Last week one of my customers came over to Borderland Fabrics in Jedburgh to pick up her quilt. Carol and her Husband travel all the way from Glasgow to bring quilts for me to quilt and then to pick up quilts again. This quilt was an educational exercise, as Carol was teaching herself to use her embroidery machine on Sateen fabric...nice and slippery it was too! The caffe latte coloured sateen bordered the cream sateen blocks with the fabrics right side up and reversed and with alternate cream cotton blocks. Twin needle work surrounded the large embroidered central motif. Loading the quilt onto the longarm was a little tricky with the slippery sateen fabric, the slippery side of the cream fabric was against the wadding/batting. I used flowing feather swags with piano keys in the borders, a spineless feather in the sashings and then feathers and more feathers to pin down the blocks. I opted for continuous curves in the twin needle setting triangles and some swirls and curls around the feathered hearts. It was a really happy day when this quilt came off the frame, Carol was thrilled to see the quilt finished and couldn't believe how beautiful it looked as she never thought that it would ever be a finished quilt, she named it 'Latte'! Oh, and I think Carol has that embroidery machine stuff down patt now don't you?

Last week one of my customers came over to Borderland Fabrics in Jedburgh to pick up her quilt. Carol and her Husband travel all the way from Glasgow to bring quilts for me to quilt and then to pick up quilts again. This quilt was an educational exercise, as Carol was teaching herself to use her embroidery machine on Sateen fabric...nice and slippery it was too! The caffe latte coloured sateen bordered the cream sateen blocks with the fabrics right side up and reversed and with alternate cream cotton blocks. Twin needle work surrounded the large embroidered central motif. Loading the quilt onto the longarm was a little tricky with the slippery sateen fabric, the slippery side of the cream fabric was against the wadding/batting. I used flowing feather swags with piano keys in the borders, a spineless feather in the sashings and then feathers and more feathers to pin down the blocks. I opted for continuous curves in the twin needle setting triangles and some swirls and curls around the feathered hearts. It was a really happy day when this quilt came off the frame, Carol was thrilled to see the quilt finished and couldn't believe how beautiful it looked as she never thought that it would ever be a finished quilt, she named it 'Latte'! Oh, and I think Carol has that embroidery machine stuff down patt now don't you?

Last week one of my customers came over to Borderland Fabrics in Jedburgh to pick up her quilt. Carol and her Husband travel all the way from Glasgow to bring quilts for me to quilt and then to pick up quilts again. This quilt was an educational exercise, as Carol was teaching herself to use her embroidery machine on Sateen fabric...nice and slippery it was too! The caffe latte coloured sateen bordered the cream sateen blocks with the fabrics right side up and reversed and with alternate cream cotton blocks. Twin needle work surrounded the large embroidered central motif. Loading the quilt onto the longarm was a little tricky with the slippery sateen fabric, the slippery side of the cream fabric was against the wadding/batting. I used flowing feather swags with piano keys in the borders, a spineless feather in the sashings and then feathers and more feathers to pin down the blocks. I opted for continuous curves in the twin needle setting triangles and some swirls and curls around the feathered hearts. It was a really happy day when this quilt came off the frame, Carol was thrilled to see the quilt finished and couldn't believe how beautiful it looked as she never thought that it would ever be a finished quilt, she named it 'Latte'! Oh, and I think Carol has that embroidery machine stuff down patt now don't you?

Last week one of my customers came over to Borderland Fabrics in Jedburgh to pick up her quilt. Carol and her Husband travel all the way from Glasgow to bring quilts for me to quilt and then to pick up quilts again. This quilt was an educational exercise, as Carol was teaching herself to use her embroidery machine on Sateen fabric...nice and slippery it was too! The caffe latte coloured sateen bordered the cream sateen blocks with the fabrics right side up and reversed and with alternate cream cotton blocks. Twin needle work surrounded the large embroidered central motif. Loading the quilt onto the longarm was a little tricky with the slippery sateen fabric, the slippery side of the cream fabric was against the wadding/batting. I used flowing feather swags with piano keys in the borders, a spineless feather in the sashings and then feathers and more feathers to pin down the blocks. I opted for continuous curves in the twin needle setting triangles and some swirls and curls around the feathered hearts. It was a really happy day when this quilt came off the frame, Carol was thrilled to see the quilt finished and couldn't believe how beautiful it looked as she never thought that it would ever be a finished quilt, she named it 'Latte'! Oh, and I think Carol has that embroidery machine stuff down patt now don't you?

