I really love this one block scrappy quilt. I think I love the quilting as much as the pattern, though.
This was quilted by Helen-Marie Kulis of Cookeville, TN. Check out & friend her on Facebook!
As with 99% of my quilts, I have laundered this quilt before showing it off.
I didn’t straighten that pic up too well, did I?
Close-up of awesome quilting & Helen Marie’s card
For the backing I used a print from the Nostalgia Collection designed by April Cornell. It’s so pretty!
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A couple *years* ago we did a block swap in my eBay group. As the swap coordinator, I had a jump start on everyone else & got my top done within a week or so of sending the swap blocks off to everyone else.
Then she sat for a while, all folded up & lonely. I figured since the swapping ladies meant so much to me, that I would hand quilt it. And the process began…..
I only quilt in the evenings in front of the tv, so I am not devoting a ton of time to the quilt, even IF I quilt it every day. and that’s a big if, or rather a laughing if. Truth is, I quilt on this sporadically, at best. I’ll quilt on it every day for a week or 2 and then it will sit for a month or 6.
Now that the weather is/should be turning colder, I have picked it back up. You can see 3 quilted rows. There are 2 unquilted rows tucked under. I have a beautiful cable & fan border design already picked out.
Maybe now that I have aired my shame in the “month or 6” I will be more motivated to keep working on this quilt & finish it this winter….maybe…
I don’t play with my embroidery machine nearly enough.
so today I decided to try some applique & and this cute round ornament.
I think I will make more!
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Because chatting about your challenge piece is just as motivating as working on it, we have the Facebook group open & chatting!
And I am ready for it!
Just marked the border of our community project & hope to sting together some stitching time tomorrow.
The marking was a challenge, with the calico blue & white. I opted for pink & gave the new-ish Sewline graphite pencil a whirl. Oh my, like a hot knife through butter! It marks with such ease. Not sure how easy it will be to see here in the pic, but should be good enough to see to quilt.
Our “Tennessee Puzzle” is going to be fabulous!
Last week I had so much to say, I was making 3 or 4 posts a day! This week, nada…
Life just ebbs & flows that way sometimes.
My to-do list is ebbing & flowing too. knock off 2 things & think of 5 more things to add. At least the new ones go to the bottom of the list!
The blog abesenteeism is most due to working on round robins. Since they are a secret to the quilter that started each quilt, I can’t rightly go posting pics here of what I am doing. They’d look, lil buggers.
So maybe we can have something for Sew & Tell by Friday.
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Sarah Vedeler’s GO! Be Dazzled quilt has won the Computer-Aided Machine Embroidery category of the 2010 “A World of Beauty” annual fall Judged Show of the International Quilt Association. This was the first time Sarah has entered a quilt in the IQA show.
Steve Nabity, AccuQuilt CEO said, “Sarah cut out all of the appliqué shapes on the quilt top with the AccuQuilt GO!® Fabric Cutter proving that better cuts truly do make better quilts.” GO! Be Dazzled was created with popular GO! designs cut out from the
which are all also compatible with the new GO! Baby™ Fabric Cutter, to make the beautiful quilt top. Sarah then embellished the motifs with her own artistry by adding computer-aided machine embroidery to complete her work of art.
After winning, Sarah commented “I’m on cloud nine; I can’t verbalize how exciting this experience has been!” Her quilt was one of 375 quilts juried into the “A World of Beauty” Judged Show, with almost $100,000 in prize money awarded to the winners.
Sarah Vedeler and AccuQuilt have partnered together on new designer GO! dies featuring Sarah’s Sparkle Tree collection and Stars collection. In addition, Sarah Vedeler Designs offers digitalized embroidery motifs to accompany the new dies.
A good bit of this story was furnished to me by Accuquilt; I am sure you will see similar posts on other blogs this week. I have edited the content and I have linked up a few extra goodies from Sarah’s facebook page & IQA so you can connect with them too!
Our upcoming class, Terrific Turnover Table Runners utilizes the precut packs of half-square triangles from Moda called Turnovers.
I used one of the quilt patterns in this book by Fig Tree & Co. for the table runner. Have you ever done this? Just use one row of a quilt pattern to make a runner?
The first border could be narrowed a bit if needed to fit your table. I like a big chunky runner on my table.
I used The Caroler turnover, a nice golden marble for the center tiles and binding, moda red crackle for the first border & crossbars, nightscapes from Marcus for the second border, and Spring Hill Scrolls by Kaufman for the final border. On the back is one of the Debbie Mumm prints from Santa’s Big Night.
Not sure how well this will show up, but I used my Christmas GO! die to make templates for the quilting done in the borders. There are snowflakes & holly leaves down the long sides of the runner & on the ends are Christmas trees & holly leaves.
I took a scrap of freezer paper & cut out the shapes. Then with a water soluble marker, I traced around each shape. Once the runner was all marked, I free motion quilted. I used a solid red Presencia to quilt the center and a variegated green King Tut to quilt the borders.
Since the triangles were already cut using the turnovers, I had to use the GO! cutter somehow in this new project!
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I know I was MIA from the blog last week, but I was forcing myself to stay focused!
Sometimes the to-do list gets a little overwhelming & I have to write it down & prioritize. So, my main focus last week was to get the November Class Samples all finished before the onset of November. Good goal, right?
So, here is Crosswinds:
(The afternoon light was not a helper, but you get a little glimpse at the map floor.) This is a king size 109” square quilt top (at this point). The center hand applique block is really optional. I could see this as just another solid square or another pieced block. The pinks & greys are Northcott’s Sophisticate line designed by Ro Gregg & the black is Nightscape by Faye Burgos for Marcus
I hung it upside down to how I would place it on the bed, but pretty either way 
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I didn’t actually meet my goal. I have 2 projects all basted for free motion quilting. So they are ALMOST done. I will hopefully finish up the quilting tomorrow & start the binding. So expect more SEW & Tell this week!
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