Tag: fabric

Busy? Am I busy?

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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

Design wall Monday 10/17

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Years ago in my guild we had a BOM exchange where we would choose what block we wanted. I had the ladies make their favorite 12″ star block using blue fabric (and light yellow if they needed another color). Anyway, here are my blocks. I need to make one more 12′ block. The center block is larger than 12″ so my problem is how to put the blocks together into a quilt top……….I’m thinking of putting the center block on point and somehow coming up with something to fill in the blank areas. I know I’ll put sashings between the blocks, but what to put behind that center one is the puzzling question……….For now it’s on the design wall, and I’m waiting for it to talk to me. LOL!!

 

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

Have a good one!!

Theresa

Design wall Monday 10/10

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Well, I finished the mystery quilt top that has been on my design wall for ……I can’t remember how long it’s been there! LOL!! Anyway, it’s done. YEA!!!

 

After completing that top, I wasn’t sure which project to tackle next, so I went through some of my really old UFO’s and came up with this one. I look  at it and think “WHAT IN THE WORLD WAS I THINKING????”  I know why it went in the box and hasn’t seen daylight in years!!  I printed the pattern off the internet back in 2001.

I think I’ve lost some of the instructions. Anyway, I remember that I really liked the quilt back when I saw the pattern. It’s made like the bullseye quilts except that you don’t cut the flowers apart. The leaves are supposed to be appliqued, but I don’t like applique so I thought, I can just do them raw edge like the edges on the flowers. Now I’m not so sure that was a wise choice. I can’t decide if I should take off the leaves and applique them down or just continue doing the raw edge that will fray……….? Anyway, the quilt top is on the design wall and will stay there until it’s done.

That’s it for this weeks wall, to see more of what others have on their design walls check out  http://www.patchworktimes.com/

Have a great day!

Theresa

Design wall Monday 10/3, bus trip and AQS show

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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

Design wall 9/12/11

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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

3 more UFO’s done

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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

Design wall Monday 9/4/11

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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

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