tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5476563319144438352024-03-14T02:56:12.481-07:00Threads on the floorEstherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202672966394490805noreply@blogger.comBlogger199125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547656331914443835.post-47718363682518795672015-06-30T08:34:00.000-07:002015-06-30T21:16:51.152-07:00Welcome Journey!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Something that you may not know about me, is that I have been working on becoming a Search and Rescue volunteer with out local SAR group, and also CARDA, which is California Rescue Dog Association. I would like to introduce you to the K9 half of my team, Journey. She is eight weeks old, she is a Wirehaired Pointing Griffon, and I am totally over the moon with her already,</div>
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I brought her home on Sunday, and we are getting to know each other. The song from the King and I keeps going through my head. "Training" has started already in the form of games, routines and experience. I am making play dates for her, arranging meeting of as many people as I can, along with regular puppy training. So far she is doing fabulously. The first night was long, but the second was much improved with both of us getting quite a bit of sleep.</div>
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I will post on her training and progress from time to time so you all can join me on my journey with Journey.</div>
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Estherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202672966394490805noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547656331914443835.post-21182927380172157232015-06-08T07:32:00.001-07:002015-06-08T07:32:27.065-07:00Andrea's first quilt<div style="text-align: center;">
This was the first quilt I quilted for Andrea, and I think she told me it was her first quilt she made. This quilt was here in my studio a long time ago, and I'm not sure why I never blogged about it before. Anyway, Andrea is an amazing piecer, quilter and color coordinator. Here is her quilt, and I don't remember what she named it. I named it Amazing.</div>
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As you can see, I did a different design in each color section.</div>
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Please notice how the pieces were all fussy cut!</div>
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And finally the center star burst. Notice the fussy cutting here too. Amazing.</div>
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My thanks to Andrea for trusting her quilting to me, and for giving me such amazing quilts to work on.</div>
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One of my close friends, Liz made this quilt, and this is what I did with it. A few notes before all the photos. This quilt was deceptively difficult, the square blocks are not square, they are taller than they are wide, which made things a little tricky with the curved lines I wanted to do on them. What I ended up doing is using two different sizes of curved rulers. I used the ones made by The Quilted Pineapple, and I love them. Here are the photos. I apologize that I don't have a good photo of the entire quilt, this was one that came in and went out as fast as possible.</div>
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This is the overall design of the quilt, I chose five different designs and rotated them through the blocks.</div>
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Estherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202672966394490805noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547656331914443835.post-24427484939714377632015-05-02T20:19:00.000-07:002015-05-02T20:19:59.867-07:00Birdie Quilt for Angie<div style="text-align: center;">
My young friend Angie loves all things birds. So, when I saw this cute bird quilt kit a few years ago, I knew I would be making it for her, (or one of her little ones)</div>
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These assorted silly birds were hand appliqued, and the legs were stitched with embroidery floss.</div>
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The fill was large pebbles with swirls sprinkled in. This was fun and relatively fast.</div>
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Minimal quilting on the birds to accent wings.</div>
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Estherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202672966394490805noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547656331914443835.post-29879025625808662052015-03-08T21:00:00.002-07:002015-03-08T21:00:28.620-07:00Two babies, two quilts<div style="text-align: center;">
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I made two of <a href="http://ohfransson.bigcartel.com/product/hazel-hedgehog-pdf-quilt-pattern" target="_blank">Elizabeth Hartman's Hedge Hog quilts</a></div>
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Here they are as decorations for a baby shower, along with cake pops, and other yummies.</div>
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This shower was especially fun because it was for my two girls, Stefanie and Emily who are both expecting their third baby next month.</div>
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We also decorated onsies at the shower. I had prepped assorted fabric with wonder under, and the guests were so clever and creative.</div>
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And for those of you who want to read more, here is the poem I wrote as the invitation to the shower, Enjoy.</div>
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The birth of two babies, one girl and one boy.</div>
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Stefanie and Emily their tummies are growing,</div>
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Pregnant together, their faces are glowing.</div>
