TaDone

On and off my machine yesterday... My customer's quilt, I believe is the from the Stash Buster 2020 challenge.

All freehand quilting in a design I call Butterfly Wings 

Batting is Warm Plush

Thread is King Tut on top with Bottom Line in the bobbin

Bali Wedding Star Block

I uploaded a new video to YouTube... Same Bali Wedding Star quilt... This shows how I quilted the blocks with the 15" arc from Linda Hrcka, The Quilted Pineapple, along with freemotion designs. I'm using DecoBob 80wt thread in a light grey color from WonderFil.

 

On the Frame Friday

This quilts is big... 91" x 91"!

I'm using 60wt Glide thread... the color Mocha. It's my new favorite thread! LOL

On the Machine

Sometimes a simple E2E is all that's needed...

More Feather Vine

Another video...  LOL!

Quilting the quarter circle of a Drunkard's Path quilt with my favorite Feather Vine. In this video you will see how I travel between different shape of the quilt.

New Video

I did a short video of the center motif on the Drunkard's Path quilt I posted about here and here...

It's no secret by now that I love doing my simple Feather Vine in many shapes. It is the perfect design for this fun Drunkard's Path quilt.

In this video I'm quilting my Feather Vine in the large white space made by the Drunkard's Path. With a few registration lines I used the seam lines for my spine.

Ta Done!!!

I'm so happy with how this customer quilt came out! Now I want to make one! LOL!!! Or keep this one!

Glide 60wt thread on top. Bottom Line in bobbin. Quilter's Dream poly select batting. Freehand feather vines and a little ruler work.

I did a couple videos while quilting this... bet editing will have to wait until Monday. I'll post them as soon as they are ready.

On the Machine

This is going to be fun!!!! I love quilts like this... even though I I will be repeating the same 3 designs over and over. They are fun designs and easy for me to move from to the next.

Sometimes I have the tendency to over think things. To make things harder than they need to be. Yesterday was one of those days. I tried a couple other designs that were more complex and would take much longer to do. The worse part was... I didn't like them! Spent some time with seam ripper...

I'm really glad I did... I like this much better!

Ta Done

I do not know the name of this pattern... but I love it and now I want to make one!  LOL!!!

I've been quilting for this customer for close to 20 years. She always says... just make it pretty! LOL

Rainbow thread on top and Bottom Line in the bobbin. Batting is W&W. Feather Vine in the border with swirls in the small border. Heavy Metal in the Flying Geese, Feather Vine in the Pinwheels and swirls for the background.

I think it looks really good on my bed!

 

 You can see how I quilted the Feather Vine in the triangles in this post. 

 

I had to do my favorite Feather Vine border.... had to!!! LOL

 

 

And Heavy Metal in the flying geese! 

 You can watch how I quilt this Heavy Metal design here.

 

Heavy Metal Flying Geese

This is my favorite design to quilt in Flying Geese...

  

I did a short video the other day... this was before I figured out that I should move my handlebars to get a better view!  LOL!!!

 

You can purchase my Heavy Metal workbook here.

Videos

A while back I had gotten a handlebar mount to use with my phone on my A1 Quilting Machine. I've been playing with it trying to find the right angle for making videos while I quilt....

There's several obstacles I'm running into. First is my lights. My lights on my machine are directly under my handle bars and are blocking the area where I'd really like to place the mount.

Second is I can't rotate the camera to get a landscape profile. This means it's taking a tall skinny video which means anyone trying to watch it on their phone is having harder time seeing.

Third is there are too many joints in the mount. This creates more camera wobble. When I quilt a little faster the camera wobbles...

Anyway, here's a new video I did last week. The angle is not right. I will try again soon!

I have my eye on a different style of mount... It's a little more than what I want to spend but it may be worth it in the long run!

Project Bag

My mom made this awesome project bag out of one of my quilting doodles. What you can't see is the one side is made with clear vinyl so you can see what is in it.

Ten Inch Borders

Does anyone else get excited about 10" borders? The only problem is my thread color matches the fabric exactly and I'm having a really difficult time seeing where I'm going.  I usually turn off all the lights and with my 2 picture windows I get enough light and shadow so I can see.  Not today...

Doodle

My last post was showing how I fill in and embelllish a compuerized design...   This one started out with a loopy meander that someone test driving a machine at the A1 Quilting Machines Inc booth.

Time

Custom quilting can take time....

On the Machine

This is what I'm working on.... it's a big one so it will take awhile.

Ta Done

I finished this last week....  absolutely love the way it turned out!!! This quilt was pieced by one of my best customers. I always enjoy working on her quilts. Her colors and fabric choices are wonderful. I believe the pattern is Sidelights...

I did the blocks with my Quilt Gallery computerized system...

A did ruler work with freemotion quilting in the sashing and small gold border...

In the center I outlined the print fabric and add a background fill in the green...

I used the channel locks on the Quilt Gallery to do the bead board quilting in the purple border...

Sometimes I like the back the best.... :-)

Background Fill

The center of this quilt is a section of a beautiful fabric.  Peacocks and dragonflies!

I'm out lining the print and quilting the green with my favorite background fill....  a little bit of and a little bit of that.

On the Machine

I took my quilt off the frame to work on a few customer quilts....  I do believe this is turning out out wonderfully!

I'm using a purple Glide thread in the border and blocks, a copper Glide thread in the small border and sashing, and a green Invisifil in the panel and green sashing.....   Hobbs 80/20 batting.  The quilting is a combination of freehand, rulers and computer work.

On the Machine

Finally getting back to this quilt....  do you ever think you should of stuck with something simple?