Learning something

Everyday I am learning something how to get pictures from my iPad to my blog well now I know before I can only get from June 2017 this is almost done hand stitched machine pieced pattern by Kathy Schmidt’s

And some garden pleasures

This is a project that I am working on

Work space makes a difference

Hopefully with posting again I can get some incentive I had some time for my quilt studio (that is what I am calling it) this is why I call it my studio last year there was a Facebook post for sale on these 3 items and the machine. I had worked a lot of overtime last year didn’t know why till this plopped into my lap I was so giddy. It is really a quilters dream!

 There is a tall boy with loads of drawers for my tools and such (yes full already!)
Then there is the sewing table this is great as you can see more drawers that are handy to have right beside you they also roll out so that I can have a little cutting table or ironing surface, yes the Bernina came with it! It was well cared for and there is also a bunch of embroiderie stuff. This machine also sews like a dream it hummms. The table also folds out in the back making it much much bigger!

Then below is my dream cutting table! both sides fold out to make it larger for my borders that I sometimes like to cut whole, yes and more drawers.

Everything is on wheels which makes it portable. You would laugh how I got it all in there with 2 vans and organizing it all in with help from a strong neighbour we got it down the owners stairs and then down my stairs the cutting table just squeezed in. so nothing had to be dismantled.

 I had promised to show what the border looked like thousands of pieces and that gray fabric is pins and needles this is all hand Applique and machine pieced. This is on my list for hand quilting there is alot of empty space so quilting will be easy. My fingers are itching to get this one done. This was a pattern out of the book a Simple Life if you are interested in making. I love the fact that there is piecing and applique it is a great mix I will also use that border treatment again on a quilt block.

Wake up call

i got an email do I want to stay alive in blog land well YES! Just didn’t realize where the time went! So much going on and so little time to get all that you want done I know you all understand so I am going to just post some pictures, you know every picture tells a thousand words

 This little thimble quilt I got from a swap so cute I added some hand quilting to it as you can see it is already chi approved

Found a great bag pattern to easily put together 

 Did a workshop for my guild last year on the fundamentals of appilque had them do a bag so it wasn’t so intimidating quite a few will add touches of Applique to their pieced quilts now

 Just showing both sides I used the templates of some of Kim Dhiel motifs for the bag. I carry and use it all the time for my Applique gear

And this one actually became a finished top I have the borders pieced as well will post an updated version later