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With two children already, now baby makes three</div>
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Blankets and rattles, sleepers and jammies,</div>
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Carseats and teethers, highchairs and lambies.</div>
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These treasures they have from showers before.</div>
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What could they use, do they really need more?</div>
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But how can we help them, to ease the transition,</div>
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From two babies to three, that is our mission.</div>
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Though babies are tiny, they can be most demanding</div>
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Sometimes a new mother can fall asleep standing.</div>
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But, Holly and Ethan, Micah and Zeb</div>
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Joey and Chad all need to be fed.</div>
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So this is our plan, what we want to do</div>
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Prepare food for their families, their freezers let's fill</div>
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With yummy and tasty ready made meals.</div>
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Crockpot dinners are convenient and fun,</div>
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Pour it all in the cooker, and dinner is done.</div>
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Disposable pans are always a winner,</div>
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No dishes to wash after eating their dinner.</div>
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So make just one meal, no need for a pair,</div>
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Please join the fun, please save the date,</div>
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We will all come together on Sunday March 8th.</div>
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Angie's house is the place, three O'clock is the hour</div>
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We will celebrate babies at a Freezer Meal Shower!</div>
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Estherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202672966394490805noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547656331914443835.post-38136880774683805672014-09-28T06:40:00.001-07:002014-09-28T06:40:20.156-07:00Before and After<div style="text-align: center;">
This was a quicker than I thought project that made a huge difference.</div>
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I have this great comfy glider that I love, but the denim type upholstery was really dingy and I thought how fun it would be if I recovered it. I was hesitant for a long time thinking it would be more difficult than it was, but when I finally decided to tackle it, no problems. I took the back, seat, and each arm pad, and used them to trace a pattern. Basically it was like making a tight fitting pillow case.</div>
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My biggest concern was how to tackle the industrial snaps that were on the arm cushions, and on the wooden arms of the glider. Ah ha, I just cut out a button hole, or really a "snap hole", and pushed the original snap through the new cover and snapped them onto the chair frame. Easy.</div>
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Estherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202672966394490805noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547656331914443835.post-10672076046930213482014-09-19T13:08:00.001-07:002014-09-19T13:08:14.404-07:00Theresa's Quilt<div style="text-align: center;">
This is a quilt I finished for Theresa. This is her original design, and if your are headed to PIQF go see her and this quilt at Honey Run Quilters booth.</div>
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In the checker board areas, I did alternating up and down lines which always gives great contrast and texture.</div>
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Some McTavishing in the solid burgundy areas,</div>
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Well, that's it for this beautiful quilt, thanks for your company.</div>
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Carol made this beautiful applique quilt, but she admitted that she got tired of appliqueing. That's where quilting can make a difference. </div>
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Here is the finished quilt, and you can see a few blocks that appear to be blank.</div>
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So, this is how I quilted them,</div>
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These next few photos show how I treated the border. I was so happy with this idea of doing one design on one side of the teardrops, and another design on the other side. And, what made me really happy is as far as I know, I thought of this one myself. Woo Hoo. I am highly influenced by other quilters, and use their ideas all the time, and I'm okay with that, but this one I thought of myself. It may be out there somewhere, but I haven't seen it, so that counts for me.</div>
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I have made a few non quilt things lately, and it was fun sewing and stitching something else. The first is a Bionic Gear Bag, a pattern I bought off of Craftsy. There is another similar type bag available, and apparently (most certainly) there is disagreement between the two designers. Well, ignorance is bliss, and when I purchased my pattern I had no knowledge about this. Either way, I made the Bionic Gear Bag, and I think it is genius. There are pockets, zippers, and it is just fun.</div>
