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Sunday Stash Report, 2-1-09

Wild Rose Quilter5 Comments

I used 1/4 yard up making labels this week, and 1/4 yard making guild name tags for myself and my friend.  So my official “out” for this week is only 1/2 yard.  However, I am plugging away on stash quilts I have going, and soon should have some big numbers to post.

YTD totals:

  • Incoming Yardage to date: 0 yds.
  • Outgoing Yardage to date:  17.75 yds.
  • Total Stash Busted to date: 17.75 yds.

I have border and backing fabric for the 2nd of my 9P & stripe tops, in the dryer as I type.  I pulled this  yummy Robyn Pandolph flannel from my stash, for the backing. My current plan is that this will be the next quilt of my own to land on the longarm.

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I’ve been sewing on my Boston Commons top, during my lunch hours, and have all the end triangles sewn to the 72 strips.  I have started sewing them into the big rows.  I am surprised at how quickly this is actually going together. Please ignore that I haven’t pressed the seams yet.  That is why it looks wonky.  It isn’t really.
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I also got the memorial t-shirt quilt quilted.  Here is a snippet of the freehand quilting on the back.  I will post a pic of the whole quilt after I get it completely finished.
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I have to say that t-shirt quilting is not my most favorite.  I feel like my machine is moving through sludge when I hit the shirt areas, and I had some thread breaking issues. That said, the quilt came out nice, and I know the family will love it.
My friend Betty and I needed name tags to wear to our guild meetings.  I loaded a small “quilt sandwich” on my longarm, quilted it up, and then used my embroidery machine to finish our tags.  They came out cute.  I finished mine out by just stitching a satin stitch edge around, in the lighter green thread, after I took this pic.
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Such a small project, but it still took me almost three hours to do these.  I enjoyed it, though.  And while I had my embroidery machine out, I made labels for two quilts that I made for my Mom, but gave them to her before I had the labels on.  She reminded me recently that I still hadn’t brought the labels to stitch on.  So next time we go to visit, I have some labeling to do!  🙂  One of her labels took 99 minutes to stitch out.  The other was almost an hour.  Embroidery is fun, but it’s not fast.  I love that I can work on other things at the same time, though.  Good job to my hubby for getting me the stand alone machine, rather than the embroidery upgrade for my Aurora.
Tomorrow starts another week at the day job.  I hope y’all have a great week!
freehand quilting · longarm quilting · machine quilting

Isn’t it Friday yet?

Wild Rose Quilter28 Comments

It’s only Wednesday, and for some reason, I woke up more tired than when I went to bed.  I feel absolutely exhausted this morning.  I just want to crawl back in bed, but I have to go to work.  It’s only 14 degrees outside, too.  Good day to stay in bed, all warm & snuggly.

I finished Joanna’s quilt, and it is in the mail on it’s way back to her.  Thought I’d share a couple of pics right quick.

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A Tisket A Tasket…

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I started a little basket.

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Lord knows I needed another project to work on right now, so he made sure I stumbled across this one from Bunny Hill Designs…lol.  It’s called a Tisket A Tasket, and it’s a free block of the month.

A Tisket A Tasket, Twelve Months of Baskets

http://bunnyhilldesigns.com/dynamic/?page=Free%20Patterns

Applique is really a struggle for me, so mine may not get any further than this, but I’m going to try.  Just one a month.  We’ll see.  That tiny little carrot nose almost did me in.  I am using the Sharon Schamber applique method, which involves a stabilizer under each piece and lots of washable Elmer’s glue.  Right now, glue is the only thing holding mine together.  Also, there’s the issue of the hand embroidery that has to be done.  Not sure how that is going to work out for me.  Succeed or fail, I will keep you posted!  But isn’t it a cute project?

I am still quilting on Joanna’s Five & Dime.  I have one last paisley/peacock filler block to finish with the lighter thread, and then I will finish the flower blocks.  I have the swirlies done.  There are a few blocks that I will use a darker thread in, the pinkish blocks, and the three long strips.  After I finish with the rest of the flowers, I will start quilting some feathered hearts, using a hook type feather in the remaining blocks, that measure 9.5″ square.  It’s been going well and I’m anxious to see it unfold, so to speak.  It’s fun watching the transition from unquilted to quilted.  I never get tired of it.

Enjoy your Saturday! Try to spend some time doing something you love!

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Stash Report, 1-18-09

Wild Rose Quilter6 Comments

This will be another short post.  I’ve been busy, but just don’t have a lot to show for it.  I used 3.25 yards of stash this week in my guild project.  Year to date totals:

  • Incoming Yardage to date: 0 yds.
  • Outgoing Yardage to date:  12.25 yds.
  • Total Stash Busted to date: 12.25 yds.

