ThreadBear

As winter is finally winding down, I find it interesting that this year quite a few of my customers are bringing me Christmas themed quilts to finish up for them. Typically I get these ‘before’ not ‘after’, so its been fun.

The latest two items to quilt were a couple of tree skirts.  I know that a lot of my longarm buddies don’t like to take in small projects, but I don’t mind. Because they are very quick to quilt up, it seems like a reasonable service to provide, plus they then bring me their biggies to quilt as well.

But back to the tree skirts.  I’ve quilted these before but on the others I just trimmed out the outside edges and let the customer cut their centers. It dawned on me this time that I could just as easily stitch the circle for them and then that gave me a target to do an inside trim. This way the customer has a guide plus they aren’t cutting across threads.  I also trimmed out the slit they left for skirt.

This turned out very well and I think I will continue this with future tree skirts. I did have to baste the customer’s opening up before quilting but because I’d trimmed the opening out, it was very easy to remove the basting stitches.

So my next couple of projects are also small (some table runners). Hopefully they will get done this weekend. Then on to some baby quilts (this seems to be the next “run” on a theme).

Happy Quilting

~Kathy