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FAL 2017 – Q2
Q1 of the 2017 Finish-A-Long was small. I got a little cocky and exhausted after the Gravity quilts in January, and spent most of February and March knitting socks instead of quilting! BAD OPAL In Q2, I hope to wrap up a bunch of projects. Some of them I started in...
Star Table Runner for Karen
This is the longest version I've made of the star table runner - it's SEVEN FEET LONG. As you can see, it's pretty comical on our little dining room table, but I'm sure it'll be brilliant on Karen's! I quilted the beige background with clear nylon thread, so while you...
Romy’s One Block Wonder Quilt
This is my second One Block Wonder quilt. It is a double, and intended to cover a futon in an office. I free motion quilted this on a longarm in about 2 hours. Quilt Started: February 2017. Quilt Finished: March 26, 2017 This quilt is one...
Gravity Quilt 2
The second Gravity quilt got a 3.5 hour session on the longarm quilting machine. Having learned from my first session, I did a better job of managing the machine and had fewer glitches. I also decided to quilt the black to grey gradient area on the longarm, and...
Gravity Quilt 1
The first Gravity quilt got a 4 hour session on the longarm quilting machine, and thanks to a threading mishap, I had to rip out 2.5 of the diamonds and redo them at home on my machine. I also had to finish the black to light grey areas of the quilt on my own machine,...
2017 FAL – Q1
My big list of projects for the 2017 Finish-A-Long.
How to Make a String Quilt
Early in 2016, I started a quilt for a friend. She’d inherited part of her Mom’s stash of fabric and was looking for a way to turn it into a quilt.
Lucky Star Quilt
Lucky Star quilt, based on Sparkle Plenty pattern.
Sew Strange
I fell off of my own bandwagon of plans and re-working life in a big way. I admit it.