Monday, April 5, 2010

Let the Quilting Begin

Good morning everyone,

I hope all of you had a great Easter. We did!

I've been dragging my feet when it came to quilting the Party in the Garden quilt. This is the first time I've actually been hesitant about machine quilting. I guess I was afraid that I would not do a good job......so I keep putting it off. I didn't know where to begin or what to quilt.

I filled in at the shop on Thursday, and Lani, a customer, and excellent machine quilter stopped by. She saw my un-quilted quilt and offered me so many good suggestions. She was so kind to go back home and brought back two quilts she'd just quilted to give me some ideas. She also brought me templates and wool batting!

I emailed a note off to Crissie, (here's Crissie's blog http://wwwcj-loves2quilt.blogspot.com/ ) one of my blogging friends and a machine quilter, and here's what she said about machine quilting.
"I tell my friends I always lay their quilts in my guest bedroom and we TALK! Now, can you even start to believe that one? But it's true! Most of the time we work together and I know what to do and it comes out just like it wanted me to do! Other times I've had shy quilts and they stand off and won't talk, so ....... I give up trying to encourage them, I just go go go for it!"
So here is the beginning of my conversation with my quilt.


My thanks go out to Crissie and Lani for giving me inspiration and just the encouragement I needed to start machine quilting this quilt.

I'll be working the next couple of days at the shop, so progress will be slow, but steady and I'm going to have this done by the end of the week. I feel like this quilt is just "talking up a storm" to me now and I can't wait to get back to our conversation!

As always,

Lynn

9 comments:

  1. Your so cute~ And a WOW .... that is going to be beautiful,Your sure off to a great start! I love what I see and can hardly wait to see the whole quilt.
    Quilted Hugs, Crissie

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  2. Thank you for your help Crissie. --Lynn

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  3. I second Crissie's comment "WOW". The quilting is just gorgeous.

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  4. Your quilt is totally amazing!! So very beautiful! I can't wait until the pattern is available! Your directions and patterns are very well written!

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  5. Hello Lynn S,
    The pattern will be available very soon! Thank you for your comment about the patterns. I'll be working on the directions this weekend....almost finished. --Lynn

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  6. I so understand what your talking about, sometimes I wait until they are ready to talk to me. Beautiful quilting.

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  7. What kind of batting are you using? I'm seeing a lot of quilters using 2 layers at once, sometimes 80/20 & wool together.

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  8. What kind of batting are you using? I'm seeing a lot of quilters using 2 layers at once, sometimes 80/20 & wool together.

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  9. What kind of batting are you using? I'm seeing a lot of quilters using 2 layers at once, sometimes 80/20 & wool together.

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