Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Picture Day

Right now I don't have any customer quilts to do so I came up with a plan to finish some of MY quilts.  Some of them I finished YEARS ago.  Some I just didn't know how I wanted to quilt them or wasn't confident enough to tackle them.  Well, and unfinished quilt is just pieces of fabric sewn together!

First, I realized I hadn't taken a picture of the latest charity quilt I quilted. 
Oooopps!  I didn't turn the photo! 
 The border

 A line of mussels
 Mussels and feathers
 Mussels and swirls
 Ocean waves
 Straight lines.  I like this more than I thought I would!

 I should photograph all the charity quilts I do.

I also photographed my UFO's to be quilted.  I just ordered 8 X 10 prints so I can put them in a plastic sleeve and play with quilting designs.  Some I know what I want to do and others are going to require a bit of thought.  I'll post pictures as I finish them.

Happy Stitching!

Monday, March 3, 2014

New Dedicated Quilting Computer

I finally got a pc based computer for my quilting business.  The quilting business program I use is made for pc's and I had to use a program that ran pc programs on my Mac.  I caused everything to run slow on my Mac and took quite a bit of time to switch it from one operating system to the other.  I would put things aside to enter the next time I opened it.  Things would sometimes get misplaced so I think this will make my record keeping more accurate since it's easy to open and enter the information.  Now I have to figure out how to do get around on it!

I have been quilting.  I was finally able to finish this tee shirt quilt for a client.  She was really pleased with the outcome and doesn't know if she can wait to give it to him on his birthday in May.

I've also have been practicing on charity quilts.


I was able to practice using a rope template I used on a client's quilt and play with different motifs in the negative space.

 This was fun!

 Bear Claw Feathers


I really liked this pattern!

 Feathers between feathers.

Triangle feather fill.

More pictures later.

Oh, the other thing I am finally going to be able to do is learn EQ.  I've had it for a few years but have not taken the time to play with it enough to learn it.  My youngest has to have major knee surgery in a few weeks and I'm going to help her out for 3 weeks.  I'm going to take this along to play with it. 

Happy Stitching!