Design wall Monday
Monday, December 19, 2011 at 6:01AM Sometime earlier this year I stitched out a few elephant appliqué designs, planning to make a quilt of some sort with them, but nothing came to mind.
Then I received my copy of the December/January 2012 issue of McCall’s Quick Quilts and the pattern on page 58 really caught my interest. I think it needs something more, so I’m not exactly sure where I’m going with this, but I would love to add my elephants to this quilt somehow.
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I’ve got to go through my stash and see if I have a green solid to match the grass under the elephants, if so I might add a teensy border in that color. I guess I better make a mock up in EQ and figure out if this will work or not!
Head over to Judy’s to see what everyone else is up to this Design Wall Monday!
No go on the Airstream. Whew… color me relieved! It wasn’t hard to convince Jim he’d go stark raving mad in there parked somewhere for a six month job… there is no storage to be had for essential books, sewing machines… cookies, FOOD… well you get the picture. And that was in a 31 foot unit! I think we may look for a smaller 5th wheel… but a 5th wheel and I get along just fine.
The IQ is installed!
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I can’t wait to play! I’m having a bit of an issue with the thread detection wheel, but once that is worked out I’ll be going to town. I must say, Angela has been absolutely wonderful to work with. She requested I let her know what day we’d be doing the install so she could free up her schedule, but I wasn’t able to do that… you all know how it is with Jim and scheduling, his workload is worse than any doctor’s. P-L-A-N… 4 letter dirty word! So we installed it here and there over the last couple of days, and emailed Angela whenever we had a question. She’s been terrific!
Reader Comments (4)
Oh what fun you are going to have with that Intelliquilter! Enjoy! And it's nice that reason prevailed on the Airstream. Now you don't have to change your wardrobe!
I have to say I tend to agree on the vintage Airstream. I don't think it'd be my "cup of tea" either. After the Big Rig and our current 5th wheel, I'm sticking to one of them permanently. Although - truth be known - I HAVE reinforced the issue with Scott that a bigger 5th wheel will be in order as we find ourselves camping more and staying places more "long-term". Ya know, a girl has needs - to sew...LOL Happy Monday, CJ
The elephants look ready to play! Hope you work out the details with that and your new toy.
Good for you with that design also for the elephant looks happy when about playing. But i guess it's more fun if the elephant will go in design.
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