Quilt Show....

I had two of my quilts in my guilds quilt show this past weekend.....

Quilts - one for each kid....

A year ago, I finished all the quilt tops for each of my kids.  Here is a post from Nov 2010 of their status...  Unfortuantely I was unable to complete their quilts by their birthdays...  Or truthfully in a reasonable time afterwards. This first quilt was a reasonably large 69 x 91".


Quilt for my youngest was finished Dec 1, 2010... Quilt for my older daughter was finished in February  I tucked it away thinking I would be finished her brother's quilt soon, but it wasn't put on her bed for the first time until yesterday as her brother's quilt is now done! This one was huge at 81x101"

Mariner's Quilt!

Finished and on the bed

My son's quilt...this took me forever to quilt... I started quilting it on my mom's Janome 6500.  Which is a great machine, but really doesn't have the throat space to do what I wanted on the quilt.  The quilt is heavy and every time I'd start quilting it, my back would cease up, or my arms would ache.  So it sat as a todo project heavy on my mind and heart. I was having a problem with its size at 79"x103".

Then I purchased a longarm machine.  And I loaded the quilt top on late December saying it was 50% completed... but it really wasn't.  I basically had some stitch in the ditch stitching done and was probably 10% done compared to what I eventually did.... I spent a lot of time quilting this, practising new techniques... some with rulers, some freehand. There were only a couple of locations at the back that were a little off on the tension.



Blocks in this quilt:
- 24 Flying Geese
- 8 blocks Made from HST&QST
- 16 Stars
- 4 Moose Quilts Block 5 moosequilts.blogspot.com/
- 4 Anchor Blocks - Self drafted
- 4 Sailboat Blocks - can't remember the pattern I used for inspiration
- 2 Lighthouse Blocks (inspired by By the Sea, but I didn't paper piece)
- 1 Mariner's Compass (Paper Pieced), my husband kindly drafted my pattern

WIP Wednesday

So what am I working on?  Today was baking....

We made melted snowman cookies...  Here is ours...

We also made sugar cookies, shortbread, chocolate covered oreos, mint naniamo bars, and cherry cheesecake brownie.

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What is on the longarm?

The Nautical Quilt... Ready to start... I'm going to do a rope border using rulers for the outer border... which I've never done before (other than testing) so I figured I should start at the bottom!  Since the quilt was already layered and had some quilting done on it, the only pins left on it are in the outer border.
not sure what I'll do in the inner borders yet... probably  wavy lines.... or skip the red & light blue borders and maybe a second small rope in the other dark blue border.

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Other Projects?
Here is my Band Silent Auction Quilt... washed up, but still needs binding....  binding has been purchased.

Clouds & Stars quilted in

Front

Back

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Winter Quilt & Pillows

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Garment Sewing
She wore through the other swim top in matching fabric. So I made a new one to match the bottoms. Her other two swimsuits are paper thin... so she really needed new ones... she has swim lessons starting again in January so I think I'll make her a second suit, too.

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Baby Quilt - for a Silent Auction
I completed the quilting on the longarm yesterday during the school day, and trimmed the edges last night.  The quilt needs binding, but I don't have anything appropriate - the blues & yellow I have is too wrong, the red & green I don't have enough fabric.  So I will head to the fabric store tomorrow.  (sorry no picture at the moment - its in the wash to remove the chalk)

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What is on the longarm?
My sons Mariner's Quilt... Its mostly pinned onto the longarm.  But not quite - still need to add more pins to the bottom edge.  Then tomorrow night I hope to have time to start quilting it again.  I started on my domestic machine some time ago, but think the longarm is the way to go on this HUGE twin sized quilt.  (I think it'll easily fit a double bed!)


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