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Ever had a quilt that you were so disappointed in the quilting that you just folded it and put it away for years? I had a client bring in a quilt that she loved…until it was quilted. I’d never taken out a whole quilt before (it was about 50” x 50” so not a huge quilt.). But it had been long arm quilted and had several places of over stitching. Here are a few pictures of it before destitching happened.

See the excess fabric? And the design in the plate didn’t match the center or the petals. And it was quilted with yellow thread. Not what the quilted wanted. I took it and unpicked a corner of the quilt to see how hard it would be and if the holes would close up. Below are my results.

So as you can see the holes did close up pretty good, i spritzed it with water and rubbed the fabric a little with a towel. I took out the stitches from the back of the quilt so I didn’t accidentally clip the quilt top. I was pretty sure I’d have to replace the backing anyhow but I didn’t want to take off the binding right away. Met with the client and showed what I used and how I did it and gave her the option of paying me to do it (might take up to 20 hours or more), or she could do it. She chose to do it. Here are the tools I found worked good for me and now are my go to unpickers.

In the end the quilt came out flat and we did not have to take off the binding or replace the back of the quilt. I then used my Tiara 2 to do custom quilting on it. I used white thread in the background and red and blue threads in the Dresden plates. The client was overcome with happiness when she saw what I did with the quilt.

I am so sorry that I have not updated this site in over 2 years. A lot has happened and I am still quilting and still loving it. I have been posting more on my Facebook page https://m.facebook.com/#!/SandyCarreonQuilting/?ref=bookmarks and my Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/sandycarreonquilting/. I’m on vacation at the moment and have found that it is good time to get some business done since I can’t do any quilting. So I’m updating my site here and starting my Etsy store https://www.etsy.com/shop/SandyCarreonQuilting

I’ll be adding lots of posts so I hope I don’t overwhelm you. I’ll try to do better in the future (which means I need to take more vacations I guess). But the truth is I love to quilt and would rather do that than make these posts. But I also know that I love sharing quilting and helping others so that is what I try to do with my posts. So here goes.

This is the finished quilt.  It is a famous bridge that the client loved and wanted to have a quilt to remember it. It was a challenge, but I like challenges.  Customer loved it and I will get a better picture of it when it is shown at her quilt show which is Feb 16-17, 2019 with the South Bay Quilters Guild at the Torrance Culteral Arts Center, 3330 Civic Center Drive,

This is what I was given.  It is a fairly small wall quilt.  The background is a watercolor style made up of 1” or 1 1/2”  squares.

I love how the quilting changed the fabric, so here are some before and after pictures of the different blocks.

Here is my newest quilt.  Here she is hanging at Road to California quilt show in the special exhibit put together by SCCQG.  So not in the judged show, but still there to be seen by many.  I say her on Friday and I guess you can say I am the mystery quilter as my nameplacard and info about the quilt was nowhere to be found.  Hopefully they were able to put it on for the final days.  I do have my label on the back though, but sad to say it was not displayed in a very good area, so I was kind of disappointed.  But at least it did have a light for it.  Other quilts were not so lucky.

Here are some pictures as I came up with this quilt design.  Actually started with it on the Dream big panel.

Liked her on the supernova panel better.  The girl is from Tula Pink’s De La Luna fabric line.

But decided I liked her with the scrolls around her.

And here are some of the threads I choose.

I Starte don’t with the metallic spiderweb and added the feathers using Patsy Thompson’s hyperquilting.

And here she is finished.  I added some crystals to highlight areas, but unfortunately they don’t photograph well.

My final touch was a black widow spider hanging by a silver thread.  We’ll see if she survives the weekend.  She will be displayed at The Sewing Escape, 7713 Garden Grove Blvd, Garden Grove, CA until her next show, which will be April 13 and 14 at the Quilters by the Sea Quilt Show at the EXPO Arts Center in Long Beach.  You can purchase advance tickets for $8 until March 14th, contact me or go to our website at Quiltersbythesea.com.

Working on the bunnies I bought at a quilt show last year.  

I had the privilege of quilting the quilt for my guild this year.  Such a nice quilt.  Had 3D flowers along the borders and they wanted some fun things quilted on it.  Quilted bees, butterflies, dragonflies, hummingbirds and caterpillars. Don’t know if they’ll show up much in the pictures.  You can email me sandycarreonquilting@gmail.com if you’d like to buy tickets for the quilt.  $1 for 1 or 6 for $5.  Drawing will be April 28, 2018 at 3PM.