Monthly Archives: January 2016

A mystery no more…..

I love doing the Yankee Pride Mystery quilts.  Judy Thomas the shop owner designs two mystery quilts a year (Fall and Spring).  For the latest one I used fabric purchased on my trip to Hawaii for the outer border and to accent the piecing supplemented by a green batik purchased here at Yankee Pride.  I love the way it came out… in fact I will be updating my bedroom after the reunion class and have this quilt on my bed.  I also made a wall hanging and pillows to go with it.

Yankee Pride Mystery 2015 Fall Quilt

Yankee Pride Mystery 2015 Fall Quilt

Hawaiian fabric

Hawaiian fabric

 

Recent Client Project: Lonestar Quilt

I spent the majority of quilting time this week on a client quilt that was a beautiful Lonestar quilt made with polished cotton fabrics.  She had actually pieced this quilt many years ago – so glad she will now be able to use it!

I continue to grow using my Intelliquilter for custom work – time consuming but the results are great!

Below are some detailed photos of the quilting along with the digitized design developed during the quilting process:

Lonestar triangle blockLonestar blockLonestar bordersLonestar digital design work

2016 Show Quilt – Mission Accomplished!!

2016 Show Quilt - "Red Stars in a Midnight Sky"

2016 Show Quilt – “Red Stars in a Midnight Sky”

2016 quilt detail1Last week I finished my show quilt, this quilt took many hours to quilt as I challenged myself to have it nearly 100% quilted using my computerized system with digitized designs.

I have completed the Quilt Show Entry forms and have named the quilt “Red Stars in a Midnight Sky”.

Custom computerized quilting is a much slower process than free-motion quilting but opens up many more possibilities for designs (who wants to free-motion hundreds of segments for a custom design.. but using the computerized system required realigning every segment to ensure very accurate placement of the designs I chose and updated for use in the quilt.

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Now back to quilting for clients!

Quilting full-time is great – I have worked down my backlog and am currently able to get quilts back to customers within 2 weeks!

 

Way to start the new year! Quilting!

Happy New Year to all!  One of my resolutions is to post on my quilting blog more frequently in 2016.

I spent pretty much all day working on my 2016 show quilt which is now on my quilting frame.  (the one with 500 flying geese!)  I am challenging myself to do almost 100% computerized quilting and have spent much time preparing the design elements to use for this quilt.  My goal is to have the machine quilted by the end of the weekend and return to customer quilts next week.

Here is a peek at how I am progressing:

2016 show quilt on frame2016 show quilt detail