Happy First Day of Autumn!

But I am sorry to see summer go.  It has been so nice this year.  We are still harvesting zucchini and tomatoes but I think after this weekend they will be pretty much finished.  It is supposed to be miserable.  That's okay.  Quilting weather is coming.  :)

The online shop is getting more things in!  I hope to have more baby print double gauze in soon as it is the most popular so far.  My current project is Sand and Ivory solids for a couch snuggle quilt, 2 yards of each, Quilters Dream Request cotton batting and I am big stitch quilting it in various beige colors of Finca perle cotton 8.  It always amazes me how quickly these quilts get finished just sitting and working in front of the tv at night.  No marking..just follow the little grid lines in the double gauze! The meandering you see is the basting that I do on the longarm for hand quilting projects.

There is a tutorial on my online shop if you are interested:
Big Stitch Tutorial

We had a Big Stitch Class at Quilt Essentials a few Saturdays ago and it was so much fun!  The students practised on Halloween and Xmas panels and they picked it up very quickly. So proud of them! If you would like me to teach any classes, contact Kara at QE and let her know.  We are always open to suggestions!

Speaking of hand quilting...I finished the project that we worked on last winter...a preprinted Tulip wholecloth pillow panel and I used heirloom hand quilting, big stitch quilting and hand embroidery on it.  Yes, finally finished, stuffed with a pillow form and tossed on the bed!

And speaking of preprinted wholecloths...I will be carrying some!  I cannot resist as they are my favorite thing to hand quilt and you can heirloom quilt them, big stitch quilt them, use colored threads, trapunto them, embroider them and machine quilt them!  I hope to place an order next week.  If there is anything specific you would like me to get for you, just holler and I will add it to the order.  There are pillow panels/mini wholecloths, crib quilts and large quilts.  You can see the selection at The Stencil Company.

A wholecloth crib quilt that I finished a few years ago...laying out to dry after soaking off the preprinted marks

QE has YLI quilting thread in stock and I carry some Superior Threads Treasure.  There are more and more hand quilting threads being offered out there, now, and I am going to test some. Right now I am most interested in trying Aurifil 28wt as some hand quilters I admire use it and I want to see how it quilts.

For Big Stitch, anything goes!  But my current favorite is Presencia Perle Cotton 8, which I carry.  And QE has some also.

Let's see...what else...

Handiquilter is having a promo right now for Demo Days, ending September 25th:

I have an Avante on a 12ft Studio Frame, with or without the Pro Stitcher computer, and a Sweet 16 sit down system with TruStitch regulator and very heavy cabinet for sale.  If you are interested please contact me at 307-745-3200 or email me at bobbinsnthreads@gmail.com

Customer quilts so far this month:

And still more on the rack to finish by the end of the month.  :)  I love my job"!

Warmly,
Jude
307-745-3200
bobbinsnthreads@gmail.com
www.bobbinsnthreads.com

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving Greetings!  <click here for card>

Here's wishing you and yours a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday filled with love and joy...and lots and lots of yummy food!  :)

Here is a picture of a quilt top I finished.  Yes, I got a top finished!  Not sure when I will get it quilted, mind you...

It was a free block of the month (Dream Garden) from Sentimental Stitches and it is hand appliqued and hand embroidered.  I thoroughly enjoyed doing it.  I did a different setting as I neglected to notice that the blocks in the pattern were on point and I did mine square.  So...I put in some yellow corners, slapped on a yellow border for some yummy quilting and called it good.  :)

And you haven't seen a picture of the Most Beautiful Boys in the World for awhile so here is the latest.  These brothers sure do love each other!  :)  Quinn is 7 and Oliver is 2-1/2.  They are growing so fast! 

I took delivery of the newest Handi Quilter system yesterday!  It is still in boxes but we plan on getting it up and going during Thanksgiving.  I am really excited about this little system.  And here is the next promo!  A special introductory price AND free shipping on the new Simply Sixteen and Little Foot Frame!  If you have any questions, just holler.

The Sweet Sixteen Sit Down System demo, here in the Studio, is still for sale for a good price, as well.  It is only a year old and has less than 2,000 stitches on it.  Seriously.  It just hasn't been used.  It comes with a TruStitch stitch regulator and all the bells and whistles.  If you are interested, contact me at 307-745-3200 or bobbinsnthreads@gmail.com.  I need to make room for the new Simply Sixteen!  :)

And here are some more customer quilts:

Have a wonderful holiday!

Stay warm!

Jude

Embroidery Block of the Month

Now...I rarely finish anything.  Too busy with customer quilts and there is ALWAYS some other quilty thing I want to do.  Quilters understand.  ;)

So, when I saw that Primitive Gatherings was offering an Embroidery Banner of the Month I thought I might be able to manage to finish a banner a month, for goodness sakes.  ;)  (Okay, so I finish the embroidery but I haven't found the time to put the borders on them).  BUT I have decided that I want to make them all into a quilt anyway.  With the Studio being home, now, I just don't have the room for monthly banners.  They would get *lost*.

 

For now I do the embroidery at night while watching tv and it is a change from the constant sock knitting that I do.

The embroidery kit comes in the mail every month and all the fabrics are included.  The thread (Sulky 12wt - black) came with the first kit.  Now...I despise prep work.  Hate it with a passion.  Hate marking and stuff.  So when I heard about the embroidery method using Sulky Sticky Fabri Solvy, I jumped at it!  I scan the pattern and print it onto the Fabric Solvy sheet, slap it down on the background fabric (it sticks!), hoop it all and just start stitching right through it!  It dissolves away in water when the embroidery is finished.  Done.  No marking.  No *oopsie* markings showing where I have mis-stitched.  Love it.  I do baste the Fabri Solvy sheet in place around the edges, though, because with the hooping I don't want it to shift.  Works great.


This is October's...just finished and before soaking in the sink to remove the Sticky Fabri Solvy.

And these are the finished August and September Embroideries.  Well, the embroidery is finished....  ;)

*** The needle does get some sticky stuff on it as I embroider but I just swipe it across my little box of  Thread Heaven from time to time and it just slides right through the fabric after that.  You could also use beeswax or anything else you use for hand quilting and hand stitching, etc., to make the needle and thread glide.