A little while ago I finished my Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt which became a birthday quilt for one of my sisters.
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Last week, I finished a quilt to celebrate the 60th birthday of a close friend in Staten Island, NY. I found the design in Amy Ellis book on Modern Neutrals. I made it in shades of blue and gold.
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My sister has been quilting my quilt tops on her long arm machine because I have no experience with a long arm machine. So, while spending some time with her, she taught me how to float a quilt on the machine and I worked through a small pantograph design. First row: pretty bad! Second row: better (I also realized that I could talk, walk, breathe and move the machine at the same time). Third row: the best! If I can talk, I surely can sing while quilting--
you are my sunshine... Fourth row: after dinner and a glass of wine, not as good as while singing!
Fifth and last row: back to singing, yup, that's where I found my comfort zone.
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Oh, and my sister, two of her friends and I made our way up to New Hampshire for MQX this year. We had a great time together and met up with half on my sister's guild, or at least that's what it felt like! I took two classes, one with Kimmy Brunner on how to figure out what design goes onto a quilt and another with Lisa Calle on designing a mini whole cloth quilt (one of my near term projects).
My next step is to catch up with outstanding mug rugs. I've picked out the fabrics for Jane's muggie (golfjane) and then on from there. Finally, I spent a bit of time reorganizing my not-so-big stash using Jane Wolfroen's tool book on color. Was I in for a surprise! In my mind's eye, I even had magenta and fuchsia mixed up with each other. So this has been a great learning experience about color and reorganizing my stash will make it easier to pick colors for my next quilt!
Now you all know what I've been up to and why I've been so quiet on the Forum...