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March 26, 2023
Table Runners.....DONE ! from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

 

How Sweet it is...


I finished up the quilting and binding

on the last two table runners...





I am giving these away as gifts

very soon...

so I have been under the gun to get them done !






If you are new to machine sewn bindings...

table runners are a great way to practice

and perfect your technique.


CLICK HERE to view my Table Runners


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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

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March 25, 2023
Having Fun! & My 1000th Post! from Thread Head

I finished a few things recently.

This quilt is the Laundry Basket Quilts Mystery Quilt 2021 (all the patterns are still on the blog).
I finished all the blocks in the summer of 2021 and put it all away (busy with outside activities at the time). I finally pulled it out to sew the blocks together, and was pleasantly surprised that 2021 me had even stacked and labeled all the blocks ready be sewn!
I quilted an 'organic' feather design around the border, echoed it on one side, for the star in the centre I quilted 1/4" from the ...

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Table Runner.....Progress from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full


After checking on the mama cows

and newborn calves

and getting all of the cattle fed...

 


I head straight for the Thread Shed

to machine quilt more table runners...





These are small and fast to quilt

and very satisfying to work on...





3 runners quilted and bound...











I use a Hera Marker

to mark the spine of the feather

on the quilt sandwich...





Then I take it to the sewing machine

and stitch the feathers

following the marked line...





The Hera Marker works nicely 

and does not require

using water or air erasable pens.





4 Table Runners quilted and bound ...

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March 24, 2023
Table Runners... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

When I am finished machine quilting large quilts,

there is a lot of fabric and batting that is

trimmed off from the edge of the quilt.

I save the trimmings... 


The trimmings are long narrow pieces of

fabric and batting...



They are the perfect size to 

create table runners:


I have 6 cut out and ready to baste...






I spray baste with 505 Spray...






Here is the first table runner machine quilted

and ready for trimming...






Feathers are always a favorite of mine

to machine quilt...





The solid white backing really

shows off the quilting stitches...






Here it is all ...

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March 22, 2023
Project Quilting 14-6 - Conquer a fear from Quilting & Learning

I'm so glad that I saw Kim Lapacek's newsletter on Friday, because that gave me a whole day to prepare this fun quilt. I couldn't resist creating something that might help me though my fears....of submitting a quilt to a show! Maybe this will help

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The Favor... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

I am spending the day machine quilting... 


I work on a Handi Quilter Sweet Sixteen






This isn't my quilt...

I am doing this machine quilting as a favor.






The maker of this quilt top chose the fabrics

from my fabric cupboard,

then asked me to cut it into squares...





She put the squares up on the design wall

and arranged them to her liking...





She sat down at her sewing machine

and stitched the squares together.





I helped her measure for the borders.

I cut them and she stitched on the borders 

and completed the quilt top.

Christmas Break ...

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March 18, 2023
Quilt-a-long Selecting Fabric and Cutting from Gwen's Quilts

Have you started on your Seeing Stars quilt-a-long quilt? It’s not too late! This month (March) we are selecting fabric and cutting. I will share my progress and thoughts as we go. My friend Pam is also going to quilt along and I’ll share her approach as well.

Selecting Fabrics

My Choices

Since this quilt is mostly scrappy, I started with a fat quarter pack from my stash that was very “well-aged”.  It gave me a start on my color palette. Then I added in some additional fat quarters for more variety.

I wanted to follow the hack ...

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Quilt-a-long Selecting Fabric and Cutting from Essie's Quilts

Have you started on your Seeing Stars quilt-a-long quilt? It’s not too late! This month (March) we are selecting fabric and cutting. I will share my progress and thoughts as we go. My friend Pam is also going to quilt along and I’ll share her approach as well.

Selecting Fabrics

My Choices

Since this quilt is mostly scrappy, I started with a fat quarter pack from my stash that was very “well-aged”.  It gave me a start on my color palette. Then I added in some additional fat quarters for more variety.

I wanted to follow the hack ...

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March 4, 2023
Handi Quilter’s First Quilt-A-Long from Gwen's Quilts

Have you ever joined a quilt-a-long? Now is your chance to try one on for size. Handi Quilter’s first quilt-a-long is just starting and it’s FREE!

 

The Videos

The last Tuesday of each month we will premier a video with hints, tips and techniques you can use to create your Seeing Stars quilt. Noon Mountain time (11am Pacific time, 1pm Central time, and 2pm Eastern time in the US) is when the videos will premier. If you are outside of those time zones, you can figure out when to watch here.  If you can’t watch live, you ...

