Design Wall Monday

I know this is not a wall, but I could not get it to stick to the wall because it was so heavy. The ABC quilt still needs a final border. This quilt is "shocking" red and can cause red dots to appear before your eyes!! I am so glad to have this almost complete. I want to work on a quilt called Floral Visions that I will embroider on my new 830. Happy sewing week!

Design Wall Monday

This is Redwork ABC by The Stitch Connection.

The embroidery has been completed for all of the blocks. Now I am sewing the piecing around each of the blocks. I only have 16 more blocks to go! This is my second redwork quilt this summer. I think the next one will have to be bluework or greenwork because I am a bit tired of seeing red. My new 830 and I are getting to know each other as we work on this quilt.

Holiday Redwork

This is the quilt that I am working on. It is from The Stitch Connection. I am teaching this as a class at the Overbrook quilt shop. I made this quilt a couple of years ago and decided I should make it again to refresh my memory about how it constructed. The redwork is machine embroidery and is very quick. I am considering making a couple of these as Christmas gifts.

Selvage Postcard

One of my listserves is having a postcard exchange and this is my interpretation of using "green" materials. The background is made from selvages that I have saved since I have started reading the selvage blog. The selvage background starts with the brown dirt, proceeds through the grass and flower garden before ending with the sky. The flower is embroidered from The Stitch Connection's Bloomin' Flowers CD. I love this flower because it has a 3D center formed by using water soluble bobbin thread. The fuzzy border is fun fur that has been couched onto the card. Making fabric postcards and receiving them is great fun!

Bloomin' Flowers is pieced!

The picture is not the best but Bloomin' Flowers has been pieced. I waited for the wind to go down so I could take the picture outside and I lost too much of the sun. This quilt is by The Stitch Connection and the blocks are intense embroidery and applique. Some of the blocks have up to 40 color changes. I had to put a small table beside my sewing cabinet just to hold the 40-50 spools of thread I used in the quilt. The pieced second border really is a great addition to the quilt. After quilting this top, this quilt will be exquisite.

I'll try to get a better picture tomorrow.

Sneak Peak of "Bloomin' Flowers"

For the past week I have been working on a quilt by The Stitch Connection called Bloomin' Flowers. The quilt has 12 main blocks of flower arrangements with several other small connector blocks.

The direction are quite extensive, so I printed them out and now have 35 pages in a notebook. It is so easy to look at the directions by just turning a page for checking and rechecking directions. Each of the designs have a stitchout diagram that has the thread colors and then a small picture of the stitchout. One of the designs has 40 color changes.

The directions contain lots of diagrams for putting the blocks together. There are also suggestions for quilting which is unique with many patterns. As a bonus there is also a label for the quilt.

Small Flower Quilt

This sixteen inch quilt was made to be given to another quilter in an exchange. The center is machine embroidery and applique called "Bloomin' Flowers" from The Stitch Connection. I have used their patterns for several quilts. The border technique is a bias folding method that I saw in Paducah. New Leaf Stitches has several patterns that use the method. I enjoyed meeting the designer and seeing her patterns.

Today I am working on the heart quilt. Yesterday I spray-basted the layers and today is quilting day.