Design wall Monday 11/25

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I didn’t get much sewing done this last week and with this week being Thanksgiving, I may not get much done this week either. Anyway, my batik strips are still on the wall.

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All that’s left is to add the borders. I found fabrics that I think will look good, now to get them on! 🙂

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I did finish several customer quilts last week, as well as my black and white strip quilt.

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I even did a pieced backing for it, so I could use up some more black and white fabric. 🙂 One of the fabrics is cats, so I ended up using a kitten panto for the quilting. Of course you can’t see it……..

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Well, that’s it for me. To see what others are working on visit http://www.patchworktimes.com
Have a good week!
Theresa

Design wall Monday 11/18

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this last week I managed to get my flying geese quilt quilted. The binding is on just need to turn it and sew it down.

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I got the borders sewn onto my black and white quilt top

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I found strips from last years bus trip, in batiks, so now I’m sewing them like I did the black and white strips. I have a little different idea in how to do these. It will be similar but a bit different. So for now my wall has the few batik strips I’ve sewn so far on it.

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That’s it for my wall this week. To see more walls, check out http://www.patchworktimes.com

After I finish the batik strip quilt, here’s what I plan to start playing with. I can hardly wait!!

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Have a good day!
Theresa

Design wall Monday 11/4

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I finished getting all the flying geese sewn together with sashing strips. Now all that’s left is to put a border on. I’m hoping to get that done this week sometime, but I need to focus on getting customer quilts done. For now the geese are hanging around on my wall.

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I’m glad it’s done and I’m happy with the way it looks.
To see more walls check out http://www.patchworktimes.com

Have a good day!
Theresa

Design wall Monday 10/28

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I actually got quite a bit of sewing done this last week. First off, I completed my EPP quilt too. I really like it in the bright colors.

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My flying geese have taken over the wall now. I have all the rows sewn, now just need to get them sewn together with sashing strips.

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That’s it for my wall this week. To see others, check out http://www.patchworktimes.com

Thanks for stopping by!
Theresa

Flying geese units done…

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I got all 377 flying geese units made over the weekend. I use the no waste method and they go together really fast. Now I’m ready to start assembling them into a quilt top.

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I need to use up some of my scraps so I am using scraps for all the FG. I can’t tell that I used any at all, but I did…..LOL!!

Anyway, I haven’t put them on the wall yet, but that’s what will go up. To see more walls check out http://www.patchworktimes.com

Theresa

Design wall Monday 10/7/13

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My wall hasn’t changed in the last couple of weeks. I’ve been on the go quite a bit the last few weeks. Anyway, hopefully I can get back to sewing and quilting. Here’s my summer row by row that I showed a while back. I think the big white space in the upper corner needs something…….so I have a plan for the fabric hanging there.

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I haven’t decided what to do for borders yet either, but I found this flip flop fabric in Florida last week, so I think it will get worked into the borders somewhere……

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So that’s what I have on the wall this week. To see more walls, check out http://www.patchworktimes.com

Theresa

Scraps and treadle

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Have you ever made a scrap quilt and not been happy with the finished look of it? I have! I never seem to have the right balance or something…..
Anyway, I’m going to make a scrap quilt, but I’m going to go about it differently than I have I the past. I never thought about the prints or colors or whether the fabric had a big print or was a tone or tone. I just used scraps and made it. Well……that might have been my problem….as my friend Vicky makes lots of scrap quilts and hers always look great!!!! Hmmm…..I think her secret is that she controls which scraps go into her quilts. Maybe that’s my problem!! I throw everything in there!!
Not this time though. I gathered up some scraps that have smaller prints and seem to look good together. So this is my starting point.

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I’m going to make flying geese blocks with them. I hope! LOL!

The other thing is that at guild there’s a challenge to make a quilt using your treadle machine. Yep, I’m going to get the old treadle up and running. It worked great back in 2002, but I haven’t touched it since! I think I have a job ahead of me! LOL!
It’s an old 1800’s Wheeler and Wilson.

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If someone finds a mind, please return it, I think I lost Mine!!! LOL!!

Theresa