Quilting Anniversary.......Slideshow

It's March..... I am celebrating

24 years of Quiltmaking

I took my very first Rail Fence Baby Quilt Class

in 1987

I left class with a completed Quilt Top

I was so excited !

I went home and made lots more.

Here it is 24 years later...

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Mary's River Quilt Guild

has invited me to be the Guest Speaker

July 28, 2011

7 pm

Members and Visitors are Welcome!

Please join me as my guest...

I will do a trunk show of my quilts.

Come see them in person.

Mary's River Quilt Guild

Benton County Museum

Main Street

Philomath, Oregon

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full of Quilts,

LuAnn

Moose Lodge........Quilting the Border

One thing left to do.....Quilt the Border

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Auditioning Border Threads

I want something blendy, not high contrast.

YLI Variations FAWN

It has a very subtle color change.....just what I want.

Border Quilting

I decided to stick with meandering lines in a North to South direction.

There is a lot of curvy quilting in the center of the quilt.

I thought gentle, sweeping lines of quilting in the border would quiet this down and give your eyes a place to rest when viewing the quilt.

Another relaxing day of simple stitched lines.

Very therapeutic and fun.

Ready for the binding...

Back Side of Moose Lodge......Flannel Fabric

The 60 wt Bottom Line thread was perfect in the bobbin.

It blends in nicely with the background fabric, and there is no thread build up.

This was a pleasure to quilt. I thought of my Uncle Charlie as I relaxed and stitched away on his quilt. I am anxious to visit him next month and surprise him with Moose Lodge.

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Moose Lodge.......Quilting the MOOSE

Time to Quilt the Moose...

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I was tempted to do lots of threadplay on these guys....nah!

I chose a simple line of stitching following the silhouette of the moose.

After all, I think there are 12 of these guys in the borders.

Threadwork would have taken days!

I started at the top of the front leg, on the edge.

I followed the shape of the leg down to the hoof.

Then I went back up the other side of the leg.

I inlined all four legs, then echo quilted back over to where I started.

Then I just echo quilted the lines moving in a North to South direction.

The moose are heavily quilted, it added texture, and didn't take very long.

The moose come in all shapes and sizes on this quilt.

Even this tall skinny moose quilted up nicely in the same manner as above.

She who is lazy.....pays for it later!

My rule of thumb is to clean out the bobbin area between every new bobbin.

It has become a habit.....but for some reason...today.....I didn't do it.

It came back to haunt me!

I started breaking bobbin thread. I re-threaded the bobbin and re-threaded the top several times, but it kept breaking.

I took off the throat plate and what a mess!

That heavy YLI Green Variegated thread really built up a lot of lint in just a few hours.

Look at that linty mess in the bobbin area!

It was creating a tangled mess out of the bobbin thread and causing it to break!

I work more with trilobal polyester threads anymore, which don't have lint build up.

I forgot just how fuzzy those heavy cotton threads can be!

Learned my lesson.......clean out after every bobbin!

This little flashlight lives in the drawer next to the sewing machine.

It comes in handy when I need to see underneath into the bobbin area.

Quilting the Border Background Next...

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May Your Bobbin Always Be CLEAN and Full,

LuAnn

Moose Lodge......Innies & Outies

Machine Quilting the Moose Lodge Quilt

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This is a large lap size or a single bed sized quilt.

It is meant as a personal quilt for my uncle, not a wall ornament.

My objective is to heavily quilt this so it will stay together through use and repeated washings.

Innies & Outies motif is perfect for the central part of the quilt.

Thanks to Patsy Thompson & her fabulous DVD's I can do innies & outies!

Innies & Outies

Good background fill, quick and also lots of fun to do!

I like the curvy lines of the quilting stitches against the straight lines of the pieced blocks.

3 hours later, the center of the quilt is done.

Next comes the fun part......the border quilting.....the TREES!

Daffodil Buds

These were just popping out of the ground in December when we were decorating the Christmas Tree.

The winters are quite mild here in the Coastal Mountain Range of Western Oregon.

Tulips Sprouting

I know it is January and most of you are covered in snow....

but our Tulips think it is spring time!

We are forced to plant tulips in containers...the moles eat the tulip bulbs like they are dessert!

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

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Turkey, Sunrise & Pepper Dish...

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Happy Thanksgiving

From 2 Turkeys

1995 Our son, Heath at Age 10

He hand raised this bird and just loved him.

P.S. Mister Turkey lived a very long life here on the farm

Sunrise

This is the view from the Thread Shed

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I continued to click the camera for several minutes.

It was amazing just how quickly the sky changed as the sun came up in the sky

Looking East toward Mary's Peak

Stormy Autumn Sunrise

After 15 minutes of camera work, this is what the sky looked like.

It changed so dramatically and so quickly.

I am so glad I was there to see this happen!

Pepper Dish

45 x 45 inches

2009

Pepper Dish Rubiks Cube

May Your Thanksgiving find you surrounded by family, friends and love,

LuAnn

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Raffle Quilt......Women's Cancer Coalition

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In May 2009 the Harlan Valley Quilters of Harlan Oregon pieced this floral quilt top.

It is a Disappearing 9 Patch Technique.

CLICK HERE to view a tutorial.

This week I put a scallop binding on it.

After I marked the placement of the scalloped line all around the edges of the quilt, I sewed the BIAS binding on it....following my marked line.

NEVER cut the edge off until the binding is completely sewn down by machine.

This is a bias edge, and it will stretch if you cut it BEFORE you sew on the binding.

Now you are ready to trim off the excess quilt edges.

I snip directly into where the 2 scallops meet. Cut right up to your sewing line.

Be very careful not to cut into the stitching.

TIP: I like to leave an extra 1/8 inch beyond the edge of the binding.

This gives me a full binding when I fold it over to the back.

You do not want your binding to feel hollow.

You want it nice and full and round.

This is what the quilt edge will look like after you have trimmed off all of the excess quilt edge.

TIP: I like to trim a bit at first, then fold the binding over to the back to see if I have enough edge to fill the binding up nice and plump.

The next thing you need is a 10 hour road trip over to Eastern Oregon 500 miles one way....then back home again......to get the binding sewn down to the back side!

We pulled in the driveway last night at midnight.....and the binding was done!

I just love travel stitching...

This photo with the flash turned off really enhances the quilting stitches.

Long Arm Quilting donated by Linda Alexander of

The Oregon Quilting Company, Corvallis, Oregon

"Vintage Beauty"

Donated by JanniLou Creations Quilt Shop of Philomath, Oregon

To the Women's Cancer Coalition.

Raffle tickets will be sold through October 2010 for this quilt.

Proceeds will benefit Women's Cancer Programs.

CLICK HERE to see who won this Quilt

May All Your Quilts be Scalloped,

LuAnn

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