Artist Statement: At the time I was making this quilt there was a rage for watercolor quilts. I had fun taking my seven inch squares and arranging them as a blended distribution from light to dark. The result is this indigo dyed collection, quilted in a pattern known as "Seven Treasures."

Last week one of my customers came over to Borderland Fabrics in Jedburgh to pick up her quilt. Carol and her Husband travel all the way from Glasgow to bring quilts for me to quilt and then to pick up quilts again. This quilt was an educational exercise, as Carol was teaching herself to use her embroidery machine on Sateen fabric...nice and slippery it was too! The caffe latte coloured sateen bordered the cream sateen blocks with the fabrics right side up and reversed and with alternate cream cotton blocks. Twin needle work surrounded the large embroidered central motif. Loading the quilt onto the longarm was a little tricky with the slippery sateen fabric, the slippery side of the cream fabric was against the wadding/batting. I used flowing feather swags with piano keys in the borders, a spineless feather in the sashings and then feathers and more feathers to pin down the blocks. I opted for continuous curves in the twin needle setting triangles and some swirls and curls around the feathered hearts. It was a really happy day when this quilt came off the frame, Carol was thrilled to see the quilt finished and couldn't believe how beautiful it looked as she never thought that it would ever be a finished quilt, she named it 'Latte'! Oh, and I think Carol has that embroidery machine stuff down patt now don't you?

I find that since I took the challenge to post a picture for a year on my other blog 'Lucy's 365 days II' I don't post on this blog very often..... I finished the top and backing of a new quilt for my daughter. Top Backing Sewing mat can't you tell I love these colors? I even crocheted a pair of potholders same colors :-) It is a very old pattern, easy, fast with a great result. Potholders Have a nice day, Lucy

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Last week one of my customers came over to Borderland Fabrics in Jedburgh to pick up her quilt. Carol and her Husband travel all the way from Glasgow to bring quilts for me to quilt and then to pick up quilts again. This quilt was an educational exercise, as Carol was teaching herself to use her embroidery machine on Sateen fabric...nice and slippery it was too! The caffe latte coloured sateen bordered the cream sateen blocks with the fabrics right side up and reversed and with alternate cream cotton blocks. Twin needle work surrounded the large embroidered central motif. Loading the quilt onto the longarm was a little tricky with the slippery sateen fabric, the slippery side of the cream fabric was against the wadding/batting. I used flowing feather swags with piano keys in the borders, a spineless feather in the sashings and then feathers and more feathers to pin down the blocks. I opted for continuous curves in the twin needle setting triangles and some swirls and curls around the feathered hearts. It was a really happy day when this quilt came off the frame, Carol was thrilled to see the quilt finished and couldn't believe how beautiful it looked as she never thought that it would ever be a finished quilt, she named it 'Latte'! Oh, and I think Carol has that embroidery machine stuff down patt now don't you?

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Last week one of my customers came over to Borderland Fabrics in Jedburgh to pick up her quilt. Carol and her Husband travel all the way from Glasgow to bring quilts for me to quilt and then to pick up quilts again. This quilt was an educational exercise, as Carol was teaching herself to use her embroidery machine on Sateen fabric...nice and slippery it was too! The caffe latte coloured sateen bordered the cream sateen blocks with the fabrics right side up and reversed and with alternate cream cotton blocks. Twin needle work surrounded the large embroidered central motif. Loading the quilt onto the longarm was a little tricky with the slippery sateen fabric, the slippery side of the cream fabric was against the wadding/batting. I used flowing feather swags with piano keys in the borders, a spineless feather in the sashings and then feathers and more feathers to pin down the blocks. I opted for continuous curves in the twin needle setting triangles and some swirls and curls around the feathered hearts. It was a really happy day when this quilt came off the frame, Carol was thrilled to see the quilt finished and couldn't believe how beautiful it looked as she never thought that it would ever be a finished quilt, she named it 'Latte'! Oh, and I think Carol has that embroidery machine stuff down patt now don't you?

