Problem Solved; Thanks Mom!

Thank heavens my Mom had a similar machine to loan me while mine is in repair. Saved time with any learning curve. It's a little different but not much. So, onward and upward on my whitework whole cloth! Center medallion stitched with Vanish for trapunto and now starting surrounding designs. I am determined to have this finished in time for my niece's wedding in August!

No Sewing For Me!

Of course now that I have a project with an actual deadline (and a wedding quilt at that), my machine decided to blow up! Sadly I believe it was the motherboard. Will be 2 weeks minimim before I see it again because the repair tech only picks up new repair orders ONE day a week, Tuesdays, and I didn't learn this until.....sigh.....wednesday. So now I wait a week just to have it picked up, then another week to have it repaired.
Not going to make the wedding deadline now.
POUT.

Ugh!

I know Leah Day says you don't need a long arm machine to do quilting but shoving a queen sized quilt for trapunto-ing in my husqvarna viking Designer SE's tiny opening is more than frustrating. I feel like I'm arm wrestling with it. Of course part of the problem if the poofiness of this batting. This is going to be a loooong summer wrestling with this beast!

Experimenting

While waiting for supplies to arrive that I need for my big trapunto quilt, I thought I would experiment with using colored felt. This is yellow felt under batiste. Have not stippled background yet.

Shadow Trapunto Pillow

For those commenting on my other post with the queen sized trapunto wholecloth project I have just begun, here are pics of a shadow trapunto pillow I had just finished for my son before finding Leah Day's free motion project. He has a bad back and needs firm pillows when he sits or drives a car.

Quilt-O-Mania

I have been a needle-arts enthusiast ever since childhood. I quilt, knit, crochet, needlepoint, and do general sewing. This is both a blessing and a curse. So many people I have met wouldn't have a clue how to sew anything. I was blessed with a mother who thought it important that I know how to sew. When people discover you CAN sew, you become the the go-to source for their creative ideas and dreams. I have two nieces getting married late this year and both have asked for quilts which I of course said I would make, not being realistic about the time involved so now my life and my home have become quilt-o-mania central....even losing a whole bedroom in dedication to becoming the new sewing room. I used to be granted one tiny corner of the living room for my sewing machine. That said, here is a picture of just a quarter of the first quilt top (it's folded and pinned to the bottom of a boxspring...from the bed that USED to be assembled in the guest bedroom. No guests for us!).Don't know if you can see the design drawn on it or not. I will spend today making preparations to begin assembling it for the next step: trapunto.