Quilt Blocks by Deb Levy

Hi,

Below is an excerpt from Deb Levy's Rags N Quilts Blog. Beautiful Circle Lord work.

Please take a look, and then go to her Blog to learn more. (Copied with her permission)

Thanks,

Michael

"All of the”frame” designs are being done with various Circle Lord templates. I haven’t decided yet what I’ll do for background fills…got to get the main designs done first. Here’s a peek of the very early stages of quilting."

"I worked on the class mini quilts again today. The main motifs are all done now. Just the background fill is left to do…though that will take a while. Here are the rest of the designs. Again, the frames are done with various Circle Lord templates and some of the motifs too,and some I embellished. Lots of variety for my students to choose from."

"Today I worked on doing the background fill between thunderstorms. All of these little quiltlets really showcase the versatility of the Circle Lord system. I think my students will be happy with these! I know I am."

Let's be up Front

THE CIRCLE LORD NEWS AND PRODUCT PAGES ARE UNDER CONTRUCTION
Eventually, each product will have its own blog.


Link to Giant Halloween Template Sale

Link to Circle Lord from the Front

Link to Index-Price List

Classical Clamshell Beauty

Hi,
Here are two quilts with an Japanese theme. What is better to quilt them with, but
the Japanese Sachiko clamshell pattern. It is a wonderful pattern for lots of styles, and is fast to do.



Maria Hilts, of Guelph, Ontario pieced these quilt to be auction off for an AIDs charity. Maria and our own Kay quilted them.

More on the Circle Lord Clamshell

Jane Ann Munroe working with the Clamshell template

APQS Lenni Circle Lord

Circle Lord on APQS Lenni

Circle Lord on table of Lenni with 12 inch circle template
Concentric circles 1/16th" apart

The Lenni Circle Lord is similar to the HQ16 CL that has been used since 2005. It fits between the Lenni rails. There is no extra work to do with the table. You have about 14 inches of quilting. This works well with the 12 inch template size. You can center exactly without having to fudge the fabric.

Stylus centered on Aztec Template

When the stylus is in the center post, as above, you an unlock the Red Handled clamp and drag the Circle Lord to the sewing point. If you have the Center Clamp released, you can place your needle exactly on the center point of you patttern. The Center Finder, supplied with the Circle Lord, helps you find the center of most blocks.

Close up of Stylus Set

The stylus is stainless steel with a hard tip. It slides up and down in a nylon bushing.
When you don't want it "in the groove", just lift and turn, and a pin holds it above the the table.

Small Crosshatch template with 1/2" separation.
Almost all the Circle Lord templates will work with the Lenni

Baptist Fan Blade on Stepping disk

You use the Baptist Fan blade to make non-continous Baptist Fan patterns where you have to trail and cut threads. For continous Baptist fans and Clamshell patterns, you use the FanClam tempate as seen below.

FanClam template for midarm machines
Queen size is 2 sections, 90 inches long


Price For Lenni Circle Lord $599.00

For more information call Toll Free 1-866-510-6060
or write to loricles@loriclesquilting.com

Gammill Circle Lord Setup

Gammill Classic and Optimum use the same Circle Lord.

Gammill Premier has a shorter Cross bar and longer stylus.
See Deb's setup at: http://quiltingwithragdolls.blogspot.com/2008/02/better-than-christmas.html

Jane Ann Munroe and the Giant Clam template

Jane Anne used the clam pattern as an overall background, then custom quilted over it













More of Jane Anne's work with the Circle Lord can be seen below



Circle Lord Quilting 2005




Circle Lord Quilting 2006



Circle Lord Quilting 2007

http://community.webshots.com/user/janeannhouser?vhost=community

Honeycomb-Chicken wire Template

Hi,
Here is our new Honeycomb template.






The 2 section Queen is 90 inches by 17.75 inches high.
The King is 135 inches long.

This template can be used on Long arm and Mid arm machines.

The size of the nested cell is, 4.3" by 3.75" .
Two rows are 7 inches high.

The cell size of the point-on-point cell is 4" by 3.5".
Two rows are 8 inches high.

The Cells are large for quick, over all, quilting. Time is money.

