I drove 45 miles to work for nine and a half years and when I finally got my quilting studio situated I managed to go straight to it when I got home to get my 30 minutes of stitching in. For the last 4 months I have been only 2.1 miles from home, so when I get home now I have an extra 30 minutes to stitch. I am loving it!
I don't think it will be completed by PHD report time but my sister's quilt is off the frame. This is only the second quilt I have done on the Grace frame and the first one was meandered. I will do the outer border on the domestic machine. It's not perfect but I'm still pretty pleased with it. I told my sister that it was going to be a practice quilt. I love this quilt and I kind of wish I had waited for a little more experience before quilting it. But it's okay. I'm going to tell her when I'm famous for my longarm quilting she can say she has the first custom free motion quilt. HAHA!!
So last week I posted that I would be working on an Easter Bunny door hanging. I have a question for applique quilters. Do you stitch around each piece as you fuse it? Or do you fuse them all and then stitch around the exposed edges?
I managed to get all of the bunny pieces fused but not to the background. The picture had the belly white but the instructions said pink. I think I'm going to redo it with white. The parts are just set in place ready to be fused. I haven't found the border fabric yet. It's not really the time of year to shop for Easter fabric. I might have to improvise.
This week I rolled a 2 with the die. The Crazy Blocks. I posted about these way back
here.
My daughter and granddaughter were visiting my quilt studio one day and decided that this was the one they wanted to hang on a quilt rack. It earned a numbered tub shortly after that.
The goals this week were:
Stitch the last row on my sister's quilt👍
Fuse bunny parts👍
Find some striped fabric👎
Stitch 30 minutes 6 days👍
Tidy Organize 15 minutes 6 days👍
Goals this week are:
Get started on the border of my sister's quilt
Finish sashing the Crazy Blocks
Stitch 30 minutes 6 days
Tidy/Organize 15 minutes 6 days
Wishing you more stitching time than I will have.
Rose
Thank you for visiting.
3 comments:
Wow, beautiful work on your sister's quilt! The bunny is adorable, but I agree with you, white instead of pink on his tummy.
Your quilting on your sister's quilt is beautiful! I too agree with you about white for the bunny tummy. As for your applique question, I don't do much fused appliqué. I would fuse them all and then stitch around the exposed edges.
Adorable little bunny Rose. I can't help with the applique question. My technique of choice is needle turn applique.
Thanks for linking up with Oh Scrap!
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