Machine Embroidery Quilting

I've been busy using the embroidery module on my sewing machine to finish this quilt. 

After pin basting, I hooped a section and let the machine do its work.  It takes about 5 minutes to embroider that little design.

Not quite finished yet, but here is how it looks so far.......

Sophie's knees

Sophie had surgery this morning to repair a torn ligament in her left knee and is resting comfortably back at home tonight.  No gory photos - just lots of hope for a good recovery and long walks in Sophie's future.

In July she had the same surgery to repair her right knee.  Poor girl hasn't been having a very nice time lately, but with both knees now fixed and some physiotherapy at the vet's she should be walking well again in a couple of months.

A New Design

This weekend I've started a new design.  Super scrappy quilts are always my favorite, so for this one I started with a small fq bundle of Old Primrose Inn and pulled together as many coordinating prints as I could find in my stash.  Its a long way from a finished quilt top - but here are a couple photos of a work in progress.

Quilted

Two of my quilts are are back from being sent out for quilting.

One is the Pinwheels quilt I recently finished and the other is a quilt top I finished back in 2009.

Now to find time to put on the binding.......

Pinwheels Progress

I am making some progress on the pinwheels quilt.  All the blocks are done and I am sewing on the setting triangle sections.  For now, I've chosen this fabric for the border.....I love the flowers and I think the colours blend well with the rest of the fabrics I have used in the quilt.

Happy New Year

What a great way to start the new year - I spent the day in my sewing room!

I got this wonderful Christmas present from my husband.  The Accuquilt Studio Fabric Cutter - and I love it. One of the basic shapes that came with Accuquilt Studio is this triangle die.  The corners are cut so there are no dog-ears to trim when the triangles are pieced together.  How great is that?  I was careful with pressing and folding my fabric before cutting so there was minimum fabric wasted.

I've been cutting triangles and piecing pinwheel blocks all day and my sewing room now looks like this...

This is going to be another scrappy quilt.  I'm using this selection of Thimbleberries fabric plus other coordinating fabrics from my stash.

I hope you all had a wonderful start to the new year and best wishes for 2011.

Merry Christmas

With just a couple days to go before Christmas I am still busy with last minute gifts and preparations.....but, the house is decorated and the trees are up.  I am looking forward to celebrating a wonderful Christmas with my family and I want to wish everyone a Happy Holiday Season.

one finished - another one started

The fall quilt I started in October is finished.  Well, at least its a finished quilt top - the quilting can be done later.

A great scrappy quilt by Jo Morton was featured on the cover of American Patchwork and Quilting (Dec.2010). It was a lot of fun pulling fabric from my boxes of scraps and cutting the 1" strips for this quilt. Each of the Courthouse Steps blocks in only 5" so there is a long way to go before this is a full size quit, but my plan is to keep the two baskets of strips beside my sewing machine and stitch together a couple of blocks whenever I have a moment to sit and sew.

Blogger's Quilt Festival - 2010

Another Blogger's Quilt Festival and I am very happy to be participating for a third time.

The quilt I am sharing is one I made a couple years ago and, just last month, gave as a gift to Sarah's mother-in-law when she returned home from an unexpected hospital stay.  The pattern is by The Pattern Basket.  I modified it slightly from the original by adding some extra small flowers and a scrappy border.  The quilt was machine pieced and quilted on a long-arm machine.

The back was also pieced from left-over fabric used on the front.