I have another Quilt of Valor in the frame today. This was made by a member of the Stitching Sisters QOV group.
I am using a panto from Urban Elementz called Lightening. Not sure I am in love with it. You really can’t tell if you will love a panto or not until you use it.
I finished this one yesterday, also by a SS member.
And here is a shot of the back. It is actually a solid black.
I never seem to get as much done as I would like on my Mondays off from the day job. I did finish quilting and the machine sewing of the binding on the city sampler. And hubby has clean clothes.
I should get the hand sewing done this week. I also got a QOV loaded on the frame.
This scrappy stars top was made by Joan. She is a master at using scraps. She takes bits that I would pass up and turns them into something stunning!
I want to have eyes that see like Joan does. Not just for fabric, but for people. To see potential where others just see problems. After all, this is how my Heavenly Father sees me. I have a job that allows me to meet people from all different walks of life every day. I confess that too often, I see problems rather than potential. My prayer this week is that God will help me to see people like Joan sees scraps.
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Good morning! This is what is on my design wall today.
It should have been a completed top by now, but I worked on my city sampler this weekend instead.
I am nearing the end of the quilting! Hope to share this with you on Friday as a finish.
I have a few appointments to attend to today, but I am hoping to finish the hourglass blocks, the city sampler quilting and binding, and get another Quilt of Valor loaded. There is also that looming laundry pile…..
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Good Morning! I hope it is as lovely where you are as it is here! Spring seems to have finally arrived! I mentioned earlier that I went down to Ikea with Daughter #1 last Monday. I didn’t come home empty handed :). I purchased a drawer organizer to use with some of my thread. This is all the miscellaneous thread that I have collected. As I cleaned this drawer out, I did throw out some questionable stuff that had crept in over the years.
These thread racks hold my embroidery machine thread as well as cotton thread for piecing and domestic machine quilting.
The storage in this cabinet is still a work in progress. I recently cleaned out one side cupboard to house my long arm quilting thread.
The bottom of the cabinet holds my cones of thread.
The top holds bobbins, mostly Magna Glide pre-wound bobbins from Fil-Tec.
I am hoping to place another thread order soon so I may have to rearrange again!
Happy Saturday!
My finish for the week was the quilting on this QOV. The top was made by Sue from the Stitching Sisters a QOV group.
Here is the back.
The quilting doesn’t show at all! I used Glide thread and Pellon Legacy 80/20 batting. Sue used the pattern that I shared in this post. Here is my version.
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I bought this old 1930’s quilt at a sale a couple summers ago. I just love it!
Here are some detail shots.
Don’t you love that edging?
Just a bit of eye candy to start your day.
This is the day which the LORD has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalms 118:24 NASB)
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Are you tired of my city sampler yet? I am making progress! I decided to skip the sashing. I don’t want this to get too big. I sewed the rows together and then flipped them on the design wall. This is how it will look with the white space at the top.
And at the bottom.
And this is what I plan to use for the backing.
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You don’t have to hang around here very long to know that I am a big supporter of the Quilts of Valor Foundation. I firmly believe that we are to give honor to whom honor is due and those that serve in our nation’s military are most deserving. I believe that showing honor can touch someone’s spirit in a way that nothing else can. It shows appreciation and acknowledgement of service, but it also celebrates their value and worth as a person. I believe it can soften the hardest of hearts and create an opening for healing.
This Saturday, I was able to attend a sewing day with the Stitching Sisters QOV group that I joined a few months back. I have been long arming for them since December but this as the first time I was able to meet them all face to face and sew together. I had so much fun! Kindred spirits they are! I was given these awesome pins! Thanks, Terri!
It probably comes as no surprise that I got very little actual sewing done. I was too busy talking! But this is the project I brought to work on.
I finally decided how to use this panel! Here is my design in EQ7.
On Saturday, I added the first blue border and made a pitiful handful of blocks.
The piecing shouldn’t take long. This quilt will be all about the quilting. But I have a QOV in the frame to finish first.
This is the panto I am using on it.
If you would like to learn more about Quilts of Valor and how you can help honor the men and women of our nation’s military visit the QOVF site.
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Happy Monday! I am heading down to Ikea today with Daughter #1 and Little Man. I am pretty sure I will find trouble to get into! But this is what is on my design wall at the moment.
Yep, city sampler blocks. And after playing around with this, I have decided I really like the way this is shaping up as a layout. I played around a bit in EQ7 to decide if I wanted to make any more blocks or not.
I think I prefer the white space at the top. This will give me lots of room to play with the quilting.
I kind of like the sashing and corner stones but need to think about it for a few days.
I also started a new project this weekend but I will share that with you tomorrow. Linking up with Patchwork a Times for DWMonday.
I love my little finish today! This was the April Challenge for the Small Quilt Talk Yahoo group that I am part of (SQT).
The HSTs and 4 patches finish at 2 inches. I marked the quilting lines with this point turner.
I started by quilting the diagonal lines but I shouldn’t have. Even though I was using my walking foot, starting with the diagonals began to pull it out of square.
So I went back and did all the vertical lines before I finished the diagonals. I didn’t mark the vertical lines, just eyeballed it. As Angela Walters says, close enough is good enough! And here is the finished quilt.
See that border fabric? On its own, it is not the most exciting print in the world. But it really makes the scraps sing. It is what I think of as a “nothing” print because it isn’t really identifiable, you just know it isn’t a solid. These prints are some of the most useful you can buy.
They are the “servants” of the fabric world. You know how there are people with the heart to serve others. They tend to fade into the background. Their job is often to make others look good. But nothing would look good or happen without them. That is what a nothing print does. If you see them, buy them!
And here is the back.
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