It's been two weeks!

I aim to post something weekly, but I've been quilting every day and I'm on the program committees of two guilds and time has just slipped away. Here are photos of two of the quilts I completed in the last few days. It's a layout called "Sidelights". I've done several of these, most with different themes. The hockey themed quilt is one of several I've done. Poppins Quilt Parlour in Penticton assembled the kits and I quilted one for them with a digital pattern featuring hockey skates, sticks, pucks and helmets. Soon after that quilt went back to the store the kits sold out! The hockey themed quilt is quilted allover with the hockey panto. The Fairies required a custom approach partly because of the dark purple flange surrounding the panel. It would have spoiled the effect if I'd quilted all over so I placed fairies in the outer border, butterflies in the inner mauve and the partial blue border and clouds on the panel. In the smaller blocks I placed a pantograph in just those sections that co-ordinated with the "winged" theme. In my next post, I'll add a photo of a quilt I'm working on that's an original of mine and my granddaughter's. We got together and ice dyed some fabric one day and she said "we should make these into a quilt and give it to Mom for her birthday!" Stay tuned-----

As promised!

Here are photos of the king sized quilt I mentioned in the previous post. I used an edge to edge design entitled "Luna". Working on quilts that big (100 by 112 inches) is a bit of a challenge, mostly handling that much fabric. I couldn't get back far enough to get the entire quilt in the first photo (and if I had you'd see how much of it is resting on the floor).
What next?? Hmmmmm

It's been almost a month since I created this blog (that's not quite accurate, my friend Brandy helped me start it, I'd still be trying if I'd had to do it myself) and all the while I've been thinking how out of character it is for me to "toot my own horn". But here goes. For starters when I bought the machine, a 2006 APQS Millenium with Compuquilter, I had to move it from it's home to mine. The fellas disassembled it and loaded the parts on an open flat trailer. After reassembling it at my place I discovered some very dirty spots on the canvas leaders so I thought I could spot clean with a spray cleaner. WRONG!! As I watched the spots I sprayed shrunk and shriveled-lots!! So I pulled the leaders off and threw them in the wash, thinking I'd get them clean and re-attach them. Well, they shrunk a total of 15 inches over the 12 feet of canvas. There was nothing I could do but go and buy some canvas and make new ones! Believe me, I preshrunk that canvas in hot wash and hot dryer before remounting on the machine. Before I remounted them,I installed zippers on the edges so I can zip off one quilt and do another for whatever reason. This has saved my bacon on several occasions. I also made a "mini leader" with a zipper set sewn on and mounted it to the ceiling in my studio so I could hang quilts to photograph them, or to stand back and see the overall effect (and I have to admit, admire my work) I made it so I can zip the quilt either front out or back out. I do lots of quilts with minky backs and I like to get a pic of the back as well as the front. Often it's hard to decide which is more beautiful.

Here is photos of my latest project. This quilt is for my friend's granddaughter. I now have a king sized quilt on and with permission from the owner, I'll post a photo.