Quilting in progress...

Oh check out this little cutie....

Cute quilt made by a client from old clothes.  This would be an awesome idea for baby clothes or any type of memory quilt.

She requested minimal quilting so we are SITD around the dresses and squares and stippling in the sashing and border.

See ya next time...

What a great quilting weekend...

What a great retreat weekend here in Alabama...

For starters, I finished quilting the new Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt, Celtic Solstice.  This is a finish for me and I am so excited.  The quilting design is a free handed meandering flower.  I think it's pretty cute.  Most of these pieces where cut using the Acccuquilt GO! Fabric system.

Next, I finished a snowball quilt top for an upcoming class that I will be teaching in earlier February.  Need to figure out backing and get this one quilted quickly.

Then for the joy of my weekend, on the Sewitsforsale group, I purchased some pattern for the adoption call, or Cabbage Patch doll, for my sweet little granddaughter.  I finished one of them this weekend and she was so excited.  We then went to the dollar store and bought some baby clothes (yep, I said bought, I have no desire to make those).  I don't think she has put the doll down for more than a few minutes since I finished it.  She is4, by the way,  and such a blessing.

 

Also pieced 10 more blocks for the string quilt, and like the rest of you, my bucket is not emptying at all.  That makes a total of 50 squares, but I plan to make a Roman String so that means 100 half-square triangles.  I think I have enough.  I will use my AccuQuilt to cut these as well.  I will cut the string blocks and the solid using my 6" half square triangle die.  Can't wait.

Thinking of adding this as a class soon.  Not sure if it would be more of a "sew in" instead of a class.  We'll see!

And last, work on my sweet daughter in laws double wedding ring.  A slow project that I just work on a little bit at a time.  If only the piecing went as fast as the cutting.

For me, it was a nonstop weekend.  I only have two more weekends that my guys will be hunting and after that, I will slow down a little bit.  Gonna take full advantage of the last two.

Remember you can shop with us at www.stitchesnstories.com for all your AccuQuilt needs.

GO! English Paper Piecing Hexagon - 1" Finished Sides

GO! English Paper Piecing Hexagon - 1" Finished Sides

Just when I thought I would never want to do any type of paper piecing, AccuQuilt comes out with the new Paper Piecing Hexagon dies...  Boy am I hooked!
  

The die is designed to cut 2 layers of card stock and 6 layers of fabric AT THE SAME TIME.  You can reuse the card stock templates so you do not need even amounts.  

Since I didn't know if I would like it, I decided to just make a small wall hanging or table runner.

These are pictures of the ones that I am making now.  I plan to add one more row of a different color after I finish the green row, then I will "fill in" the hexies to square it off a little more.

Here is a picture from AccuQuilt of a sample whole quilt.

This has been a great little "resting" project for me.  It is something I can work on while sitting in the living room with the family.  Give it a try, you can purchase by going to www.shop.stitchesnstories.com.  You can find this as well as all the new dies that just came out... Let's GO! Bust Our Stash!

Another Quilt For Brenda

This family has been so blessed.  They found three quilt tops in the attic that grandmother had made (probably early 1940's).  Then they found a whole box...  I've lost count as to how many there are.  :)

Some of them we have given really nice, custom quilting designs and others we went with meandering & stippling.  All are beautiful.

This one was the second with a tag stating they were made with dress scraps from the granddaughter's.

Mug Rugs - How cute!

So I posted before about throwing some mug rugs on the quilting frame after finishing a quilt.  Well I've for them all bound and they are adorable.

The Dresden Plate was cut using AccuQuilt GO! and die.  Just easy as pie and just happen to be on sale for 25% off at www.stirchesnstories.com.  GO! check it out!

Custom Quilt Design

So I made this beautiful quilt top using the 12" AccuQuilt Mix N Match dies.  The original purpose for making this is to have a sample display quilt for my booth.

I chose to use the bright colors similar to what AccuQuilt using on their samples in order to draw attention to it.

After the top was finished, then comes how to quilt it.  I have watched some of Lisa Calle's videos on QnnTV.com and how she designs custom quilting patterns and so off I went.  This quilt now becomes a dual purpose... AccuQuilt Display and custom quilt sampler.  Now where to start...

Lets take the second block and I'll show you what I did.

Here is the actual block with actual colors.  

I then printed out a copy (or you can print a picture) in black n white so the colors didn't distract me from the design process.  

Using a piece of tracing paper laid on top of the printed design, I was able to do my outline or stitch in the ditch and then fill in each section from there.  Knowing what I know now, I should have done this first page in about four or five pages displaying a different step on each page.

After looking at the above picture, I still had some area that I wanted to add detail to.  So here comes another piece of tracing paper...

The purpose of using multiple pieces of tracing paper is to make changes easily without starting all over.  If I decided the feathers were to much, I would just remove those pages and go back to filling in the blanks on a new page.

So this is where I'm at today.  I will post as I start to actually quilt the blocks and share with you a great new ruler that Lisa designed that I am adding to my store.

QuiltFest 2013 Update

Day 1 was amazing.  Everyone who stopped by the booth either loved the AccuQuilt system.  It was so good to hear so many stories from current owners about how they felt.  Thank you all for stopping by!

Did I forget until about lunch time that my second focus of the booth was my quilting for the public.  I was so excited about the response from AccuQuilt that I just forgot.  So after lunch I started adding that to the mix and again had some very encouraging responses.

Grow business grow!  Thank you Lord!

Displaying part of the GO! Baby Bundle of Joy

Look at the BEAUTIFUL Double Wedding Ring pieced by Kitty Ferrell and machine quilted by Stitches N Stories! Only takes about 1-1/2 - 2 hours to cut with AccuQuilt.

And there is me, Rhonda Kennedy, owner of Stitches N Stories and ready for business to soar!

And God has blessed me with very sweet young friends and this is one of them.  J.J. volunteered to come help me today at the booth!  Couldn't have done it without her!  Thanks J.J.!