 Will be enjoying the day in Greensboro at Ye Olde Forest Quilt Shoppe owned by my CPA & business genius daughter, Joanne, & her master longarmer husband, Kelley. In the evening I will finally celebrate my grandson's late July birthday with him. Yum & fun. The class is learning raw edge applique technique using McKenna Ryan's kit Which Came First. Something very different for me. Sunday 8/26: Well, I didn’t know Joanne was teaching so that was a nice surprise. She told us it took her 6 hours just to figure out how to read a McKenna Ryan pattern. She taught us the whole process in less than 2 hrs. We had the rest of the time to work. Getting organized (20 fabrics & 87 pieces) & doing some of the tracing is about as far as I got. My Steam A Seam separated from itself (Joanne says that is due to humidity) making it harder to handle but we still managed to get a few pieces fused. I was ready for our dinner!! Two hours home & I went straight to bed. Today I created a spreadsheet pairing up the fabrics and pieces, fused what I traced Saturday & cut out everything I had fused. Still have eggs & chicks & hay & the flower stem to go. This morning I came very close to giving away this little project but just couldn't. Will give a kit instead. It is just too cute & it may just be the only applique I ever do. Aug 28: Class at Ye Olde Forest Quilters in Greensboro. Aug 29: Got most of the pieces fused and cut out Sept 05-07: Fusing and cutting final pieces as I have moments to do so. Apr 08, 2013: Finally packed this up and shipped it to Celia.
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July 23: The quilts arrived. July 24: Karen agreed to come help me with these two quilts when she returns from a trip visiting family. We'll work a bit on the purple border and then longarm both of them. Since they are small & there are two of us, we just might get them back to Celia in a day. Time will tell. Pinwheels for a Baby Boy  Love the delicate colors. Celia makes small colorful quilts that sale! Aug 18: This is ready to load and quilt after a quick pressing. Got this one longarmed without any problems while Karen worked on the border for the Terrain quilt. Terrain Charms  This looks familiar! Celia used the charm pack while I used the layer cake. The purple border really pulls it all together. Aug 17: I removed the borders. It is ready for Karen to use her expertise to reattach them without waves. Aug 18: Karen did an amazing job with Celia's borders on this quilt. Karen got this job because she just happened to email me information on how to attach borders so that there were no waves. I asked her to come apply her technique to this quilt for Celia. Dare I say it took her about 4 hours!! Worth it though because now it will quilt nicely. On the way out the door Friday morning (Feb 17) to buy a replacement PC for the one that went dead Thursday night, UPS greeted me with a large box I wasn't expecting. I didn't recognize the sender. When I opened it I was surprised to find not 1, not 2 but three quilt tops, backings, instruction sheets, printouts from my Price Quote Estimator Tool and corresponding checks. I had a return address but no phone number and no email address. With urgent computer problems I was not able to search for a phone number until this morning. Thus I met Celia. I will let her tell you what happened from her end. (Read her comment.) All is well. And there is plenty of time to get everything done. Celia has agreed for me to do her quilts after the ones I am already expecting even though hers are here and the others are in route. Thank you, Celia. Still laughing here! What will happen tomorrow? Dare I ask!! LOL Now for what everyone comes here to see--beautiful quilts!! Puppy Dogs Quilt Mar 05: Celia selected her IQ design. Mar 06: Preparing to load (i.e. ironing out the shipping wrinkles) Mar 07: Loaded...Basting...Quilting...Quilted! Flower Quilt Mar 05: Celia selected her IQ design. Mar 08: Preparing to load...loading...quilting...quilted. Rose Garden Quilt Mar 05: Celia selected her IQ design. Mar 09: Preparing to load...loading...basting...quilting...quilted. |
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