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 Ich weiß nicht, wie es Euch geht, aber ich habe immer große Schwierigkeiten mich für ein Quilting zu entscheiden. Das ist auch der Grund, warum ich so viele Tops habe. Ich finde es sehr schwierig, das endgültige Quilting fertigzustellen.

Über unsere UFO-Challenge habe ich begonnen, mich mehr damit zu beschäftigen und zwar zielgerichtet zu beschäftigen, d.h. nicht nur nachdenken, sondern auch quilten. Das erfreuliche Ergebnis ist, dass einige Quilts tatsächlich fertig geworden sind. Manche Entscheidungen sind gut gewesen, andere nicht so optimal.

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Meinen Checkered Garden Quilt habe ich mit einem all-over Quilting fertiggestellt. Ich habe geschwankt zwischen einem ...

This was never even a UFO. Just 2 pieces of flannel I picked up probably 10 years ago at Joann's in Amarillo, TX. I still think it's cute and thought it was high time it became a quiltIt finishes 45"x51" and as fast as I've been handing out baby quilts lately, it won't be long before it makes it's way home to welcome a new arrival.It's not a cheater cloth - it's actually pieced, but it came that

I have made a bit of an attempt to check that the cupboards are in order at work – everyone thinks I am the only person who knows where anything is;) Most of my week was taken up with longarm tuition. After 2 years this has really taken off so it is a pity that it will have to come to a halt, although some people seem to think that I can transfer all of the skills I have accrued in 18 years and it will just take them a couple of hours to pick up…

I am so fed up ...

Yay! It’s finally done. Mostly.

I have no doubts that if you’re one of my regular readers, you know that I’m easily pleased by little (and some big) things that happen around here. The Hubs overthinks construction on the level that I overthink everything else, and I have to admit that sometimes he has better ideas than me. Yes, I can own that. So while I had what I thought were “there’s no way it won’t be anything but this” moments, serendipitous epiphanies happen while you’re arranging and rearranging, and they make me happy ...

Not too long ago, the Cresco Ladies dropped off a bag of quilt tops. I sorted through them, getting them ready to send out to finishers. As I was sorting, I came across this top… Oh, I loved it! The colors were great. It looked like a perfect picnic quilt. That’s when I decided I …

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I know you have been wondering what I decided to do with all those leftover flying geese. Well, today you find out. When I finished the Busy Bees quilt, I had enough time to put a lullaby quilt together for entry in the Mountain State Fair. I thought, something cute with a border of flying geese would be nice. I had the idea of just a simple round robin to start, and I decided the center should be an embroidery. So, I went to my embroidery library for some bee related motifs. The category rules state that the lullaby quilt ...

As most of you know, I’ve been busy working on the quilt Midnight Flight. It’s from this book, More Adventures with Leaders and Enders by Bonnie Hunter. You can find the book HERE. The book was sitting by my sewing machine as I was piecing the border. I flipped the book open, wondering how many …

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I’ve told you all that I am trying to clean my sewing room. It is going okay. The only problem, it doesn’t look like I’ve done a thing in the sewing room. It’s because I keep saying YES. I know in the current world we are supposed to practice saying NO…but I don’t want to. …

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In my previous post, I was talking about resetting and reframing my practice. I’m happy to report, that I feel more grounded and I’ve been excited about things again. One additional thing I did do was reviewed my accomplishments this year and gave myself time to reflect, allowing myself to be in those moments (I forget to do this and it was pleasantly surprising).

This is my Job…

I needed to reframe how I talk about my practice, it is my job therefore I need to treat and talk about it as such. In light of that, I ...

The gallery wall needed another piece of art. Fortunately, I had a rainbow in my sewing studio. I have collected Kona solids for years—decades, really—so there was no shortage of color to choose from. Pulling fabrics for this project was probably my favorite part. There is something very satisfying about watching a pile of individual … … Continue reading →

Download this Free Holiday Panel Quilt Pattern, get the panel at your nearest quilt store, and make a fabulous gift!

Divine Reunion quilt – click here to download the pattern

Divine Reunion is a quilt I designed for the panel in the Silent Night collection by Studio 731 for Blank Quilting. The quilt measures 43-1/2″ x 63-1/2″, and it would be perfect as a wall hanging or a throw.

Although I am partial to red and green for the Holidays, I love the colorway in this collection. The teal adds a modern flair to a very traditional theme, don ...

My “Teacher Glare” never worked on my own children but I did have to employ it at the start of my 2 day ruler class this week. I started out with quite a demanding crowd but after I went into full-on teacher mode everyone got on famously;)

As well as that, it was all Go Go Go, making sure that I have got all of my customer quilts done before I leave Quilt Direct. Therefore, I also did a binding, 2 quilts and basted a stuffed cross that will become a Church wall hanging. 

Packing to move must be one ...

I’m so embarrassed by this finish-not about the quilt…it’s beautiful. I’m embarrassed by how long it took me to finish it. Connie gave quilt tops to me about three years ago, and I’m finally getting to them- well, at least one of them. There were three…this is number one. She gave them to me so …

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In August, I finished the Fleur Lumineuse art wall hanging. When we left off this project, the base quilting was finished.

I turned attention to the collage. The rose was assembled on parchment paper, but the stem needed to be recut. I wanted to have the stem hang off the edge of the base, to have something unexpected.

The new stem is cut, and lightly tacked to the flower with just pressure. The tacky nature of the Steam-a-Seam 2 makes this possible.

On the back side of the bottom of the stem, I fused green fabric so it would be ...

 This project started back in 2013 when I saw this quilt in this magazine.I made 1 block immediately And then started pulling fabricsThen, for whatever reason, it always ended up getting pushed aside, but I loved making the blocks whenever I would drag it back out. I enjoyed making them so much that I made more than the pattern called for so my quilt is bigger.It was fun to use up

A blog reader contacted me and asked if she could drop off some donations. She was from the Dubuque, Iowa area. Rather than pay postage, she wanted to drop them off at my house. I was totally up for that, but then I thought of my daughter Kayla. She lives near Dubuque and works in …

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…or, time to take inventory, and make adjustments.

With the complex piecing on this quilt, it was begging for custom quilting. I had a fair amount of negative space to play with, now to decide on what to put where.

I loaded it on the longarm, using the same print as in the border between the pinwheels and the flying geese for backing. That print is also the light background print in the medallion. It was from a bolt I had bought at Foust, and thankfully, this finally used it up.

One of the things I learned on a recent class on quilt judging is that judges like ...

Thank you QT fabrics for providing Dawn & Dusk panels to make this fabulous OBW quilt.

Terri Butler & I designed a OBW with Dawn & Dusk in Adobe Illustrator first.

The version above was computer generated. I was not able to recreate the same hexagons exactly, but I stayed pretty close. I cut 3.25″ strips using my First-Choice Ruler, that yield 5″ finished hexies.

Hexies sorted by predominate color.

I created 10 ” stars by choosing 2 sets of equilateral triangles to make diamonds and used my Star 60 Tool to cut the side triangles.

hexies are moved around a lot during ...

A very Norfolk expression is “Slow you down!”-  meaning you should rush around less and chill out more.

That has NOT been me this week…

At work I bound 2 quilts, supervised 5 DIY quilts, did some one-to-one tuition, prepared for the Quilt Direct Open Day, attended the Tavistock Goosey Quilters exhibition, sold 2 machines, and carried out all of my usual side missions.

I was too worn out to do much in the evenings apart from veg out with Nessie but my Saturday was a blur of activity. I packed the non-essential kitchen items which means I obviously own ...