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Wednesday, July 6, 2016

I LIED! I Made Another Quilt or Two!

I know I said no more, but they were crib size!

We have a few babies expected soon at our church and a family friend's daughter had twins last month.  So really I needed to sew up 6 quilts, we'll see.............

My inspiration for the first quilt was a quilt kit I saw online at www.connectingthreads.com.  The anchors are cute but I didn't want to do applique so I substituted with three sailboat quilt blocks.

Inspiration piece

Sailboat Quilt Block

Quilt Top
Finished Sailboat Quilt


Looking through my quilt bin I found I had two jelly rolls.  One was in shades of pinks and purples and I thought that I could whip up something.

I sewed five strips together then cut them into 12" sections.

Strips sewn together

Quilt top

Quilt Top
I think I have figured my free motion quilting stress.  I like squares.  I like sewing straight lines.  Free motion stresses me.  It makes me fret.  I did my best with these two quilts but so relieved when I was done.  I don't like free motion quilting.  It's just a fact.

Walking Foot

Loopy loop free motion quilting

Quilt top complete

Crazy loops
I quilted with Sulky blendable 30wt thread.  I'm not sure it was worth $6.  It would break easily in my machine.  I couldn't see the variegation of colors in person but I did notice it shows up better in the photo.

Sulky Blendable 30wt thread

Until next time.................

Bonnie


9 comments:

  1. So cute, I love those sailboats!

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  2. Big thumbs up for the sailboats. And I love the pink and purple colors together. Have to agree that Sulky is not worth the price in my opinion. Breaks on me a lot as well and especially the embroidery thread.

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    1. Thank you for the kind comments. I'm happy to know that I'm not the only one with Sulky thread troubles. I thought it might be my machine but now I know. Do you have a favorite quilting thread brand?

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    2. Well...I do not quilt. I garment sew (many years) and started machine embroidery 3 years ago. Garments I usually use Coats and Clark (good enough for mom and grandmothers). Machine embroidery is where I had the problem with Sulky, in particular dark colors and especially black broke so often I was ready to chuck it all. Did research and found it to be a common problem with Sulky. I have a BL Ellisimo Gold machine and it seems to like Isacord, Robinson Anton & Madeira. I shop around on the internet for good prices. Sorry I can't help with the quilting.

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    3. Well...I do not quilt. I garment sew (many years) and started machine embroidery 3 years ago. Garments I usually use Coats and Clark (good enough for mom and grandmothers). Machine embroidery is where I had the problem with Sulky, in particular dark colors and especially black broke so often I was ready to chuck it all. Did research and found it to be a common problem with Sulky. I have a BL Ellisimo Gold machine and it seems to like Isacord, Robinson Anton & Madeira. I shop around on the internet for good prices. Sorry I can't help with the quilting.

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    4. Thanks for the info anyways, maybe those brands have a decent quilting thread. I've thought about getting an embroidery machine but worried will I use it enough to spend the money....... deep thinking!

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