Fun tools for quilting

Sherry Boren took a picture of a quilt she loved and then re-created it.  We talked about just doing cross-hatching but that would put the quilt back on the square and take away the diagonal look. I finally got to use the cool cable tool I bought for the border. It gives it a very traditional look for the traditional fabrics. I didn't try to go around the corner, I did a stop at the seam line.






This is just a fun quilt with a fun border. The inside is just an over-all floral pattern I free-handed.

This is a great flag quilt that will have the piecing corners trimmed so it will be a curved quilt. I pebbled the white stripes and used the zig-zag in the red to inspire my quilting there.

On the blue field I quilted stars that nestled together and also nested inside each other. There were several different sizes of stars. I used variegated thread in stippling

Distractions from quilting.- in other words don't ever let anyone know you can sew

 I got distracted from quilting when someone thought I was a costume designer. She actually asked my 16 year old daughter to do this and she said yes because she was desperate for $$$. We were given this pattern and the picture and some fabric and said to re-create it. I haven't sewn clothing for ages and then to modify it was a stretch - a big stretch.  She and her guy wanted to match a national Color guard team and so she wore this to Homecoming and then to the big Marching band dance at the final competition. He wore the guy costume. It drove me crazy but they loved it. (Yes Mom did it - it was way beyond my daughter's ability) 

 Then my darling daughter volunteered me to sew color guard costumes. Yay me! It was OK other than the coach was more concerned about cost and color than about fabric quality (aka a pain to work with).  Yes they were supposed to be aliens and yes that is toilet paper rolls in her hair. They later got green twirly antenna to complete the hair-do. I'm swearing off sewing costumes for a while, thank goodness they bought the flags and didn't sew them this time.