Another one that was done except for the binding. Now it’s done and in the pile going to the Houma Guild.
Now tell me . . all that complaining about me using that Spiral Square panto . . it looks absolutely gorgeous on this quilt, doesn’t it?
First Top of 2010
January 2, 2010 · by
Last night I completed the Bearly Dancing top.
It’s turned wrong here for the picture. To the list of things I must have in a house . . gas stove, wood stove, no carpet, basement, walk in shower . . I need to add that I have to have a good place to take photos of my quilts.
Even though the drawing shows one background fabric, I used 6 or 8 different background fabrics.
Here’s the EQ drawing of how it looks when it’s turned correctly.
Simple blocks! To liven things up a bit, the horizontal sashing is narrower than the vertical sashing. The first two borders (orange and brown ones) are a bit different from normal. It’s a fun and quick quilt to make. The completed size is about 62″ x 80″. The EQ file can be downloaded by going to the sidebar, clicking on Free Patterns and Projects, then going down to Electric Quilt Files to Download. You will need EQ6 to open the file.
I Knew Better
December 28, 2009 · by
The blue Saratoga Lights top was loaded and I had already quilted one row and I noticed a block was turned wrong. You know those kinds of things bug the heck out of me but I figured . . it’s a donation quilt and I’m not taking it off the longarm, taking that block out and fixing it and then re-loading it. That would take me a couple of hours. So I finished it — without fixing the mistake Nancy, one of my blog readers, very nicely said “Is it me or is one of the sashing strips on backwards???” No, Nancy . . it wasn’t you! I thought about it and I said to myself . . I can’t let that quilt out of here with a block turned wrong so I ripped out the quilting in that section, took a part of the block off, replaced it, re-quilted that section and really . . I’m never doing that again!
If you see a mistake on this one, please don’t tell me! 
I’ve added the horizontal sashing for the bear paw blocks.
Loose Change is loaded and I hope to quilt on it tonight. I might be changing my mind about the feathers . . not sure.
