Showing posts with label longarm pieced quilt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label longarm pieced quilt. Show all posts

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Tracy's latest quilt

I finished Tracy's quilt this morning. Here is the final result.

The back is pretty too.
I have to tell you, I broke down & bought these tension guages from Superior Threads, to use on my  longarm. It has made my life SOOooo much easier. I found that even I had my thread tension balaced, I was having trouble with skipping stitches. When I got he tension guages, I discovered I was running with my thread tension way too tight. When I turned it down to the reccomened tension on both the top & bobbin, it made all the difference. So much better. No more skipping & breaking.


I wanted to tell you about the visitor I had at this window this week. It was a young black bear (sorry no picture, the camera was upstairs at the time). I was setting right there at the machine when the bear litlerally walked right up against the window. It was so cute. It had thick fur, ready for winter. He looked like a giant teddy bear. The mama was in the yard too, but further away.

It's chilly outside. The ground is frozen, with ice puddles in the driveway, but no snow here yet. It seems to be coming later & later. I guess it's the global warming.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

A Modern Romance finished

piecAt 620 a.m. I awoke from a dead sleep with my neck being bitten. It was a sudden , intense burning-itching, pain. I knew instantly I either had a very small vampire biting me or it was a SPIDER! UGH! UGH! UGH! I am SO-o-o-o-o ARACHNIPHOBIC! I think I would've preferred the vampire! I was so FREAKED OUT!!!My reflex was to grab it's little round BB sized body & fling it away from me. Of course, now I will never sleep well again, thinking it will be crawling into my bed every night to try & suck my blood again!
It is spring break-up here in Anchorage. My car looks like it has some sort of pox, from mud & water , the usual road mush we get this time of year.
Mount Redoubt continues to blow it's top, & we had avoided the fall out until today. Our white snow is now shades of grey.
Not so pretty.

We went to the movies this afternoon & saw "Monsters Vs. Alien" in 3D. It was GREAT! What a fun movie, & the 3-D effect was just amazing! The best 3-D I've seen since our trip to Disney World.

Thanks for all of the nice comments on my clock!

I finished working on "A Modern Romance" today. My contribution for the "Alliance for American Quilts".
I added lots of beads to the center embroidered piece.
& colored some of my quilting.
I made this flower from thread,
& several little flowers too.
I also made a feather, using a wire & a variegated rayon thread.
This little bundle of flowers are some that Allie sent me a long while ago, & she's the reason I made this quilt!