Price:

Queen US $449.00 plus shipping

King US$549.00 plus shipping




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Email loricles@loriclesquilting.com

Toll free call 866-510-6060

Circle Lord Cable Template

This template is used to do over-lapping cable patterns and spines for feathers, or other free-hand patterns

(Holes in lower corner are not on production template)

Cable and Rope by Carol Lyon.

Below is a quilt done be Carol Lyon. Carol filled in with freehand Molars,or Nicole Webb's feathers.



In order to get the Cable pattern, you make one pass and then move it 12 inches and do it again.




Below, Carol has used it for a feather border spine. She used the CL Featherz template in the corners.



It comes in two 48 inch sections and one 12 inch section. This gives you 120 inches of template. You can do 108 inches of Cable by shifting the whole template 12 inches.

The template is 6 inch high by 10 ft. long. The pattern is 5 inches high. One line used as a spine is 3 inches high.


Price for 3 pieces is $299.00 US$ or CND$ plus $30.00 shipping

Order from loricles@loriclesquilting.com

Toll free telephone 866-510-6060

Cheers,
Michael

Zig Zag Charity Quilt for Breast Cancer

Hi,
Below are pictures of a charity quilt pieced by
Gail Brown,of Guelph,Ontario,be raffled for breast
cancer research.

It is a heart ribbon bargello pattern. Kay mounted it
sideways and used the waves of the ZIG ZAG template to stitch hanging ribbons.

Curved Crosshatching by Shelley Carmichael

Hi,
Here is a quilt by Shelley Carmichael of Dodge City, Kansas.

"I just finished this for one of my favorite customers. When she gave it to me she didn't want the normal background fills (Xhatching, McTav, stippling, ect.) So I racked my brain. And this is what I came up with. I used the circle lord curved crosshatching for all but one and then I used Ranae's Amazing Arc's for that one. Which I thought would look out of place. But my customer loves it

Thanks for looking
Shelley"

You can leave any comments for Shelley, if you wish.
Cheers,
Michael













More Curved Crosshatching at:
http://circlelord.blogspot.com/2006/03/new-curved-crosshatch-template-is.html

New model Circle Lord Clamshell

Hi,
We have updated our King Clam . You can see on the picture below that you can now do Pumpkin Seed, or Fish borders and a Clam Cable border.

The Clam Cable Border can be varied by moving the template horizontally.

Here are two quilts with an Japanese theme. What is better to quilt them with, but the Japanese Sachiko clamshell pattern. It is a wonderful pattern for lots of styles, and is fast to do.



Maria Hilts, of Guelph, Ontario pieced these quilt to be auction off for an AIDs charity. Maria and our own Kay quilted them.

Jane Ann Munroe working with the Clamshell template

INDEX-PRICE LIST

Sampler by Sharon Okimi

The following patterns were quilted by Sharon Okimi
of Smithville, Ontario, Canada.
She used several Circle Lord templates separately and combined.
Some of these designs are found in the Circle Lord booklets,
others were created by Sharon combining 2 or more templates.

Overall view of quilt

Ginkgo pattern

Heartz Tempate

Circle Lord Circles

Aztec combination

Ginkgo quilt by Barb Cowan, Australia

Hi,
Barb Cowan of Australia sent me pictures of her latest Circle Lord work.
She calls it"Ann’s Folded Flowers" a Japanese design. It is about
60 inches by 60 inches.

There was absolutely no marking, certainly minimal measuring, no mathematics and only one stop and start for each medallion. The Circle Lord makes it so easy and quick to create this effect.

Once I worked out the whole quilting design for the quilt the actual quilting was soooo easy and quick. All I did was measure the length of the pattern section on the Gingko template to decide which would fit best between the flowers.

When I finished all the medallions, I grabbed an ordinary Perspex circle template and used it to create the arcs around the folded flowers. This gives the illusion of circles.

Barb C

So, you don't have to use the Circle Lord for everything - just the hard parts.

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Concentric Squares Template

Hi,

Anita Estes asked for a concentric squares template to do custom work using squares.

This templates is 18" x 18" and makes squares up to 17 inches with a 1/2" separation.

Anita has allowed me to print her comments.



