Another benefit is for people who have arthritis in their hands or shoulders. With less pressure placed on the cutter there is a bit of relief from pain while using a cutter.
It's sold only at Missouri Star Quilt Company. I like it so well I bought 6 more to give the gals in my sewing circle!
I'm longarming, and on my frame will be 2 Quilt of Valor tops. Both are for the national Quilt of Valor Foundation. This was the first one...
If you would like to serve veterans in this way you can visit the QOV Foundation website to find a quilt sewing group in your area. There are groups all across the country!
https://www.qovf.org/about-qovf/whos-in-my-area/
The search function on their site doesn't work very well if you enter a zip code. You have better results if you zoom in on your location using their map.
Many of you follow my "Ode to the Sewing Machine" posts. We've all seen the ads on craigslist, ebay and elsewhere. The clueless sellers give those of us who sew a belly laugh, or two! Here's installment #45!
I have the coolest family tree! Full of rebels! Mercy Jones, born in Massachusetts in Sept. 1654 was arrested at age 19. Court records show the following:
The colonial laws regulated the subject of extravagant dressing. In September 1673 the court recorded:“Diverse women at Springfeild presentd at ye Courte in March last for that being of meane estate they did weare Silkes contrary to Law vixt Goodwife Labden , Goody Colton , Goody Morgan , Goody Barnard , Mercy & Hephzibod Jones , Hunters wife ; Daughter ;Abell Wrights wife, & warned to this Courte the six former app’ring in Courte they were admonisht of their extyravagancyes & dismist.
I found a great product to help me see the lines on rulers quickly and easily. I used Omnigrid highlighter tape called Glow line tape on my ruler. I love this tape, really helps to see the lines on the ruler at a glance. It comes in 3 colors, pink, orange and yellow. All 3 colors come in the package!
I'm working on a large quilt today, 116" x 93"! I haven't sent a post lately about what I'm working on in awhile. I have my new wall hanging where it can be seen easily.
If you're visiting my page looking for information about my services, I would love to help you finish your quilt!
I have had fun creating a new quilt this week! I bought Electric Quilt 8 earlier this month and started working on a quilt right away. I saw a quilt hanging in a quilt shop and I tried to buy the pattern for it only to find out it wasn't being published any longer. So I set about making one of my own. This is the result!
Click here to download a copy of the pattern! It's a PDF file, a step by step tutorial and it is recommended for intermediate quilters. The letter Q would be a bit daunting for a beginning quilter. If you are a confident beginner I say "Go For It!"
Star QUILT Wall Hanging
by Christine Chamberlain
I purchased EQ8 a week ago and wow, does this program do a lot for relatively little money. I've been using tutorials on their EQ blog, which has many, many lessons and tutorials! You can use this program to make t-shirt quilts which have different sized blocks depending on the t-shirts that are used. I used this tutorial to make my first quilt, a small wall hanging. The program gives me printouts of the yardage and rotary cutting instructions, and I use those to then write the pattern. The process to write the pattern takes a lot of time and thought but it is so much fun!
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I finished the quilt in EQ8 and went right to the fabric shop to buy fabrics to make the quilt! I'm busy writing the pattern this week. As soon as I make the quilt, testing the instructions I've written I plan on making the pattern a pdf file and will post it here on my blog as a free download.
Update April 24: I have finished making the Star Block! It measures 15-1/2" x 15-1/2".
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This quilt is called Grateful. I fell in love with it the minute I saw it. I began collecting the fabrics for it a couple months ago. I plan on making it scrappy, but will use the same coloring as the pattern photo.
This is a devotional from the Proverbs 31 website, written by Meghan Mellinger, it was so good I had to post it here!
“I am tired of being tired.”
The words spilled out of my mouth like the tears from my eyes. Here I was, yet again, in what had become my default state: weary and worn.
Something had to change.
I needed a new travel machine and chose the Elna Experience 570. It only weighs 14 lbs. I like to do invisible applique and needed a machine that lets me narrow down the width of the applique stitch to barely there. This machine does beautiful invisible applique stitches! And there are 8 different applique stitches to choose from. In total, there are 200 stitches available on the 570.
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You know that like attracts like, right? Positive people are drawn to positive energy; negative people are drawn to negative energy. We tend to perceive negative energy as something other people have. Sure, sometimes we feel negative – as in, “go away and leave me alone, world!” but did you know that negativity can be so ingrained in you that it goes unnoticed?
That’s because negativity sometimes wears a disguise called ‘reality’. It’s easy to rationalize that you’re ‘just being realistic’ in not daring to act on a dream – and believe it! You may assume that positive people are not being realistic – that they’re being naive, that they are in denial with their heads stuck in the sand, that they put on fake smiles in the face of difficulty and so forth. But are they really happy fools or is there something to their positive attitude?
Consider this: since when does ‘being realistic’ necessarily mean that things will go wrong and that you have to accept that as the truth? That doesn't mean that being realistic is automatically negative. When you view the world from a ‘realistic’ standpoint, you can’t help but be negative.
"IF" your version of reality is negative, you are conditioned to believe that whatever can go wrong, will go wrong and whatever can go right, will probably go wrong too. Your unconsciously held beliefs make you into a negative person without your being aware of it!
So – if this negativity is so ingrained in you that you don’t notice it, how do you determine whether you’re stuck in a cloud of negative energy that is attracting the wrong people, wrong situations and wrong feelings? And how can you be sure you’re not perpetuating that negativity?
This is a baby quilt I longarmed this afternoon, it's a top made by a customer. I used a design that reminds me of the curves in Van Gogh's Starry Night.
My longarm machine is finally back from being serviced, being gone 6 weeks! Far too long, I'll take it somewhere else next time. In the meantime I spent time working on UFOs. Here's one... the Sugar & Spice quilt from Studio 180 Design. The fabric collection I used is called Promenade by Moda Fabrics.
The pattern was very easy to follow, I hope you'll try making one! I needed something to carry my sewing supplies when I travel with my machine.
I took my longarm machine to the shop for servicing and it's going to be 3 weeks before they can get to it. To stave off the withdrawal I'm busy sewing some of my many UFOs. Today, I finished my Triangle Star quilt top! It has 560 HSTs and made with scraps along with a background fabric. All it needs now is to be longarmed.
