One Piece at a Time: January 2018

Karen McTavish Quilted my Quilt !!!

I’ve been struggling under a backlog of un-quilted quilts here. Or maybe I should say un-quilted LARGE quilts. I’m fine with machine quilting my smaller projects but I’m not good at large ones.

I have admired Karen McTavish’s quilting FOREVER. Then it dawned on me, wouldn’t it be awesome to have her quilt one of my quilts? So I asked her and she said sure! Needless to say I am thrilled to pieces and just as soon as I get the Chocolate Bonbons quilt done I’m sending it to her as well.

I could look at her quilting all day long. Now I actually can do that because Pop Up Posies is hanging in my house…well, right now it’s at Road to California, but soon.

You can find a pattern for this quilt here:

appliqueaddicts.patternbyetsy.com/listing/574027384/pop-up-posies

Check out more of Karen’s quilting here:

mctavishquilting.com

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This is Taking FOREVER!

Hello Friends!

I haven't posted my progress on the Chocolate Bonbons quilt in a while...that's because I'm going really slow. I love everything about applique borders except sewing them. Still worth it though, so I go on.

I've done borders by stitching them first and then sewing them on and by stitching the applique after the borders are sewn on. I prefer stitching the applique after the borders are sewn on. It is just too nerve wracking to trim those borders after the applique. I'm sure that has caused almost all of my gray hairs! One trick I find helpful is to fold the quilt up and pretend it's a block. The other trick is to have a really good audiobook!