Sunday, February 15, 2015

SOME QUILTING

First of all I need to show you the scarf that my DGD finished.  Last Sunday, she finished it in a restaurant while we were waiting for our food!  I think she had started it on Thursday and just kept at it.  I gave her some more yarn when she left on a trip to visit her boyfriend, who is in the Navy.  I wonder if she worked on it during her trip to the east coast - an all day event.  


I decided to do an "overall" stitch on this table runner.


I love these fabrics - Moda Ladies' Album.


Over the years I have bought a bunch of old linens at garage and estate sales, wanting to make something with them.  This one is a dresser scarf.  I embroidered the "sayings" in each oval and now it is basted for quilting.  It's an experiment, so I don't know how it will turn out or what I'll do for the edge.


It has a couple stains and I'm not sure what I will do with them.  See the spot under this motif?  Maybe I'll turn it into another daisy.  Any suggestions?


 Now, I'm quilting my second table runner that I pieced a couple posts ago.  I'm doing some partial feathers in each triangle and I think I'll quilt a vine with leaves in the border.


Already?  This daffodil is blooming next door!


Are you quilting this weekend?

8 comments:

  1. Your DGD is very quick!
    The runners look great. I love your quilting motif on the second one.
    I love things made from vintage linens. Very sweet.
    Walking around my yard yesterday I saw that my daffodil clumps are pushing through. They shouldn't be up for another month or two, at least!

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  2. Your GD has a great teacher!
    Love your projects. I think I would stitch over the stain to cover it up. Those are so great!
    It really is too early for spring, but I think it is on the way.

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  3. what a great shrug - she did a wonderful job.
    Your quilting looks great! Love that feathery pattern. What a pretty dresser skirt.
    I can't believe you have daffodils how beautiful and what a sight for these eyes!

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  4. Your Dgd's scarf, shrug looks so pretty. It is fun to finish a project.
    Love all the quilting you are doing. Your feathers are amazing.
    No signs of spring here. Signs of snow, but no spring.

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  5. If you keep showing your small projects you make with those beautiful fabrics, one day maybe I'll drag out my CW fabrics and get started on some 4-patches or HST's. I love what you do with yours! I also have lots of old embroidered pieces I inherited. I've wondered what to do with some of them, and now your giving me ideas for those too. Your GD's scarf is really lovely; I'm sure she will enjoy it a lot! ---"Love"

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  6. Great scarf! Hope this is just the beginning for your DGD. Every time I see your quilting I ma in awe. You machine quilt so well and the patterns are so complex. I'm still struggling with stippling. Those embroideries are so pretty. I'm sure inspiration will come.

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  7. The scarf is wonderful.

    I love your vintage embroidery pieces which are just the kind I've been working on for the past year. I like the very simple ones that look like the ones my mother, grandma and aunts were doing back in the 1940s - just like your piece.

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  8. We were in an antique mall over the weekend. Next to nothing in the line of antique linens. I was disappointed.

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