 Aug 26: Quilt is here. Programmed IQ options. Aug 28: Quilted. Pictures tomorrow.
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 Aug 15: This is Joan Taylor 3rd RWB (Red, White & Blue) quilt for a classmate Vietnam veteran. Perhaps you have some fabric you can donate? Prepped. Loading. Going with Bottom Line Off White thread & My ZZag pattern. Aug 16: Did a mini 2-block overlay to help determine best density. Have a batting question for The Warm Company. Aug 17: Satisfied all is well with the batting. Loaded. Settled on density just slightly larger than 1". Quilting using my ZZag pattern. Takes 14 rows to complete one 15" section / roll of the quilt. Quilted first section. Aug 18: Quilted. More pictures tomorrow and then shipping.
Jun 13: Quilt arrived. Jun 19: EQ7 rendition done. Working on overlays. Jun 20: Prepped & loaded ready to quilt. Uing Dream Orient (silk-bamboo blend) batting and Bottom Line Grey thread. Thinking the darker shade will show less on the dark colors & only slightly more on the lightest color. Jun 21: Quilted.  Forgot to take the photo I wanted so this is a bit cludgy but the best I could do. May 06: Quilt, pieced by Joan Taylor, is here. Loaded ready to quilt. May 07: Quilted. Photogenic little quilt. May 08: Forgot to take the photo I wanted before packing up the quilt. Still I have created some collages that are in places kludgy trying to give a fair representation of the quilt for the gallery.  Mar 18: Binding only. Mar 21: Binding is attached & clipped. Mar 27: Three sides done. Mar 28: Binding finished  Mar 18: Binding only. Mar 28: Made the binding. Mar 29: Attached the binding. Apr 06: Binding finished.  This quilt was donated by Joan Taylor at her class reunion. This is the happy recipient.
Mar 18: Met Joan in Wilkesboro for a quilt swap. Came home with this one to quilt & bind plus 2 more to bind. Joan will order and ship backing later. Hoping her selection will work. Mar 25: The backing came but was not quilting quality so it has been returned. Mar 26: Joan has new backing. Mar 30: Backing is here, a brown weave. Mar 31: Loaded ready to quilt. Using Chantilly Lace. Apr 01: Quilted. Apr 02: Quilt squared, binding attached, clipping, hand sewing. One side & 2 corners done. Apr 03: Bound. Apr 04: Final pictures. Couldn't get a whole quilt shot I liked.  Veterans at Joan Taylor's high school class reunion drew the winner of this quilt. Not the best photo but a very happy & humble recipient. Joan is now planning to make a quilt for each veteran in her class. Wow!
Feb 03: Shipped on Jan 27th, expected Jan 30th, this quilt finally arrived at the local post office today. I decided to retrieve it myself in spite of serious flooding in the area. Temporarily posted pics, EQ7 rendition & overlays. Feb 04: Doing 13.5" rows using Bottom Line Statue thread & Warm & White batting. Feb 06: Prepped & loaded. Feb 07: Quilting. Row 1 posted waiting for feedback. Change of plans. Feb 08: Working out a new stitch-in-the-ditch plan. Bottom Line Red on borders, Statue on the blocks. Quilted first row. Feb 09: Continuing with rolling the quilt row by row, trimming loose threads, double checking for strays using flashlight, basting sides, block by block marking where on the quilt I want to stitch, stitching. The results are more than worth the effort. Finished row 4. Feb 10: My laser was giving me fits. I finally loosened all screws & started from scratch trying to get a better angle. Not sure it helped but I was finally able to do a couple of rows. Feb 11: Row 7 thru bottom border done. Unloaded, turned & reloading to do side borders. Feb 12: Side borders & thus the quilting is done. Feb 14: Made the binding. Feb 16: Squared the quilt for binding. Feb 17: Attaching binding. Doing the hand work. Feb 19: Binding & thus the quilt is finished.  This quilt was the door prize donated by Joan Taylor at her high school reunion that "surprisingly EVERYONE wanted". DUH. No surprise to me. The recipient managed to escape the photo.
Feb 12: Quilt top arrived. Mar 18: Prepped. Mar 19: Quilted.
