MaryQuiltsTx

Really beautiful job on this quilt. Your FMQ is really good. 

Believe it or not but it has to be added correctly or it won't accept it....glad I have my calculator handy...hope they never go to multiplications and divisions.
 

And I thought I had one less person to worry about.  LOL.

My daughter and I just adore this quilt. Everything, and I do mean everything, about it is just fantastic. We love Halloween and a Halloween quilt to support breast cancer awareness is just awesome. Just love it. 
P.S. I want a bat bra. 

Look what I got to quilt!  It's a pink themed Halloween quilt, to display at our local hospital during the month of October.  Pink because it's breast cancer awareness month.  The Jackson Hole Quilt Guild rotates a quilt display every month at our local hospital.  The nurses and patients really appreciate it.  We've had a hard time in years past trying to find a pink quilt for the October display.  So we had the bright idea to make a quilt just for that.  Different people made the applique blocks, others sewed them together with sashing and border.  I quilted it, and just handed it off to another member to attach the binding.  A terrific collaboration.
Last May I took a few classes from Judi Madsen in Salt Lake City.  I just LOVE her work.  So, you will see that she inspired this quilting.  
The bat bra block is the one that really got me started with the quilt designs.  The lady who made it drew a spider in a web on the cleavage, so clever and so easy to quilt that design!  
Judi had just posted an applique quilt that she'd finished that had bugs in it.  She gave the bugs motion by quilting a swirly design under them.  I thought the ghosts need that swirly design too.  Remember, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?!
I used a wool batting, glide thread with magna glide bobbins.  Love those magna glide bobbins!  Angela Huffman is a great source for them and her delivery is super fast.
Thanks for looking!

Gorgeous quilt. Would not have guessed you used shirts. What a wonderful way to add sentiment to a quilt.

Just:  This post is over 3 years old, and about a machine made by a manufacturer not represented on this forum, so I doubt Bonway will respond.  That being said, I once owned a Ken Quilt 622.  Mine was the long model - don't think they've made that particular machine for at least 10 years - and since then, I've owned 3 other machines.  Does that tell you something?  I sold mine on e-Bay 8 years ago for $650.
The 622 is a Singer model type 96 industrial sewing machine set up for frame quilting.  It's a heavy cast iron machine.  I think mine weighed over 70 lbs.  While you may be able to buy one very reasonably, I think you'd be better served saving your money and putting it toward a real purpose built longarm.  An APQS Ult ll would be a much better choice if you're looking for an economical longarm system.  In fact that's one of the machines I bought and I'm still using it today with both pride and satisfaction.
As far as machine details for the 622 goes, I think a schematic for a Singer type 96 would probably do.  Hope this helps.  Jim

For all your info.  Ken Quilt has new owners in California just southeast of Sacramento.  I'll try to find out who the new owners are soon.  I'll have to dig up my client list and make a few calls.  Zeke.  

I finished my Petit Fours quilt last night! I'm very pleased with how it turned out. It's a layer cake/jelly roll pattern from Hummingbird Highway.  I tried a new binding technique that was shown at our last quilt guild meeting and just LOVE the effect it has on the quilt. It's a flange binding which gives it the piping detail look. Very easy to do and I think it gives this quilt a 'Tuxedo' look to it.