finished

I've been working all afternoon and evening on the Thangles quilt. Got it finished, bound, washed and dried. Just put it on the bed. After all my complaining about the quilting, which I am still not that happy with it, the overall look is good. What do you think? You can click on the stitching picture to get a closer look. I've learned a whole lot on this quilt. #1 my quilting machine is maxed out at a 13 inch reach. which means you can't fill a 19 inch block in one pass, #2 better check the length before you decide you are going to reload it to do the borders (barely fit on the machine), and #3 if you are not really good at free hand draw your designs first on the blocks before you try it free hand.

Free style quilting

I dont' know when I will ever get good at this. The pictures show the parts I am pretty pleased with. The holly leaves and berries I put in the solid squares are pretty bad. My machine spread was not enough to do what I wanted so I added ribbon around the holly leaves. I ended up doing ribbon around the other squares also, because I just can't do stitch in the ditch at an angle. The solid squares are so bad, that I dont' want to post them. Thank goodness this quilt will stay in-house. Maybe after I am finished and I wash it, and put it on the bed, I will be more pleased. But now......hummpht!

Pictures

The pictures don't really do this little project justice. It turned out very cute. It is for our department secretary for a Christmas gift/going away combination. She will be going to a new job soon. Hope she doesn't look at my blog before tomorrow. I plan on giving it to her in the morning.

Gift Quilt

Here is a little project I just completed. It was a very inexpensive kit from Fabric Cafe. I used the plummage pantograph on it, but this isn't a good picture to see it. It will be a Christmas gift for a co-worker.

Thangles Christmas Quilt

I finally got the Thangles quilt top finished. This will be a bit of a challenge to quilt, because it will need to be custom quilted. I am still not quite comfortable doing custom quilting, but I am going to give it a try. This one we are keeping, and I hope to have it finished and on our bed by Christmas. Jesse wanted to get in the picture.

New Pantographs

I received two new pantographs today that I had ordered. I am excited to use them. Both are Jodi Beamish designs.

Miscounted

I didn't count my squares right; there are 112 and I finished them tonight! I hope I can get some more of the white pieces made and sewn on this weekend.

windows progress

when I finished the last six here, I will have completed 104 - yippee! only 1700 more to go.....ugh, that sounds terrible.

Present Pillow

I know comforter sets are beautiful, but, I admit that I prefer to see a quilt on a bed. I removed my beautiful comforter for a brightly colored quilt. I added a Christmasy lap quilt and topped the bedding off with a little present pillow I made this morning. Isn't it cute?

Thangles

I've got 11 of the 12 thangles blocks finished. Next weekend I'll get the final block and setting kit and put this one together.

In Memory of Chase Austin Ruffner

The infant son (4 months old) of a young Christian couple in our community suddenly passed away yesterday afternoon.. No known health issues. Evidently he stopped breathing while taking an afternoon nap. Please pray for the parents, grandparents, and 3 year old sister. If you would like to contribute to his memorial fund to help them with the burial costs click on the icon below.

I finished the quilting on this quilt. Love it. The back is pretty neat also. Click on it to enlarge and you can see the quilting design and the signatures.

Leaves and acorns

I am making good progress on quilting using the Autumn Oaks pantograph. It is pretty dense but really fairly easy. As you can see my co-workers signed the back of the quilt with their retirement congrats. I am very happy with the results so far.

Top Finished

Met my goal to get it finished before I go to bed!