Picking Out A Quilting Pattern & Thread Color

I've been busy in the long arm room and my video camera has been busy too!  I was asked how I go about picking out patterns to quilt on quilts and how I pick out the thread colors.  I tried a couple of times to write out how I do it and finally gave up and took my video camera in the long arm room with me!  Sometimes it's just easier to show while you describe what you are doing!

I hope you enjoy!

Happy Quilting!
Margaret

One Quilt, Two Quilts, Three Quilts, MORE!!

One Quilt:

Everyone is different when it comes to how they want their quilts quilted, some people like really open quilting, others prefer to have their quilts tightly quilted, some like all Edge to Edge designs and other's like custom quilting.  I can honestly say that this week has been a complete mixture of all of these types of quilting and I've loved it!

ONE QUILT is a quilt that is on the small side (small compared to what I recently completed!), it's a perfectly square 60" quilt and is a shop sample.  I was asked to quilt whatever I wanted, with whatever color thread I wanted! 

Here it is!  I'm really happy with how it turned out.  First things first, the pattern that was used to quilt this quilt is a Christmas Flower by Sweet Dreams Quilt Studio and the thread color is Cedar King Tut Thread.

I love the back of quilts!  If you click on the picture you can see it up close!

Another picture of the front!

This is the border.  The pattern didn't come or have a border available for it so I made my own!  Yes I LOVE my Gammill Statler Stitcher!!!  I can do so much with it!  This is what I did, you can see that right next to the border is the actual pattern that I took the flower from and the connecting 'flower bud' and put them together to create a border.  Neat! 

Here's a snapshot of the complete block, you can really see where I got the border from!

Check back for Two Quilts!

Happy Quilting!

New Quilt! - Urban Beads

I don't know what your sewing room looks like when you are in the middle of making a quilt but mine currently looks a MESS! :)  This is what I'm working on!

On January 18th I'm joining Sue Knapp from O'Susannah's Quilts and Gifts while she Demo's the Quick Curve Ruler at a local quilt guild.  Sue and I both purchased the Quick Curve Ruler from Sew Kind Of Wonderful both thinking it would be a good ruler to test out and we are both glad we did!!  Last week Sue and I worked together getting all the fabric picked out and cut out.  The ruler was really easy to work with, we had all the fabric cut in no time at all!

I've been working at putting the blocks together, at first I thought that I absolutely had to pin the curves before sewing in order for the blocks to come out but after putting together a couple of blocks I figured I'd give a try (per the quilt's instructions) to sew it together without pinning the blocks.  It worked!!  I'm serious!  The curves are so gentle that the block goes together without any issues at all!

I've got all the blocks sewn, my next step is to square them all up, which according to the directions I can also do this with my new ruler, I'll let you know how it goes!  I'm really excited about getting this quilt done!  I can't wait to get it onto the Long Arm, I'm going to use all different colors of thread to quilt it.  The thread colors are Lapis Lazuli, Aswan, Limestone, Red Sea, DeNile, Charriots of Fire, Luxorious, Wisteria Lane & Temple (don't those names sound wonderful? Wait until you see how beautiful they are!!)!!

Tomorrow morning is Tea & Friendship Club at The Scarlet Thread in Webster, I so enjoy going and spending time with fellow quilters!  Hope you are having a fantastic Tuesday!

Happy Quilting!!