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Holiday Quilt - Quilted 12/03/2019

11/22/2019

Dec 01: Prepping. Using BAM panto at 5" with Medium Brown thread which shows as a dark gold.
Dec 02: Loaded ready to quilt.
Dec 03: Quilting. Stopped to remove stitching inside the white reindeer. Much better. Since I'm doctoring this a bit, I put a bit of accent under Santa's face & to stitch around it rather than through it. Quilted.

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Table Topper - Quilted 11/27/2019

11/15/2019

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Nov 15: This is a second small quilt like this Table Topper - Quilted 11/11/2014. WIll quilt it the same way using My Sine Curve for snow effect.
Nov 26: Prepped & loaded.
Nov 27: Quilting...snow all over this quilt. Quilted & shipped.

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Duane Trivette Tribute

11/13/2019

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On Saturday, Nov 9th, my dear friend & head of a most special family passed away.
Duane was the neighborhood grader
who kept our roads & driveways cleared in winter & maintained all year.
Duane was a classic mountaineer, hard worker, solid in faith, family man, faithful friend.

I met Duane on July 24, 2003, the day grading began on my lot.
Wish I had met him a few weeks earlier before I was under contract.
Within a year of longarming I started making quilts for this family.
I say this to say above all how special this entire family is to me.

Trivette Family Quilts
Duane (2), Duane's wife Marie (2),
Duane & Marie's son Tony, Tony's wife Lori, Tony's son TJ,
Duane & Marie's son Charles, Charles' son Caleb,
Charles' wife (then) Myra, Myra's daughter Vanessa, Myra's dad.
Still not through--Duane & Marie's daughter Denise & some grand-kids need quilts.
oh, plus a few commissioned quilts Marie gave friends

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Ivory Dogwood Batik Custom Quilt - Pieced 10/31/2019. Quilted 11/02/2019. Bound 11/06/2019.

11/6/2019

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Fascinating Documentary: How Bali Batiks are Made
Aug 02, 2019: The fabric for the Ivory Dogwood quilts is here. I'll be making a rather large quilt using custom blocks but arranged like a whole cloth pattern. The borders will be traditional custom.
Aug 03: The print is so much larger than I expected that I am trying to get a feel for how the quilting might look. First task--pre-wash...tomorrow. May take several tomorrows ... lol
Aug 04: The lights are washed & ready to cut.
Aug 05: The darks are washed, not dried or pressed.
Aug 06: Working on partly custom, mostly whole cloth layout. It will be awhile before a final plan emerges. Ideas are floating out there on the "dot" screen; if you know what that is, feel free to take a peek. I've been having an unusual number of "unforeseen circumstances", all good, but hard to get anything I planned done. Good thing too. Just learned my quilt recipient is enduring "unforeseen circumstances" too. So this is on hold.
Aug 09: The last few days, I finished the washing, drying, pressing & folding all the fabrics--a good pause point. I have decided we all need to leave this alone for a while, me too. The parameters & options & decisions & life are conflicting--solve one question, three pop up in its place. There is no urgency here.
Sep 09: Took some time to revisit the custom designs.
Oct 15: Started piecing. The center needs to pieced to be large enough. After attaching the side piece, I decided to split it with a smaller section on each side of the center.
Oct 16: Too sick to work.
Oct 17: Quilt top is done. Backing is ready. Will load tomorrow.
Oct 19: Loaded ready to quilt the top two borders.
Oct 20: Quilting. Did top two borders & 5 rows before I discovered the serious tensions issues. I know to check like crazy when starting a new quilt but just didn't check this one. Didn't photograph any more because the quilting just doesn't show--only when lights are dimmed.
Oct 22: Starting over. Too much to take out. Ordered new fabric.
Oct 25: New fabric is here.
Oct 29: Pre-washing is done.
Oct 31: Quilt top is pieced ready to load. I am abandoning custom quilting & have modified Donna Kleinke's dogwood pantograph slightly. I have sized the pantograph to fit nicely on the borders.
Nov 01: Loaded.
Nov 02: Quilting. Quilted.
Nov 03: Binding is attached & ready for handwork.
Nov 05: Finished 3 of 4 sides. Best time ever. Good thing since I need to reload & fix an area that didn't get quilted. Plan to deliver Thursday afternoon.
Nov 06: Finished.