tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16265985297599084352024-03-13T22:08:55.551-07:00What's Up with Cathy in TXCathy inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009891090674598408noreply@blogger.comBlogger135125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1626598529759908435.post-5061221879045039432017-10-31T18:51:00.000-07:002017-10-31T18:51:43.249-07:002017
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Here’s my recap from 2017.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
Even thought the year isn't over these posts are long, so I'll just start posting more often. Hopefully monthly. </span>I’ve done a lot more traditional piecing this year than in the
past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m getting better at it and am
enjoying it more as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I started the
year working on some sloths. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here it is,
the end of the year and I still haven’t finished them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A friend of mine was participating in a blog
hop and needed a beach themed paper pieced pattern, so I designed a flamingo
for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve gotten a lot better at
designing paper piecing patterns too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
still love paper piecing more than anything but sometimes I really want to show
off the fabric (there are so many pretties out there) and paper piecing cuts
the pieces too small.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve been
discovering patterns that really highlight fabric.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m enjoying that too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I taught an online paper piecing class last
year and finished the top but still haven’t quilted it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s all in Kaffe Fassett fabrics, which I
love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really like patterns that use
the quick curve ruler and I finished a top using a jelly roll and some
background; it’s called Metro Twist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
loved the final results but it was pretty small.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was prepared to teach a workshop on the
Quick Curve Ruler using the free pattern on line called Spring Fling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We didn’t get enough participants so I made
two full and two partial blocks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think
they would make good pillows …. maybe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
signed up for a block of the month (known as a BOM) last year that used 16 half
square triangle to create blocks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
BOM included 12 blocks and with a little sashing it came together easily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, It was too small for anything but
a baby quilt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took two <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Judy Niemeyer</span> workshops this
year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One was a large quilt (Mariner’s
Compass) that I still haven’t finished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The other was a small wall hanging (Arizona Cactus) that just needs
binding to be done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made it in blue
and orange and really like how it turned out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Another BOM I did last year was called PB&J.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a different kind of block but the
ending quilt was really cool, although smaller than I’d hoped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I donated the Metro Twist, the HST quilt and
the PB&J quilt to the Alamo Heritage Quilt Guild for their auction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not sure if they made any money, but I hope
so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I learned a new technique this year
from Libs Elliott on how to randomly create quilt top designs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really liked the technique and taught it to
a different guild.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a small wall hanging I designed in her
workshop and a large quilt I designed as part of a challenge, but I never
submitted it because I never quilted it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Can’t figure out how to quilt it, so it is just waiting for me to be inspired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a pretty busy year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went on two cruises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I actually finished all three projects from
the first cruise and ended up giving away 2 of the kits from the second cruise
and only working on one of the projects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The first cruise had Debby Maddy’s Labyrinth on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is now my go to quilt for gifts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is so easy but looks so special, I love
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used the one I made on the cruise
as a farewell gift for a coworker and made a second one just like it as a
Christmas gift for my sister.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another of
the projects was a Carol Doak mystery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
finished the quilt but haven’t quilted it yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not sure why.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just need to get ‘er
done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The third quilt was from Daniella
Stout called Cosmic Stars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was easy
to make but I didn’t like the fabric they provided for the stars so I added my
own orange stars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love how it came
out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s in the to-be-quilted pile now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also took a workshop to make the Star Storm
designed by Victoria Findlay Wolfe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
had planned to give it to my brother for Christmas, but he didn’t like it, so
it’s going to a friend I grew up with and went to school with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just have to add the borders and then can
quilt and bind it and send it to its new home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>l learned to make fabric cactus from a guild mate and taught that
technique on the cruise for some friends and at another guild.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are actually pin cushions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
do love a good pin cushion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our guild
was having a fundraiser by auctioning off mini quilts - I used my Statler longarm
to make quilting designs on solids for the quilts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I loved how they came out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’d make a great pillow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Need to make one or two for myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I donated three quilts to MD Anderson’s
Cancer Quilt Auction this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One was
my favorite quilt I’ve made so far.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
hope it brings in some donations for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I will definitely use the pattern again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was called Stoneworks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
other two were wall hangings I made as “In the Garden” challenges for the
Boerne QuiltFest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hope they find a
home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I finally got around to quilting
some old quilts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had taken a Twister
workshop on a cruise and I loved the quilts -- I think the fabric was called
Bloom Where You’re Planted or something like that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has the cutest bright striped fleece on
the back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So cuddly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other old quilt I finished was my Dancing
with the Stars paper pieced quilt by Carol Doak and Deb Lutrell that I started
years ago as a BOM.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally quilted,
bound and gifted it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My daughter has it
in her spare room now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It looks great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I finished the Rhoda Ruth Scrap Crazy
quilt I pieced last year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s now my
chair quilt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s got a great soft flannel
on the back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I discovered a love for
Tula Pink fabric some time ago and made myself a quilt using all her fabrics in
a blue/green color way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is so
refreshing looking on my bed. Now that I have a full-size bed it’s easier to
make bed-size quilts and eventually I want one for every month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided my next bed quilt should be a Christmas
quilt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I’m working on Tula’s Holiday
