This is JUST SILLY!

My cone of thread I was using yesterday was too big for my handy-dandy trusty Admirals mug that I use to 'keep' my piecing thread. 

So I placed it on my ticket stabber and behind my machine...it didn't want to come off the cone smoothly.

Next, I placed it on my plastic cabinet which is lower than my sewing table...still not smooth.

Next lower place? You guesses it! THE FLOOR. This is JUST SILLY but it worked. I had heard the farther the thread path the smoother the thread rolls off the cone...TRUE!

It just struck me as silly!

Whoop! Whoop! 7.31.2020

Well, friends....I seem to be in a rut. A very good rut, never-the-less.

I did bind catdog tumbler #B, so I am humming along at a pretty good clip. Three more weeks and we'll be in Wisconsin to close on that house and I will be able to see my quilty friends there and deliver the guild fabric home...but in quilts! LOL

Here is Catdog Tumbler #B.

And some of my favorite prints are in this one! This is the end of these blocks. I only have a few brown paw print and the teal leftover tumblers. I'll slide those into my crumb containers and who knows when they will re-appear...

My binding buddy. She was a little pricey but she works so well to hold the bindings.

pattern info:  Marti Michell tumbler template

panto info: Happy Times 

Linking up with:

Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict

and

Alycia at Finish or NOT Friday

WIP Wednesday 7.29.2020

I quilted down the second catdog quilt!

Surprise!

I pulled out the Happy Times panto for something a little different than large scribbles. I had read (somewhere on the web) it takes three quilts for your muscle memory to function while long arm quilting. I can agreee! Those first few rows were challenging and it's really not a challenging panto but by the end of the quilt, I was feeling a bit more at ease. It is really hard to see...

pattern info: Marti Michell tumbler template

panto info: Happy Times by Urban Elementz

Linking up with: Sarah at MidWeek Makers

Design Wall Monday 7.27.2020

I did it!

In order to empty this box...

I pulled out my tumbler template and just a wee bit more fabric from the closet along with the remaining tumblers...

Now I have another catdog flimsy!

pattern info: Marti Michell  tumbler template

Linking up with:

Judy at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

Whoop! Whoop! 7.24.2020

I had a little binding party!

Here's the binding, seems like a lot but not really. The process went really fast now that I sew both sides of the binding on my Brother! I tend do make quite a few children's comfort quilts and I have been told that the machine binding holds up better in the wash...

I decided to bind both Dalmatian quilts with this binding. It just seemed easier at the time. LOL

pattern info:

    left: a hybrid between Mary's Quick Strippie and Villa Rose Honor.

    right: 12 and 6 inch finished stars surround. 

    panto: large scribbles

I also sewed the binding onto the catdog tumbler quilt.

pattern: tumblers

panto: large scribbles

Linking up with:

Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict

and 

Alycia at Finish or NOT Friday

WIP Wednesday 7.22.2020

well, Hello!

The longarm has been place in front of a wall of mirrors! The previous owner had an exercise studio where my sewing space is now located, along with this wall of mirrors. Yoga, maybe? I'm not sure.

I'll need to work on better angles to take pictures from the longarm. Better, yes?

I quilted it with my trusty large scribbles pantograph.

The Dalmatian puppy print is from the Wisconsin guild stash.

Pattern info: Tumblers 13 x 13 set.

Linking up with:

Susan from MidWeek Makers

Design Wall Monday 7.20.2020

I started working my way through fabric that I 'know' belongs to the Wisconsin guild.

Two years ago, I made a cat/dog tumbler quilt for my SIL whose breast cancer returned as bone cancer. A few of the prints were from the guild and I had collected the rest. Obviously, I over cut. LOL

Here is the current cat/dog tumbler blocks.

I think I moved them about a gizzilion times.
Here is it sewn together.
I couldn't remember if it was 12 rows of 13 or 13 rows of 12...

pattern: tumblers

             should be: 13 rows of 12.

I still have cat/dog tumblers for 2/3 of this size quilt. Maybe I'll cut more and do one more. 

MAYBE!

I feel I should apologize for my crazy back I pieced with fabric on hand. I've been digging in the backing bits bin...

Linking up with Judy at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

Whoop! Whoop! 7.17.2020

Remember, I wasn't sure which block to surround this puppy panel with?

Since I'm not very good at making pinwheels -my centers almost never match up- I knew that option was not good. That left me with stars or churn dashes and since I love the floating/wonky star combination to make - I tried one of those.

So I made a few that finish at 12 inches and a few that finish at 6 inches plus a few 6 inch blanks.

I'm liking this one! But I wanted it to be a bit larger.

Shh! Don't tell that my top/bottom and side borders are different widths!

Here it is all quilted with the large scribbles panto waiting for binding.

DH was looking to clear some 'things' out of the garage and I suggested that he place an ad on FB for the moving boxes. That way someone who needs them will be able to use them before they hit the recycle bin. He advertised them for FREE and responded to the first person who wanted them. Imagine our surprise when the woman showed up -on duty- in an ambulance!

Here is DH helping to load the moving boxes. Somehow it just felt 'right' to give the boxes to an essential worker!

Linking up today with:

Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict 

and 

Alycia at Finish or Not Friday

WIP Wednesday 7.15.2020

I'm happily surprised!

I old and ran the longer Monday and much to my delight...everything appears on track. I need to do a little fine tuning on the tension and she has a slight whine but nothing outright major wrong with her after sitting for about 7 weeks! Two of those on a bench in the new house basement. I'll have to listen and see if the whine gets worse, that might be a sign she needs new motor brushes.

Here is the little ditty that I quilted. It still needs binding.

I'm happy to say that I kept Large Scribbles panto in a safe place, lol

Also in the baggie with this quilt parts, I found this panel. 

Now to surround it with blocks. Should I make stars, pinwheels, churn dashes or ?

Linking up with:

Susan at MidWeek Makers

Design Wall Monday 7.13.2020

I pieced together a little charity quilt with 101 Dalmatian piece of fabric from the Oconomowoc Quilt Guild. I decided to keep the fabric whole as I thought chopping it up wasn't a good choice. I wasn't going to buy fabric and just use what I have but...

the polka dots were, well...just too much. I did head over to the box store and the pickings were a little slim.

Paw prints and bones in blues to the rescue. I like this better but I think I would have liked the paw prints and the polka dots reversed. BUT, I'n not going to rip it! This little quilt is destined to be a check for the long arm sewing. Now to oil the log arm, load the quilt, make the back and mostly, frankin-batt...wish us well!

pattern inspiration:

Mary's Quick Strippie and Villa Rose Honor

Linking up with:

Judy at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts