Absolutely STUNNING!

Everything is theme matched to the finest detail.

you have blown me away.

Are you loving your quilting machine? Looks like you are.

Theresa

Lois, it's wonderful! You definitely checked all the boxes. :) He will love it!

Donna

Lois, that is another stunner! Your quilting is amazing and he should love it.

Sue

Never say never. I love that each component has a story behind it. He will be blown away when he sees this quilt!

Thank you all for your support. Theresa, it’s kind of a love-hate relationship with the longarm yet. I do love that quilting pattern though.

You can't see the quilting on these photos as the + doesn't work for me. I saw it on QB and it's a great quilting design for this quilt. However did you get it to go the longway?

bkay

Bkay, being a total novice on the longarm, I just lucked out, I guess. I have always loaded my quilts (all six of them now) with the shorter side running parallel with the bars on the longarm. In other words, I pin the shorter side to the leaders. Now that I think about it, that might be foolish. Lots more zones that way. But in this case, that was the way I wanted the panto to run. I never even thought about it. Do you load your quilts by pinning the longer side to the leaders?

Lois, I always load the long sides pinned to the leaders. That way you end up with a smaller roll inside the machine. With my previous 9" arm machine it was necessary to load that way with a bigger quilt so I didn't run out of quilting room before the end. For the short borders I turn the quilt 90 degrees after quilting all the way from one side to the other and repin it.

All the online instructions I've seen say to load the quilt with the long sides pinned to the leaders.

I think the way you did yours is great, though! That panto would look weird going crosswise on the quilt.

Donna

I don't have a longarm. I don't quilt enough to justify it, nor do I have the room. I either quilt by check or make smallish quilts I can do on my domestic machine.

Thanks for sharing.

bk

What a gorgeous quilt! I am so impressed by the thought you put into all the various aspects of it, and the three panels with pictures are wonderful; putting the flying geese in between two of them was a great idea, too. The "kindling" pattern works so well with your theme, and I can see that, because it is reminiscent of flames, the orientation you chose is just right. How I would have loved to have a longarm, if we had the money and a big enough space to keep it! I enjoy reading about what others are doing with theirs, however. Saw one at work at an exhibition once, and it was fascinating.

Hi, Msmeow! Glad you're still around. It's been a long time since I was last here. I still have a big stash stashed under a desk, under the bed, and in closets, but not doing much quilting, as age makes me tire out after just a morning of taking care of more mundane, but necessary jobs! The necessity of deciding a border pattern and then doing the actual quilting holds me back a bit, too. I do still have my half-finished stack-n-whack from years ago, which periodically reproaches me from a carton in the bedroom. It calls out, "Just who do you expect to finish me when you are gone? And if I am not finished, no one will love me." Strange, how on'e handiwork comes to seem alive, in a way, isn't it?

Hi, Biwako. I've been hanging around this forum for over ten years now, but I don't remember seeing your name. You must have been absent for quite a while now. I understand how just keeping body and soul together as one gets older can take about all the energy one has. But we're happy to have you monitoring this site at least. We seem to have many absent forum members lately. I hope everyone is still around and quilting and is just too busy to participate. I do miss the activity though. Thank you and everyone else who commented about my quilt.

Lois, I think everything about it is wonderful! He is going to cherish it! I think it is fun to work with panels sometimes :-D

Lois, I think everything about it is wonderful! He is going to cherish it! I think it is fun to work with panels sometimes :-D

Lois, I think everything about it is wonderful! He is going to cherish it! I think it is fun to work with panels sometimes :-D