6/28/2018

My Photos linky with Whims and Fancies

I am linking to Soma's Wandering Camera photo linky party today.

This happens the last Thursday of each month. She has posted a wonderful set of forest photos that she took along with a Robert Frost poem that I have always appreciated.

The photos I am posting are from the Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum in Seattle, Washington, USA. I visited our daughter and son-in-law in September 2017 and was so happy to have been able to view the magnificent glass art of Dale Chihuly. If there is a Chihuly exhibit near me on a trip, I try to visit. His work is so colorful, bright and dynamic.

I hope you enjoy looking at these few photos. I have so many more but will save them for another day.









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6/27/2018

Tuesday Archives

Val's Quilting Studio

Wow!
Val, of Val's Quilting Studio, began the Tuesday Archives Linky 4 years ago.
I joined her in the beginning by sharing this blog for the letter A: Applique.
Today is her 200th Linky Archives!

Have you had the chance to check out the Tuesday Archives in the past?
Val has a directory page of all the links HERE.
I enjoy reading the quilters' rejuvenated blogs based on each week's theme.
There are many tips, tricks, and new ideas.
Some of my visits have taken me through the a maze of wonderful blog reading. 

Make a visit to Val's Tuesday Archives this week and visit the bloggers. 
Val is having a giveaway, too. 

If comment today on my blog, you will be included in the 3rd method of entry for the giveaway.
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patchworkbreeze@gmail.com 
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6/16/2018

EQ Designing

A week ago I had foot surgery and today I am finally am thinking about quilting. 
Since I have one more week of laying down (somewhat) with my foot propped up, I decided to use my EQ7 program and design some quilts, or learn some designing techniques. 

An email from On Point Quilter, Kari Schell, came today. 
She told about her short video on creating Improvisational Fabric to use in quilt blocks. 
You can find it HERE.
Kari works with EQ8, but many things can be translated into the earlier EQ7 version. 
EQ8 might be entering my quilting life in a few months!

It was fun to do. This is the block of scrappy fabric I made.
(I know some of the lines disappeared when saving and there are some angles that really can't be sewn, but when it is cut up and used in blocks on the computer screen, no one should know.)

I used Kari's tutorial with the friendship star block and worked a few colors and layouts and got these quilts: 

With a few fun things to do on my laptop while I recuperate, life will be a bit less boring. 

Check out On Point Quilter's videos, patterns and the gallery of quilts she has quilted with the longarm! 

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6/09/2018

My Actual Post Date for Where Flowers Bloom

Welcome 
to my day's post for the 
Where Flowers Bloom Blog Hop

Carla from Creatin' n the Sticks is hosting this fun June hop to take us into SUMMER!

I wanted to combine some embroidery with some quilting.
We needed some placemats for the table. I have a coaster embroidery from Embroidery It that I wanted to make.  I made the 4 flower coasters with some summer stash fabrics.
I really like the embroideries from Embroidery It. They are easy enough to make. The stitching actually covers the trimmed edges. And the detail around the satin stitching gives them a wonderful finish.

For the placemats, I found some batiks that had similar colors in them to make them reversible. I watched a YouTube video that was very easy to follow. These placemats were made in 2 hours from start to finish! I couldn't be happier.



If I had more fabric from the coasters, I would have embroidered some of the flowers on the placemats with some appliqued vine stems.

Here are the other bloggers and their post dates for the blog hop. I hope you find a project you want to recreate!





(I used free watercolor daisy clip art from angiemakes and learned a bit more about my Photoshop Elements program when I composed the graphic above.)

For anyone who saw this post in May, I apologize for my earliness, too much going on and trying to rush.
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6/08/2018

Quilt Projects Completed

I worked furiously to get many sewing projects done during the past 2 weeks as I will be taking a few weeks off because of upcoming foot surgery.

Two finished quit projects I sent to my favorite longarm quilter, Michelle Fialek, are finished and they both look beautiful.
 
The table topper made from leftover corners cuts from the mystery quilt I worked on this past winter.

I love the swirls that Michelle put in the pinwheel blocks which gives them a spinning effect. 

Before approving the final Cranes Wallhanging pattern for Cut Loose Press, I followed the directions and made a second wallhanging.

I like to see how other quilters deal with the quilting motifs. 
Michelle saw fluttering birds, and her quilting works toward showing the fluttering. 





Michelle also quilted my TREES quilt from the 2015 Mid-Century Modern Bee exchange. 
This is a improvisational block I designed. 
I like the breezy-like quilting Michelle did and I am working on finishing a faced binding on it. 

Happy Stitching!
I'll be back in a few weeks.



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