Showing posts with label needle drop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label needle drop. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Holy Cow,it's WIP Again! Yay!

Okay so I'm almost caught up...um, sorta....heh.
WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced

Here's my updates for WIP Wednesday:

 This quilt is a custom order; just awaiting FMQ and binding, to be done tonite after work. Yay!
Circus Animal Quilt

 This is a custom memory quilt made from baby clothes and blankets. A bit of a challenge, but it is awating quilting and binding..
Baby Clothes Memory Quilt

 A custom order, new this week, so needs to be sandwiched, basted and quilted.
A custom order Rail Fence with creams and browns.

 This colour block quilt is for me; I LOVED the colours of the fabric.I had a "Oooh" moment in the fabric store and it was almost painful to cut into this fabric (I know you know what I mean) but it came together with hot pink blender cotton that I love it even more now. I decided to make it bigger, queen bed sized, so adding more as I go.
Colour Block Quilt





Other quilts:
My Pink & Green Railfence: No progress
Misc quilt tops for store: Some extra blocks assembled, no real big woop progress this week.

That's it for now, I'm off to work. More quilting to be done later tonite!!!
Have a wonderful Wednesday, here in Elgin County the temps went back up nicely today!

Thursday, January 19, 2012

By the way... NEW Machine!

For Christmas, I received the most wonderful gift ever.....


My new beautiful Janome QDC4030!!!!
I had my old Brother machine for 12 years; the same machine sewed every curtain, every quilt, every costume for every show I've been in or costumed for the last 12 years. And that's a lot. And never a problem, it was a midlevel machine and did everything I asked it to....but alas, the quiltmaking was starting to prove too much. Tension was never right, no matter what, thread breaking, rough edges on the bobbin case, you name it. Wobbly seams, the works.

The End came when I was frantically sewing the final touches on Adult size Onesie Superhero Jammies (yep, Christmas gift, from the KWIK Sew pattern and they're supercute) and my Brother ATE the elastic fabric. Yep. Ate it. Right down thru the feed dogs past the point of no return. And....yep, you guessed it...the Tantrum commenced. With the yelling and the screaming and the throwing of the thread....and of COURSE that was the moment J decided to arrive home...aaaaand witnessed the Horrible Tantrum In Progress.

And that was that. Tears were dried, boots were put on, and off we went to the local mall. I thought, to distract me from the events. Nope. Went to the Singer store.....and ... there She was.

I absolutely LOVE her....she's not named yet...but My Precious keeps coming to mind...(not in a creepy way)!
I love her though, did I mention that??? Great stitch functions, ALL the feet I will ever need ( oh yeah...1/4 inch, walking, open toe, you name it) auto needle up/down, the COOLEST thing where i can UNPLUG the electric pedal and go foot free with the easy start/stop button, that's so neat. I love it.  Best of all, it sews a straight line. LAUGH.

I've got a few projects in progress, more later. I teach tonite, this semester we're taking on some SHAKESPEARE and gulp, SWORDFIGHTING!!!! Aiee. Fun though!