Category: machine quilting

What’s on the machine’s 2/13

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I’m in the process of loading both machines, so I’ll show you what I’ve finished lately instead. How’s that? LOL.

Here’s Barb’s sampler quilt. It’s quilted with a feather panto pattern. The top has been hanging at Bits and Pieces in Eudora. It’s a BOM they’re doing. It will go back to hang in the shop as soon as Barb gets her binding done, but now it will be finished. 🙂

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I think the feather design looks great on it.

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Here’s the latest of the Christmas Peace quilts. I finished it yesterday. I did the first one back in October so that Windham fabrics could have it in their booth at Houston. Then I did 2 for Quilters Quarters and now this last one is going to Windham again. I guess this one will be traveling to Spain. The pattern is a block of the month and I believe it starts in May.

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A few close up shots.

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Ok, I better get back to work. Have a good day!

Theresa

Basket quilt

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Ok now, everyone sing!

A tisket a tasket, a green and yellow basket. LOL!!!

I’ve been working on this basket quilt today and that crazy song has been stuck in my head!

Of course after quilting several rows, I changed the words to…..

A tisket a tasket, I’m tired of seeing BASKETS!! LOL!!!!

It’s good to see the end is in sight! 🙂

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Theresa

Design wall Monday 2/4/13

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Another Monday rolls around. I have all the blocks made for the lock in mystery, but I can’t show them. I worked more on the blue jeans quilt yesterday. I had all the small blocks made so I sewed them into larger blocks.

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I made 16 of them. Then I cut fabric to cover the seams. I ironed some of them into 1/2″ strips.

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Here’s how the finished block will look.

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That’s what I have on my design wall this week. Actually, it’s on the table. LOL! 🙂 to see more design walls check out http://www.patchworktimes.com

I also quilted my blue stars quilt yesterday. Now for the binding…….

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That’s it for now! Have a good one!

Theresa

What’s on the machine 1/30/13

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I have so much that needs to be done that I never feel like I have the time to stop and blog. Today, I’m taking a break and blogging a bit about what’s going on…..

Millie has another Christmas Peace on her. This is a BOM that will be offered this year.

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I’m getting ready to load this on Viqtoria. Such a cute quilt!

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I haven’t worked any more on my guilds opportunity quilt but I have sewn all the blue jeans into blocks. 64 of them.

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Next step is to make strips to cover all the seams.

I’m sewing on my lock in quilt too, which needs to take priority as I have to have it finished by March 9th. Here’s a sneek peek at a bit of what I’ve sewn so far.

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That’s what’s going on today.

Have a good one!

Theresa

UFO finished

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I finished the binding on this quilt today, so I can mark it off my UFO list. Yea!!
That makes 3 UFO’s finished so far this year.

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I made this quilt as a BOM at my LQS. I decided to do the red one since I don’t have any red quilts. After making this one I remembered why I don’t own any red quilts………….I really can’t stand the color red!!
I planned on doing some pretty custom quilting on it, but I didn’t want to waste any more time on something that I don’t like, So it got a quick panto design. I am sooo glad it’s done!

It always feels good to finish a quilt. 🙂
Even though I named this one Fugly! LOL!!

Theresa

What’s on the machine 2/29

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Shame on me. I’m falling behind on keeping up here. I can only show what’s on Viqtoria. (Millie has Sharon’s mystery lock in quilt for this year, so no peeking on it.)

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Here’s what I took off earlier. It’s for a 13 year old.

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It has like a minky on the back. Soft!!

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That’s what I’m working on. What about you? Anything fun?

Have a good day!

Theresa

My students work

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My friend Barb was one of my students last week. I stopped by her house today so she could show me what she did after class.

When she got home after class, she had 2 small wall hangings that were ready to be quilted, so she decided to quilt feathers on them.

This one has a continuous feather going through the background, crossing the quilt diagonally.

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On this one she freehanded the feathered wreath, filling the square, and then running a continuous feather across the quilt through the triangle blocks.

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I think she did a great job!!

Now back to work for me.
Have a great day!

Theresa

Feather class

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Today was the first day for my feather class. I’ve had numerous quilters ask me about teaching a feather class, so I figured I could try. We had a 4 hour hands on class. I think everyone was pleased with all the knowledge they got from class. I was a bit nervous that I wouldn’t have enough for them to do for 4 hours, but wow the time flew by fast. They all seemed pleased with all the knowledge they learned. I think I’ll have to schedule more classes. 🙂
My first students.

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Now I need to get back to my quilting.
Have a great day!

Theresa

Wholecloth quilt

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Here’s what I did today. If you’ve read some of my previous posts, you know that I absolutely LOVE quilting feathers.
So today I quilted feathers! 🙂

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You may not think it’s all that cool, but I do…… I wasn’t sure how it was going to come out when I started quilting it. I think it took about an hour or so to quilt the whole thing. I did McTavishing behind the feathered hearts. Once again, I didn’t know how it would come out. I knew I didn’t want to rip any of the stitches out once I did them. I freehanded all of it. So I got what I got. As for the size of it…………….

Here it is……….

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That’s it for now! Have a great day!

Theresa