Homies in hexagons with triangle/star settings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s in Red and Green and I can’t wait to finish it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After that I have three more Tula Pink quilts
I want to make.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll see them next
year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I go on a cruise with Tula Pink in
August 2018, and I can’t wait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Want to
get these quilts done so I can show her how much I love her fabric, even though
I was late discovering her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2017 was a
year of vacations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went on two
one-week cruises, spent almost another week in New York for my 40th reunion
visiting my mom and former classmates, a week in Hawaii with my daughter and
family, and I’m spending a week in El Paso with my hubby over Veteran’s
Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t go on quite as many
retreats this year but I did do a few and a few workshops so it’s been a great
quilty and fun filled year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Cathy inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009891090674598408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1626598529759908435.post-73328858323785769372017-10-31T17:58:00.004-07:002017-10-31T17:58:48.086-07:002016<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">2016 was a very sewful year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I only worked 9 Fridays the whole year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The rest of the Fridays I was on quilt retreats of sewing at home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think I went on 15 retreats during the
year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One month I was on one every
week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’d think I’d have more to show but I did a
lot of beginning and not a lot of finishing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But eventually they’ll all get done. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My first quilt of the year was Elizabeth
Hartman’s Forest Friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was my New
Year’s Eve/Day sew along.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It came out
great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I loved it and I know it went to
a good home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My son’s friend Kristin had
her first baby and it became their quilt. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went to a Metro Rings workshop -- it’s kind
of like a double wedding ring design but using the Quick Curve Ruler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lost the box for a while but found it recently
and really need to get back to work on it so I can finish it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's not in my normal color pallet, but I
think I’ll like it once it’s done. I made a farewell quilt for our departing
commander; it was a cross made with Army fabric. Came out pretty good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since he used to be a Chaplain’s assistant, I
thought he’d appreciate it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I taught a
paper piecing workshop/retreat where I taught the participants to make a cross
wall hanging or an envelope baby quilt or a wreath wall hangings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I created the cross pattern by modifying a
Carol Doak pattern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made one on
commission, but they didn’t like it, so I gave it away as a retreat door
prize.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I designed the envelope quilt as
a paper pieced pattern after I saw so many of the quilts that were
traditionally pieced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of those went
to Kristin’s baby too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve made a
wreath wall hanging for almost every month of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I redrew this in a pattern size that I liked
and allowed me to quilt the whole quilt in one pass on my longarm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are so easy to make and look so good on
my wall, I love them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At some point I
took a workshop from Shannon Brinkley called Scrappy Bits applique.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made this really cool cat quilt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s my favorite. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made my hubby three quilts this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One was a large wall hanging using a quilt
picture panel with bass on it, one was a Texas panel and pattern he liked and found in Waco </span> and the other was a lap quilt for his chair with
bee fabric.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think he liked them
both.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made myself a wall hanging using
the Moroccan Vibe pattern from one of the Sew Kind of Wonderful books and the
quick curve ruler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love that
pattern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Need to make another one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I taught a workshop on it at Cotton Boll
Quilting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had fun sharing the love with
others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I finally got a chance to use my
Scrap Crazy template and made a quilt out of Rhoda Ruth (Elizabeth Hartman
fabric).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I finished the Violet Kraft
paper pieced lion pattern although I haven’t removed the paper or quilted it
yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also started working on her
elephant but haven’t finished it yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
started working on a hedgehog quilt using fabric I got when visiting my daughter
in Hawaii.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before I went to Hawaii I
made a quilt for each of the grandkids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The littlest one wanted the biggest quilt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So he got a Urban Abacus Mickey Mouse
Quilt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other two just got lap
quilts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were fun to make and
hopefully they use them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still haven’t
finished my hedgehogs, but it’s been real fun working on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also made a quilt for my Aunt Si using the
quick curve ruler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She wanted purple and
it is REALLY purple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately she
passed away in 2017, but I’m glad I got the quilt to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pattern is Modern Molly from one of the
Sew Kind of Wonderful Books.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">2015 was a year of trying new things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made a tuffet out of 64 black and white
fabrics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was fun and I love the end
result.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made the spicy spiral table
runner and then taught a workshop on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I also taught a workshop on the Christmas tree skirt that uses the same
ruler as the spicy spiral.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love the
tree skirts, they really make the tree look better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I taught a paper piecing workshop using a
Mariner’s Compass style star.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone
was successful and the blocks looked awesome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ll probably be teaching that again and am thinking about making myself
a sampler quilt using those blocks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
are all cool looking and I don’t think I could pick one block to make a whole
quilt from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went on a cruise with
traditional pieced patterns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One was a
silk table runner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I loved sewing with
the quilt and loved how it came out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
haven’t been brave enough to quilt it yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I need to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made a quilt called
celebration that really was a lot of traditional piecing and came out great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t remember who I gave it to, but I know
I gave it away. The third quilt had a bunch of circles on it and they were
machine appliqued.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew I’d never make
that so I gave the kit away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I finished
my first applique quilted wall hanging -- it was a Snowman -- so cute, but I
ended up giving it away to a coworker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
also made a paper pieced Christmas Tree wall hanging and ended up giving that
to a different coworker. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I finished a
quilt made with really pretty but big diamonds that was requested by one of my
