Sunday was Jordy’s baptism.  On Thursday, I decided he needed a little quilt!  Not too late to make one right?  Especially when it’s 2 flannel rectangles and machine stitched binding.  I quilted it on the longarm using a small meander and Quilter’s Dream 100% cotton batting.  Because both pieces were the same size I didn’t clamp it but did my one handed stitching again!  This was a smaller meander so I did have to make sure that my fingers were out of the way!

 

It’s hard to photograph, but I love how it got all soft and wrinkly after washing and drying.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And you may notice that I tucked the original Red Heel socks with the sock monkey instructions in the fold of the quilt.  Well, Jordy’s mom gave those right back to me!

  I made one for my daughter years ago and if I could have found it, I would have given it to him!  So now, I guess I’ll have to make another one.

 

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Thanks for looking and just keep stitchin’

Linda

I’m a little behind on posting customer quilts so here’s a couple that I’ve delivered recently.

 

Mack’s “quilt” is fleece and flannel, no batting.  To make it as big as possible, I loaded the fleece to the leaders and floated the flannel on the top even though the flannel is the backing.  Because both fabrics were about the same size, I did not clamp or baste the sides of the top, I just held on to the edges!  With the Bliss on my APQS Millennium I can operate my machine one handed!   It did help that the quilting design was a big meander!

 

 

I used a Superior Thread that matched perfectly with the fleece and contrasted the flannel “top”, which really helped me see where I was stitching!

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s Dianne’s quilt with another meander, but smaller.  This customer brought puffy batting which really makes the quilting stand out and highlights the black thread.

 

 

 

 

I also just finished a little project for myself using a little meander on flannel fabrics with 100% cotton batting.  I machine washed and dried it to increase the “wrinkles”!  It is so cute but I can’t post it yet, it’s a surprise!

Thanks for looking and just keep stitchin’

Linda