More quilting around embroidery!

Slow progress is being made!

The sashing and boarders are done...

now it's time to quilt around the embroidery!

Slowly!

Here is a close up

you can see where I have stitched 

in white thread going up the leg.

My Janome 6600 is Loving

White Aurifil 50/2 #2024

Using the Sharon Schamber's

"Quilting Halo" really helps!

Here is a good close up

of the stitching

Just a few more blocks to go…

then it's time to make the piped binding using

Sue Cleveland's "Groovin' Piping Trimming Tool"

and then this way cute label!!

Just in time for the 

Silver City 2015 Quilt Show!!
September 19th and 20th.

Can't wait!!

Summer Wrap up ... a little late!

My summer was spent:

sewing and sewing...

quilting and quilting and quilting and quilting...

and a little ride to New Hampshire 

to do a Quilty lecture and watch my hubby do a little gold panning!

a little stitching by the canal...

Oh and more quilting!

My Aunt Millie's Garden quilt is all put

together and the quilting took me all summer

a few hours a day

on my Janome 6600

and it was time to make the piped binding

out of this mess!

and using these tools

LOVED the Groovin Piping Trimming Tool

by Susan K Cleveland

If your going to make a piped binding it is a must have!

Here it is attached....

and then with the binding on....

here are a few pictures of my machine quilting

every block has a square with circles quilted on point 

and pebbles inside and squiggles outside 

hearts with loops quilted into the sashings

in the boarder I quilted feathers on bowing side of the vine

with pebbles and swirls on the other side

since I'm not a big machine quilter, this quilt took so much time

energy and effort ... and I'm happy with how it came out

It will look hanging in the entry way!

The second quilt I worked on this summer was

an applique bluebird that I just wasn't sure what to do with....

so it became a Polaroid snap shot with two "cheater" snap shots behind it.

Then the idea was to have the Polaroid pictures look like

they were thrown onto a table!

This is the results....

a little machine quilting of a few leaves

helped fill in the empty space around the bird

and wood grain quilting was done to make the

background look like a table.

Finished off with a knife edge binding,

first time I've ever tried this type of finishing technique!

In August I had the privilege of speaking at the

Belknap Mill Quilt Guild

at the Lake Opechee Inn and Spa

what a wonderful group of ladies.

The Inn was so relaxing - 

can not wait to go back and stay again!

Check out the sunset from our balcony...

just breath taking.

While in New Hampshire hubby went gold panning!

Something he has always wanted to do...

he's watch too many gold shows on the Discovery Channel!!

Worked on my stitching at the canal,

yup hubby was fishing,

he actually caught a few fish!

Here is a small one...

All in all the summer went by way too fast,

and I'm back to work...

Only 170 school days left until next summer vacation!