Stripper Quilt

Long Arm Quilting – Stripper Quilt Finish

Stripper Quilt?!? What has Melissa been doing?

I promise, I have only been quilting, not stripping. 3 years ago I was part of a fun group of quilters who called themselves Stripper Quilters because we each made block strips for each other over the course of a year to make fabulous, fun and scrappy quilts. I pieced my top in January of 2014 and never quilted it because it was 80×80 and that was too big for me to wrestle through my domestic machine. Well now that Spike is here, I have run out of excuses not to finish it!  All that’s left is the binding and given how I feel about quilt bindings…well that could take awhile, but at least the quilting is done.

Rainbow Stripper Quilt - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comIt is really hard to photograph the quilting on the white background, lucky for me the backing is a nice dark blue and the quilting popped beautifully. I did this quilt with a different fill on each row so that I could show customers what different fills would like like and given them ideas for how they might like their quilts done.

Row One - Stripper Quilt - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comThe outside border has a nice wishbone motif, I wanted to be able to show lots of different ideas and what might work for different quilts. The second border has continuous feathers that go around the entire quilt. Not bad for my first attempt at feathers if I do say so myself. The first stripper row has my take on Vicki Swirls – which are done by my good friend Vicki from Orchid Owl Quilts.

Row Two - Stripper Quilt - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comRow two are my flames. One of my favorite designs so far. I love the gentle echoes and think the design has so much potential for a quilting.

Row Three - Stripper Quilt - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comRow three starts with pebbles (pictured above) and then fades into paisley (pictured below) and back to pebbles. Showing how designs can be mixed together for different textural effects.

Row Three - Stripper Quilt - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comThis row was lots of fun to quilt.

Row Four - Stripper Quilt - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comRow four is this fun triangle design, they look like fireworks or starbursts to me. Can’t wait to do this design again! I love angular designs.

Row Five - Stripper Quilt - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comRow five is an echo heart design.

I really enjoyed quilting this one, I learned so much on it and even got to FaceTime my Innova rep in Italy when I had issues, talk about amazing customer service! She is on a two month vacation and took time out to help me. Truly awesome people work for Innova.

This summer I will start taking customer quilts and I am so excited about it!

Have a great day!

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Week 3 Goals

So I’m thinking of starting each week by setting a goal for myself. I’m hoping this will help me stay on track with the things I need to get done. Nothing outrageous, just easy and doable.

This week my goal is to get all of my geese pieced and finish my January goal for A Lovely Year of Finishes.  I know it seems really early in the month to be talking about finishing, but the Riley Blake challenge deadline is creeping up fast and I need lots of time to make that entire quilt (start to finish). I also still have to get my Do. Good Stitches blocks done.

Here is my progress from this weekend. I got my red, pink, orange and yellow geese done. I still need to do green, light blue/aqua, dark blue/navy and purple.

Flying Stripper Geese Progress - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comWhat are you working on this week?

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The Last Stripper Quilt

Well we are coming down to the end of my year as a stripper. Very bitter sweet really. I’m excited because this means I will finally get my quilt top back and I just can’t wait to see how it has all come together, I am sad because I have truly enjoyed this group. I’ve met some wonderful ladies and their quilts have really pushed me out of my comfort zone – on multiple levels!

All that being said, here is the last quilt I will be working on:

Jovanna blogged about her first row here and I was just blown away by how beautiful it was. As I have spent the whole year mailing to her, I am the last one to work on her beautiful quilt.

I have a plan for her blocks – I’m thinking slice and insert X-Blocks – I will do a tutorial for these when I make them up. I wanted to show off the fabrics I have pulled for her row.

My black and white fabrics:

Here are my color pulls:

So now I just need to sew them! I have until the end of October to get the last row done. In the mean time I also have to start my foundation block for the new group I start with Shanna – Crazy & Twisted Quilters – we will be doing a QAYG group. I think it will be pretty exciting – I have to have that finished by the end of September and ready to mail. Wish me luck!

Strip Quilters – A Pop of Color Top

I have to say, now that I have good pictures of this top, I truly love it and I can’t wait to see what the last 2 quilters do with it. I mail this off next week and await the next top in the mail. I will be so sad when this group ends in 4 months, it has really stretched my skills and my quilting imagination!

FairlyMerrily Pop Quilt

Stripper Strings

Oh wow! Now that I’m reading that title it looks really bad!  I’m hoping most of you realize that the stripper part refers to the Strip Quilter group I am a part of on Flickr. We are in the midst of round 4 and I finished my row yesterday. I attached it to the rest of the top but the pictures of the whole top together so far are AWFUL, so I will need to re-shoot another day. In the mean time the picture of the row turned out fairly well.

For those that didn’t guess from the title, I made string blocks. I will be doing a tutorial for these blocks later this month as part of the My Favorite Quilt Block QAL that is going on with Persimon Dreams, I will be the last one to go, and can I just say the blocks so far have been A-MAZ-ING!

This particular row is for FairlyMerry, she requested black and white with pops of Melon, which she provided, and it was a good thing too because this particular color was not in my stash!  I hope she likes them!

I will try and get another pic of the top as it is now with 4 rows on it but it won’t happen today as we are finally taking Anne to Seattle to ride the Ferris Wheel since she has wanted to go since the moment her daddy walked off the plane!

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