laundry and stitching an embrroidery by Kathy Schmitz, "Be Mine". The center 8 x 10" embroidery is surrounded with piecing to create a 13 x 15" mini. There is one design for each month. Hopefully I will finish several months while here this winter. For a sewing project I've brought my Dear Jane quilt. Again I hope to make serious headway on the small blocks. The first week we have been here was mostly taken with settling-in and visiting relatives about 45 miles away. Now that we are starting our second week I think there will be more sewing time. The locals would like some rain but we are enjoying the near perfect weather. I try not to gloat too much when talking with family back in Illinois suffering through snow and sub zero weather.
I havve been in a quilting slump. I have also lost some photos of quilts I have made in the past.
I did finish a flimsy lap quilt that I gave to my Father for his 80th in March 2012. It was a bit late but he wouldnt know that. It was a charm pack by Sandy Gervais that I cut into tumblers.Coulours were out of mu comfort zone and it was a pattern I wanted to do.
I started a baby quilt for a freind of DS and his partner. They found that they were having a girl so I did something in pink, yellow and green instead. Once again colours are out of my comfort zone but pattern was a simlpe Chinese Coins. Baby is due next month so I really had to get stuck into that. There were a couple of delays in November and again in December where we had to make rushed and unexpected trips away to visit DH's sister who had been diagnosed with cancer. Unfortunately she didnt last the 12 months she was given, more like 1 month.
I have another baby quilt to do, this time for a bably due in April. As we are having a heat wave at the moment I am not even going near the sewing room until it is over.
Carol Doak's Scrap Scramble BOM Mystery. The January "block" is actually 9 blocks -- 1 large and 8 small all using the same design. I've gotten really bored working on them. Might be able to finish this weekend.
Years ago I didn't want to be a quilter because I thought it would be boring. Here I am ten years later, and I'm just first finding a boring part. So I guess I can't really complain.
(Also working on cleaning off my car and shoveling snow. Seems to be happening every 7-14 days since early December.)
Kay Ahr Indianapolis, Indiana USA (used to be Reno/Sparks, Nevada USA)
I got a little bored finishing those Scrap Scramble January blocks from Carol Doak, too, because they took a long time. But now that I have them done, I really love how they look. I wonder if Carol will be able to give us the February block in February since she has surgery and recover in the future. She needs to take as much time as she needs, though, and I have lots of other things to work on.
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I'm behind on Carol's Scrap Scramble so if she has to put things off for a couple months, it won't be a problem for me.
Mary
I got a little bored finishing those Scrap Scramble January blocks from Carol Doak, too, because they took a long time. But now that I have them done, I really love how they look. I wonder if Carol will be able to give us the February block in February since she has surgery and recover in the future. She needs to take as much time as she needs, though, and I have lots of other things to work on.
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I've been making some baby quilts to donate to my guild at home. My Florida quilt group made a dozen baby quilts for the local pregnancy care centre in December. Now I'm back working on my own projects. I just assembled a Christmas wall hanging. It has embroidered blocks, with sashing between them. I found the pattern in an Australian Homespun magazine from July 2012, pattern called,"A Long Time Ago in Bethlehem". The designer brought some humour to the nativity story. My next project is to add the borders to my hexagon project. I used 1/2 inch hexagons, and completed the top in just over 9 months. I just heard that my guild's next quilt show will be in June 2015, so I have to think about my entries for the show....
Susan quilt> trying to stir up some interest here. What are you working on? I am
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