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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Making Headway

I'm onto finishing my 3rd quilt now, yay!! The first one is a donation quilt that will be going to the Guardian as Litem office today. My friend, Nancy, made the top, and I quilted and bound it.


The yellow/purple quilt I showed you on the frame last post is now quilted, the binding is made and ready to go to go on. This one is kind of big.



And the 3rd is the loud one I made at a retreat in 2010. It's on the frame and ready to go.

Once I got the frame cleared off, I have really been productive. I have several more smaller things to do, maybe I will keep on this roll for a while.

Later,
WilmaNC

Monday, January 23, 2012

Floating My Quilt and My Boat

I have recently got into a finishing mode, so I cleaned off the quilting frame, cleaned and oiled the machine, and decided to get some quilting done. I always float my quilt top, and usually pin the edges, but I found these things I had purchased a while back and decided I would give them another go. They are working great!!! I got them from a greenhouse supply somewhere online. They are used to hold the plastic to the pole on ready to assemble greenhouses and seemed like they would work for anchoring my quilt top. I'm so glad I found them!! Sometimes it's good to give things a second try. Can you see how they work?



Any Rizzoli and Isles fans out there? I absolutely love that show, so much so that I purchased the t-shirt that they wear on their ball team. Now, this floats my boat!!! LOL. Am I too old to be such a fangirl???




Have a great day.

WilmaNC

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Pincushions

Who doesn't love pincushions?? I didn't start out to, but for some reason I seem to be getting a pincushion collection. And I hope to get more!

I won a give-a-way from Rana's and received a pattern for her Heirloom Tomatoes Pincushion pattern. Go visit her site!! I hope to get to it soon, but that got me to looking at all of the ones I already have.

Then, while reading one of my favorite blogs, Love Laugh Quilt, I saw that she is showcasing pin cushions, so thought I would post pictures of mine. So here goes:







I have received most of these as gifts, except the giant one which I made during a sew-a-long. You can see that the one I use most is the one with the thread catcher. It is by my seat where I watch TV. Must. keep. hands. busy....LOL.

Go check out all of the rest of the pin cushion links at Love Laugh Quilt.

WilmaNC

Sunday, January 15, 2012

My Newest Doll Quilt

As an addendum to my last post, I received my doll quilt in the swap, from Freida in Tennessee. It is beautiful!  Had to add this picture for you to see.




WilmaNC

Monday, January 9, 2012

Little Quilts

I just love making little quilts, or doll quilts. They are so cute and don't take very long, and they give you something on which to practice your flatbed machine quilting. I sometimes join in the Doll Quilt swaps at The Quilting Bee (see sidebar for link), and just finished one for February. The theme was hearts, and this is what I came up with.


It went in the mail to the recipient today. Hope she likes it, and hope she isn't one of those people who are opposed to playing cards, lol. 

I have made several and have received some really nice ones. Here are some pictures.






I didn't make this one, received it in a swap. Pretty embroidery!!





They can be displayed either hung on the wall: (Received these in swaps)



Or if you have one, on a doll bed: (received in swap)



Fun stuff eh?? Most of the little quilts I have made have been made for others, though I did keep a few.

Give them a try.

Later,
WilmaNC