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I'm aware of two main methods of adding trapunto to hand quilting. Since most of my quilt is already quilted, I've been left with just one o...

Comme vous l'avez bien compris avec mes achats à Nans , j'ai bien l'intention de me remettre au boutis ! Mais avant d'oser toucher aux kits d'Hubert Valeri , il me fallait d'abord me remettre en jambes en doigts ... Pour m'entrainer à cette technique...

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When I was in Houston in 2016 my special exhibit was right across the aisle from the beautiful Millefiori exhibit with all the beautiful English paper pieced quilts inspired by Willyne Hammerstein and I became fascinated with English paper piecing. I did a few pieces out of fancy silks but then I began to wonder how

See my second post on Graffitti Quilting here! Some of you were wondering how I decided which free motion quilting patterns to use, and when, while quilting my "Dyed" quilt . I thought I'd do a few posts on how to create an "improv" or "graffiti" quilted background fi

Вышивка в стиле бути родом из Прованса (Франция). Мастер-класс по основам техники и схема создания сумочки с вышивкой бути.

So, I have four quilts done that weren't before, that's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. I also made a very involved wall hanging for our pastor, from nothing to done in 2 1/2 months. I made 3 quilts of valor from start to finish, and tops, tops, tops, 7 new tops,4 finished , not a good ratio. I also made 3 cord baskets, a professional tote and upholstered a couch. Below is what happened with the UFOs I listed for Judy Laquidara's UFO challenge. Some are going back on the list for next year. 1. Disappearing 9-patch swap quilt-done quilted and will be gifted this season. (one down) 2. One block wonder--this one still needs to be sandwiched and quilted. Didn't even touch it. It was sometime after June, I don't remember when, and that's when I fell off the wagon! 3.Brights round robin quilt--also waiting to be sandwiched and quilted. Also didn't touch it, though I know where it is! 4. Done, done done. I still have this in the closet, it may be gifted before the end of the year, too. Just don't know who to. 5. Not done, not touched. It needs to be pressed and all the threads trimmed from the back. I made this and used it as a duvet cover. Washed it once and decided it would fall apart if I used it again. I love it, and just need to do some manicuring on it, then sandwich and quilt. 6.Done, finished, gifted. I know when I give things away, they should be without strings, but I didn't even get a thank you for this. Ah well, I love it and enjoyed making it. 7. Another one I didn't touch. It only needed some kind of border, then to be sandwiched and quilted. It's just wall hanging size, so not too difficult. 8.Not touched. It was another that was towards the end of the year (well after June at least). It's wall hanging size and I need to decide what to do with it. I think it needs some kind of applique, but not too much. I think this will go on the list for next year. I could get pretty creative. 9. I was about done, and ready to finish it...just the borders to be done. I showed it to the recipient, and she asked if I could make it about 8 inches wider on each side so she could use it as a bed cover. That stumped me, so I've been avoiding it. I decided I will finish it as is, and she can buy something to put under it, but I just can't figure out how to make it wider without going insane. 10. I finished this and hated it (because of the pain in the butt it was to finish it), but I use it almost every day now when sitting at my computer. It's about the perfect size for putting over my lap to keep my legs warm, and because of all the seams it is warm! 11.I did end up getting the borders on this one, but now it needs to be sandwiched and quilted. I like it! 12. I didn't touch this one either. Probably going on the list for next year.

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See my second post on Graffitti Quilting here! Some of you were wondering how I decided which free motion quilting patterns to use, and when, while quilting my "Dyed" quilt . I thought I'd do a few posts on how to create an "improv" or "graffiti" quilted background fi

