Quilting for Enjoyment

7/27/12

July~~ Free Motion Quilt Challenge & Sewing Projects

Free Motion Quilt Challenge

This one was hard for me. I wasn't able to get my lines straight and my curly weren't so great either. More practice needed.

Baby quilt.

Front

Back

Another practice piece.

Here are some post cards I made this month.

Lottery block for TBLOVERS2

Pillowcase dress this is the first on I have ever made.

Apron for a swap.

And a UFO finish...

Hand quilting in the white areas.

front

back

6/27/12

June 2012 FMQ Challenge

Wow! this has been so much fun!

I want to say first of all ***THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!!!!*** SewCalGal for this challenge, Cindy Needham for the wonderful tutorial, each one of the previous teachers and fellow challengees all of you have encouraged and help me improve my quilting and caused me to stretch beyond my limited ability to machine quilt.

Click here to find out more about SewCalGal Free Motion Quilt Challenge

And here for June's challenge by Cindy

I began my challenge by doing the doodles 3 of them.

Next I began doodling on fabric. First I stitched my curvy line to break the piece up into sections.

Then I stiched in one section at a time. Or as Cindy says "Divide and Conquer"

Finished front of my 1st fabric doodle

Finished back of my 1st fabric doodle

I was able to complete my finial piece for the challenge today And I am very happy with it.

Front I did the quilting on this side.

And this is the back side. The back is my favorite.

Again Thank you Cindy for your tutorial this month.

Humble yourselves therefore

under the mighty hand of God,

that he may exalt you in due time:

Casting all your care upon him;

for he careth for you.

I Peter 5:6,7

6/25/12

Art Quilt

I have finished my second Stupendous Stitching quilt. I love hand and machine embroidery and Carol Ann Waugh Technique is fun and relaxing. If you are interested in learning her technique` check out her class on Craftsy click here

Couching added

Machine stitching added

Hand embroidery

My husband said the arrows remind him of turkey tracks,

the triangles of cobble stones,

the variegated random small lines of school of fish

and the orange chain stitch of a winding stream.

What do you think?

Trimmed and finishing edge

Thank you for stopping by and looking.

Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust,and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

Isaiah 12: 2,3

6/22/12

Quilty stuff

After watching "The Quilt Show" Episode 1011 – Stupendous Stitching (Carol Ann Waugh)
I made this small piece.

I am looking forward to making some more quilted art pieces using Carol Ann's technique, I love machine and hand embroidery stitching and combining them together is lots of fun.

My next piece is a quilt postcard using Ricky Tims' Primitive Rail Fence block that he taught on "The Quilt Show" # 1013

Next is another post card.

The FMQ techniques learned from SewCalGal quilt Challenge

feathering - Diane Gaudynski

pearling and grid work - Cindy Needham

look closely there is a pearl necklace quilted in the design.

Last is my June lottery block for TBLOVERS2

Pattern is found at

Quilter's Cache called City Streets

6/21/12

Village Green

Woo Hoo! My 1st 2012 resoulutions quilt is finished.

Thimbleberries Village Green.

I free motion quilted it on my Baby Lock pro quilter.

Thanks to SewCalGal FMQ challenge for the encouragement and teachers and tutorials.

5/30/12

May Free Motion Quilt Challenge

The teacher this month was Leah Day. I have been learning her machine quilting this year and love her variety and talent. Leah' s designs

So here are my challenge pieces. Again I need more practice. Mostly my meandering is not smooth enough. I like the rail tracks the best though.

Thank you SewCalGal and Leah Day!

5/7/12

Giveaway Winner

Congratulations to Sallie the 11th commenter. You are the winner of Thimbleberries HST pouch.

Thank you to all that visited and especially to those that commented on my blog during my birthday giveaway. Thank you for the birthday wishes.

Next I would like to show how I get all my extra half square triangles (HST).

I get these (extras) while making fly geese blocks, houses, trees or other blocks that use square pieces to make triangle corners. I'll show a house block that gives me 2 extra HST.