Trials and Tribulations with Quilting, Machine Embroidery, Sewing and Knitting
Posted in Machine Embroidery on Jul 31st, 2007
I’ve stitched the January block for my Mum’s wall hanging… Here is an image of it – I haven’t cut the jump threads and probably won’t bother because it’s just to give my mother an idea of the style and size. We were hoping to fit three months into one hoop, but it was all [...]
Posted in Quilting on Jul 29th, 2007
I’m back to working on my alphabet wall hanging… In the above photo I’ve pin basted (not enough, but more of that later) the quilt and I’m using YLI ‘rinse away’ thread to put in some anchoring lines. I found that starching the fabric (both the quilt top and the backing fabric) and using the [...]
Posted in Machine Embroidery on Jul 26th, 2007
My mum is planning on making a calendar using machine embroidery. I thought I would help her with the design. I’ve been using my Janome Scansoft software (very old – I bought it for $5 in the bargain bin) to design the letters and numbers and Embird to merge the designs and place them in [...]
Posted in Quilting on Jul 23rd, 2007
I went shopping (to my local Lincraft). I bought Bias Tape makers, flower head pins and fusible web tape. Why? I watched the ‘Quilt as You Go’ dvd by Margaret Cormack – it comes free with the latest ‘Quilters Companion’Â magazine. Margaret used bias strips to cover up the joins in her quilt and I thought [...]
Posted in Machine Embroidery on Jul 18th, 2007
I took time of from my somewhat depressing quilting endeavours to make a birthday card for one of my daughter’s friends. I designed the Olivia text using my very old (and clunky) Scan and Sew software (from Janome). I bought the card at Officeworks – they seem to have quite a range of invitation/card stuff.
Posted in Quilting on Jul 17th, 2007
So I made my 36 blocks… Only to discover that my maths was wrong and I needed another two blocks. I made another two blocks. I decided to sew a strip of the blocks together and then join them to one side of the quilt. Aahhh, it’s half a block too short or if I [...]