Photos of "Amish Lib."

Here is the quilting that I have been working on.  First I decided to overlay the wonky triangles with an even cross-hatching.

Then I put uneven feathers in both of the side borders.

Next. on the bottom and top borders. I echo-ed the words and filled the background with straight lines, one inch apart and then 1/2 inch.

The last step, after conferring with Dianne, was to put "footballs" in the narrow pink inner borders.  These are wonky borders, so they had to be treated a little differently as I dealt with each one.

And here's the final result, 26" x 41".

Since the words had to be PIECED, I decided to make the year in Roman Numerals because they have straight lines.

This quilt was made to Tonya's Amish Challenge.  It was supposed to be finished by July 1, but I took it to BIQR and managed to finish the words and all the borders there.

Now it is quilted and bound, and hanging on the wall in the kitchen.  Hooray!

Sara

Gratitudes:

Report that Martha was in the hospital was a false alert.
Beautiful red maple color along our driveway.
Survived the exercise class after missing for two weeks

Amish Lib progress

Okay, Okay!  This is pretty lame with no photos, but I DID manage to quilt my version of feathers on both SIDE borders of the Amish Lib quilt.

For the first I drew it out on freezer paper, ironed the paper onto the border and sewed right through the paper.  Well, having tried it, I don't really recommend this method.  It took me a lot of time to remove the paper.

The second one I just took my old dress-making chalk and drew my feather right on the border fabric.  Went equally well on the sewing, which means I wasn't totally accurate on the re-sewn lines.  Some bobbles in there, but it is black thread on black fabric, so ....... both hard to see while sewing, and pretty hard to see after sewing [unless you peak at the back of the quilt].  After all, I'm not in the business of pleasing Quilt Judges.

Now the top and bottom borders, which have the pieced words in them.  How to quilt?  My decision is to "echo" once around the words, then quilt straight lines from side to side, jumping over/past the words.  Hope I can find my camera soon so I can show you what I mean.

Sara

Gratitudes:


- By pretending to be on a retreat, I am making progress on Amish Lib rather than dropping it on a pile of other unfinished projects.
- Handed Emerald Forest over to Lynne and Peter tonight after a nice restaurant dinner together celebrating their 15th anniversary.
- More library books from inter-library loan

Camera Lost!

Can't take pictures without a camera!

Where did I put that thing?  Couldn't find it for BIQR, and still can't find it.

Just finished the binding on Peter and Lynne's quilt Emerald Forest-- so it is ready to gift for their 15th anniversary.  We will see them for dinner on Friday.

Trying to figure out how I want to quilt the Amish Lib. quilt.  So far I have put cross-hatching all over the middle.  Seems like "Amish" should have feathers on the side borders.  Oh, my!  Am I up for that????

Sara

Gratitudes:

The dropped sewing machine is still working [but not the light]
No camera doesn't stop me from quilting
Have been able to thread the needle, even without the machine light!

Progress and Delay

I keep putting off making any progress on the "Amish Lib" top. I have only cut a few strips with which to make the letters. Nothing more sewn together.

I have done some of the quilting on the Paper Dolls quilt, around the blocks and the strips in the borders. Next I need to decide what I'm going to do in the 9-patch blocks and the girls. Or I could do something in the two wide borders. Or I could put on the binding and THEN finish the quilting. For the moment it is just lying on the bed.

You see, I have distracted myself from these hard decisions by continuing on the simple four-patch baby quilt, another for the neonatal unit. There were more than enough Four-patches (made as Leaders/Enders), and NO THINKING required to sew them together. I now have a 32" x 40" center.

Easy-Peasy!

Sara

Gratitudes:

Laura Fyffe made a nice dinner and Valentine's cake for us

My new green carry-on suitcase arrived

Empathetic friends

Liberated Amish

I'm participating in a challenge by Tonya, Lazy Gal, to make a liberated Amish style quilt with liberated lettering on the front somewhere. The details are at http://lazygallibamish2010.blogspot.com/

Above you see my beginning of an Amish Triangles top based on the sample #93 in the book we are using. I have about as many again which have been added since this photo. And maybe that photo is upside down.

I am now thinking about borders, and more difficult, what words to add, and how to make the letters. This is slowing me down. I am procrastinating. I want to just add the borders and start quilting. No, I have to make some letters.

One thing I did was to sew together a lot of four-patches. That doesn't take much thought.

Another thing I did was to take an old machine quilting practice sample and cut it up and make two hot pads. The bias binding was just lying around in the same place.

So that also put off the making letters for another half hour.

Now I'm reading and watching TV, and looking at the computer.. . . .and not yet making any letters.

Sara

Gratitudes:

Slept in late this morning

Quilt making challenges

Yummy pizza at Vitale's tonight