Black Medallion Made by Lisa Brothman This is a whole cloth quilt with cording couched to set off each section and the design elements quilted in. Pretty! Gary's Golf Memories Made by Wanda B. Harker and quilted by her as well. I don't know who Gary is, but this quilt is made from his 1996-1999 golf shirts! I thought my husband would enjoy seeing this quilt and since I am making a t-shirt quilt for my son, I was looking for some inspiration myself! Andrew Made by Kathi Carter and quilted by her as well. The quilting on this quilt is absolutely amazing, which is why it won "Best Machine Quilting"! It is machine appliquéd and she said it's a variation of two patterns from "More William Morrie" by Michele Hill of Australia. In her artist statement, Kathi said that the hardest part of this quilt was to find a continuous path to quilt the background. Take a look at the detail photos below - the quilting is incredible. I am going to keep practicing! All of those little triangles in the background are quilted!! Circle of a Beautiful Life Made by Carole Lifferth and quilted by her as well. Whole cloth with trapunto, and she said she added crystals (her first time doing so on a quilt). This quilt won "Best Whole Cloth Quilt" and very deserving of it! Asilomar Circles Made and quilted by Ruth Ewers. She began this quilt at an Empty Spools seminar in Asilomar, CA. The class was taught by Raynola Pakusich. She said Raynola stressed letting the fabulous fabrics speak by keeping the pattern simple. Good advice! In The Meadow You Can Build A Snowman Made by Pamela G. Pierce and quilted by Holly Williams-Sosa. Pamela did a lot of handwork in this quilt - buttonhole stitches, whip stitches, needle turn, back stitches, french knots and more! Very whimsical. My Pink Flower Baskets Made by Linda Williams and quilted by Kim Peterson. She made this quilt for her granddaughter's antique iron bed. It won Judge's Choice, picked by Cody Mazuran. Natures's Daintiness Made by Jane Mathis and quilted by Sue McCarty. She started this quilt in a class taught by Jeanna Kimball on needle turn appliqué. I learned my favorite method of hand appliqué from Jeanna - back basting!! Jane said it took her three years to complete this quilt. Shoe Boutique Made by Louise Lemon and quilted by Miriam Higgensen. This quilt was made as part of a block exchange in her guild "The Quiltaholoics". She asked for high class shoes with bling on the blocks made by her friends :) Sophie Grace's Garden Tour Made by Penney Huang and quilted by Charlotte Freeman. This quilt was also started at an Empty Spools seminar in Asilomar, but in a class taught by Laura Swartz Smith. The quilt is hand painted, hand embroidered, machine and hand pieced, hand appliquéd, and hand beaded! Emily Made by Kathi Carter and quilted by her as well. She also made "Andrew" above. Andrew is named after her grandson and Emily is named after her granddaughter. She said this is a variation of Conway (I'm not from Baltimore) Album. She added daffodils and it is machine quilted and machine appliquéd with hand ruched flowers. I need to take a machine quilting class from Kathi! This quilt won "Best of Show". I will have more detail photos of this quilt tomorrow as it is absolutely stunning. Have a GREAT day!!

