I can’t believe it’s already Wednesday. Time goes fast!! Anyway, here’s what I’m working on today.
Viqtoria is working away on this one.
I like using this circular design on quilts with lots of squares.
Meanwhile, over on Millie, I have a cute quilt with lots of appliqué.
Quilts like this always take me foreevvveeerrr, because I debate on what to do with each section. Ugh!
Ok, that’s it, back to work here…….
Have a good one!
Theresa
Tonight is my guild meeting and we are giving away this Maxine quilt. I sure hope I win!!
I will also be showing my first finished UFO for the year. Yea!!! Each month we will have a prize for one person that shows a finished UFO. I wonder if I could be lucky enough to win both the quilt and the UFO prize???? Not with my luck!! But it’s always fun to dream!!
Theresa
Since I am going to try to post more often. I thought I would share what’s on the machine on Wednesdays. This is what’s on Viqtoria, I shrunk the pantograph down to 5″ and I put it between the rows. I took part of the pantograph and am placing it between the blocks. It’s a sunflower pantograph and we thought since this is a Kansas quilt that would be great on it. After I finish that I will put it over on Millie to do the blocks.
I am still working on this one.It’s been on and off Millie numerous times so while I have a little time I am working more on it.
Theresa
What a great way to start the year. Church this morning and then sewing and quilting the rest of the day! I call that a great day!! I worked on the new quilt that I’m making. I have some of the HST’s sewn, the rest of them are marked. I made one of the small blocks that are made of triangle rectangles. That doesn’t sound like it makes sense! Anyway, here’s where I’m at on the progress……
I got the binding attached onto the quilt that I quilted yesterday. I need to have the binding sewn down before my next guild meeting. It would be great to start the new year getting credit for finishing a UFO. This year we’re going to have a drawing at each meeting for anyone that brings in a finished UFO. Maybe I can win a prize. That would be nice!! The quilt is like 100″ square…….wish me luck with getting it done. LOL!!
The rest of the day I was quilting. Hopefully tomorrow will be another productive day.
That’s it for now. I’m tired and going to bed! 🙂
Theresa
I’ve spent the whole day in my workroom! So far I’ve cut out a new quilt. Here’s the fabric I’m using for it.
I hope it looks good after I get it done. I’m writing the pattern for it as I work on it. That takes a lot more thinking! Step one is done so far, the cutting!! Now off to the next step……
I decided to put one of my UFO’s on Viqtoria. I finished 14 of my UFO’s in 2011. I’m so happy about that!! I hope to get lots more done in 2012. I figured I could start the new year off with one quilted. That’s one step closer to getting it off my UFO list.
I’m using a panto that’s quilting really fast. I’m not sure what the name is, it’s the first time I’ve used this pattern.
I have a custom job on Millie, I can’t show it.
I can show the quilt top that I finished a while back. LOL! I don’t think I ever posted a picture after I got all the borders done. Here it is…..
That’s it for now. Hopefully next year I will keep up with blogging a little more often. I seem to go in spurts! Oh well, have a safe and happy new year!
Theresa
This is one of those days where I feel like I’m not getting anything accomplished. I’m busy, but nothing is getting finished…. I have one of my quilts on Viqtoria, getting an all over design quilted on it.
While it’s quilting, I’m working on the quilt I have loaded on Millie. This thing is taking forever to quilt.
When I need a break from quilting, I go over and sit at my sewing machine. I decided to make little 4 patch units and sew them together into strips to put in the sashing. I went through my scraps and pulled out the blues. I sewed strips together and then cut them into 1 1/2″ pieces. I think I did way more than I’m going to need!!
I have a lot of them sewn together into the 4 patches. What was I thinking???
Anyway, I’m just flying by the seat of my pants (as the saying goes) as I build this into a quilt of some sort!!
Ok, my break is over, I better get back to quilting. I need to make the binding strips for the quilt that’s on Viqtoria. It’s getting close to the end and I always put the binding on before taking it off the longarm.
Hope you’re having a productive day!
Theresa
Here it is a Monday again……I’ve been busy the last couple of weeks and have not done much sewing on my mystery quilt. I have some of the borders sewn together, but I still need to finish sewing the rows of the quilt together and then add some small borders around the top before adding the pieced borders. Here’s what the pieced borders are looking like.
