Show Your Wings Blog Hop Day 1

Welcome to day one of the Show Your Wings Blog Hop hosted the awesome Carol of Just Let Me Quilt.

February 18

What About Rheema?

Hill Valley Quilter

Nutz For Redwork

Kathy's Kwilts and More

Melva Loves Scraps

Creative Blonde

Keepsake Moments

Whims And Fancies

Quilt n Party

                                                                    Seams To Be Sew

 The parameters of the hop was your project has to have something to do with wings or something that flies. 

Flying geese

Birds of any kind

Butterflies or dragonflies

Airplanes or helicopters

Fairies or dragons

So many options and a great way to push me to work on some kits that I have been laying around for the past year or more.   

The past 2 years one of the LQS has a Christmas type table runner and each year I have purchased the kits because they have featured one of my favorite things.  Birds.

The 2017 table runner was called All Squared Up by Cut Loose Press.  

I loved the cute little birds and the houses.

Cardinals in a block that say Heaven & Nature which reminds me of the carol Joy to the World.

Little bird houses, and other stylized birds.

Even the back is cute cardinals.  I miscut the back so I used some scraps to make it the right size.   The quilting was just straight line, stitch in the ditch.  I tried something new using a medium weight interfacing.  I also made single fold binding.

The 2018 table runner was called Snowball Table Runner.  I loved the little chickadees.

I fussy cut the birds from yardage.  The only down side to this kit was that the red was not big enough to make the number of squares that I needed so I had to go and match something from my stash to make enough 9 patches.

Fabric that came with the kit.

Fabric from my stash.

Comparison.

I tried to quilt on one machine.  It wasn't working good. Translate to tear out some really bad quilting.

I tried the quilting machine.  With the medium weight interfacing it too didn't work so well. Let's tear out quilting for the 2nd time.

Finally I pulled out a model 66 that Jeff had retrofitted for me to use to quilt.  Recently I have been really cleaning my house and putting things away.  I could not find any of the supreme sliders that I own.  I read somewhere that you can use a teflon sheet, and I recently had purchased a 10 pack to do applique with.  I took on, I measured it, cut a needle hole, and used some painter's tape to hold it down.  I only found a small bit of tape.  I taped it down, got my tension set, and started sewing.  And discovered my tiny bit of tape didn't hold, and I had quilted the teflon sheet to the back of my table runner.  So tear out for the 3rd time at least....and look for one of the bazillion rolls of painter's tape that I know I own.  Imagine me finding the tape that I was looking for.....for hours..... sitting on top of the machine case right on the table.  URGH!

 My quilting is not perfect but done is better than nothing. 

 I love the backing, and the border fabric with the metallic, it makes the piece so rich looking.  I have also got so I can do a killer single fold binding

Finally my last project was a kit I bought over 1 1/2 years ago.  I remember that it was a kit created by Moda.  I got the applique' done, stitched down, and started working on the quilting using a specialty holographic thread. 

 I have seen reviews for this item called a Thread Director to use with metallics and I will say so far with my Husquvarna Viking Sapphire 855 it works awesome.

I didn't finish after about 12 hours of working, but a couple of hours a day the quilting will be done in the next week.  Using the holographic thread is a slow go, but the results are awesome.

The piece says, "What Good Are Wings Without The Courage to Fly?"

Thanks for visiting, and now head over and check out the other blogs for today--you can find the links above.  Then come back and see the rest of the bloggers that are participating the rest of the days of the week.

February 19

Patchouli Moon Studio

Vroomans Quilts

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Songbird Designs

Quilts Fabric and Thread Tales

Sew Many Yarns

Kathleen McMusing

Life in the Scrapatch

DesertSky Quilting

Clever Chameleon Quilting

February 20

Creatin' in the Sticks

MooseStashQuilting

The Joyful Quilter

Home Sewn By Us

Selina Quilts

Websterquilt

Beaquilter

Cynthia's Creating Ark

Ms P Designs USA

Bumbleberry Stitches

Mageez Room

February 21

Just Let Me Quilt

Sew Incredibly Crazy

Sew Fresh Quilts

Quilt Fabrication

Words & Stitches

All Thingz Sewn

Kathy’s Quilts

For The Love Of Geese

Two Maker Chicks

madeNcorrea
That Fabric Feeling