Keep on embroidering

Here are picture of my embroidery machine

Busy on my week off

Hello.
I have been busy.
Saturday I had a class to teach us how to make the bionic gear bag. It was a lot of fun and a lot of zippers.
But it is a great bag.
I came home and decided to make a second one and then a third.
I also did the dumpling dish that actually was a free pattern when you purchased the bgb on craftsy.
It is also a great little addition to the bgb. It can be attached with some magnetic snaps.
Now here is a picture.

Oliso iron

Yes I did it.
Reviews are good.
And I love it

Another storm another day off

I am still on my stretch of 3 weeks off but it is soon coming to an end. But it is OK because on Friday, last day off, I am meeting with the sew and sews.
This morning I started my day slowly. Hubby out to work since 3 in the morning.
Look at the view from inside.
Also see some of the scraptherapy I have been doing.

Jeans bucket

What a fun project this little jean bucket. I am taking machine embroidery class and this is our first project. Sew much fun. I had to do one because I could not wait to try my machine. Really the things you can do with that machine are so fun.

Bionic gear bag

Today I chose and cut the fabric for the bionic gear bag.
The class is only on the 5th of March but I wanted to do this before I started my long stretch of 21 days in a row of work.
After that I trimmed down a panel of farmall tractors for an upcoming quilt I want to make with a teddy bear on a tractor quilt, both for Mike tractor run this summer.  They are going to be gift for some participants.
Here are some pics.

Still on the binding

Snow storm is over today and a bright sunny day it is. I am still home because my driveway is not open yet. But it is fine with me. It gives me a good reason to stay home and be lazy. I would like to make something nice that I have seen on sew can she. It is a tutorial for mail holder. It ask for ironed on interfacing but I wonder if I would be OK with fusible fleece. I could embellish it with embroydery as well.
Hum... now I am thinking.

Binding during a snow storm

I am still on my time off. Will start on the 12th of February for 3 weeks.😢
So I was able to finish quilting my 2015 retreat qu'il.  I also attached the binding. I made the label and now I am binding it by hand to the back of the quilt.
I tried many times to machine bind everything but it never turned out as beautiful as a quilt binded by hand.

2015 retreat quilt

The quilt I did worked on at the 2015 quilting retreat is called flower bed. I found the pattern in Joan Ford cut the Scraps plus one. Her second book of scraptherapy. It was a fun quilt to do. Easy and quick, what I like for retreat quilts.
I decided to quilt this fmq on the powerquilter using stencils.
One stencil is call
TULIPS BULB
the other one is call
ELEGANCE.
I trace both of them on a stack of dritz paper. Without tread in my powerquilter I fmq over the tracing perforating all of the copies. I then, using double sided tape , positioned them on the quilt. The quilt IA like a positive/negative kind of quilt that have 20 squares. I decided to divide one of the square into a nine patch. Each little square was quilted with tulip bulb stencil. That means 90 copies of that one was needed. But with stacking of the dritz paper it was not a problem.
The rest of the quilt I only used the stencil for the middle of the square and the rest was stippled with fmq. (I certainly getting better with stippling 😉)
Now to square this quilt and binding and I can call it done.😅

Aurifil demo

To bad it was push back because of bad weather. We were suppose to go see a demo at mrs P in Amerst.

Progress

I am making progress on the quilting of the 2015 retreat quilt. I am fmq this one using stencils and dritz paper. I trace the stencil on dritz paper. After that I put this one on top of many more dritz paper, about a stack of twelve. I then sew on the traced stencil going trough all the copies at the same time. No tread in the machine this is just to perforate the paper. I will use the perforated lines as my guide for the fmq. I stabilize each piece of paper with double sided tape. It works great. Once I do the fmq the paper is easy to tear away.

Goodie goodie binding kit

I also did a binding kit before finishing my sewing machine mat. I binded the kit all by machine. For a binding kit , it is the worst binding I have ever made😡.
I will try to make another one.
This kit is fun to make with a zipper pouch and tread holder and goodies pouch.
This is the perfect time to talk about binding. Really by hand to the back of the quilt is the best way to bind a quilt. It makes better corners and do not leaves puckers. It also do not show seams.
Here again pics of my binding kit.

Mat

I have finished the sewing machine mat. The tread catcher does not match. I will make another one and this time make it match. I will use this one with something else. It is good that it is removable.
I only have my small hobby pfaff sewing machine. Her two big Sisters are being serviced at the quiltery by Peter. It is fun actually to give this little one a go once in a while.
Now some pictures.

Mat for my sewing machine

I am having so much fun with my embroidery machine. I have the creative 3.0 and it is just so perfect for me!
I did the aprons and today embroidered the pockets for my sewing machine mat.

Aprons

Something quick.
Something fun.
Aprons.
With embroidery turned out to be great.
One is for mom.
The one with the hearts.
The other one is for me when I sew.

Quilters planner cover

On new year morning I ordered on line the beautiful quilter's planner from late night quilter. She has a blog as well.
By ordering the planner you get a well detailed tutorial of a cover for the planner.
I could not wait to much longer and had to make it.
So here it is my planner with it's cover.

Alone today

So no hubby around for the day. Dear husband have been tidying up is wood shop. He is preparing the shop to build our bedroom furniture. Yey!
He also aquired an amazing wood turning lathe. He is quite happy and proud of the new addition to is wood shop.
So today, being my last day off , I decided to rearrange a bit the furniture in the kitchen. Cause, you see, my sewing machine is in the kitchen. Also is my cuting/ironing table.
So here it is .

Quilting away with powerquilter

I am off this week and having fun trying to finish this beautiful quilt. This is the quilt I worked on at the 2015 quilting retreat organized by Martha at covered bridge quiltery. The quilt is from Joan Ford second book scrap therapy plus one. The pattern is called flower bed.
I am using stencils for this quilt, that I trace on a stack of about 12 dritz paper. I sew over the traced template with the powerquilter to perforate all of the 12 copies of the dritz paper. Of course no tread in the needle. I positioned one of the perforated paper copie and secure it to the quilt with double sided tape. After that I am ready to quilt following the perforated line, sewing trough all of the layers. It is a continuous line stencil. Once  it is done I tear away the paper and voila,  beautiful quilting.