Tuesday At Festival

Tuesday it's
Doily Delight

Create a beautiful work of art with a doily—a small, ornamental mat of embroidery or lace—that is suitable for framing or adding to your quilt. Learn to make folded hexagons, and yoyos to produce dimension. Crust will help you with the simple embroidery stitches and beads to complete the transformation. 

Bead a bag

 Beads are a blast – when you know their secrets! Bead a ‘jazzy-pizzazzy’ bag the fun and easy way, learning plenty of tips, techniques and design ideas as you go.

Market Day

Quilt Market is the wholesale part of Festival. It is where your quilt shop owner comes to see the latest and greatest. I spent the day looking a new, or new to me stuff I find interesting, or that you might like. Here is some of what I found:
Fabric -  there will be lots of new stuff for us to indulge in!

One companies display!

Jason Yenter of In the Beginning showing some of his great fabrics to quilt shop owners!

Look for it in your local quilt shop.

Cloud, the best looking service dog at Market

Houston Here I Come!

 

The boxes are shipped, I'm on the plane all ready to teach all of my classes! This is such a fun time for everyone who like to quilt! So much to see and do.

Setting up for all of us shoppers!

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Tuesday

Doily Delight

#243

 

 Bead a Bag

#261

Wednesday

For the Love of Color 

#350

Borders the Final Chapter

#380

Thursday

Fantastic Fabric Foiling

#443 

 

Paint Stick Magic

#483

Friday

Friday Sampler

#556 

Stitching Through the Layers

Super Fast Binding and Piping

#610

Saturday

Lecture

A Fine Line

It's Done!

I finished the disappearing four patch quilt.

I decided to keep the quilting very simple. Partly because I like the piecing and wanted it to show and partly it was important for me to finish it fast. Lots of straight lines marked with masking tape.

 I am happy keeping the lines straight and parallel, but hate to have them evenly spaced. In order to make sure I have quilted evenly over the whole surface I plop my 6" ruler on the quilted quilt and count the lines. Move the ruler and count again. The numbers should be the same or close to the same. Then I know I was sucessful.

It's Autumn in Seattle

5" squares of scraps

Time for school, fires in the fire place and colored leaves on the trees. And most importantly the sewing season! I have been playing around with disappearing four patches. 

Sew one light to one dark, heading for a four patch

Make four cuts 1" from the center seam

Traditionally the pieces from one block are moved around in the same block and resewn.

I just could do the normal. I decided to cut all the blocks and sew everything back together very scrappy.

I love the very scrappy result.

Half Square Triangles - Quilt Show

Lots of blocks later...

It Is now hand quilted  and on my bed!

Piecing Half Square Triangles

It isn't my favorite thing to piece half square triangles. I know it is most accurate to piece on a foundation, but the truth be known, I hate to tear the paper away. So I do it an older, just as accurate way.

6" squares = 2" finished blocks. Use these measurements for any other sizes.

For eight 2" finished half square triangles, start with two pieces 6" squares of fabric, right sides together.
Draw lines from corner to corner. Sew 1/4" from both sides of the lines.

Cut on the drawn lines, and not moving the fabric cut vertically and horizontally too.

 You will end up with eight per 6" pair.

After pressing, one corner usually does not need to be trimmed.

I use a half square triangle ruler and trim two sides for perfect squares.

Perfect half square triangles.

Quilt Show - More Nine Patches

Still with the nine patches!

Scraps - Someone Must be Joking!

I have been sewing 2 1/2" squares and nine patches in spare moments for days and days. I love what I have achieved in the little time spent doing this.



Now if some one could please tell me why the box I started with didn't get any emptier!

It's Thread Day

I love playing with thread. Yesterday I tried something new from Superior Threads. Designed with award-winning quilter Jane Sassaman, Sew Sassy is a creative quilter's dream thread. Available in 50 bold, bright solid colors, Sew Sassy is a great thread choice for projects where you want to see the stitching from across the room!
    12 wt./3-ply Spun Polyester thread.
    Available in 50 bright, bold solid colors.

Recommended Needle and Tension Settings

Home Machines: Topstitch #100/16. Set tension to 2.0
Longarm Machines: #21 (MR 5.0). Reduce tension as necessary.
I used a Topstitch #90/14 (didn't have the recommended #100/16), and did not change the tension.
Liked it so much, I tried hand sewing with the thread

Stash Busting Quilts

I'm on a mission to make some Stash Busting Quilts! I don't think I am going to win the "Whoever has the most fabric" contest, but I have my share. I realized that when the cupboard is too full to shove more in, something needs to happen.

Scrap quilts (or I should say multi fabric) are my all-time favorite type of quilt. History would have us believe that the majority of antique scrap quilts were frugal projects, made with bits and pieces of  leftover fabrics. While that’s probably true, I think quilters of past generations enjoyed the challenge of combining fabrics just as much as we do today, and likely used their fabric stashes to design scrappy quilts with lots of visual appeal.

Any Excuse for Straight Line Stitching

I love straight line quilting, it works so well on so many quilts, and it’s so easy! The possible combinations of straight lines are endless. 

These pieces started with postcards of Chinese cigarette advertising posters from the 1930's. I love them so much, that there is a very large framed one hanging in the guest bathroom. (Talk about getting off the subject!)

I printed these on Printed Treasures fabric that comes pretreated with stuff that I can run through my ink jet printer. The purpose was to get them done so I could bead. (I bead after the pieces are quilted and bound). So straight line quilting was just the thing. I wanted nothing fussy, nothing to distract from the beading. I really like both of these pieces. 

What a difference, to see the before beading and after beading pictures.

Historical Quilts

 

The Quilts

The idea for a quilt to honor the pioneers who were in the County before the year 1920 was conceived by Mrs. Walter Oberst and approved by Mrs. Abby Kidwell, president of the Historical Society. The interest was so great that we soon realized that we would have to make two quilts. The first quilt is now finished and is on display in the historical display case in the Franklin County court house, Pasco.

Those who contributed materials are:

Mrs. Abby Kidwell and Mrs. Catherine Harder Peot - material for the white and blue blocks. Mrs. Sadie Mc/Fadden Ziegler the batting tor both quilts. Mrs. Rowena Ingram - lining material.

The quilting was done by Mrs. Don Cox and Mrs.
Rowena Ingram assisted by Mrs. Beulah Dunston, Mrs. Helen Hummel, Mrs Loraine Quinn and Mrs. Julie Reider.

The second quilt top 1s nearing completion, with ten blocks still out to he finished. When the top is completed quilters will be needed.

Our special thanks go to Mrs. Lloyd Cochrane and those who helped dietribute the blocks in the outer areas.

The interest and cooperation during this project has been a pleasure - thanks to all. Rowena Ingram