I'm glad to see the end of the shots in my back, but I am apprehensive about the outcome. I have had 24 deep injections, and tomorrow, I'll get six more, the last two with a wire that fries the offending nerves. I'll let you know if it works. Until then, I'l show you what I have been up to in the studio.
Two quilts from the same customer were finished over the last two days. One is an interesting bargello and the other, the base of an Advent calendar.
The bargello had a lot of blank area where the ombre fabric was used, so I decided it needed a denser panto to add more interest to the piece.
Panto: Hawaiian Flowers. I used a mid-tone gray thread that drifted in and out as the gray background faded and darkened. I love how it turned out!
The back looks impressive, but I used several sheets of a sticky lint roller to get all the stray threads and lint off before taking this picture. I fear this backing will pick up every little piece of flotsam in the customer's home!
This pretty Christmas tree quilt is going to Africa to a teacher who will attach decorations to it over the Advent season. Very cute idea!
The background was a sparkly aqua fabric that shows the starry quilting quite well. Too bad the glitter doesn't show up well in photos.
Happy snowmen on the back.
I also quilted my batik quilt, and made a 2-3-2-6 charity quilt. How dumb am I to not have thought of the simple fix that my customer used on her 2-3-2-6 quilt I quilted this week! Take a look...
My friend, Nelda, made this quilt for her husband. She had the clever idea to add one row of 2" pieces around the edge to finish the frame look of the blocks.Why didn't I ever think of that?! I will do this from now on...starting with the quilt I just made!
I love the colors in this quilt. The panto is my old favorite, Rounded Squares. It adds texture on quilts with busy or dark prints.
I put the binding on for her, since it was in the bag with the quilt.
Here's mine. I didn't add another outer border since it will be given away and is already big enough. The strips around the edge finish the look perfectly!
Fish and batiks from my stash.
The panto is Ebb and Flow in pink thread. I love the fishy looking backing, too!
It wasn't quite wide enough, so I sewed in a strip of bright fish!
See the difference in this quilt from last year? The blocks at the edges are missing a side to form the frame. Well, it took making over 250 of these to learn the simple fix!
I can't go without showing you the finished batik Minoqua quilt. It will be gone soon!
It came out pretty!
Panto: Fork in the Road
Leftover Kaffe Fassett fabric from another project on the back.
Black and white stripes are always a great finish.
Don't forget to label your quilts!! 100 years from now, someone will wonder why that Susan Slaton made such a wild quilt!
