Got home and put the final border onto the airplane quilt; loaded it onto Mo'e and then waited til the next day to start the quilting. All in all, I think it took about 5 hours over a couple of days for the quilting... lots of slow going around the appliques and stitching in the ditch around the airplane blocks. Since I couldn't find a print for the outer border and was going with a solid, I had to come up with some sort of quilting design... got the idea to do outlines of the airplanes.. had to shrink them down a little bit so they would fit, but it wasn't hard, just a little time consuming since each one was stitch individually. I also wanted to put something in the red inner border ... came up with doing 'waves' but decided that wasn't good enough... hit on the idea of block lettering the word ZOOM here and there with the 'waves' in between. Finished the quilting, trimmed it up and put the binding on that evening and hand stitched the mitered corners down ( something I NEVER do) the next morning ( Tuesday). I called the customer and arranged to deliver it on either Thurs or Fri. ( today). I wanted to take it for 'show & tell' at guild meeting last night, so delivered it today.
The customer LOVES it... she rushed right to the store next door to show the employees over there, then came back and took pics to send to the baby's mother (apparently the store manager) who texted back that she loves it ... then the customer put the quilt on a hanger and hung it behind the service desk while telling a woman who was in the store about it. Unfortunately, the customer thought that I was going to call her before delivery and since I didn't, she didn't have the money with her. She said that she & her husband are going to Eaton Rapids right after she gets out of work tonight and she will drop off the money to me on her way there.
Before dropping off the baby quilt today, I did a quick stop at JoAnn's... had a coupon for 50% off any cut of fabric that wasn't on sale and I needed backing for that HUGE MSQC quilt that I did a couple of months ago.. forgot to check on batting, though. I may have to piece a twin and a queen together because I don't think a queen will be big enough and I don't think I have a king size batt in my stash. I also picked up another 5 yards of paper backed fusible - going to need it when I start working on Kathee's nativity wall hanging... which I stopped at FedEx and had the patterns enlarged 200% for. I've done this wall hanging before, but did the enlarging myself ( what a PIA that was) - maybe I didn't do it at 200% then because I don't remember the pieces being this big. I already have the background fabric and the rest will be made from my scrap stash.
I collected a few more blocks for Linda G's going away at the meeting last night. I think we're up to 12 of 14 if you count the two smaller ones that were my first attempt. Found out Judy got the 'smaller' pattern, too :(... and a couple of the quilters did applique' instead of paper piecing. Personally, I don't care and I'm pretty sure that Linda won't either. Just grabbed my label signing pen and stuck it in my purse to take to next week's meeting since SOME people didn't sign their blocks ( and I think one of them reads this blog). :(
Ok, off to do something - probably housework --YUCK.
TTYL
No comments:
Post a Comment