A wedding ring photo shoot - and...... Finished (or not) Friday

 I figured since I was going to play hooky I should take my quilt with me and see what I could see.... and!

the wind was  little blowy - but I think I got some okay photos of the Wedding Ring quilt!

Ta -da - and Unbound Double wedding Ring quilt

I really wanted the quilting to show up - but sometimes 

I think the sun can be too bright.

of which, I am not complaining - I would prefer too sunny than the smoke that we have been having.

A little close up

one of the things that I noticed is that a lot of the peach fabric was 100% cotton, then someone must have ran out, as there is some cotton Poly mix, especially in the borders. This fabric made the quilting a little tougher in spots - as it wasn't as stretchy and nice to work with .

and then - just to prove that I really was in the mountains.

here is the History of this Quilt if you are interested:  Double Wedding ring info

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Double Wedding Ring and ................... Finished!! (or not) Friday!!!

A client called and said I have a Quilt top, and I don't know what to do with it. I want it to be usable - can you help?   And I thought  - You know? I may be equipped to do this!! 😂🤣

So she brought me this double wedding ring top.

I had to repair a few seams first, and try to soak some stains out. A few stains wouldn't come out - but! at least it is clean!! 

And TA DA!!

The sun even cooperated to get a few well lighted photos!!!

This is not the whole thing - it is quite large, but I didn't want it to hang on the ground.  - Note - the right side was squared off - so I had 3 scalloped sides and one flat ... interesting.

I am glad that she chose an all over design - I think it helped to tame some of the burbles in this quilt. Which for a hand pieced quilt was rather well done!!!

Panto used is : Feathers a la Mode  (Click Here) 

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More Double wedding ring... and a new start!!! ( its plaid!!)

 Happy Monday Morning!!

I have news.... both good and bad... first the good... I have finished my Double Wedding Ring quilt... the bad... the wind was howling - as in - we could not see the barns for the blowing dirt - and so... I didn't take my quilt outside - goodness! it might get dirty - so you will have to see it one more time... in all its glory ;-)

Here are a few more photos of it during the quilting tho!

I am a huge fan of Kimmy B owner of KimmyQuilt  she is just one of the most amazing teachers - and she gets you to understand how to see things in your head. Anyways she sells these really cool MELON Rulers - and you use them to get looks like this!

some of these blocks had too much fabrics - so you see how I kinda smushed some of it together?  I tried to take a good photo, but once I pulled it off the frame - these puckers kinda just blend in...

this was one of the better borders - so it made finding a straight line a little rough, but again - this is not someones family heirloom - it is becoming mine, so its all good, and I am glad to just have quilted it rather than fix it!

A flat view

another funky border - the cool thing here, is I could kinda gather up the fullness of this side and make it behave.  

When I first started I tried to make my Melon quilting all the same size - as I started working through it I had an epiphany moment! What if I made each melon go to the edge of the melon ( as best I could) would that help keep the bubbles down?   and it DID!!!!  So each melon is not exactly the same size of quilting, but it is the same pattern, and the same ratio within the melon... ya... I used math..

Okay - just kidding - I used my eye and made the feathers fit... didn't want you to think I was a genious or anything..... 

oh look .... squirrel..... In my blog reading I was reading Cluck Cluck Sew's blog and she talked about a block a day and then she had a little tutorial, and then on that tutorial is had a 5inch square size ... and you all know that I have 4 million batrillion 5 inch squares....  and

ta da!! A new project was born.... oh sigh....

Not really - I love new projects - and you know... I have the fabric - so why not!!

Happy Monday!

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Wedding Ring Quilt and !! Finished!! ( or not) Friday

 I am showing off a Quilt today that I did not want to bind. But I did it, and I am happy I did it, and I need a reward now 😝😝

This was actually a fun quilt to quilt- I learned so much, even though I thought I already knew it all. It was a very busty girl - it had C and D cups, as well as waves and wiggles, and parts that weren't sewn... 

We also go from feedsacks and 30's fabrics to something else

Cotton to a Cotton Poly Blend..

