Quilting to a "T"

Happy New Year my family and friends.  Did you ring it in just the way you wanted to?  I enjoyed a evening of watching Netflix and ordered me a free pizza I saved for tonight and had some doodle time.  Doodling for me keeps my mind busy, relaxes me, and helps me to build my quilting skills.  This is the one I completed last night, I like to sometimes put a lil message in them for holiday and such.  I will begin a new book today, for a new year.  If you see my doodles and look at my quilting you will sometimes notice the likeness. My New Years Eve Doodle There is a quilt blogger I  like to follow, I may have mentioned her before.    Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville  I admire her a lot she gives amazing ideas on a scrap saver system.  I have all but her newest books, and I love her quilt style, scrappy which is one of my favorite type of quilts to make.  She is very inspiring and encouraging.  I read her blog every morn...

I hope you all had a amazing and Quilty year! My year was definitely a year of changes and new adventures and above all a very quilty year.  I ventured out and decided to quit my job and take my dream by the horns.  Starting my quilt business!  Scary yes!  But well worth it !   A year filled with many lessons, some learned the hard way some were a Aaaahaaa lesson.  All of which I needed to learn! My year was full of quilting and I've loved every minute of it..... even the boo boo's!  Ok we all make them we are human. I had the opportunity to go on some fabulous quilty adventures... such as going to Paducah for the fall APQ quilt show.  Took hundreds of photos and met a quilting icon, Elenor Burns.  I adore her energy and left feeling inspired.  I enjoyed her trunk show and love her new book.  Oh yeah and did some serious shopping at her store. I enjoyed a few other quilty adventures though out the year, Shipsawana, ...

I just realized it been since Sept since I'd taken the time to blog.  I was so focused on trying to get caught up on quilting quilts that I hadn't blogged.  Now that I'm starting to get a caught up I hope to be more faithful with it. The reason I wanted to blog this morning was to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving!  I hope you all are able to spend the day with those you love.  Then spend a lil time for yourself at the end of the day doing what you love and what makes you happy. I feel very thankful this year for my family and friends, good health!   Thankful for getting to do what I love for a living.  Thankful for you that have played a part in helping me get to fulfill my dream of quilting for a living.  I am thankful for you that allow me the privilege of quilting for you!  Thankful for your patience while I've gotten started. Thankful for the friends I've made this year though quilting. Well I smell coffee and like most of you its tim...

Good morning, evidently the best time for me to blog is in the morning while having my coffee.  Before I get busy in the studio and then when I come up for the evening its late and I have three things on my mind at that point, supper, glass of wine and a long soak in the tub. I'm working on a very special quilt right now... finishing it up actually.  My customer has ask me to not post it on social net work yet until she has a chance to show it to her family and friends.  I can and will respect that as hard as it is to not. Unfortunately this quilt was one that waited a while to get to while I was figuring out how to time and pace the quilts I do.  But once I got started on it... it didn't take me long to get it pieced and ready to quilt it.  This quilt is a memory quilt and when I do memory quilts I can't help but think about the person who worn the t-shirts.  In this case it was for a man who served our country.  He had a lot of shirts but there w...

Good morning my friends and family!  Its early and coffee time for me.  I hope you all had a good weekend and got to do something you love. I worked on a special quilt this weekend and while I was working on it I could hear Linda's voice that gave me some pointers.  I am a self taught quilter and with that I had some bad habits I'd developed.  A lady I'd met and fellow quilter offered to help me when I'd made the comment to her that my quilts do not ever look as nice hers.  She had me come to her house a few times to work with me.  She taught me the importance of making sure I am consistent with having a 1/4" seam allowance , matching seams, and pressing them open nice and flat.... really flat. I can hear her voice now telling me "to slow down and enjoy the process" and to always "BE NEAT."  So when I was pressing this seam nice and flat on the quilt I am working on I noticed this and right away heard Linda say "BE NEAT." So...

Good morning, once again I'm in my four season room enjoying a cup of coffee and listening to the birds waking up.  A humming bird is already hitting on the feeder and chasing the others away.  I have two feeders available to them.  I think I'd like to add another, there are about 8 or so that fuss over the two feeders though out the day. One of the things I want to accomplish as part of my quilting business is teaching others to quilt.  Not in a big group setting but one on one.  I want to teach those who would like to learn how to quilt the basic to help them get started.   I was pretty much self taught.  Learning though trial and err.... still learning.  I would have loved to have had a teacher in the beginning that would teach me how to cut, how important that 1/4" inch seam is, and believe it or not the importance of pressing properly. One of my students is Joyce she wanted to learn to quilt for a long time and the time was right for her ...

Good morning quilt friends and just friends and family, if any are starting to follow me.  I have a favor to ask of you.  If you could please subscribe to my blog and share it with the world for me.  Help me to grow!  Thank you my friends I knew I could count on you. Well its Saturday morning and I'm drinking my coffee and meditating a lil.  Clearing my head of negativity and focus on the tasks I'd like to accomplish today.  I've really been working hard at the quilt frame to get caught up.  When I first started up my business my timing was 4 to 6 weeks.  I'm finding I need to change that to 8.  When you are quilting custom quilts you do not want to rush it.  You want to make each one as special as you can.  It is a heirloom and gifts for someone that I have the pleasure of helping to make happen.   Learning a time frame has been my main challenge on this wonderful endeavor I've taken on. I am very passionate about wh...