Signs of a sick mind
Friday, July 23, 2010 at 10:58AM ;)
I can’t help it. Everytime I get a new spool of King Tut, I drool all over it and pet it for a bit before I put it safely away in my thread cart, safe from light and lint. Sick huh?
King Tut by Superior Threads is hands down my personal favorite quilting thread, and I use it for all of my own quilts. But it’s expensive, nearly twice the price of my next favorite, which is So Fine!, also by Superior Threads. I have a ton of colors in the So Fine!, and I’m working on building my collection of King Tut.
I’d picked out my fabric selections for the embroidered monkey quilt I am getting ;)
ready to start designing, and needed a spool of thread to match for the quilting. Five other colors just happened to jump into my shopping cart all on their own!
The Hoffman Bali Batik was the start point for the project. It made me decide that this monkey quilt is going to have an island theme.
;)
The rest of the fabrics include a teal, a lime-ish green, and a blue-ish purple. I don’t think the purple cast in my blue fabric shows in this picture very well. Of course the embroideries and appliques will be on the off white fabric.
I won’t be using the original designs nor the pattern from the first “Five Little Monkeys” quilt. I only have 5 weeks (one of which I will be gone during!) to design, embroider, piece and quilt this one, so I may not make the fair deadline, we’ll see.
My former blog, “The TinkleTimes” continues to recieve more traffic and new people registering all the time, even though on the front page I’ve left a final post up saying the blog is going away. So this morning, I imported the entire blog over here, and you can access it by clicking on “CJ’s Former Blog” at the top of this website.
The pictures only imported in thumbnail size, I will try and replace them with full size images over time, but only the Bernina related ones, which show tips and whatnot.
Reader Comments (9)
And just where are you finding King TUT ??? Another favorite of mine, but do you use him just to machine quilt or do you use him to piece too ;D ???
Since I've known you, I've seen your color pallette completely change.
Looking forward to seeing the end results!
What happened to the color on the links under Quilting right hand side? They fade away into oblivion unless you hold your mouse over them. Even then they are faint in color.
Is this the monkey quilt in which you will have a pirate theme? Are you using the same designer? I noticed she had some other monkey themes. I'm getting the alphabet one for my soon-to-be-born grandchild.
Did you ever finish the Pinwheel Party? I'm curious to know what yours looks like, or maybe I missed it? I just finished all 12 blocks and will start the sashing and itty bitty pinwheels tomorrow or Monday or... I'm about to put a picture of my finished blocks on my blogspot.
Karen in GA
www.andthepiecesfit.blogspot.com
King Tut is my favorite quilting thread by far!! Have to order it of course, but there you go - our area is not known for its quilt shops is it?
Karen
http://karensquilting.com/blog/
Nice color choices for the new monkey quilt! It's sure to be happy and fun! :)
Those are wonderfully rich and fun colors!! I heart King Tut thread for quiilting, too... especially the variegated ones!! Polly :-)
P.S. I'm so glad you imported your old Tinkle blog contents!! I love it! Such timeless info!!
CJ - I love the fabrics for your pirate/island quilt! I especially love that the white one is not stark white but off white. Very cool combination. Can't wait to see it. claudia
Love those colors. Can't wait to see what you come up with on this one.