Magic Tile

The quilting on the magic tile is now done.  I hit panic mode, realizing the fair is coming up and I wanted to enter it.  I am just about halfway around the binding.

Progressing away

I'm up to 47 completed GFG blocks - over the halfway mark now. 

I'm also halfway around the border of my Magic Tile quilt.  Figure it will take me a couple more weeks to finish the quilting.

Poking along

Thanks to landry night, I have the first short side of the Magic Tile quilted.  Then I accidentally skinned my thumb (Ow), so not much hand quilting going on.

I have finished another row of the flower basket quilt.  One more row to assemble and attach, plus borders and that top will be done.

I finished yet another GFG - I am now up to 33 complete.  Almost halfway.

And I've spent a good deal of time playing in EQ7.  I am tring to design an Ocean Waves quilt in EQ.  The block doesn't exist in the software, whcih is very strange.  I managed to draft a block and set it into a quilt, but printing out the instructions I have run into soemthing strange.  I coloured the quilt in 3 colours for simplicity, as I am planning on doing this one scrappy, but the colour/fabric requirement has tossed in a fourth colour and I don't know where it has come from!

Magic Tile Progress

Being a cool day and also a holiday, I finally started quilting the border for my Magic Tile quilt.  the quiltin gon the border is fairly heavy to match up with the quilting on the body of the quilt.  One of the short sides is almost donw now - I am paying for the marathon quilting session today with very sore hands.

I got EQ7 this week as well.  I have already been playing - scanning in fabrics and designing quilts.  I am trying to resist starting anything new.

Long time, no update...

It's been a while.  Between hot weather making hand quilting a miserable prospect, physiotherapy, work and training for my next (shodan-ho) karate ranking, I've had little time to quilt.

I did finish the tulip pillow, and continue to work on the Magic Tile quilt.  We've had a couple of cooler days (in the 70s instead of the 100s) so I've done a little bit on it in the last week.

Magic Tile Progress

i am making progress on the Magic Tile quilt.  I am trying to spend an hour every day on it.  I have 75% of the body quilted.  Determining the quilting pattern for this one was a struggle.  I've been struggling with the question of how I am going to quilt the border so that the quilting is as dense as the body (echo quilting patches every half inch) and may have figured out a plan.

Quilty weekend

This past weekend ended up being quilty by accident. I spent some time Friday night quilting the Bear's Paw while my Mom wrapped Christmas presents. I've got the first quadrant done and have made in-roads on the second.

Then on Sunday, my son took his snowmobile licensing course. The course was 6 hours and an hour and a half drive to and from, so I checked with the instructor, and took a sewing basket with me. I worked on quilting the Magic Tile quilt while my son took the course. I have 4 of the 12 blocks in that one quilted now as well.

Onward ever onward

It's starting to get cold at night so I'll soon start lap quilting a larger project so I have something to snuggle up in. I have a magic tile quilt that has 3 of the 12 tile blocks quilted, but was set aside when the weather got hot. I'll start working on that at home once I get the last Parrot block quilted and until I get the border for the Parrot figured out.

I figure (if all goes as planned) I'll have the last of the parrot blocks quilted this week. That will leave me without a take-along project for when I go to IPM in Earlton next weekend. I'll have to figure something out for in the hotel at night and during the train ride.

I do have the Birthday blocks that need to be sorted and pulled into a quilt. I just haven't figured out how I want to set them so that I can deal with the varieties in size. I don't really want to do the same as the Parrot quilt. I was thinking an Attic Window's approach, but then there is the problem of varieties in size - how do I make them match up? and also what colours do I use for the windows? And the backing? I'm not exactly ready to tackle that one yet, although I would like to get it done.

The guild is doing the block exchange with focus fabric again. This time I've decided not to participate - my attendance is not exactly regular due to work and the resulting set of blocks is a pain in the ass to deal with as they are all different sizes and fabrics (polycottons = yuck!), not the 12 " finished and 100% cotton like they are supposed to be.