Category: Hobbies

UFO, scrap quilt and I spy

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I finally have pictures on here. I still don’t know what the problem was but I have pics so that’s all that matters. Here is the rag quilt, finished at last!!

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I like the fringe on both sides.

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This is the scrap quilt that DD is working on. She did this much on Sunday night.

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Monday she got all the small 6″ blocks done. Now it’s time to sew those into the 12″ blocks.

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Yesterday, we went shopping. Then we started doing some baking, so no sewing was done yesterday.  Maybe we can get some done today.

Since today is Christmas eve, I thought I’d share a quilt I made several years ago. It’s an I spy quilt made from Christmas fabrics.

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I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas!!

Theresa

UFO finished, scrap quilt started

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I finished the rag quilt that I was working on. I got all the edges clipped, washed and dryed it, so it’s officially finished!! I love the warmth from rag quilts.

My DD is home for a week, so she’s helping me use some of my scraps. Yeah! My goal for next year is to use as much fabric as possible to get it cleared out of here! She’s making a scrap quilt from Bonnie Hunters site. I can’t get any pictures to upload today for some reason so I can’t show how much progress she’s made today. We planned on baking cookies today, but she’s having too much fun sewing.

Sometime, I hope to show some pictures. I guess there must be a problem with WordPress, becuase I couldn’t get any pictures to upload on either computer. That is so frustrating. Oh well, have a good day!

Theresa

snow day!! yippee!!

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Ok, so I don’t like snow. In fact, I hate snow!  But when it snows and they call school off, then I’m all for it!!  It gives me more time to spend downstairs working……where it’s WARM! Yesterday, when I got home, the windows on my bus, had ice on the inside!! No wonder I was cold. It took all evening to warm up.

On to better things. I’ve finished quilting a hungary catapiller quilt today and have the second one loaded. Hopefully I can finish it today. I also finished sewing rows together on a flannel rag quilt that I started making a couple of years ago.  As soon as I get it clipped and washed, I can mark it off my UFO list!!!!! picture-4902

The rag quilts that I’ve made before, one side just has seams on it but this time I decided to overlap the squares, so I’ll get the ragged look on both sides.  Hopefully after it’s clipped and washed it will look good.  The bad thing is that I’ll have to clip all the seams on both sides! UGH! picture-4903

I bought a pair of  scissors a while back for this quilt. They work great so far. I like the way they open back up on their own.  picture-4904 I have a lot of clipping to do!!

Well, I guess that’s it for now.  Have a great day.

Theresa

New apron

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picture-4901I won this apron last night at my guild meeting. Yeah! I needed something to help lift my spirits after the last couple of days.

It’s made from a  dishtowel.  We played a game where we all started out with a clothespin attached to our shirt and we couldn’t say the word “Quilt”.  If we did then the first person to call you on it would get to take your clothespin and the one at the end of the night with the most clothespins won. My sister was sitting beside me during the meeting and she said “quilt” so I reached over and took her clothespin, she’s like…..”what are you doing?” Then my friend across the table says “You said “quilt”.  Ah ha! I got hers too! Wow, I then had 3 clothespins, I was having fun at this!!  I was the second one to show a quilt top for show and tell and I was determined that I would NOT say the word quilt while I was up there. Guess what? I said QUILT!  Well, I was then on a mission! By the time show and tell was over I had collected 11 clothespins and won the game.  You know how hard it is not to say the word “quilt”  at a quilt meeting during show and tell when you’re showing and telling about your quilt? Nearly IMPOSSIBLE!! LOL!!!!

Have a great day.

Theresa

I think I’m organized! Kind of!!

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Whew!! I am tired. I spent most of my Thanksgiving weekend cleaning and organizing the basement.  We’ve been planning on doing this for a while, and it finally happened!! YEAH!!!

For the last 9 1/2 years, I’ve been using the pool table as a cutting table. Needless to say it was rather difficult to play pool with very little room around the table.  It was located in my work room, near the end of my longarm machine. Well, it’s finally in the other side of the basement. We took it apart and moved it last week. Now we can play pool and have room to shoot!!!picture-4897

That’s Madison on the table. She thinks she’s the pool table queen!!

