With the rain moving in yesterday, I finally found some time to finish up my charm pack quilt. (most of the numbers are corrected now, assuming my scribbled notes are right) I’m very happy with my decision to go with a contrast border and this lighter quilt will be pressed into service right away in the spare room. The colors are so cheerful and happy!
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I had a hard time putting the quilt down once it was so close to being finished. With a little help from my friends, I managed to get it pinned and quilted. All that’s left is a trim and some binding!
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I finally found a few minutes to finish up the charm pack quilt back. As you can see, I had some expert help!
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Not to be outdone, Riley provided expert assistance with the pieced back for the quilt top. I’ve only done the color strips so far and will need another session to finish assembling the back.
With a little help from Gabby, I put together the charm pack quilt top. I had to run out and get more white fabric. It seems that nearly all the numbers in the tutorial are off, at least in my hands.
I’ve had the materials for this charm pack quilt for awhile now but it got pushed aside in all the Christmas crafting that was going on which was followed by some test knitting. I planned to follow this tutorial but quickly realized measurements and numbers were not quite right. The picture is really enough though so I did manage to get all the parts for my blocks cut out. My charm packs must be smaller because I am a few blocks short and will fill in with solids.
The flowering snowball quilt is all done and winging it’s way to it’s final destination. Riley and Gabby gave it their stamp of approval before I sent it on it’s way.
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I haven’t really made friends with the curvemaster foot just yet but we did make good progress over the course of assembling blocks for the flowering snowball quilt. I discovered I need to move my needle position one to the left and that I work better without the tweezers. My concave curved piece needs to be on top and I need to stretch it slightly on the cut edge as I sew. I tried to take a few photos to remind myself how to do it but it’s tough to sew and take pictures at the same time. I wasn’t too sure about the blocks as I was assembling them individually but once I got them all together I really loved the result. I’m planning to stitch in the ditch along the edges of the blocks and then stitch along the edges of the pink pieces that form circles.
I’ve been reading about the curvemaster presser foot for sewing curves for a few months now and decided to give it a shot since I’m working on a quilt that is pretty much all curves. It did take some time to figure out how to assemble the various adapters for my machine and it doesn’t really come with much instruction. I found the videos helped a little but there just isn’t a lot of information out there about the foot itself, it all focuses on how to sew with it. Once assembled it’s angled a bit when your presser foot is raised but when you lower it the foot moves into position. At first I thought I had t move my needle position way to the left but it was centered after the foot was lowered.
In the photo I have one block done with a regular 1/4″ foot and loads of pins and the other block is my first attempt with the curvemaster. It takes a little practice but this is really not a bad first attempt. I do think the seam is a little too narrow so that the block doesn’t sit flat and you get a big roll in your seam so that you’ll need fairly close quilting to keep everything in place. I might just quilt it by doing top stitching along the edges of the “petals” where that roll occurs.
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Here are three more blocks for the Farmer’s Wife quilt. The center block needs to be ripped and redone. My scant 1/4 is a little too scant. Sometimes it doesn’t matter but in this case it would clip off the points of my little squares. By the end of the year I should really know my 1/4-inch seam quite well!
and what would I do without my helpers?
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