This is the quilt that has been on the frame for a coon's age. It's beautiful, and turned out exactly the way my customer wanted it (I'm not bragging, she said those exact words, LOL), and it's finally done: I did all of the straight line stitching, freehand (well, with a ruler), around the ... VIEW POST
Even more quilting!
I know: two posts in a row about QUILTING, it's just crazy. This is another repeat for my MQResource friends, but I think it's worth it, it's so cute: ON this one, I tried to do the bows freehand and the one I did was...hooboy, it stank. Partly because I just charged right in ... VIEW POST
Independence
While I've been busy doing other things (bookkeeping, blech), I've also been working hard quilting. My next customer quilts require me to custom quilt them, so I've thrown a couple of my own into the queue until I'm ready. This poor quilt has been hanging around my sewing room for years. Many ... VIEW POST
Wednesday
I meant to bring this quilt home so I could get a better picture of it, but I forgot. I'm just glad I remembered to get the memory card out of the printer so that I had the pictures I had already taken... I started making these blocks some months ago, but they got set aside in the heat ... VIEW POST
Life, Liberty, Happiness, Quilted.
I just shared this over on MQResource, but figured I'd better post it here, too. Funny, I'll call it "finished," when it clearly has a long way to go -- but getting past the quilting is a pretty big hurdle. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to bind it -- I think I'm going to face it, so that what ... VIEW POST
New Adventure #2
I've taken the plunge, and added an Intelliquilter to my longarm quilting machine. Oh wow. This is SO COOL. I'm going to go back and fill up the rest of that practice quilt sandwich, and I'll tell you more later. ... VIEW POST