daughter’s really good friends for her daughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We swapped and she made me two wreaths for
over my fire place, that look amazing. It was a good deal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I traded a Christmas tree skirt for another
of my daughter’s really good friends and she made me a counted cross stitch
wall hanging with quilts in it. It looks like a painting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is amazing and everyone who sees it
comments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had my first Quick Curve
Ruler workshop and made a pattern called Urban Abacus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was great and I’ve made three of that
pattern, although I can only find photos of two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cathy inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009891090674598408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1626598529759908435.post-67961723366724291392017-10-31T17:01:00.004-07:002017-10-31T17:41:37.636-07:00Back at it<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">When I started this blog it was to track my quilting
journey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t start it until I had
been quilting for a while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when I
did start it I was pretty busy with my quilting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was keeping quite a log and it was fun to
look back every now and then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then I
felt I had done enough of the “easy” stuff and tried quilting outside my
comfort zone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I joined a modern quilting
guild and a traditional guild to try to get more workshops and learn more than
just paper piecing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wasn’t really
proud of my quilting efforts and stopped logging my progress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wasn’t any better at my quarter inch seams
and had a hard time making things match up well and stay square.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The more I tried other things, the more I
liked paper piecing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So my blog has been
left stagnant for years now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which is
too bad because I’ve been getting better and better and trying different things
all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I am proud of my
accomplishments and how my journey has played out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s been fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I still like paper piecing best, but I want to
share some of the other stuff I’ve done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After this I’ll try to log regularly, but for now let me play some catch
up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I'll post one entry for each year I missed and am trying to gather the photos to support the work. Unfortunately I was posting everything on facebook and not keeping it all, but you'll get the idea. </span></span></div>
Cathy inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009891090674598408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1626598529759908435.post-81462576842798850202014-05-15T17:13:00.003-07:002014-05-15T17:13:16.699-07:00Round RobinLast May I joined a Round Robin with some ladies from Oklahoma plus one from New York/Florida. It was announced on my favorite Yahoo Quilting Group, which meant that some of the people were paper piecers. I had to think pretty hard about joining it since they had a requirement for some things I didn't like but I decided to give it a shot. <br />
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It all started with a center and we had lots of leeway about what that could be. I started with a paper pieced star made from Carol Doak's 50 Fabulous Paper Pieced Stars book. <br />
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I figured the border fabric on the center gave the participants lots of color choices. We provided fabric with our center block and mailed it off to the first person. The rules of the next round to go around the center was that it had to have triangles. The quilt I got next was from Jan Holzbauer. She started with a paper-pieced Mariner's Compass star block so I decided to follow suit but to use one that had triangles. I like how it came out.<br />
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The next round belonged to Cheryl Gebhart. It started with a really cool center that was made using black fabric stamped with paint. It was our choice what the round would include. I knew what I wanted to do right away because I knew of a paper pieced star block that was similar to the center star. But it didn't really go with the round just before it. I tried to tie it in, but I'm not sure how good I did. Hopefully the rest of the rounds improved how things go together. But I was fairly happy with what I did. This was probably the hardest one I did.<br />
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The next quilt I got was from Marilyn Reid. She started out with an embroidered center with a cute message and awesome design and surrounded it by different colored blocks. It was in my very favorite colorway -- blue and yellow. The rules this time were to use squares. I used a bunch of square in the square blocks, paper pieced of course. I decided to alternate the backgrounds but to keep the centers in paisleys (my favorite type of fabric design). I really liked how it came out. (Not sure why the picture is sideways.)<br />
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The next round came from Cloye Brower. This is the one round I was really worried about. This was the dreaded applique round. I have taken lessons in applique techniques a number of times but it has never seemed to work for me. I don't really like the look of raw edge applique, I prefer the needle turn type, but I couldn't make it happen. I tried four different techniques and none worked. I held on to it so long agonizing over how I was going to do what I wanted to do, that the next quilt arrived before I had even sewn the border on. I knew exactly what I wanted the round to look like. The quilt had fabric in it that I wanted to duplicate. It required that I paper piece part (that I had to draw myself) and then to applique once on each side. But the applique I wanted to do wasn't very big, that's what was making it so hard to do needle turn. Once I saw the next quilt with the raw edge applique, I decided it would look okay, so I went with it. I loved how it came out. This quilt started out so cool with a paper pieced hexagon shaped center and every round really fit it perfectly and I liked my round too. I was late getting it to the next person, but I finished it and was so glad to be done.<br />
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The final quilt I worked on belonged to Shellie Hansen. This one started out with a painted or dyed center with a wonderful bird and the word Renewal. The rounds all looked really good but the quilt looked finished with the applique round. I was a little worried about adding my round as I was afraid it wouldn't go with the rest. I spent some time answering the question how I get renewed and ended up needing to actually buy fabric for this quilt as I didn't have any fabric that really "went" with the colorway. I was pretty happy with the color choices and thought I had found the perfect design. This round was our own choice too. I got this quilt done really early and ended up hanging on to it for almost 2 months. <br />
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The group decided to get together to give back everyone's quilts and I agreed to meet them all in Oklahoma. So tomorrow I'll be driving there and then I'll be able to post a picture of my quilt with all the added rounds. I can't wait to see it. And really I can't wait to see all the quilts and how they came out and to see if the rounds I added look good with the rest of the quilt. Almost every quilt had some paper piecing in it but this last quilt had the most. I added 20 blocks to make it look like I wanted. I liked the finished quilt. So far it's the only one I've seen finished. (Not sure why this one came out sideways either.)<br />
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Cathy inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009891090674598408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1626598529759908435.post-7578493060308094842013-11-17T11:06:00.001-08:002013-11-17T11:06:19.382-08:00New ToyHubby let me get a new toy as a birthday present and I got to play with it today. It's a piece of software called Quilters Light Box and I saw it demonstrated at a class I had last weekend. It allows you to take a picture of the top you're going to quilt and then lay the quilting designs over top of it and change the colors of the lines so you can decide on the best design and best thread color. It's not 100% accurate but it gives you a really good idea how things will look. This is something I have a hard time with. I haven't had enough experience quilting to really know what something is going to look like, until it's all done. Sometimes it looks like I wanted, sometimes it's better than I wanted and sometimes I put that in a stack never to be seen again as it is nothing like I wanted. <br />
