Elephants Go A Marching

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Melissa Dunworth

Woohoo! I’ve got another finish under my belt for 2018! I finished the quilt that I’m calling “Elephants Go A Marching.” If you know the real name, tell me in the comments and feel free to link to the pattern!

I decided to do a simple all over meander on this quilt. Sometimes, simple really is better. especially for a baby quilt. This baby will be born in the Spring and lightly quilted quilts are always better in the warmer months!

You can kind of see the meander in the picture above, but here is a close up.

For this quilt, I decided to take Spike off the stitch regulator and I forgot how much I like working without it. So much more control! The background in the quilt is actually white, but again, we’ve had a few days of cloudy weather so it’s hard to get bright pictures.

Photo quality issues aside, isn’t this quilt just so darling!

I hope you all have a wonderful Monday and a great week!!

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What’s on Spike?

Posted on May 11, 2018 by Melissa Dunworth

I decided to start a new feature on my blog called “What’s on Spike?” I will show you what I’m work on. The only thing you all need to know is that I don’t always know the names of the patterns that my customers use, so unless I direct you to a link for the pattern, the names I will say are just what I call them for my own record keeping.

I’m calling this darling baby quilt “Elephants Go A Marching.” I’ve no idea what the real name is, sorry!

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First Finish of 2018

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Melissa Dunworth

I finished my first customer quilt of 2018!
It feels so good to be back in my quilting groove. You don’t realize how much you will miss your hobbies until you have to take a break from them for an extended period of time.

This is a small quilt and I’m told it will become a car seat cover for a soon to be born baby.  I did some fun custom quilting on this one. It really inspired me and I was able to crank it out fairly quickly.

Here is a close up of the custom quilting that I did. Sorry, we just aren’t having a super great day for lighting. This photograph just doesn’t do the quilt justice.

It’s sew much fun to be back in the studio working again! I hope everyone has a wonderful Wednesday!

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Pantographs

Posted on May 7, 2018 by Melissa Dunworth

Right before I finished my student teaching, I decided to load some fabric up on Spike and play a little. For some crazy reason, I picked Kona White fabric and wait for it…BLACK Omni Thread. I think the stress of student teaching had finally gotten to my brain and I must have cracked just a little because I didn’t think about the fact that black on white would show EVERY SINGLE IMPERFECTION!  After I loaded up the fabric, I taped down my very first pantograph pattern and decided to give pantos a whirl. I learned a ton, but most importantly, I learned that I like doing pantographs, so this is a service I will start offering to my customers. Now remember loyal customers, this is my first ever try and your quilts will look far superior than this!

I plan to bind this and give it to Anne. She loves little quilts for her stuffies and she is very excited for it to become hers.  I guess, you could also say, that in addition to being a pantograph quilt design, it is also a whole cloth quilt. Maybe one day I will make a whole cloth quilt with a little more intention.

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Survivor!

Posted on May 2, 2018 by Melissa Dunworth

Hi Everyone! I’m back!

Proof of Life!

It’s so good to be back in my studio and hanging out with Spike again. I’ve missed him terribly. I finished my student teaching last Friday. I was blessed to work with two amazing mentor teachers. In the fall I worked with an awesome 6th grade teacher, who is also a quilter! BONUS! In the winter, I did my 450 hour internship with an awesome 8th grade teacher who was so supportive. I learned so much from him and my incredible 8th graders, who I miss so very much! Shout out to my kiddos from Bush Middle School! While I wait for my university and the state to process my certifications, I am firing Spike up and getting back to work. I’ve got a stack of customer quilts a mile high!

This is the first one I will be working on. I’m told this gorgeous quilt will become a car seat cover. Lucky baby!

You will be seeing a lot more of me now that I’m done with student teaching. Now the job search begins, cross your fingers!

Have a great Wednesday!

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