Flower Wall Quilt Progress

Today I added beads to the middle of each flower. Next I am going to start hand quilting around the flowers.

Debbi
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Where Are My Beads?

Where did I put my beads, needles and threads for "safe keeping"? I want to embellish and hand quilt my flower wall quilt but I have misplaced my beads, needles and threads.

What am I to do? Tomorrow I am going searching, I wonder what else I will find.

Debbi
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©2006 - 2007 DubiQuilts

IQF - New Goodies and Toys

My goodies from Friday.

I talked with Alex Anderson a bit about "The Quilt Show" and how much I enjoyed the first two shows. Alex and Ricky are a great team and the show is very good.

I was a big fan of Simply Quilts and very sad when it went off the air. I do have all the show on VCR tape and DVD so I will not be lost when I need to know how to do something.

I love markers and will have fun using them.
I love Tulips and this is going to be fun to make.

I have my own design for tulips that I made from photos of my own flowers years ago. It was before the digital camera and before I thought to take photos of the quilts I sold at craft shows.I am collecting blue, green and yellow fabrics for a quilt for our bedroom.
I have EQ5 and just love it.

I was not going to get the new version because I am very happy with EQ5. After see the demo of EQ6 and all the new changes I was hooked.

I never have enough threads. The 4 spools on the right are red, white and blue.

Beads, Beads and more Beads.

Back in March I asked Suzanne from Art, Quilts, and Other Adventures blog for help with beading on my quilts. Suzanne gave me great information on what kind of beads, threads, needles and what books to get. As you can see I took her advice. Suzanne thank-you for your help!

Beading Thread and Beading Needle holders.

I still have more to show you in the next few days. Can you tell how much I love going to the IQF? I love the Quilts and spend most of my time looking at the quilts but I do shop on Friday. I save money all year just for the show.

Susan R****y C******d - You are welcome! I am glad you enjoyed the photos. If you have a blog please email me so I can stop by.

Atet from Quilting In Cornfields - You are welcome! I will be stopping by you blog later tonight and will add you to my blogroll and bloglines.

Here are the links to my webshot photos from the festival.

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/558650674YRtgoo Friday

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/558676367VqQNTE Saturday

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/558675724CtzOdO Sunday

Debbi
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©2006 - 2007 DubiQuilts

Fabric Postcards

These are the first postcard I have made. They will be given as gifts so the backs are not a light color and do not follow the USPS mail rules.

I have fun making these and have 10 more with very different designs that I am hand quilting.

I have a question about beads with small holes. What do you use to sew them with? What kind of needle and number of strands of floss or thread?

Have A Great Evening!

Debbi

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Dye-na-Flow Dyes and New Wall Quilt

Thank-you to every one who answered my question about yesterdays piece of silk I dyed. I asked what the piece looked like to you. The reason why I asked is because I love hearing what it is you see. I got many different responses.

These are cotton muslin scraps I used to absorb the extra dyes. I have heat set the dye but have not washed the fabric in the machine. I am sure some of the dye will wash out.

Washed and dried Valentine fabrics from my stash that is waiting to be ironed. I will be using this fabric for postcards and small wall quilts.

This will be 16 X 16 when finished. Last week I purchased more floss and beads and I will be using for embellishments on this wall quilt and others.
Have A Great Day!

Debbi

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Goodies From JoAnn's Today

Here are my goodies from JoAnn's today. Yellow/Orange Beads, Green/Blue Beads, Red Beads and floss. I still have more stuff I want to get but I am on a very limited budget. I also had to buy printer cartridges for my HP and Epson printers ($150.00). Last month I got no name brands and the printers rejected the cartridges. Oh well I should of known better!!!

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