Friday, January 2, 2015

Starting the new year in design mode....

I have seen this awesome quilt on some Australian blogs and became fascinated. It is a quilt made from pentagons and some other fill pieces. I was able to find a pentagon template in my stash, trace it, then shrink it on my copier. Then I played around to see if I could figure out how to draw the layout. Next I think I will find some bigger paper and see if I can draft a more accurate drawing and maybe make some templates to play with. This might be a fun quilt to make from scraps kind of similar to the hexagons that I see everywhere. Just as hard to put together, but less boring by being more than one shape.

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Looking back at 2014...

I have more things to be thankful for than I have to regret.
 For the first time I entered a challenge in a National quilt show and designed my own quilt.
I was awarded an Honorable Mention ribbon. I am proud of my effort and have ideas of another quilt for 2015.

I only finished quilting two of my own quilts. But, I more than doubled the number of Customer quilts. I am very thankful for the confidence they have in me to do a good job on their beautiful quilt tops. I plan to continue learning more about Longarm quilting and refining my skills in 2015. I am also getting a bigger
 A-1 professional quilt machine.




These are quilt tops that I finished in 2014 and I am going to get them quilted ASAP in 2015.
Happy New Year to you and Happy Quilting!