I am still on my ‘practising free motion quilting’ mode. Result – another table runner, with lots of negative space to practise fmq, intended as a gift for my cousin.
This time the inspiration was this absolutely stunning quilt from murdockmanor.blogspot.in I found on Pinterest.
I wish I could quilt half as well! I started off pretty well, quilting this on my little Brother, with the feed dogs up and stitch length set at 0. But then, soon I ran into all kinds of problems.
Tried several solutions suggested by fellow quilters on my online quilting group, with no improvement. What worked finally was lowering the feed dogs. (I have left the back looking like this! Too lazy to rip it and re-do it!)
The front doesn’t look bad at all. Here is a close up.
A long- shot of the back…
The colours are not very accurate in these pictures, so I took a couple of photos outside on the terrace, too.
I now move on to my next UFO, a king size quilt top waiting to be quilted for over five years! I am dreading the basting part – as I have run out of my basting spray, not available here! But first, I have to get the backing together. I am planning to quilt it only very lightly – while I gather the will to get going, please admire the quilting pattern, if not the actual execution!
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Are you doing the just takes two next? I like this one. One thing with fmq is you never get a solution cut and dry. Got to try all options and something clicks.
No, I am doing the magic squares – can never remember the other name! Whirly gigs?
Love it! The colors are great, and your bubbles and straight lines are so consistent. Consistency is my big problem with machine quilting. I may execute a perfect motif, only to make the next one way wobbly or too large or whatever. Yours quilting looks very even.
Carole, as you can see, my back is awful! That was my problem in this one.
My heart goes oye bubbly, bubbly oye!
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