My latest quilt is called Triangle Stars. It has 560 HSTs. In August, my husband and I spent a week in Williamsburg, Virginia at a resort. He spent some of his time riding his bike on the bike trails and I spent my time sewing the HSTs. I put the HSTs together last month and now I'm making the applique blocks. There are appliques that go in each corner and then I can assemble the blocks!
I'm thankful for many things this Thanksgiving! Friends, Family and good health especially. And for 2 wonderful grandsons! Thank you, Lord, for the ability to work from home. In my quilting studio, on the hangers, you can see the quilts lined up, waiting for longarming.
I finally have a few days free due to the Thanksgiving Holiday and I plan to use it sewing my next show quilt. It calls for 580 half square triangles! I especially love my new machine as I sew mainly in the evenings. Notice the pull out light above the needle area? Wow, this is a fabulous feature. There is plenty of light to see what I'm doing. My machine is the Elna Excellence 780+. I highly recommend this machine for quilting!
What machine are you sewing with?
There are some other features on this machine I have to tell you about! You can adjust the automatic settings to any stitch! I like to stitch with a 2.8 stitch length so I change the length and now the automatic setting is what I want it to be when I select a stitch. So handy not to adjust this every time I turn the machine on!
The machine has an early warning for when the bobbin is getting low. And you can adjust this as well! They thought of most anything a quilter might want when they built this machine.
My next quilt project is starting this week. I found the very last fat quarter pack of the fabric collection Promenade by Moda. This collection is sold out everywhere but I found one website that still had the fat quarter pack!
The pattern calls for the use of 2 rulers made by Studio 180 and I have those rulers. One is the Tucker Trimmer I and the other is the Rapid Fire Lemoyne Star ruler.
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 #43!
The Durham Orange Quilters' Guild has a challenge that will be held at our guild meeting Monday evening. The challenge was given in March and the topic was to be on houses. We could make any type, color and size quilt with the theme of houses or neighborhoods. This is my entry!
