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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

new quilt top started and mystery quilt

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Well, I got a wild hair today to make a new quilt. I bought the fabric years ago, with the intentions of making my Aunt Donna a quilt. I thought of her the minute I saw the fabric. Anyway, as the years have gone by………..I have done nothing with it except think of her everytime I see it in my stash. So today, I decided that since she had knee replacement last week and is having a hard time with the recovery, maybe now is the time to make the quilt for her.  So I found an easy quick pattern and sewed this afternoon. I sewed it in vertical sets and just put the sets together keeping them in order and now all I have left is to sew the rows together. 

 I like the way the rows are all connected and in place. It makes it so easy to just sew rows and not have to worry about getting something turned in the wrong direction because everything is in the right place.

Here it is on the design wall.

I won’t have much time to work on it this week, but hopefully I can finish it soon and get it to her.

That’s it for now.

Theresa

Oh, I forgot to post the update on my guild mystery quilt. I now have 18 blocks pieced. (Out of 44) I still have a lot more to do, but I’m slowly getting them done. 🙂

 

Houston, donation quilts, mystery quilts and other stuff

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Well, I’ve been super busy these last few weeks. I made it to Houston for quilt festival this year. First time I’ve been. We had a great time and saw some beautiful quilts!! Checked out all the vendors and saw things we’d never seen before. Spent too much money of course, but it was all worth it!!  We had to have our picture taken here…….

Last week was our donation quilt giveaway night. We gave almost 90 quilts to 3 different organizations. They are always so happy to recieve the quilts. Here’s a few pictures I took of some of them.

I’ve been working on my guild mystery quilt too. I finally finished up all those HST’s. Almost 400 in all! UGH!! I do not like squaring up HST’s!!! Anyway, they are squared up and now I’m on to piecing the blocks.I have the squares sewn into rows, now to sew the rows together to make the blocks. I have 3 blocks finished (out of 44)

My LQS was having a great sale today, so I went and bought fabric for my next Lock in mystery quilt. We’re having the Lock in in March, so Sharon and I need to get busy working on our quilts and writing the pattern. Anyway, here’s my fabric choices for this year.

Here’s what’s on the machine. I don’t think I’m ever going to get to the end of this thing. It’s taking forever to get it quilted……..guess I better get back to it.

Well, that’s it for now. Have a great day!!

Theresa

Weekend update…….

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I love weekends! Don’t we all though?

I ran to my LQS yesterday. They were having a little shop hop with 6 other stores in the KC area that have each been featured in the Quilt Sampler magazine. Each store had a 6″ and a 12″ block and then they designed a quilt using everyones blocks from the same fabric line. Here’s the one that was featured at Quilters Quarters. (I’m a bit partial to it, since I did the quilting. Of course you can’t really see it, but……I know I did it. LOL!!!)

Lori did a great job designing the quilt!

Last night my son was downstairs in my sewing room and I showed him my new toy(embroidery machine). He wanted to see it work, so I did his name on a piece of fabric. I gave it to him and he said “gee, now what will I do with it?” So I made it into a miniature pillow! He likes it!

Cute isn’t it? LOL!!

He started coming up with all kinds of ideas for stuff that I could make for him! Maybe I’ll teach HIM how to use it!! LOL!!

Anyway, I’m almost finished sewing all the HST’s from step 2 of the mystery quilt. Then to square them up…….. I will be happy when they are all done! I really hate squaring up all those pieces. I have to keep telling myself that it’s worth it in the end.

I started quilting this top this afternoon. It’s one of those kits that is all crosstitched. The lady that made it said she started it back in the late 70’s.

I guess I better get back to work on it………………….

TTFN!

Theresa

a few more done

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I haven’t blogged this week, so I’ll try to catch up. I did play with my new emb machine one night. Of course I didn’t have the right colors of thread, but I DID figure out a little bit of how it works. 🙂 I have a lot more to learn!!! Here’s my first attempt at trying machine embroidery.

I also, finished the applique quilt that I had been working on. I also quilted a valance that she made too. I wasn’t sure how to quilt it but since I love to do feathers, well…….that’s what it got!

I also quilted a quilt for my LQS.

That’s it. Busy week. I haven’t had time to sew anything this week. I have most of my HST’s marked for step #2. I’ll have to sew them and get them squared up before I can do this months step and I only have a little over a week left of this month. It doesn’t look as if I’m going to get caught up on that any time soon! LOL!!

TTFN!!

Theresa

Jiffy Jive quilt top completed

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I finished the quilt top today. I pieced the strips together yesterday and got the borders added on today. The pattern doesn’t call for borders but I like borders on my quilts.  I should’ve spaced out the purple sections better when I was cutting the strips apart, but oh well…….it looks fine this way. Now to get it quilted. I think I’ll look for a panto with a sewing theme since the border fabric is featherweights and scissors. Any suggestions?

Here’s the quilt.

That’s it for now…………………….

Theresa