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Just BEE - Pieced 05/16/2016. Quilted 03/12/2017. Bound 03/24/2017.

3/24/2017

May 9, 2016 - The panels are a birthday present from my daughter making this very special to me. Fabrics are from Moda's Bee Creative collection. I was thinking panels with the dark now border fabric as background/sashing. It was Joanne's idea to use black flange around the panels so they would pop against the honeycombs. Yes! I saw the fabric about a month ago & have been trying to wrap my mind around what to do with it. This is a great example of how I may see something I like but quickly feel overwhelmed. That is when Joanne will come through in a moment with a great idea (& thus make the sale). Pre-washed all fabrics.
May 11: Fussy cut the panels.
May 13: First task is to do a sample flange around one of my extra panels. Want to try 1/4" and 1/8" because there is only 1/4" between seam and panel. I also want to see if I can figure a way to make the flange press out toward the sashing. The only thing that worked is a 1/4" border around the panels made from 3/4" strips. That is done.
May 14: Horizontal sashing is done. Took a while to figure out the best direction to press the seams including a lot of do over.
May 15: Finished sashing leaving just the borders.
May 16: I am determined to finish this quilt today. I have cut the outer border & black 1" strips to make it a flange border. (I may also do a flange binding but by hand, not by machine.) Considering IQ patterns.Quilt top is finished.
May 18: Pieced the backing.
May 20: Drew the honeycomb pattern in IQ. Will turn the quilt sideways to get the pattern right
Jan 15, 2017: Patricia, who said her favorite color is black, chose this quilt because of it's positive message. Can't wait to finish it for her.
Mar 09: Loading. Hoping someone can have Patricia call me about her batting.
Mar 11: Quilting. Decided to use Warm & Plush. The flange border was NOT a good idea for longarming. Wish I had used another 1/4" border. The flange & the hopper foot are not compatible unless I wanted to quilt around the flange which I do not. I am holding down the flange at every point the longarm crosses it. Live & learn -- one day I will have learned it all...NOT.
Mar 12: Quilted. Made & attached the binding. Only hand work left to do.
Mar 24: Binding is finished.
Mar 25: Quilt is delivered.

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Carole's Table Runner - Quilted 05/03/2017

3/11/2017

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Mar 11: Carole says she is just using up remnants. Could have fooled me! Just beautiful. Carole is thinking Majestic Pines in the center with Meandering Loops on the sides. I am thinking Magnifico on pine cones & Bottom Line Med Brown on the sides.
May 03: Quilted.

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XOXO by Sonya - Quilted 04/25/2017

3/8/2017

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Feb 20: First contact.
Mar 07: Sonya is looking at patterns. New to this whole world, she is exploring & discovering. Thinking ZZag, Triangles SD or Jennifer's Cables -- all geometrics. If I do my job right, I will guide Sonja to learn how to select a nice pattern. No, I do NOT know what will work ... yet.
Mar 08: Quilt arrived. I've done a quilt rendition & 3 rough overlays to get us started on selecting a pattern. Time for a phone discussion.
Mar 28: Have a plan using SINE curve.
Apr 24: Loaded ready to quilt.
Apr 25: Quilted.

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Mary's printed quilt top - Quilted 03/17/2017

3/8/2017

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Mar 08: Mary has a lot of printed quilt top fabric with coordinated backings along with a large supply of polyester battings. She spent the day here but we kept running into various problems not worth detailing. After learning a lot about prepping for longarming, Mary took her quilts home to wash & inspect them carefully.
Mar 16: Trial run for Mary. We prepped, talked, loaded, talked & started quilting. The pattern backtracks almost 100% so quilting time was over 6 hours. Most quilts this size take 1.5 to 3 hours.
Mar 17: Quilted.

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Soar - Pieced 05/28/2017. Quilted 10/26/2017. Bound 11/07/2017.

3/3/2017

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Mar 03: Reed and I have been working on a quilt design for several weeks now. Finally have a plan & fabric is ordered.
Mar 06: Some fabric is here. The rest is on the way.
Mar 08: All the fabric is here.
Mar 09: Finally got around to photographing the fabrics together. Hmmm. Do not like it.
Mar 10: Went to local quilt shop & left my friends looking for matching fabric while I went for a much needed hair cut. Finally decided to have Reed drive over the very short distance from where he works. He had no trouble making a selection.
Mar 26: Prewashed all fabrics.
Mar 27: Finished pressing them all out for cutting.
Apr 25: Cutting. Using the method taught by Jenny Doan of Missouri Star Quilt Co. for half square triangles, namely, sew 2 squares together all around the outside edge then cut diagonals. Yields 4 half square triangles.
May 01: Continuing with the cutting. Will have 64 blocks: 16 light squares & 48 half square triangles (16 half floral/half light, 16 half floral/half blue, 16 half blue/half light).
May 06: Now making progress. Sewed the cuts squares together all the way around & cut into half square triangles.
May 07: Planned the layout. Ready to sew the rows. Got 5 of 8 done.
May 08: All 8 rows are pieced & pressed ready to join.
May 09: Working on joining the rows - very slow going matching the points.
May 11: Finally got the quilt center done, i.e. in one piece. Borders next.
May 13: Added 2 of 4 borders. May have a problem with wavy borders I will have to stop and fix. (This is not the first time I have considered starting all over again on this quilt.)
May 19: All day long just to add one white border after doing what I could to fix my wavy issues.
May 28: Quilt top is finished. Still need to piece the backing.
Oct 23: Pieced the backing. Squaring something so large is NOT easy. Prepping.
Oct 24: Prepped ready to load. Loaded ready to quilt.
Oct 25: Polished off the programming. Quilting.
Oct 26: Quilted. Now the binding.
Oct 27: Binding is attached ready for hand work.
Nov 07: Binding is done & thus the quilt is done. Going now to deliver it.

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