I promised to show you pictures today of a UFO from last year that I finally got quilted – thanks once again to my friend Joanne who allowed me to use her wonderful Gammill =^..^= This is one of my favorite quilts …--- my One Block Wonder! One of my earliest mentors when I first began quilting, Sue Pulling, taught this as a two-day class when Music City had its retreat in March of last year. Sue came all the way from Michigan to join the retreat with her old friends and teach the class. And what a class it was!!! Sue is really, really good at what she does, and teaching is her specialty. We had so much fun with this technique! For those of you who are not familiar with this quilt design, it comes from the this book by Maxine Rosenthal. The basic technique is to choose a lively fabric with a fairly large design that contains at least 3 colors, making sure you have enough fabric to cover 6 repeats of the design run. This was my fabric…. You layer the fabric so that six repeats of the design lay one on top of the other perfectly, cut it in strips, then in 60 degree triangles. Then you sew the triangles back together to form a hexagon kaleidoscope! It was a blast seeing each of these lovely hexies come to shape right before my eyes! It was even more fun doing it as a class because we got to see what the others’ fabrics were producing too. I wish I had pictures of them to share, but I wasn’t blogging back then and didn’t think to take pics. One girl did hers in an African animal theme and it produced some amazing hexies! Others chose orientals which worked out just beautifully! Joanne (of the-friend-with-the-Gammill fame) chose a really lively and colorful fall fabric that turned out some of the most original and exciting designs of them all! Because my fabric is so bright and the colors are not your ordinary run-of-the-mill, I had a hard time choosing the inner border. I had a pink that went okay, and I also had a really nice lettuce green that worked perfectly. But both of them disappeared in the corners where they came next to the same colors in the quilt. And I felt they were kind of blah for such a lively quilt. Finally, just on a lark I picked this stripe out of my stash just to see how it would look – Eureka!!! But it needed something to stop the design between the stripe and the fabrics, so I put in a ¼” pink flange on both sides. I really LOVE that look.... However that love did NOT extend to the quilting! It was quite frankly a B**** to quilt because of those little flanges! I wanted to do an allover panto because the quilt itself was so busy the quilting would have disappeared anyway. But in order to do the panto, I had to pin down all the flanges and stop/start at each one, tie threads off, take great care not to sew over onto the flange…. None of this is easy on a longarm! I am really happy with the result, but I would only ever do it again for a special quilt like this one! For the binding, I decided I needed to use the stripe again, but not on a bias as I usually do for stripes because that just didn’t work at all. And once again, it needed that little bit of pink to corral the two different designs between the quilt and the stripe. I chose to do a small 1/8” flange under the binding which I think works out perfectly! It’s double the work, and a little tricky working the corners out because of all the bulk... .... but the effect is well worth it, don’t you think? So that’s my TaDa!!! For the day!!! Hope you enjoyed seeing my One Block Wonder come alive! I’ll be teaching a class on this at The Quilter’s Path in Mt. Juliet this summer, so check at the shop for times if you are local and would like to make this quilt =^..^= Hugs & Blessings, Teresa =^..^= FYI - Check out the cool giveaway going on over HERE at Lily Pad Quilting! And then go see what others are doing where I'm linking up this post: Can I Get a Whoop Whoop? at Confessions of a Fabric Addict Link a Finish Friday at Richard and Tanya Quilts June Finishes at Such a Sew & Sew Tuesday Linky Party at Quilting by the River Fabric Tuesday at Quilt Story

As an incredibly busy summer comes to a closet, I find myself wondering about my upcoming projects. Sure, I have about 10 sitting on my desk/shelves, but sometimes it is hard to find the inspiration to continue working on them; an uninspired mind lacks the creativity to finish! So there I was on an odd Tuesday, grazing and munching on 19th century magazines. I noticed the ridiculous amount of braiding patterns for literally anything. Shoes, wallets, pincushions, clothing, and even a table cover are covered in the stuff. While I'm not planning a project anytime soon, I just love the geometric designs. As I sipped my cup of tea, this blog post was born. Please forgive the messy nature of the post. While I have given snippets of each pattern, I have not given full context. Do not cover every historic item you own in anything and everything braiding; click on the link and search through the original document to learn more. Once you train your eyeballs to look for something, you really do see if everywhere. Otherwise, enjoy the inspirational snack! Maybe I'll spark a bit of creativity in someone. At the very least, I will get back to that pincushion I've been glaring at for six months. Peterson's Magazine 1860 The Whatnot or Ladies' Handy-book, 1861-62 La Mode Illustrée, 1862 Arthur's Home Magazine, 1863 Godey's Lady's Book 1864 ~Kristen

Here's the front of the wholecloth quilt. Not surprisingly, it's practically the same as the back; just with more colour! I love the texture created in this quilt with all the different quilting patterns, and by leaving just a few acrs deliberately unquilted. Some of the patterns are definite fillers, while others were specifically designed for their space. I tried to use as many patterns as possible, and I remember there are over fifty. I did end up repeating some designs, and others I modified ever-so-slightly, such as changing the direction of the lines. A few of the designs didn't quite go as planned, as almost designed themselves as I quilted. A few of the blocks have segments separated by narrow (about 1/4in) strips (as in the block above) and I enjoyed coming up with different fillers for these, too. This quilt was an amazing was to practice filler patterns! A lot of them I came up with myself, but I also used some from Leah Day's project, and others I adapted from existing designs. Oddly enough, in my doodlings earlier in the year, I'd come up with some designs almost identical to some Leah later showed, such as the coffee beans! It was also a good test (mostly successful) of shrinking designs I'd only before stitched on a larger scale. I'm really pleased with how the feathered corners tie the whole thing together. They were all stitched completely freehand, without any marking. Each 'block' finished at about 7.5in square - not surprisingly, the quilting resulted in a lot of shrinkage in this small quilt! It was challenging to photograph this quilt and get the zing of colour to really show. So on a whim, I took a few photos using the Pop-Art setting on my camera. While it made the orange, in particular, rather flourescent, these photos are in many ways a better representation of what the quilt actually looks like! Just indulge me through the last few photos, trying to show as many designs as possible in a small space... I had been concerned when I started planning this quilt that the colour wouldn't be enough, but I'm very pleased with how it come out. I quilted "EBDQS4" into one section of the border; unless you know it's there, it blends into the rest of the quilting pattern: I'm already planning more wholecloth quilts like this. I do take commissions, so please contact me if you are interested.

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