Another "Dressed to the Nines"

Truly this is a favorite pattern for baby girl quilts.  I like to add ribbons and lace.  It is always lovely. 

Thimbleberries Village Quilt

Lynette Jensen, a quilt designer, published a book of her block of the month patterns.  This quilt is called "Villages" and my sew group, the 1st Friday Quilters, will be working on this quilt together.  Everyone brings their own fabric and ideas to make it their own.  

The blocks will be completed at a pace slightly faster than 1 block per month so that we can display them at Christmas on the Prairie, a holiday community event, in Wahoo Nebraska in 2023.  A friend, Alice Miller, made this quilt and I had admired it so she gave me hers!  But to facilitate the group, I needed to make my own version.  This is the 1st of 3 of these quilts.  The second one will be done in batiks and the 3rd one is a Kaffe Fassett fabric selection.  

Lynette's quilts are often more traditional in style but my goal is to get my quilting friends to think beyond what the picture of the quilt looks like and make older patterns look new and fresh. 

I love this one! 

I used a variety of fat quarters that were in my "stash" and added 4 1-yard cuts of creams and whites.  This quilt is not finished and needs a couple of borders.  I'll add it to the stack of the quilts requiring quilting time on the long arm machine.  

Long Arm Quilting Machine

 She's a Beauty!

My long arm quilting machine was purchased from a friend who decided to upgrade to a bigger and better machine.  I'm actually on my 3rd long arm machine.  The 1st machine I purchased and used was Pfaff Hobby Grand Quilter on an Inspira Frame.  It had a 9" throat.  I bought a floor model and got a great buy.  I quilted many quilts on it but realized as my skills improved that the throat space was not big enough to suit me.  

Next up is a Handi Quilter Sweet 16 with a computer for designs.  This is another awesome machine that I bought used but things happen and opportunity knocked for me to upgrade again to the Avanti 18" machine  The machine is so big, it consumes my dining room.  It is on a frame and provides little walking space around it but I love my long arm machine!  

Halloween Quilt - Pattern "Honor Quilt" by Villa Rosa

Three Yard Quilt by designer Donna Robertson  

Christmas Scrap Quilt - My own design 

I love the long arm machine.  It is big bulky and gets the job done!