BYC SEWING/QUILTING CLUB

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Before we built the shed, my LA occupied one bedroom and my sewing room was the 5 X 8 walk-in closet. My cutting board was in the office and the ironing board in another bedroom! I didn't have room for my kids to come home. Two of my grandsons slept under my long arm frame on the floor. I feel very fortunate to have this space now that I'm retired. The shed gets messy when I'm working on a quilt and I've added an embroidery machine (Brother). However, I loved the walk-in closet...I could just turn my chair to have access to everything I needed! We all are creative people and can come up with ways to get those quilts made. I've given almost all of mine away and they have been well-used by my family.
 
farmgirl7 said:
Before we built the shed, my LA occupied one bedroom and my sewing room was the 5 X 8 walk-in closet. My cutting board was in the office and the ironing board in another bedroom! I didn't have room for my kids to come home. Two of my grandsons slept under my long arm frame on the floor. I feel very fortunate to have this space now that I'm retired. The shed gets messy when I'm working on a quilt and I've added an embroidery machine (Brother). However, I loved the walk-in closet...I could just turn my chair to have access to everything I needed! We all are creative people and can come up with ways to get those quilts made. I've given almost all of mine away and they have been well-used by my family.
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Your shed is lovely. I have been thinking about getting an embroidery machine but for now I am working towards getting a bolt of warm and natural. I get it at joann for 225.00 or around. I wish it was a little more reasonable in price. It's fun giving quilts as gifts. Almost as much fun as making them. I have ruined myself by selling mine. Now I almost cringe when I have to sew to make money. The only thing I like to sew now is paper piecing. How do you like your new machine? I have always wanted one.

I am quite impressed with with this link on pinterest:
http://www.pinterest.com/cminor75/quilt-room/

Someday I will be organized. NOT.
 
I live in a old (way old) single wide mobile home. My best friend had a big camper she used to use for the hired hands on her farm, and she wasn't using it anymore. She asked me if I wanted it. Did I ever - WOW! It had been sitting in a barley field for a couple of years so after she and her husband hauled it over here and put it back behind the garage among the apple trees, I had to evict several families of mousies and other creepy crawlers. I cleaned and scrubbed and fixed it all up, and then I moved in. This is my Quiltaway Hideaway. Not as gorgeous as "The Shed" but it works for me!











 
Blooie said:
I live in a old (way old) single wide mobile home. My best friend had a big camper she used to use for the hired hands on her farm, and she wasn't using it anymore. She asked me if I wanted it. Did I ever - WOW! It had been sitting in a barley field for a couple of years so after she and her husband hauled it over here and put it back behind the garage among the apple trees, I had to evict several families of mousies and other creepy crawlers. I cleaned and scrubbed and fixed it all up, and then I moved in. This is my Quiltaway Hideaway. Not as gorgeous as "The Shed" but it works for me!











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But awesome non the less
 
HI everyone
I knew there would be quilters in the BYC group! LOL
I have been a lurker on the chicken forums but just found this board. I have been quilting for about 26 years now and still gravitate towards more traditional projects but I can always find something I like about most quilts~
I will be teaching my LCG a cute chicken themed project in 3 weeks and wondered if anyone else has done it?

http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/holid...?page=17&sssdmh=dm17.735201&esrc=nwapq042914a

I forgot to take a picture of my top so I can show my version but I will soon. I need to quilt it up but it will be a quick and simple quilting project.
I am in the middle of several projects right now but the next to be completed is this one

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/275845545896128778/

I am close to finishing the center blocks and then it will need borders!
I am also doing the Austen Family Album Quilt from Barbara Brackman and and and! LOL Well you know how it goes
 
PW - If you can wait for a 50% off coupon when batting is NOT on sale, then buy the roll. My JoAnn even ordered me a full roll at 50% off. Also, you can order it online from Connecting Threads at 30% off quite often with free shipping . I have a Brother embroidery machine that does up to 5" X 7" designs. It has a bunch of designs on it, but I can download from the computer onto a jump drive which then plugs into my machine. If you can save enough to afford one that does 6"X10", go for it, but I can do quilt blocks on mine. I can also "quilt" with it, but haven't tried it yet. Here's a flower for you!



