Heavy Metal Border

Remember the Heavy Metal diagram I drew last week?  Well, here's a how to video....  hope you enjoy!

Still snowing!!!

It's still snowing!!!  After Dan got the truck stuck and almost went over the embankment on our driveway yesterday...  he doesn't want to have a redo today!  So it's a snow day here... unless anyone wants to come take me to work and back again.

 

I'm almost done with this quilt....  and really liking the way it's coming out!

This and that...

First of all the rodeo was a blast!  It's just our small county fair but fun not the less... :-)

I got my mess cleaned up, well sorta.  Like I said before my room is a little messing to begin with.  Just not enough room for all my quilty stuff, but all the books and patterns are back on the book case.  The bookcase is shimed up right so as not to fall over again.  I keep telling Dan that it has been leaning since we put it there when we moved in and that was like 4 years ago!  I have a few magazines and catalogs to go through... keep what I need or think I need and throw out the rest, and that's about it....

Today's doodle...

I was trying to add some shading to this one to give it more depth...  doesn't really show as much as I thought it would.  These stars are inspired by my good friend Vicki Star birthday.  It's this coming weekend.  Here's to you my friend!

WIP Wednesday, 7/21/10

It's been many Wednesdays since I posted a WIP.....  This a customer's quilt that I'm working on.  Love the plaids.... love the vines!

Pumpkin Seed part 2

I've been playing with my video editing program.... LOL It kinda makes me laugh at myself or with myself. One or the other. I always say "I'm not laughing at you. I'm laughing with you, you just forgot to laugh!"

Anyway, here it is... More pumpkin seed quilting, but no talking! LOL I think I like the ones where I don't say anything best. I get tired of hearing myself while doing the edits...

Pumpkin Seed Quilting

I'm never really sure what to call it. Some call it 'pumpkin seed'... And I found reference to this pattern in Quilting with Style by Gwen Marston & Joe Cunningham as 'tea cup' or 'wine glass'. If there is another common name... please leave a comment and let me know.

I used this pattern in one of the large border in the Butterfly Kisses quilt. Here's a video on how I marked my grid and quilted this border....



I just realized that last 2 minutes of my video were cut off... and it has been deleted from my computer and camera... grrr I guess I'm still learning the editing portion of making videos! That teaches me to clean up my files before I watch the whole video through, which I should of done before I uploaded it to youtube... After editing and watching it back and forth more than several times... I got tired of hearing myself!

Here's a pic of the completed pumpkin seed border....

In my last post... the tools I used to quilt the feather motif are: Clover Chaco Liner for marking, Renae's 23" arc, and a 2 1/2" circle from Gadget Girls...

I love scrap quilts...

I quilted this quilt for a new customer. She's not a piecer but saw a picture of an antique quilt and decided to make one. She drafted the pattern and did it all with strip piecing and no previous experience with any of these methods. I'm not real sure of the name of the pattern but the squares are smaller than an inch, so I'm calling it a postage stamp quilt.

The fabrics are quite busy so I did a freehand E2E flowers and swirls.

Anyway... I love this quilt! I love scrappy vintage looking quilts and this one fits the bill.

WIP Wedndesday 8/26/09 a day late...

I feel like I haven't done a whole lot lately.... Yesterday I spent most of the day cleaning my studio so I can walk without tripping on anything. I've had bead projects out on my table and piles of fabric here and there.

I did get my embroidered basket block done...



This is the last one I had to do. Now to get them into a quilt. Trying to decide what fabrics to use for this is the reason for all the little piles of fabric that were in my studio. I'm trying to use fabrics I have and not buy anymore...

I started a new embroidery project...



I also made earrings to go with the necklace I showed in this post



I have fabrics to make two skirts... I'm using Simplicity patter #5752.



I'm going to be using view C or B with no flounce. B is longer... so I just need to decide what length I want. I'll probably do the short version for this border print.



And the longer version for this fabric. I thought this one would look cute with my cowboy boots....



Now to find time to make these skirts.... I want to have them ready to wear at Innovations in a couple weeks.

WIP Wednesday 8/12/09

I can't believe I missed a whole week... Well, yes I can. Don't ask me what I did last week because it wasn't really much, or at least nothing particular stands out in my mind. OH, OH... I did do a small baby quilt for a customer. The only pix I got are close ups of the quilting. I did a freehand edge to edge heart pattern. It's not really a pattern I've seen anywhere but I did take inspiration from a design in No Boundaries by Nicole Webb & Jamie Wallen. (this book is now out of print as far as I know)



I've gotten most of my Lightening Strikes Twice from Scrap Therapy pieced together. I just need to add the final border then quilt it... I picked out a yummy plum batik for the border. It was quite dark next to the green so I added the small 3/4" orange border to add a bright splash of color. I can't wait to start quilting this one!



Yesterday I decided that I needed a new blue necklace. I had this art glass bead that a good friend of mine gave me a couple years ago, but had never done anything with. It has the perfect blue & green colors I wanted all swirling together. I got out my beads and start stringing. I was just about done with the very last string of mixed seed beads when I dropped the wire and beads went every where... grrr I patiently reworked that whole side and started to string the wires into the crimp bead when I did it again! GRRR!!! One should know when to give up and start fresh the next day...but NO! I don't know that! I did get it done and am really pleased with it.



It did end up a little short... you can see where I added just a bit to it at one side of the clasp. I was noway going to take it apart and start over!



I don't know why I showed that pic. Oh well...



