Quilting In Progress...

So I always say that every quilt has its own story.  This one truly does!

This customer spent some time in the Peace Corp in Africa and prior to leaving ask a tailor to make her a "bed cloth" from her garments.  He had never made a quilt before but did a pretty good job!

She then brought it back the the United States were a friend pieces the backing together and brought it to me. :)

I've this quilting design and Thelma is doing a beautiful job quilting.  (Thelma is my machine in case you didn't know that.

The stories are what I love about quilting!

Quilting In Progress...

Today's quilting in progress is a great memory quilt for a sweet young lady.  

She lost her father at a very young age and I am honored that she chose me to help preserve those memories.

Carly, I hope you enjoy!

Now for a label and binding!  Let's GO! quilting!

Quilting In Progress...

Sometimes we just get so excited about a quilt and that is this one.  It is for a very special pastor and is a memory quilt from his fathers clothes.  There weren't a lot of colors to use and that made it a little of a challenge.  (Did you know I love a good challenge?)

Of course the quilt was made using my AccuQuilt GO! cutter and dies.  We'll talk more about that in a second.  

The quilt went together really nice and quickly but my husband and I both thought it needed some dressing up.  So I decided to outline the triangles to keep those simples but look at what happened to the hexagons.  

The hexagons are getting lots of swirls and details to dress up the quilt.  Now I can't wait to get it finished.  (Still haven't decided on the borders.)

Now the dies used:

Body of quilt

55429 - Equilateral Triangle - 4-1/2" Sides - $19.99

55438 - hexagon - 4-1/2" Sides - $44.99

Borders

55024 - 1-1/2" Strip - $79.99

55032 - 3-1/2" Strip - $79.99

Binding

55017 - 2-1/2" Strip - $74.99

If you'd like to order any of these dies to add to your collection, just shoot me an email or comment.  Remember, you don't have to add every die to make a quilt.  Just add a few each time to slowly build you die library.

Happy quilting.

Cutting A Quilt In Less Than 30 Minutes

I know that everyone has probably heard of the GO!, maybe not tried it but heard of it.  We'll I just have to say that it is one of,the most amazing tools that I have and I can't imagine doing business, or quilting, without it.

I have been working on a customer quilt that required some base blocks for appliqué and lots of sashing.  These are her daughters dance costumes from when she was a little girl.

So I pull out my GO! and my 8-1/2" square dies and in less than 5 minutes I have all 30 base blocks cut.  I had to manually cut the hearts because I didn't have a die big enough but that's ok.

Next I pull out my 2-1/2" strip die to work on the sashing... Just like magic, again, in less than 5 minutes I had several 2-1/2" strips cut.

Now I could have stopped there but where's the fun in that.  My blocks are 8-1/2", so my sashing needs to be the same, right?  So back out comes my square die, I lay the strips across it...

Yep, you guessed it, I was then able to quickly cut all my sashing.

Used my strip die for binding and my 2-1/2" square die for the corners stones.  The entire quilt was cut out in less than 30 minutes (except the hearts).  The more I use my GO!, the more I love it and find other ways to use it.

These are on sale at my website for $229... Includes and amazing die & mat so you can get started right out of the box.

Now, let's GO! quilting!