Monday Morning Design Wall 1/28/2013

Another busy week and I am so close to being done with all the applique for Mimi's Bloomers by Erin Russek.  I added a couple of blocks and am making corner blocks to match.  It is looking so pretty!!  I have jury duty tomorrow so I am going to the court house with my sewing in my bag!  I will leave my scissors at home but I will bring nail clippers!  Last time I had to sit for 3 hours before we were called into the court room so I need to make sure I am prepared with something to keep me busy!!  I have been working on my machine quilting and I just need to find more hours in the day to get stuff done!  I think I will give up sleep for Lent!!  Think about all I could get done in a day if I did not sleep!!  Oh, well, it is just a dream!  Happy Sewing.  Don't forget to check out Judy's blog and see the rest of the design walls.

Monday Morning Design Wall 1/14/2013

 Good Morning!!  I had the best weekend every as I took Cindy Needham's Beginning Machine Quilting Class in Sacramento!!  All I can say is WOW!  I learned so much.  As you can see by the back of my Black/White/Yellow circle quilt, I can now feather!!  Yes, free form feathers!!  I learned my hum/purr feeling for the machine, slowing my hands down and not creating "toe catching stitches".  SO MUCH FUN!!

 I will say that I was so exhausted after the class I went to bed really early last night and could still use a bit of down time today!  I cannot wait to finish this quilt as I have planned out the quilting on the next three already!   Her talk on design was fantastic and makes me just want to take more classes on design for machine quilting.  I will be very busy for the next several weeks working on these projects and may have to get a second job to pay for all the thread I will need but that is life!!

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Monday Morning Design Wall 1/7/2013

 Good Morning!  I am working on my border setting triangles for the Mimi's Bloomers quilt and having a blast.  I am trying to bring in my inspiration fabric into the corner blocks and so far, so good!!   I need to make 10 of them and then decided on the color of the rails and corner stones for the entire quilt!  This Thursday I am off to Beginning Machine Quilting class taught by Cindy Needham in Rancho Cordova, California.  I cannot wait.  I have so many tops and I cannot hand quilt fast enough with a full time job, 4 kids, dog, husband and workout time to get as many done as I need to!  I need to learn to machine quilt, if it kills me or Cindy!!!   I am bringing 5 quilt tops I already sewed Every Stinking Seam on and then a couple of completed tops that I just need ideas to figure out what to do!  I need to stop working on my applique and pack up for the class pretty darn quick or Thursday morning will come around and I will not be prepared!  Remember to check out the other design walls on Judy's blog.

Monday Morning Design Wll 12/31/2012

Happy New Year to everyone. I have enjoyed more time off of work this past week than I have have in several years.  Back to work on Wednesday but wow, amazing how much can get done each day when you do not have to go to work!!  I am frantically finishing up projects so I an start a new one sometime soon but I am realizing that I really need to finish up some of the many I have started. I am almost done with Mimi's Bloomers, Erin Russek's 2012 BOM so I am just working on setting solutions.  I may have to make an extra block or two (boo hoo) but it should be stunning.  I am planning on doing applique in the corner blocks also!!    Below is the finishing touches for My Whimsical Quilt Garden borders, which are almost done, a few more days and I will be pinning it.  Now to get ready for the Beginning Machine Quilting Class I am taking in a week or so!!  So excited because there is hope I can get some of these projects completely finished up, quilted and bound, so I can start the next wonderful applique project.  Remember to check out the rest of the design walls on Judy's blog.

Monday Morning Design Wall 12/17/2012

 Not much going on this week, I have my Whimsical Quilt Garden quilt on the wall as I plan the applique for the border.  The pattern shows circles, lots of circles, but I think I will go with some of the flowers and birds from the pattern.  Just need to start getting it done!!  I start my new job today so I have a feeling my productivity on quilts will fall a bit as I figure out my new job.   Really looking forward to the challenge so I think it will be fun!!!  Yes, I am bringing my usual bag of applique with to work in case I have large amounts of down time....you never know!!  Wish me luck!  Check out the other design walls on Judy's blog.

 

 

DWM 12/10/2012 Quilting Heaven!

 Wow, my quilt group, Spring Chicks, met last Tuesday and we officially finished our strip exchange.  To the left are all my strips!!  YUMMM.  I did row 3 and row 6 but the rest were done by my group and I am so thrilled.  This will be a breeze to put together and make beautiful.    Below are my last three remaining blocks for my mini-Baltimore album quilt and Block 11 for Miss Mimi, Erin Russek's BOM.   I have had a blast working on each project and I can't wait to finish these as I have three or four more projects waiting!   I am also getting ready for Cindy Needhams' Beginning Quilting class in January...I am ESSing as many of my quilts as possible (stitching in the ditch Every Stinking Seam).  I have 2.5 completed and I hope to have one or two more done by class time.  I feel the need to be ready to go when I walk into the class.    I need to pry information out of her as I only have three days to learn everything I can about machine quilting and I have the feeling that time will FLY!!

I am loving every minute I get to sew each day and I am really looking forward to the holidays.  I will be able to take almost a week and a half off and only use three vacation days!!  All my kids will be home for the holidays and I am hoping for multiple family meals, a few game nights and at least three or four family nights watching a good movie or two! I just need to make it through the next two weeks and I will be good to go!!   Remember to check out Judy's blog and see all the other design walls.

Monday Morning Design Wall 12/3/2012

 Merry Christmas to me!!  I purchased my new Juki 2010TQ last week after I officially accepted my new position of Development Analyst at UC Davis.  Wow, quite a week, new job and the sewing machine arrived days early!  I spent an exciting weekend reading the instruction manual and beginning to attempt to quilt quilts.  I am following Cindy Needham's instructions of ESS (every stinking seam) and sewing every stinking seam, which takes quite a while!!  Now that I can quilt my own quilts, the possibilities are endless!! 

One question if any one can answer, a bit of machine oil got on one quilt, any way to get it off?? 

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