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I guess I am a bit of a researcher at heart. In my last post I expressed concern about how the heat erasable Frixion pens will “bloom” back when the quilt gets cold. I also was perplexed as to why my quilted lines were wobbly on my practice piece. I received the following comment from Carol Cann, a talented Canadian quilter I met in my class with Diane Gaudynski in Paducah: “…for those of us who live in a northern/cold climate, a quilt could get cold if put in a trunk and driven to a quilting event. There is also…
The spring quilt season has begun-wow, I missed going to shows! I got to the Valley Quilt Guild show in Yuba City and thoroughly enjoyed the quilts despite the rain/wind weather we’ve been having. There was a great assortment of vendors too.Karen Litvinchuk designed, made and quilted this beauty-“In the Pink”. I really enjoyed her quilting, the colors and embroidery embellishments.I stood there awhile trying to figure out how she got that embroidery and quilting on the flower petals-did she embroider/quilt first and then construct? When I read the description she did indeed say she first embroidered, then constructed, then…
Never before in the History of Jenny have three projects been completed within a week of each other! It truly is coincidence that the completion dates ended up so close, as I started Saw Tooth Star in Nov, Daisy Vest in Feb and the SAQA Challenge Quilt this month. It is a rush to actually complete anything, let alone three projects so close together-I’m on a high for the moment! Each year Studio Art Quilt Associates holds their major fundraiser, an on-line Benefit Auction. SAQA asks its members to create and donate quilt art that is one square foot. The…
I participated in the year-long Studio Art Quilt Associates Whisper Challenge and since the “reveal” happened last month, I can now post photos of my challenge quilt. Our Whisper Challenge starts with a photo and each team member is assigned a month. The January person makes a quilt inspired by the original photo and then sends a photo of just her quilt to the February person. It goes on down the line and by the time it gets to even the third person, it usually bears little resemblance to the original photo. This is the quilt that started it out,…
Late last year I joined Superior University, a yearlong series of lessons and activities hosted by Superior Threads-it sounded like fun! A monthly charge ($17) covers supplies and shipping for each project which should take 60-90 minutes. You can join any time. Of course they are creating projects that use their products and I’m fine with that-I’m a fan! This month’s project is a greeting card and it’s just the coolest thing! I have already gotten the fabric postcard bug from Franki Kohler, author of “Fast, Fun and Easy Fabric Postcards“. Now making fabric greeting cards would allow me to send something…
I was recently in the Denver area and had just a little time to visit the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum and tour their current show: “Male Call: Quilts Made By Men”. It was very interesting to see a collection of quilts made from the masculine viewpoint. I was surprised that the majority were hand quilted! Some had a combination of hand and machine quilting and I recall only one being ornately long arm quilted-who knew? There was a wide variety of style and construction techniques and I had a blast viewing this show in the little time I was there.Desert…
Did you know that even famous, “perfect” quilters have to block their quilts so that they hang straight? They do! I routinely expect to block my quilts. Saw Tooth Star, well, this poor baby really needed a blocking: it had over a 1″ variance in width and the whole quilt is only about 46 1/2″ “square” (square being a relative term)! You may recall, I inadvertently selected a cotton/poly blend fabric for my borders and sashing. So, when it came time to block, that poly part of my fabric was NOT going to give and stretch like cotton would. Such a compounding…
I’ve entered the Free Motion Quilting Challenge over at SewCalGal’s blog and I’m posting my February challenge. This surely must be the only thing I am ahead of deadline on so I’m quite pleased with myself. Although I do have a lot of experience with free motion, I was intrigued by the challenge because each month a different instructor of great expertise will post a tutorial. Diane Gaudynski was February’s gal so I was hooked. I haven’t done January’s challenge yet because I signed up late in the month. Frances Moore was January’s instructor and her tutorial on leaves was…