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Project Discussions:  What are you working on - 2017  |
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Bonnie Ellis
True Blue Farmgirl
859 Posts
Bonnie
Minneapolis
Minnesota
USA
859 Posts |
 Posted - Mar 30 2017 : 7:58:38 PM
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| Your projects sound so much fun. I still have some coughing from the bronchial pneumonia. Can't wait for warmer weather so I can bake it out. |
grandmother and orphan farmgirl |
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treelady
True Blue Farmgirl
1225 Posts
Julie
medina
ND
USA
1225 Posts |
Posted - Mar 30 2017 : 8:51:45 PM
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| What a beautiful quilt Carole! |
A little rain can straighten a flower stem. A little love can change a life.
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ceridwen
True Blue Farmgirl
2087 Posts
Carole
Champlain
New York
USA
2087 Posts |
Posted - Mar 31 2017 : 11:04:54 AM
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Thank you all for your kind comments.
Shannon, a longarm quilting machine is also known as a hand guided quilting machine. It is actually an industrial machine that has since been marketed to the quilting industry. It's use is strickly for machine quilting, securing two layers of fabrics with batting in between together such as comforters etc. You cannot piece with it, it has no feed dogs!
Here is a picture of Penelope.
My table is 12 feet long and the machine head has a 26 inch throat space. I was working on a reproduction quilt doing what is called cross hatching. The table has three rollers (well 4 but one only serves to keep things smooth for the take up roller), one that is the take up roller (takes up all the layers once you have quilted it), one is for the top and the furthers one (not pictures but after the first roller you see with the quilt top) is for the backing. The batting floats between the top and backing.
Some machine quilters have a computer attached to their machine and it becomes, in my opinion, an embroidery machine on steroids. LOL When you have a computer attached, the machine with the use of machine quilting design software, guides the machine (on a special track) and stitches out the design. My machine is not computerized, I hand guide it myself.
Anyway, that is probably more information that you needed. lol I do love to machine quilt! |
Carole
Farmgirl Sister 3610 - Nov 7/2011
http://www.carolesquiltingetc.com
Insanity: Doing the same thing over & over again & expecting different results ~ Albert Einstein |
Edited by - ceridwen on Mar 31 2017 11:09:40 AM |
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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
2114 Posts
Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
2114 Posts |
Posted - Apr 02 2017 : 10:23:06 AM
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Carole, your quilts are just beautiful!! Fabric works of Art!!
Lily June and I are working on making a fairy garden. Got hubby to cut our logs yesterday! it will be fun. I got to get what I need to do before the Heat sets in, then Hubby or mommie will go out and play with her. I got my ladder done, made from twigs! 
Connie
Imagine....#3392 |
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2459 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
2459 Posts |
Posted - Apr 02 2017 : 10:59:07 AM
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| Connie, you and Lily June are going to have a wonderful fairy garden to play with. Looking forward to see it when planted. |
FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
4742 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
4742 Posts |
Posted - Apr 02 2017 : 12:53:29 PM
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| So cute, Connie. Can't wait to see it when you are all done and playing with it. LOL! |
Linda B
quiltee
Farmgirl #1919
FGOTM for August, 2015 and April, 2017
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
5777 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
5777 Posts |
Posted - Apr 02 2017 : 1:13:44 PM
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| Lily June is going to love it. That is a cute idea. |
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
4742 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
4742 Posts |
Posted - Apr 02 2017 : 1:22:48 PM
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| I have not ever seen that Country Woman magazine. It looks like one that has some great ideas. Do you subscribe to it, Connie? Does anyone else? I may do that. |
Linda B
quiltee
Farmgirl #1919
FGOTM for August, 2015 and April, 2017
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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
3527 Posts
Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
3527 Posts |
Posted - Apr 02 2017 : 1:26:12 PM
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Carole, your quilt is gorgeous! Those colors are so rich and bright.
Connie, your Fairy Garden is going to be so much fun to make with Lily June and she is going to love it! I can't wait to see the next set of photos after you two have had a chance to create more!! |
Winnie Nielsen #3109
Red Tractor Girl
Farm Girl of the Year 2014-2015 |
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
4742 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
4742 Posts |
Posted - Apr 02 2017 : 1:28:13 PM
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| That's a great quilt, Carole. I love the older patterns. |
Linda B
quiltee
Farmgirl #1919
FGOTM for August, 2015 and April, 2017
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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
2114 Posts
Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
2114 Posts |
Posted - Apr 03 2017 : 10:07:49 AM
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Thanks ya'll, it was fun just the little bit we did! Linda, I subscribe to it. I never saw it either and my mom buys several magazines a week similar to that, but she said, she had not seen this one. Lily June came over Sat. afternoon for awhile and she loves the fairy garden already, she wanted to add a pond for her plastic frog! That girl loves frogs!
Connie
Imagine....#3392 |
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
4742 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
4742 Posts |
Posted - Apr 03 2017 : 1:11:35 PM
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Lots of play times will happen there.
