Friday night recap

It’s been a full week of custom quilting here.   That means not many quilts, but lots of quilting time spent.  First I finished the compass quilt, but wasn’t able to get great pictures of it.

Full quilt:

(pics are clickable)

And a detail pic of one corner:

I finished the table runner for the guild for Habitat for Humanity.  Here’s the front:

And here’s the quilting showing on the back:

I quilted an applique quilt for another customer, again custom:

Yes, until I find my camera bag with the part for my tripod, my picture taking skills are sorely lacking!  But here’s a detail shot taken while the quilt was still on the machine:

Part of the week was spent piecing and quilting a class sample, which I’ll reveal next week after it’s bound.  And the week ended with my doing a custom background fill quilt.  This will be a sample quilt showcasing different types of background fills:

In tomorrow’s post I’ll show the individual blocks, this post is picture heavy enough for now.

Have a great weekend!

Monday, November 16th

Yes, I’ve run out of titles.  It happens sometimes.
Since my last post I’ve completed the Compass Quilt.  No full pictures yet, but here’s what the center section ended up looking like with the quilting completed:

Today I moved on to the next quilt in the line-up.  A pretty applique quilt.  I love working on this customer’s quilts, her applique is gorgeous!  Oh to be able to do needle-turn applique as well as she does……..
Same procedure as the Compass quilt, load, stabilize, and do one section at a time.  Here’s how much I got done today:

And a detail for sizing perspective with the dime:

Tomorrow I’ll quilt the yellow parts of the flowers, move on to the borders and finish this one up as well.

Compass Quilt (Last day?)

Today’s post will be short, I’m hoping that since the sun has returned and I have natural lighting/shadows, I’ll be able to finish this quilt today.  Sometimes the best laid plans of humans get disrupted by nature.

What I wanted to share today is a tip.  When I have a design to put into a specific area, but all my colors are blending almost too closely to be seen, I don’t want to “over-run” the area I’m quilting.

As you can see by this photo, the feathers on the diagonal have to appear to go behind the other design to frame the center section.

Since everything is blending together colorwise, and since I need a CLEARLY defined area, I use painters tape to mark the borders where I don’t want to quilt into.

I use the blue painters tape as it leaves no residue, I can re-use it, and it’s relatively cheap (much cheaper than the time invested in removing bad quilting).

Now I’m off to take advantage of the light thrown from this big, bright ball of something in the sky (I think we call it the sun, but it’s been so long, I really don’t remember! LOL)

Happy quilting!