Nifty does plaid geese

Give Nifty an Accu-quilt baby, and a stack of thrift market plaids, and get a wonderful, lively quilt.

Corduroy Challenge

November 11, 2011 is National Corduroy Day. Deb Rowden issued a challenge to make a corduroy quilt to celebrate. Nifty found this "ugliest fabric ever" furnishing fabric corduroy and shared pieces of it with Rebels for our own Corduroy Challenge. Good luck Rebels!

Quilt top by Dianne, Sept Rebels

Looks wonderful with back lighting.

Family relic and its reproduction by Mary

Mary inherited this worn out family quilt, in poor shape. She has recreated it in this top; a great way to preserve the memory.

Challenge Quilt by Miki, in progress

Machine Quilting Journal #6

Machine Quilting Journal #6

Another finish: finished quilt #4 of 10. This actually was fun when I got to border and was able to do a fern feather. This is really easy: mark a serpentine vine, and then quilt feathers, all the inside and then all of the outside feathers, in a to and fro motion. Even turning the corners was fairly easy. Foto is of the back of the quilt.

Thread learning: Doing the ditch quilting on quilt #5. When I was about 90% done, I was increasingly bothered by the shiny look of the monopoly on the top of the quilt. I switched to Invisifil, a 100 wt poly by Wonderfil threads of Calgary, Canada, and the result was much better. It was in a neutral color and disappeared into the fabric and didn’t scream shiny.