Prairie Flower Block Swap

[RustyHen]

katsdar

on your LA

. You have not even used it i'm hoping for the Best for you!

 

[katsdar]

katsdar

on your LA

. You have not even used it i'm hoping for the Best for you!

I know I'm getting the feeling it is for me an expensive dust collector,

I'm so hoping it is an easy cheap fix, but I keep seeing $$$ but I will fix it and I will quilt on it if it is the last thing I do.

 

[katsdar]

oh and the lesson learned UNPLUG THE MACHINE

 

[OHhappychicks]

Good Day everyone!! So much is happening in a few days!!! Rusty Hen, So sorry about your mis-snip!

That so sounds like something I would do!! I'm sure there is a good fix for it though! You are so diligent to take it out and redo it! I'm not sure I would be that way!! She is a blessed girl!

Katsdar~ Praying your LA is back to you very soon with little expense!! That has to be so discouraging!!!

majack~ Sounds like you are having a fun spring with your fmq class! I can't imagine doing a whole large quilt like that, but on the tiny mugrugs we've made, I can do those!

My machine has speed control so I set it to a speed that works for me and it wasn't to hard, but like I said, It overwhelms me to think of doing a whole quilt!!

 

[majack]

Oh Happy Chicks,
I know exactly what you mean. Have you seen the size of most of Philippa Naylor's quilts? And they are exquisitely fmq, mostly in tiny patterns like hearts, coffee beans, feathers etc. Her secret is that she quilts slowly so only does a small area at a time and only makes one quilt a year. She also designs and makes all her clothes and they are amazing, in style, fabric and finish. They are beautifully finished like haut couture(?). When she is not doing this or teaching she is growing her own vegetables on her allotment, she feeds her chickens all the weeds. She and her husband volunteer every Christmas at a charity in London even though they live in the North of England. They both make all their own bread using lots of historic grains instead of just wheat. She has a fantastic figure and looks rather like Kylie Minogue. Well, you could think she is just too good to be true but she is a delight too. She is the only tutor I know who, when everyone is so busy working will make everyone a cup of tea or coffee ....and then wash up after! I've done two workshops with her now, years apart, and she's done that at both. She is not precious about her quilts either even though they have all won such prestige prizes. She encorages you to handle them all, well except those that are in the museums. Her only request is to not let the white one drag on the floor!

 

[katsdar]

Oh Happy Chicks,
I know exactly what you mean. Have you seen the size of most of Philippa Naylor's quilts? And they are exquisitely fmq, mostly in tiny patterns like hearts, coffee beans, feathers etc. Her secret is that she quilts slowly so only does a small area at a time and only makes one quilt a year. She also designs and makes all her clothes and they are amazing, in style, fabric and finish. They are beautifully finished like haut couture(?). When she is not doing this or teaching she is growing her own vegetables on her allotment, she feeds her chickens all the weeds. She and her husband volunteer every Christmas at a charity in London even though they live in the North of England. They both make all their own bread using lots of historic grains instead of just wheat. She has a fantastic figure and looks rather like Kylie Minogue. Well, you could think she is just too good to be true but she is a delight too. She is the only tutor I know who, when everyone is so busy working will make everyone a cup of tea or coffee ....and then wash up after! I've done two workshops with her now, years apart, and she's done that at both. She is not precious about her quilts either even though they have all won such prestige prizes. She encorages you to handle them all, well except those that are in the museums. Her only request is to not let the white one drag on the floor!

What a wonderful sounding person now for those of us who didn't know who she was until Majack schooled us, (namely me) check out this link
beautiful quilt no wonder she only makes one a year!!! I wish I had a smidgen of her talent
Majack how lucky you are to have been able to take one of her classes

http://uvqg.blogspot.com/2015/03/philippa-naylor-march-international.html


so young and pretty too

 

[katsdar]

Look at the second picture on the link and look at the tissue holder, I love it, anyone have any ideas on how to make it?

 

[OHhappychicks]

Majack and katsdar~ I'm speechless! I can't imagine turning out a quilt like hers! I'm not an intricate type person! I can't breath thinking of putting something like that together! Such works of art and exquisitely done! She looks like a lovely person. Majack, how blessed you are to have the opportunity to be a part of her instruction.

 

[katsdar]

ok think about this, can you imagine the quilting/sewing set up she must have. Her room must be awesome.

 

[majack]

She had a remarkably simple room. She had a hole cut out of a big old table to put her machine in so the table supports the weight. She had a big design board behind her to pin all the pieces of pattern, then quilt to. She dyes her fabric.
Have a look at her website www.philippanaylor.com .You can see all the quilts. I have both of her books. The first, Quilting in the Limelight is difficult to get hold of now unless you pay quite a lot. It's sort of her story plus details of her trapunto, quilting, piping, binding etc and I've used it quite a lot. The latest one is about very precise appliqué.
Have a look at this year's quilt, the miniature quilt 'Sewing Bee'. It's a whole cloth quilt with the tiniest machine quilting you have ever seen. The funny story is that she made it to first put into the Festival of Quilts' in the UK. The rules state that a miniature must be no bigger than 30 cm on any side. We usually use inches not metric so Philippa said to herself, oh, 30 cm, that's 12 inches. So she made the quilt. At the Festival she had a gallery. Her husband said to her how strange that they had heard nothing about her quilt, he was going to have a look. He came back and had to tell her that her quilt had been disqualified. It was too big. Twelve inches is 30.4 cm! Philippa was very philosophical about this. It was her error. She sent it on to Paducah where it won best minature. The archive section of her site shows all the awards.
The teaching section shows all the workshops she does. I've done Contemporary curved piecing and apparently a free motion masterclass. Had I realised it was a masterclass I might not have had the nerve to do it!!
Hope you don't find this boring