Today at QUILTsocial.com I am explaining how to fuse and execute an easy applique with HeatnBond Feather Lite and how to protect your iron with HeatnBond's Pressing Papers.  Both of these products are simple to use and very effective. 
​Also, if you need an easy gift for Easter these cute bibs might just be a great idea for your little ones.  Click here for more info on how to and a free applique pattern download.

Happy Monday :)

Hi everyone, I certainly have missed the time to share with you what I am up to.  I am late writing about this mini quilt, however it was completed in February! There are some changes happening in my life and therefore I have been busily completing other deadlines prior to sharing news with my blog followers.

The changes I speak of are very happy ones!  My daughter, son-in-law and baby grandson are moving back to Ontario from BC and are moving in with us temporarily until they find their way again.  I am excited but it means that I have been working my tail feathers off getting ready to accommodate them.

What this means in my quilting world?  I had 6 long arm quilts to finish in the month of February alone!  Along with teaching, sample making, organizing, long arm training with my youngest daughter, general house work and working on some upcoming writing for QUILTsocial.com , I have not had a minute to  write on my own blog. 

​Tomorrow, I fly out to Edmonton to assist my daughter with the baby and to bring them home on a flight to Ontario. My son-in-law will follow with a truck and trailer of their household goods. Of course I am very excited.  So this is all good news!!   

Below is a pic of the stack of quilts I have been working on :

Now lets talk about the February Mini Quilt, I decided to use up some piecing left over in my scrap bin and challenged myself a bit to make a mini from it.  It is really quite simple but I just wanted to use up some strip pieced colours and see what I could do with it.  The below is what I started with:

In between snuggles with Eli (my grandson) and catching up with the kids, I will try to share more of what is happening in my quilting world. Stay tuned also for lots of fun ideas I will be blogging about with QUILTSocial.com and sharing on my blog here at www,quiltingintheloft.com.

Happy Thursday ❤️

Hi everyone, I hope you are all staying warm while we are experiencing our January freeze. "Out like a Lion" "In like a Lamb", maybe there is hope for February?

I have been suffering today with a cold and decided to stay home and get my January mini quilt done-better late than never!  
The picture of it is below and it is a landscape quilt, kinda artsy and showing January, cold and frosty as it is right now.

The process of making this quilt was really very simple and completely by machine.  I started with a simple line drawing shown below:

Fabric was then cut out based on the paper templates:

The fabric parts were all sewn together with a tiny zig zag and matching thread:

My quilt is now ready to be sandwiched with 2 layers of batting, to show texture on the quilt:

My feed dogs are lowered and a free motion foot is put on my machine and trees are free motion stitched:

More trees and snowflakes in the sky are added along with swirling winds and texture lines in the snow:

Stay warm and stay safe on those roads and challenge yourself to make a winter landscape!❤️