Yep.. that's better! LOL!!!

If you are into quilts and like to do puzzles, check out Sue's blog. I really enjoy doing her puzzles every week.

WIP Wednesday, July 22nd

Frist, thanks for all the nice comments. If I don't get back to everyone individually it's because I'm trying to stay off the computer... I'm having too much fun quilting!

I'm still working on this....



I'm trying to decide on what to do on the background....



I'm only putting the flowers in a couple places.... but there still is a lot of black. So maybe some large McTavishing or swirly something or another.

Oh well... back to work I go!

Is it legal to have this much fun working?

I just had to share... I'm having so much fun with this quilt. Not done, just a sneak peek. I'm hoping to share the final product later to day or tomorrow.

Anyway, this is a stack-n-whack out of a floral print. My customer left quite a bit of black space for me to play in. I looked all through my inspiration folder and found a quilt that Michelle Wyman did a few years back... Thought WOW! That's exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks Michelle for all your inspiration over and over again!!!

This is the first step to the flowers....


Centers done...




Add some leaves...

Just Leaf It.....

About a month ago I received an e-mail from Debbie D'Ewart asking about the pattern I used for my little Just Leaf It whole clothe quilt. I emailed her back explaining that it was from my book by the same name, Just Leaf It. I also told her at that time I was waiting for a new batch of books being printed so I gave her a link of where she could purchase it.

So anyway, I received another e-mail from Debbie with a pic of a quilt she designed and could wait to see it quilted. Well... today she sent me a pic of her quilting. It's beautiful!!! So I asked her if I could share it with all of you.



The center is a vintage linen napkin that she placed on printed fabric. Now she plans to color it....

Thank you Debbie for sharing you quilt!!! I love to see what others do using my book for inspiration. If anyone else has pictures of their work they would like to share, just give me a shout.

Customer Quilt

I finished this quilt a while back for one of my favorite customers. All her quilts get leaves so I decided to do something a little different... feathers! I don't do feathers real often, so don't laugh too hard.

Anyway, I used Warm Blend 50/50 batting and Sew Fine white thread. All in all, I really like this quilt. (even with my goofy feathers)







Note to self...repeat to self... my feathers are not goofy, my feathers are not goofy

Customer loves her quilt...

It's been awhile since I posted. Now that all the hub bub of the spring quilts shows is over I have time to breath again and I'm back to quilting.

One of my customers came by on Friday to pick up her quilt and loved it... She wanted light custom, so that's what she got. Her quilt was made from the BQ pattern. It's a fun pattern to make... it can be fun and funky or very elegant depending on your choice of fabric.



I quilted swirls in the dark green sashing & a swirl variation in the border...



Simple meander in the blocks and a simple fern variation in the white...



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I'm not sure what the batting is... customer supplied it. The thread is while SoFine and King Tut Oasis in the green.

Emergency quilt II

Thearcia ask if I knew where my customer got the panel for the Emergency quilt. I was guessing that it is from the quilt shop from my home town... the shop I have worked with and for, for over 20 years.... Rochelle's in Port Orchard. She has the best collection of novelty prints! So I checked out her website.... and there it was as a kit.

I've lots to do before going to MQX so I probably will be pretty quiet for the next week or more.....

Emergency quilt finished...

I finished the emergency quilt the other day. I think it turned out pretty cute... I would of liked to have stitch in the ditch on all the seams but my customer didn't want that. Stitch in the ditch is the next price level up from basic custom, so I understand budget when people are choosing what they want on their quilt.

WIP March 25th

I don't really have much to show for this week. I did get some more done on my last basket, but not enough to really see in a pic. I'm almost done with the Emergency 911 quilt... will show pix when it's done. I got a few disappearing 9-patch blocks sewn and slashed...

You asked for it....

You asked for so here they are... the rest of the basket blocks.









In the pattern pack there are 31 blocks, but I decided to only do these 6. One reason is that so many of the blocks have way too many french knots. OK... I'm not a huge fan of french knots. Don't know why. They're fine in moderation like the center of the flowers, but not the whole flower, the whole ribbon or the whole basket... I have an idea how I want to set these blocks, with plenty of room for quilting.

Have you ever put something away, someplace where it will be easy to get it when you need it again... Then can't figure out where that was? Last week when I was straightening up the house before company I put a stack of quilt books away. Not in the bookcase cause I knew I would be getting them out again in a few days. Yep, you guessed it. I can't find them.... I've looked in every place that I normally set things that I'm working on or going to be using on the next project, but NO.... not there. They'll turn up when I least expect them.

IT'S SNOWING.....

I can't believe it's snowing... I'm so tired of being cold. I know a lot of you have much more snow than we do and that it stays around for months, but there is a reason why I live west of the mountains. I'm not a huge fan of snow. Yeah... it's kinda a cool to get snow at Christmas, but not in March.





And on the subject of quilting... I didn't get that quilt done on Thursday, due to the fact that I got called into work for a sick coworker. I did get all the sashing done and started on the setting triangles. Should be done today!!!





A few words about Tyler's boat. I will be adding pix of the progress of the restoration process, but since Tyler lives 2 hours away it will be a slow process. But well worth it! He is so excited that he told his Mom that he wants to cancel his snow boarding trip for spring break to come work on the boat.... He's picked out a color scheme already. Blue & white, should look good!

This boat is in a little rougher condition than I first thought. They will need everything... I mean everything! So this will mean going to swap meets to find things like a steering column, cleats, and hardware. They will make the seats themselves.