Personal Appearance Quilt

Personal Appearance Quilt is finished.

Here are lots of photos my long arm quilting adventure, working on Personal Appearance, a queen size quilt.

Such a colorful  quilt.  I added the electric blue fabrics to scare ya!

What a wonderful way to use lots and lots of colorful fabrics.

Four - 4-patch blocks (4" squares) joined with a variety of sashing fabrics and 

contrasting corner stones.

Edge to edge free style long arm quilting - I call my design "Feathers and a Swirl" .  The long arm design sequence is built upon a wide serpentine line, and back-tracked with feathers and big swirl to close areas where a little more space is left open.

This is an improvised quilt . . . I had no real idea how it would look in the end.

And isn't that what makes it all so much fun.

I must admit the colors photographed "brighter" than in real life.

I turned off the lights in the studio for a moment, and got a better color reading of the fabrics

Double sashing with corner stones.

Squares of course = a very square quilt, 

so I added an extra border top and bottom to accomplish a queen size quilt.

Just finished quilting first row.

When I install the binding, I move my machine to the layout/cutting table where I can spread out the quilt.  The large table surface supports the quilt well and makes installing the binding easy.

This is my 1992 Kenmore Sewing Machine (old faithful).  

Review of My 10 hour Day:

I cleaned and oiled the long arm machine, wound 10 bobbins, then loaded the quilt, changed needle, and threaded the machine.  Completed the quilting in 5 hours.

Removed the quilt from the frame.  Trimmed away the batting.  Prepped 400"+ of  binding.  Sewed binding to the quilt perimeter.

I rolled up the quilt and moved from the studio to the house.  Prepared dinner.  After dinner I sat in the big leather chair, and listened to TV while turning, pinning, and hand stitching the binding to finish.  It was a good day.

Thank you for looking at my work.

My first show in 2019 is Memorial Weekend Sat/Sun May 25-26

at Rising Star Mill in Nelsonville, WI - Arts and Craft Fair, always a big crowd.

Lots of vendors showing their beautiful hand crafted items for sale.

Story:  What a difference 6 weeks makes!  Remember April 15, 2018 with the big snow storm that dropped 20 inches of snow?  Six weeks later I was sitting under my tent at the Rising Star Mill Memorial Weekend Arts and Craft Show trying to catch a breeze (there was no breeze all day), and the temperature was 95 degrees F.   Mercy.