tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49143158533758431852024-03-17T22:19:49.685-07:00Paula Reid - Machine QuilterPaula Reid Machine Quilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00078043038594695449noreply@blogger.comBlogger744125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914315853375843185.post-7898666372440293432020-07-31T21:21:00.002-07:002020-07-31T21:25:24.028-07:00Teri Lucas Has A Great New Book Out!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #1f497d;">The last time I flew was March 13, flying home from the cancelled Dallas Quilt Show. After that, in an email cascade of cancellations, all of my workshops and lectures disappeared for the whole year! I was all of a sudden living a “retirement life” that I thought would come years from now. So I’ve been reading, baking, running 25-30 miles a week (a weird passion of mine that didn’t manifest until last year at age 70-1/2 – who does that??), walking a few miles in the morning with my husband. I’ve joined that Sourdough Bread Baking Brigade that one reads about, gotten used to not going to the hairdresser or the nail person or the facialist – man, was I spoiled!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d;">But I haven’t done much sewing. My sewing has always been deadline based. Class samples, quilts to show at a workshop, ideas that I wanted to try out so I could demonstrate them to classes. Ruler work kept me excited for quite a while, especially as the new ones just kept rolling out and I was sewing my brains out in a futile attempt to keep up. But now? Since my work came to a screeching halt? Very little sewing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d;">Last week I did go into the sewing room; I was playing with some fat quarters of the Ombre Blooms fabric and had a pattern called Ombre Gems from Quilty Love. Pretty straightforward to cut and sew and I really liked the fabrics. So I cut and sewed all the blocks and laid them out on the floor in the master bedroom, the biggest open floor space I have:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d;">I think I am really going to like it! It won’t be quite as big as I like to make my quilts, but that’s OK, I cut some extra squares to do a pieced border between two white borders. Now all I have to do is get motivated to get those blocks pieced together!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d;">So what are you doing with your home time? Do you have more of it than you used to? Less? Are you sewing more? Less? Making some beautiful things? I’d love to see pics!</span></div>
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BabyLock Tech is held every year in St. Louis. It’s a convention for BabyLock dealers to see the new machines, get a lot of really great education (I often hear from multiple line dealers that the BabyLock classes are the best available in the sewing industry) and, of course, shop the vendors.</div>
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Michelle and I were there for a week setting up the Mettler USA booth, manning the booth and tearing it down on the last day. After a more than satisfactory conclusion — Michelle sold cabinets and I booked 4 workshop sessions — we did some sight seeing. And we got to see the new Solaris machine, sister to the Brother Lumiere. Haven’t gotten my hands on one of them yet, but I’m teaching at Hokema’s in Redding CA next week, September 13-15, and they will have one for me to play with! Of course, I’m immediately attracted to the 13” throat space — biggest in the market and exciting for quilters and machine embroiderers!</div>
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Step One is to make 18 half square triangles. The directions called for triangle paper, but I didn’t have any laying around the sewing room, so grabbed my EZ Angle ruler and starting cutting pairs.</div>
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Really like these fabrics together!</div>
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Early this month, I received an invitation from The Fat Quarter Shop to participate in one of their quilt alongs. This was the first invitation when I would actually be in town to sit down at the machine and make something with them, so I filled out the form and hoped they would pick me!</div>
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This was an easy one — it’s only one block, but of course I need to have it done pretty quick as deadline date is looming.</div>
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So here are the fabrics I picked out of my stash — what do you think?</div>
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Quilting more has left me with a few more scraps than normal and, as sometimes happen when you’re thinking about something, help appeared! I have pledged to read one general quilting book and one machine quilting book each month to see what new things I can pack in the quiltiverse part of my brain. Maybe this doesn’t really qualify as a book, but there is some reading and a few quilt patterns, so…</div>
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There’s a nice chatty introduction by the author, Lori Holt of Bee in My Bonnet, and then the sections that help a quilter keep track of all the various projects she or he has going on. The first helpful page invites you to list out 50 projects. I wonder if I could make a copy and punch holes in it for upward of 50? One of my good friends admitted to having 114 unfinished projects; I’m afraid to count, so maybe I would use this for new things that I am starting rather than the ongoing.</div>
