Free motion quilting has been on my mind recently! And here is what I have to show for all that obsessing!
Last night I took the time to back, baste, and begin quilting my Doll Quilt Swap quilt. I started with the idea of doing some micro-quilting, pebbles inside the center of the NY Beauty block, then to add the same tiny pebbles around the outer edges of it too. After that I added some free motion zig-zags and outlined the points (woot woot for actually having coordinating thread on hand!).
I decided to loosen up the quilting as I got farther from the center, so the pink area was straight line quilted about an inch apart. I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to quilt the flying geese. I've thought maybe I'll outline them with a straight stitch (using white thread) just to pop them out a bit.
I decided to leave the hexagons off for now... they may find themselves attached to a zip pouch or something as a little extra? No guarantees though. lol. I'm still really nervous about my partner really loving it.... but I'm really proud of how well it's turned out so far.
Oh and that tiny star on the back? That's where my label will be -written in around it. It's my signature of sorts.... My favorite tiny wonky star. :)
I have grand plans of bias binding and a whole set-up that will allow it to actually hang flat on the wall... let's hope it works out! :)
Oh yeah, and if you notice, there's not even a single bit of solid white fabric on this baby (one of our rules this round was to use a different colored solid as a dominant fabric, rather than white)... but much more, I only used a TINY bit of solid grey! That is much more of a challenge than not using white!
You are really taking advantage of that new machine of yours! Looks awesome!
ReplyDeleteI'm waiting for the post where you say that this will get hand delivered and then I can hope to receive it at the retreat! Your quilting is awesome!
ReplyDeleteThat is such a sweet doll quilt, and great job on the quilting! :o) Just popped in from Fabric Tuesday.
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