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Navy & Gold No-Piece - Pieced 08/24/2015. Quilted 08/31/2015. Bound 10/14/2015.

8/22/2015

Aug 22: Purchased fabrics at Ye Olde Forest during their 2nd Annual Schoolhouse Event. Felt a heart throb when I spotted the gold on dark blue batik, imagining how perfect it would be with my navy blue recliners. Another one of my no-piece quilts was in my future just for me, just for my cozy little cabin, just for watching TV & relaxing at the end of the day. I knew I had my backing when I spotted the gold batik. A dark navy grunge for the borders and binding & I was all set.

Aug 26: Washed and pressed the fabrics.
Aug 27: Prepped the binding, added borders to the top & back. Added leaders to the back (leaves) to make it large enough to longarm. Will use Bottom Line #609 Dark Blue thread & bobbins to quilt Nancy Haacke's Owl Damask panto. It will be rather dense even at max size. Batting, humm. Thinking silk/bamboo but that is thin. Thought I had some Quilters Dream Deluxe on hand but apparently not.
Aug 28: Decided to order a bolt of The Warm Company's Warm & Plush 100% cotton batting (no poly scrim). Been wanting to try it. Since they don't sell a twin package, I ordered a bolt.
Aug 31: Batting is here. Looks & feels like W&N only plusher. Changed thread to Bottom Line #619 Tan with Bottom Line #602 Gold bobbins. Loading. Quilting. Quilted.
Sep 05: Attaching binding.
Oct 14: Binding finished. I have decided to gift this quilt to Dorothy Wonder, my dearest of friends.

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Donna's Rose & Brown Quilt - Quilted 09/05/2015

8/22/2015

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Aug 22: Picked this up at the School House Event today in Greensboro. Amazing what a beautiful quilt can be made with just three fabrics--at least that is all I count. My pictures don't do it justice.
Aug 23: Donna is asking for Bramble Panto, variegated top thread, solid bobbin thread. We will use King Tut #944 Valley Of The Queens (Variegated Colors: dk brown/lt pink/med brown/dk pink) with Bottom Line #629 Rose in the bobbin.
Sep 03: Prepping & Loading. King Tut was showing through on the back so we have switched to Bottom Line #629 Rose thread and bobbins. Testing.
Sep 04: Waiting on Donna.
Sep 05: Quilted. Pics tomorrow.
Sep 07: Posted final pictures here & on the gallery.

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2nd Annual School House Event

8/22/2015

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Ye Olde Forest Quilt Shop
2nd Annual School House Event
Summer 2015

Last year's School House Event was so much fun, I wasn't about to miss this year's event. Same format. Some of the same teachers. Lots of new women to Ye Olde Forest Quilt Shop. Home with only two projects & a pattern, I used great restraint. I saw a quilt in a book I would love to make someday. and a dream of a third when the right fabrics come along. See! I couldn't spring for these this time ...

Halloween is something my daughter absolutely loves!!! I finally brought home a little black/orange/golden yellow/green/mummies/owls (you get the idea) project to have some fun. I was thinking a charm pack twister quilt but changed my mind to using a 1/2 hexagon ruler to make a braid style quilt, at least partly. Just looked through my stash and found some coordinating black, yellow & orange solids. Hmmm. Ideas are popping. Will made the braid first and then see how I will put it all together.
Browsing the shop when I skipped class for a few minutes, I spotted a navy & gold batik I could not leave behind. I searched for something to coordinate with it and selected another batik. Going to make another one of my "no-piece" quilts (one batik on each side with no piecing except a seam), add a border (found the perfect shade from my stash) & binding & use it to cuddle in my navy blue recliner this fall. Thinking Dream Orient silk & bamboo batting.
Happy Child was one of many quilt designs on post card sized cards. I kept coming back to it & decided not to leave it behind. The hard part will be finding the right 6 fat quarters plus sashing fabric to make this quilt. (Never did. Probably never will.)
My last heart throb of the day was "I'm Feeling Good" in Charlotte Angotti's Surprise Yourself! book. The quilt I like is on the book cover (top one).Ah, one day ... (3 yrs later dont remember it.)

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Paula's Nickel Quilt—Sunny Lanes - Quilted 09/17/2015

8/22/2015

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Quilt top pattern is "Sunny Lanes" from the book "Nickel Quilts"

Aug 22: Picked this up at the School House Event today in Greensboro. WOW!
Aug 31: White thread. Butterflies & Swirls panto by Vicki Malaski sat 10". Paula's batting.
Sep 15: Prepped.
Sep 16: Loaded. Quilting. I'll stop tonight at the 1/2 way point.

