Quick Curve Ruler

Photographing for Shows

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The past few years I have been entering my quilts into shows, I try to enter quilts that are my own designs, but sometimes I find a pattern that inspires me, I buy it and I make it. Every now and then it is truly a beautiful thing to find that someone else has done all the quilting math for you!  That is the case with the Metro Scope Quilt that I have been working on, pattern by Sew Kind of Wonderful.

Photographing quilts for juried shows is always a challenge, they want the entire quilt in the frame, and no fingers holding them. With no one home to help me, photographing large entries is quite a challenge.

In come my design walls! I haul my design walls outside, preferably on an overcast day because too much sun will wash out my quilts and not really show off their beauty.

Photographing for quilt shows - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comBecause this quilt is so long – 72″ – I had to prop it up so it would hang off my porch.  The design walls are pinned together (my design walls are foam insulation from Lowes that are covered with batting) and propped up against my three porch chairs.  Then I pin my quilt through the back into the foam. I try not to get the pins, but you can see them at the top there.

Here is a look at the picture I submitted to the quilt show after it was edited:

Melissa.Dunworth.MetroScope.FullYou can see that it shows pretty much just the quilt and the lighting has perfectly highlighted the quilting. Lucky for me this show does not require that a quilt be 100% finished to enter. I have purchased a binding fabric and just need to stop procrastinating.

I hope everyone is having a lovely Monday! I have been back at Zentangling again so expect to see some pictures of those soon!

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Custom Quilting – Metro Scope Quilt

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Back in June I was getting antsy about my husband leaving with the army again so I decided I needed a project to work on that didn’t require any brain power on my part – interpret that as I didn’t want to have to do any quilty math – which designing my own patterns require. Sometimes it is nice to have all the math and figuring out done for you. This quilt was one that I started working on with my wonderful friends, Vicki of Orchid Owl Quilts and Shanna of Fiber of All Sorts, being two of my closest friends, they knew what I was going through and gave me the go ahead to move forward without them. I will likely make a second quilt with them at a later date.

Metro Scope - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comThis is the Metro Scope pattern using the Quick Curve Ruler, ruler and pattern by Sew Kind of Wonderful

After I finished Linelle’s quilt I decided to pull this puppy out and get it quilted!

I decided to use this quilt to showcase my skills with ruler work and custom quilting.

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Block 6 - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comBlock 7 - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comBlock 8 - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comBlock 9 - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comBlock 10 - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comBlock 11 - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comBlock 12 - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comToday I am going to work on the sashing between the blocks. I cannot wait to get this quilt off the frame and photograph it properly. These pictures were all taken with my iPhone. I swear the quilt looks way better in person. Also, the last three were taken with my phone at night.

If you like what you see in my custom quilting please contact me, I want to quilt for you and bring your quilt to life in a way that fits with your artistic vision! If you like my quilting but want something a little less dense, I do more basic designs too!

Have a wonderful and happy Hump Day!

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A Mini Quilt For Me

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I decided last September that I needed a new mini for my studio and who better to make that mini than me? After all, I know what I like, I know what I don’t like and I consider myself a fairly good quilter. So my mini was born. I took a Sew Kind of Wonderful pattern and slightly adapted the blocks to make them squares and a mini was born.

Then life happened, as it always does in this camo colored world that my family lives in.  The mini sat for 3.5 months before I was able to quilt it and then it sat for 3 more weeks before I was able to bind it, but it is all done now and hung up too!

Quick Curve Mini - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.com

I love the new mini, it adds a lovely splash of color to a wall that was naked and it is exactly what I wanted because I made it!

How often you make things just for you? Remember it is important to take care of yourself too!

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Some mini quilts for your viewing pleasure

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Last week at my Modern Quilt Guild meeting I was doing a demo of the Quick Curve Ruler by Jenny Pedigo of Sew Kind of Wonderful.  In order to do said demo I had to cut out two different blocks, which naturally meant that two new WIPs (works in progress) were born.  I have turned those demo blocks into mini quilts (tops anyways). One will be for my partner for the Schnitzel and Boo mini quilt swap that is currently happening on Instagram and the second one will be for yours truly.

Quick Curve Minis - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comMy partner for Schnitzel and Boo likes batiks and modern patterns so I figured what’s better than combining them both. I made a 16 inch block from the Metro Scope pattern, available on Jenny’s site. The other block was originally two out of three rows from the Crazy Eight’s pillow pattern from the Curved Contemporary Quilts book. You may remember that last August I participated in a blog hop for the release of this book and made the Crazy Eight’s pillow.

I stayed with the same color inspiration, but realized that I wanted something a little different, so I ripped the mini apart and made each section square and made what I was truly envisioning when I was cutting fabric, now I am in LOVE!

Quick Curve Minis - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comThis version makes me happy! I just need to quilt them both, but for now they will rest on my design wall while I work on my Lovely Year of Finishes goal.

Happy Tuesday and Happy Sewing!

signaturePS. Make sure you go to Day 8 of the Jaftex Blog Hop!

September 8th – Linda Lum DeBono – www.lindalumdebono.com

Curve It Up Finish

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Back in September I decided to take a break from designing and sew from someone else’s pattern. The pattern I picked was the Curve It Up pattern by Sew Kind of Wonderful. The ladies from Sew Kind of Wonderful were having a QAL and I thought it would be fun to join in.

I have to say I found it really relaxing to take a break and it also completely rejuvenated me!  I have since designed 5 new quilts and finished 3.  I even wrote up a pattern! I will be releasing that later this week.  Since I never showed my finished quilt on my blog and since there is a link up going on over at Sew Kind of Wonderful, I thought I should finally show it off!

Curve It Up - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comI made a couple changes to a couple of blocks and with the exception of the Kona Navy border fabric, everything came completely out of my stash – and yes, I’m pretty proud of that fact!  In the next couple days I will have a pattern release and I will be sharing a purse that I made last month too!

I hope everyone is having a fabulous Monday!

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