Monday, September 3, 2012

Design Wall Monday

Along with the bathroom remodel, I've been busy with quiltmaking.  It was the only thing keeping me sane during the process. By Tuesday, I was ready to scream really loud.  To see photos of the finished room, click HERE.

On Tuesday I gave a lecture on scrap quilts to Loose Threads quilt guild that meets in Ballwin, Missouri. I enjoyed meeting new people and ran into a few friends that I knew from other quilt guilds and quilt shops. Below is a photo of my table set up.  I completely forgot to bring my quilt stand. LOL Behind the first table is three bins with more quilts!
Friday I spent the day sewing quilt backs and cutting batting for seven quilts.  I headed over to a friend's house (who is out of town) to borrow her long arm machine for a round of marathon quilting.  I already appreciated my local long arm machine quilters but quilting so many quilts in such a short period time made me also admire them. I had top tension problem, bobbin tension problems, bobbin spring popping out, thread breakage, pin sticks, feet hurting from standing so long (even on one of those stress mats), a little back pain, a loose seam toward the end of one quilt I needed to creatively repair, frame adjustments, and probably a few other things I'm not remembering at the moment.  Just because it's quilted on a long arm machine doesn't mean it's stress free. By the way, I gave up on quilt #7 at 5pm; I was tired and wanted a nap!


If I get any time this week, it will be spent making binding; only one of these will have the binding installed completely by machine.  I'll talk about them more as I finish them.

To see more design walls, visit www.patchworktimes.com .

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5 comments:

  1. 7 quilts in one day!? That is amazing. Glad you are making good use of your longarm time.

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  2. Wow! You are so busy...I can't imagine working like you were on quilts AND a remodel! Hope you have a great day today! :)

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  3. Way to go. You must feel like you've actually accomplished something. Lucky you to have a friend with a longarm machine. Have fun with all that binding.

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  4. Wow, major progress! Hope you got your nap at the end.

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  5. That sure is one list of quilts - wow, you are the overachiever here! Good luck for the bindings!

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