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That’s true! I saw one that I loved and it was just under $1,000! I live near the Amish and they make beautiful quilts. They’re also very expensive. I bid on a vintage quilt a few years ago on eBay and won it! It looks like a cluster pattern.@msop04, you can’t even make a quilt for $300 anymore. Quilting is an expensive hobby anymore.
Catmom, did you piece the top? How are you quilting it? I can’t quite tell the stitching pattern from the photo. Do you quilt in a hoop?
Lucky you! I've never seen one in person but in pics online it looks like a beast of a machine. Will it have its own room? Does it only do free-motion quilting or can you put a walking foot on it for regular machine quilting...
@Catmom, I love your work. I have an antique quilt that I need to quilt. I believe I have that very same stencil. It will be lovely when it’s all quilted. I LOVE the owl quilt! What a treasure! I hand quilted when I started and still love to hand stitch and embroider but needed to get more things done. I have a few quilts hanging in my home of my own designs but mostly I give them away, so machine quilting just needed to happen. But the joy of handquilting does call me.
@Catmom, I love baby quilts. They are my favorite thing to do. I try to gift a new mom with a baby quilt and a couple flannel blankets. I still remember how I felt when ladies gave me something they had hand made for one of my babies. I can tell you to this day who made what, and for what child. I saved everyone. I just gave my daughter all the things that were hand made for her so she can use them for her darling daughter. And because I am a proud Gigi, I will have to post a pic. Just because she is so darling.
@Catmom, those are all so wonderful! What amazing treasure. I love every single one of them. They are even more special because they are hand quilted by you. I should have taken pictures of the ones I have gifted. I really just started doing that. I think early on I didn’t like what I made as much, or maybe I just wasn’t confident enough.
I went to a friends house recently and she had a quilt I made hanging and I looked at it and thought, ‘wow, I did pretty good’, she said I had told her I wasn’t very happy with it. I don’t even remember saying that.
Your quilts, however, are stunning!
Beutiful quilts! Babies are so fun to sew for.What a beautiful doll! You should be proud!
Here are a few of my baby quilts. I also machine embroider so I like to makes quilts with embroidery on them as well. This quilt went to a little girl in Japan that loved the story of Noah's Ark.
This is the one that went to India. They wanted rainbows.
This is Under the Sea...
This was for a little boy into transportation.....
These went to PS's Skippy for her twins...
Beutiful quilts! Babies are so fun to sew for.
Thank you! I had the benefit of a captive audience. I got all the section managers to bring it to their meetings and folks brought it to meetings at the HQ. We grabbed former staff at the retirement party. Lots of people were intimidated by signing. So, I got some brave souls to go first and sign in various areas. I also sent a prep-email so people had time to think about what they wanted to say and I had a test quilt (not cat bed) that they could practice on. It was a lot of work to chase down everyone, but we go there!Love it! Did you have a hard time getting everyone to sign? I made a signature quilt for my daughter when she left for college and it was so hard to get everyone to sign the pieces. lol.
Rocky, what a treasure your quilt is! I first saw the pic on my phone and I couldn't see the signatures. I have made a couple signature quilts for weddings and had the guests sign. I love the design of your and the colors too. I am sure your boss will treasure that quilt.
I went to a craft/sewing/quilting show yesterday and tried your machine! It is a great machine. I enjoyed stitching on it. It has so many great features. I don't think I had ever seen it before, or maybe I just somehow missed it. No wonder you can make so many beautiful quilts.