Quilting Along

Quilt #2 - Baby Rails, scraps of 30's reproductions. Will keep on hand as a gift quilt. Quilted with Snapdragons  47.5" x 36"

Quilt #3 - Big Chickens, quilted with a new design drawn up in EQ8. I had previously designed a pattern that reminded me of chicken wire, but it went with the old machine. I like this design there are fewer passes. 60" x 55"

Quilt #4 - Lap Boxes, leftovers from a twin quilt. Quilted with Tracks.  60" x 51.5"

Quilt #5 (Purple Half-Rectangles) is quilted and needs binding, and #6 (Seahawks Charity Lap) is next to load. I'm branching out on threads, having initially worked with a cotton-wrapped poly on top and used some of the poly pre-wound bobbins that came with the machine. Poly or poly-blend threads are great for charity quilts, giving them a bit more strength. 

First Finish

The first finished quilt on the new longarm is bound, photographed and folded into the cupboard to be a gift quilt. Both the top and back are flannel - unusual for me. The top has large pieces so it's not too lumpy. The quilting pattern is Fleur dy Lys, the pantograph that came with the machine. It is  leafy without being leaves and was a good scale.

Flannel Baby, 55" x 36.5"

I've quilted two other quilts that need binding before being photographed. The garage is slowly being emptied out, books, fabric, tools etc. The sewing room in the house (2nd bedroom) is fairly stuffed, and there will probably be tubs of fabric under our bed before the garage has room for the truck.

Studio Update

Design wall in empty studio

 It was easier to use the design wall when the studio was almost empty!

Design wall in studio currently

It still works now, I just have to move to both sides of the machine and really take a good look. And then come back the next day and see what was missed.
Scrappy Batiks close-up

This was started from a group of orca print batiks that I was gifted, and my goal was to use large pieces. The blocks finish at 11", and because of the side strips it allowed me to cut four pieces from full WOF pieces.