Michael,

The squares template is perfect. I played around with it a little but had to quit so I can finish a deadline quilt for a customer. I put some pictures on webshots if you would like to see what I did so far. Look at the last pictures of the Circle Lord album. I plan on doing alot more of the picture frame type quilting. Also some freehand designs with the square as the spine.


Anita in Louisville, KY

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/548533725vrGtmh

Write loricles@loriclesquilting.com


or Phone toll free 1-866-510-6060

Cheers,
Michael

Circle Lord Rope Template

Rope and Cable by Carol Lyon

Hi,
The Rope templates has 3 sizes of rope for 3, 4, and 5" borders. It also
has a wiggly line. It comes with a template with several sizes and styles of corner pieces.It is sold in King (3 sections) 103"
and Queen (2 sections) 69".

Pricing and more information can be found on our website:
www.loriclesquilting.com











Phyllis Wright from British Columbia has kindly send me
pictures of her quilting, where she used the Rope Template.
Judy Taylor, of Mayne Island BC, did the piecing.











Here are some pictures of a quilt done by us. The top is pieced by
Elizabeth Hampson.



This is "Really" our Cat. Her family name is "Cat", her middle name is
"Stupid" She got this name when she first wandered into our yard with her
collar wrapped around her leg and did some weird things. She really is smart
and she keeps all the rodents away from our house - except for the parts
that she leaves as proof. Periodically, she goes to this rope hanging down from
the door knob and sits there and chews on it. Kay says she is brushing her teeth.


I just can't live without my Circle Lord. I purchased the new Rope
Border at Innovations and used it on a customer quilt which had batiks
in a sea life theme. The border took me about 2 minutes to do and
came out just perfectly. While the template has some corner motifs, I
chose to create my own for this quilt and made some sand dollars. I
returned the quilt to my customer today and she was just thrilled.
I'm putting some pictures in the November file here on MQP. You might
even be able to see my sea turtles that I freehanded in each block.
As someone who isn't that comfortable with freehand, I was very proud
of this quilt.

Linda Steller
Eugene, OR
APQS Liberty

I often get the question ..

Hi All,
I often get the question, "How hard is it to use the Circle Lord,
or what is the learning curve?". For the most part, it is easy
and I say the learning curve is "Straight up". With the CL you
have so many patterns, the real problem is where to put them.
The answer to this is, imagination and looking at quilting books
and magazines.

I am also asked, if children can use the Circle Lord. What an untapped
labor source!

Below is a letter from Romonia Dinkla, reprinted with her permission.

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Hi Michael and Kay,

I am very pleased with my purchase. I should have
done this a couple of years ago.

I got home from MQS with my new toys and
adjusted the wheels on my Millennium. I wanted
to play with the Baptist Fan template right
away but was pushed aside by my 11 year old son.
He wanted to quilt this design on his 4-H project quilt.
I had to help him load the quilt and line up to begin
and then move the quilt forward for him but otherwise
he did it himself.

I have been using some part of these new tools on every
quilt I have done since coming home.

Thanks so much for a great product.

Romonia Dinkla
Casey, IA
APQS Millennium

romoniad@netins.net

Celtic Rings

Hi,
This Celtic Rings template is 18" square. It can be used as is,
or can be embellished with feathers, meandering etc. It is
stitched along the long lines with trailing threads across
the end lines. So far it is just experimental.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Michael and Kay

Chenille using the Circle Lord

Kay and I have done some Chenille using the Circle Lord.
The pictures below show the chenille sun in a horse quilt. Concentric circles were used.

Using the Circle Lord you can make concentric circles, spirals, diagonals,
curved diagonals from the Curved Crosshatch and some of
the Aztec patterns -eg scallops. You could even use the Waves part
of the Zig Zag template by moving it up 1/4 " at a time.

Below is a picture of a test piece by Marcia Stevens using the
Spirals template and diagonal lines

Just some ideas.

Cheers,

Michael

Instructions for Circular Fan

I have known for some time that my instructions for the Circular Fan
were not the best. So, here is another go. In any case, you have to
play with the concept on a practice piece to be able to vary size
and pattern. After some experience, you will be Fan-tastic.



