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Rags N Quilts

English - Longarm Quilting, Dyeing&Painting, Art Quilts
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Rags N Quilts · 3d ago

Home!

Actually, I’ve been home from MQS since Friday night.  But I needed a little recovery time … and a little kitty (& hubby) snuggle time. The show was wonderful! It is always a joy to see old friends and to meet new ones.  The competition was stiff, but my “Queen of the Nereids” managed an honorable m
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Rags N Quilts · 1W ago

Sunset Sail

Today is the reveal for the Fiberactions challenge “split complementary”. Since it is a travel day for me and I’m posting from the airport, this will be fairly short. I chose to work with a 5 color split with turquoise as my main color and red, orange-red, orange, yellow-orange, and orange-yellow as
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Rags N Quilts · 1W ago

Loose Ends

This has been a week of finishing up loose ends. Getting things ready to pack for the trip to MQS and finishing up my Fiberactions challenge piece. I’m happy to say mission accomplished! And here is a tiny sneak peak of my challenge quilt….the full reveal will be on Tuesday….I’ll be posting mine fro
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Rags N Quilts · 3W ago

“Sadie”

The second of my Fanta-Sea series .  There are 5 other fish in the series…2 other “girls” and 3 “boys” .  The others will being making their debut in the near future. “Sadie” is a painted wholecloth quilt. She measures 25 1/2″ x21 1/2″ and was painted with textile paints, inks and pigments on PFD fa
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Rags N Quilts · 3W ago

“Henrietta”

The first of my Fanta-Sea series .  There are 5 other fish in the series…2 other “girls” and 3 “boys” .  The others will being making their debut in the near future. “Henrietta” is a painted wholecloth quilt. She measures 23 1/2″ x20 1/2″ and was painted with textile paints, inks and pigments on PFD
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Rags N Quilts · 3W ago

Progress

Well, I finished the applique on my Fiberactions quilt today, so it’s ready to quilt!  Probably won’t happen until Monday…we have a pretty full weekend. My 2 quilts for the MQS auction are completely done; that means bound,sleeves on, labels on and suitably blinged!  Yeah, I know I made that word up
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Rags N Quilts · 3W ago

Moving On

With the Queen of the Nereids gone on her way to Kansas, it’s time to start some new projects as well as getting back to some in progress.  First on the list is a new one. Today I began work on my newest Fiberactions piece.  As you may remember, all our work this round relates [...]
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Rags N Quilts · 3W ago

Shipping Day!

Today  ”Queen of the Nereids”  left with the UPS guy on her way to Kansas for MQS. I’ll be following her to MQS on May 15th and hope to see lots of my friends there!   Also today I shipped  the “Queen’s” entry package off to Houston for the IQA jury process, so keep your fingers [...]
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Rags N Quilts · 1M ago

The Queen is Finished!

Totally…and more than 3 weeks before she needs to be shipped!  Yippee !!!  That is a new record for me, as I am usually finishing up the final stitches on a label or sleeve just as the FedEx guy is ringing the doorbell for pickup! I’m really pleased with her… and though she isn’t perfect, [...]
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Rags N Quilts · 2M ago

Knitting on a Stormy Spring Day

A stormy day here in New Orleans…tomorrow is predicted to be stormy too.  I don’t turn on the quilting machine when there are thunderstorms, so no quilting today; probably none tomorrow either. But that’s OK…plenty of other things to do.  For example, I spent the morning burying threads on the “Quee
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