September 5, 2013

Try It!

Swoon Quilt
Quilting and Quilting some more!  Trying new wings in the longarm quilting world these days and finding it so much fun!  Trying to just relax and enjoy the process and pray it looks good when it is done!  In the last month I put together and quilted a Swoon Quilt....I do love the fabric I used from Lori Holt in it. It is a challenging quilt top to put together but please try it!! You won't be disappointed in the results....
 I also made a doll quilt with the same pattern and fabric for my Doll Monthly August swap.  I am just going to post my phone pictures and hope you enjoy them.  I love to quilt and would be happy to finish a top that you have completed!  Just email me.  Quilted Quilted Blessings and more!!  Karen

Circles and Circles!

Swoon Completed!!

Doll Monthly Quilt Swap

Close Up!

Apple Quilt For My Daughters , put magnets inside to stick on her metal desk.

September 3, 2013

Aprons

I am still longarming on quilts I want to hang in my "shop".... but,  I found this awesome Apron tutorial tonight Riley Blake Designs   I found it by way of Maureen Craknell Handmade ......you know how we Quilters love to see what others are doing....Anyways, I think it is a sweet Dresden Design!  I will reveal my two quilts I am finishing soon.....complete with Finial/Rope Display!!
Super Cute!!
Do you have a clothes line?  Just love the clothes pins on it!!  It is great being a Quilter!!.....Blessings!!  Karen

September 1, 2013

Checkerboard

Have some fun and watch the video on checkerboard blocks....laugh a little with me and life alot!....Quilted Blessings!!  Karen 
these two make me smile!.....alot!......

August 25, 2013

Wonderful Handguided Quilting Tips!

I am sure I was suppose to find these two ladies!!....I must share!!.....a great! video by Kathie James

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And on another Web page I had on my Bloglovin' I found some beautiful quilting by a longarmer too....I contacted her and she was so sweet to offer any help setting up my business; as I do have nervous feelings about quilting someone elses' labor of "love"!,so check Kathy out at ....Stitch By Stitch   
Just search her page for her designs.  You will be blessed!

I just realized these two ladies are both Kathys"....isn't that great!!......  Quilted Blessings!!  Karen

August 23, 2013

Magnify My World!!

Swooooooon!!
Just stopping by to give a couple "HELPS" for those that do quilting with a longarm....I am working on my Swoon right now with circles and I thank A Quilting Sheep for her gorgeous picture of one completed with circles using a computer....I am my own computer, so I also thank Jennysdoodlingneedle for her wonderful quilting and circle templates from Lindas Electric Quilters.
So, enjoy the couple you tubes I have for you to watch on using magnets and snap on tools to get your quilt loaded instead of 45 mintues of pinning.  I am going to try it on next quilt loading and let you know what I think too..... Please enjoy!! Quilted Blessings!  Karen






August 20, 2013

Quilted Eye Candy!!

Had to share this block and tutorial.....it is really so pretty.....I love  the Quilts of Valor colors and really do want to do a quilt for them....Please get a cup of morning java and sit and enjoy!!.....send me a picture of your block if you get one done....I think it is one that will catch on and many will enjoy!!
Wonderful!
Lanieybug Designs   Have a wonderful day is my wish for you!!  Quilted Blessings!  Karen

August 18, 2013

Did I Swoon Too Soon?

Determination....or stubbornness?....that is what my Mom called it when I was a teen....just plain stubborn....not that she wasn't....that is a story for another day!......:):).....
Carry Me Away!!
hang on ropes....awesome
Swoon.....NOTE OSU colors....on this block :)
I did get my swoon top complete....as it is....it seemed to be a difficult top to piece....or maybe it was just me....but it is done and together and Now to figure out how to quilt it!!....I am also anxious to try some hand quilting with my new thimble by the thimble lady!....I thought I ordered plastic to start but you know how you "click" things...so  a stainless steel one arrived on Friday.  I think God wants me to get serious about hand quilting things too....so that is on my goal list for this week, along with quilting the Swoon quilt.  I saw a great way to display quilts on
Pinterest, that was shown in Pottery Barn.  SO!! I do want to do that on the main wall that folks will see when they enter the quilt shop....and have the lesson availability pinned to each quilt offered in classes.  Even if God only brings me one person a day or two a week, I just want to encourage them and help them in their Quilting Journey.  Fabric is therapy as is quilting in my life.  It gives control to a point in a world that seems to have gone madd in some ways!   sigh!!....breath in worry and exhale prayers, right?
....so come and quilt....anytime....  and maybe try your precious hand at a swoon quilt....it truly is, as a online quilting friend said, "timeless"....
I need more time not less......sorry.....bad joke.too much ripping and resewing!!
Humor me!! Have a blessed day!!
  Quilted Blessings!!  Karen