Wedding Ring Paper-Pieced

My delight!!

Eager

An eagerness to live life abundantly....

Doomed to Bloom

That's me..... doomed to not following the rules.  But there is NOT even a tiny bit of dissatisfaction within my heart and soul.

 When I do as I please...... so be it.I'm ready for BLOOM..... the opposite of the WORD OF THE DAY!!!

I've THUS missed the first 3-days of April 2018 A-to-Z.

Monday's Plan forA Quilt

Now-a-days......   making a quilt starts with an idea.... a vision.....someone's wishful statement....  "I wonder if ....."

So, a dear friend presented the idea as a finished display of a full size artistic quilt which would be placed under glass and permanently displayed in our church foyer!    And the date ?   January 2019!

Merriam Webster Word of the Day...... is. MEANDER

meander    verb | mee-AN-der

Definition

1 : to follow a winding or intricate course   2 : to wander aimlessly or casually without urgent destination : ramble Soooooo .....  here is my visual representation of MEANDER! It's my only son's 36th BIRTHDAY and of course I've made him a memory T shirt quilt!!!

I Choose Sunday "Serenity"

But I must do a confession --- as it is a Spring Forward (time clocks) Sunday for 2018....  
                                      

I really plan to give this Serenity Prayer Wall Hanging to a dear sister friend.   I'm going to order two more panels.... to give to my daughter... and then to post for sale via Bquiltin Studio!

SaveTime Quilt Tip: Hanging Sleeve Should Be Made Early On....

Thus.... I'm gonna cut basic white fabric (from Goodwill decent cotton sheets)   I cut them 9 1/2 inches..... in order to make the 4" sleeves that will be needed for the upcoming SJMBC Centennial Quilt Show (December 1919 - December 2020)   A year of celebration!!


Hanging Sleeves and Quilt Labels !!!..... the basics.   Now I know it.... Like I learned my lesson about the binding.   Do it  plzzzzzzz  -- Save time and put away procrastination.....   Do the Hanging Sleeves, labels and binding....  the last three steps....   Have it done before I quilt the quilt on my longarm  machine !!!


 

Today is a THUNDER QUILT Achievement!

Here are pictures for the start ......

   

 Midway -----  On the floor backing and batting being pinned down.

Onto the quilting frame....   An All Over-Meader quilt design

I'll soon be ready for the hanging sleeve ......  Ooops!  Always a label.

(Finished quilt/binding and label measure 64" x 81". odd huh....???   Just the way I like!!!)

Chevron Comfy Throw

Red white and blue fabric makes this blue and white/Chevron panel a real jewel!!  

It measures.  54 1/2" x  74",  The outer red border 3 1/2" .... and the first and second inner borders measure 1 1/2".   I used my Pounce template for a specialty spiral on the outer border.... and then changed to a large circular quilting design for the inner portion of the quilt!

Almost completed --  binding matches the second inner border!  ... now for a label and a  possibly a hanging sleeve (should I want to hang this in a display)!!

St John MBC Centennial Quilt

OK... while I'm waiting for my iPhone to talk to my Mac....   I'll post these pics

Small -- Great -- Things

My end of year read .......  a bit of ongoing espionage and savage killing by Lee Child's "Night School" by the bedside each night....



Then there is my BOOK ON CD -- listening in my car driving adventures about town ...Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult   ....  I checked up on the Goodreads as such....
.........Ruth hesitates before performing CPR and, as a result, is charged with a serious crime. Kennedy McQuarrie, a white public defender, takes her case but gives unexpected advice: Kennedy insists that mentioning race in the courtroom is not a winning strategy. Conflicted by Kennedy's counsel, Ruth tries to keep life as normal as possible for her family—especially her teenage son—as the case becomes a media sensation. As the trial moves forward, Ruth and Kennedy must gain each other's trust, and come to see that what they've been taught their whole lives about others—and themselves—might be wrong.
With incredible empathy, intelligence, a

nd candor, Jodi Picoult tackles race, privilege, prejudice, justice, and compassion—and doesn't offer easy answers........

Great Sikes Barbara GIRL

SJMBC Centennial Quilters

Count the Time-Cost of Quilting Process

....hmnnnnn.     Previous post today,  I talked about the process of completing the quilt

Here's the finished product !!

Learning How-to's on my Baby Lock Coronet

I just finished an overall meander (edge to edge) quilt design on my girlfriends quilt which will be featured in an upcoming St. John MBC Centennial Quilt show!

I fiddled a bit with the correct the stitch tension.... I made the meander large scale since her four biggest blocks were a sixteen inch pieced star pattern.

Recently... a blogger challenged me to COUNT THE COST.....  the time it takes to Quilt a queen size quilt !!  The unusual size for this one was 68" x 92" (finished/binding)

After saftey-pin layout of quilt-batting-backing :  I loaded the frame at bat 5:30pm and quilted till about 10pm. I was quite relaxed (TV in background), and I had thread breakage/bobbin out ONLY apt three times!!! 

Since the frame is 5ft.... the overhand remained as I rolled forward.....   Since the throat area of the longarm is approx 15 inches, I quilted a first row-meander from right edge --turned and moved into a second-row meander ending at the right edge again!!  KOOL...

Back to timing..... I shut down the evening and finished in abt another hour/half on the next day.

Next in line... was "SQUARING UP" my little-big pretty.   I'm pretty good and swift in gauging the whole process in art 30-40 minutes.    I did transport this quilt to our Church Meeting Room.  We assemble TWO 8ft tables and stand waist high.   This is great to move and measure successfully.   

The next COUNT THE COST item was cutting, sewing, ironing (sew-down again) and then sewing to attach to the quilt!