October 2007

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1728 square inches…

October 6, 2007 in Quilts - In progress by emily | 1 comment

… of pretty variegated swirlies. The binding still needs to be done so no big pictures yet. Patience, grasshopper.

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The meeting of the minds

October 6, 2007 in Etsy by emily | 4 comments

The Triangle-area Etsians met this morning at CupAJoe in Raleigh. Good talk, good fun and I now know there are some people in Etsy forums that annoy other people too. I can’t wait until next time ladies!

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Feel free to comment with your name, Etsy shop name and where you are in the picture because I’m sitting here with a stack of business cards trying to figure out who is who. I need to know who it was that mentioned the show in Johnston County. :-D

New CEO vetos plans to finish Shangri-la quilt tomorrow

October 2, 2007 in Kids by emily | No comments

It was on the schedule to be finished tomorrow along with some shoes for Jeri (hi Jeri!).  CEO Liam Cier has vetoed that idea.

“I don’t think so Mom.  We’re playing with rattles tomorrow.”

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Shangri-la progress!

October 2, 2007 in Quilts - In progress by emily | No comments

It was lurking in the sewing machine in my last post, but the Shangri-la wedding quilt is progressing! I just need to flip over the binding and sew it and it will be all done (or all dooney as Miss Maeve would say).

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Oh Moneytree…

October 2, 2007 in Machines, Quilts - In progress by emily | 3 comments

Will you please come visit me?

So any quilter knows how much fun it is to shove a huge quilt through their normal sewing machine. You have to make sure you don’t quilt any wrinkles or folds into it … your free motion stitches stay smooth and equal in length … your quilting stays an even density even though you can only see about 5 square inches at a time … shall I continue? Probably not since I am probably sounding a wee bit whiney.

Does this look familiar to anyone?

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Luckily, my handy dandy Machingers make this part of the process a little more pleasant, but it’s still tough and hard on the back and shoulders.

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So the solution to this is to send every quilt to someone with a long arm machine or buy something bigger myself. Of course being the sewing machine lover that I am, I want my own. Not a super fancy computer driven one, just something simple that has a bigger machine and rollers so I don’t have to baste.

I hear angels singing.

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Isn’t she beautiful? Rollers… a table that expands to 120″… it even has storage underneath!! What sew-er couldn’t use more storage? She is the Pfaff Grand Quilter with a Next Generation Quilt Frame. Absolutely beautiful. Problem is she costs a lot more than I currently have.

Moneytree?

Will you please come visit me?

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