I had a great time on the bus trip a couple weeks ago. We went to 12 shops in 6 states. Our bus left from Leavenworth, Ks and went to Hiawatha and Belleville, KS, then off to Grand Island and Omaha, NE, then to Souix City IA, Souix Falls SD then over to Bird Island, Rogers and Hayward MN, Ankeny IA and Cameron MO. That was a lot of traveling and shopping in 3 days! We saw lots and lots of awesome shops! We had a great group of ladies on the bus. I’m ready to go again!! Here we all are!! Larry our bus driver even got in the picture. He was so nice!!
I picked up some black and white fabric that had sewing notions on it from one of the shops and then later I bought a pattern for a quick bag. After I got home I decided that I would use the fabric I bought and add a solid black and some fabric with scissors (since I needed 4 fabrics) and make the bag from it. It was a great bag to carry stuff in. I used it Saturday at the AQS show.
Last Saturday I headed up to the AQS show in Des Moines. Our guild decided to rent a bus for the trip. We left at 5:00 AM. Ugh!! Yes it was hard to get up at 3:30 in the morning!! Anyway, we got to the show at 9:00 and saw all the beautiful quilts that were there. I didn’t do much shopping at the show, I was a bit shopped out from the previous weekend! LOL!! My friend Janet won the Best machine workmanship award. We were so excited !!
Now back to the grind…..I’m working on a Judy Neimeyer quilt. I have to get this done. I better get back to work on it.
Hopefully next week I can show more progress with the quilt that’s been on the design wall for way too long!! To see more design walls check out http://www.patchworktimes.com
Ok, back to work for me! Have a great day!!
Theresa
This isn’ t actually on the wall, but for this week I’m going to devote at least 10 minutes a day to work on these blocks. I have the 6″ blocks complete and the rest are 9″ blocks. This is a mystery quilt that I’m making, so I don’t know what it’s going to look like.
Here’s the back of the current quilt that’s on Millie. I need to focus on getting this done. I love making feathers fit into odd spaces. LOL!! 🙂
I better get back to work. Check out more design walls at http://www.patchworktimes.com
Have a great day!
Theresa
They are almost done anyway…… just have the bindings left to hand sew down. I like to do those on road trips and I have a couple of road trips coming up, so I will have them ready to go. I’m going on a 3 day bus trip hitting 6 states and I think 12 quilt shops and then the following Saturday, we’re taking a bus up to the AQS show in Des Moines, so I can work on bindings while traveling on the bus. Last year I finished 2 bindings while on the bus trip.
This one is 104″ square.
This is a Row by Row quilt that I made at guild. I forget how many years ago we had the swap, I know it’s been sitting in the drawer for a long time. Well, no more!! This year I can have it out for fall and enjoy it. 🙂
My friend Sharon made the row with the turkeys. I made the acorns.
I don’t remember who made the other rows.
I had taught a class years ago on making the Maple leaf blocks, so I took the 3 blocks I had made for the class and added them onto the top of the quilt, (since I wanted it bigger than it was going to come out). I needed something to fill the space on both sides, so I drew some flying geese on paper and paper pieced them and was amazed that they came out!! LOL!!
Here’s the last one I finished this week.
Well, that’s it…….now I’ll have to decide which UFO to tackle next. 🙂
Have a great day!
Theresa
I finally got around to getting the last border sewn on this morning. The top is finished and ready to quilt. Yeah!
I used this quilt design on a customer quilt yesterday. I like the way it looks, so I think I might use it for my quilt. Maybe this week I’ll have time to get the back cut and get it quilted.
I’m currently working on getting the fall patchwork party quilt done for my LQS. I love the colors they used on it. I can’t share any pictures of it yet……but while Millie and I work on it, I think I’ll have Viqtoria work on another one of my UFO’s. I always planned on doing custom quilting on this, but after years of it sitting in the drawer unquilted, I decided that with all the beautiful pantograph patterns that are available, an allover design will be just fine for it. That way it will be done!!
Ok, that’s it for today, to see what others are working on check out http://www.patchworktimes.com
Theresa
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