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Then each of those 50 projects gets their own set of project pages where you can record everything, glue in fabric swatches, sketch a block design and/or quilt layout, make notes. One thing that Lori suggested was that we record in there where we purchased the fabric in case we, ahem, need more!</div>
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Then Lori dives into time management; there is a general calendar (not pictured) for the months and then a weekly sheet, undated so that you can use them every week if you want starting at any time of the year, or you could just use them for your busier weeks where you can actually map out your quilting time as you move your projects along toward completion.</div>
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Now this is good advice! How does she actually cut up and divide her scraps so that they are available to use later in the most common sizes – this was welcome news to me. I’ve always put everything ¼ yard or larger back up on the shelf and then cut everything else into 2-1/2 “ strips and tossed them in a light, medium or dark value scrap bucket. That way, I could make my own jelly rolls. But I really like Lori’s idea of cutting 7”, 5” and 3-1/2” as well so that you have more options in using your scraps.</div>
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There are also patterns for six quilts, two of which I really liked and might have to start cutting scraps for – and maybe filling out a project sheet?</div>
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Each chapter has a divider with a good quote – this was my favorite. Also each project sheet and each weekly calendar sheet has a quilty quote – that’s over 100 quotes to inspire you!</div>
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I liked this book a lot; not being a particularly organized person by nature, I’m hoping that this will help keep track of some of the projects I’d like to make and get me budgeting some time on them. Another thing that I think will be fun and helpful is a first<span> </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1571999491" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span><span> </span>of the month meeting at my local quilt store, Bolts in the Bathtub. Each attendee brings the three projects that she (no men have joined at this point) would like to work on and, perhaps finish, in the coming month. We’re all meeting at<span> </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1571999492" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">noon</span></span><span> </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1571999493" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">this Sunday</span></span><span> </span>and showing our projects to each other as well as the progress that was made on the January projects. There are prizes, of course….</div>
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I’m bringing Continuum, which I’ve started the sewing on, a grey and yellow table runner that I am doing for Mettler so they can have it in their booth for Quilt Market and other shows, and a quilt that I started last spring that I need to quilt the blocks and the sashings, but the borders and binding are already finished – don’t ask….Actually, I’ll tell – I was carrying it around with me demonstrating machine quilting on it. The border edges and batting, etc., were getting kind of ratty looking so I quilted the border and put the binding on to prevent damage to the quilt.</div>
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So what do you think of Lori’s book? Could you use some help organizationally or have you found your own way? Please share your ideas!</div>
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WHKsh7GF_sY/V2pxAwoz0OI/AAAAAAAAIIk/yQpFKHnh7sksc101oJmgzdNl9fdC7-CawCLcB/s1600/Signature.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WHKsh7GF_sY/V2pxAwoz0OI/AAAAAAAAIIk/yQpFKHnh7sksc101oJmgzdNl9fdC7-CawCLcB/s1600/Signature.png" /></a>Paula Reid Machine Quilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00078043038594695449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914315853375843185.post-41241363925038167872018-01-31T09:19:00.002-08:002018-01-31T09:19:39.326-08:00You Really Thought I Stopped Sewing?<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
I was teaching a class the other day and one of the students said, “All you talk about now on your blog are books you are reading. Have you stopped sewing?”</div>
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I had three goals this month sewing-wise. I wanted to finish my goddaughter Destiny’s quilt, finish the Squares Plus quilt that I’m making as a gift for my friend Rhonda and get a start on my newest machine quilting ruler class quilt called Continuum.</div>
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Destiny’s quilt is 104”x117” – in a word, humongous! I told her that I would try to get all the quilting done and the binding sewn on to the front (the handwork’s on her!) by the time she moved from San Diego to join her husband, who is in med school in Las Cruces NM. She drove off into the sunrise on Saturday, January 27, and I put the quilt into her arms<span> </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1155017590" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Friday </span></span>afternoon the 26<sup>th</sup><span> </span>– hours to spare, right?</div>
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I really love the fabric that Destiny ordered from Spoonflower. She and Nick love computer games and the fabrics she chose reflect this. So now they are living in Las Cruces where it can get pretty cool at night, so they’ll be happy to have the quilt on their bed.</div>
