I have a quilt that I inherited that I was able to track the history of because it had a brief hand-stitched label with a name and date on the back. You may not think you’re creating heirlooms but you never know!

With an embroidery machine and a lettering program, it’s easy to whip up a label. I have a standard label template design that I just open, edit, and then Save As. My favorite font for many, many years now has been Adine Script.

When Embrilliance provided us designers with a way to make alphabets that were actually used to create long strings of text, Adine Script was one of the early ones I released. You can create your own template in Essentials just as easily.

Credits

Designed and made by Lindee Goodall

Products Used

• (lga026) Adine Script 10mm

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As a scuba diver and former sailor, I love nautically themed items (even if I do live in the desert!) These two projects feature quilting in the hoop and use a piece-as-you-go technique to finish.

Read more about this project: Finished is Better than Perfect!

While I’ve used the designs to make a quilt, because I’ve designed the pieces separately, the satin stitch versions are great for lightweight summer apparel and beachwear. Learn to re-imagine!

Credits

Designed and made by Lindee Goodall (9/30/2015)

Products Used

• (lgs050) Ocean Dreams
• (lga026) Adine Script 10mm

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I originally thought I’d use these leftover blocks to make a pillow but it was a little too large so I turned it into a coordinated wall hanging.

Credits

Designed and made by Lindee Goodall (9/30/2015)

Products Used

• (lgs050) Ocean Dreams
• (lga026) Adine Script 10mm

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For this quilt, I chose a vibrant, contemporary color scheme placing bright batiks on a solid black background.

I pulled out one of the Marigold petal layers and used it for cornerstone. The sashing is composed of a strip of red sandwiched between two black ones to give a nice pop of color.

The quilt is lightly stipple quilted around the appliques and the borders are quilted with a vining leaf pattern. Local long arm quilter Barbara Angerhoffer did the quilting while I did the rest.

Contrast this quilt with the more vintage look on the U.S. version. There are five blocks that are the same between the two quilts.

Instructions are included for making the quilt in a bonus month 13 in the Echidna Pie Training series.

Credits

Designed and made by Lindee Goodall (10/15/2014)

Products Used

• (lgp015) Birth Month Flowers of the Year Applique Quilt Bundle
• (lgp013) Birth Month Flowers of the Year Quilt (US)
• (epb001) Echidna P.I.E. Training Series (Complete)

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This quilt features the 12 Vintage Miniature Sewing Machines in the 5×7″ multi-color size. These two collections were digitized from hand-drawn illustrations by Ella & Skyse of children’s vintage miniature sewing machines.

Each of 12 machines is digitized as either a 4-color design or a single color one.

And no, you can’t take the multi-color and just make it one color unless of course, you don’t mind a lot of unnecessary jumps and trims! Each machine is available in 3 sizes. I used the middle size for this quilt.

I originally stitched all the blocks on white (prewashed) cotton used 60wt cotton thread and a wash-away backing. However, when I washed the blocks to remove the stabilizer the thread shrunk! I had puckers that could not be removed.

However bad that was, at least it happened before I pieced my quilt top!

I restitched every block with polyester thread. After piecing, I had it quilted by a local quilt shop. Not sure that I really like how they did it—the designs puff up an awful lot in the center.

Credits

Designed and made by Lindee Goodall (10/8/2013)

Products Used

• (es001) Vintage Miniature Sewing Machines 1
• (es002) Vintage Miniature Sewing Machines 2