Step 1:
Put the Stepping disk on the Circle Lord Base plate.
Put the 5" sqircle on row 4 so that the outside hole is near the edge of
the stepping disk as in drawing Step 1.

Stitch a semi-circle from the point nearest the center post to just past
the row 4.







Step 2:
Take off the Stepping Disk and put on the 12 inch Sqircle. Sew a circle
that just touches the edge of the semi-circle in step 1.





Step 3:
Replace the Stepping disk and the 5" sqircle to the same postion
as in step 1.
Move the stepping disk 2 steps counter clockwise.
Then stitch a semi-circle from the center to the edge of the first
semi-circle.
Move and stitch until the last semi Circle is done.
The last step is to step to the first position and finish the first
Semi-circle.

Quilt by Marg Dupree with the Circular Fan. Also called a rose pattern

New Curved Crosshatch template is available- Update 8/29/06

Hi,
Below are pictures of a quilt by Nancy Watson. She did a beautiful
job using the Curved Crosshatch. More on the template is after her
pictures.

"I loved using the curved crosshatch. I'd NEVER attempt a
curved crosshatch without the use of your template. It would be
impossible to keep the lines consistent. I don't know if there are
any "rules" about crosshatch directions as far as design goes. I just
went ahead and did what I thought looked best. I guess my only
comment is that I realized I had to pay attention to keep all of the
blocks curving in the same directions. My client loved her quilt.
Thanks so much,
Nancy Watson
Classic Quilt Designs"









The new Curved Crosshatch template is 18 inches by 18 inches.
It has concave and convex ends to allow you to change the
angle as well as the direction.

It has 4 main positions. The line separation is 5/8 inch to
allow for the center post. It also has registry holes to do
lines at 5/16 inch separation.

Regular Price: US$149.00 + shipping.


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Below is the template mounted on the Circle Lord.






























Here are some pictures of 1st time practice pieces by Carol Lyon.

Kermit, our new Green Machine with Circle Lord

This photo shows Kermit with the Circle Lord mounted. I am testing a new Curved
Crosshatch template. This template is now available. the lines are 5/8" apart.
First, I used the Heartz template to make a large heart and then used the
Curved Crosshatch to fill the heart.







This is the first time I used Kermit. the pattern is filled with stitching errors.
Shortly, I will show you the latest model with good stitching.

Circle Lord history

The Circle Lord was first sold at MQS, May 2002. Development began in February when
Kay said she wanted to buy a circle maker for over a CA$1000.00.
I said "Heck, for $1000.00 I can make you one. $10,000.00 and 2 months later, we
had prototypes to show.
We went to MQS. David at Kingsman- gentleman that he is -let us share his booth.
By the time he had set up his own booth, there was not enough room left, so we
squatted on a table in the aisle next to his booth. Thanks to Tom and Marcia Stevens,
we were allow to stay there, and demonstrate the Circle Lord on the table and with a simple video on a 19" tv. Enough brave longarmers were sufficently impressed to order a Circle Lord for delivery 8 weeks later - from Canada - with their credit cards pre-charged. We delivered in 10 weeks with a video and manual.
At this time, all that was available was the Circle Lord Basic+ to make circles and
medallions. The Baptist fan/large circle blade was added later. Before we went to MQS, We applied for a patent which was issued later.

We added the Ovals template, then the Aztec and other mult-pattern templates.
Kay's daughter published two instruction books. With our website and 500 Webshots
pictures, we must have the most documented product in the longarm industry.
Now with this blog, we hope to have a way to bring news, information, and advice
on the Circle Lord.

Introduction to the "Circle Lord News" blog

Welcome to the first edition of the "Circle Lord News" blog. Today we will set up the blog format and introduce the Circle Lord long arm quilting tool to those that do not know of it, and welcome those that do.

We will use this blog to introduce new Circle Lord products. Time to time, We will describe our own design projects and those of other Circle Lord users.

The Circle Lord is a precision design tool used on several Longarm quilting machines. It is basically, a movable clamp that fits over the back table of the machine. Attached to this clamp is a flexible arm attached to a base plate platform for various templates to make complex quilting patterns. For more information go to the Loriclesquilting website.