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I have a friend headed to a quilt retreat and I think this will be something she can use.</div>
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I also made a needle case. I'm not sure why I thought I needed this, maybe because my needles are all in a metal box and I dig through every time I need a new one. And the needles that I am using, I never have any memory of what size they are, so hopefully this will help,</div>
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There are several pages and sections to sort your various hand and machine needles, and a two plastic pockets to hold various items.</div>
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I enjoyed making these projects, maybe it was their usefulness, or just making a project that I could start and finish in a reasonable time was rewarding. </div>
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I have spent a lot of time making a lot of these Dear Jane blocks. I think I have made about half of them now. I was so focused and a bit obsessed with these for a few months, and then I really wanted and needed to work on other projects. I do love the challenge each of these blocks brings, but seriously now I just want to get it finished. There is still a lot left before I can see the light at the end of this long Jane tunnel, but I am moving forward. </div>
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This little stripped piece baby quilt was Maureen's very first quilt! Since it was going to a new baby girl, I put some "funky flowers" on it. </div>
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These flowers were so much fun to stitch, all freehand and funky. I tried to make the flowers all different, but some of my favorites were repeated. </div>
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It was a treat just to see this antique Sun Bonnet Sue, and then to get to quilt it, well that was a real privilege.</div>
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Aren't they just adorable? And these blocks are the real deal, truly hand stitched with flour sack fabrics.</div>
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The discoloring you see here is the printing on the flour sacks. You can also see the detail of the hand stitching, and the work put into each block.</div>
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This quilt is so full of history, love and memories. What a treasure. I am so happy I was able to be a part of finishing it. Thank you Lucille.</div>
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Thanks to all of you for joining me, I appreciate your company.</div>
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It is with mixed emotions that I say farewell to one of my most favorite things I've ever owned. I have always called this little Casita, my "Perfect Little Trailer" and it truly lived up to that name. You know how it is when you want something so badly and you wait, and save, and research and all that smart buyer stuff, and you finally get what you really wanted, and it is just as good or sometimes even better than you hoped? Well that is what this little trailer was to me. It was for me, perfect. So why the goodbye now? Simply, I no longer am using it. I used to be very active in dog agility, traveling and competing most weekends a year, and this little trailer was my home away from home. Now, I no longer compete in agility, no longer travel on the weekends, and my little trailer deserved a new home. So, it is my sincere wish that the new owners will be just as happy with it as I was.<br />
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First off, my apologizes to Andrea who has a much better name for this quilt, I saw the label and everything, but am drawing a total blank right now. I always give a "nick name" of sorts to the quilts I am working on, and I named this one Andrea's Giant Starburst.</div>
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Isn't this beautiful? I love the bright colors, and dramatic design. Now get this, Andrea is a relatively new quilter. She designs her own works, her points are perfect, her vertical and horizontal lines are spot on, in a few words, her work is amazing.</div>
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And to top it all off, Andrea made me a loaf of bread! It was wonderful, yummy, and I loved it. Thank you so much Andrea.</div>
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Not the best photo, but the bread was delicious!!</div>
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Again, I thank you all for sticking with me and my lousy blogging. Summer has been good. </div>
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Estherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202672966394490805noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547656331914443835.post-6157125513840499522014-06-25T17:27:00.002-07:002014-06-25T17:27:56.964-07:00Kelsey's Tee Shirt Quilt<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span id="goog_463294601"></span>This is a different twist on a tee shirt quilt. I did most of the assembly and stitching of the entire quilt as well at the quilting on the longarm. I will do my best to explain. And I apologize in advance that I have very few photos. Not sure what happened, because I know I took more, I know I saw that I took more, and yet they are not to be found. Oh well, back to the quilt.<br />
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Here it is in all its sideways splendor. Couldn't fix that either. But, what I want to show you, and I hope you can see is that the gold background is all one piece of fabric. <br />
I cut the logos out of the shirts, and put a narrow border of fabric around each. Then I spread the gold fabric out and arranged the shirt blocks over the surface. I marked corners for each and made note of which block went where. Then I loaded the gold fabric on the longarm and started construction. I stitched each block onto the backing, SID around the border of the blocks, and then used ribbon to cover the raw edge. I used a squiggly line to stitch the ribbon down. <br />
