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Stitching the pieces together

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  • Smaarty
    Smaarty Member Posts: 2,618
    edited June 2015

    wren, no ribbons, not good enough,just for show.

  • melissadallas
    melissadallas Member Posts: 929
    edited June 2015

    I love the colors. Very pretty

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited June 2015

    Beautiful Smaarty!!

  • Smaarty
    Smaarty Member Posts: 2,618
    edited June 2015

    thank you. SIL loves it

  • Yeg9525
    Yeg9525 Member Posts: 4
    edited July 2015

    lovely quilt

  • barbaraa
    barbaraa Member Posts: 3,548
    edited October 2015

    I know Amy Jo (Elisimo) loved this thread. It is with great sorrow that I let you all know that she passed today at 11:00. Memorial service has not been decided as yet.

  • Alyson
    Alyson Member Posts: 3,737
    edited October 2015

    This has hit me really hard. Amy Jo fly free. 

  • melissadallas
    melissadallas Member Posts: 929
    edited October 2015

    I'm so sad to hear this

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited October 2015

    My heart is breaking.

  • wren44
    wren44 Member Posts: 7,948
    edited October 2015

    So tired of losing people to this dreadful disease. Fly free Amy Jo.

  • Gingerbrew
    Gingerbrew Member Posts: 1,997
    edited February 2016

    I am going to have a sewing room again, We bought a house and just need the underwriting to complete and we can close in mid march. I was just too sick to begin sewing again when we moved out here in 2010. Then I was in a car accident and am still trying to get over a broken back, Thne last year our landlord told us she was selling and we had 30 days to move out so we found NICE HOUSE AND BECAUSE OF MY BACK PAIN i DIDNT GO sorry cAPS. i DIDNT GO UP STAIRS AND LOOK AT THE ROOM. Sorry caps again, The room is so small they couldnt even put my sewing tables back together. It is a small room filled with boxes.

    The new house will have room for me. I will be using the lower level family room as a sewing room, It is right off a bathroom, has decent wall space, is above grade bu quite a bit so doesn't feel basementy. I can visualize it in my mind coming together with my things unpacked and on their shelves. My cutting table is two doors fastened together with a big cutting surface and two big wood horses underneath. My bins fit under there and fabric has lots of space in them.

    I always put my tables at a right angle to one another and I will be able to do this here as well. Think good thoughts for me please that the underwriting goes smoothly so we can proceed to really unpack and settle. Oh best news of all, my DD house is two blocks away and that is where my 5 year old DGD is!!!!!!! I am trying not to get too excited.

    Wren and everybodyI look forward to seeing your beautiful projects once again.

    Love Ginger

  • melissadallas
    melissadallas Member Posts: 929
    edited February 2016

    I'm so happy for you Ginger. My spare bedroom sewing room desperately needs painting, storage & LIGHTING. That one-sixty-watt-bulb ceiling fan needs to go. I get great morning light as it is a Northeast corner but can't see in there at night.

    So what has everyone been sewing? I have hand-sewn red, black & white LeMoyne blocks, but even hand-pieced they are a little wonky & need some fixing begore I can put my top together. They are really pretty though. there are sixteeimage

  • Gingerbrew
    Gingerbrew Member Posts: 1,997
    edited February 2016

    You hand stitched sixty blocks? I hand quilted once in a class and that was enough for me. The hand quilting hurt my fingers. I remember my Granmas different quilt frames and know she put her heart into her work and it was everybit hand stitched. This was before she had electricity around 1948 and on. Your quilt is going to be very pretty. Enjoy.

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited February 2016

    Yay Ginger!!!! I know you are going to be sewing up a storm once you get into your new house so I'm keeping everything crossed that all goes well with the closing.

    Melissa I love your star blocks! I'm still working on a hand made tumbling block quilt top......it's been going on for about six years now.....lol......one of these days I will finish it.

    I haven't done any sewing for a while as I have been busy crocheting, travelling and looking after family. My eldest DD had a break down mid last year so I spent two and a half months caring for her and her family until she was strong enough to do it for herself and then My hubby and I spent six weeks in France.

    The things that I have been crocheting are, the completion of a blanket for my SIL that was started by her mother but she passed before it was completed and then I decided I'd do one for myself. Well my DIL saw it and fell in love with it so I made one for her for her birthday and now I am half way through one for my grand daughter. All of them have been either king size or queen size..........I think I will be taking on something small next time........lol. Looking forward to seeing this thread busy once again.

    Love n hugs all! Chrissy

  • melissadallas
    melissadallas Member Posts: 929
    edited February 2016

    I have also bought the papers, templates & fabric for a La Passaglia English paper pieced. I think I have officially lost my mind.

    There are only sixteen 12" red, black & white blocks-not sixty

  • mustlovepoodles
    mustlovepoodles Member Posts: 1,248
    edited February 2016

    Now y'all are inspiring me to get my quilting out. I have a pillow sham to finish. It goes with the queen-size quilt that's already on my bed.

    I machine stitch the pieces together, then hand-stitch the finished top to the othe layers. Channeling my grandma.

  • eph3_12
    eph3_12 Member Posts: 2,704
    edited February 2016

    Look, a goodly amount of regulars!!!!


  • Smaarty
    Smaarty Member Posts: 2,618
    edited March 2016

    my almost finished quilt top. Found a new log arm quilter so this will get done soon.

    image

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited March 2016

    Smaarty, are all your blocks hand embroidered? They are stunning! Job well done!!

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited March 2016

    LOVE that Smarty!!! Would love to see a close up of the blocks.

  • melissadallas
    melissadallas Member Posts: 929
    edited March 2016

    Really pretty!


  • Smaarty
    Smaarty Member Posts: 2,618
    edited March 2016

    imagethese are all machine embroidered.

    Thanks

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited March 2016

    Gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited March 2016

    They really are lovely Smaarty!

  • melissadallas
    melissadallas Member Posts: 929
    edited March 2016

    imageMy first La Passacaglia rosette. First time English Paper Piecing. I think I jumped in the deep end. There has been a steep learning curve.

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited March 2016

    Beautiful work Melissa! Your points are amazing!!

  • eph3_12
    eph3_12 Member Posts: 2,704
    edited March 2016

    Holy Moly! That's beautiful!


  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited March 2016

    Melissa, that is STUNNING!!! How does it get finished and how is English paper piecing different? I love paper piecing as it makes very complicated looking patterns.

  • melissadallas
    melissadallas Member Posts: 929
    edited March 2016

    Barb, it is hand sewn. The fabric is folded around paper (card stock) shapes and then either hand or glue stick basted down. The pieces are then held together and you stich through the very edges to join the pieces. Traditionally EPP is hexies. This pattern is tiny little pieces.

    I like regular paper piecing too. My advanced quilting class project was a paper pieced mariner's compass.

    Here's an example of a mostly completed top (not mine):

    image

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited March 2016

    Duh! I've done EPP I guess....and I have the wall quilt of hexagonal pieces to prove it! LOL

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