Quilting Lines: Electric Quilt

Monday, November 4, 2013

Looking Ahead

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.

Napoleon Hill

I have been busy with quilting and reorganizing my studio work spaces. It takes a bit of thought and energy to figure out the best place to put things. I now have better access to my large fabric storage bins and I plan to go through them and cull some of the less useful fabrics over the next few months. I still haven't had much time with my new machine. I did manage to put a zipper in a pillow back for what will be a Christmas gift. It is the quietest machine I've ever used and I really love the bright lights on it.

I wrote a blog post last week that disappeared when I hit publish. Grrr... (Note to self, if you have left the compose screen open for too long, hit refresh BEFORE you start writing again.) So I have been thinking of you I just haven't had a lot the share. I need to start keeping a list of things I can write SHORT posts about.

HELP OR IDEAS NEEDED!!!

It is now November and the Holidays are approaching at lightening speed. If you will take a minute and VOTE in the POLL to the right about what you think would be a good name for my Christmas Tree Skirt Linky Party I would appreciate it. If you have a better suggestion for a name PLEASE SHARE it in the comments. I also need a Clip Art Picture or something to use for a Linky Button to share. I have been so focused on my quilting and organizing that the creative ideas for this project just aren't flowing. Any bright or helpful ideas would be appreciated. I would even give a small prize to anyone that has an idea or name that I use.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE A TUTORIAL ON MAKING A TREE SKIRT?

I would like to feature some fellow bloggers during the linky party. If you would like to share a tutorial on how you make a Tree Skirt or maybe on how you like to make the ties, closures or binding for one please let me know ASAP so I can get a schedule organized. You can find my tutorial that I made in July HERE.

How to Make a Hexagonal Tree Skirt

I thought I would share some pictures of the textured quilting I did on the the quilt I finished a few weeks ago. There were three areas to quilt sky, a tree and snow. These pictures are from the back side because the threads matched and did not show up well on the front.

Sky texture - wavy lines and swirls

Tree branch texture

Snow

Not too exciting to look at but the flowers in the print are smaller than a quarter and the quilt was more than 80" in both directions. It was a lot of quilting! No pictures of the front as it isn't my quilt.

I was looking for some batting on Joann.com today a happened to notice they have a really good deal on EQ7 and some other EQ products today. I know many of you were interested in it when I ran the giveaway. If it is on your Christmas List Now would be the time to get it. I don't know how long the sale price will be good.

I also learned about a Giveaway the Keepsake Quilting is running. You can enter daily to win 52 yards of fabric a year. Sounds like a dream come true to me!

Enter to Win Fabric for Life from Keepsake Quilting

That's my news for the day. I'll be back soon to share something new and old that came to my studio recently.

Linking with: Linky Tuesday

Monday, October 8, 2012

A Day for a Win!

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

Annie Besant

I was looking for a quote with something about a 'win' and I found this one. I had to use it because it seems to perfectly describe my adventures in blog-land. This weekend I was trying to get all the details and instructions all in order for the Something Wicked post and I kept encountering obstacles along the way. Everything eventually got done, even though when I was almost through with the instructions I hit the wrong button and lost everything and had to start over, the post went up and the pattern and instructions are available for download.

I have learned so much techie stuff in the last few weeks with these blog hops. I'm sure I will use these tools for many things. I only started blogging frequently around Memorial Day and it has been an adventure already. I am meeting new people and making new friends that I hope to get to know better and better as time goes on. Maybe I'll even get to meet some of them face to face someday.

Now to announce the winner of my Giveaway for followers. It is #7 Gwen. Congratulations!

I had a delightful surprise in my email today too! I WON! Electric Quilt Company had a blog hop last week and I will be receiving both EQ7 and Judy Martin's Star Power software. You can read about the EQ Fall Blog Hop and follow the links there and discover some really neat and unexpected things that can be done with EQ7.

Now I'm going to have to figure out what to do with another copy of EQ7. Any ideas?

Are you keeping up with the Leafs Me Happy hop? There are an astounding number of blocks being shown. Can't wait for you to see what I came up with. I and a few others are falling into the last but not least category.