Besides the princess quilt, I have been working on a set of cars for the AccuQuilt Cute Car die. Thought you’d like to see how they turned out. My grandsons are the inspiration for this. They love every kind of car and occupation. Hmmmmmmmmmm – Now I need to get busy and build a quilt–or a town on a quilt.
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Marjorie
My granddaughter, Kes, is the middle child. She talks about being a princess and playing princess all the time. So, she’s going to get a princess quilt. Every quilt has a story, and this one is no exception.
I recently bought a Twister template. When it came, I was surprised at how large it was. I decided that the pieces would be large enough for some novelty prints and proceeded to cut squares of “princess” fabric that I thought would work for this quilt. After I got it together, I really was not pleased. The colors blend together too much and to me, it just isn’t pretty to my eye. But, that was a lot of work, so I am finding a way to make it a special quilt anyway.
I decided to add “princess” machine embroidery to the quilt so Kes will find special little places throughout the quilt with castles and magic wands and unicorns and princess crowns. This quilt is to be enjoyed for the special little motifs rather than as a whole quilt.
What is really amusing to me is that as I stood in front of the design wall with Kes (4-1/2 years old), she informed me in the most matter of fact way that the little girls on one of the fabrics were fairies and not princesses. Of course, my reply was that princesses have to have good fairies to help them. I think we all need some good fairies along the way.
Corner of Quilt
Unicorn
Frog Prince
I digitized this frog and used my Silhouette Cameo to cut the applique pieces. That was a lot of fun.
Princess Crown from Applique Corner
This princess crown was done as traditional machine embroidery applique.
Dragon from EmbLibrary
Magic Wand
Crown by EmbLibrary
She really is a sweet little girl, we love this picture. It’s obvious she is only going to do what she wants and not what the photographer suggests.
Kes–School Picture–Pre-K
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Marjorie
It’s been almost a month since I last wrote. And what a busy month it’s been. My Mom came to visit on March 31 and is staying through June. It has been quite an adjustment as she had a stroke several years ago and is in a wheelchair. But we are adjusting and are enjoying the visit. Some days are quite interesting as we have had four generations in the house at the same time. The oldest (Mom-87) and the youngest (Owen-15 months) are quite taken with each other, and it is fun to watch them.
I have been digitizing some designs which I’ll show you soon. The new Sunbonnet Sue set is just exquisite. There are 12 designs to be quilted in the hoop. And there are some other fun designs. Here’s a peek at Sunbonnet Sue. I still have to do the file conversions before they’re up in the shop.
And here’s a picture of my Mom working on a puzzle with Kes.
And here are my daughter and her three children “planting” in our garden.
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Marjorie
I got an email from Maggie yesterday showing me the Quilt of Valor she made using the star machine embroidery Quilt as you Go. This is absolutely beautiful. The recipient of this quilt will be very honored to receive it. She also showed how she supported the weight of the quilt as she worked putting the rows together. This is truly a work of love and dedication.
Back of Quilt
Modified laundry basket for holding weight of quilt
Modified laundry basket holding weight of quilt
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Marjorie
Several people have asked for the link to the Baltimore Album quilt. Here’s a link to all the quilts on the Anita Goodesign site:
And Kelly over at IHAN explained that Anita Goodesign is not a “she”. Actually, the designer and owner is Steve Wilson and the name means “I need a good design”. Fun!
Today, you have to go over to read Rebecca’s post at Cheeky Cognoscenti. I absolutely love her idea for a window treatment. And she also has some great tips for controlling the layers used in these embroidery designs by using tearaway stabilizer and cutting away the muslin underlay. I am going to try her idea today.
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Marjorie
Today is my turn–and I had so much fun. Welcome to my day of the I Have A Notion blog hop sponsored by Anita Goodesign embroidery. After looking through the wide selection of designs that were available for this blog hop, I decided to select a design set that would allow me to create a quilt that I’ve always wanted to make but have been too intimidated by the time and detail needed to make it. I chose the Baltimore Album Revisited set that is as beautiful as a hand appliqued quilt.These designs were just perfect for me to make a quilt.
Here is a photo from the pattern.
Baltimore Album shown on pattern front
Below, you will find photos of the quilt I made.
I googled Baltimore Album quilts and found some good information and chose a layout that pleased me. Of course, my layout is not identical to any of the ones in the liinked photos, I wanted more open space with just a bit of sashing for separation of the blocks.
Baltimore Album Quilt
Closeup of Baltimore Album Quilt
Block with Sashing
Block without sashing
The Anita Goodesign embroidery sets have interchangeable quilt blocks and the blocks come in four sizes. The Baltimore Album set blocks had embroidery and sashing stitched in-the-hoop to complete the quilt block. Because of the overall quilt that I chose, I advanced my machine through those color stops so that I had blocks that included just the Baltimore Album design.
However, I did go through the process of creating complete quilt blocks according to the directions and found that I really love doing quilt blocks that way. See the example below. It certainly makes me want to make more of them.
Block stitched in the hoop
The blocks I used in my quilt are a small representation of the entire set. This set includes 20 blocks in four sizes each and also includes matching quilting designs in four sizes each.
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Marjorie
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Marjorie
I got an email a couple of weeks ago from Cherry at Cherry Blossoms Quilting Studio. She made the most adorable quilt using the Candy Hearts embroidery set. This is her adorable quilt. It’s a mini – but just think of the wonderful ways to use this –from a banner/ wall hanging to a table topper.
XOXO by Cherry Blossoms Quilting Studio
In fact, I was so inspired by this, that I took the stack of assorted hearts that I had and stitched them together. In the end I had five different toppers. Here are a couple of photos.
The one thing I realized later after looking at the photo of what Cherry has done and then at the hearts I stitched together, is that her hearts are on a much smaller background and are nestled closer together. If I were doing it again, I definitely would do it her way.
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Marjorie
After posting yesterday, I continued to quilt some samples until I had a better idea of what I wanted to do on the candy hearts quilt. If you remember, this is how I started.
After looking at this a bit, I decided to change the heart. After I did that, I looked at the background fill and decided that it would be better visually, if it were round. In the top part of the image below, you can see how I changed the background fill in the upper part of the block.
This gave me a pretty good idea of where I was going, so I loaded the Candy Hearts quilt and started work on it. I finished the stitch in the ditch and the ribbon candy in the frames and have started adding the hearts in the plain blocks. The plain blocks are smaller than my sample, so will have to see what fill will work best in the wider areas.
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Marjorie
I saw a fun project last weekend and knew I just had to make these for my grandchildren. I can remember what rambunctious fun I had growing up with two brothers and a sister and my grandchildren can get pretty rambunctious too. So, I started making snowballs–yes, snowballs! It takes about five minutes at the most to hoop my fabric and stitch out these cute little faces. The balls are made in the shape of a baseball, so they’re one continuous seam. These snowballs are made from cotton lycra (dancewear fabric) because that’s what I had in my closet, but I’ve ordered some white fleece from Joann’s. They’re filled with fluffy fiberfill. I think about 2-3 dozen snowballs should be enough for three children. What fun to build forts and have a great snowball fight. (I purchased the embroidery files from http://www.CharmingStation.com.
And this is the second thing I’m working on–ideas for quilting my candy hearts quilt. There are alternating plain blocks in that quilt, so this is what I’m thinking about doing for the plain blocks. I stitched it out this morning to size the hearts and see how it would look. I’m pretty pleased, but think I’ll use either a wool batting or a layer of Dream Request weight underneath my Hobbs Heirloom batting to give the quilting of the heart shape more definition. This quilting is with only one layer of Hobbs Heirloom.
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Marjorie