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This time Mike is going to help us with our necks and backs! Good thing because I just got done stitching some stems and boy do I have a stiff neck!
You can register here:
www.quiltandsewshop.com/product/quilting-ergonomics-necks-and-backs/Live-Web-Seminars
First, thank you all so much for your kind wishes! My medical tests came back fine. I still have one more to go but nothing too scary yet.
To recover, I designed another block for the applique version of Be Happy.
Be sure to visit Judy's blog for more inspiration!
Congratulations to blog reader Marie Blunk! Her quilt "A Little Bird Told Me I Could Applique" (My Tweets) won 3rd place at the AQS Quilt Show in Paducah!!!!
This week I need to have a couple of medical test done. Crossing my fingers!
Back next week, hopefully, with pieced block 4.
One of the really great things about my job is meeting new designers. I usually "meet" their quilts before I actually meet them. Luckily for me Sandra Clemons lives close by so I got to meet her for real this time!
Don't you just LOVE this quilt? You can find it here:
www.quiltmaker.com/blogs/quiltypleasures/2015/02/fresh-quilt-designs-from-quiltmaker/
You can find out more about Sandra at her blog:
I've been having fun with this fun, new project this weekend. Be sure to check out Judy's blog for more Monday morning inspiration!
I wanted to show you my little trick for making the curved handles on Applique Block 4. These are tricky to do with my normal starch and press technique so I use freezer paper here.
First, cut the handle shape out of freezer paper. Since the handle has a specific orientation I made sure I traced the handle on the sticky side of the freezer paper.
Then I ironed it to the wrong side of my fabric.
I cut the fabric out, leaving a scat 1/4" seam allowance and clipped my inside curves.
Then I basted the seam allowance to the wrong side.
It gets a little lumpy so I pressed after I basted.
Then I put it together with the body of the watering can using basting glue. I will bast this to my applique back ground and stitch. After the stitching is done, I remove the basting stitches and cut open the wring side of the background and pull out the freezer paper.
Good Morning bloggy friends! I hope everyone had a happy holiday weekend. Here is a hot of my design wall this Monday morning. This is the next applique block in the Be Happy BOM. I will have the download up for you on Friday. On Wednesday I will have a little tutorial on how I did the handle on the watering can.
Be sure to visit Judy's blog for some more Monday morning inspiration.
