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Beach Town Progress
I spent 10 hours in my workroom on Sunday. I spent most of it machine quilting Beach Town. The piece is relatively small, so I was surprised that it took so much work. The really surprising thing is that I … Continue reading
Beach Town Progress
A friend on FB asked me to post Beach Town. As you regular readers know, I get around to posting everything eventually and this past week has been a bit of a challenge. I wondered whether I should post this … Continue reading
Inspiration: Quick Note
I know that I ignored you all weekend. I spent about 24 hours over the three days sewing and really got a lot done. It is difficult to be at work today, because I am still desperate to be at … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration
Tagged Inspiration, Machine Quilting, Off Topic: Crafts, Piecing, Projects
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More on Longarming
Last weekend, after longarming all day on Friday, I spent time on bindings. I made and machine sewed the bindings for Eye Spy and the Crazy Test. Last night I worked a bit on doing the hand sewing on the … Continue reading
A Binding Away From Finished
Fortunately, today was just the kind of weather I enjoy. It was cool tending towards cold, but clear with some big fluffy clouds around. The light was really gorgeous and it helped me get into a calm mood before I … Continue reading
More about Machine Quilting
One of the things I did to prepare for my longarm day was to doodle. I got out the sketchbook and did some doodling in it. It wasn’t true doodling, because I used some reference materials, including some designs from … Continue reading
Posted in Lessons/Teaching, Machine Quilting
Tagged Lessons/Teaching, Longarm, Machine Quilting
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Longarm Day of My Own
So, yesterday was the big day. I went to Always Quilting and quilted a quilt on my own. The short version: it was good, it was hard and I needed help. During this foray into the world of longarm quilting … Continue reading
Longarm Class 1/9/2009
I want this to be a year of creativity. I can’t say that this is on my to do list, but it is in the back of my mind. One way to do that is to sew as much as … Continue reading
Longarming a Tree Skirt??
As I mentioned, I have had longarming on my mind lately. One of the things I have been trying to work out is how to use different colors and different machine quilting designs in one quilt. I don’t want my … Continue reading
Thinking about Longarming: Lava Beach
Lava Beach Originally uploaded by cjb_roe I saw this quilt in the Denyse Schmidt ‘Pool’ (DSP) on Flickr. The DSP is a group of photos of projects made from DS patterns or fabrics. It is interesting to look through and … Continue reading
Saturday Project
I brought to projects to the CQFA meeting yesterday and didn’t even finish one. Better safe than sorry, I say! The first was the Pamela project that I started at EBHQ in a class with Pamela. I want to get … Continue reading
Quilting Quilts Not So Painful
The quilts are in the good hands of the quilter. I picked out a varigated green-blue color for the quilting on Feelin’ Blue, Too. It is difficult to pick the color of the thread. I always like the thread to … Continue reading
Quilts will be Quilted
Finally, the indecision is over and I will be taking the quilts, Feelin’ Blue, Too and The Eye of God to be quilted tomorrow. I need to figure out how to quilt them as well. I have some ideas, which … Continue reading
No Progress on Feelin’ Blue, Too
I am worried about the quilting. My quilter is gone until the end of the month and I am anxious that I won’t get the two quilts back in time to bind and sleeve them for the show. I am … Continue reading
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Tagged Finishing, Group project, Machine Quilting, Special Whine
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