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Well today I used QLB on my Thanksgiving/Fall Wall Hanging. I would have never picked this quilting design if I wasn't able to see it first using QLB and I never would have picked gold for the thread color -- I was planning to use dark brown. But I really like the results and am so happy I gave this design a shot -- I was actually just playing and picking somewhat random blocks to try out on the quilt. Below is a photo of what QLB showed me and a photo of the actual wall hanging all quilted. And some closeups of the actual quilting. Still needs binding to be done -- but that's for another day. I need to go play with the table topper on my QLB and pick a design for it.<br />
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Cathy inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009891090674598408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1626598529759908435.post-326719824519956102013-11-16T19:32:00.000-08:002013-11-16T19:32:34.537-08:00Fall QuiltingI recently finished a quilt from my very first swap. It was from the fall of 2006. I had just learned to paper piece and was happy to swap to get examples of blocks that were done right, hopefully to learn from. Before I made my son's quilt I wanted to practice, so I made this one in a similar fashion, alternating pieced blocks with fabric blocks and quilting two different designs in the alternating blocks. I learned a lot. This one has some catches in it where I should have been paying more attention, but all in all it came out pretty good. It isn't as big as my son's and doesn't do much more than cover a queen size bed, but it's a good quilt to cuddle under on a cool evening. Since it was a fall swap, all the blocks are in fall colors. This was the perfect time to do it. I finished the binding on my trip up to Karnack for work. Hubby drove, so I sewed. (Not sure why it's on its side, but it won't turn.)<br />
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I couldn't find my Thanksgiving topper for my table and never had a Fall/Thanksgiving wall hanging so I decided to whip some up. I'm going to trip the wall hanging border down -- it's too much and I can't decide if I like the table topper or not, but it'll do for now. The wall hanging is 30" but will probably end up 24" square. The table topper was about 24" anyway. <em> </em>I hope to get both quilted tomorrow, along with some other projects that have been in the quilting pile for a while now. Then I need to work on my Christmas projects. I am way behind and won't get much done, but it's fun to try<br />
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<br />Cathy inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009891090674598408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1626598529759908435.post-77843540698396264972013-10-04T18:45:00.001-07:002013-10-04T18:45:53.223-07:00Quilt Across Texas 2013
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is the third year for the Annual Quilt Across Texas
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The first year I participated I went to 54 out of 91 participating
stores.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My friend and I had a ball.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I actually rated the stores based on my
personal experiences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can read about
it here:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://clkinmd.blogspot.com/2011/09/quilt-across-texas-statewide-shop-hop.html"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">http://clkinmd.blogspot.com/2011/09/quilt-across-texas-statewide-shop-hop.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This year I went to 50 shops out of 58 participating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was fun, but not as much fun as the first
year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spent three weekends with my
friend and two with my hubby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The stores
just weren’t really into it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I still
spent a fortune and got lots of goodies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I rated the stores again, kind of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think I was in a better mood this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I won lots of prizes the first year and more
stores gave thank you gifts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this
year I’m entered into region drawings in 4 regions as well as the grand
prize.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully I’ll win something, but
if not, I sure did enjoy myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve
been asked to share photos of some of the stuff I got, so I’ll post that here
to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So here is my evaluation of the
shops I went to that I had never been before:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Alford Inn, Van Alstyne – Cute on the outside, not so great
on the inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not accessible for anyone
handicapped and pretty difficult for me and I haven’t even been using a cane.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fabric Fanatics, Plano – This shop only has batiks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Someone told me they had lot of beautiful
batiks and they do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Someone else told me
their prices were reasonable and they are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But they ONLY have batiks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So if
you’re not looking for batiks, don’t go there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you are – go there and enjoy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Old Craft Store, Carrolton – Nicely organized and
decorated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>High prices but great
patterns and great selection of fabrics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>People were very helpful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not
happy that I paid $3.00 for a pattern that was free online, if I only knew.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Texas Quiltworks, Rockwall – Small shop run by husband/wife
team. Not accessible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not impressed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Owner designed patterns were okay. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Kaleidoscope Quilt Shop, Whitesboro - Awesome!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tons of Moda Fabrics – both precuts and
yardage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fantastic Patterns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nice Staff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My favorite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Five stars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pass Time Quilting, Gainesville – Good prices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not much selection, but good fabric.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kind of small shop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Cowgirl Quilt Shop, Jewett - Beautiful western paisley and
unique western fabric.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nice solids and
mixers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nice lady.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Has online business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Great variety of 108” backing fabric.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sandy’s Quilt Shop in Joshua is a bad memory - Nothing good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Best part was that Braum’s Ice Cream shop was
nearby.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Country Stitches, Burleson – Excellent! Another 5 star.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Great decorations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Big variety of fabrics and patterns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of space to roam around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beautiful display quilts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially liked all the minis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spent a huge hunk of money there and wished I
had more money to spend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seemed like
everything they had I liked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Serenity Quilts of Many Colors, Brady - Pretty nice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Big Variety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Could use more “decorations” on the inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three stars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">One Quilt Place, Fredericksburg – Nice but not great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nice organization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>New building. Tons of parking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Great inspirational quilts on the walls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Staff not too friendly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three stars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Quilted Skein, La Grange - Beautiful shop. Beautiful décor.
Beautiful fabrics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of different
lines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very classic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not a friendly/homey kind of shop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No novelty fabric at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Artsy and proud of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The gentleman in the store (think co-owner)
couldn’t have been more rude or anal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Square Quilter, Shiner – Very nice. Lots of
