Rita ! That's just terrific !! Love that straight line quilting ! and love Quiltville. Hope you post it to her on facebook
or to the site !! I'd love to see it pop up there.

Theresa, I can't remember what it's called but if you scroll down the page on the link below you will see her beautiful version.

http://quiltville.com/leadersenders.shtml

Rita - great job, I love the quilt. I am cutting scraps to use for one of Bonnie Hunter's scrap quilts from her Adventures with Leaders & Enders book. Which pattern of hers did you use?

Good on ya, Rita!! I need to get out of my funk and start working on something productive. Maybe a new scrappy quilt???

Great job Rita! Scrapy quilts are very special. Wonderful accomplishment

Great quilt, Rita. The quilting is really neat. Smart lady to use the QAYG method!

Thanks ladies. Renata, sadly, there is still quite a big pile of scraps. I think the scraps elves come in during the night and refill my scrap box. However, I do have another scrap quilt on the go - which I will also do as a QAYG project so that should use up a few more. Lois, I do have an L-shaped set up at my sewing machine. My biggest problem is the arthritis in my left wrist - which happens to be the hand that does most of the shifting of the quilt while quilting. However, my DH heard on the news a couple of days ago that broccoli has properties that they have recently discovered can retard the progress of arthritis, so that will be my new favourite vegetable from now on.

Rita, That quilt is great. I can understand why that would feel like such an accomplishment. You used up stash. It seems like you were just able to sew and enjoy the process without too many weighty design decisions. Of course, finished quilts have a funny way of appearing as if the design just flowed naturally. The quilt as you go made the process less combersome. So not only do you have a lovely quilt it appears as if the process of making it was particularly satisfying. I remember you commenting somewhere about working on a quilt as you go project (Must have been this one.) because you were tired of wrestling big quilts through your machine. I thought about that while I quilted my most recent big project on the same machine you use, Horizon 7700 (I think that's the right number). Thing I noticed was the part of my setup that is most helpful while manuvering and accomodating a big quilt is that I have a large table to support it. That table has an L-shaped extension immediately to my left. Having a place to put the weightiness of the quilt seems even more important than the extra inches on the arm of the machine. I want to get to an even larger quilt to see if I still believe that extension cuts down my frustration with wrestlings quilts through my DSM. Again Rita, that is such a great quilt. Are you keeping that one for yourself? I imagine many of the scraps are from quilts you gave away. This might be a nice one to keep as your own. Thanks for sharing.

Gorgeous quilt, Rita! It's interesting that the quilt has a more traditional piecing style to it, yet, the quilting and colors give it a very modern look! Just curious, since you used scraps, do you have any left?

Gorgeous quilt, Rita! It sounds like you had lots of fun making it...makes me want to dig into my scrap basket!

Congrats on creating such a beautiful quilt AND for finishing it! I love scrappy quilts.

That turned out beautiful, Rita! There's so much going on that I didn't notice the tips until you mentioned them. They are not noticeable at all! I love the quilting that you did on it. It really compliments the piecing, adding a nice texture to the beautiful colors.

Nancy

I FINISHED A QUILT! I FINISHED A QUILT! It feels like forever since I actually finished a quilt but this one is now done and I am happy with it. It is a completely scrappy quilt. Everything in it was made with leftover scraps, the strips in jelly rolls that are too ugly to work with anything else, the strips left over after squaring up a quilt, backing fabric leftovers, leftover 4-patches, left over HSTs etc. I decided to try the QAYG (quilt as you go) method and that is why there is a sashing strip through the centre. It worked a treat and I really like the way it has turned out. The quilt has ended up 80"x80".

I used my walking foot to quilt the entire quilt too. Here's a detail of the centre:

The idea for these triangles came from one of the TQS newsletter 'stash buster' articles. I thought it was a great idea and so I made a gazillion of them with left over scraps. Didn't know what I would do with them at the time but I think they fitted in really well with this quilt. {!-- ia0 -->P8300006.JPG{!-- ia0 -->
Yeah I know I lost the tips of the plain triangles on the outer border but I will try to get it perfect next time. The pattern for the main body of the quilt was one from Bonnie Hunter's 'leader ender' projects on Quiltville.

Good tip Lotti!
Barb