sewbizgirl

I haven't posted before now, but i did sew along with you all this weekend. No guests or elaborate cooking for me... Mostly been working on a scrappy 16 patch quilt for donation.

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Finally last night I got to start hand quilting an embroidery quilt. I'm trying to be really careful with the hand quilting so I can enter it in a show.

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Hope everyone had a great weekend and a happy Easter.

Snooze2978

Well, finally got my 1976 folding chairs refinished and painted white to match the chairs on my back deck. Today I'll put the cushions back on. Quilted some leftover scraps of outdoor fabrics a while back, got them on the cushion boards and just waiting till I had the chairs painted. One chair gave me grief as the paint kept bubbling up on me so I'd have to re-sand it, prime it and then try again with the spray paint. I find spray paint hides a mulitude of sins. Also, made a paper pattern for a new cover for my dome style smoker. Will make up a muslin tester to see if I got the pleats placed correctly and then out comes my leftover scraps again of the outdoor fabrics to make the complete pattern. Picked up an embroidery design "Kiss the Cook" from some site I'll have to search my receipts to see where I got it and then get it embroidered for the front side of the cover. Then my back deck will be complete with all new cushions, table cloth and smoker cover. Will be so glad when this is done as I have an allergic reaction to the outdoor fabrics when I'm working with them down in my basement.

Rebecca_S

Sewbizgirl, that embroidery is so darling! My mother enjoys embroidery quilts the best and yours is outstanding!

kristakz

I've been working away today, trying to make up for the 5 hours I lost yesterday driving my son back to school. The first picture is a top that has been hanging in my closet for ages - finally quilted and ready for hand binding.
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The second photo is a top I'm trying to put together from leftover bits from another project. It's not really this shape, but I thought it looked kind of cool when I noticed what I'd done I have some bits under the needle right now, sewing together a bunch of triangles I had. It's the last of any of these fabrics I have. Ideally I'd like to make it a bit bigger, so I'll have to see if I have something that will work as a border for this.

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NZquilter

Your embroidery is beautiful, sewbizgirl!

rryder

Love the quilting on the top quilt Krista!

Rob

Sync

kristakz, love your quilting. Still working on my Allietare today, I'm at the halfway point with putting this top together.

Raggiemom

Love seeing and reading what everyone has been working on. I never get everything done that I think I might, but still made good progress which makes me happy. See you all next month!

QuiltingVagabond

Wow! So many great finishes! Here is one of the two panels I made this weekend - I still have to sew the gift package buttons so the little bear can move around on the advent calendar.
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NZquilter

What a lovely Christmas panel! Where did you get it? It is too cute.