I'm finishing the binding on a baby quilt for one of my friends' new grandbaby, starting the binding on a quilt for a co-worker of my DH who's retiring(DH pieced it and I quilted it) and piecing a cuddle quilt for our pregnant DIL. All this in between customer quilts. :shock:
eileenkny

LadyRags wrote:
Hi LadyRags:

I guess your questions have been answered by the Nolting website. The frame I have is Nolting's 12' metal table. The main drawback to the midarm machines is the working area -- though the machine has a 17" throat, the actual area you can work on (front-to-back) is closer to 12". This makes for a bit of fiddling around, rolling the quilt forwards & backwards to quilt long vertical lines or big designs on large blocks. I find this kind of frustrating. But, I couldn't justify the cost of one of the bigger machines, as I'm just using it for my own quilts (not going into business).

Using these machines is quite different from quilting on a home sewing machine, but I'm hoping my skill will improve with time. I'd really like to see my pile of quilt tops turn into quilts!

How adorable Nan. love the colors and little characters. Beautiful job. Cheryl

Hi Everyone....Just posted my finished Baby Quilt on my profile. Very happy with results. Nan

My other thought was to leave the small and large heart without quilting. I'm not sure since there should even quilting for it to hang right. THe border was just going to be in the ditch. Cheryl

I have finished the applique for the adoption quilt, and now planning the quilting. I am thinking on three hearts large med and small and alternating stippleing and some other fill-in quilting in the hearts. I'll post some photo's in my profile and let me know what you think.. Cheryl

Good morning ladies, I have not sewn anything for me in a while, still trying to get to the binding of my friends quilt, it is on just have to hand stitch it. Today the ladies will be here to sew. My big machine is not happy, waiting for the man to call to help me fix her. He was just here thursday of last week for a cleaning, doesn't that figure . You ladies have a good sew day. Debbie

Before work this morning completed four bargello blocks. . .slowly chipping away at the remaining blocks to sew!

I just about have the applique finished for the adoption quilt.

Once again I need to clean my sewing room. I swear there is a gremlin running around and messing it up. Though not quite as bad as the movie.

Cheryl

Before work this morning, stitched two bargello blocks and have four more one seam away from being a block! Terry

I got the medallion centered on the Bella on Saturday.

On Sunday, my brother and his new wife were in town, so I showed them the quilt and got their thoughts on how big they would like it (they loved it too, as it was not what they were guessing I was making). We are shooting for a 90" by 90".

So, I just woke up on Monday morning, and realize that I was designing and constructing the border that I am going to add (all night while I was sleeping). So, we'll see if tonight, I can sketch out the border design and start constructing later this week.

A busy, but productive weekend!

Have a good week, All!
Mary Kay

Almost completed a table runner this past week. I also picked up one of my unfinished projects and am getting reaquainted with it. I have sewn 109 of the 142 bargello blocks. I also started laying out some bow tie blocks into a top as I needed a break from the sameness of the bargello blocks. Terry

I THINK I SHOULD HAVE STAYED IN BED YESTERDAY !!!

I ended up not having enough fabric to cut out enough setting triangles for my on point setting. I had to piece several of them. I then sewed a small seam in several of my other setting triangles so it would look like it was a design element. I alternated the "pieced' triangle and the plain correct triangle around the quilt.

It worked out okay unit I was trying to square up my triangle and whacked off a big hunk .... so I ended up piecing that back on... ( THANK GOODNESS I HAD CUT EVERYTHING BIG SO I COULD FUDGE IT !) I had to do the same WHACKING OFF to the other side. I was going to let it be plain but it kept drawing my eye to the goof..... Believe me a learned a lot yesterday OF WHAT NOT TO DO IN FUTURE QUILTS.

I need to not get so far a head of myself. Not so fast with the rotory cutters... Then maybe I will do my quilting correctly.

I made a label for my valor quilt today. I worked on sewing some blocks together, watched some of first seasons episodes of TQS while doing that. I would get so into the show I would stop sewing. Sandi in FL