Happy Sunday, Happy Independence Day to those of you in the United States, and Happy July, everyone! Today's post will be a smorgasbord of high-tech and low-tech excitement that has accumulated over the past week.
The Charlotte Modern Quilt Guild hosted a Zoom lecture with Canadian quilter Libs Elliott a few days ago, which was fabulous! Libs is best known for her use of computer code to generate random geometric designs for modern quilting. She shared that her parents were antique dealers and that she'd discovered and fallen in love with old quilts at auctions and estate sales. As she related her journey from trying to replicate traditional patchwork with hardly any instruction through creating ideas of her own on paper and then trying to figure out how to make a quilt that looked like her sketches, I really appreciated her spirit of adventure and the way her style and her process have evolved over time.
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| Enjoying Libs Elliott's Lecture on Quilt Design with Computer Code |
I got some good news last week, and I got some bad news. Good news first! I found a buyer for my APQS machine, a quilter from Northern Minnesota who was delightful to talk to on the phone. She will be driving over 1,300 miles come and pick up the machine this week, and I wish her a safe and smooth journey!
Bad news: I already sold the IntelliQuilter computer robotics that I had on my APQS Millennium, because my Q-Matic computer robotics for the Bernina was supposed to be here at the end of June. Well, guess what? The Q-Matic is now pushed back until at least August, due to the global shortage in microchips. 😧 Yikes! That means I can't stitch any digital edge-to-edge quilts for another month! My Bernina dealer, Creative Sewing & Vacuum, has graciously offered to let me use their demo Q24 machine at the store for computerized quilts that I need to get done in the meantime. The only catch there is that, to conserve floor space in the shop, their demo Q24 is set up on the smallest 8' frame and the widest quilt that will fit that frame is about 71". Not big enough for the queen quilts in my queue! I had a customer's baby quilt that needed to get done, though, so I brought it over to quilt it with Q-Matic at the store. I can't show you this quilt quite yet -- the client is picking it up on Wednesday -- but I'm hosting TGIFF Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday this week and I'll show it to you then, okay? Pinky promise! For now you just get this little tantalizing glimpse:
Borrowing My Bernina Dealer's Demo Q24 with Q-Matic
