Grassy Creek

A friend quilted my Grassy Creek, 2020 Bonnie Hunter mystery.

Now it's bound and on my bed!

I have three Halloween kits to put together.  Here's number one.

Cabin Chills by J. Wecker-Frisch.  Picking Daisies kitted it with a black background. 

Cabin Chills in progress.
16 blocks.

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Guild class

Sue Bleiweiss presented a virtual workshop to one of my guilds this week.  Garden Life.

She has an unusual method of applique fused with Misty Fuse.  Rather than make a small quilt - what would I do with it?? - I made a table runner . . . and it's finished.

Table runners have become my thing.  I can try a new technique and the finished product is useable.  I have a hard time gifting my projects unless I plan to in advance, but I'm trying to get over that!

13 x 42 inches

Sue does not do much quilting after completing the top.
I chose to add some thread work to keep the pieces down.
I stitched both sides of all the black lines.

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Halloween Placemats

I just finished 18 Halloween placemats for my great nieces and nephews AND it's still September!  Here are 16 of the 18.  I have already mailed two to Australia.

Each is approximately 12 x 20 inches.

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August Projects

 August 19 - 22 a friend and I hosted a guild retreat.  It was a virtual Cruise to Alaska.  We opened the Zoom meeting 11:00 am on Thursday and left it open until 5:00 pm on Sunday.  We had a shop tour from one of our local shops, Picking Daisies, and The Quilted Raven in Anchorage.  Through our fellow quilter in Alaska we also had a tour of Seward, AK. She provided photos about the local area and her husband's commercial fishing enterprise.  All of this without leaving the comfort of our homes.  No packing, no hauling supplies and machines, no forgetting any needed items, AND we slept in our own comfortable beds!  A great time was had by all.  We're now planning our next adventure.

During the cruise I finished quilting the inside blocks of one quilt, completed a table runner kit from Shabby Fabrics that was in my stash, and while looking for another project I found two kits in my Halloween stash purchased who knows when and from who knows where.  The fact that I had two kits meant is was a good sale price!

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Shabby Fabrics Table Runner
14 x 56 inches
Covid #21-25

Mr. & Mrs. Hall O'Ween
16 x 16 inches
(pillow)
Covid #21-26

Halloween Kits
22 x 61 inches eachk
started quilting
Covid number assigned when they are finished.

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November projects

These were projects I worked on in November.

Guild class with Mel Beach

A type of reverse applique

This is the back.

Pumpkin made during a guild meeting.

Sorry it took forever to write a minimal description for this post.

 

Tree Skirt is finished!

I finally pulled out the crystals and embellished the tree skirt. They do not show up in a photo, but really sparkle under a Christmas tree with lights.

This is finish #23.  

Today I picked up my machine from its yearly service.  3,500,000 stitches in just under a year.  (This is not my embroidery machine.)

62 x 72 inches

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July Progress

Here's an update on works in progress.

I started quilting two of my older tops.

Halo Medallion.  The Quilt Show BOM 2017.

In My Garden. A Laura Heine kit started several years ago. The top was together I just needed to add borders.  

I have the foundation/ditch work done on both of these.

I quilted a top for a friend. It's her first grandchild and she didn't realize you had to get in line for a long arm quilter. I offered to do the quilting for her.  40 x 40 inches.

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