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Quilting New Year's Resolutions for 2015??? 25 Mar 2015 12:45 #128615

loise98 OFFLINE Posts: 2932 Thank you received: 267	Love "The Doors". Walking Feet are wonderful and so is your quilting. Stay in, stay warm and quilt. Hugs!
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Quilting New Year's Resolutions for 2015??? 25 Mar 2015 11:50 #128613

kfstitcher OFFLINE Posts: 1463 Thank you received: 78	It looks great Geneva!
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Quilting New Year's Resolutions for 2015??? 25 Mar 2015 11:22 #128612

Conipur OFFLINE Posts: 55 Thank you received: 6	The colors on "The Doors" are so vibrant and happy. Great work with the walking foot too.
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Quilting New Year's Resolutions for 2015??? 25 Mar 2015 11:16 #128611

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Thanks everyone for your nice comments on the muggie.
Judy, Rita is correct. I love using my walking foot for quilting. I can do small amounts of FMQ, but prefer using the walking foot. I watched a show here on TQS with Jacquie Gerhing (hope I spelled that right!) and then took a class from her on Craftsy. Basically I just think about where I want the stitching to flow from and to and draw a line with chalk. I only do this if it is a larger quilt. On the muggie I just sewed from top to bottom at an angle. I love using the serpentine stitch on my Bernina. It's so easy and looks nice. I've also started using a wave like stitch also. I used these 2 stitches combined with straight stitching when I quilted the breeze and ocean on the commission quilt. The walking foot has measurements from 1/8" up to 5" inches or so, so I can follow the lines however wide I want it to be. On this muggie I had fun with a straight stitch on the side making squares and rectangles by going off the end of the muggie. I have done so much walking foot quilting that I can quilt most anything, even curves. I've learned to be able to start and stop on a stitch to make corners crisp. Here is a close up of "The Doors" (which will be hanging in the local quilt show this weekend!). All of this quilting was done with a walking foot.

Maybe someday I'll be good at FMQ like Nancy and others, but for now, my walking foot and I are BFFs! I guess it's like my being afraid of taking the training wheels off!

It's rainy and cool here, and I'm recovering from a cold. A good day to stay in and quilt!

Take care,

Geneva

Geneva

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Quilting New Year's Resolutions for 2015??? 25 Mar 2015 10:20 #128609

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Geneva, super cool idea! It's the little things that show we care! I made two T-shirt/sweatshirt quilts for a friend, from her twin's lifetime collections. They were headed off to college. So, I made her a quickie single layer lap quilt with the scraps from the girls's sweatshirts. After she and her DH dropped off the girls at college, a day's drive from here, she said she wrapped herself in the lap quilt and cried all the way home. I was so glad I spent the extra time on it!

Dawn
In beautiful Northwest Montana

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Quilting New Year's Resolutions for 2015??? 25 Mar 2015 06:09 #128602

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I love it too Geneva. Those fabrics are luscious! Judy I could be wrong but I would imagine that Geneva quilted the mug rug in an improvisational way using her walking foot. If you look at the dark blue fabric on the left you can see a serpentine line, I think that's where all the subsequent lines to the right had their starting point. If it was me I would have used the edge of my walking foot as the guide for each following row of stitches. What she's done is really lovely and a lot more fun than just doing straight lines. The walking foot is a great tool in the arsenal of quilting and I use it a lot. Geneva, please correct me if I am wrong.

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Quilting New Year's Resolutions for 2015??? 25 Mar 2015 06:03 #128601

PosyP OFFLINE Posts: 4106 Thank you received: 361	Fun muggie Geneva
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Quilting New Year's Resolutions for 2015??? 24 Mar 2015 19:24 #128596

zippitydodaw OFFLINE Posts: 129 Thank you received: 35	Geneva I love your mug rug. It is so cheery. I am wanting to learn to machine quilt and I wonder where you get your inspiration. Do you mark your lines and if so what works best for you? Judy
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Quilting New Year's Resolutions for 2015??? 24 Mar 2015 16:23 #128592

rehak OFFLINE Posts: 2783 Thank you received: 458	Love it, Geneva! Thanks for sharing! It was very thoughtful of you to send that along to her.
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Quilting New Year's Resolutions for 2015??? 24 Mar 2015 12:55 #128588

ritzy OFFLINE Posts: 2963 Thank you received: 82	Beautiful muggie Geneva!
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Quilting New Year's Resolutions for 2015??? 24 Mar 2015 11:29 #128586

tqscustomerservice OFFLINE Posts: 18 Thank you received: 3	Beautiful Mug Rug, best one I have seen yet. Great job!
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Quilting New Year's Resolutions for 2015??? 24 Mar 2015 11:22 #128585

genevacarroll OFFLINE Posts: 952 Thank you received: 406	I'm not sure if I showed you the mug rug I made with the leftover fabrics from the commission piece. I sent it along with the big quilt and the lady loved it! I love making these little guys. The hardest part is to get started. To not think too much, just sew stuff together. They are such fun. Geneva
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Quilting New Year's Resolutions for 2015??? 24 Mar 2015 08:13 #128581

JudithA OFFLINE Posts: 520 Thank you received: 269	Lois, Beautiful! And I really like your fabric choices. Judith
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Quilting New Year's Resolutions for 2015??? 23 Mar 2015 13:10 #128564

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Here it is again. Now have Gabe's quilt pinned and layered and another secondary project to post soon. I am right on schedule with the big project and I am not getting bored bc I get to work on ones that finish faster in between. Cargo Bag coming soon!
loise98 wrote:

My system of working on a number of projects at once is working well for me. Maybe you'll remember my primary big goal is Gabe's 1st Holy Communion Quilt. As I finished daily or weekly goals on it I have personal permission to work on other easier smaller goals. Since I have last reported I have gotten the entire top on Gabe's quilt permanently machine appliquéd. While accomplishing that I finish my Grand Illusion blocks and shashing segments. I also finished my Bionic Gear Bag.

I love this bag and use it all the time. It holds all the things I need. If I sit in a chair to do a bit of handwork it's by my side. I move from one machine to another often. I do have room to have 2 set up all the time. When I change spots I always have what I need right where I want it. I am ready to go to retreat or a class with less worry regarding packing up.

I wish the pattern were written more efficiently. It was annoying to read through chatter and redundancy when I was looking for specific info. But the pattern is designed wonderfully. All I can say is that if you are going to make it, make sure it's not your first bag.

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