Blooie, I love your sewing camper! You've really fixed it up nice. Do you have running water as well as electricity? Be nice to be able to refill the coffee pot anytime you want and have a bathroom nearby. I have to run into the house for that. I do have a small refrigerator in my shed. Your camper looks so neat! My shed looks like someone just went in and threw a bunch of stuff up in the air, LOL! I try to clean it up every now and then between projects.
 
farmgirl7 said:
PW - If you can wait for a 50% off coupon when batting is NOT on sale, then buy the roll. My JoAnn even ordered me a full roll at 50% off. Also, you can order it online from Connecting Threads at 30% off quite often with free shipping . I have a Brother embroidery machine that does up to 5" X 7" designs. It has a bunch of designs on it, but I can download from the computer onto a jump drive which then plugs into my machine. If you can save enough to afford one that does 6"X10", go for it, but I can do quilt blocks on mine. I can also "quilt" with it, but haven't tried it yet. Here's a flower for you!



Blooie, I love your sewing camper! You've really fixed it up nice. Do you have running water as well as electricity? Be nice to be able to refill the coffee pot anytime you want and have a bathroom nearby. I have to run into the house for that. I do have a small refrigerator in my shed. Your camper looks so neat! My shed looks like someone just went in and threw a bunch of stuff up in the air, LOL! I try to clean it up every now and then between projects.
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That flower is gorgeous! I can't do anything fancy on my machines, but that's okay. I really love hand work so as long as my machines sew a straight line I'm happy.

Thanks for the kind words. I'd like to say that everything works, but that's not the case. My hubby is an electrician so he hard wired the camper - it's on it's own circuit so I can run the machines and the iron without a blackout! I have 3 Featherweights, a 1945 Singer electric machine, and an Elna Quilter's Dream, plus my fully functioning 1913 Singer Treadle which I keep in the house. The fridge works, the stove doesn't, and there's no plumbing run out there. But I have a camping porta potti if I really need it - just easier to run into the house for that, though. Sitting on an old cabinet in front of the big windows is my swamp cooler....and without it that Retreat would feel like an empty soda can in a Walmart parking lot. He also put in some heat for me. It's an old camper, it's rickety, but I love it! Been known to nap out there if a project gets too involved. In the closets are my fabrics. In the drawers under the only remaining bed are my original designs and in the cabinets above the bed and the cutting table are my magazines and some of my books. Most of my notions, rulers, stencils and thread racks hang on the walls. I have a flannel board hanging on the big closet door. My ironing board lives in the shower and my big quilt frame is against the windows with some tops hanging it waiting their turn. Believe it or not, I can actually set that frame up in the "kitchen" area, put my needles, threads and scissors on the counter top, and quilt there. Fortunately that frame can be set up without much space between the rails, but I still have to walk sideways and squeeze into my chair. So there's pretty much a place for everything and I usually don't lose a lot of time looking for stuff. It took weeks to arrange everything as efficiently as I could. Oh, and it's not always this neat, believe me.
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Blooie, that's just one of the flowers I've done for a quilt that still needs to be put together. Here's a few more....I think this machine does beautiful work. These are supposed to be Irish flowers, but the one with the big, purple head sure looks like the thistle my hubby works so hard to get rid of! I planned to intersperse these with a garden well, a wheelbarrow and maybe a Sunbonnet Sue watering her flowers and use a grey stone design as sashing and green fabric that looks like bushes as the first border.










 
I agree that your machine does beautiful work, but don't sell yourself short! SOMEBODY has to operate that machine, and that somebody needs some pretty special skills! Beautiful! Can't wait to see it all done and put together!
 

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