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Quilting by Celia

Quilting by Celia

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Celtic Solstice - Part 3 and New Sewing Machine - JUKI

Part 3 of Celtic Solstice came out and within an hour I was at my sewing machine making the blocks.
A couple of years ago I did another of Bonnie Hunter's mystery quilt that required half squares triangles and at the time I printed from a website  free  paper foundation patterns for a range of half square triangle unit sizes . 
I already had a stack of these sheets printed so I just picked my fabrics (pink and yellow) and just went for it.  With about 16 HST per page the whole process was very quick.


I used a small machine stitch to make it easier to tear the paper...
And in no time they were all done...
So the entire step 3 was done in less than a day !!

This step was also made faster because I used my new sewing machine... JUKI  TL-98P.
 
This machine is a dream to work with; it's fast, does beautiful stitching, thread trimming and has an extension table that I like very much. It comes with a few different feet, knee lifter lever (which I don't use at the moment) and the throat space is great for those who want to do machine quilting.  What I am most impressed is that once the thread is trimmed or a new piece of fabric is fed (for chain piecing) the machine feeds the fabric beautifully without the concern of fabric being sucked into the feed dogs. 
I just wished I knew about this machine long time ago...
 
My first project on the machine was this colourful pouch from the scraps of the quilt top I completed earlier in the week.

8 comments:

  1. Looking good! I used Triangulations and it went fast!

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  2. Looking good! I used Triangulations and it went fast!

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  3. Wow, you really whipped those up quickly! Thanks for the link to the free paper foundation patterns :) What type of paper did you use to print these onto? Your new machine looks great is it industrial?

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  4. Boy! you certainly don't waste a moment Celia! Loving the new machine - I'm looking forward to seeing it!

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  5. Wow, you are moving right along. I am still plodding along on Part 2. I have a Pfaff machine very similar to the Juki that I only use for free motion quilting. Love it!

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  6. Very nice job! I enjoyed your post very much! Best wishes with Celtic Solstice!

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  7. Your pinwheels look great. That is a nice-looking machine.

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  8. The pink and yellow combo is so fresh - great fabric choices!

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