Carli The Quilter

This is a new project and its still in the process of coming together. I know most quilters start with a plan, perhaps even a sketch or two on graph paper on your IPhone. But I prefer to begin where I am, still desiring the perfect improv quilt. This is the first one hand appliqued onto a lime green okshot cotton, I believe. Its not linen, but feels strong but softer some how. I'm guessing on the origin of this fabric as it was thrifted from a set of luxury curtains. More later, have a happy day!

I did indeed feel some sense of a renewed pride in my quilting abilities. Enough said, I've had a time readjusting to life with a crappy back. Pat will  be really happy to know that this is first whole quilt I've made since the Centennial Quilt. And that I've begun to get back into the love of my life outside of hubby's of course :) Each feather is completely different, more on that in a future post.  And I did take on this quilt with renewed vision and experimental attitude.  I fell in love again with Free Motion Quilting, even though its the ONLY quilting I've ever known. Circles cozy up with barn door triangles. Oh, yes, squared off edges as I exclusively use a quilted section style of quilting, even before it was popular in blog land. But thanks to bloggers quilting in free motion, I have a community :) I'm in a groove again and its been many thanks to my followers who have commented even when my posts we...

Pat's quilt is growing steadily everyday. I started out traditional and soon was way off course doing my own modern thing. Pat will love it! This corduroy quilt with the use of men's ties will be up soon in a tutorial Our son and his girlfriend bought a  home and this is going to their house warming gift with matching curtains. Its a pattern from "Fresh Quilts- Modern Sewing Fun" but its fast becoming my favorite magazine. Its published by Harris Publications. I'm not sure if this magazine is still running or not, nothing on their FB page since fed/14 and I couldn't find it on Harris's magazine listings. It must be tough to be magazines. This is where I've got to so far and I'm really liking the look of it and soon I'll post the quilting part. This is all for my Sunday, its spiked to a  hot 22 C today and I'm feeling the heat of summer and loving it. Hope your weekend has been great and you got lots o...

OK, so if I could see Jian all the time, I might be not quilting anymore and become a groupy! Yep, that is so right. First of all, as my mother would say "He's got those "go to bed" eyes, you watch out for him!" so of course, that is my mother!! He's got the best daytime and night time radio and travels to places like the USA touring with his morning show to open the eyes of the listening public in the lower states and a whole different country. Wow, now that might not sound like much of a feat, but when you live beside a country with enough population to swallow whole, it can be a little daunting for musicians to get a foot hold in the American market. So, he's not just a pretty face and sexy sounding voice on the radio, he hits some topics that are controversial and makes you think! Happy Quilting, Carli

I few years ago, I was listening to my usual CBC radio and enjoying Q with Jian Ghomeshi, our time of day is 10 am with Jian. I'm a faithful listener of CBC and he's opened my ears to many great new artists that practically flying off the shelves of Canadian Music. We've got so much talent for tiny population of 40 million its crazy!! One rising star is the talented Serena Ryder and you'll really know some tiny little part about the great talent coming out of our Canadian soil! Its more than great wheat! Happy Quilting Carli

A few years ago I purchased a quilting book that I just had to have. I learned the authors techniques for stacking layer upon layer of fabric squares. Then slicing it and resewing the strips together. I made a bunch of table runners this way.  On this stack I started with five fat quarters, cut random slices because I was just learning about the technique.  Then you shuffle the rows.  Once sewn together into blocks, they are squared off and there you have a fast quilt!  For this quilt I decided on linear path and so it was quilted that way.   I chose to make the back side modern, as I was just learning about that too! It was later donated to the local gift basket for new moms.  Since then, I've become more courageous about messing up and have sliced a second time and resewn strips a second time.  Its on the table again with another simple table runner. You can see I've made more than a fe...

I love to listen to Serena Ryder when I'm having a bummer day with pain and even if I'm sitting with a heat pad on my back, I can close my eyes and imagine I'm at one of her concerts and I'm rocking!! Get ready to rock where ever you are! Happy Quilting  Carli