Feb 12: Quilt top is here. Mar 18: Quilted.
Feb 12: Quilt top arrived. Apr 09: Finalized the IQ pattern. Quilting using my ZZag pattern, Bottom Line Copper thread & Quilters Dream Select batting. Apr 10: Quilting. Been having thread breaks all night & can't figure out what is causing it. Tonight the machine wins ... for now. Apr 11: Today I win. Cleaned the bobbin area and bobbin assembly & all is well. May still be able to ship today.  Jan 30: Quilt top here. Needed mid February. Will be doing the binding. Using So Fine! #452 Bone thread & Easy Swirls panto. Wound bobbins. Programmed IQ. Need more bobbins. Jan 31: Finalized IQ programming. Prepped, loaded & ready to quilt. Feb 01: Quilted. Binding to follow. Feb 05: Squared. Made the binding. Feb 08: Binding is attached. Starting hand work. Feb 15: Binding is finished. Boxed, labeled & ready to ship tomorrow. Feb 16: Can't ship--postal holiday. With huge winter storm coming, don't know when I can ship.
From Quilt Blog by Natalia Bonner & Kathleen Whiting I have Natalia's permission to use these images here. Dec 28, 2014: Signed up for solids. If not available, batiks version would be fine. Dec 29: Got the solids! Yes! Paid for Month 1. Jan 04, 2015: Joan Taylor has agreed to do the piecing so this is now a J&L project. Feb 22: Quilt map & first 2 6" blocks May 14: Joan is piecing a block with 93 pieces! Perhaps block 3? Jun 07: Joan is piecing away & concerned ... I'm not. Jul 15: Got in a stack of blocks from Joan today. Posted along with updated map. Dec 05: Joan mailed me an envelope with some quilt blocks. Dec 07: Expecting Joan's package, I was watching for it. Checked at 4 PM & 5 PM. Got a USPS email that it was delivered at 4:15. Called Bennie & he confirmed delivery of a brown envelope. I never got it. Dec 17: Posted a second progress map showing what is pieced, what was stolen, what is in next's month's set & what Joan has on hand. Mar 18, 2016: Met Joan in Wilkesboro for a quilt swap including a few more finished blocks. Apr 07: Took inventory of what I now have in house after the last ones Joan gave me. First A Bit Of NewsJoan shares that her brother has supplied trees to various White House events at least as far back as the Reagans. For those of you who are interested, my brother's tree farm was selected to supply the 2014 Christmas tree to Vice-President Biden. Also, some of the White House staff went to their farm in early October to flag some trees for the White House. I’m very proud of my brother, as he has spent his whole adult life working with trees. For them to win reserve champion is really nice.
Table TopperNov 06: Quilt arrived. Nov 10: Programmed IQ, pieced & loaded backing, cut batting. Did overlays of two patterns--Billowy and my Sine Snow. Snow wins. Nov 11: Prepped the top. After loading the thread & adjusting the tension, I re-programmed IQ making it more dense. Quilting. Quilted.
