New Hand Quilting Hoop July 23, 2010
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Wednesday around noon I placed an order for a 14″ lap frame and Jean Brown’s book 1,2,3…Quilt Finished from Jeans Impressions. It was delivered with my mail this morning around 9:30!
Now to find time to learn to use the frame and the Aunt Becky quilting Tool. Hum..I wonder where it and my deep recessed thimble are?
$10 Quilt Frame? January 21, 2010
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Not really, but we did only spend $10 on a pair of PVC pipe cutters to make my Q-Snap frame easier for me to use.
My husband found some 1 1/4″ PVC pipe in the garage that he no longer was using. We cut 4 pieces 3″ shorter than the Q-Snap short pieces. We also took off the lifts and now I can work on both sides of the frame and more importantly reach the middle. It’s not perfect (note the belts holding the quilt up off the floor), but it beats the heck out of spending big bucks for a frame that I might never use after I finish this quilt.
No Q-Snap parts were harmed during this retro fit.
The Quilting Has Begun January 12, 2010
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After a bit of running around this evening, I finally sat down and started quilting. The top half of the photo is the music quilt. I’m doing simple straight line quilting using the star points as guides. It turns out I have to mark one side of the star, but I can use the guide on my walking foot for the second side of the star. This is a large quilt (roughly 87 x 102) so I’m having to wrestle it a bit. Hopefully there won’t be any running around Tuesday night and I can get more done on the quilt.
The bottom half is the hand quilting I was able to do in 30 minutes. Actually, it is probably only 20 or 25 minutes as I’m watching M*A*S*H on DVDs and using it as my timer. I need to check to see how long each episode is and maybe “watch” two episodes and include my marking in the time.
The Hand Quilting is Complete! November 6, 2009
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On Josh’s Graduation Quilt.
Now I have to finish it. For the border, I’ve decided to quilt lines 2″ apart perpendicular to the edge of the quilt — like a pieced piano key border. Once I get that done, I’ll need to trim all the thread ends from my machine quilting, bind it and put a label on it. Who knows he might get it before the end of the year — only 17 months after he graduated.
Next to the Last Block October 12, 2009
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This is the next to the last block to be hand quilted before I can pull the quilt off the frame. I finished it up Sunday night after a two week hiatus. I pushed myself a couple of weeks ago and aggravated my wrist. Needless to say there was no hand quilting for a while and now I’m limiting my time at the frame. I’ll miss my self-imposed deadline of October 15th, but since my DWR is not going to be finished by then I still have time — my guess is it will take another week — for both.
October 2009 Quilting Goals September 30, 2009
Posted by Pam in KC in hand quilting, Jeremiah's Quilt, Josh's Quilt, KTS, Ladder to the Stars, monthly goals, SBS.comments closed
More of the same this month.
- * Keep up with the SBS BOW
- * Finish the hand quilting on Josh’s Quilt – needs to be off the frame by 10/15
- * Finish piecing the DWR – top needs to be done by 10/15
- * Hand quilt 2 rings on DWR
- * Complete Finishing Instructions for both sizes of Kansas Spirit BOM
- * Machine quilt borders on Josh’s Quilt
- * Make at least 4 make-up SBS blocks
- * Decide on the quilting for Jeremiah’s quilt
- * Work on Ladder to the Star sashings
- * Keep Scraps Cut Up
- * Finish the hand quilting on Josh’s Quilt – needs to be off the frame by 10/15
Review of September 2009 Quilting Goals September 29, 2009
Posted by Pam in KC in block swaps, dwr, hand quilting, Josh's Quilt, KTS, monthly goals, SBS, scraps.comments closed
Another month has gone by, so it’s time to review what I accomplished this month.
- * Complete remaining 2 sets of blocks for the SBS Brown/Blue Swap
- Finished and in the mail by 9/8
- * Keep up with the SBS BOW
- It was close, but all blocks were made and turned in on time.
- * Work on Josh’s Quilt – needs to be off the frame by 10/15
- 3 1/2 blocks hand quilted — 1 1/2 blocks to go!
- * Work on DWR – top needs to be done by 10/15
- 12 rings added to the quilt and 6 more are partially pieced
- * Complete Finishing Instructions for both sizes of Kansas Spirit BOM
- Small quilt needs one more correction. Large quilt about 50% done. (the easy 50%) 🙂
- * Quilt a baby quilt
- Ran out of time.
- * Keep Scraps Cut Up
- Well my scraps were cut up, but my friend’s scraps have filled the basket back up!
I also cut the gold fabric for my Ladder to the Stars quilt and I managed to not start anything new. What more can a girl ask for who has more UFOs and Quilt Tops than she can count on her fingers and toes?
Next month will be more of the same. I’ve got my list ready to go.
One Block Closer September 16, 2009
Posted by Pam in KC in hand quilting, jay leno, Josh's Quilt.comments closed
It’s not like I’m doing any fancy quilting — just stitching 1/4 inch from each seam. But why does it take me so long to get it done?
I suppose not sitting in front of the quilting frame might be part of it. This week I’ve stopped whatever I was doing and plopped myself down in front of the quilting frame at 9 PM Central for an hour. Tonight I kept going until I finished this block.
When I ‘watch’ television, I can’t just sit there and do nothing. I’m reading a book during commercials or flipping though quilting magazines. Hand quilting doesn’t work for me, unless I can just ‘listen’ and look up only when it sounds like I need to see what is going on. Jay Leno’s new show is perfect for this. I can listen to the monologue and interviews and look up during the sketches.
I probably won’t try to quilt with black thread on black fabric again either. There simply isn’t enough light to make that easy. But tonight I ran out of my cheap 1/4 inch masking tape and had to pull out the 1/4 Tiger tape. That worked really well on the black dotted fabric – and my stitches are more even — not that anyone will be able to see that.
Four more blocks to go and then I can pull this quilt off the frame and machine quilt the borders. Surely if I watch Leno for an hour each week night I’ll get this finished by the October 15th.
Review of August 2009 Quilting Goals August 31, 2009
Posted by Pam in KC in birthday blocks, dwr, hand quilting, Josh's Quilt, KTS, monthly goals, SBS, table runner.comments closed
Here it is the end of the month. I must say I’m pleased with what I accomplished. I don’t know if I set more realistic goals than I’ve done in the past or simply stayed focused for the most part. Perhaps it was a bit of both.
- * At least 2 sets of blocks for the SBS Brown/Blue Swap
- The 3rd set was completed 8/9
- * Keep up with the SBS BOW
- 5 blocks turned in for August
- * Finish star blocks to go with birthday swap blocks
- not only finished the blocks, completed the quilt top 8/22
- * Work on Josh’s quilt
- completed hand quilting block #10 and started block # 11
- * Make up mind about applique on table runner
- decided against applique, repaired quilt, made and attached label 8/27
- * Work on DWR – top needs to be done by mid-October
- attached row of 5 rings, repaired previous work and made more rings
- * Make rest of Birthday Swap Blocks
- completed them on 8/12 and addressed envelopes for mailing
- * Keep scraps cut up
- no new scraps added to scrap bucket
- * Quilt a baby quilt to get a finish!
- This is the one thing I did not get done.
In addition to the above, I finished another baby quilt top (blocks already made) and I completed the shop sample for the Kansas Spirit BOM for my LQS.
5 More to Go August 26, 2009
Posted by Pam in KC in hand quilting, Josh's Quilt.comments closed
Apparently I can’t count. Back in July I have a post with this same title. It’s was a reference to the number of pieced blocks I had left to quilt on my nephew’s quilt. Well, I’ve finished the rail fence block — it only took a month – and now I really only have 5 more blocks to go.
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