Tiny Bubbles

This "Little Autumn Mums" quilt I am making from the Frieda Anderson class I took at QuiltNebraska last summer is already pretty stiff due to the fact that every fabric has fusible behind it.  With all the close quilting I am doing it is even more stiff but I do like the results so far.  I may look a little mish-mashy with all the close quilting though.

The outside border area is where I am working now.  Decided to quilt small irregularly sized circles with the YLI Varriations thread.  If you look close you can see my circles are not perfect but when you get so many of them it disguises the imperfect ones.  This quilting design is taking a while but I do like the way it looks right now anyway.

Have a good Day!
Lynn

I Won!

I won a prize, I won a prize, I won! Last Saturday at Threads Across Nebraska they were drawing for door prizes. I forgot to sign up until after lunch so was really surprised to win one of the prizes.
It was this ruler holder made by Grandpa's Woodshop (Ken Reed from Wymore, NE). THANK YOU KEN! I have looked at them before but never purchased one. This one is so nicely made and the wood is so smooth and it even has hangers so it can be hung on the wall.

When I first saw this kind of ruler holder a few years ago they were made to just sit on the table and I didn't have room for that...didn't want to knock it off as I was sewing. This one will hang on the wall just above my pressing area, close to my cutting area so the rulers will be handy but out of the way.

A few years ago when I was one of the winners of the Miniatures from the Heart contest I received a full set of the Omnigrid rulers as a prize. A great prize but so many rulers to find a place to store and keep available. Now I can put my most used rulers in this holder and the others won't be buried so deep in the drawer where I have been keeping them. There are 9 slots to put the rulers but don't think I will fill them all up, at least not right now. I want to be able to have room to grab a ruler without knocking any others out.

 As you can see I left space between the rulers and the 4"x8" ruler is slipped in vertically at the top - easier to grab that way.  I put my largest ruler at the bottom - 6"x 24", then the following going up...3 1/2"x24, 3"x 18", 4"x14, 6"x12", and the top row has the 4"x8" and the 6 1/2"x6 1/2".  I have triangle rulers, some large square ones and some others but these are probably the ones I use the most.

Some of you may wonder what the white thing is on the left side of the photo just above the last photo.  It is a "cord minder" for my iron that clips onto the end of my pressing board.  It has a weighted clip I attach down closer to the plug so when I set my iron back down near that end of the pressing board the cord slides down the "cord minder" and doesn't hook itself over the drawer pulls on the front of the cabinet.  This pressing board is sitting on the top of the old kitchen island and it has two top drawers that are really handy but my iron cord was always getting wrapped around the handles and causing frustration at times.  This solved that problem slick as a whistle!

Happy Quilting,
Lynn
PS - the white thing I am talking about is on the table.  The other white thing is stuck to a ruler and has suction cups on the ends and makes moving the ruler easier.

Stipple Quilting

I decided to stipple quilt the inch borders that surround the mum blocks.  I am using the same gold YLI Varriations thread.  I am really loving using this thread.  It quilts so smoothly and I really like the shine.  Have one corner left to stipple then it is on to the outside borders.

More Machine Quilting

I finally got the machine quilting done on the backgrounds of last two mums.  I do like the triangle quilting on the teal flower background but not sure about the purple one.  It almost seems too busy but don't think I will rip it out though. 

I am thinking of doing something to the purple flower to make it stand out and probably the others too.  It blends into the background too much.  Any ideas?  Have thought of crayons, paint sticks, colored pencils but don't know what to try.  I should have considered it before it was fused down and changed it then but didn't.  I had orange and yellow fabric I could have made the flowers from and one of those might have been a better choice.

Well, it is the way it is and now I need to fix it so please give me some ideas.

Lynn