Thread Tales From A Scrappy Quilter

I've had my new 26" Innova for 8 weeks.  12 days I was camping and I also had some down time when scheduling some adjustments to my machine.   So really less than 6 weeks of time spent on her.  No name yet.   No tattoos either!  Still a bit of a learning curve.  Every machine feels a little different, the weight is different, the feel of the machine as you move it along.  She could use color,  I do miss seeing those pretty decals like I had on my Fusion.   My only customization to the top so far, a cup mounted for my thread snips.  No place to mount my suction cup like on my Fusion and a small magnet seems to slide off with the weight of the scissors.   Differences so far?  Quilting from behind doing a panto,  the Innova glides over bulky seams so effortlessly that I often check mid row just to be sure I'm stitching with thread!   My Fusion would go across bulky seams banging and cr...

Samplers are so much fun!  This one was from a class she took but I did not write down the name and I can't remember.  But so much fun!   Fun to piece and quilt translates to a happy quilter and happy client.  I am  handguided, mostly freehand with a few rules/templates for some designs.                            

I love these quilts and wish they were mine!  The colors she chose, keeping them monochromatic  and scrappy.   Wow  - Love!   The brown/black received light custom quilting.    Freehand continous curve designs and a little ruler work around the borders.   The blue/purple/green is quilted using a hand guided panto called  "Denise Spirals" by Denise Schillinger.

This client quilt was a BOM called Downtown, designed by Carol Doak.  Such a fun quilt and I love those colors.  She opted for an all over pantograph called "Rhapsody" by Patricia Ritter.   Hand guided, almost 100x100.   It turned out gorgeous!  She has new quilts planned for 5 bedrooms and a new house in the works as well so she needed budget friendly.  We all love custom quilting but I think this quilt proves that an edge to edge design works beautifully for most quilts.