Terry, a warm hug for you as you breathe deep and reflect on the fabulous chicken quilt and all the emotional energy you put into it. It's beautiful!

Nancy, loved your letter wallhanging! I love lettering and will keep your website link handy. I'm glad you made it round. It's perfect!

Thanks you two for sharing.... geneva

Wonderful project!

Barb

Hi all -

I just finished a little thank-you gift for a friend for inviting us up to her cabin for a quilt retreat. I blogged about it here. Stop by if you're interested.

Thanks!

I'm behind in sharing links to my posts!
I shared our day in the Burgundy region when we were in France..
I posted the goals that I want to complete/make progress on during this final quarter of the year.
Then I had a learning opportunity when I wet the chicken quilt to block it.
Yesterday I actually FINISHED the chicken quilt. It only took me 10 years and 10 months!
Please come visit!

Hi Geneva -

I now have a teflon foot, which makes things easier. But I've also successfully used my walking foot before I got the teflon foot. You definitely have to keep the vinyl lifted off of the machine bed because it really sticks to the metal there. You can put tissue paper between the vinyl and the machine bed and that helps, but it can be finicky controlling all of that while sewing. I just kept my left hand underneath the vinyl while I was sewing to keep it off of the bed. It also worked better for me to keep the vinyl on the top while sewing so that it was only touching the foot rather than the feed dogs. I had assumed with vinyl that I would have to use a larger stitch length, but I've never had a problem with short stitch lengths causing the vinyl to tear apart, so I used my usual shorter length when sewing this.

The next time I sew a bag with vinyl pockets, I'll try to remember to take more pictures and write a blog post about it.

Thanks!

Nancy, any tricks regarding sewing with clear plastic/vinyl? Thanks for the blog post!
geneva

Nancy - What a great tutorial. I love the bags!!

Barb

Hi all -

I just finished making a couple of sewing supply bags for my sister. Unfortunately, the directional fabric is upside-down. Oh well, she'll still like them. If interested, you can read about them here.

Thanks!

Thanks for the blog post, Geneva! The class sounds like a lot of fun and your quilt turned out wonderful! I'm often not attracted to the more chaotic quilts and some of the early iterations of your quilt didn't appeal to me, but I love the final version and think your border really did pull everything together. And it looks to me like you have all of the geometry knowledge that you need. Love the quilting!!

I enjoyed your blog post, Geneva! Yes, I stitch the edges of the quilt as a part of stitching in the ditch when quilting for that very reason you mentioned--I want to secure the edges so I don't have any seams that unravel to cause me "angst" later! tee hee

Hi Geneva - Your blog looks great!
Really enjoyed your workshop with Joe Cunningham, looks like a fun process.

Barb

Hello friends!

I have joined the blog world. I took a class with Joe Cunningham and wrote about it here.
genevacarroll.com/blog/

Have a great weekend! geneva

Here is my latest post.
bbquiltmaker.blogspot.com/2017/09/taking-my-show-on-road.html

Terry! Thank you so much for taking us along with you while quilting this masterpiece! I love what you have done and plan to copy some of it on a quilt. I hope that's ok....
I really liked the outer border with the curved lines and straight lines. Beautiful!

I love the whole quilt and can't wait to see it all done.

BTW, do you always sew down the outer edges of the quilt before starting to quilt? It sure helps all those edges and seams to not come undone during the quilting.

Bravo and thank you! geneva