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Hallowed Braid - Pieced 08/24/2015, Quilted 08/25/2015, Bound 08/26/2015

8/22/2015

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Aug 22: Fabrics were bought at 2nd Annual School House Event plus some solids from my stash.
Aug 23: Started playing with ideas for a braid quilt using my new Ye Olde Forest Quilt Shop 5" Inch Half Hexagon Ruler. Started the braids.
Aug 24: Lengthening the braids. Kept going until it is now pieced! Size 42.5 x 47. Considering three pantos. Will use Magnifico yellow-gold thread top & bobbin.
Aug 25: Piecing the backing. Actually just adding leaders so only using half of my backing on hand. I tested Soap Flakes but had it much too loose for the small characters on the fabric. Love the denser quilting on this. Quilted. Binding attached & clipped. Started hand work.
Aug 26: Bound & shipped.

Decided to stop at table topper size.
Offered quilt & pattern to my daughter for the shop.
No one loves Halloween like she does. No one.

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White Chuppah - Quilted 10/20/2015

8/15/2015

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FRONT - BACK

Aug 15: The white chuppah is actually a variety of tonal fabrics so more like off-white. There are several small but critical places a seam needs "relaxing" &/or closing. There is so much detail to show off on this quilt that I will post when I prep it for longarming.
Aug 16: I asked my sister, Sandy, if she can transform the third image below for this white on white chuppah. Tried to find out who "owns" this design to get permission to use it but got no response to my inquiries.
Sep 04: Working on fixing a few spots in prep for quilting.
Sep 05: I've fixed what I can including one mitered corner. Left several places that should quilt okay.
Sep 12: After 2 long days of work for Sandy with me testing it, the design is ready. Very special indeed.
Oct 18: Started prepping including bobbin winding & squaring the backing.
Oct 19: Prepped. Loaded. Quilting.
Oct 20: Quilted

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Dorothy's Pixies & Butterflies

8/15/2015

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Aug 15: Quilt is here & I tried to takes pictures. Just to overcast to get anything decent. Selected Pixie pantograph by Patricia Ritter with Magnifico thread -- that should create some Pixie dust already in the sparkling fabric.
Aug 16: Thread selection.
Aug 17: Prepped & loaded.
Aug 18: Testing
Aug 19: Quilted.

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Colorful Chuppah - Quilted 10/08/2015

8/15/2015

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A chuppah (Hebrew: חוּפָּה‎, pl. חוּפּוֹת, chuppot, literally, "canopy" or "covering"), also huppah, chipe, chupah, or chuppa, is a canopy under which a Jewish couple stand during their Jewish wedding ceremony. (Wikipedia)

This is one of two chuppah projects, pieced by two busy gals with families and generous hearts.

It will be a gift to their local synagogue.

Pic laterAug 15: Chuppahs are here. The center and a few minor places on this quilt need a bit of work before I can longarm it. Both tops include some beautiful embroidery work. We have talked briefly about perhaps sewing around & not over some of these areas. This means some custom work is involved as well. We will use Warm & White batting.
Aug 19: Started prepping the colorful chuppah. One place on one border needs "relaxing" (almost done) & the center square needs to be removed, cut down & then sewn back into the quilt. There are 3 small but critical places on the white chuppah where a seam needs "relaxing".
Aug 29: Took a break from the prep work to give it some thought. Just finished the second long day working on the center. It is far from perfect but I think I can quilt it now.
Oct 03: Prepped.
Oct 04: We have decided to only carve out a stip of no-sew zone 1/4 in on either side of the horizontal and vertical peach embroidery inside the blue sashing without regard to the sashing width. We will let the panto stitch normally over the blue embroidery in both the large (11 x 6) and small (6 x 6) blocks since they are too large to leave unquilted. Loaded.
Oct 05: Everything (bobbins, basting, tension test) is ready for me to start quilting...tomorrow. There will be bearding on the navy backing but there is no way I know of to prevent that. Believe me I have tried in the past to no avail.
Oct 06: Quilting. Got 2 rows done. Learning as I go. Sorry about that. Phyllis I so appreciate your great spirit.
Oct 07: It's 4:30 & I have only completed the 3rd row. But figuring out better & better how to do this. Finished the day with 5 or 8 rows done.
Oct 08: Quilted. Quilt is too large to capture in one photo.

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