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Some Quilting + A Puzzle

Sue Hecker — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:06:41 +0000

I finished quilting a friend’s quilt. The front was very busy, and I knew quilting wouldn’t show much on the front. She just wanted it quilted and done. So I reached for “Feather Feather” by Kathie James. Here is a shot of the back:

Two rows of feathers = 13.5″. It makes for a nice soft drape to the quilt. Here’s what’s on my machine today. It’s another customer quilt, and I like what I’m doing in the center blocks. Just loops, leaves, curls, and flowers. Another case of, do whatever you think is best, I just need it done. About an hour left to do on it this morning.

I don’t think I’ve shown this quilt before. This hangs over the staircase in our house. I made this quilt in a class several years ago with Celine Perkins (Perkins Drygoods) before she was quite so busy with her own designs. (She is a wonderful teacher, by the way, and try her patterns! They are fun, easy, and her instructions are impeccable.)

The pattern is a Kaye England design, and I really enjoyed making it. The quilting doesn’t show, but I decided to do sampler quilting, and each block is quilted differently. There was even a block of the dreaded applique’, but it was worth it as it is the focus of the quilt. My color scheme was that each block would have a black print, a cream print, and a color, and they are civil war reproduction fabrics.

I like it so well, I turned it on its side and it is today’s puzzle in a Tetris cut:

Sue

Sighting

Sue Hecker — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:55:32 +0000

Considering we live in the city, I consider us pretty fortunate to be able to look out at a pond, trees, birds, squirrels, rabbits, hedgehogs, and other years we’ve seen deer and a fox. You just never know what you’re going to see.

I know our pond isn’t very deep, because in dry summers I’ve seen ducks stand up in the middle of it. However, it may be a lot deeper than I thought, as here’s what I saw this afternoon:

Does he remind you of anybody famous?

The other birds weren’t cooperating at all today, and so here are a couple of pictures of the tree the birds are SUPPOSED to be in! They must not have gotten the memo that they are a main source of my entertainment.

This tree is prettiest right now. Another day or two, the blossoms will be totally open and appear all white. I love this pretty rose color that they have now. I just don’t understand why all the birds don’t want to hang out in this particular tree! I know I would.

Can’t show any quilting pictures right now. In the works is a customer quilt, our guild’s challenge for this month, our Wednesday group (DayStitchers) started doing our box exchange again this month, and another challenge quilt for a June quilt show. So much secrecy!

Sue

Julie’s Sock Monkey Quilt

Sue Hecker — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:36:29 +0000

This week I quilted Julie G’s sock monkey quilt. It’s her first big quilt, and she did a great job on it. I quilted the Popcorn pantograph design on it, but stopped short of the sock monkey. He seemed to need some special treatment, so I quilted around him. (The quilt is cut off in the photo at the top — the rows below the monkey are repeated above the monkey.)