The Handkerchief Quilt Written by: Carol Crane Illustrated by: Gary Palmer Published by: Sleeping Bear Press 2010 Ages: 6 and up Theme: community, coming together, raising funds, helping those in n…

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Last week one of my customers came over to Borderland Fabrics in Jedburgh to pick up her quilt. Carol and her Husband travel all the way from Glasgow to bring quilts for me to quilt and then to pick up quilts again. This quilt was an educational exercise, as Carol was teaching herself to use her embroidery machine on Sateen fabric...nice and slippery it was too! The caffe latte coloured sateen bordered the cream sateen blocks with the fabrics right side up and reversed and with alternate cream cotton blocks. Twin needle work surrounded the large embroidered central motif. Loading the quilt onto the longarm was a little tricky with the slippery sateen fabric, the slippery side of the cream fabric was against the wadding/batting. I used flowing feather swags with piano keys in the borders, a spineless feather in the sashings and then feathers and more feathers to pin down the blocks. I opted for continuous curves in the twin needle setting triangles and some swirls and curls around the feathered hearts. It was a really happy day when this quilt came off the frame, Carol was thrilled to see the quilt finished and couldn't believe how beautiful it looked as she never thought that it would ever be a finished quilt, she named it 'Latte'! Oh, and I think Carol has that embroidery machine stuff down patt now don't you?

We've designated both July and August as Modern Quilt Month 2015. We've enjoyed seeing the modern quilts at various shows, and summer seems like the perfect time to feature these fun quilts. Here is p

Here are front on shots of most of the larger quilts that we had hanging. They are numbered for a reason. Don't forget to click on ...

Nanette Chopin Cook's version of Carol Hopkins's Enduring Love See Nanette's blog here: https://doitrightquilter.com/ This month's Past Perfect quilt designer is Carol Hopkins. Enduring Love from Carol's pattern line Civil War Legacies.- Carol Hopkins Quilt Market fun includes a look in Carol Hopkins's booth to see what she is up to. She consistently produces authentic patterns for reproduction-style quilts using 18th- & 19th reproduction prints. Carol Hopkins Designs has a Civil War Legacies pattern line of mid-19th century designs and a Vintage Legacies line of other dates. Faded Roses She shares her love of "old-looking fabrics" and "soft, faded colors" with these stand-alone patterns and quilt books from her home in West Lafayette, Indiana. She's been quilting since 1980 before the mills were doing much in the way of reproduction coloring. "I relished the challenge of finding fabrics that looked old. I remember the day that I bought 6 yards of a cream colored fabric with a tiny black motif because it looked like a shirting fabric, something that just didn’t exist in the marketplace. And when I found a pink fabric that looked like some of the cinnamon pinks I’d seen in old quilts, I wanted the entire bolt so that I could reproduce those wonderful turn-of-the-century scrap quilts." Carly's Star Southern Belle Give & Take Most of the quilts she makes herself are small, but the designs are easily adaptable to larger formats. Mama Sara Baskets for Betsy Bonnet Ties Her sixth book was published recently by Martingale Press. Vintage Legacies focuses more on larger quilts See a preview with lots more pictures here: https://www.shopmartingale.com/vintage-legacies.html http://www.carolhopkinsdesigns.com/patterns.htm Patriotic Logs We've got two months till Quilt Market. I wonder what she's plotting. Here's her webpage: http://www.carolhopkinsdesigns.com/patterns.htm

Finally we get to the Stitch Modern 2015 exhibition, the 4th annual show of the East Bay Modern Quilters. A non-juried exhibition, members of the group all submit a quilt if they like and we end up…

