MY FREE MOTION QUILTING is all of ONE project only partially done.... then I let my friend finish it..... I plan to do more of my own quilting but I am not sure when.

Yes, thread painting does take practice just like it did when you first learned free motion quilting. I am still in the practicing. cheryl

Why did you guys not warn me?

I made a small banner for the quilt show... using thread painting and other techniques I wanted to try.... EVERYTHING THAT COULD GO WRONG HAS....

THE banner is going to the local TV news community advertisement program ... to me it is really ugly although other people have said it is cute... but the technique were poorly executed and not to my standards. The machine quilting keeps buckling and the miter corners are askew... ....

.... I am bummed but I am also stuck cause it needs to be turned in tomorrow or we will loose the time slot for the advertisement. There is not time to do another one.

I wish someone could have told me thread painting is harder than I thought it would be.

Hi Cheryl: yes it is still Wednesday nites, at the waterford senior citizens center. Starts at or between 6:30 and 7:00. on the 2nd Wed. of the month.
Well I am back from vaca, and I did manage to unsew my favorit table runner, so now I can requilt it, I had stippled the entire piece but the thread kept breaking, oooh did that make me mad
But now I am happy, I did that the night Hanna decided to visit us.
So now I am back to work, lots of work. But today got started with a bang, I had to bring fatherinlaw to the hospital to get a new knee, came home to find myself locked out of my house, had to drive another 50 miles to get the house key from dear hub, I am not starting work now, yuck. I am going to think about lunch Well, tomorrow, there is 2 dr. appt. then I can go to work. Tonight I have to go and visit dfil at the hospital, won't get to touch any then either Hopefully soon debbie
cjbeg wrote:
Debbie sounds like fun. Is it still on Wednesday nites???

Its raining here in Ct, so its off to my sewing. Cheryl[/quote]

I have been putting together charity quilts today and have run across a problem that I hope I can resolve with your help. I am enveloping the backing and the batting to save making a binding. I have done this before but not too successfully because I always get puckers in the backing. I am pinning the back and then quilting it but when I get down to the end, I have big puckers. I have left one side open to smooth it out as I go and the excess can go out the opening but it always doesn't work out. I know I am doing this wrong. Any advice? thanks in advance.
Judy in AZ

This thread got buried, sorry for the pun, so I am reinstating it. Hopefully someone can help me. Judy

I was so excited today.......went to a fabric sale, it was unfortunely the stash of a quilter that has passed....but her husband had her guild come & get all her quilting stuff & sell it all today..... sad day
but a happy day also........ They were selling the fabric by the pound so you filled your bag & then had it weighed....talk about getting into trouble ........ figured with all that I have I bought 40 yrds of fabric for $85.......so I think that was a very good
deal!!!!....... We were there in the first hour of the day & I don't think anyone went out with less that 5lbs of fabric!!!!........
So now I had better get busy and get something started as I had
just finished a project and hadn't started anything new yet.....
Happy Quilting to all of you
Marty

Thank goodness school has started Maybe now I can reclaim my house, sanity, and quilting room. Also maybe now I can quilt during the day without feeling quilty about it. I tell you my kids know how to lay it on thick if I take me time. I have bought some great fabrics over the summer though. I can not wait to get busy again. Rachel

I finished my Sept BOM and it is posted in my profile. Now to see what I will do for the rest of the month

Margarita in Auburn, CA

Well I spent 3 hours today at a LQS selling raffle tickets for our guild quilt. I brought the quilt that I'm fixing with me and got three logs sewn on. I also took some time to look around because I had not been at that store before. I found two fabrics that might work for other logs that need to be replaced. I then stopped at Wal Mart on the way home looking for clear Contact paper and walked by the much smaller fabric department. I found another fabric that might work. So now I think I only need two more fabrics. We'll see what my friend thinks. She is an appraiser and historian and has been helping me with this quilt.
Frances in Austin where it is still hot, but not as bad as it was in June and July.

I'm finally working on a quilt! It's an attic windows design for a friend at work who, in exchange, is making me a ruler rack to hang on my wall in my (future) studio. She wanted a quilt with tools on it and I was able to find some great fabric on-line. I did check my LQS first though. She and both tried to find wall racks on the internet but couldn't find any. That kinda surprised me. I'll post pics of the quilt and the rack when we make the trade.
Sherry in S MS

Tilde Thread: September 06, 2008

Sewed binding on my Christmas Kaleidoscope after reviewing Sharon Schamblers video several times. I am currently trying to get it sewn down.

Working on the thread painted banner for the QUILT SHOW advertisements. I will work on it tomorrrow and have it "DONE" by Monday.

Life KEEPS GETTING IN THE WAY... I spent the day with my 6 mo grandson. Mommy was exhausted because KING NEAL wont nap and is sleeping poorly. So his majesty spent the afternoon entertaining Nonnie and Nonno.

Back to quilting after I get a nap!

Have not been near the sewing machine since Saturday... I am suppose to be working on a fusible raw edge banner for the quilt show but have not been able to do anything.

I hope to be done this weekend so I can drive it over to the TV station for advertisements on Monday... how do I get volunteered for this stuff anyways? I always wait til the last second... bummer.

Our daughter and her SO were here over the holiday weekend, so I didn't get anything done. We had a lovely visit, though. We hadn't met Jack. He seems like a nice man. Anyway, after taking them to the airport very early yesterday, I puttered around a lot--got some stuff put away in the studio, so it's not quite the disaster area that it was--still pretty horrible, though. I'll putter out there a bit more today. My Australian friend and her spouse will be here Thursday or Friday. We plan to drive down to Progreso, Mexico for a day, see the local sights here another day, then up to San Antonio for a day to see the River Walk and the Alamo, and so on, so won't get to sew for a while. Maggie is a quilter, though, so we may steal some time in the studio.

Pat in Rockport, TX

BLAH!!!!!! I am micro stippling, and it feels like it is taking FOREVER. Not very relaxing, but it does look pretty good. So, I have probably about 3/4 to 2/3rds done on the stippling. I also think I might need another spool of thread. I best get a move on. Cheryl