Catching up on Skill Builder's BOM

Yesterday, I got caught up on my Skill Builder's BOM.  Em Dash Block and  The Mood were last month's blocks.  I quilted The Mood 
last month, but didn't get Em Dash finished until last week.   Both are done with free motion quilting.

Block 5 & 6 were given to us on March 21st.  I finished the Woven Star and the Woven Chevron blocks yesterday.  We will get quilting examples on April 4th.

Getting ready to teach my 1st free-motion class

 Lately, I've been busy with family and trying to complete a few UFO's.  My sewing room is approaching critical.  I need to put away lots of fabric and scraps, but I am using them for all the current projects. (Good excuse anyway ... except my scissors and favorite rotary have been swallowed up in the chaos.)

I have been working on the skill builder quilt by Pile of Fabrics and Leah Day's goddess quilt.  These have been very good for sharpening my free-motion quilt skills.   I have created handouts and a quilted book of some of my free-motion stitches for the class I will teach for Sassy Stitchers today.  Here are a few pictures of my quilted book.

Wild Goose Chase

My Wild Goose Chase quilt was finished and arrived at the Berea Quilt Extravaganza on time.  It is part of the "Flying Things Challenge"  The challenge fabric is the navy blue in the sky.Here is a picture of it and another  of my quilts in the exhibit, Greener Pastures.  Now Wild Goose Chase is being exhibited at the Berea Hospital.  Fabric used are mostly batiks.  Wings are made of my own walnut dyed fabriks and batiks.  Wings are quilted, are not flat against the quilt.  One foot extends forward our of quilt.  

Wing in progress, before quilting.

Volkswagon Necropolis

Volkswagen Necropolis - Another Haiku and Quilt
This quilt was a tribute to my first car. The fabric is hand painted, old computer parts were used as embellishments.

Sun sets on old junk

Volkswagen innards scattered

Graveyard of memories

3-D Cubes

I am on my last leg on putting my 3-D cubes together. My block sizes are 9 1/2" and 12".
Cant wait to sash them together.

If you want to learn free motion quilting

I have been doing free motion quilting for awhile, but if you are intimidated by the idea check out Leah's site. She has beginner and advanced quilting video's. They are very clear and simple. Best of all she is sharing her video's for free. Check out her free motion quilting. You will be glad you did.

My New Addition

My Bailey arrived on Monday! I have spent most of the week setting up the grace frame and taking it apart to do it right. I can't believe it is level, especially in our house which is over 120 years. Have not tried it out yet except to make sure it will stitch. Have a friend coming on Tuesday to help me get started. Here are a couple of pictures.

This is where I velcroed my foot to keep it up out of the way.

What I've been up to

We have been cleaning out the art room. What a chore! after moving the desks and taking down one art table we spent a week organizing all the materials, books, and drawings (mostly my daughter's). It was more like digging out of an avalanche. At last we are finished and it looks great. just a box of odds and ends to sort out. Yeah!! This was all to make room for my grace frame and 13 inch Bailey that should arrive soon. Buying used, but still excited.

Now I'm doing the chore I always dread. Washing all my fabrics and ironing them.

A miracle ---i can see

A miracle - well for me anyway. I can see the top of my cutting table.

(I love how the sunlight through the curtain makes shadows on the table)
I actually got it cleaned off today. Only out of necessity though. Had to make room to square up the star block quilt I've been working on. I finished all the quilting today. ( I am so in the market for a mid arm machine and frame - 6 inches and shoving the quilt through that spec is driving me crazy) I did some free motion single line stars across the top bottom of the quilt. I also came up with a quick easy way to bind. I left one inch of fabric extra on the back. Then I folded the fabric in half and then again and finally pushed it over the from and topstitched it down. Very nice 1/8 inch binding.

Quilt label to be added tomorrow and then packing it up to leave for Florida on Friday. It is a gift fro my son. Actually he got the top last May for graduation from college and then I took it back to quilt.