selection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of variety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of rooms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of panels include quote panels (one of
my favorites). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nice people. Awesome
fabric.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Four stars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fabric Store & Sew Much More, Nederland – I guess if you
embroider this is a good shop. About 2/3 of the shop was dedicated to machine
embroidery and almost 1/3 to a classroom and it was a small shop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So you can imagine how much quilting supplies
they had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they did have nice
solids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could have spent some money,
but the people weren’t very friendly, so I didn’t.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fabrics Etcetera, Webster - Nice shop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Little high priced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of Variety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nicely organized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cute quilts on the walls. Nice classroom
area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pinwheels & Posies, Dickinson – Okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All different
prices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of patterns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Cactus Quilts, Texas City – Small shop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nice people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pretty western fabrics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not real
memorable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Calico Cats Sewing Center, Lake Jackson - Nice shop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nice people. Not too big but lots of stuff in
my style.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Quilters Quarters, Conroe - Very nice but small.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Little pricey but nice people. Pretty little
shop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three stars. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Quilt Room, Huffman - Small but good. Little pricey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of good fabrics, patterns and help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Quilter’s Emporium, Stafford - Nice size, nice selection,
nice organization, great display, nice people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A bit slow, but typical Texas friendly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Good prices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good patterns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Janome supplies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Four stars at least.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Too bad it’s not a bit closer to home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Heirloom Elegance, Corpus Christi – Nice shop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Big variety. Nice sale fabrics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Great samples. Lots of my style. Workers a
little ditzy but nice and friendly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Four
stars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Quilt Cottage, Corpus Christi – No comparison to
the other one 5 minutes away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not
memorable at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Helpers were no
help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Here's some pics of my "haul" as my quilters friends call it.</span></span><br />
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This year's Quilt Across Texas fabric for a number of different projects. The fat quarters were all free. I hope to make a ruler/mat tote, placemats, table runner, Lone Star throw, and possibly a Twister quilt.</div>
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My Christmas Wall hanging to be. Love this fabric.</div>
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Throw size quilt for my sofa in a pattern I bought</div>
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Future table runners - not this year though.</div>
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A kit for a GORGEOUS quilt wreath.</div>
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Fabric for an Advent Calendar wall hanging.</div>
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Throw size quilt in new pattern I bought. Like a row-by-row. Next year hopefully.</div>
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I've become fond of Western fabrics. These are some of the pretties I came across. They begged to come home with me.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">I also got a bunch of free fat quarters and more than 20 free patterns. Probably a dozen different new patterns that I bought and three new books of patterns. Two signs that I posted on Facebook already. And I can't even remember what else. I definitely did my part for the Texas economy. Too bad I didn't realize at the time I'd be laid off the first of October. Oh well, still had fun.</span></span>Cathy inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009891090674598408noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1626598529759908435.post-71702703529258212932013-08-11T18:24:00.001-07:002013-08-11T18:24:12.651-07:00Thank You Wall Hanging<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been working on a big project at work for a while and was getting down where only little stuff was needed for it to be perfect, but these little things are also the hardest things. It was things my team hadn't been able to figure out on our own. One of my coworkers had asked others how to do some of the stuff and he said it was too hard to do, so we should just forget it. I wasn't willing to forget so I gave it another shot and asked the questions again. The person I called took care of almost every issue we had left. She fixed them all and we immediately got compliments on the changes. After a long time and a lot of frustration, in less than a day this person fixed about 90 percent of the stuff we had left to do. I was very grateful and said I wanted to make her something as a thanks. I asked what colors she liked and she said pastels. I'm a bright and bold kind of person but I also have a lot of darks and autumn colors since that goes well with my house, but I hardly ever make anything in pastel. <br />
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I used a Carol Doak pattern from her Mariner's Compass Stars book -- Sweden. I did some digging and found colors/fabrics I thought were near pastels and made a small wall hanging for her. Just a 12" block and 4" borders makes a 20" wall hanging. I think it came out great. I quilted it in a pattern called Summer that I really liked and hadn't really had a reason to use. I loved the quilting. You can really see it on the back of the quilt. Only took a couple hours to make the top, a couple hours to quilt it and a few hours to hand sew the binding on and I was done. Today I added the little loops to the back to hang it with. I love projects that can be finished in less than a day. <br />
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Hope she likes my little thank you wall hanging. It was fun to make. So much fun I offered to make some for my daughter. I figured I could make one for each month and use colors that fit the months. Like snowmen for January and hearts for February and green for March and Easter pastels for April and Flowers for May and beach fabric for June and patriotic for July and fall colors for August, school fabric for September, Halloween fabric for October, Pumpkins and turkeys for November and Christmas colors for December. All in 20" wall hangings so they can just be interchangeable using the same hangers. Think that will have to be a Christmas present. Pictures will come when I'm all done.<br />
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Cathy inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009891090674598408noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1626598529759908435.post-68391756715289342442013-08-06T20:57:00.003-07:002013-08-06T20:57:30.907-07:00Getting things done - Summer 2013I haven't posted in a while but it's not because I haven't been doing anything. I've been working on a bunch of projects and actually finished some, so I thought I'd share.
My daughter and her family moved into a different house closer to her husband's work and it caused her to mix and match furniture that were in different rooms before and she didn't think things would "go together" like they used to. I told her all she needed was a couple quilts and it would look great. So her new family room is blue and brown and has mounted deer heads in it. She wanted a cover for her ottoman, so I made these. The first one came out twice as big as I wanted because my calculations were quite a bit off, so I told her I'd finish it and she could use it on her couch. Then I tried again after re-calculating and made the one the size she wanted. Both came out pretty good. I don't normally like simple designed quilts. I'm a paper piecer, so for me, it's all about the piecing and designs, but that isn't what she wanted. She's really happy and says it fits her family room perfectly. I'm glad, because I wasn't thrilled with the simple piecing so I used a really cool quilting pattern to make me feel better.