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Handi Quilter’s First Quilt-A-Long from Essie's Quilts

Have you ever joined a quilt-a-long? Now is your chance to try one on for size. Handi Quilter’s first quilt-a-long is just starting and it’s FREE!

 

The Videos

The last Tuesday of each month we will premier a video with hints, tips and techniques you can use to create your Seeing Stars quilt. Noon Mountain time (11am Pacific time, 1pm Central time, and 2pm Eastern time in the US) is when the videos will premier. If you are outside of those time zones, you can figure out when to watch here.  If you can’t watch live, you ...

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February 22, 2023
Beginning another one from Quilting and More...

Last summer I pieced a quilt top called Metropolis II by Heidi Pridemore, and that top has been “marinating” while I considered how I wanted to quilt it. I’d finally decided that I wanted to use some of the designs that Sue Heinz has in her repertoire and which would work very well in this […]

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February 21, 2023
Project QUILTING 14.4 – A Novel Project from Quilting & Learning

Yes, I'm back - I can't believe it either, but how could I resist a challenge about books and novels? It just had to happen

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February 19, 2023
FMQ Wild Hexies and Making Flying Geese from Quilting & Learning

Hi, welcome to week 420 of Free Motion Mavericks. I have a free motion quilting (FMQ) project to share as well as the flying geese for Round 4 of the SAHRR. I'm glad that you can join me today.

FMQ Wild Hexies, a Mystery UFO


I called this a mystery UFO in my July 2021 post because when I wrote the post, I had a partially made quilt on my design wall with extra fabric in a project box, but no pattern! Since I had been inspired to make the quilt by seeing a finished version on someone's ...

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February 13, 2023
Quilts Inspired by Books from Goer

I'm excited about the announcement for this week's Project QUILTING challenge: A Novel Project. The one big rule is that our projects need to be inspired by a book we've read. Easy peasy! So many options. (I hope you'll consider playing along and making a quilt between now and Sunday!)

In the challenge theme announcement post Trish shared a number of her book inspired projects. It got me thinking about which quilts I have made inspired by books. Here's a wrap-up of those projects.

***click on the photos to read more about each project***

The ...

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February 12, 2023
Winter Twist finished from Quilting and More...

This has been a fun little project, and now it’s in the completed column! I’ve just put the finishing stitches in today, and I’m hoping  to be able to get busy on the next project very soon.

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February 5, 2023
A new art project with FMQ on Free Motion Mavericks from Quilting & Learning

Hi! Welcome to another week of Free Motion Mavericks. Today I have some free motion quilting (FMQ) that will be enhanced with a lot of hand stitching. I'm still trying to figure out what to do exactly, but I have ideas

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January 31, 2023
Creating Knitted Texture with Quilting! from Quilt Addicts Anonymous

This month’s Stashin’ with Stephanie quilt design, Cables, was inspired by my other crafting love … knitting. Since the design resembles a knitted cable pattern, I thought it was only appropriate that I carry the knitting theme through to the quilting as well.

I created a 1-inch square “V” stitch to mimic the look of the stockinette knitting stitch, where all the knit stitches are on the right side and all the purl bumps are on the wrong side.

This is a very easy stitch to master and it doesn’t matter if they are all perfect, because in the ...

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January 28, 2023
Going somewhere is Finished on Free Motion Mavericks from Quilting & Learning

Welcome to week 417 of Free Motion Mavericks! I hope that you've had a chance to play since I last posted. When I began this piece, I had no idea that it would end up being free motion quilted (FMQ). I think that the FMQ added a lot to it. I'll let you judge this for yourself.

"Going somewhere..."


This piece began, as many of them do, with a workshop on TextileArtists.org. I haven't had time to do as many workshops as I would like, but this one grabbed my attention. It took me a while ...

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January 22, 2023
Version 2.0 quilt finished on Free Motion Mavericks from Quilting & Learning

 Hi! I'm thrilled to share this finish with you - it's been a very long time coming

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January 21, 2023
Binding on the Longarm – How To from Gwen's Quilts

Last week I wrote about making my temperature quilt. I had several questions about how to apply the binding while the quilt is still on your longarm frame. I explained this in a past post, but thought you might like to see it again (or see it for the first time!)

I’m willing to bet 9 out of 10 of you bought your longarm machine because you were not happy wrestling that large quilt through your domestic machine to do the quilting. Am I right? We solved one problem. But, then what do we do? We finish the beautiful ...

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