October 26, 2010

• Amanda, succeed or fail, Anna Grace’s quilt goes on the frame tomorrow!

  I posted about this when it happened this summer, my son bought me a hand-guided quilting machine and frame.  I had to wait until my semester was over before I could reasonably devote any time to learning how to use it.  In the past couple of weeks I have spent time on youtube watching videos on how to load the quilt, batting, and backing onto the rollers.  Then I had to summon the courage to actually thread the machine and start it up.

  Now I think I am ready to try.  Being the kind of person that I am I can’t practice on scraps it has to be on the real thing so, Amanda the top for Anna Grace’s quilt is done and the back is done. Tomorrow all I have to do is load them and the batting onto the rollers and choose a pantograph.

  

  Say a little prayer that I master this thing on my first try.

  

  After I finish the baby quilt I plan on loading this one that I made several years ago but never finished.  The picture doesn’t do it justice but it is one of the best I have ever done.  It is a Triple Irish Chain done in tea-dyed muslin with a tone on tone muslin that has a star print on it.  The other fabrics are a blend of golds, blues, burgundys, greens, and neutrals.  It has a seminole border with the tea-dyed muslin outlining the border.  It was a bear to do but a pleasure to look at and the colors are all my own.

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