This summer was pleasantly busy! A trip to Cape Cod, a wedding shower and bachelorette party in Chicago and THE WEDDING! Our eldest got married on September 6 and the day was a dream! It was absolutely the best!
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So I'm finally back to quilting. I went to the Machine Quilter Expo in Springfield, Illinois. The best class I took was from Karen McTavish. If you ever get a chance to take a class from her, JUMP ON IT!
Back to the projects on my work list
First was a Hawaiian style penguin quilt.
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I did get to do some McTavishing on the baby to make it look fuzzy! Wish I could have done more.
My student, Mildred, has finally finished her "Yuletide Snowflake" pattern by Fig Tree Quilts without the snowflakes. She had seen one that I had done years ago and wanted to do one in purples and greens. I ordered the thread we chose to quilt it with but it took longer to arrive than expected so I started laying out a tee shirt quilt for a client.
The thread finally arrived and I am busy quilting it like the one I had quilted for myself only I'm doing it on the longarm this time! It's much easier but it has taken me some time to remember how I drafted the quilting. It's moving along now but is going to take quite a bit of time.
I really have missed quilting and am glad to be back at it despite the Christmas crush starting. I really need to clean and reorganize my downstairs studio. I'm hoping to squeeze in a little of my stuff in between!
Happy Stitching!
