Thanks Diane!!!

Being so new at quilting, I have tried several different ways of trying to baste my quilts. Trying on the bed...on the floor...nothing was really doing a great job. I have limited space and didn't really have the room for really large tables.

A couple of weeks ago, I found a lady on YouTube with quilting tutorials...Dianne Dye. Her YouTube channel is dyequilter. She has some really great videos that helps out someone like me ...just beginning. Tonight, I tried her method of basting.

First off, as you can see there is not that much room in the living room, but enough to move the coffee table and set up a 4' table that I purchased at Sam's Club.





There are a couple of really cool things about this table. One is that it folds flat and can store easily, but also, it raises to a pretty high level. There was no back breaking issue involved with this at all.




I placed a rubber mat on top of the table, then a 4.5' X 3' piece of plywood on top of that for a work surface.




I was easily able to secure all three layers of the sandwich with clamps from an office supply store.





I used some #1 basting pins and it actually went really quickly!



So quickly, that I basted another one while the table was up. And the best part is that I did it all watching Housewives of NY!!! Too Fun!

Thanks Dianne!!!

Till next time!

Quiet Weekend

This weekend was really pretty quiet. I had a couple of projects that were "cut" and just sitting around...so I pieced them into tops ready to be basted and quilted.





This one was really just some scraps that I had in the closet. I thought about playing with half square triangles. I just started piecing them, concentrating on getting perfect points as much as possible. When I was finished, I had a pile of them. So, I put them together into this top.





This one, I know I know, a roll from Wal-Mart. But I really wanted to practice this friendship braid pattern before I used good stuff. This one made me alittle crazy. The pattern called for 7 braids...but the braids were to be seamed together. I didn't really care for how all of the colors muddled together. So I had this bright idea that I would shash them with 2.5" strips. Well, the overall top came out wider than it was long. I had some extra scraps from the roll that I pieced together into strip units of 8 and just ran an extra line of them at the top to make it alittle longer. I don't think that I am going to be giving this one up anyway, so it doesn't really matter. It really was just for practice.

So this was my weekend. I really should get out more!

Till next time!