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The school mascot is the Railroaders, so a train theme was totally "on board" haha. A large quilt was requested, but that left a lot of empty space that I filled in with rail road track. This too I did on the longarm. I had the path marked, and lay narrow ribbon down for the outer rails, stitched that down, and then came back and stitched the ties between the rails down, It was fun and relatively easy to use the longarm for the construction process. <br />
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I must say though that the part I enjoyed the most was the filler background. Oh the joy of crossing lines. It was so freeing, fun and I love the way it turned out.<br />
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Thanks for stopping by, I appreciate your company.<br />
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Estherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202672966394490805noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547656331914443835.post-11307492335317398452014-06-19T18:10:00.001-07:002014-06-19T18:10:39.471-07:00Micah's Stars<div style="text-align: center;">
Hello, hello, hello. I finally finished another <a href="http://threadsonthefloor.blogspot.com/2013/02/star-quilt-progress.html" target="_blank">Star</a> quilt, making stars from a Jelly Roll. These stars are fun to make, and this quilt fit into my resolutions this year. I used fabric that I already had, woo hoo, and made a quilt for my grand daughter Micah. Even the back was fabric that I had on hand. </div>
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Having made this quilt before, I knew I wanted to quilt it completely differently, and I did. I also used ideas and techniques that I learned at my classes at HMQS. </div>
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The borders, love this technique, and I was influenced by <a href="http://www.thequiltedpineapple.com/" target="_blank">Linda</a> at thequiltedpineapple. For the piano keys, one thing I do that may be helpful is I do my backtracking on the straight lines. In other words, I use my straight edge ruler, stitch a line into the arc, and the I restitch over that line to the outer edge, travel through the edge of the quilt to my next straight line. I like this method, and find it faster for me rather than having to travel stitch over the design of other quilting. That's just my way.</div>
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Each star was quilted the same way, but the negative space between the stars were all similar, but varied.</div>
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And the cute chicken backing, because Micah does love <a href="http://threadsonthefloor.blogspot.com/2012/03/happy-birthday-micah.html" target="_blank">chickens</a>, and this fabric was just too cute.</div>
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I learned much making this quilt, I did more marking than I usually do, but having a design continue under the sashing was trickier than I thought sometimes. It is good to have this one finished, and I mean finished, Notice that the binding is on and stitched. </div>
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This Fairy Quilt was so fun to work on. Nancy started working on it with her niece, who during the process became ill and passed away. Nancy finished it, and will be taking it to her niece's memorial service. This was also Nancy's first time doing applique, and she definitely mastered it.</div>
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Border treatment. I did minimal stitching in the printed Fairy border. The fairies were too pretty to do much stitching over.</div>
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For the blocks, I kept the quilting fairly simple there too. The piecing and colors made their own statement.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">The large center applique looked amazing with McTavish quilting. </span></div>
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And a shot of the finished quilt.</div>
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I enjoyed working on this quilt because the fabrics were so unique, and the piecing was great. I was honored to play a part in this special quilt. Thank you Nancy.</div>
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Thanks to all of you for joining me, I appreciate your company.</div>
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I'm home, and filled with all things quilty. It was a great trip, and all in all everything went quite smoothly. Did I take photos to share, no, who had time for photos? Not me. I had really good intentions when I arrived at the SLC airport, but then the shuttle came, and the whirlwind of classes, new friends, quilts, and vendors happened, and I don't any photos to share. </div>
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Overall I learned something from every class and every instructor. Some more than others, but that is to be expected with any series of classes. What I found the most consistent among all the teachers, was the complete inconsistency from one to another. One urges you to SID all seams, while another says she never has and never will. One will tell you to mark all lines and motifs, and another will steer you in any direction that reduces any type of marking. So, what I took away from all that is to do what works for you. I am a </div>
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I have a quilt on the rails right now, and I am trying some new ideas influenced by my class with Judi Madsen on secondary designs, I am also really making an effort to plan my quilting path ahead of time to be more efficient and have less traveling, backtracking and starts and stops. So far I am doing better, and starting to see ahead of myself to better plan where to go next. This has always been a struggle of mine, and any improvement is welcome.</div>
