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Sunday, August 23, 2009

A Give-A-Way

Head on over to Heather Mulder Peterson blog at http://ankastreasures.wordpress.com for her First Blogiversary. I love her blog and she is having a fabulous give-a-way! She has 3 prizes and I heart her quilt "Cotton Candy" in April Cornell fabrics!


Keep on stitchin........

Laura

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Another Give-A-Way on Rachel's Blog

Head on over to Rachel's Blog: http://rachel-griffith.blogspot.com/ to enter to win a gift certificate of $50.

She is helping The Quilt Shoppe celebrate 2 years!

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Thursday, August 6, 2009

First Finished Quilt





Yea! I finished Mary's quilt and Tony will be taking it to her this weekend while I'm away learning new things about Indie! Of course I made all sorts of first time mistakes that I'm sure all new long arm quilters make but I learned a lot also. I know that Mary will love her quilt. I made it with fabric from a few ago (Designer Susie Robbins for P & B fabrics) it's bright and cheerful and should add lots of color to her room at the nursing home. For the binding I machine stitched it to the front of the quilt with a fun embroidery stitch so it would hold up through many washings. If you look at the backing you can see the pantograph section that Tony quilted on Indie as he wanted to be able to tell his mom he helped also. He was a huge help loading the quilt onto Indie! I did the free motion quilting ~ primarily an all over loop and flower motif.


Today I head to Bayside Quilting in Olympia WA to go to Boot Camp for the HQ 16 & Fusion with 6 other quilters. I'll have all sorts of good questions and I'm sure it will make a lot more sense since I have quilted my first quilt. Wish me luck!

Happy stitching ~ Laura