I know you can't tell from the pictures but the bottom one is half the size of the top one. In the top one the strips are 4" and in the bottom they are 2". The quilting has a variety of leaf types and acorns.<br />
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I also worked on a charity quilt I promised a friend quite a while ago (actually before my last knee replacement in January. I finally finished that too. Just in time. He's going to donate it to an auction to raise funds for Breast Cancer awareness. I didn't have enough of the fabric I wanted to use on the back so I had to use stripes. Not my best work, but it's the back, right? It's quilted in hearts and ribbons which matches the fabric on the front and the back, so I liked it.</div>
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I also finished a baby quilt for one of my daughter's friends who is having a baby girl (any day now -- last month if mom had her way). This has got to be the best baby blanket I ever made. After 3 grandsons it was so fun picking different and pretty fabric for a girl, but I found I couldn't go too girlie, which was a good thing as the mom liked my choices. This is one of my top 3 favorites of all the quilts I've made. Can't wait to see the baby on or wrapped in it. The backing is minkie and feels so soft. I hope she loves it. I did. Twister quilts are so much fun to make. The quilting is hearts. </div>
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Cathy inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009891090674598408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1626598529759908435.post-27984991168968700792013-05-12T17:29:00.001-07:002013-05-12T17:36:00.678-07:00Mystery Block of the month is finished.<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeqVpRC-xQDe5aqF1XXj8afa0fT-XPPzR3CNuDDH44sqZBSw3fW9WbneV4b3IaT_KYss9U6q0ksVWNClRfoAvadWSKJsTmw9O0Qb953lEMJU-bwc4vj6qC3TmFMyioejHouxYmuFD_2Wo/s1600/002.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeqVpRC-xQDe5aqF1XXj8afa0fT-XPPzR3CNuDDH44sqZBSw3fW9WbneV4b3IaT_KYss9U6q0ksVWNClRfoAvadWSKJsTmw9O0Qb953lEMJU-bwc4vj6qC3TmFMyioejHouxYmuFD_2Wo/s320/002.JPG" /></a></center><br />
A year ago, my favorite online group started a Block of the Month. I posted about it last August and have been keeping up posting the individual blocks in there ever since. (You can read about it if you want and can see the pictures here: <a href="http://clkinmd.blogspot.com/2012/08/getting-back-to-sewing.html">http://clkinmd.blogspot.com/2012/08/getting-back-to-sewing.html</a>. I ended up having two knee replacements during this project. One in July and another in January.<br />
<p>The project was designed as a mystery, which means we had no clue what the design was going to end up as, we had to just follow along and hope for the best. Which I did faithfully for a year. I had to take time off after each surgery and it took a little while to get back in the swing of things, but I was so excited about this project and the fabric I had chosen, I got right back at it as soon as I could.</p>
<p>When Carol Doak first started this BOM, she designed it as a two-color quilt. I was a little skeptical about that, as two colors are often boring. Some others in the group added a zinger color or just used multi-color prints, and some even made it scrappy using every color under the sun, but I decided that Carol often has a reason for her choices, and she’s been designing quilts for years, so it’s best to listen to her. But I still thought two colors was going to be boring, so rather than using more than two colors, I decided to stick with the two color quilt, but add the zinger in the borders.</p>
<p>I found this Northcott Kaleidoscope line of fabric that really seemed to fit the bill. But of course I couldn’t follow her directions exactly so rather than use the layout she designed, I decided to do a little more and surround more of the pretty blocks with star points. And then it looked unfinished so I added reverse star points to make some of the blocks look like square in a square block. All those changes made me need more fabric than originally planned and I ran out when all I needed was 16 pieces of 4 x 4 inch squares. I looked all over and finally found it in an online store. I even got fabric for the backing, I wasn’t sure in the beginning what I was going to do, but since the fabric was expensive and I hate to use expensive fabric on the backing, I didn’t buy any, figured I’d find something on sale later. But the quilt looks so cool, I decided to go ahead and spend the money for the expensive backing. I decided very early into the process to quilt it with an all-over daisy design. I used a design by Anne Bright called Daisies and Loops.</p>
<p>I had a hard time deciding what fabric to use for the binding. Pink would look good on the front but bad on the back. Green would be best, but very boring. I could use the print, but it's so big I was afraid it would look funny. So I tried out a new technique some fellow quilters told me about. Below is a close up showing 3 layers of the binding because the quilt is folded. Two show the front which has the pink flange and the center layer is what the back looks like. All green. You can see my stitch line which should be right on the edge of the binding. I’m really happy with the end result.</p>
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After my surgery, I had a few friends come stay with me and help take care of me. I was well enough when Ann came that we worked together to make a twister quilt. She did a lot of the work, but we did get it all pieced and quilted during the week she was here with me. All that was needed was to get the binding added. I hate to admit how long it took me to get the binding finished, but it is finally done. This was not a color scheme I would have picked, it is civil war reproduction fabric I think, but I have to say when it was all done I really liked it. Everything seemed to go together so well, even the quilting. I know she'll like it and it'll be a great reminder of our time together. I have fabric for a few more of these twisters. They are so fun to make. If it wasn't for the binding I'd make one a week.<br />
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The leader of my favorite online quilting group (Carol Doak) designed and dedicated a block in memory of Pat Campbell who passed away in March. She was a friend and colleague of Carol's most know for her applique quilts. Then Carol challenged us to use the block she designed with a border created using Carol's newest book (Creative Combinations). I chose Double Duty Unit 05, which is a chevron type of block. I had to make them 2" x 4" to make them look the way I wanted and then I modified the block and left off the last sections that would square off the block so that the quilt was left with a zig zag border. I had to birth the quilt instead of adding a binding and then I had to quilt part of it on my regular machine before I could quilt the rest on the long arm. I finally finished all the quilting today. I still need some more practice but all in all I'm pretty happy with it. You can't really see the quilting on the front so I took a picture of the back too. It's so nice to get back into sewing.
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<p>I volunteered to quilt the tops that other people made. I did 5 of those and it was so much fun picking out what quilting design to use to highlight the quilt but not
overpower the quilting design. I got to try out a bunch of designs I hadn't used before. Someone misread the volunteer list and thought I wanted to assemble the tops, so she sent me 9 pink ribbon blocks. I was supposed to send them to someone else but I kept forgetting. Then another member posted a design she came up with and I liked it so much, I decided to use her design and the 9 blocks sent to me by mistake and make a top. It came out great. I posted on the group that I needed some more blocks and got 9 more, so another top is in my future. Don't think I'll get it done before my surgery though
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I went to the local quilt shop looking for fabric for the backing (when I was there previously they were having a clearance sale and had a bunch of pink fabric). Of course when I went back (after the inventory) there wasn’t hardly any pink fabric left and none with enough fabric to cover the back of my quilt. So I ended up paying full price for some really cool pink ribbon backing fabric. I'm so glad I did, it looks perfect. I also got some fabric on sale from a friend who has a fabric shop. I ended up buying 10 yards at a little over $4 per yard. Quite a deal. I used it on the back of 3 quilts.
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But I had the hardest time picking a quilting design for the top I made. So I decided to use my favorite quilting design which is just swirls. It takes a
long time and a lot of thread, but I didn’t care, it was what I wanted. Then I
added the binding, including the hand stitching I hate. But the hand stitching wasn’t holding well, so I had to add machine stitching around the binding too (something I hardly ever do). So this charity project ended up costing me a
bit more than planned and taking a lot more time than I dreamed, but I am so
happy with the end results, it was definitely worth it. Now I just hope the charity it goes to will be able to use it to raise a bunch of funds for Breast Cancer Awareness.
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Below are photos of the quilts I quilted (I didn’t piece 4 of the tops, they were each someone else’s design/work); the one with 9 stars
is the one I made the blocks for (except the center ribbons) and added the
perfect backing, quilted, and machine and hand-stitched the binding. Wish I was keeping it, but hopefully it’ll raise money for the cause and provide comfort to someone special.
