October’s Challenge for Island batik is Borders and bindings and guess what!? I was looking thru all my old Island Batik posts and I haven’t done anything creative with borders or bindings before with Island batik quilts! As you know I love Accuquilt too and I had originally planned this for just a “because” quilt, …
My French braid quilt is finally done! I actually quilted it a few weeks ago but then I procrastinated on adding the binding, but finally got around to it now! As you may remember, I made this one using FQs and the chisel shape from the 8” QUBE set and small squares too, then 1 …
Last week I finished long arm quilting two quilts for my friend/customer Ann. She said she was guilty in procrastinating on these, as the star quilt was for her daughter’s birthday this month and I told her I would quilt it within a week so she could still give it to her in time! (and …
Did you see the newest free pattern on Accuquilt?? it’s called Fun neighborhood and I designed and made it for Accuquilt a few months ago. I had just gotten my plastic templates for the long arm and the math worked out that I could perfectly do clamshells in rows across the whole quilt, my hands …
I actually got a long arm quilting customer (repeat) last week. My long arm business has pretty much died, I don’t know why….. but oh well…. anyways, this quilt was a big twin sized and it’s all HSTs!! isn’t that cool?? I quilted pointy swirls all over it. she used this neat flannel on the …
I finally started quilting the french braid QUBE quilt I made. I’m doing feathers on the outer border bubbles on the black sashing strips and a fun design on the braids hopefully you can see the youtube video I made too (I know it doesn’t show here, but click on it to view on youtube) …
A while ago I got an email from a lady in NY, who was room mates with one of my customer’s daughter up there and she made her first quilt and wanted me to quilt it! So she sent me this link to a very modern quilt that was quilted by Angela Walters and asked …
My long arm business has almost died but every once in a while I get someone, this time a local customer/client had two for me that she was finishing for someone else. I believe someone had made the centers of the top and she added the borders she just wanted basic meandering on both of …
A long time ago a lady at church gave me a shoe box with an unfinished quilt in it, I put it on the shelf and honestly forgot about it for a long time, until recently I got it out and actually measured everything and noted it on my quilting board. I then noticed that …
I am happy to finally have this quilt crossed off my list! I just did a large meandering all over it Of course I made these blocks with the Accuquilt Snail Trail die 🙂 Also I got goodies in the mail! Here’s an order from Connecting threads- may be boring to some but not to …