Yesterday's Quilting

I'm working on a Crazy Quilt for a customer.  I believe the blocks were made by a family member in years past...

She sashed the blocks with black velvet...

Stitching in the ditch around all the patches with Superior MonoPoly. 

I'm doing a feather design in the border and sashing...

Every piece of lint clings to the velvet!!!

I also made a couple more thread catchers...  This time I started with a 12" triangle instead of a 9 1/2".  Like this size much better! :-)

Now I need to find some buttons to sew on these...

Fan Letter

Not long ago I received the following from Linda Rech who was in my Filigree Feather class that I taught for the first time this last September at Innovation 2010...  I will be teaching a new twist on this class called Fantasy Feathers at MQS 2011 in May.  Anyway, I was thrilled by Linda's email!  She did a fabulous job making these Filigree Feathers her own!!!

If any of you out there have used designs learned in one of my classes or from my book 'Just Leaf It' and want to share your photos...  please give me a shout!  I'd be more than happy to share them here for you!!

Here's Linda's quilting... and e-mail. 

Hi Kim—I was lucky to take your Filigree Feathers class at Innovations this year. I tell all my longarm buddies that this class was the best money I have spent at that show in seven years! I have used the feathers several times on customer quilts and it always gets a positive response. Attached is a close-up of a recent quilt. Thanks and I hope to take more classes from you. You were a great instructor. Enough schmoozingJ—have a great weekend!

Linda Rech-Olympia

Thank you Linda for sharing!

Filigree Feathers

While at Sew Expo, my good friend Megan, videoed me stitching out some Filigree Feathers on her A-1 longarm machine.  If you would like to take a look you can go here.  I've tried and tried to embed the video in the post, but don't know what I'm doing....

I love my A-1!!!  I had a different machine before for 8 almost 9 years.  I was never able to control that machine to do the type of quilting you see in the video.  My A-1 is so smooth to operate and easy to manuver.  Did I say... I love my A-1!!!