I’m still going in the right direction.  Yay! 

I was coming down with a head cold earlier this week.  Friday and Saturday, I was not feeling so great.  I did get a customer top loaded yesterday, and today, I got all the SID done.  Joanna, these are scrumptious fabrics you chose.  I love them!  I’m going to enjoy looking at them while I quilt this. (Oh, don’t pay any attention to that snippett of football fabric you can see pinned to the leader…it’s not part of the quilt.  It’s just there so I have enough extra backing to work with it on my machine.  Thank you for adding that to make my job easier, Joanna!)

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I said something about ordering some more thread yesterday, and my husband told me that he was planning on buying me thread for our anniversary, which is coming up March 1st.  Yippee!  A gift I will love and love using!  A longarm quilter, or any machine quilter for that matter, can’t have too much thread, now can they?!  I’m sure looking forward to that shopping spree.

Have a great week!

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Dropping In For Another Quick Post

Wild Rose Quilter13 Comments

Wow, January is just busy, busy so far.  This week I had quilt guild Tuesday night.  I’ve also been working on end of year tax stuff.  Fun, fun, fun.  I typed all our W-2’s, only to discover I was checking a box I didn’t need to check, and now I am about to go retype them.  I need to balance the company check book, and do the sales tax filing for December.  Of course, we have to get everything together for our accountant. 

My son has not had anymore hives breakout since Sunday.  Yay!  But now, I swear, I am coming down with something again.  Sheesh, how many times can I catch this crap in a three month span.  But the nasal stuffiness and scratchy throat feeling is back.  I’m crossing my fingers it’s the crazy weather, and I’m not really getting sick again.  Yesterday we were in the 50’s, today at 1:00 we had only reached 20.  It’s FREEZING cold out.  But, I think it’s supposed to be a short cold blast, and back to 50’s. 

I finished the quilting on this one.  Not the greatest pics.  I couldn’t get really good light today. 

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It’s a cute, fun quilt, and I thought it needed fun, cute quilting.  I sure hope you like it, Betty! 🙂  Thanks for letting me quilt for you!

Now, I’m off to redo W-2’s.  😦

freehand quilting · longarm quilting · stash busting

Stash Report, January 11, 2009

Wild Rose Quilter18 Comments

My stash report is very boring this week.  Nothing new in, nothing new out.  As I stated in my previous post, it was a stressful week last week, between my son having hives, and getting caught up in some stupid drama at work.  And tomorrow starts a new work week.  I hope it’s a better one.  I’m usually pretty good at keeping up walls, but occasionally let those down a bit.  The events of last week have me feeling it’s time to reinforce walls again.  I’m feeling in “retreat & retract mode”.

In the meantime, I’ll give you a sneak peek of how I spent 5.5 hours of my Saturday.  This cutie also belongs to my friend Betty, the owner of the previously posted Pumpkin table runner.

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A Quickie Post with Cute Pumpkins

Wild Rose Quilter15 Comments

What a week it has been.  Getting back in the groove at work, and dealing with a 17 year old who came down with a severe outbreak of hives.  I’m talking head to toe hives.  This started Monday evening.  Tuesday I tried to get him into the doctor, but they were booked.  Ended up in the ER with him Tuesday night, only to find out I was already doing pretty much everything that could be done.  They did give him some stronger antihistamine and a shot of steroid.  Today has been the best one since, they were pretty much nonexistant til about 6:00 and a few popped back up.  It’s a weird thing.  I mean he was completely covered in them.  I tried to get him to let me take a pic of his back for my blog, but that got an emphatic “no!” LOL.  We have no idea at all what caused them.  Very frustrating and unsettling.  Many thanks to Jan for giving me advice and moral support!

Between that and a stressful week at work, especially yesterday, I haven’t taken a single stitch til today.  I got off work at noon, and got to work on this adorable pumpkin table runner for my friend, Betty.  I bought the same kit, only mine is still in the bag.  At least I will know how to quilt it when I get it put together. 🙂

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TGIF!!

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Stencil Stitchout Tutorial

Wild Rose Quilter16 Comments

I had a request to share the stitching path I used on the Anita Shackelford feather stencil , I used in my last customer quilt.  I tried to just draw it out on paper, but that wasn’t making much sense.  My son helped me make a little video tutorial.  After we were finished, he told me he should have been standing on the other side of me…oh well.  I hope you can get the gist of it ok.  Also, I would like to state that this may not even be the BEST way to stitch it out.  It is simply the way I figured out to stitch it that seemed to work best for me.  Maybe next time I actually stitch it out on a quilt, I can get my son or husband to video that.  That would be more fun, wouldn’t it?