Category: machine quilting

Design wall Monday 8/29/11

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Here’s what I have on the design wall. I need to work on getting some of my UFOs completed so I pulled this out of the drawer and decided that it will be the next thing that I work on. I need to sew the 2 pieces together and add the borders and it will be ready to quilt. YEA!!

I quilted this UFO yesterday. It’s a raggy edged hexagon quilt. All it needs now is the binding and it will be finished and off my UFO list.

Check out more design walls at http://www.patchworktimes.com

Have a great day!

Theresa

So much has changed…

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since the last time I posted anything on here. I really don’t know where to start……………….I guess I’ll go back to my last post and pick up from there. On my design wall was the star quilt that needed the borders, well, I did finish it a couple of weeks ago and we all showed them at our guild meeting. I think 20 people signed up and we only had 3 that finished them and brought them for show and tell. It outgrew the design wall so I had to hang it and let it come over the cutting tables and I still didn’t get the whole thing. Oh well, you just can’t see the bottom borders…..

I also bought another quilting machine at MQS. I now have a new APQS Millineum longarm and I absolutly LOVE it!! My friend Doris named it Millie and my friend Vicky’s husband said that wilth all the quilts I quilt for Vicky, I should name a machine after her. So since the Ultimate 1 machine has the IQ on it, I now call her V’iq’toria. By having the 2 machines I am able to do my custom work on Millie and have Viqtoria do pantographs. Fun,fun,fun!!

Here’s a couple of my UFOs that I finished thanks to Viqtoria!

A little more eye candy…….this is Jill’s quilt.

I worked on my embroidery blocks a bit over the summer. I have 4 finished!! I started these 2 years ago and when I finished the 3rd one, I figured at the rate I was completing them it was going to take me like 30 years!! So I finished block 4 and I’m now working on #5. Maybe now it will only take 20 years!! HAHAHAH!!

I guess that’s it for now. I’m going to go play with Millie and Viqtoria!!

Have a great day!!

Theresa

Design wall Monday….4/4

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In keeping up to date with my blog, I’m going to try to add some things that need to be kept up. I hope!! LOL!! Here’s what I have on my design wall this week.

This quilt is our guild BOM from 2010. I still need to make the last 2 blocks and cut the background fabric. It has a pieced border that will also be added. Last week several of us got together and worked on the center, which is paper pieced, needless to say I do NOT like paper pieceing!! But we were shown an awesome way of doing it without sewing through the paper!! Now I’m thinking “OK, maybe I CAN do paper pieced blocks…..maybe!!” Anyway, I still have one more PP’d section to make before I can sew the center together. I need to have the top finished by August (I think) so we can show them at guild.)

I guess that’s it for my design wall this week. Over at Judy L.’s blog, you can check out more design walls and see what others are working on. www.patchworktimes.com Enjoy!!

Theresa

Taking it on the road……..

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Yesterday, Sharon and I attended the Heartland quilt meeting. WOW, was it informative! We attended as professionals as our new adventure is to take our lecture/trunk show about our Mystery quilt Lock in to guilds. We have over 30 mystery quilts for the trunk show.  We received a lot of positive encouragement from the other professionals. There were several guilds that were interested in what we offer. Now we just hope to get some bookings!!

There was so much information being given from other professionals on what they do and what works and doesn’t work. My mind is still on overload with all kinds of ideas. One thing talked about was blogs. So since I have a blog……………….

………to be continued.

Theresa 🙂

Mystery quilt lock in 2011

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Wow, another year has gone by and another lock in is over. There is so much work leading up to our fun day and then it’s over before we know it! Everyone seemed to have a great time and several ladies brought thier quilts from last years lock in. It’s always fun to see the different looks to all the quilts! Here’s this years quilt, we called it Stormy Weather. (Luckily we had nice weather this year! We’ve had tornadoes and snow storms in years past! LOL!!)

 

 

That’s it for now.

Theresa

Weekend of quilting………….

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I feel like I accomplished a lot this weekend. Yesterday, after I got home from my LQS, I loaded a quilt and did a panto on it.

  

I made my January block for this years BOM.

 

I cut backings for 2 quilts, squared them up and put zippers on the next 4 quilts in line for quilting.

Today, I loaded my Jiffy Jive quilt. I chose to put a solid black on the back and I used Dave Hudson’s panto with sewing stuff on it. I used purple thread on the front and a variegated thread on the back. I had fabric left from the purple FQ’s I used in the top and pieced them together for the binding.

