Showing posts with label Autumn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Autumn. Show all posts

Friday, October 04, 2013

Cleaning, Finishes, Setting Sage, and Autumn Maple Quilts

Before I get to the “finishes” I want to tell you about …

Life …

We had our fall church cleaning today. Veronica ran the sweeper.
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Angie washed windows.
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And we had lots of other help that made the job go fast. I got to clean the sewing closet. It’s a walk-in style and big enough room to have a small Sunday School class.

In the big closet is the smaller closet where we keep finished quilts and comforters, batting, a box of scraps to be cut into carpet strips, and then on the bottom right are the tubs we use for our  communion and feet washing service.
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I like these shelves that hold the fabric, backings, and projects in progress.
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And now, it’s all clean.

… as a Quilter

Perry and Emily came this week. Perry to help with bean harvest and Emily to ... sew with me?

Remember how she started this little art quilt HERE and HERE? She added a tree and then spooled out thread for the leaves and covered the thread with tulle and stitched over it. 
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And now it is finished!  She is calling it “Setting Sage.” It measures 14”X12” and is for sale for $99.00.
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Emily also brought along her “fractured chevron quilt” and today got it all pin basted and ready to quilt.

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I continue to work on my “lily” quilt.
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I’m still trying to decide what color of thread to use on my lily, so I decided to make a small art quilt with a sampling of the thread on the black fabric.
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I’m calling it “Autumn Maple.” It measures 12 1/2” X 12 1/2” and is for sale for $75.00.  SOLD
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The back has “fast finished triangles”  ready for hanging.
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The label.
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Dana finished all 9 wonky blocks and is ready to sew them together.
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Her twin sister Sarah came for a friendly visit today. They both have bubbling personalities and they both love cats!
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Sunday, July 10, 2011

Autumn Understands & Is Grateful

After Autumn got over her shock I tried to explain just how her quilt would look if we left it as it was.Autumn's EQ7 Twister 2
I'm not sure why I couldn't visualize this until after she left last Monday. But, duh. It finally soaked into my brain that this just isn't what we want. I called her dear Mom, Barbara to see what we should do, and that's when we decided to pick it all apart.
Now, yesterday Autumn & I sewed all the blocks back together adding the black in a checkerboard fashion.n3
Then I used my homemade "Twister" template and cut out each block individually.
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Autumn sewed them together and laid them out in rows.n1
And now, TA DA, she has a much lovelier quilt top.n5
We were tired but happy when it was finished.n4
And if you think that's not enough, Autumn is making this quilt to give away to one of her best friends! She is so kind and generous!

Monday, July 04, 2011

Autumn Returns

First we laid out all the blocks.

Then I helped ...

 ... her sew them together.

 Autumn is so fun and it's such a delight to have her around.

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