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I thought the piecing on this quilt would be quick and easy, not really thinking about all those itty bitty plus signs that meant a lot of 1-1/2’ squares! Small is not my favorite scale, but I love the way it turned out. Finished the quilting early in the month then worked on Destiny’s quilt, then back to Rhonda’s and finished the hand stitching on the binding a couple of days ago. I’ll see her in San Antonio in a couple of weeks and will be able to give it to her then. I don’t think she reads this, so it may even be a surprise!</div>
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I knew I wouldn’t get the Continuum quilt finished, but I hoped to get enough of a start so that I could let Nuttall's in Salt Lake City know about fabric requirements for the Continuum class I’m teaching there in May. You aren’t looking at a black and white photo here: The quilt was originally made by Leonie West, the genius behind the Westalee ruler line, in shades of grey which is stunning to look at but difficult to figure out fabrics when you see it in a photo. Although I am beginning to learn that “seeing” in grey scale is a good thing and I’ve started taking photos of my quilts in black and white before making final decisions on block arrangements.</div>
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For a two day class, I’ve scaled down the quilt so that we are stitching 14 blocks that make a 48-1/2” wide x 41-1/2” long quilt that is stitched out block by block and then assembled using a quilt as you go method that Leonie calls “Sashlee”. This was my planning sketch to get the math all down before I started cutting.</div>
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In my version, there are five fabrics in the quilt – dark, medium dark, medium, medium light and light. I chose dark magenta, dark pink, medium pink (which is also my backing fabric for all the pieces), grey with a small white polka dot and a white on white print as my five. Yesterday I cut all the backing and batting pieces and paired them up.</div>
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Today I cut all the top fabric pieces, matched them up with their batting/backing partners and labeled them with Alphabitties, the cute little 1” square plastic alphanumeric markers that I clip onto blocks, rows, etc. – whatever needs organizing before sewing. So now I can grab each top/batting/backing set and start doing the ruler quilting. Getting this quilt done is my first goal for February.</div>
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I’ve done a bunch of ruler quilting and teach it many times each year but I have never made a quilt with the quilt-as-you-go method. Have you? What do you think of it?</div>
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I’ve long been impressed with Leah Day and her 365 Day Free Motion Quilting Project. If you missed it somehow, it started several years ago when, at a tender age somewhere in her mid-20’s, Leah decided that she was going to try a different free motion pattern every day for a year, video herself doing it, and post the instructions and the video on her blog, freemotionquilting.blogspot.com</div>
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She had the videos sorted into beginner, intermediate and advanced patterns and then came out with books that illustrated the patterns as well. I have a couple of those books and it’s handy when I’m looking for some inspiration to just pick one up and start leafing through. For instance, last year I was working on a quilt that had wood grain printed fabric in the border and I wanted to emphasize that. Sure enough, a few pages into one of her books was a wood grain pattern that was exactly what I was looking for.</div>
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I have been very intrigued by the modern quilt movement and how many of these quilts are quilted with straight lines using a walking foot rather than the free motion that we’ve all practiced like crazy. Leah’s latest book is a primer on how to do this type of quilting, including excellent setup instructions, illustrations for many styles of quilting and patterns for seven quilts. Five of them are pieced, one is quilt-as-you-go and the last is a beautiful wholecloth quilt that is pretty detailed; frankly, I think that I would do the wholecloth quilt in a combination of walking foot and free motion quilting due to the curves. I’m always better with curves in free motion, but I know not everyone feels the same.</div>
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Leah covers all-over quilting, ditch stitching, section stitching (where you do different things in various parts of the quilt), quilt-as-you-go and wholecloth quilts. I usually ditch first, but she recommends doing section stitching first, then ditch stitching to enclose that area — I love that she calls this a “victory lap”! Dan thought it was odd that I was laughing while reading a quilting book!</div>
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After the quilt patterns, there is an excellent Troubleshooting chapter and binding instructions for quilt-as-you-go (which she calls “edge binding”), straight binding and curved binding (the binding for that gorgeous wholecloth quilt).</div>
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As usual for Leah, the instructions are very clear and encouraging; the photography is excellent and very colorful. In fact, I had purchased “<a href="http://Walk:M" target="_blank">Walk:</a> Master Machine Quilting with Your Walking Foot” by Jacquie Gering around the same time, but read Leah’s first because of all the color — it just called to me!</div>