Sep 20: The quilt top arrived. I absolutely LOVETT. The fabrics are brushed cotton & flannel. Joan, you've got me & my cabin mentality/simplicity down pat. Already cut the wool batting. Sep 21: Have to play. Auditioning patterns to see what I like. Comments & opinions are welcome. Sep 24: Worked most of the day on a plan. Sep 25: Started working again after getting home from Greensboro. Down to two plans using 6 patterns, 5 of which are by Donna Kleinke. I like both a lot so deciding will be hard. Time to quilt so I need to decide. Oh, and I picked up some backing fabric (Moda-Through the Winter Woods) at Ye Olde Forest Quilt Shoppe. Sep 26: Bought patterns and drawing layouts in IQ. So much better than cut and paste but still extremely time consuming. Sep 27: Another long day of planning and drawing in IQ. I think I'm done. Will sleep on it before I quilt it. Sep 28: Will use Bottom Line #618 Medium Brown thread and wool batting. Sep 29: Pieced the backing. Quilting. Somehow I deleted my perfected layout and am having to redraw it. Fortunately, I still have all the components & earlier versions. Sep 30: Redrew the desired plan before continuing. Quilting again. Oct 01: Thought sure I would finish today but when a friend is willing to clean my nasty deck with his spray washer, I drop everything and help! And treat him & his wife to dinner. Oct 02: Can see the end. Still a lot work including the side borders. Finished all but side borders. Need to unload, turn & then reload to do those. Oct 03: Quilted. The backing is a camel color very close to the tan browns on the front, not cream in the photos. The back is in effect a whole cloth quilt. Binding is attached, clipped & ready for a needle & lap time. Nov 17: Got in sheet blanket to use under the quilt & night stand cover to match. One side left to finish on the binding. Nov 20: Finished the binding. Sep 20: Quilt top arrived. Sep 21: Programmed IQ. Using Chantilly Lace quite small. Sep 25: Quilted. Sep 20: Quilt top arrived. If you use the search feature at the top of the page, you'll find more Noah's Ark quilts. Sep 21: Programmed IQ. Sep 23: Reprogrammed IQ down to 4" rows. Loaded & ready to quilt tomorrow. Sep 24: Quilted. The challenge on this quilt was to be sure the linear pattern & the quilt came out even and parallel all the way down the quilt. I think I succeeded without it being obvious what I was doing.
Marianne's Quilt Story When pregnant with my second child, I thought it would be neat to make a quilt for the crib to match the curtains I made for the nursery. I took a class to learn how. The teacher gave us a different square pattern to complete each week. How I was going to make it into a baby blanket was to be determined later...much later. Also if I wanted to learn to piece them together then that was a different class as was quilting. I never finished my top but have always wanted to. Now 29 years later, Linda & Joan have agreed to finish it for me. I did the piecing by hand, not satisfied with the results on my sewing machine. I am so happy...you see, my child is having a child in August and this will be her baby's quilt. Feb 12: Marianne contacted me today about finishing this quilt she started years ago. Joan came to mind at once & has agreed to do the design & piecing of the top ... in May. Apr 22: Joan has the quilt top pieces now and is starting to "noodle" over it as she likes to say. June: It's June now & Joan is still noodling and working with Marianne on details. Jun 09: Joan & Marianne have worked out just what to do. Joan hopes to finish her part next week. Jul 18: The quilt is here and absolutely adorable. Marianne actually made the 9th block herself. Joan's challenge was getting the blocks centered just so inside the sashing. I will not stitch over the appliques but will outline around them instead. I will attach the binding but Marianne is going to do the time consuming hand work. One day is all I need.& hope to ship mid-week around the 23rd. Jul 19: Planned the backing. Needs a bit of piecing but it matches the top & is the backing after all. Offered another option--wide enough muslin for a backing in one piece (no seams). Quilting pattern will be Hearts a Flutter with off-white thread. Jul 20: Marianne ordered the muslin. Jul 25: Got the backing...badly smudged & the wrong shade. Re-ordered. Fabric.com gave Marianne a full refund & told me to keep rather than return the fabric.) Jul 30: The re-ordered backing just came in & is perfect. Jul 31: Loading. Aug 01: Quilting. Aug 02: Quilted. Binding attached. Shipped.
January 201202/09/2012 returned not quilted So, this is a first. I cannot figure out a way to do this quilt justice so Joan & I have agreed for me to return it to her. She will finish removing what I have sewn & try to get her local longarming friend to quilt it. I so hope it all works out. I don't give up easily & I do feel a longing to fight on but it is not best for anyone. Si la vie. PS: Joan just put this away as was & did nothing with it. July 201407/18/2014: It's back! Joan says just reload it, finish it & consider it good enough. I admit I am pretty darn picky but if equally picky Joan is okay with this one for what is and is not, well, then so I am. Hmmm maybe & maybe not. Joan will machine bind it. On second thought, I must take out the smoke monopoly. I have since learned that it does not hold up in a dryer over time. Also, I already took out some of the quilting 2 years ago. There is no way I can pick up where I left off. Get to do it right after all. And so the quilt sandwich is now back to 3 pieces--top, back & batting. Clean start over. Aug 07: While re-programming this afternoon, I simplified the Forget-Me-Knot center. That opens up options. Quilted. |
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