Showing posts with label sharon's quilt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sharon's quilt. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Sharon's Quilt Finished! :)

Yay!  I just finished quilting up Sharon's quilt...I'm off to trim it and send it back home.  :)



I used Sigma thread on this quilt - which I find to be a lot like Isacord although Sigma tends to come off the spool too fast for my machine.  I use a thread net...but still I get looping on the bottom which is a real pain because then I have to go back afterwards and tuck those babies back into the quilt.  I had a very nice woman approach me at a local meeting recently asking about some looping on the underside of her quilt that she had just had long armed by another quilter...I didn't think to suggest to her it might be the thread!  There are a number of things that can cause looping when free motion quilting or long arm quilting...lint is another possibility and also burrs.  I know in this case it was the thread because it is a recurring issue I have with Sigma that I don't really have with any other thread.  Glide does require a gentler touch - but it is my favorite thread by far.  :)


I do love look of this thread though - especially with fancy intricate quilting...the shininess just looks like pearl to me...it's elegant!  :)  LOL









Tonight I will start loading up Monica's quilt...she sent me two beauties to work on.  I am excited to get going too because they are going to be just lovely.  :)  Also hoping to start squeezing in some work on my dahlia quilt.  Deadlines are fast approaching and I've been so busy I haven't touched it!  Eek!  :)

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Sharon's Quilt Progress Photos!

I feel like I'm back!  After a really rough week I've been slowly making a dent in the stack of quilts I have waiting here to be quilted...and this one is making me drool.  I just love how this is turning out!  I was a little stumped when Sharon first sent it over...but once I started playing on it, I really got into a groove and it's looking so beautiful!  :)




I adore how it is turning out!  Tomorrow will be a marathon quilting day - I plan to load up on coffee in the morning and then the Husband will be taking the kids for me for a little while...yay!  Quilt-A-Thon 2013!!  :)  I figure I'll let him spoil me for working so hard with some peanut butter pie with my dinner!!!  ;)  Lol  I truly do have a good Hubby though, seriously.  :)  He taped a little bit of me quilting tonight as an experiment if anyone is interested in that kind of thing...

Be warned...the video is embedded and I have received a snarky comment or two in the past from someone who couldn't see it well..I do apologize for that but I think it has something to do with my blogger template and I don't have much control over it...if you have any issues and really want to see better just hop on over to my YouTube Channel and click on the full screen option.  ;)