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I learned some new things — I am going to try that victory lap as well as some of the walking foot designs illustrated in the book. And I think I have to make the “Infinity Knot” quilt. On the other hand, I know I will never be a convert to the idea of leaving long thread ends, threading needles (“cheater” or not!) and burying threads!</div>
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It is also definitely worth a visit to her website, leahday.com, and I have enjoyed my subscription to her free newsletter. Always good ideas, again with lots of color (!), showing up in my inbox. Leah is definitely one of the jewels in our quilting world and I love seeing and learning what new things she’s coming up with!</div>
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this pretty? I LOVE rain! I’ll be here for a few days, mostly piecing
quilt backings. I also brought one project where the blocks are all
complete and just need to be sewn together. Catch up stuff rather than
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have three major goals this month: getting the quilt that Destiny
pieced quilted, putting the binding on Rhonda’s quilt and designing the
workshop for the new Westalee ruler set called “Continuum” that I’ll be
teaching in May for Nuttall’s BERNINA & Fabric Center in Riverton UT
in May.</span><br />
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been working on Des’ quilt for about a week; I started with big swoopy
curves and decided that wasn’t enough quilting, so now I’m going back
and filling them in. I’m about half done. It’s 105”x117, so is taking
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WHKsh7GF_sY/V2pxAwoz0OI/AAAAAAAAIIk/yQpFKHnh7sksc101oJmgzdNl9fdC7-CawCLcB/s1600/Signature.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WHKsh7GF_sY/V2pxAwoz0OI/AAAAAAAAIIk/yQpFKHnh7sksc101oJmgzdNl9fdC7-CawCLcB/s1600/Signature.png" /></a>Paula Reid Machine Quilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00078043038594695449noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914315853375843185.post-66579371035284979292018-01-07T09:04:00.000-08:002018-01-08T06:09:50.171-08:00My Reading ListHow do you define an “avid” reader? Because I tend to hang out on planes and in hotel rooms, I always have a few books on the Kindle (which, thanks to the free Kindle apps, I can read on my phone and IPad as well as that handy little e-reader) and maybe a physical book in hand. When I’m home, I tend to go the other way – more books, less electronics. I always have several in progress as well as in the queue and as an average read between 10 and 20 books each month, more when travelling, less when home.<br />
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Several of my friends are involved in various book clubs and we often discuss what we are reading. I wrapped up the year by reading <u>Leonardo da Vinci </u>by Walter Isaacson – even though it weighed a ton when I took it to Cabo San Lucas on vacation last month, it was totally worth buying it in hardback for the beauty of the illustrations and artwork. I sort of justify buying a hardback/paperback because I pass them on to at least one person before dropping them off at a local used book store.</div>
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This is my “for now” stack – Dan and I are doing the Whole 30 this month (not an easy dietary task as those of you who have tried it know!) It’s a detox after all the excesses of the holidays. No dairy, no grains, no sugar, no alcohol (I miss my wine!), just real foods for a month. I can do this! So Whole 30 Day by Day is a chapter a day encouragement, recognition of the difficulties and coaching to get you through this. The concept behind a Whole 30 is to pare it down to only real foods, then after a month reintroduce food groups gradually so you can see how your body responds to them and pinpoint trouble areas. So, every day I read a bit .</div>
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Mark Manson’s <u>The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck </u>– my friend Andrea facilitates a book club that meets monthly at her Corrective Chiropractic office in Calabasas CA and this is the book she has chosen for next week’s meeting. I raced through it, gave it to Dan to read and plan to read it again so that I can mark it up. I tend to highlight and dog ear pages in this type of book and I didn’t want to call Dan’s attention to what resonated with me. I wanted him to approach the book through his own life filter. There is, obviously, <b>language</b>, so if you are offended by four letter words, you might want to skip this one.</div>
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<u>The Queen’s Fool</u> by Philippa Gregory is my “bathtub” book. After a long day, I love a soak in a hot bath with something fictiony and a little on the light side; I know some people take their Kindle into the bath, but dropping it would be an expensive oops, so I don’t. Plus there is a lot of info around that one sleeps better without electronica at the end of the day. Gregory is known for her historical fiction, most of it centered on the Tudors. <u>The Other Boleyn Girl</u> was probably the first of her books that I read, and I’ve read a few since because I really like her writing style. This one focuses on the reigns of Henry VIII’s children, most notably Mary, the daughter of Catherine, Henry’s first wife. These novels are written from the point of view of an observer of the court and are quite engaging.</div>
