Quilt News! Hand Quilting Supplies and Progress on HST Medallion Quilt w Borders, Sunflower Panel Quilt Machine Quilt Progress and Farm&Folk Quilt Alchemy Book by Sara Larson Buscaglia

Wild Crabapples from a local park. It's officially fall, celebrate!

Farm&Folk Quilt Alchemy book filled with inspiration!

My hand quilting supplies, favorites at the moment.

Machine quilting progress on my Sunflower Panel quilt, runner size.

Hand quilting progress on my HST Medallion Quilt with Borders, RRS fabrics.

 

Hello Quilt Friends!! Fall is here and it's a gorgeous time of the year for walks.

Lots of progress has been made on my projects. I'm hand quilting Baptist Fan pattern on my HST Medallion Quilt with Borders. I've included a photo of my current favorite hand quilting supplies. I'm not sure what I'll hand quilt onto the borders but soon I'll decide. I could take the Baptist Fan pattern right out onto the borders to the edge.

And I'm machine quilting my Sunflower Panel Quilt with fine a cross hatch pattern. I like the texture. I'm using a turquoise color thread. Slow but sure progress. I like to go slow using my machine to quilt because the stitches come out more even and then everybody is happy, not as many unpicking situations. I'm using a 3. stitch length and on some projects I use 3.5 length. I find the batting that I'm using tells me what stitch length to use by how the stitches sit in the fabric.

I'm still enjoying and getting lots of inspiration from my new book by Sara Larson Buscaglia, Farm&Folk Quilt Alchemy. I bought a copy for myself when I turned in my library copy. 

 And that is the news from the valley where the vine maples have started to get their fall colors and the local markets are selling pumpkins and squash of all sizes, colors and shapes.

That is the quilt news. How are you planning on enjoying your fall time? Any quilt finishes or tips to share? I'll stop by to visit. 

 

 

 

 

Quilt News! Hand Quilting Baptist Fans Progress, Hand Embroidery Project, Sun Flower Panel Quilt Progress, Farm & Folk Quilt Alchemy Book by Sara Larson Buscaglia

Hand quilting Baptist Fan pattern on my Half Square Triangle Medallion Quilt with Borders.

My hand embroidery project progress, I'm using back stitch.

Progress on my Sunflower Panel Quilt, runner size, the batting is cut out and the backing has been pieced.

Farm & Folk Quilt Alchemy book by Sara Larson Buscaglia, so inspiring!!

 

Hello from the valley, where we are enjoying sun and clouds today!

This week I've been hand quilting the Baptist Fan pattern on my Half Square Triangle Medallion Quilt with Borders, approx 58" x 54". 

And I'm hand embroidering an iron on transfer Alphabet Pattern 4031 with back stitch onto a cotton towel. I use cotton towels in my kitchen all the time and I enjoy the cheerful embroidery I've stitched on. I use DMC stranded cotton thread three ply and a smallish embroidery needle with an eye big enough to thread easily and pull through the cotton easy.

My Sunflower Panel Quilt is ready to be pin basted and machine quilted now. I cut the batting out and finished piecing the backing.

I'm very much enjoying looking through and reading Sara Larson Buscaglia's book, Farm & Folk Quilt  Alchemy . I appreciate her practical, thoughtful approach to quilting/hand quilting and dyeing fabric.

And that is the news from the compound.

What projects are you making progress on this week? Have you read any good books or found any helpful tutorials? 

I'll be by to visit.