Life
has been crazy since I returned from my vacation in Minnesota. I'm
ready for another already, but there is now time right now. We are in
the final stages of getting our Pattern's ready to print. I'm so
nervous and excited at the same time. Can't wait to show them off, here
in the near future. I did find time this past week to work on a small project that My Friend Jean sent home with me from Minnesota. When
we were at the Hingeley Road Quilt Shop in Floodwood, Minnesota she
found some batiks with wine grapes and in the color of here dining room
area. 
So
she asked if I would make a table runner for her, didn't have to be
fancy. So when I returned home, with all the fabric, I started playing
around in EQ7 and came up with this idea.
Originally the
idea just to make 5 snowball blocks and put borders on them. then I
came up with idea of adding the family names to all the snowball blocks
with Monogram lettering, with my embroidery machine.
It took me just about a half to make the whole tablerunner including machine embroidering the names on the blocks.
T
he
quilting took me a day to complete, due to I put some custom quilting
around the embroidered names to make the names pop out. Lots of loop to
loop in the detail. 
Then I added grape leaves in the middle between each block and the borders to finish it off.
Now,
I need to get the binding on today and finished this weekend. So I can
give it to her in person next week. Cant wait to see her.
Have a great Quilting Day,
Live, Inspire and Create,
Tina
This morning I finished sewing the binding and labels on the West Africa Quilt Project. I will be sending this quilt back to California tomorrow or Tuesday. It was a joy to quilt on this gorgeous quilt top for a special cause. This quilt will be used as a fundraiser for the Non-Profit "Duniya Center for Arts and Education" ( http://www.duniyacenter.org/). The money raised goes to the education of native men and women in native crafts and helps to keep their traditional music and dance alive. The fundraising will start in October/November. Tina
This morning I finished sewing the binding and labels on the West Africa Quilt Project. I will be sending this quilt back to California tomorrow or Tuesday. It was a joy to quilt on this gorgeous quilt top for a special cause.
This quilt will be used as a fundraiser for the Non-Profit "Duniya Center for Arts and Education" ( http://www.duniyacenter.org/). The money
raised goes to the education of native men and women in native crafts
and helps to keep their traditional music and
dance alive. The fundraising will start in October/November.
Tina