My sewing machine, cutting tables, fabrics and some shelves used to be in this area, now they are all over in the one side of the basement. No more walking back and forth, from room to room. picture-4892

My design wall got moved from one side of the room to the other. It was on the far wall, now it’s on the wall behind me.  I put shelves all across the wall at one end so that I could have lots of storage room. I didn’t realize just how much fabric I actually have. It’s stored away now in tubs and drawers and a little more organized! I didn’t think I had that much!! My new years resolution is going to be to use it up!!!!picture-4896 picture-4893

The quilt on the design wall was made from scraps. I added prairie points around the outside. Now to find time to quilt it.

I still have more work to do.

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Anyway, that’s what I did over the weekend. Now I hope I can find what I need when I need it!!! LOL!!!!!!!

I guess I better finish loading the quilt on the machine and try to get some quilting done.

Have a great day!!

Theresa

colorful UFO

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I came across this UFO the other day and decided to work on it. I had to cut away the black fabric and put the colored fabric behind it. I had about 1/4 of the colored pieces in place when I stopped working on it.  When I found it the other day, I decided that I would get all the pieces in place before it goes back in the box.  I used elmer’s glue on some of it so the shiny areas on the black is just from the glue, which will wash out.  Now I have to stitch down all the raw edges of the black fabric. It might be another couple of years before I work on it again! LOL!!! The colored fabrics are all hand dyed. I wish I could get my hand dyed fabrics to look like these.  Maybe someday…………………

Theresa

hand dyed fabrics and #2

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Thanks to those who responded to my question about which quilt they liked better. I do like them both but I decided to go with #2. I’ve been busy dyeing fabrics for it. I’ve dyed 11 different colors. I’ll only need 8 of these, but I figured that I could choose which colors I wanted after they were all dyed. I dyed 4 shades of each color and they all came out different. Some look more marbled, some came out dark to light and a few came out just barley a lighter shade different than the other pieces. Oh well, I had fun dyeing all the fabrics. I used cotton sateen  this time.  Here’s how they look.

Now I just need to find the time to make it!!

Have a great day!!

Theresa

technology…what an amazing thing

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It really is amazing that I can travel down the highway, read blogs, check my e-mail and be connected to the internet all while in the car! I love this. I decided to bring my laptop along on our roadtrip so that I could get caught up on few things. This is nice!

Anyway, I’ve been quilting as much as possible this last week. I finished 5 customer quilts. I also designed a couple of snails trail quilts on EQ. I did 2 different colorways and I like the way both of them look, but I’ll only make one, so which one do you like better?

This is #1

Here’s #2

I’d like to dye the fabric for it, so the colors will be different that what is showing, but I hope it will come out looking similar to what it looks like here. I used 4 shades of each color, going from dark to light.

What do you think? 1or 2?

Let me know your thoughts…………PLEASE???????

Theresa

BOM and baby quilt

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This year I decided to do the first Saturday BOM at my LQS. I’ve been keeping up with getting the blocks done each month. Yipee!! Sometimes I’m making them the night before they are due, but I am getting them done on time. Here’s the blocks so far.
They showed the finished quilt today, but I’m not sure if I will use their finishing kit or do something different. Anyway, I’ll figure that out later.

I also bought a baby quilt panel today. It’s a new one that they just got in. Made of flannel. I have to go to a baby shower tomorrow, so instead of buying a package of diapers on the way home today, I decided that I could come home and quilt it and have it ready for the shower tomorrow!! Yeah for me………It’s done!!!! I just meandered it and put the binding on and it’s ready to go.
Here’s the fabric on the back.
That was my day for quilting.

On another note, my DH planted an apple tree last year. This year it produced 1 lonely apple. Anyway, we picked it today! It’s not the best looking apple I’ve ever seen but it’s our first!!!

That’s if for now. Have a great day.

Theresa

Festival pictures on Webshots

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I finally got around to uploading some pictures on my webshots page, so if you’d like to see more pics of the quilt show and some that I took at the festival grab a cup of coffee, sit back and enjoy the show! I think I put 103 pictures of the village/quilt show in the album.
you can see them at

http://community.webshots.com/user/alwaysquilts

Enjoy!!

Theresa