I've been having sooooo much fun with my Statler Stitcher. Last weekend I did a quilt for KN as my first BIG practice quilt..She is a prolific quilter with beautiful workmanship and I was very nervous quilting on someone else's work. But she loved it. Phew! Even when I had issues (read lack of experience) on the last row.
This weekend I went back home with only 1 baby quilt to quilt on. I thought I might try some new styles and this is what I ended up with...
Point to point was the first style, both line, doing stitch in the ditch, and pattern. Gotta admit, I'm very happy with both. I then tried out borders and did the corners and along the top and each side very easily. Not so crash hot when i tried the bottom half... I think I must have changed the angle of the corner pieces as the bottom and sides would just not line up. Not to worry, I little bit of reverse sewing and I'll try again. Lucky it's just a small quilt.
On Saturday morning I had to go into town as I needed a couple of things, thread, fabric, iphone, printer, and when I got into my LQS BM said that she had her quilt with her, was that all right? Was that all right? of course it was, BM works at my LQS and is my best advertiser. So once I got home I took the triangle quilt off the racks and loaded BM's. 107" x 83". Another BIG quilt. And BM's only request was maybe something with roses. I could do that! We talked about thread and decided on a variegated red, green, yellow on the top and a beige to match the back. We talked about using the same colour top and bottom to stop threads 'poking' through but, top and bottom, although they work together are very different. I said I'll do one run and check for 'pokies' and if there was an issue I'd give her a call. My wonderful sister in law Cheryl came over for a visit and we got the quilt loaded and up and running. Quilted up like a dream and today on my way back to Tamworth I got to drop it off to BM. Needless to say she was rapt. She absolutely loved it! I'm so happy.
Now back to unpicking!
A couple of finishes for this week! The pink quilt has been sold, thank you Brony, and will shortly be on its way to Queensland to it's brand new owner, her brand new niece! I hope she loves it! I just love the quilting on this one.
The second one will be listed on my etsy shop, it is the first one I quilted on Optimus Prime (my new gammill longarm). The sanctuary fabrics are soooo soft, just love them.
Jane
Well, I didn't actually find my camera cord, but I did find another camera with the same size fittings.
On Saturday a big truck came and delivered this...
and then it rained, and rained and hailed and lighting and thunder and rained 67 mm. I was standing under the back pergola at 1am while the lighting lit up the horizontal trees being battered by hail, shining a torch on the billowing tarps that kept everything totally dry.
But on Monday we started to unpack...
and built this...
so I could do this...
and this...
Soooooo much fun!! Just need to do some binding then on to my etsy shop.
The pink one has already sold and I picked up a commission over the weekend. I have one quilt ready to quilt waiting for me to get back to the farm next weekend. And 2 shops ready and waiting for my flyers and price lists. This could be the start of my third career. Roll on next weekend!!!
....because when I find the cord to connect my camera to my computer, I'll have lots to show you!!!
I've been having lots of fun, except i can't find the d^#n cord.
J
