Hello Everyone,
This past weekend I had the pleasure of teaching the Feathered Star to a wonderful group of ladies. Their color choices were phenomenal. We had a great time and I believe they learned quite a bit. Here are a few pics for you!
Hello Everyone,
This past weekend I had the pleasure of teaching the Feathered Star to a wonderful group of ladies. Their color choices were phenomenal. We had a great time and I believe they learned quite a bit. Here are a few pics for you!
This past weekend, I taught a retreat at Olde City Quilts in NJ. This group was fantastic! Boy did they get a lot accomplished. It was a feathered star retreat and they could make either the wall hanging or queen size. It was split pretty even. And boy did they choose wonderful fabrics!
On Sunday, I taught the final session of the Feathered Star class in New York! These ladies were just AWESOME! We had so much fun in this class and they learned TONS too. I want to show you a few pics from the final class.
Hello Everyone,
You read about my Saturday Class, now I would like to share with you my Sunday Class. This was the second session of the Feathered Star class in NY. These ladies literally had me in stitches all day long!! They were talented, funny, and engaging the entire time. Let's see what happened in class.
Hello Everyone, I am sooooo excited!! My Rainbow Feathered Star is quilted!!!! I was able to finish it the day before I got sick. Thank goodness too, because I don't think it would be finished now if hadn't finished it then. As far as the quilting, I am in LOVE with it!!! Let's check it out.... Lots of glorious feathers. I used mostly Superior's Magnifico for the thread. Although, I did switch a couple to a variegated poly. Love the sheen on these thread. Flame like stitching in the spikes. The quilt as you can see is heavily quilted. More...
Hello Everyone,On Sunday, I had such a great time with a great group of ladies. I taught a workshop at The Quilt Basket in Wappinger's Falls, NY. I was teaching the Feathered Star. Each student had a choice... they could pick a pattern. They could choose between the Queen Size, the Wall Hanging, or the Tree Skirt. There are students in the class making such a variety! I can't wait to see them all complete. But first let me show you some of the first day of class.Diane's first unit almost done. Love the pretty purple!Everyone was very hard at...
Hello Everyone,As promised, I was able to finish my Feathered Star Quilt. Isn't it funny that every time you have a finish it instantly becomes you new favorite quilt?? Does that happen to you??It took be the better part of the day yesterday to finish the second half and join it so it became a whole.Love the center and the burst of color. I like to take close ups so that you can see the beautiful fabrics, but the perfect floating, spikey points that you achieve with paper piecing.In this quilt like in many of my other quilts, I use...
Hello Everyone,I am finally starting to feel a little better. Being sick though does explain my absence of blogging. I hope to really get back to some semblance of normal soon. Anyway, my Mom has been concerned about me because she hasn't seen any blog posts from me except for Tuesday's. So Mom, this one is for YOU!!Yesterday, I started to piece the units together to make my feathered star a WHOLE quilt top. One of the things that I enjoy the most about piecing the top is finally seeing it come together as one.The above photo shows the units...
Hello Everyone,Have you ever been so sick you just couldn't do anything, I mean anything for days?? That is what I have been up to for the past week... a lot of nothing. I got sick and just couldn't do a thing. I missed sewing so much, had to cancel a trunk show and reschedule a class. I laid like a slug in the living room snuggled under a quilt with my cats laying all over me.As of yesterday, I began to feel slightly human again and decided to go into my home studio and sew a little. This was...
Hello Everyone,The past few days, I have been working on completing the quilting on my Queen Size Feathered Star. It is slow going, but is well worth the effort! I am really liking how it is turning out. Yesterday, I was able to set in the very center star. I used a variegated poly thread. One of the things I like best about it is the shimmer. In fact throughout the entire quilt I am using various poly threads because of that reason.You really can't see the sheen in the photos, but you can see the stitching and it is...
