I'm so in love with quilting and teaching quilting and that I'm excited! Can you tell? Minnesota Quilts Here I come! I have to tell you though. . . I need a hot date with this chick: Janie, my BERNINA 780. We miss each other. Okay, I'm being somewhat dramatic. A lot dramatic really. We'll… Continue reading On the road again!
Category: bernina
Whole cloth challenge and choosing fabric
Seriously I just wanted to post this picture again it just makes me happy. I realized too there is a color missing here. I have 3 yards of sky (baby) blue too. I don't know how I missed that. The other day when I posted this I was choosing between the copper and the purple,… Continue reading Whole cloth challenge and choosing fabric
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One more reason to love! the BERNINA 780
I've not been shy about telling you all how much I love the B 780. So I'm stitching the other day using the 46C foot (adding that cording to the quilt I posted here) and needed to move the needle over to the right. Usually you hear the needle moving over. Nothing. zzzzzzzzzzzzz Confused look… Continue reading One more reason to love! the BERNINA 780
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Teaching gig!
<---- This pile turned into the quilt top to the right. It's based on Alex Anderson's Quilt Basket Rendezvous . I need to add the basket handle but need to get a couple of things before I do it. I have plans quilters! I have plans. I'll be teaching at Steve's Sew & Vac on… Continue reading Teaching gig!
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Chocolate Swirl part 2
I love answering questions about the quilting process. Yesterday I was asked (on facebook) - I thought I'd share here That cross hatch (it's kinda wonky here but this isn't a competition piece so I'm okay with that) is simply marked on the cloth using a Generals Chalk Pencil and an Omni-Grid Ruler. I placed… Continue reading Chocolate Swirl part 2
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Chocolate Swirl
Sunday was a fruitful day indeed. Let's go back to Saturday, okay let's go back a bit further. After making @play I knew I wanted to make another quilt loosely based on that design. It's been on the inspiration wall for quite a while and this chocolate-brown Radiance in my fabric stash about that long.… Continue reading Chocolate Swirl
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We All Sew
I just learned last night that a blog/tutorial I wrote on bobbin work for We All Sew was posted. I'll tell you that we will see this one more time. I'm not sure when but we will see this quilted silk again. This morning I'm going to continue working on a new quilt called "Chocolate… Continue reading We All Sew
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BERNINA Ambassador vids and a couple of (new?) classes
A couple of weeks ago all of the BERNINA Ambassadors received a link to their interview on YouTube. Here's a link to the whole group. And a link to my interview. The interviews were done when we were at the Reunion in December. We had such a great time learning about the different feet and… Continue reading BERNINA Ambassador vids and a couple of (new?) classes
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A Quilterly day
This will be a day of mini feet blogging paperwork calendar setting thinking emailing filling out paperwork encouraging and playing and most of all quilting Happy Quilting!
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Quilters have a fascination
with the backs of quilts they tell us a lot about the quilter about her choices about the tension of the machine and her understanding (and yes I'm using her - I'm very well aware of the male quilters) The back tell us if she was paying attention to her quilt The back tells us… Continue reading Quilters have a fascination