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So, to recap the entire trip, it was great. If you ever get a chance to go to a show, take classes and get away, I highly encourage you to do so. Being around so many like minded people who "get" your hobby, passion, obsession, or whatever you call it is refreshing and encouraging. There is always something to learn, and ways to improve, new things to try, and most of all new friends to meet.</div>
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Thanks for all your encouragement in my journey, I appreciate it.</div>
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Estherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07202672966394490805noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-547656331914443835.post-90123300162815957462014-05-03T21:06:00.000-07:002014-05-03T21:06:46.164-07:00HMQS in Salt Lake City<div style="text-align: center;">
Oh my gosh, I am getting so excited. I am going to HMQS this week in Salt Lake City! I am almost beyond excited. I am taking classes from, Pam Clarke, Judi Madsen, Sue Patten, Renae Haddadin, Gina Parris- Perkes, DeLoya Jones, and Linda V. Taylor. Wow, even now I am excited. I am so looking forward to meeting all these quilters, learning from them, being submerged in a quilting environment, and honestly, I am looking forward to getting away. </div>
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I love my life, my family, and all that goes with it, but we have had some ups and some devastating downs lately, and this trip is coming at just the right time for me.</div>
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Tonight I was able to finalize my shuttle reservations from the airport to the hotel and back, so I am feeling confident and ready to travel. I am not planning on renting a car. I can walk to and from the hotel to the show and back, but securing the shuttle from the airport and back was something I wanted to feel confident about before leaving home. Now I am ready, and will be leaving Wednesday. I am so excited.</div>
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This quilt is now on my favorites list. Mary did such a nice job piecing, and pressing (so appreciated by a longarmer) this BOM. This quilt had it all, assorted blocks, big wide border, negative space, and lots of room for creative quilting. I used one layer of Quilter's Dream Wool batting, and Glide thread on the top.</div>
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Ethan turned four and I made him a train cake. We called it the candy express.</div>
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This beautiful batik applique quilt made by Robbie, shows various scenes throughout central Washington. I quilted the blocks in a variety of stitches to accent the applique.</div>
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The top of the quilt started with mountains, which I stitched with a rugged zig zag. I put gently curves in the sky portion. I was thinking of cool mountain air.<br />
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This cute baby quilt started with a panel,</div>
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The family has strong Celtic roots, so a Celtic quilting theme was requested.</div>
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In alternating blocks I stitched this heart knot, and the alphabet blocks each had individual treatment. Where are the pictures of those blocks you ask? Sadly, I don't know. Thought I took some, but can't find them.</div>
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And this is the border, Celtic interlocking hearts. </div>
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I always love Prairie Points on a quilt, and these added that special touch to this baby quilt.</div>
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This quilt was a fun challenge coming up with the Celtic designs, and knowing the family roots, this quilt has some very special meaning stitched into each layer.</div>
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Here are some pictures of the quilting I did on Debi's Bear Paw quilt.</div>
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Here is the quilt before quilting so you can see the layout.</div>
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Large feathers went around the outer border, and the first border had some dot to dot.</div>
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I used some straight lines within the center sections,</div>
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I divided the background space with a check border, and more feathers arching around the corners.</div>
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And in my hast to get this off the rails, and another loaded, I did not get a photo of the entire quilt finished, but I think you can get an idea.</div>
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I am finding my New Year's balance, keeping up with my sewing goals and resolutions. I have not bought fabric for over thirty three days!!!!! And........I have made my bed every day in 2014. Simple as the bed making goal is, it is huge for me. It sets my whole day off in the right direction, and it was a habit that I was very negligent in, so I am quite pleased.</div>
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I am also trying not so much to slow down, but to pace myself at my own pace. As silly as it sounds, this blog is one of my most stressful things on my schedule lately. I know it is all me, there are no blog police, it is all for fun, but nonetheless I put pressure on myself related to my blog. So, if I am sporadic, or infrequent, that's just where I am currently. Thanks for sticking with me, I do appreciate it.</div>
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