Showing posts with label hand guided. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hand guided. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Typical Monday

Since I had my batteries recharged from the weekend I was rearing to go yesterday. First up, Dianes quilt on Bernie. Here's some of the quilting that went into it...

Swirl hook
I had to call Gall Sewing about my issues with DW. I was advised to not use him anymore until they could take a look. Not only is he slightly out of time, but he's varying his speed even in manual mode, his on-board screen goes blank every once in a while, and he made a slightly electric smell on Friday. He's going down Saturday to have them take a look.

Since I can no longer use DW until further notice, we had to move the Make Do and Mend quilt over to Bernie now that I was done with all of Dianes tops...for now.

DW is grounded for now
Jim was skinning and frame ironing for the quilt I'll be working on next. Here's what's up for today on Marty...

Another tulip top!
The top above is completely custom and is going to a local show. I'll probably be working this through most of the rest of the week. I have an idea about some of it but still need to work through the sashing portions. 

After fighting to get the Make Do and Mend quilt transferred over (we never really did get it loaded straight), I had planned on getting row three complete. It's nearly there, but now that I'm on a smaller throat space, I have to change out thread colors twice as many times. It had been a long day and it was approaching 8:00 when I started closing up shop.

Friday, September 5, 2025

Happy Seventh Birthday Hazel

She was born seven years ago and she's one of the best and goofiest dogs we've ever owned. She's my constant reminder to take breaks in the studio and has to come and check on me often throughout the day.

Taken early spring
She loves pillows as you can see as well as the water and playing "glove". Happy birthday my precious girl!

After the guild meeting up in Hale, of which I became rather emotional talking about donating all of those quilts, I scurried home after making a quick stop to pick up softener salt at the Standish Milling company.

Let's side track for a second. Standish Milling is worth the trip over! Their salt is less costly than anybody here in Gladwin, not to mention a better quality. But that's not the shout-out reason. Their service to their customers is OUTSTANDING! I no sooner pulled up by the salt and a guy came over and loaded it into the truck before I even finished paying for it. The cashier was extremely pleasant and made one feel at ease. They have a large variety of items in their store and it's a place we'll be patronizing in the future!

Okay, back to quilting. Jim was already home for lunch but had to scoot out to a dentist appointment and I scooted out to the studio. While I was quilting this piece...

An E2E was requested in here
DW was over stitching out the Soothing Log Cabin. Once I got the wall hanging done on Bernie, I got it off and started loading the next back. Meanwhile, Marty's back was finally dry and I was able to get this one set and ready to go for today...
The next one up on Marty
DW finished his thing and he did fine, so I'm not sure what happened to Linda's stitch out on DW previously. It was probably something I did. Who knows? Anyway, I pulled another one of mine out of the tote and am now frame ironing for the Tula Butterfly. That ones going to take a while I'm afraid.  

I was supposed to have a customer come and pick up yesterday, but that never happened. Maybe today?

Friday, June 13, 2025

All Three Long Arms

I did actual work on all three long arms yesterday. First, Bernie...

A nice hand guided edge-to-edge 
Hand guided means I did the driving, not a computer. Bernie doesn't have one anyway. 

Once that was taken off and the customer was notified I have three of her quilts done, I moved over to Marty...
Look Familiar?
Number 14 of the Flea Market quilts and I'm told, this isn't the last. Piano keys in the border, ditch and echo on the flowers/leaves and then I think I'm going to run a leaf meander in the negative space. Bunny doesn't want it as tight as I did with Carla's (which I believe had pebbles in the background). 

After working on that past 4:00 I moved over to DW. The Gravity quilt was loaded...
Gravity by Jaybird Quilts
This has been in my bin for a long time. It's kind of wrinkled but they'll smooth out with the wool batting I'm putting into it.

Here's the first couple of grays on the outside...

3rd gray

1st and 2nd grays
It's Friday the 13th and while others view the 13th as bad luck, Jim and I were married on the 13th so we feel like it's good luck instead of bad. 

First Order of Business

Wow, did I get some things done in the studio yesterday. I think I was making up for the past two unproductive days.  First: All the pieces ...