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Gayle, Love your bird version of the magic garden. Your stitching looks great. the beads on the edge
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I finished my magic garden. This was not my usual colour palette and I am not fond of gnomes so I took creative license...
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Just lovely! I like your flowers too. They fill up the background nicely.
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Beatuiful choices of colors. Fun and whimsical. Nicely done!
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Really fun embroidery choices. It looks great!
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I LOVE the black additions to your piecing. They really attract attention and look great.
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I still have many fans to finish as I’m hand piecing the outside curve. My preference is appliqué and embroidery. For...
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Helen, Thank you so much for your ideas! You have great EQ8 skills! I have 2 Becky Goldsmith books that I have been using...
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Nice work ! Can I ask, did you use stem stitch on the bluebells ? Or have you whip stitched over a back stitch?
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Not a question, but wanted to share the Kona solids I picked out today for the summer version. Excited to start work on...
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I did not use a stabilizer, nor a hoop. Just be cognizant of the tension of your stitches.
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Originally posted by kfstitcherWendy it's so nice of you to make the quilt and I'm sure man, woman and dog will enjoy it. I think I was picturing some sort of heirloom type thing and couldn't imagine letting the dog have it. Maybe I should stop commenting before I risk offending anyone. Hope not.
I made a quilt for my dog which he shared nicely with me when we took an afternoon snooze. Now he is no more - 2 years now on 13th of this month when I had to do what was best for him. I still take an afternoon snooze under that quilt. It is a very comforting quilt for me. My dog was a lot more to me than an heirloom quilt could ever be.
Marianne
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Love the quilt Wendy, and as you say an easy piecing pattern to stitch up.
There are muddy paw-prints on my first finished quilt, which happened almost as soon as it was finished and laid on the floor to view the whole thing :roll: . And now I find that I don't want to wash it since the culprit is no longer around to do any repeat decoration, even though I was cross at the time.
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Finally, here are the 6 "missing" blocks (I'm blaming my kindergarten teacher for only teaching me to count To 20) ops: ops: ops:
Since it's a sampler quilt I decided to make 3 more different blocks. The Mexican Star (top) was rather challenging. It's got to be paper pieced but, I decided to make it using rotary cutting pieces and had to adjust the measurements but, I'm pleased how it turned out . The bottom blocks were made using two different appliqué methods, machine and hand, I like the look of the second one best .
The other thing I was working on this weekend are this little guys as a response to Melanie Testa's blog post, The Breast Pockets Project http://melanietesta.com/tag/breast-pockets/ she has extended the deadline. She will appreciate anything you can send to help her cause.
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Good blocks, like the others I'm looking forward to seeing the top completed, and mine ops: my excuse is I'm improving my quilting skills before I start.
I read through the blog but still don't quite understand what she's going to do with the pockets. Will watch the podcast later.
Mug rugger and lounge lizard
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Thank you Ladies! I'm slow and very detail oriented ( my sister-in-law- calls it an...) so, everything has to match and fit "properly" :shock: :roll:
Rosemary, sorry to say that for the time being I won't be able to post the paper piecing layout My laptop quit working :cry: The mother board "died" and would cost 400-500 US to fix it. Not happening! Will be cheaper to buy a new one. The hard drive is ok but since it's 7 year "old" outdated kind, it's going to take a few days before I can get the cable to plug the HD into the main computer and rescue the data (that's what happens whe one doesn't back it up :x :x :x ).
In the meantime, here'''s a couple of links where you can get Instructions/templates for a 16 1/2".http://www.quiltinaday.com/imgs/face...exicanStar.pdf
12" with paper piecing templates http://www.dreamcastlequilts.com/wp-...directions.pdf
http://www.dreamcastlequilts.com/wp-...-templates.pdf
This is an 8" version using templates, they call it Mexican Cross but is the same thing. http://www.quilterscache.com/M/MexicanCrossBlock.html
As soon as I get my data rescued I can e-mail you the EQ file or post the layout here for the 6".
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I haven't been around much lately but thought I would check in today and report that I have now used up all the 15 fat quarters I had from a range of fabric + 1 Kaffe Fassett I added to the mix. I used some scraps of solids too and I have ended up with exactly 100 6" blocks. None of them are Log Cabin but all use just about any combination you can make from HST, QST, flying geese and squares.
Now I can either put them all together in a QAYG quilt which I would do using Nancy Zieman's strip technique and give to charity or I can split them up and use them to try out some of all the free patterns I have collected over the years for totes, pouches, pot holders, bags and aprons.
Although I am very tempted to use them all in a quilt to donate because it would be fun to see them all in one project, I have nowhere in the house except on our bed to put out all the blocks, 65" x 65" is huge, and a number of the blocks are rather wonky so I think I will make another quilt that is more planned to donate and use this lot as toiles for patterns and I won't loose sleep over the finished items if they don't work out according to plans as they have already served a purpose - teaching me to piece more accurately.
I have learned so much from this adventure and a huge thank you again not just to Laura Nownes but especially to all who participated in the class and posted here in discussion, to those who held my hand when I tore my hair out and so freely shared tips and tricks. I feel I have improved a lot and my seams line up more often than not and I hardly ever loose points (of the patchwork kind at least :P )
When I get some blocks incorporated in some projects I will share pictures in the blog area when I get back into sewing in April.
Thanks again everybody - have a lovely sewing week-end
Marianne
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Carole, Your kona solids will make a beautiful quilt. Not sure if I am going to join in on this project
or not. If... -
Gayle, Love your bird version of the magic garden. Your stitching looks great. the beads on the edge
with the blanket... -
I'm not sure if I will add anymore embroidery....
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I finished my magic garden. This was not my usual colour palette and I am not fond of gnomes so I took creative license...
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Just lovely! I like your flowers too. They fill up the background nicely.
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Beatuiful choices of colors. Fun and whimsical. Nicely done!
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Really fun embroidery choices. It looks great!
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I LOVE the black additions to your piecing. They really attract attention and look great.
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I still have many fans to finish as I’m hand piecing the outside curve. My preference is appliqué and embroidery. For...
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Helen, Thank you so much for your ideas! You have great EQ8 skills! I have 2 Becky Goldsmith books that I have been using...
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Nice work ! Can I ask, did you use stem stitch on the bluebells ? Or have you whip stitched over a back stitch?
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Not a question, but wanted to share the Kona solids I picked out today for the summer version. Excited to start work on...
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