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</div>Cathy inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009891090674598408noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1626598529759908435.post-44555590424448475632012-12-09T13:14:00.003-08:002012-12-12T17:48:24.962-08:00A New Twist for MeI haven't been motivated to do much of anything lately and that includes sewing. But I had promised my baby girl that I would make her a throw quilt to match her tree skirt that she liked so well. I already had the Layer Cake in the same fabric and had planned on using the Twister tool I bought more than a year ago. I had to force myself to do it but I laid out all the blocks and sewed them together. That's the first step. When I was finished I thought it looked pretty cool and with some fancy quilting it might be okay just like that. So I sent a pic to my daughter of the blocks and then a pic of a twister quilt in similar colors I found on the Internet. And wouldn't you know it she wanted the Twister. So I got busy. The next step is to use the Twister to cut those blocks apart and then sew them back together. Sounds like a waste of time and fabric. But, it wasn't. It really is as easy as they say and I have to say I am awful glad I did it. It looks even better than I thought it would. This picture just doesn't do it justice. No two fabrics are the same -- all but 3 are prints. I've got the top done and that means all that's left is the quilting and binding, which I'm going to get started on as soon as I find out if she wants a border around it first. But I have to say, that little tool is pretty awesome. So I'm a little more motivated now. And when you're finished cutting them all apart, you end up with a bunch of much smaller squares in the same colors that you can use a smaller Twister tool with (of course I bought all 3 sizes) and I can make a mini quilt from those and I have the charm pack I bought before I even bought any of the fabric that I could make a matching wall hanging. So I may have some other twister projects in my future -- but probably not before this Christmas. Here's the before and after pictures. And I've also included a picture of the finished quilt, the front and back, with a closeup of the quilting.<br />
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Cathy inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009891090674598408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1626598529759908435.post-44428260298534985462012-11-22T18:46:00.001-08:002012-11-22T19:08:45.948-08:00My best quilt ever<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Had some cute snowman fabric and decided to make a table topper out of it using the 60 degree triangle ruler I have. I used it recently on a chicken table runner and table topper for my daughter. It was so easy I figured I'd make a Christmas one too. I recently got some hexagon shaped quilting designs so I figured I'd try one of them out. It came out pretty good. It's got a kind of country flavor to it and is red, white and blue (mostly) too. So it made me think my daughter might like it. I guess it'll make the trip with hubby. He has to take an extra suitcase for all the stuff I have for him to take her. But when he comes back he can just put one suitcase in the other for the trip home. I have another one cut out in traditional Christmas colors for me. Just gotta sew it, quilt it, and bind it. Wednesday is my day off so I figure I can finish it up then. Plus I have some other quilting projects I'd like to get done. The photos didn't come out too good, but this is the front and back and hopefully you can see the quilting.Cathy inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009891090674598408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1626598529759908435.post-59513508877104295822012-10-29T16:24:00.000-07:002012-10-29T16:46:53.150-07:00Trick or Treat Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When hubby and I were on the Quilt Across Texas Shop Hop he found a Halloween panel on sale in one of the shops and bought it. He figured I'd do something with it. He thought I'd make a wall hanging and just quilt the panel as is, but I decided to cut it apart and make four trick or treat bags. Each one has a big block (front of bag), smaller block (as pocket on back) and strips (used as handles). I used a spiderweb quilting design and used white thread on solid black fabric. Think they came out pretty good. And I had a lot of fun making them -- even though it involved a lot of hand sewing. Tomorrow they will be on their way (with my hubby) to my daughter's house for her and the three grands. Didn't have enough to make one for my son-in-law. Guess he'll have to wait until next year.Cathy inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009891090674598408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1626598529759908435.post-24325052570777876592012-10-22T20:27:00.001-07:002012-10-22T20:27:17.775-07:00It's a surprise - kind ofHubby gets to go see daughter, her hubby and the grands next week in Washington, but since I used up all my vacation time recuperating from knee replacement, I have to stay home and work. So instead, I'll be there in spirit and made a surprise for my baby girl. She loves chickens now. Of course she hated them when she went to school where the sports team was the gamecocks and where there were a dozen chickens in every store. But now .... she likes them. So I made her a few. I found the fabric last year on my Quilt Across Texas shop hop and it just screamed her name. I finally figured out what to do with the fabric. The original plan was the table runner. I took pictures of the quilting on the front and back even though you can't see it very good. It's a real cool pattern.<br />
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The leftovers from the table runner became a table topper. Same quilting, but different backing so I took pictures of the quilting on front and back again. The back of this one shows the quilting the best.<br />
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But the wallhanging is my favorite. I actually have enough fabric to make two but ran out of time and hubby said she doesn't have enough wall space for two. We'll see if she agrees, I could always send it later.<br />
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Was tons of fun but so glad to be done. And I was able to finish in time for hubby to take with him, so no shipping costs. Life is good.Cathy inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009891090674598408noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1626598529759908435.post-63448315053912090352012-10-19T18:46:00.002-07:002012-10-19T18:46:14.644-07:00Christmas Tree Skirt #2<br />
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I finished my second Tree Skirt and as usual it's even better than the first. Still not perfect but definitely pretty. On Nov. 1 it'll be at it's new home and underneath a Christmas Tree. Here's what it looks like pre-tree.
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A few years ago I figured my quilting skills had progressed enought that I could make quilted projects for Christmas presents for my coworkers. So I made each one a table topper. One block each, pretty simple, one-day projects. They came out great. You can see them all here on my blog. <a href="http://clkinmd.blogspot.com/2008/12/christmas-presents-tt-galore.html">http://clkinmd.blogspot.com/2008/12/christmas-presents-tt-galore.html</a> Then the next year came and some of my coworkers had left and I had new ones, so for the new ones, it was table toppers again, but for the ones who already had table toppers I gave them their choice of quilted projects. Now a few picked small wall hangings. Pretty easy, done in no time. You can see some of them here <a href="http://clkinmd.blogspot.com/2010/01/getting-finished-part-1.html">http://clkinmd.blogspot.com/2010/01/getting-finished-part-1.html</a> and some more of them here <a href="http://clkinmd.blogspot.com/2010/01/getting-finished-part-2.html">http://clkinmd.blogspot.com/2010/01/getting-finished-part-2.html</a> But two of them picked table runners and they wanted them long. So .... when Christmas got here I had the tops done, but not quilted. This was before I got my longarm. So I showed them their presents at Christmas and took them back to finish them. Well, that was three years ago. Today I finished one of them. I am so happy and I had forgotten how cute it was and how much I liked it. If she checks facebook, she won't be surprised, but she doesn't usually, so next week this will be on the way to her house. Hope she still has a use for it. Here's some close ups of the cute fabric that I fussy cut in the blocks and used in the borders. I used a chicken wire design for the quilting. I think it came out pretty good. Now I still have one to do, and I need to go dig it out and finish it. If I remember right, it was the prettiest fabric I ever used. I paid someone to quilt part of it and I think all I have left is to stitch in the ditch and bind it. I must be getting better at the hand-sewing part of binding because I'm starting to enjoy it, and I used to dread it terribly. It's so nice to check things off my "Get 'em done" list.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For those who wondered about the tree skirt project I said I
was going to try, just wanted to let you know I tried it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I finished it and made another and have 2 more planned and love it! I quilted this one using a pretty dense design, and was sorry later. The second one I did the quilting was better. I used a sheet on the back of this and was glad I did. It looks awesome and saved quite a bit of money.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is as easy as it says it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are no matching points so no need to
pin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The design just somehow comes out
without you doing anything but sewing them together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tried to figure it out and gave up.
