Two posts in one day! How do you like them apples?
Remember my turquoise quilt project? It's quilted, and on my bed. Has been for quite sometime, actually. Here it is in our newly remodeled bedroom, with the painting daughter-darling and I did.
I designed the quilting in Photoshop, after this gorgeous 1947 Stig Lindberg fabric, which I have long admired
My friend, Jenny Michaels of Finally Finished in Saratoga, CA machine quilted it for me.
Sounds so simple. It wasn't. First we had to convert the .psd file extension to type which Jenny's Statler long arm machine would recognize. Me, knowing about "this much" about machine quilting design had made two long quilting paths that extended the entire width of the quilt. Oops! Jenny mounted my quilt top on her machine, and did the first pass; so far so good. But on the return trip - big problem! The the long first pass of quilting had caused the quilt to draw up, and Jenny ran out of quilt before she ran out of "path"! Jenny had to dismantle my long quilting paths and convert them to shorter chunks of quilting to be repeated over the width of the quilt.
Here's a close up of the quilting.
Jenny did a gorgeous job, didn't she?
Until next time, heureux chance! (Happy luck!)
pamela