Quilt for my boss

My boss (Lynda) had made a T-shirt quilt for her son who did a lot of wrestling in high school. It was tied, and had been well loved. The binding was coming loose and the batting shifting since it was tied a minimum of every 7" and sometimes much further apart than that. I resewed the binding on, adding some batting where needed, then put it on my longarm, and quilted it with my loop-de-loop style. She's very pleased with the look of the quilt.

Sharon trying to decide what to do next, Donna with pieces she put together for a backing, Becky putting together some borders for some blocks we received from Melissa at the retreat, and LindaPoo binding a quilt while Carolyn supervises.

Annette's first quilt

Annette had just received her Lilabet's Garden quilt back from the long armer, and she brought it over to show to us.

Also pictured is a top that Ellen finished which had been given to her partly completed.

Pictures of the gang at work, and of Cathy and Ellen on the longarm.

Charity Sew Day

I hosted a charity sew day, and we had 12 ladies attend. The first four pictures are of the house when there were only 5 of us here.

Linda's paints

After driving Carol to the airport, I stopped at JoAnn's and bought some white fabric that I needed, and some paints. I washed the fabric and tore off several inches to use for a paint trial. I re-wet the fabric, painted from one end down about 2/3 of the way and then came in 2/3 of the way from the other end with blue. The blue overpowered the yellow, where I expected to have green, so I applied more paint. I've hung it sideways to dry, so we'll see if the color gravitates.

Carol quilting

Pictures of Carol on Hoot and some of her finished product. She is very interested in the increasing and decreasing size of the quilting in relationship to the printed center of the pieces.

more of Carol's quilting

Carol had an idea for a piece of horse fabric that I have, and I quilted the 'sky' area in black with my famous loop-de-loop design, and she did her loop-de-loop in the 'ground' area. She plans to do hand quilting in the horse/shards of color area. The other piece is another paintstix/fabric painted item she quilted.

Carol's stuff, quilted

Carol has enjoyed using my longarm, and has quilted several of the pieces that used the paintstix with a stencil, and then painted afterwards.