Fabrics and Quilts Galore!

Here's what happened the week of April 13th. It was a busy 2 week period beginning with the previous as I gave 2 workshops/trunk shows and it was sale week at Spruce It Up.

Date: April 14th

Lolah's friend: Carole L.

Name/Pattern of the quilt: French Braid

Thread: Yellow Glide

Panto graph: Rose Vine

Batting: 100% polyester

Photos and a finish: Very pretty braid in these colors!

Date: April 14th

Lolah's friend: Carole L.

Name/Pattern of the quilt: quilting fabric to make a bag

Thread: Red Glide

Panto graph: Rose Vine

Batting: Soft and Stable

Photos and a finish: A wonderful bag in the making! Lolah loves Soft and Stable and the product quilts up beautifully!

Date: April 15th

Lolah's friend: Ann A

Name/Pattern of the quilt: Frozen panel quilt

Thread: Pink Glide

Panto graph: Easy Peasy

Batting: 100% poly

Photos and a finish: Ann has a very steady hand and did really well on both quilts!

Name/Pattern of the Quilt: Little Buckaroo

Thread: Mocha Glide

Panto graph: Interlocking Stipple

Batting: 80/20

Photos and a finish: This is really sweet!

Her friend dropped by to have a go with Lolah during her lunch hour!

Great baby quilt!

Date: April 17th

Lolah's friend: Marilyn O

Name/Pattern of the quilt: Jelly Roll Race

Thread: King Tut in purples and pinks

Panto graph: Hearts in Bloom

Batting: 100% cotton

Photos and a finish: Another gift for a teenager in need! Kindhearted Marilyn!!!

This just sparkles Marilyn!! Love that border detail!

Date: April 18th
Lolah's friend: Lise C-D

Name/Pattern of the Quilt: BOM at the Fabric Cupboard
Thread: Raven Glide

Panto graph: Chinook

Batting: 100% cotton

Photos and a finish: 

 A feature we love at Spruce It Up is to apply the binding while the quilt is loaded. It is so much faster but it does require a steady hand... a skill Lise possesses.

It's not always quiet while someone is on Lolah! There's hustle and bustle going on here! Check out the Show and Tell page (look on the header for it) and see the work brought in that week.

Marie announced an Ocean Waves Bargello class:

Shortly after the sale we received a new order of fabrics! Yes we do get excited to see new bolts!

Friends dropped in to see the new fabrics...

and chose their favorites for the Bargello class! Here the girls are looking through a value finder.

We do take time for ourselves! Sew evening with friends... Despite what the sign says, the shop was closed and it was after-hours! Hollie brought her Margaritaville and treated us all to a refreshing drink... dinner by our in-house chef followed.

Take time for yourselves! Have a sew day!

Toodles,

Lorette

Joan's Oranges...

Joan first came to Spruce It Up last summer with her sister who had convinced Joan it was time to finish this project. You see, it was a long time in the making. Don't we all have WIPs (works in progress) hidden somewhere? I know I do and some of mine are older than this one! :(

Joan needed some fabrics to match in order to finish this top. This was her first quilt... she is a stickler for details, a common trait among computer programmers so it's no surprise that the piecing is perfect. 

It was fun to see some of these prints with which I was quite familiar. Joan quilted the Easy Peasy pantograph using FilTec's Glide in Bronze color, a bright shade of orange and used 80-20 batting...

She mastered pantograph quilting quickly; besides great concentration, she had good control and smooth moves. A death grip on Lolah is hard to miss... we all do it... why? perhaps we're afraid of letting Lolah go her own way, perhaps we feel the need to hang on for dear life, but she really doesn't need such a tight grip... I promise you can move her with one finger or perhaps one hand. Easily!

It's always interesting to watch the progress from the first row of stitching, to watch the curves become rounder, the points sharper. By the time the quilt is done, you realize: HEY... I did it!!! And it looks great! Forgotten are those times when you said OOPS... can you find them? Perhaps YOU can but it's not necessary to point them out.

After all, we aren't perfect... Friends will look at the quilt and say: Great JOB!!

The feeling of accomplishment at doing it yourself is a powerful "drug"! 

This is a lovely quilt; Joan you did some amazing work; just the binding to do and you can call this WIP done! 

How cool is that??

Toodles,

Lorette