I hope you all had a great weekend!! I had a long weekend because of the holiday and took a little trip up to my mom’s house and we had a mini sewing retreat! 🙂 I went up on Friday and stayed until Monday.  We had three quilts we had to get done and ready to quilt for Monday. Â
I have never ever in my life sewed for such a long period of time!! Saturday we literally sewed 14 hours straight.  This was more sewing than I do in a week! I generally only sew for like 5-6 hours a week, so sewing for that long was a bit much!  It was nuts, and I can honestly say we may have been a bit delirious by the time it was all over! 🙂  All of that sewing paid off! We got all three quilts ready to be quilted on this lovely machine:
Our friend Kathy has a friend that has one of these long arm machines. She took us to her house and we got three quilts done in three hours. Â Here is my scrappy stars quilt on the machine. Â I have quilted on a long arm once before, but this machine was different and way bigger. Â I was a bit intimidated, but my friend Kathy walked me through every step! Â
I decided to do figure eights on the quilt. Â I am way more comfortable doing curved designs, rather than straight lines on the long arm machine. Â I thought about doing something more intricate and doing more than one design on the quilt, but I just felt I should stick with something I knew I could do! Â Once I feel like I am more comfortable with quilting on a long-arm maybe I will branch out a bit and try some harder designs. Â For now I am happy with my figure eights!
I left all the quilts with my mom “the binding fairy” so she could bind them for me! 🙂  I can’t wait to get them back and show them all to you!Â
Talk to you soon,
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