Sunday, February 17, 2019

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
                                                                    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.



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44 comments:

  1. You have been busy for sure. All the bird projects are beautiful.

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  2. Wonderful wings projects! I really love the bird runners.

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  3. Hi Colette! I haven't heard of holographic thread before. I'll have to look that up! I sewed my slider to a quilting piece and that was the last time I used the slider. I admire you for going back and still quilting that runner! I would have just put it was - third time is the charm or sign in this case. HAHA! I love your first runner with the cardinals - oh so pretty. And the second troublemaker has such pretty fabrics. You did a great job matching those reds! Happy Monday to you. ~smile~ Roseanne

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  4. Sweet projects! I love those little chickadees! Good luck on the quilting--it's frustrating when things happen to stall--but the end result is usually worth it. Thanks for sharing.

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  5. Sweet looking table runners, but so sorry there was a lot of ripping going on and missing tape. You always come through, though. I have no idea what holographic thread is so I'll be checking that out because it looks amazing on your wings. Thanks for playing along!

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  6. Great looking projects, table accents make a home so inviting.

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  7. 4th time a charm? I believe you succeeded in the end, your projects look great :)

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  8. I love your runners. Perfect reminders that spring is on its way. Thanks for sharing. quilting dash lady at comcast dot net

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  9. Those birds in the fabric are darling. I have a Supreme Slider that I hardly use anymore. It adheres without taping it down, but with the lint of quilting, it can and does shift and while I didn't quilt it to the back of anything, it did get a lot of puncture holes from my needle around the hole for the needle. Those things are pricey too! Well I don't bother using it anymore and my quilting is fine. I bought those Martelli quilt rings last year at a quilt show and they are so much better to use for FMQ. Amazon has them for nearly $30 less and free shipping! https://www.amazon.com/Martelli-Gripper-Rings-Motion-Quilting/dp/B01IFM2O76/ref=asc_df_B01IFM2O76/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=230723430640&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6800754987036252848&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9030449&hvtargid=pla-385540851046&psc=1

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  10. Thank you for Hopping and sharing your lovely Wings projects. Congratulations on finishing too. Blissful Wings...

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  11. Congratulations on the finishes. What a great feeling that must me. Looking forward to the finish of your last piece. It's well on its way to stellar.

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  12. What great finishes. So glad you persevered as the chickadee table topper is adorable.

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  13. Your bird themed table runners are wonderful! I especially love the fabric in the first one you showed. Is it from a line of fabric? I would love to find some of that!

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  14. You go girl...knocking those old projects out. What better way that for a blog hop. I hate days with all we can say is rippit! It happens to us all sadly. Good for you for persevering it though.

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  15. Love the cute cardinal fabric! I love cardinals, especially in winter. They are a spot of life in the cold white snow. I have seen that colorful wings applique and had even thought to find it and attempt it for this hop, but I opted to use some stuff form my stash and a project that has been on my list. It is looking beautiful ... :-) Pat

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  16. Neat projects! Thanks for sharing! Enjoy your day! :-) :-)

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  17. I love those little birdies in the snow. So cute!

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  18. Beautiful finishes! Thank you for sharing today.

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  19. Love those little birds project...so cute hugs, Julierose

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  20. Super fun projects. I so felt your frustration at ripping out for a third time, but the quilting looks perfection. Love your last piece.

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  21. Cute projects! I had to use about 3 machines yesterday to quilt something I’m working on! Great perseverance!

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  22. So lovely! Somehow in the busyness of Christmas and the New Year and obviously my computer going on strike I have missed your posts this year. Hopefully it has reset itself now. xxx

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  23. Sweet bird prints for your Show Your Wings Blog Hop projects!

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  24. Not one but three winged projects! Love the quote on your last one.

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  25. Hidden in plain sight. Sounds like my sewing room (or house). Nice projects.

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  26. I own the thread director also, it is great for Metallic threads. I love how you used the holographic thread, very clever and such a lovely project.

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  27. Very nice winged projects - can't go wrong with birds!

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  28. All that ripping would have put the project back in the UFO bin. Good going to stick it out and have a lovely finish. The birds are all so cute.

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  29. Each of your wings projects are the sweetest of stitches. Especially those wee chickadees! But what really spoke to me was the piece with the quote, "What Good Are Wings Without The Courage to Fly" Thank you so much for sharing your courage!!!!

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  30. All three are lovely winged projects.

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  31. I fully understand your dramatic circumstances. It seem every time I join in a hop there are negative molecules floating around. Great runners, love the kit, hope you show the finish.

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  32. I believe that you are way too hard on yourself. Your work is lovely and I agree that Hologram thread is worth the hassle. I esp. like that last piece. You are inspiring.

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  33. Those birds are so adorable!! The runners are lovely. So sorry to hear you had trouble. The last one will be a wonderful one too! Great quote!

    -Soma

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  34. I love all of your wings....I will have to look into that thread director....thanks!

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