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Sesame Street Quilting With a Playful Floral Swirl E2E Design from Cheeky Cognoscenti

Hello, hello, and happy Thursday! Is it a "sunny day, sweeping the clouds away" where you live today? If not, don't despair -- "I can tell you how to get, how to get to Sesame Street..."

Seriously; by the time I finished quilting this one, I could NOT get the Sesame Street songs out of my head. "C is for cookie, it's good enough for me. Cookie cookie cookie starts with C!"

4 inch Tumbler Quilt with Floral Swirl E2E Quilting Design

This is the second of two donation quilt tops that my mom pieced for me to quilt ...

added by Rebecca Grace 3 years, 8 months ago. under charity quilts , charlotte quilters guild , e2e , giverny teleidoscope quilt , graduation quilt , judi madsen , kaleidoscope quilt , long arm quilting , machine quilting , pantographs , tumbler quilt

Using Stencils to Develop Muscle Memory for Long Arm Quilting, Part One from Cheeky Cognoscenti

My DIY Stencils, from Designs in Judi Madsen's book

No quilting to show you yet, but I've been planning and experimenting this week with stencils for my Spirit Song quilt, and I think this is going to work. Woo hoo!

Both of the designs on these DIY stencils shown above were resized and traced from quilting designs that were on the CD that came with Judi Madsen's Quilting Wide Open Spaces book, available on Amazon here.

My Spirit Song Quilt, Waiting Patiently on the Frame

I know that some of you will look at this quilt and ...

added by Rebecca Grace 4 years, 7 months ago. under design , diy stencils , ipad , judi madsen , long arm quilting , machine quilting , pounce chalk , quilting , technology

Hey, Has Anyone Used Stencils for Long Arm Quilting? from Cheeky Cognoscenti

So today is May 1st, and I've not put a single stitch of quilting into my Spirit Song quilt since the rip-stitching I wrote about a few days ago. Finishing the quilting was supposed to be my One Monthly Goal in the studio for April, so clearly that didn't happen -- but I'm not just going to throw a bunch of stitches into a quilt to meet an imaginary deadline.

Sad Spirit Song: No Further Quilting Progress to Report

Since my original quilting plan didn't work for me, I've got to figure out WHAT I want ...

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