Finished...

Well, I saw my Aunt yesterday, and it was great! We visited for a few hours, I showed her one of my machines(the western electric) and we worked on finishing the case.

I gave her the quilt. Here are two pictures of it. It is not a proper Quill ow, as I quilted it before I put the pillow thing on. I quilted it on my Riccar treadle(in the straight leg base) with the presser foot all the way done. It was 3 layers of batting - I wanted to give her a warm quilt.

My Davis VF complained about it, so thats why I used the Riccar. An EBay seller once said about the same machine "It's built like a tank."

One amusing comment on Craigslist was that this old machine was bullet proof!!! I was laughing hard about that! I love them because they are some heavy and dependable. I'd take one over a new one any day(unless it was a Bernina 830)

My dream though is still to get a Computerized embroidery sewing machine, I just don't have a 1000 dollars to spend on one yet...

Emily

Thanksgiving

Well, this week is thanksgiving, and black Friday too!

I'm not planning to get anything, but my family's bookstore is having a black friday, will be interesting to see how it does. Everybody is supposedly in Salem...

Emily

Progress

Well, I'm making progress on the quilt for my aunt. I have the fabric all cut out and ready to sew.

I'm looking forward to thanksgiving too!

It is just going to be a small meal with my parents. We will be skipping the Turkey, and just doing Stuffing, and a Spinach Soffle!

It'll be nice, because then neither me or my mom have to cook, much!!!

Emily

Sunshine & Shadow

In my Quilting group, the leader of it had me make Sunshine & Shadow as a baby quilt in reds.

I made it, and I really liked it, so I am going to use that pattern for my Aunt's quillow. I am going to do it in shades of blues, starting with light and going to dark. I have a panel with cats and birds on it that I'm going to use for the pillow part.

More next week

Emily

Finally Done

Well, I am finally done with my dad's quilt. I don't know why I took so long on the binding, but I procrastinated a bit, I'm afraid. I participated in a sew along swap a while ago, and I got 3 of the 4 rows of blocks from it. I made the other row. Not my best work, but I felt like it was good enough. I used high loft batting, which made it really warm! I had to use a big needle on my machine, and it clunked a bit, but it sewed it well.

Now onto a quilt for my aunt's birthday. She wants a mono chromic blue quillow.