Sunday, March 15, 2009

ओहियो Star


Notice the title. The first word is in another language. When I space between the words in the title it does this. Could someone tell me what I am doing wrong? I have checked every where I know to set the language but all places show it set for English. If you notice the last blogs I just didn't space in between the words.

Yesterday I finished the "Ohio Star" for Greta. This was a fun quilt to quilt. I didn't have any thread breakages. Believe it or not I have not had any problems with thread breakage or gobbing bottom threads in a long time. It is such a joy when the machine works good.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Billie's Crossstitch Barn


This Wallhanging is Billie's. She has worked on this cross-stitching for a couple of years. They are a lot of stitches in this. It looks so real, just like a barn sitting in a field of snow with the trees on the mountain side.

Sue's Teacher's Pet


Sue made her first Teachers Pet and I finished quilting it last night and put the binding on it today.

Inga's Wallhanging


This is a wallhanging I quilted for Inga. This was a Mystery quilt we did with the Guild.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Aunt Jemima



I finally finished Aunt Jemima and the Hat quilt. I quilted them a couple of weeks ago but just now getting the binding finished. I have been doing to many other things.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Twilling


It has been a while since my last blog. I haven't been feeling well but much better now. I took a Twilling Embroidery class and here is the results. I enjoyed learning this. It is a double knot. I also learned Sashiko Embroidery but haven't finished that one yet, but getting close. It is just a running stitch that is done simular to quilting. I have also quilted 2 quilts but waiting till I get the binding on them before posting them.

The Lawrence County Quilted Treasures Quilt Guild had our quilt show Saturday. We had lots of visitors from other counties. Monica, my daughter, which is a LMT, was our guest speaker. Her presentation was "Fabric of the Body". She told how massage was simular to fabric. For example: When you tear out stitches and it leaves holes in the fabric and then you can smooth it out with your fingers and sometimes the holes will go back together or by washing the material it will heal itself. That is simular to what massage does for our bodies. It aligns everything back up again. For instance, when we are sitting sewing we sit for long periods of time and most of the time with our shoulders together and maybe even slumped over. We should not sit for long periods of time. We should get up and walk and straighten our bodies. She recommends massages starting about once a month or even weekly if you see the results. I will testify that they work wonders.