Becky's quilt obsession

Because I now have Intelliquilter installed and running on Black Bart - my Nolting 24" Pro longarm, I am selling all my Circle Lord items. The following are for sale. If you are in the Kansas City, MO area, I will give a 10% discount if I don't have to package and ship items. All prices are plus shipping. I have the following giant templates that come in 3 interlocking pieces to fit various needs. All of these were sold to me as king-size, and I’ve never had a quilt larger than them even when I had a 14’ table. I’m asking $150 a set,plus shipping. Zig Zag – does what I call wave and Ribbon quilting as well as a true zig-zag that you can use for crosshatching. You use either the waves or the zig-zags, not usually combining the two.  14" wide boards  This quilt was quilted with waves: Cosmos – Funky flowers Sold pending payment. 15" wide Cosmos   The back of a quilt using Cosmos Boards Basic Circle Lord set-up  I’m ask...

I hate blocking quilts, yet I know of no other way to have them hang straight - really straight - without doing it. I've had Just Beachy hanging for a week , but it didn't hang smoothly - how could it with all the fusible in it? At my house this is what is entailed in blocking a large quilt: Moving everything you can out of the dining room, bringing in a table and the appropriate size insulation boards Of course you can't move everything so you have to work around them Find the right batting for this configuration of boards, wet it with spray water and stretch it flat Wash the quilt on handwash cycle and lug it in still wet This color catcher has me worried A gazillion rulers, pins, pulls, measures, a helpful engineer husband and 4 tiring hours of work 24 hours later it is dry, flat, and one block has run - I'm leaving it. I hate the tremendous backache from doing this, but I need to look straight down on the rulers/quilt to get e...

We added Intelliquilter to my longarm (Black Bart - a 24" Nolting Pro). In learning it I have finished up a LOT of small UFOs that I didn't remember existing. I used to make small quilts out of my scraps so I could remember the large quilt since I give so many away. These are my latest finishes: St. Louis 16 patch, scrappy, charity quilt for teen-age boy Quilted with IQ - QOV pattern 9-patches bought at Guild Boutique made into Sister's Choice blocks - baby quilt Quilted way too densely with IQ swirls and Pebbles 24" x 18" HST sampler - first try at "Custom" quilting with IQ All the designs came from the "from Helen"  file on IQ Baby quilt made from HSTs - 6" bought from Guild boutique Made it a "Sampler" of quilting patterns on IQ Framed 9-Patches from Guild Boutique with Rosebud alternate squares Working on SID with IQ and repeating patterns 20 year old pillow blocks quilted...