Quilter's hands

Not so many photos this time, I forgot the camera and my phone just isn't fast enough for quilter's quick moving hands!

The last Yo-Yo circle to sew, after 20+ years.

The last circle of fabric for the yo-yo's I've been working on for a couple decades now.

And below is the table-ful of them ready to be strung as tree garland; all 2,590 of them?

Christmas Quilts

This is a Christmas quilt for my cousins, Tom Ouradnik and his wife Ann.
Feels like eons ago that I asked my family to wrap their Christmas gifts in fabric and then I collected the fabrics and drew a name from those who participated and the winner was to get something I made from the fabric.
Even when we were doing it I was years behind on these gifts.  We don't exchange gifts any more, but I still have more quilts to finish!
I'll probably be done with the machine quilting today and then start on the binding.
After I finished one, I would add all the leftover fabric to the fabric from the following year.  I've made a few quilts, a pillow I think, some wall-hangings and a 25' Yo-Yo Garland which only goes around my Aunt Joans tree 2 and a half times!
Two of the quilts I hand quilted, but if Tom and Ann wanted a hand-quilted quilt, they would have to wait another 25 years for it!  I machine quilted it on the Bernina in the picture.  Nothing like spending most of your quilting time punching the quilt through the opening of the machine!  I did that for 3 days at the MCQ quilt retreat at Camp Wapo.

Quilter's Hands and one Knitters Foot!

Only a couple Quilter's Hands pictures because my camera with the twisting screen appears to be broken. 

"Trying it on for size"

Postmark'd Art - No Theme - Exchange

At the Quilt Retreat I made my (belated) postcards for the No-Theme Trade I am in.  They are made of table cloth plastic (comes on a roll at Joanns) and all sorts of sequins. 

Picture with flash

 I am sure I left a lot of sequins on the floor of the Assembly Hall at Wapo...by mistake of course!

Picture with out flash

And I just folded a piece in half, sewed 2 edges, "carefully dumped" some "chosen" sequins in, stitched across to sew them in and rinse and repeat to the top.

Heikes finished quilt!



Blocks made by various Stillwater Quilters, Quilt top assembled by Heike, Machine Quilted by Lynn Kammpi, Binding machine sewn to the front by me and Hand sewn to the back by Heike.

Barb and Heike holding up the quilt Heike finished.  Barb won these blocks in the block drawing at the Stillwater Quilters Retreat at Wapo and gave them to Heike.  Heike finished it at the MCQ Quilters Retreat at Wapo so she could take home a finished quilt.  Any other Stillwater Quilters get theirs done this quickly?  Hmmm?

Quilters Hands

Quilters Hands

Ironing

Machine Quilting

Pop Drinking

Machine Stitching

Hand Sewing Binding

Writing

Enjoying the feel of textiles

Machine Sewing

Machine Sewing

Hand Sewing

Ironing

Texting and Eating Popcorn

Ironing

Rotary Cutting

Machine Sewing

and Spritzing

Quilters Hands

Another Quilt Retreat and more busy hands...
  Sharing pencils
    Rotary Cutting
      Touchy-feely
         Leaning
           Holding the Camera
             Preparing fabric
               Coffee Break
                 Machine Quilting
                   Machine Quilting
                     Cutting Fabric
                       Stretching Wool
                         Machine Sewing
                           Machine Sewing
                             Scraps
                               Thinking...