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I usually have one book on my Kindle and another on an app that I can read interchangeably (and seamlessly – thank you, Amazon!) on my phone and IPad when I have down time somewhere. On my Kindle right now, I am reading Ashes Reborn – it’s a “junk” novel of no value whatsoever except enjoyment! Great series where the central characters are Phoenixes (think rebirth amid many flames) – there are also Fae, vampires, werewolves and a bunch of other supernaturals. Fun series!</div>
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This is what I’m reading on my phone. It’s an autobiographical romp by Shonda Rhimes – this is what the book description says: “The mega-talented creator of <i>Grey’s Anatomy</i> and <i>Scandal</i> and executive producer of <i>How to Get Away With Murder</i> chronicles how saying YES for one year changed her life―and how it can change yours, too.” She has a great sense of humor and it is a fun read!</div>
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I pretty much took the month of December off from the sewing room. We took a much needed vacation and I caught up on some organizing and reading goals.</div>
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My first goal is to finish Rhonda’s quilt so I can give it to her in February when I see her. The last three steps are to quilt the 30 blocks, quilt the border and do the binding. Yesterday I started working on the blocks.<br />
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First, a drawing, then I did a sample stitchout on one of the quilt sandwiches piled on the back of the table. The prettiest fabrics in this collection have peacock feathers on them, so freehand feathers seemed like they would be fun to stitch and would look cool!<br />
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Sewed a feather in each of the blocks, then figured that I was on a major roll, so started on the border. Same idea — a feather in each corner and then the wavy frond-like things going in the same direction that the border fabric goes. Got half the border done yesterday and the rest today.<br />
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Now all that’s left is the binding! I cut and sewed it this afternoon, but still need to get it pressed so that I can do the machine work on it. I may take it with me so that I’ll have some hand work when I go to the Pieceful Hearts Quilters retreat in South Carolina next week — from what I hear it is going to be C-O-L-D!!<br />
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My sewing, like my sewing room, tends to be “all over the place”! I work a little bit on one project, then sew on another, maybe put together a quilt back – in other words, things slowly move to completion, but in a scattershot sort of way. I finished four quilts last year, which was better than I have done in probably 8 or 9 years, so I was happy with that. But – and there’s always a but – I could have been more organized about the whole thing and aimed to get more quilts done.</div>
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The “rules” are pretty simple; here they are in Patty’s words:</div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="background: white; font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The basics for One Monthly Goal are as follows - </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 18pt;">Select ONE</span></b><b><span style="font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">of your quilt-related goals for the month. This could be to make a few blocks. cutting fabric for a project, sewing on a binding, or finish a quilt top. Any goal that involves a step in the process of making with thread, fabric or yarn is a valid goal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 18pt;">Describe your goal</span></b><b><span style="background: white; font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">in a:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="background: white; font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br />Then come <b>post again</b> at the end of the month to share your accomplishment in the<b> One Monthly Goal Finish Party. </b>The finish party will run for 7 days at the end of the month.</span></span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-family: inherit , serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span>Each time you join the linkup you earn an entry into the <b>Grand Finale</b> prize drawing! Link up in the goal setting and the finish linkup each month of the year earns 24 entries into the Grand Finale prize drawing. Link up goals one month but never quite got to the finish? You still earn an entry for participating in the goal link up!</div>
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There are prizes donated by the Fat Quarter Shop, Make Modern and others – doesn’t this sound like fun? I already signed up!</div>
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I’m teaching in Salt Lake for a few days and after class sometimes like to run in to Starbucks for a venti iced sugar free vanilla latte with whole milk — I tell myself it’s for the calcium!</div>
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This was a back window sticker on a car parked right in front — had to get this picture!</div>
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My last day of teaching was today so I’m headed home tomorrow for a couple of weeks to get some sewing done — I’ll keep you posted!</div>
