Thursday, March 7, 2024

Scrappy Throw No.2...

 

Oh yes! This is Scrappy Throw No.2.  Three and a half inch strips around a square starting piece. This was fun. I am finally getting it quilted on the Elna. Doing the sweeping curves again with AcuFeed.  Works well and seems implanted in muscle memory now as I have used the curves so many times. I am using OMNI thread in a light muted green on top and my preloaded light green Superior Threads So Fine 60 bobbins.  The batting is Warm & White, and the backing is a print of nostalgic Travel Americana that I have had around awhile. 

Friday, February 16, 2024

My Quilting Supervisor...and Quilting...


 She is still here and keeping her eye on me in all I do in the sewing area. Here, she is making sure my batting piecing comes along well with my joining foot. :) 

She didn't supervise my Pfaff when I was quilting the table runner...I suppose she trusts the Pfaff after all these years - the Pfaff will do a great job. :)  I insulate my windows on the sill every year with the leavings after trimming a quilt. In the sewing room. That really cuts the draft plus uses the leftovers wisely. ;) It is the trimming from all three quilt layers. The batting really cuts any drafts. Not going to look good in my House Beautiful layout I suppose though....HAHAHAHHA.....


Table Runner...Asian fabrics


 Asian fabrics table runner....the back is striking and is the dark red print shown above. Used Metrosene and Superior TWIST to quilt. TWIST began to separate when I was about two thirds done, so I switched to the same basic color in Metrosene, but of course Metrosene is not shiny and silky looking, but it worked.  Warm and White batting pieced with some Warm and Natural.  Bobbin was Superior Threads Bottom Line.

The family likes the back better than the front so that is what is upwards this time around. :) The pictures are difficult because of the 60" length of the piece, and the butterfly print just does not photograph well. In person it is very lovely and so is the turquoise with gold high lights.


Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Three More Kitty Quilts...


 Here is the Kiki Quilt for Kiki the cat. I gave a whirl at partial seaming and really it is so much FUN! So the next one is the lovely Phoebe quilt.  

Another partial seamed but with all the Asian prints it gets kind of lost but I notice that the pictures really do not due the quilties justice! SO pretty in person. Love making the scrappy quilts.

And this one! Pure scrappy from my scrap pile for our own kitties - you cannot have too many kitty quilts to put on chairs, etc. for the kitty fur to leak on. Enough quilties to wash and replace. I used oranges here that I knew I just did not like. Had fat quarters. But when the quilt was done it really does look nice in a chair. :)  Fun wrapup to the year!