Woman quilting in Woodville, California, 1942 Photo by Russell Lee for the W.P.A. Farm Security Administration. During the Great Depression and into World War II the federal government hired photographers to record rural life in hard times. Family in Gees Bend From California migrant camps to chronically poor Southern rural communities in Alabama, the photographers---most of them men---did a good job of recording women's activities. Few names were recorded and little context given. The seamstress is identified as Mrs. L. Smith, Carroll County, Georgia. Mother of a tenant farmer piecing a log cabin block, Maricopa County, Arizona Dorothea Lange was one woman who worked for the project. Her photo of a "Migrant Mother" in California is an American icon, capturing the pain and uncertainty of life as a displaced person. Lange also photographed this woman and a man (perhaps her son or grandson) quilting on a Chimney Sweep quilt in migrant housing in Kern County, California. Another iconic image is Russell Lee's photo of a homeless woman quilting in a smoke house in Hinesville, Georgia. When I first saw these photos I was impressed by the role of quilting in people's lives and how women manage to keep this great folk art alive despite hardships. But I've since learned a few things. One is that the Corn & Beans quilt that the woman above is quilting in a fan pattern is cheater cloth, pre-printed yardage in a patchwork design. Family quilting in Mississippi by Russell Lee in 1939 This fan design looks like pre-printed cloth too. The other insight is that many of these women are part of the commercial aspect of quiltmaking. I bet many of them were sewing and quilting to earn money. This turns a lot of my own long-held basic assumptions about quiltmaking around. Folk art; schmoke art. Keeping up one's spirits during financial disasters? I don't think so. Raising money to feed the kids is more likely. Grant County, Illinois, 1940 When you are as poor as these women seem to be spending one's time making pretty things for the house seems like a luxury. Marion Post Wolcott, Missouri migrants airing their bedding in a Florida campsite. Coffee County, Alabama By Marion Post Wolcott, a second female photographer. Spring cleaning or advertising quilts for sale? Carding surplus cotton for batting in Kern County, California. Some of the quiltmakers do seem to be making quilts for their own bedding. Green County, Georgia, 1940. Jack Delano photo. Green County, Georgia Particularly these tied whole cloth pieces. Whole cloth quilt in Coffey County, Alabama Mrs. L.L. LeCompt, Coffee County, Georgia, 1939 Marion Post Wolcott, photo. But I'd certainly like to know more about the economics in these quilting communities. These women are not sewing as a hobby. Read more about my new take on my old assumptions regarding folk art versus commercial art in my blog Woman's Work: Making a Living Making Quilts. https://womensworkquilts.blogspot.com/ Most of the photos above are from the Library of Congress's webpage on Farm Security Photographs. Here's a search for quilt: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=quilt&sp=3&co=fsa

Enoch Wood Perry: The Two Sewers (A Quilting Party), 1875 The social aspects of cooperative quilting around a frame have captured...

Can we ever get enough Red and Green?? I know a lot, if not most of you, are like me, and the answer is NO. I'm constantly trolling eBay an...

Good morning! It IS still morning right? This morning I wanted to share a new book I found while out shop hopping with my friends recently. It is Civil War Legacies by Carol Hopkins. Inside are instructions for making fifteen small quilts ranging from 20" x 22" to 36 3/4" x 43 1/2". Here are just a couple examples of the quilts in the book. Alexander's Bean Pot Mary Smith's Dishrag Grandpap's Cards And my personal favorite (and the first one I'm going to make)...Michael's Victory.

Je n’ai pas trouvé d’information sur Caroll Walker, pas de site, de blog ou de Facebook, juste un album sur Flickr. Mais quel album! Son travail est absolument féérique, des broderies de plumes, de perles et de fils d’une délicatesse rare. Qu’en pensez-vous? Tweet

Finally we get to the Stitch Modern 2015 exhibition, the 4th annual show of the East Bay Modern Quilters. A non-juried exhibition, members of the group all submit a quilt if they like and we end up…

Je n’ai pas trouvé d’information sur Caroll Walker, pas de site, de blog ou de Facebook, juste un album sur Flickr. Mais quel album! Son travail est absolument féérique, des broderies de plumes, de perles et de fils d’une délicatesse rare. Qu’en pensez-vous? Tweet

It’s better to die while standing, then live on your knees. Es mejor morir que vivir de rodillas. Mai bine mori in picioare,decat sa traiesti in genunchi. http://arrazando.piczo.com/?g=1&cr=6

Carol Laflin Ahles explains how to sew a narrow hem, how to guide the fabric, and how to overcome common left-handed feeding problems.

There are two sizes of templates for Joseph`s Coat in shape collections from Inklingo, so you can print, cut and sew these gentle curves.

Details of this quilt are in Japanese sorry 205 x 205cm

Dans le cadre de l’opération « Des Blocs pour la Solidarité », nos designers et collaborateurs se mobilisent aussi et ont tenu à soutenir ce projet solidaire en vous proposant des modèles de blocs à t