The Black and White quilt I've been working on has been named "Seven Plus" because it took a few days more than seven years from start to finish. I used some red and black fabrics from my stash of old fabrics and made the backing yesterday.
This quilt was made with a charm pack of 42 5" squares called Enchanted. So, this quilt has been named Enchanted. Me and Erik quilted it today. Erik was making problems for me again. But, that was okay, I'm getting pretty good and finding ways around his problems. So, the quilt got quilted and it looks good.
I got the July UFO Challenge quilted today.
The longarm had a glitch after the first run and froze up. I had to close the app, which lost the program. But, after a bit of fiddling I was able to reprogram it and get it lined up accurately and going again. I used an allover pantograph.
This is not the first time the app has done that. It is very annoying. But I am getting better at restoring a lost program and lining it up. But, I should probably look into why this is happening and make my life easier.
I quilted, trimmed, made binding and sewed it onto the Babe in the Woods quilt. It measures 35" by 36". The top is all flannel.
Its done! This is finish number nine for the year!
The little (50" x 50") quilt called Clouds is finished being quilted with a pantograph of rain drops.
It is off the longarm awaiting binding.
I finished the quilting on the Seattle Modern Quilt Guild's Block of the Month for 2024 today. It's off the longarm and ready for the next step to get it finished.
I finished this top at the end of 2024. It is the Seattle Modern Quilt Guild's Block of the Month for 2024 called "Like Totally". Pattern by @imfeelingcrafty. I had bought a Tula Pink sateen backing fabric for it but am now just getting to quilting it. I set it up with a wave pantograph using varigated green and white thread. I got it loaded and started today but didn't finish it.
I started quilting on the little quilt I made with the One Room Schoolhouse charm pack yesterday. I finished it today.
I got back to work on finishing the quilting on the Garden Club quilt today. Right away I see there's another problem on that left side, too much fabric in the border. (This happens when you don't measure the quilt top across the middle and cut the border strip to fit, and instead just sew it on and cut it off at the end once it's sewn on - don't do that).
So, I took another dart in it, and continued on. I will applique that down and remove the basting stitches once it's done.
I finished quilting the Out of Africa quilt today. I used Erik's computer skills to have him quilt a pantograph. There were a few hiccups. The top thread broke (shredded) a few times in quick succession, so I gave Erik (the longarm) a good cleaning and changed the needle. Then everything was great again and it stitched out beautifully.
I was a bit hesitant to start up the longarm; was it going to work after crashing? I had to give it a try eventually and find out! But, I was happy to see that everything seemed to be okay. I changed the needle and finished the last little bit of the program to finish the Snowmen quilt. It quilted out just beautifully. The Snowmen quilt is quilted.
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| This quilting design is perfect for this quilt. |
I loaded the Snowmen quilt onto the longarm this morning and set up a pantograph that has swirls and snowflakes. Everything was going just great. The panto was stitching out beautifully until we got to the last row when things started to go awry.
First, there was two thread breaks for no apparent reason. Then *crash* the machine made a horrible noise and stopped with a alarming icon saying the machine was jammed. The needle had come down onto the plastic cup of the #74 foot and was jammed there. Using the hand wheel I was able to lift the needle up, but the foot's cup was broken (of course it was, it's a poorly designed plastic cup and this is actually the second one I've had that has broke- at $150 each). I gave up for the day and shut it down.
I don't understand what happened. How could the needle move enough to not go down in the stitch hole, but move over and strike the cup?
Hopefully, the needle bar isn't bent or something.
I've been busy doing other stuff the last few days and getting the business B&O Taxes filed and paid by the end of the month.
But, today I was back to quilt Color Star on the longarm.
And now it is officially quilted and off the machine.
November's UFO Challenge is my Color Star quilt top. I made a backing using greys and black and white prints from my stash. I didn't put a label on it. The center of this quilt was a printed panel of the color star. I had added some black fabric to the top and bottom of it to make it rectangular. Then I added the four borders using coordinating fabrics and put it away. It was not yet big enough for a twin sized quilt, so I added another plain black border to make it 66" by 80" when I pulled it out to finish.
I loaded the backing onto the longarm yesterday. Today I added the batting and the top and got busy setting up a pantograph and starting the quilting on it . I only got one pass made before it was time to go in for the day.
As if I didn't have other things to do I decided instead to make a Witch's Hat. I had a chunk of old Alexander Henry fabric with magical symbols, bats, cats and other stuff on it that would be perfect for this project.
It was a battle getting the cone sewn onto the brim and it isn't pretty, but it looks okay on the outside and that's all that matters.
I quilted it on the longarm first.
I started the actually quilting on Spider Legs which I have mounted diagonally on the longarm. It's going well. I'm using the ruler exclusively to make straight lines in the 'background with a light teal thread, and zig-zaggy lines with black thread in the black and white 'leg' parts.
I only worked on it for a few hours, then I went back to work on the Dear Jane blocks. I wanted to get my third and fourth one for the week done.
This is B12 and B13, which finishes off the second row. This makes 26 blocks I've made, only 143 left to do.
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| B12 was all curves |
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| B13 was an easy one to complete the week's 4. |
I finished the quilting on the Broken Bricks quilt. I used the same pantograph I used on the Plaid Bricks quilt, but I made it a little smaller. It quilts out really nice.
I loaded the Plaid Brick quilt onto the longarm and set up a pantograph, "Jax", and got it going. It's quilting out very nicely and looks great.
