I have not had a chance to do any quilting in the last couple of day and then when I did... I cut out my triangles incorrectly. Bummer. I do not have any fabric left to re-cut the triangle but I am going to gerry rig the pattern to allow changes.... I really have not choice. I do have a few strips left of the fabric but not enough to fix the mistakes...

I guess this will be a design challenge. ... maybe I should enter it in the UFO challenge with Alex.

Nancy, what a stunning quilt you will have no matter how you quilt it.

Margarita in Auburn, CA

Nancy, your kalidescope quilt is stunning! What about quilting the outer "star" with straight line echo quilting to emphasize the "V" shape on each arm? You could quilt circles in purple thread in your dark border to mimic the fabric in the border. You could quilt the inner star with a gentle curved line to give that star some movement. Whatever you choose, it will just add more beauty to the quilt.
Terry in Oregon

I finally finished my kaleidoscope. I was having trouble with the width of the fabrics in my strata, so did another freezer paper square, 16" instead of 18" that Ricky uses. It is a slightly smaller quilt, 40 x 40, but I like it. I uploaded it in my profile this morning and in the gallery it is #101159. I have not a clue how to quilt it. Any suggestions??

Nancy in NC

Whew, today I finished the outer borders of my Drunkard's Path quilt--I seem to be working from the outside to the inside. I'm working on the inner border now, then will get back to work on the center blocks.

Pat in Rockport, TX

Been busy with a furnis cleaning that turned into a "I need to show you something". That never leads to anything good. Apparently we have a "nipple leak" and have to have the block replaced. This was done about 6 years ago before we bought the house and it is happening again. THe good thing is we used the same oil company that the previous owners used and they were the ones who replaced it the first time. They are looking into any possible partial replacement costs instead of paying for the whole thing since it wasn't really that long ago. Oh and to add to it, the previous owners had built a wall with a narrow door around the furnis, so we will have to tear down part of the wall to do the job. :shock: Sorry to be rambling about my woes. This happened a day after we had to take the truck in for clutch problems. $$$

Any way my tilda for the week so far has been finishing the 4 Orca whale appliques for Kyle's quilt. Problems there also, but it boiled down to too much heat and pressing causing the web to stick to the paper backing.

I am ending the week with an all girls movie night at a neighbors house. We are renting Sex in the City, drinking wine, and eating. Cheryl

pknord wrote:
Good morning Pat: free floating, is done on a longarm machine, it is when you have your backing fabric pinned to the machine and your batting and the top of your quilt just rests on the top of your backing, then you would baste your top to the backing.
Well I did not do any stitchin last night, but tonight I have a guild meeting time to get back to my buddies .
Debbie

I am slowly working on Oct BOM, have the star, stems and vase on. this is going slow for me this month.

Margarita in Auburn, CA

I decided one should not quilt on DRUGS... had a tooth pulled took my pain pill and tried to quilt.... I am taking out all the stitches I did earlier.


Oh Well tomorrow is another day.

Anna

I finally finished hand appliqueing the star points on the Jan. BOM. I told you before that it will be slow going. It actually looks pretty good. My DH has the digital camera and won't be back until later or I would show you my UFO. Judy in AZ

longarm1 wrote:
Hey Debbie! Tell us what freefloating is!!! Inquiring minds want to know!!

I got some crumb blocks done. I have four purple and four blue ones done. I have several more that are almost done and I was only working for about an hour and a half. Of course the purple ones were almost done. So maybe tomorrow I get 8 more done and 8 more on Thursday. Then if I make it to Quilt Bee on Friday, we can do the exchange.
Frances in Austin where it has been getting cooler.

What is freefloating? I haven't heard that term before.

Pat in Rockport, TX who is still working on Drunkard's Path blocks.

. Well I learned something new today, freefloating on my machine, boy did it save time and agravation. I got two quilts done using this method. Anyother longarmer use this method. Old quilter learns new thing. Hope to do some hand work after dishes, gotta get that binding done. Debbie