Paula Reid Machine Quilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00078043038594695449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914315853375843185.post-6131599527448615682017-11-13T08:59:00.002-08:002017-11-13T08:59:53.677-08:00Glad I Changed My Mind!<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">I’ve been to Market and back — it was super to touch bases with so many friends! — and have been home catching up on some projects.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Finished the Circuit blocks and am thinking about the next Block of the Day, put the inner and outer borders on the Squares Plus quilt I’m making for Rhonda (pics later in the week when I take it to her in Salt Lake so she can see it and decide on batting and binding fabric) and am now putting the final border on the minions quilt.</span><br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WHKsh7GF_sY/V2pxAwoz0OI/AAAAAAAAIIk/yQpFKHnh7sksc101oJmgzdNl9fdC7-CawCLcB/s1600/Signature.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WHKsh7GF_sY/V2pxAwoz0OI/AAAAAAAAIIk/yQpFKHnh7sksc101oJmgzdNl9fdC7-CawCLcB/s1600/Signature.png" /></a>Paula Reid Machine Quilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00078043038594695449noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914315853375843185.post-17567925002864959682017-10-28T06:00:00.000-07:002017-10-28T06:11:46.457-07:00Patches & Scraps, Midland TX<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This is either my third or fourth visit to Patches & Scraps; owner Lisa Graham and I were trying to figure it out the other day and didn’t come up with an answer. The store has been open for four years and I came to them for the first time shortly after their opening and almost every year since. Every year they have even more merchandise and since pushing the walls of the building out is impractical, the aisles just get narrower!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This quilt is right outside the classroom door and I love it! It’s got that whole modern vibe going on. It takes over 5 yards of background fabric and we had a lively discussion at dinner last night about how many bolts a store had to buy of good backgrounds like this one. A 15 yard bolt may only be enough for 2 or 3 customers, so Lisa and April (store manager daughter) have found that they can go through a 4 bolt order very quickly. It was a very interesting insight about inventory management and the things a store has to think about when placing orders.</span><br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WHKsh7GF_sY/V2pxAwoz0OI/AAAAAAAAIIk/yQpFKHnh7sksc101oJmgzdNl9fdC7-CawCLcB/s1600/Signature.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WHKsh7GF_sY/V2pxAwoz0OI/AAAAAAAAIIk/yQpFKHnh7sksc101oJmgzdNl9fdC7-CawCLcB/s1600/Signature.png" /></a>Paula Reid Machine Quilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00078043038594695449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914315853375843185.post-29252612428180366602017-10-25T06:22:00.000-07:002017-10-25T06:22:18.573-07:00Clemtine Charity Quilt Quilt Along<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">When it comes to charitable causes, quilters probably have among the biggest hearts! We make quilts for others less fortunate and contribute fabric and notions to people who want to make their own. </span></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WHKsh7GF_sY/V2pxAwoz0OI/AAAAAAAAIIk/yQpFKHnh7sksc101oJmgzdNl9fdC7-CawCLcB/s1600/Signature.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WHKsh7GF_sY/V2pxAwoz0OI/AAAAAAAAIIk/yQpFKHnh7sksc101oJmgzdNl9fdC7-CawCLcB/s1600/Signature.png" /></a>Paula Reid Machine Quilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00078043038594695449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914315853375843185.post-28583762725610543262017-10-23T13:31:00.000-07:002017-10-23T13:42:54.319-07:00Red Pines Quilt Shop, Detroit Lakes MN<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This is the second time I’ve taught for Nate and Joy Fetting of Red Pines Quilt Shop in Detroit Lakes MN. Last year, I came in September and the fall colors were just starting to pop; this year, I was there from October 11–15 and caught them just about at peak. This picture was one that I took from the car on the way from the Fargo ND airport to Detroit Lakes. We don’t have a lot of fall changes in the Southern California high desert, so it’s always a treat to go somewhere and enjoy the seasons!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I commented to Joy that the quilts on the wall were different from last year; she said “They’d better be!” Red Pines is a big shop with a lot of fabric — 150 colors of Mona’s Basic Grey Grunge? And there’s grunge polka dots now? I liked the shots of color in the grey and white background fabrics in the quilt above.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I thoroughly enjoyed my few days with Nate, Joy and the students as well as the staff of the Lodge at Detroit Lakes who did their best to spoil me. We’re already mulling over ideas for what I might teach next fall. This year, just like last, we did my two day machine quilting class and Ruler Play on a Domestic Machine. We’re thinking of more advanced classes for next year. There’s always great new things to learn!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Speaking of which, this week I’ll be in Midland TX and then going on to Houston for Quilt Market. Lots of new things for me to learn so that I can teach them to others. I’ll be in the Amann-Mettler booth with all the beautiful, colorful threads; if you’re going to be at Market, stop by! I’ll be doing demonstrations with Mettler’s 28 weight cotton thread and using the Westalee rulers — I’d love to see you!</span> <br />