The quilting is kind of hard to see on the front.

Here’s the back. I flipped every other row so that all the sewing machines wouldn’t be backwards on the back of the quilt.

Here’s what I’ve got on the machine now. It’s the first of 3 BIG custom quilts that I need to do this week.

That’s my busy weekend of sewing and quilting. I don’t plan to sew on anything this week. I need to focus on just quilting. Hope I can!!

Theresa

2011 BOM

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Do you ever have one of those days that just starts off great? I went to my LQS this morning and got a parking spot right in front of the door. 🙂 You know that never happens, I’m usually a block away!! Then I caught one of the FQ’s that they throw out. Then my ticket was drawn for one of the door prizes!! What a way to start my day!!

Here’s the fabrics that I’ll be working with on the BOM for this year. Our choices were either the sunflower fabric or batiks. I really like batiks, but I chose to go with the sunflower print.

I finished quilting all 3 quilts that I needed to do last week. I also finished piecing the top on my 2009 BOM. I made the stars different on mine different than what the pattern called for. I used Marti Michell’s Sashing Stars templates. I bought the templates a while back and hadn’t used them yet, so I decided to try them out. Quick, easy and fast!! I give them a thumbs up!!

Here’s how the stars look according to the pattern.

Well, that’s it for now. I hope my day continues to be a good one, and I hope your day is good too!! Now I’m off to sew and quilt the rest of the day. 🙂

Theresa

I love quilting feathers!

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I finished 2 of the 3 quilts that I need to finish this week. I love, love, love quilting feathers!! I have been dying to quilt this quilt since the day I got it. I knew when I saw it that I would quilt feathers on it.

Because of the diagonal pattern, I quilted the floral squares with a continuos curve pattern and then quilted the border before taking the quilt off the machine and reloading it sideways. The quilting went really fast that way.

After I took this one off, I loaded a small baby quilt and did a panto pattern on it. The fabric has jungle animals on it, so I used a cute pattern with animals on it. Can you see the alligators face?

I even had time to sew on my BOM. All the blocks are sewn into rows, ready to be sewn together. Hopefully I can get the rows sewn today and be ready to add the borders. I have the next quilt on the machine, which is the same BOM pattern as I’m sewing on, except it’s in blue and mine’s in red.

Guess I better get back to work here. Have a good day!!

Theresa

BOM’s

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The new year always gets me motivated to work on current projects. Each year I think that “this will be the year that I get caught up on all my UFO’s.” LOL!! At least 2010 was a better year than 2009, because I was able to finish 13 of my UFO’s in 2010 compared to 0 (zero) in 2009. I hope to finish more in 2011. 🙂 Wish me luck!! LOL!!

I spent the weekend working on 2 of my BOM’s. Both of these are from my LQS’s Saturday Sampler BOM. I have the 2010 top completed. Yeah!!

I have the 2009 BOM on the design wall. I have 2 of the rows sewn together.  I hope to get the other rows sewn together in the next few days. I also need to get 3 quilts quilted this week. So we’ll see how much sewing I get done. 

I guess that’s it for now. TTFN!!

Theresa

Aunt Donna’s quilt finished! Working on Christmas and other stuff….

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I finished my Aunt Donna’s quilt and Mom took it up to her last weekend. She called me that evening and thanked me for it. She was soooo surprised! Our conversation started with all the “You’re the greatest neice” “well, you’re the greatest Aunt” “I love yous” and all the sappy stuff!!! Then we said, Ok enough of that!!!!! Then we got on to a regular conversation of what’s going on in our everyday lives……..My Aunt is the sweetest lady…………..Here’s the finished quilt. I used a pantograph pattern with Treble cleffs on it, since Aunt Donna plays the piano and the gold fabric in the quilt has musical notes on it.

I’m trying to make pillow cases for my nieces and nephews this year for Christmas.  Since I have an embroidery machine now, I figured I better learn how to use it! LOL!!  All but 3 are finished. I’ve been finishing the seams with the serger and wouldn’t you know….the last 3 and the serger decides that it wants to act up!!! Now I’ll have to play with the tension again…..UGH!!! Anyway, they’re almost done!! yeah!!!!

I guess that’s it for now. Have a great weekend!

Theresa