Hello Everyone,Guess what? I got all the pieces to the Feathered Star done!!! I am jumping for joy! I have three photos to share with you to show the progression.This one shows some of the border units up on the design wall. A few more to go...Only 4 more pieces left for the corners.There it is!!! I just love the star against the green background. Don't you?Now I have to join all the units together. Right now they are just pinned up on the wall… they still have the paper on the back too! Hopefully next time you see...
Hello Everyone,Do you remember this quilt? I was working on my Feathered Star a few weeks back in my classroom studio. I had to take it and move it to my home studio and on Sunday put it up on the design wall again and began cutting the background and borders.Here is how far I that I was able to get on Sunday….I think the green background really makes the star say "POW"…. Don't you think?I hope to have more up for you tomorrow. If not, stay tuned!!My Fat Quarter Giveaway is still going on!!! Just click here to enter.Until...
Hello Everyone,The past two days I have been working on making my quilt top a quilt! This one you may remember seeing late summer when I finished the top. I have been hankering to get it on the long arm since then! The time has come!!! Yippee!!First I have to piece the backing. This is a batik I chose from our shop. I think it is just perfect for this quilt. You will see why in a minute. You can find this fabric by clicking here.See… didn't I tell you, it is gorgeous isn't it? It has all the colors...
Hello Everyone,As of lately, I have been working on several projects at one time. But I know that never happens to you right?? Right now, I am doing a little designing, and working on some other projects that ail be launched soon.On the quilting front, last week and this week, I have been working on some paper pieced project. No surprise here as I LOVE paper piecing. Let's take a look...Here is a close up of my Feathered Star. I had selected the fabrics MONTHS ago and it was time to get these together. I chose a selection of Kaffe...
Hello Everyone,While I was in Arizona, I had to place my quilts on my bed there and do a little photo shoot. I am so glad that I did. Have you ever made quilts and not ever placed them on the bed? I have and I just had the need to do it and I am so glad that I did.My quilts look just wonderful on the bed. Let's take a look.This is my Mariner's Compass quilt. The bed is a Queen Size bed, but this is a King Size quilt. When the pattern was actually published it was reduced in...
Hello Everyone,Yesterday was the "Official" last day of the Certified Shop retreat! A great time was had by all and we all made some new friends and had fun with old friends too. Even though it was the "Official" last day we are still here for another day and a half and there is going to be some more sewing going on... Yippee!!For now, I want to share some of the events of yesterday...First, I am just ECSTATIC!!! I finished my Queen Size Feathered Star and I just couldn't be more pleased. I adore this quilt and would make it all...
Hello Everyone,Yesterday was a great Day 4! We all got TONS done and stayed quite focused! I have lots of photos to share here and in my album here.Let's get to it...My friend Ginny has been working on this wonderful red, white and blue version of the Captain's Wheel. It is turning out just gorgeous. I can't wait to see the finished quilt.This beautiful purple version of the Mariner's Compass, Sally has been working on diligently all week. I really adore the jewel tones she is using.As for me, I finished piecing the borders on this Feathered Star. And YES,...
Hello Everyone,Yesterday was the third day of our Certified Shop Retreat and boy are we all making progress. Along with making progress we are all getting to know one another and making new friends too. This is just one of the benefits to going on a retreat!!!I was able to get the body of the my Feathered Star done now I need to move onto the borders.The borders are going to be spikes and I am taking all the colors from the inside and moving them around the quilt! Here you can see me auditioning the flow or arrangement of...
Hello Everyone,Yesterday was day two of our Certified Shop retreat. I made good progress on my Queen Sized Feathered Star and am excited to show you where I am...Hopefully, today I will be working on the borders. Wait until you see what I have planned!! Some of the other goings on were... Instruction from Judy Niemeyer... Everyone was glued to her every word!My Feathered Star before the red layer and Ginny's Compass Roses.Denise and Peggy are working on multiple projects, but you can see the Mariner's Compass in the works here.Carol is on her way with her Mariner's Compass.Roger and Ardelle's work....
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