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<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">I told Teri had no idea what to name the quilt, so she did it for me; here’s a picture of the card that explains the quilt’s story. Teri and I have had a running joke since we met several years ago in Knoxville when we were both teaching for an AQS show there. She calls me The Queen and I call her My Dear Princess; if you have met Teri, you know she has an infectious sense of humor and it was great to be able to hang out with her after show hours. Teri lives in the Bronx, so she didn’t have too far to drive to the show.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">This was the 18th Dutchess Heritage Quilt Show; it is presented by the Dutchess Heritage Quilt Show Committee in cooperation with the First Dutchess Quilters Guild and the Dutchess Community College Foundation. Along with Teri, I was excited to see Debby Brown (of Handiquilter fame and cutie patterns, for two), who told me that First Dutchess is her home guild.</span><br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WHKsh7GF_sY/V2pxAwoz0OI/AAAAAAAAIIk/yQpFKHnh7sksc101oJmgzdNl9fdC7-CawCLcB/s1600/Signature.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WHKsh7GF_sY/V2pxAwoz0OI/AAAAAAAAIIk/yQpFKHnh7sksc101oJmgzdNl9fdC7-CawCLcB/s1600/Signature.png" /></a>Paula Reid Machine Quilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00078043038594695449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914315853375843185.post-12068987844596447622017-10-19T06:39:00.001-07:002017-10-19T07:41:11.839-07:00Catching Up<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">When I updated my iPad and iPhone to ios11 a few things happened, one of which I lost the ability to add photos to my blog posts. I type the post, pull up the photo, click done and — POOF — I’m kicked right out of the program. And what is a quilting blog without photos?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Another thing I did during that week was to piece together the Minions quilt, which was my Block of the Day for all of 12 days. Then I decided that I didn’t like the border fabric that I had ordered, the larger minion print that is in the yellow blocks. With this darker sashing fabric, I decided I would rather have the larger minion print in the orange blocks. I thought that would be especially good because the navy sashing fabric has orange dots in it.</span><br />
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New magazines into the Batt Lair today -- the two Quiltcon issues and Modern Patchwork were purchased directly from an email sale sent by the publisher. I found Curated Quilts on one of the blogs I read (I probably get 50 of them in my daily Bloglovin feed). It was more expensive, but the photography is beautiful and it is printed on high quality paper. This is Issue 01 and I ordered just the single issue to see if I liked it before subscribing. Only glanced through it, but as a surface impression, probably will.</div>
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Realized that I hadn't included the finished top and back photos of the Paper Pinwheels quilt, so above is the top...<br />
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...and here's the back. They are a little bit larger than the floor space, but you can get a pretty good idea of how they are going to look. Used the leftovers pretty effectively; have just a few small squares of the comic fabric left, none of the main low volume backing and, after making the turquoise grunge binding, put 47" of that back on the shelf for another day.<br />
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Keeping on with the dailies -- here are this morning's two Circuit blocks and the one Matrix block pieced through the current step. That makes two of them, although we don't expect leader/enders to be speedy, do we?</div>
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Do you make leader/ender quilts? What are your criteria? Still figuring out mine and could use help!<br />
Paula Reid Machine Quilterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00078043038594695449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4914315853375843185.post-7329525398811482552017-09-28T20:29:00.000-07:002017-10-03T05:38:09.208-07:00National Coffee Day?<br />
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Hearing that Friday is National Coffee Day reminds me of my favorite teeshirt! There must be a Starbucks run sometime tomorrow for those of us who choose to observe this holiday!<br />
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Continuing on with the circuit blocks as my block of the day...<br />
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...then pressed the one semi-completed Matrix block from yesterday. <br /><br />Today I finished the comic book border on the pinwheels quilt, got the back pieced and made the binding from the turquoise grunge fabric.</div>
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Here's part of the back -- I like piecing scraps into a quilt back; it's kind of like putting a puzzle together.<br />
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I was in the hair salon today and my friend Tina Neal, manicurist extraordinaire, showed me the wreath she made from ribbons and things she bought at the dollar store and attached to a frame from Hobby Lobby. This is so cute! Tina's already planning wreaths for Christmas, Valentine's Day and Just Cuz.<br /><br />She thought I should make some, too -- I can just imagine the look on Dan's face if I come home with crafting supplies! LOL!</div>
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