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ART/JOURNAL QUILT PAGE: BOSTON

Posted: 16 March 2010 at 6 a.m.

ART QUILT JOURNAL BSO

With the journaling on the page you can kind of get an idea of where I might be going with this project. I like brainstorming the possibilities. The exploration helps me narrow the focus of the project. But sometimes even the brainstorm is a little slow to get started.

I ...

DESIGNING DIVAS 3:3

Posted: 15 March 2010 at 6 a.m.

DESIGN DIVAS 3.3

Patterns used:

Creative Studio skills used:

In Repeat Mode ... concatinating, rubber stamp, circular array, rotation, and resizing.

1374 single touching bead

And the bonus for today: a freebie - 1374 SINGLE TOUCHING BEAD is a ...

DESIGNING DIVAS 3:2

Posted: 8 March 2010 at 6 a.m.

How are you coming with the design challenge? It's still not too late to pick up the special pricing on the challenge unit 1402 Hearts A Flutter Block 2.

For my QLO (quilt layout) this week, I used the block unit in a classic design pattern I like to ...

CONCATENATING WITH JUNGLE FEVER

Posted: 2 April 2009 at 12:57 a.m.

"Oh, just do whatever, Kay. You know I always like what you do. Just surprise me," said Darlene, and that was the start of an adventure.

How would you quilt this quilt for Darlene?

These are the things we know:

She wants to use her 20% off cupon for an ...

RIBBONS AND STARS

Posted: 31 January 2009 at noon

ribbons and stars Don't you just love it when faced with a quilt top that stops you in your tracks when trying to develop a quilting design plan? Any number of things can cause you to scratch your head in bewilderment. One of the most common roadblocks is an odd-shaped space. Strong ...

CONCATINATING GOLF

Posted: 22 January 2009 at 1:14 a.m.

golf I love the feature called CONCATINATION included with our Creative Studio software on our Statler quilting machines. Concatinating is a design process allowing us to create unique edge-to-edge designs using several different but related quilting patterns. We can choose an order in which we would like the patterns to be ...

ALMOST THERE

Posted: 10 June 2008 at 6:31 a.m.

The weather is a mystery to me. I posted another rose picture to remind me that we had sunshine and warmer temperatures (still way below normal) but warmer than today and certainly dryer. We got all the way up to 47 today plus rain - the Oregon drizzly kind. Our snow ...

TREASURED MEMORIES

Posted: 31 May 2008 at 5 p.m.

Yes, she's lived in all of these houses. Sue is one of my longarm customers and I can always count on her to give a challenge with every quilt. Sue definitely qualifies for the TIF (Take It Further) challenges I read about in so many other quilting blogs.

One ...

TREASURES FROM THE TRUNK

Posted: 7 January 2008 at 11:21 a.m.

We all have them; we save them; we protect them in acid free paper; we shield them from sunlight and dust. We may even bring them out every year or so just to re-adjust the folds and admire them ... and then back into hiding for another long year or two ...

QUILTING CARTOGRAPHER

Posted: 6 January 2008 at 11:22 a.m.

Some days you wake up and you know your job and what needs to done. Other days, you know what needs to be done; you've spent lots of time thinking about how to do it; you've rehearsed in your head a million times (especially at night when you ...