It’s been a beautiful day here in the northeast of England. Bright and sunny and warming up quite a bit in the afternoon. It made our morning travelling around even more interesting.
My Sarah and I had hair appointments this morning and once that was done we headed up to Stitchin’ Heaven to deliver Claire’s finished quilt. And of course while I was there I purchased a little fabric for borders on a scrappy strippy UFO quilt which I picked out of the pile this morning. I plan to add some applique patches to this quilt break up the strips. I was thinking that some big circles would look interesting. And later I will Freemotion quilt it. It will make a great practice piece for new quilting designs.
While I was in the sewing room I decided to load the next quilt into my longarm quilting system. And look which one I loaded ready for stitching on Monday…….
I auditioned thread colours and decided on airforce blue. Now I just need to decide on which quilting design to stitch out. I have added a couple of new all over designs to my selection.
It’s been a big week for new magazines. I received two new issues this morning. I haven’t had a chance to look at them properly yet but what I’ve seen so far looks good. That’s three magazines in two days packed full of great stuff. I have no excuses; I’m sure to find some great ways of using up more scraps.
Staying on the subject of scraps….. I have decided to Adopt-a-Newbie for April. This means that I have chosen a worthy new-to-quilt making candidate for April. I will send my chosen candidate a small selection of scraps, and then email her once or twice a week thru the month with tips, ideas and useful links which will perhaps help her use up her scraps. This is my way of paying it forward. I’ll let you know how that works out for us in April.
So that’s my news for today. This evening, this very happy longarm quilter will be looking at new magazines and planning new projects that will use up more scraps. Whatever you may be doing this Saturday night, I hope it’s something relaxing. Until you read me again,
Happy stitching. ♥ ♥
I love these quilt designs. So, having not done any “long arm” quilting, I don’t quit understand a few things….are you operating the machine in the pattern “manually” or is it some type of computer driven design? I’ve only done free motion on my little brother machine, and it was quite overwhelming. Love to know more about the process.
I’m sorry for the previous reply. I thought I was answering someone else.
Yes these designs are digitised and I stitch them out on my HandiQuilter Fusion which has a 24″ throat space. I, personally, could not achieve this look on a domestic sewing machine. This quilt in particular measures approx. 70″ X 84″ and I would never attempt to machine quilt anything that size on my domestic machine because I have a longarm quilting system. However you could attempt a similar look on a smaller scale if you had the patience using you Brother. Thanks for popping in.