Our Quilting Journey Magazine Winter 2019 Issue

Hi Fellow Quilter's & Happy New Year to each and everyone of you and your families!  The Winter 2019 Issue of Our Quilting Journey Magazine is now available on Magcloud. In this issue we have some really wonderful projects including one from Nicola Ritter of Quilt Master Patterns, Know The Designer Interviews with Karen Marchetti of Creative Longarm Quilting & HollyAnne Knight of String & Story, Quilting Inspirations Gallery, and sew much more. To order your copy please visit http://www.magcloud.com/browse/magazine/1168583
Happy Quilting. Hugs Katie

Winter 2017/Spring 2018 Issue

The Winter 2017/Spring 2018 Issue of Our Quilting Journey Magazine is now available on Magcloud. To order your copy please visit http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1396637
Happy Quilting.Hugs Katie

Adding Lace To Crazy Quilt Blocks Tutorial & Our Quilting Journey Magazine News

Hi Ladies, Those that are participating in the Crazy Quilt Along that I'm hosting over on the Quilting Around The World group Block # 2 is now available. Along with the new block I decided I would make up a little tutorial on two different methods on how to add lace to your crazy quilt blocks which is now available under the tutorials tab on the top of my blog.
Now onto some really exciting news regarding Our Quilting Journey Magazine. I'm pleased to announce that Emily Taylor of Emily Taylor Designs and the owner of the Collage Quilter group on Facebook has agreed to come on board as a Contributor starting in the Summer/Fall 2018 Issue for a segment on Collage Quilting. Congratulations Emily and thank you for coming on board this wonderful magazine. To see some of her work or sign up to be a part of her Collage Quilting group please visit: https://www.emilytaylordesign.com/  https://www.facebook.com/emilytaylordesign/
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Hope everyone has a creative day.Happy Quilting.Hugs Katie

Flamingo Quilt Work In Progress

Hi Ladies, I apologize for the delay in not posting,but due to bad weather and a few previous commitments for the last couple of days, I didn't get the chance to post the progress of my Flamingo quilt.

This quilt was started several years back by my mom.One day she was sorting through a few things and came across the quilt and asked if I would be interested in finishing the quilt for the Quilting Inspirations Gallery of our upcoming Winter/Spring 2018 Issue of Our Quilting Journey Magazine. Once I took a look at the quilt I said yes that I would love to finish it off for her as I had a couple of ideas for the quilting in mind,but first I had to finish off the quilting on the Blue Heron Quilt that will be on the cover of that issue.

A couple of weeks ago, after Hurricane Irma passed us, and after I completed the Blue Heron Quilt that turned out really beautiful, I was able to start putting the rest of this quilt together by first fusing the palm trees and the small bushes to the background as the flamingo was already attached. Once I finished that I was able to add the borders and get the quilt prepared for the quilting. I first started the quilting on the large palm tree on the far right of  the quilt  by using a combination of several shades of green threads and by doing a free motion feather stitch to give the palm leaves some dimension.When  I was done doing the feather stitching,I outlined the entire edge of the palm leaves in a small satin stitch.(My mom was the one who did the entire thread painting on the truck of this palm tree before I fused the piece to the quilt top.)

After I finished quilting the large palm tree,I proceeded to move onto the sand and outlining the bushes and small grasses.Most of the quilting on the sand is a small stipple,except for close to the water and near the flamingo's feet where I did a free motion zigzag stitch in a darker shade of tan machine embroidery thread to make the sand look after the waves have pulled back. Now that the sand is all finished, I'm currently working on the ocean waves by doing a calm sea free motion design along with working on outlining the bird. I should be all finished with the water scene in the first part of next week and then I start the quilting on the sky,but first my mom and I are having an all sewing weekend where we are working on finishing off some Christmas dolls that we started a while back.

Quilter's Notes & Tidbits: My Road to Ohio Stars Table Runner Version 1 will be available on my blog along with Craftsy and Pattern Spot beginning this coming Monday, October 9,2017. Until then.Have a creative day and a great weekend.Happy Quilting.Hugs Katie