Geometry was not my favorite part of math.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The hardest part is cutting the wedges, but that may just be me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t need to buy the magazine
pattern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That pattern and many others
are on the wedge ruler package.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You do
need to buy the wedge ruler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>9 or 10 degree 25”
long is important if you want to make a tree skirt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you just want to make round table toppers,
not so important.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It isn’t cheap ($30)
but worth every penny.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">All you really do is sew strips together into panels and
then cut wedges out of the panels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Easy
peasey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pattern calls for certain
width of strips, but you can use any widths you want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pattern calls for 5 different fabrics,
but again I think you could use however many you wanted. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pattern calls for different amounts of
fabric based on what width you were using it for but because I wasn’t sure
ahead of time what placement I was going to use for the fabrics, I just bought
1 yard of each of 5 colors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can always
use the leftovers later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want to
use good fabric on the bottom of the tree skirt you need about 3 ½ yards I
think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m just going to use a sheet –
much cheaper and works just as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who
will see it? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m also going to try it
with a border fabric I found that I like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hopefully I bought enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since
I paid $10 for the book, I did follow the directions this time and probably
will a few more times till I perfect the process.</span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> I</span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">t takes you a couple hours to cut all the strips (I’m
slow).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes another couple hours to
sew the strips together into 4 panels (again I’m slow) and then you need to
press them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes another couple
hours to cut the wedges (for me this was the hardest part).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes another couple hours to sew all the
strips together and press them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I
suspect it’ll take me another couple hours to quilt it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> And God knows how long to bind it, since that's my least favorite part of quilting and I need to use bias binding and have never done that. </span>I guess you don’t need to quilt it, but I’m
going to just because I have a long arm and I like to play with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I think you can just sew a big circle of fabric to the back and birth the quilt and it'll be awesome. </span>I
have some awesome ideas for quilting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But since my knee replacement, I can’t stand for more than about 40
minutes at a time and I can’t sit for more than about 40 minutes at a time, so
I had to do this in stages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which is
why I’m blogging right now, rather than finishing the quilting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll post
another picture when it is all done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The pattern calls for the widest strip to be in the center
and then you match the strips in each direction. That allows you to turn the
ruler upside down and keep the same design.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But on the wedge ruler package they showed you the different patterns
you’ll get if you don’t keep the fabrics the same on each side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pretty cool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And they show you the different patterns you get by flipping the wedge over
vs. flipping the wedge upside down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both
are very cool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you tell I like this
wedge ruler? I looked on the website for the producer of this and it has some great info on other uses for this ruler. Check it out: <a href="http://marilyndoheny.com/">http://marilyndoheny.com/</a> The 10 degree ruler is here: <a href="http://www.phillipsfiberart.com/">http://www.phillipsfiberart.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Some things I learned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The pattern called for you to use a large print for the widest strip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You lose the design if the pattern is large –
I don’t recommend it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do recommend NOT
using a directional fabric.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll see
in my picture some of my cardinals are flying upside down and they are all cut
into strips. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think it’ll be
obvious under a tree but I don’t like that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The pattern doesn’t tell you to use high contrast, but I think it looks
a lot better if you do. The pattern doesn’t tell you to use a solid in there
anywhere, but I think it gets too busy with all prints and the solid really
stands out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is important that you
press all the strips in the same direction on every panel you make. It makes
the sewing together easier. Although you're not locking seams like you'd expect. The pattern doesn't tell you to make sure the ruler extends more than 1/4 inch into the strip at each end. I didn't do that on mine and so I will not have a point between the first and second strips. I will make sure I do that in the future. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In this pattern you made four panels of strips (width of
fabric) -- the originator calls them strata --and you were able to cut 10 wedges (each wedge is 9 degrees) from each panel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To make a circle you need 360 degrees, or 40
wedges of this ruler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also have 10
degree wedge rulers; I guess you’d just need 36 wedges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did buy one of those – it was cheaper and I
couldn’t find the 9 degree wedge ruler anywhere-- but I found out that the 10
degree wedge is a right triangle and the 9 degree wedge is not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not sure how that matters other than the
patterns will be different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are
patterns on that ruler too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m just
trying the 9 degree one this time using the pattern from the magazine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it’s pretty awesome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll probably experiment after I get a couple
of these under my belt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have fabric
picked out to make 4 more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d
better get busy. You can see below what I mean about the directional and large print fabric issues and the quilting I did.</span><br />
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<br />Cathy inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009891090674598408noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1626598529759908435.post-41537776088776129572012-09-19T18:14:00.000-07:002012-09-25T19:10:33.026-07:00Almost DoneI started a 3-block project on Monday with a deadline of Friday. Really had my doubts I'd get done. The first block on Monday was a cougar paw print in gold and green to represent our local elementary school (not Carol's design); Tuesday's block was to represent my organization so it has our patch in a star (Carol's design) made with Army fabrics. Today's block was to represent the school district -- it's a 5-pointed star with an apple cut out of the corner (both Carol's patterns). My goal was to get it together and quilted today and I am happy to say I am right on schedule. I put it together with some plain blue fabric that seemed to set off all the blocks and I quilted it with a simple heart design. I added the binding and Friday I presented it to the Principal of our local elementary school to commemorate our re-signing our partnership agreement. She loved it, as did the superintendent. My organization provides tutors, mentors, readers and special environmental programs for the elementary classes. It's tons of fun for everyone. Feeling good that I am back to sewing.
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Cathy inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009891090674598408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1626598529759908435.post-88551248601814821182012-08-18T19:59:00.001-07:002013-05-05T16:50:07.712-07:00Getting back to sewingMy favorite online quilting group started a Block of the Month Mystery in May. I was keeping up pretty well until I had a knee replacement and then I got behind. I am finally able to sew again after 5 weeks and this weekend I was able to get completely caught up to September. Normally I would wait until the end, but I am really happy with the blocks so far, so I thought I would share them here. I got behind again and at the end of December, I made the October and November blocks and hope to get December done before January's is posted. I'll just keep posting them here so they are all in one blog entry. When the mystery is solved and I know how these all go together, I'll post that in a new entry.<br />
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</center>Cathy inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009891090674598408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1626598529759908435.post-24116904291181563392012-06-27T19:49:00.000-07:002012-06-27T19:49:17.898-07:00Farewell GiftThe commander of the U.S. Army Environmental Command is leaving and he always complimented me on the quilts in my cubicle at work or that I've made for my coworkers so I wanted to make a quilt for him before he left. Since he is an Army Colonel, I wanted to make it Army themed, but since our jobs are all about the environment, I wanted to include that too. So the front is all Army and the back is the Lorax -- he speaks for the trees. And I quilted it in a pattern for Soldiers that says Respect, Honor and Thank You and includes patriotic pictures like the liberty bell, flag, eagle, and stars. Hope he likes it.
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