But No Matter!! she is now ALL done, All Quilted, Somewhat flat, only off on one side now - and DONE!! Bound And ready to be shown off for a while!!

( You can read how I acquired her here : Double Wedding Ring)

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To Do Tuesday

 Last weeks List:

• I have a wedding to photograph - so that is 2 days out of my week. ( but it should be a blast)
• More shoo Fly blocks - enough to start a top
• and quilt Double Wedding ring:

The Wedding was a blast!! The family of the groom had built a huge barn - just for this wedding... and now my husband says we should get married again so he can have a barn built.... 

Do you think I could just register for fabrics? haha

The Father of the Groom is a man to get things done. At rehearsal they were wondering how the bride was going to get to the barn from the dressing rooms. Someone said - oh we will just drive her over.

On the wedding day... and Horse Drawn Carriage showed up!! how is that for pretty cool!!

I also got enough Shoo Fly block finished to lay out a top - and then a really cool package arrived from Athens Texas... WHO IS IN ATHENS!!!  there was a huge stack of blocks - like a million!! and I am so excited to start getting these into tops!!

Look at this stack!! They are all so beautiful... I cried!

Here are my shoo Flys...I am thinking a white small border and then maybe another border of Eagle Fabric... I like eagles!~

I don't know if you remember when I got so crazy about Churn Dashs blocks ( okay I still am, but...) I think I might be crazy for these shoo fly blocks this month - they are the BEST leader ender for me!

So for This Weeks List:

• start another Shoo Fly quilt
• and start another Greek Key quilt
• A little secret stitching ( Christmas is on its way!)

Look!! I even have it cut out!

That along with Quilting for some AMAZING Clients, a little bit of photo editing, and cooking for the crew....... should keep me completely out of trouble..... Right??

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Double Wedding Ring... progress

 I got my quilt all prepped and started to load it on the Long Arm

I think I got the top line pretty straight for the wiggles that are in it, 

however - as I did my measurements -I found that it is 3 inches longer on the left side

versus the right side.... hmmmmm

I have a lot of these(below)...

so I decided to use

Quilters Dream

Dream Puff Batting

That is just one of my most favorite battings, 

and I thought maybe a little loft would help fill these puffs.

A couple of the rings - I just couldn't flatten at all.

so I taped them to see what it would do to the rest of the quilt, 

and then decided that yep

I needed to baste this one down.

the ring below is a different one, 

but.... this is the pattern I am using in the rings.

I was just going to do it in the peach part, but then I realized that I would be here for 6 months quilting this one, so I decided to try it in the whole ring......

see you next week for the next update - haha!!..

( oh! and... no wine was involved in the quilting of this quilt!)

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Double Wedding ring Quilt... Antique ( I think)

 I got a call from a friend in town - she said - my husband has been attending a lot of auctions and he bought a box of quilts. I want you to have them...

I so I headed into town to see the treasures he had found!  and they were awesome - they were tops, not finished quilts - which truly - was all the better.

I pulled this one out and laid it on the floor, and both of our mouths dropped. Arlene said - I am pretty sure I know why this one was NEVER finished....  and a challenge began:

Not only are there hills.... there are Valleys... and some of them are quite tall, and some of them are quite deep.

Most of the fabrics are true 30's prints - but check out that top corner.... don't you wish you knew the story as to how those rings came about.... some of the fabrics look old - but... they do not match the rest of the quilt... AT ALL 

Can you also see the borders? they are not squared, or flat, or even stretchable for that matter. you can feel the tightness in this fabric - and I kinda think there is selvedge in it....

Most of the rings are fairly the same size - but some of them kinda double over on themselves...

BUT!! I am going to quilt this puppy... as is... it is not a family heirloom to me, and it looks like a lot of fun to try to tame this one.... it may never be square - but I am going to try for....

Quilted!! 

Yep - I am not even sure I care if it lays flat - but I will try to see what I can do!!

Wish me luck - and fun... I am sorta looking forward to quilting something that isn't for show, or for a present, or for perfection... i got this!! haha!

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