I have been sewing 6 inch blocks nearly every day and I estimate I used up about 1 yard. No new fabrics this week, but the Super Bowl sale is today at the quilt shop. I will check it out and most likely make a little purchase. Just little! I have 1.25 tote full and I am going to purge the old scraps that are small this week. Some of them I am really tired of seeing!!!
Lots of new things happening this upcoming week. My Mom and I are starting up a longarm quilting adventure. The machine will be here next Saturday. I have Monday off so you know what I will be doing. Practice, Practice, practice. I am so excited about this, you will be tired of hearing about it I'm sure.
Ok this Civil Dairy Quilt block is done and I cringed when I took the photo. Oops and I am not going any further. Some days you just can't piece together a 9 patch, right?!?
The Victory quilt block is the other block. I fused the stars on and appliqued with my machines blanket stitch.
See what every one else is doing at www.patchworktimes.com for busting stash today and design wall is on Mondays.
5 comments:
Congrats!!
A long-arm! I am sure you will enjoy that. A LQS is starting up classes/rental of a machine, so I plan to do that to see if I really want to buy one.
And way to go on your exercise progress....
Liz
So which machine did you get?
We decided to go with a Baby lock Jewel. It has a very nice frame that goes with it too. Now to get thread. Any suggestions?
Lucky you! A long arm. What brand did you get? I'm so jealous. Maybe next year I can get one too. It seems to be getting more expensive to get things quilted and it kind of puts the brakes on a lot of projects in my head. I can't wait to see your practice pieces.
Good luck with the long arm.
DH & I purchased a short arm set up last year. . .neither of us has had much time to practice with it due to a lot of different things going on. But I am bound & determined to start playing with it on some charity quilts.
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