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Your Projects (220)

This post is dedicated to pictures of YOUR finished projects…

Karen C – was part of our Journey of a Quilter club in 2010 – here’s her finished quilt – looks gorgeous by the way…don’t you just love the buttons? AND how the silk shimmers, nice job Karen!

Here’s another project she wanted to share – I LOVE it!!

And just a little info about Karen, she’s part of our HocusPocus Club this year and she’s not only making a quilt for herself, she’s also making one for each of her Sisters – can you believe that!

This project belongs to Studio Inanna she was a lucky winner of some of our dupioni silks that was a prize on another blog I sponsored a while back but look at what she created – it’s so great!! Thanks for sharing Annie.

Even though she isn’t part of our Pies and Tarts group per se she is working on Pies and Tarts and I thought I would show off what’s she’s doing and her colours because they are stunning!!

This is Shelly’s work, she’s about as far along as our club minus her tart blocks. Isn’t it neat to see these created in a different colour way then ours – love it!! Thanks for sharing your pics Shelly.

 So are you inspired to share some of your projects with me? How about your blog, I always love finding new blogs to read and share with everyone:)

Until next time, stay happy and creative, 

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Entries for March blocks (219)

Okay we have some great buy-in to our block of the months this year – check out these entries…

Elke D HocusPocus Ville Month 3 (sorry Elke not sure why this photo won’t go the right way it’s weird)

 

Isobel C Pies and Tarts

 

Jen E Crazy Christmas

 

Kathy B Life is Beautiful

 

Jen E HocusPocus Ville

 

Jen E Life is Beautiful

 

Kathy B HocusPocus Ville

 

Kathy S Pies and Tarts (cute layout Kathy)

 

Robyn Y Crazy Christmas

 

 

Shannon M Crazy Christmas

 


Kathy B Crazy Christmas

 

Danielle R Truly Scrumptious

Beth S Pies and Tarts

 and the winner is….

Shannon – she wins this quarters edition of Quilters Connection Magazine.

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Machine Quilting Class (218)

So a few weeks ago, I had the priviledge of taking a machine quilting class by award winning Ana Buzzalino – it was truly amazing. I do some machine quilting but I’m no expert and sometimes I feel like my work could be better. How do you feel about your machine quilting?

This class was all about fillers – what to do with those small spaces that will actually accentuate your design not over power it or distract from it. Remember, we spend a tonne of time piecing or embroidering our projects or putting our tops together we want the quilting to be part of it – compliment it not look separate from it, right?

Well Ana was an awesome teacher! My machine however gave me a run for my money (yet again I might add) but after the thread broke 1000 times and I changed the needle about 4 times it finally worked – new thread and new needle…aaaah I was on a mission and here’s my sample…what do you think?

I was pretty impressed by my work (as a beginner) and I’m super glad I took the course.

Here’s some other gals’ work to hopefully inspire you…we were all novice machine quilters and we all learnt so much it truly made us more confident in our machine quilting abilities.

So if you’re one of the many people out there who make beautiful tops and take them to a long-armer to quilt them…maybe take a step out of your comfort zone and try a class – you might be surprised about how amazing it is and how well you can do.

Our class was an all day power packed full of information class. 9-4 and by 2pm I didn’t want to learn anything else I wanted and was eager to master what Ana had already taught us but there again Ana gave us confidence to learn more and then more:)

I LOVE it!!

Thanks Ana..