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Linda B
quiltee
Farmgirl #1919
FGOTM for August, 2015 and April, 2017
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ceridwen
True Blue Farmgirl
2087 Posts
Carole
Champlain
New York
USA
2087 Posts |
Posted - Apr 03 2017 : 3:42:49 PM
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Thanks everyone for your kind comments.
Connie, just love that fairy garden. I looked for the magazine at Tractor Supply and could not find it. They didn't even have a current issue.  Sweet addition to the fairy garden by Lily June! I'm all for the pond! |
Carole
Farmgirl Sister 3610 - Nov 7/2011
http://www.carolesquiltingetc.com
Insanity: Doing the same thing over & over again & expecting different results ~ Albert Einstein |
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Bonnie Ellis
True Blue Farmgirl
859 Posts
Bonnie
Minneapolis
Minnesota
USA
859 Posts |
Posted - Apr 03 2017 : 6:56:29 PM
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| Connie, I just picked up that magazine tonight. The cover caught my eye too. You and Lily will have a great time. |
grandmother and orphan farmgirl |
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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
2114 Posts
Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
2114 Posts |
Posted - Apr 05 2017 : 07:14:07 AM
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Thank Ya'll!! She got here yesterday and said, Fairy garden as soon as she cam through the door!
Bonnie, what store did you find your magazine?
Also, McDonalds has Smurf Happy meals and the little houses that come with them are perfect for fairy Garden. Pops brought Lily June a Red one home yesterday, they come with 2 little Smurfs inside. This what she did yesterday. Poor baby has a little cold, so we were not outside long. I got the pebbles and colored rocks at the Dollar Tree.
Connie
Imagine....#3392 |
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
4742 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
4742 Posts |
Posted - Apr 05 2017 : 07:41:39 AM
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| I love the enhancements!! Lily June has good ideas. Lol |
Linda B
quiltee
Farmgirl #1919
FGOTM for August, 2015 and April, 2017
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hudsonsinaf
True Blue Farmgirl
1846 Posts
Shannon
Rozet
Wyoming
USA
1846 Posts |
Posted - Apr 05 2017 : 08:10:32 AM
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| LOVE it!!!! Oh how I use to love the Smurfs!!!! I wonder if they will sell me one without me buying the meal ;) |
~ Shannon, Sister #5349
Farmgirl of the Month January 2016
http://hudson-everydayblessings.blogspot.com/ |
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
5777 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
5777 Posts |
Posted - Apr 05 2017 : 09:24:48 AM
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| Cute. That toy is perfect. |
Texasgran |
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
5777 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
5777 Posts |
Posted - Apr 05 2017 : 1:50:56 PM
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[I  MG]http://www.maryjanesfarm.org/Snitz/Images/2017/04/KINDLE_CAMERA_1491233685000.jpg?v=17590558
This is the project I have been working on. A soft baby quilt/blankie, in pink, grey and white. A grey onsie with an Ellie and a tutu that is pink, white and grey. A hair pouf on a headband, and three burp cloths made from prefolded diapers and the scraps from the little quilt top. The camera and the light washed out the color. Several months ago I helped Baylee make a mobile to hang above the crib. It is in the same colors with little elephants hanging from it. Her future sister in law is having a baby girl.
Well it appears you must touch the line of jibberish below the two photos to see the quilt. |
Texasgran |
Edited by - TexasGran on Apr 05 2017 1:52:51 PM |
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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
2114 Posts
Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
2114 Posts |
Posted - Apr 05 2017 : 2:01:45 PM
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Shannon, they will sell you the toy by itself! Thats's how my hubby got this one! It's like $1.89 here.
Linda, Lily June is set in her ways already. I play with the Fairy garden when she is not here, as soon as she gets here she arranges the way she wants it!
Marilyn!! Oh how Beautiful and Precious!!!! Sometimes my pictures do that to, posts a link!
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2459 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
2459 Posts |
Posted - Apr 05 2017 : 2:12:09 PM
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| Very pretty, Marilyn. |
FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
5777 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
5777 Posts |
Posted - Apr 05 2017 : 2:14:43 PM
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| Thanks. I learned something new, how to make a tutu on a crocheted headband, rather than elastic. |
Texasgran |
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
4742 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
4742 Posts |
Posted - Apr 05 2017 : 6:07:27 PM
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| Very cute, Marilyn. |
Linda B
quiltee
Farmgirl #1919
FGOTM for August, 2015 and April, 2017
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darlenelovesart
True Blue Farmgirl
6080 Posts
darlene
Loleta
California
USA
6080 Posts |
Posted - Apr 05 2017 : 6:16:15 PM
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Marilyn,That is one lucky baby! So cute.
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Farmgirl # 4943
Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.
Tell God what you need, and thank him for what he has done.
Philippians 4:6
Just follow God unquestioningly.
Because you love Him so, for if you trust His judgment there is nothing you need to know.
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
5777 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
5777 Posts |
Posted - Apr 05 2017 : 7:02:07 PM
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| Thanks ladies. She was born about 7:00pm and is a healthy 7# 8 oz. |
Texasgran |
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What are you working on - 2017
