Winter is definitely over in my part of the world. And the slow period of longarming is over, too! I have 11 quilt tops to get longarmed over the next 2 weeks. I love the busy season.
I finished up a table runner I've been working on. It took awhile to applique the pieces. I used the invisible applique method with monopoly monofilament thread. This was a laser cut quilt kit and it was so easy to iron down the precut applique pieces.
I've made good progress on the ForeverMore BOM. I'm ready to begin sewing the setting triangles to the blocks. And after that comes assembly of the quilt! The yellow tags are the block #'s.
I made this quilt in December and longarmed it last month. I finished the binding over the weekend and it will be donated to one of the women at the Pregnancy Support Center here in Durham.
The pattern is called Garden Trellis and it is a free download here!
I haven't posted a quilt top in awhile so I thought I'd show the Quilt of Valor top I'm longarming today. I love QOV quilts. I attended our group's last awards ceremony where we awarded over 25 quilts to deserving veterans. The man I gave my quilt to gave me 3 hugs because he was so grateful.
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 #34…
I had a few people ask me to make a video showing how to stitch a pantograph from beginning to end so I made a video showing just that! I hope this helps!
I took a few months off working on the Forevermore Block of the Month to do longarming for customers for the Christmas stitching. I'm working on it again and I just finished working on month 6 and will start month 7 now. Month 6 was the center of the quilt.
I was asked to make some videos showing how to roll the quilt when using a pantograph. Here they are!
