Background quilting…..

We have been looking at the quilting and planning process for finishing my Monarch Challenge for the last two days. You can check out the posts here……

https://francesquilts.com/2023/06/01/monarch-quilting-part-1/

https://francesquilts.com/2023/06/02/quilting-planning/

I FINALLY figured out exactly how I wanted to quilt this background, so here we go……

At this point, I am REALLY close to finishing the quilt and will be posting about it in the next week.

HOWEVER, I will be in Africa when the posts run and will probably not have access to the internet during that time. This means that I will not be able to cross-post to Facebook groups, so if you get to my blog thru those posts, you will not see them.

Can I encourage you to go ahead and subscribe to the blog so that you get an email when it posts? It is the best way to be sure that you don’t miss a single thing.

PLUS…..who knows when photos and videos from Africa might appear and you wouldn’t want to miss those.

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Using the Westalee Spin-E-Fex Ruler #16

We are getting ready to travel overseas and time has become VERY precious. Among other things, I have to finish my Monarch challenge so that I can enter it before I leave!!

Consequently, I haven’t had time to do ANY more grid quilting!!!

So, today is going to be a throwback day and I want to share the design created by the Westalee Spin-E-Fex Ruler #16…..

It is an easy ruler to use and I love the design…..

Have you ever tried these rulers?? If so, I would LOVE to hear what you thought!!!

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Quilt Along with Winnie….

This past weekend I was able to spend a few hours quilting the “Winnie the Pooh” baby quilt and thought that you might enjoy seeing the process…..

And here he is all finished……

I had a great time quilting him and I hope that you found some ideas that you can use when you quilt your NEXT quilt!!

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How to store Quilting Rulers

THIS POST DISAPPEARED OVERNIGHT…..LET’S TRY AGAIN!!!

If you are like me, you have a LARGE number of quilting rulers. I mean, once you get started with ruler quilting, it is NECESSARY to buy more.

Am I right?

But, the trick is how to store all of those rulers. None of them are large but they can sure get messy in a hurry…..

BUT….. I have come up with a wonderful solution…….

Quilting the Swap Quilt

Yesterday I posted about the quilt top that I made using Split Rectangle blocks.

Now it was time to quilt it.

And the old question of…….BUT HOW DO I QUILT IT????

I started out using Procreate on my I-Pad but couldn’t tell much about the designs I was looking at.

So, I covered the top with a piece of clear, plastic shower curtain and used a water-soluble marker to try a bunch of designs.

Did I like straight lines?

They look good, but would be REALLY hard to quilt without breaking my thread a BUNCH of times!!

How about Squiggles…..

I like those but it would mean a LOT of quilting and I am not sure that I want to spend that much time on it.

How about some spirals?

What about curves using an Arc-Ruler?

Either these or the spirals were my favorite so I decided to make a test piece….

At this point, I was thinking Spirals.

BUT, when I started on the quilt, I made the first one and it looked horrible…..

OKAY….pick that out and switch to arcs!!

I found that, if I concentrated, I could easily move from blcok to block without having to stop…..

I ended up having to break thread twice but wouldn’t have if I had planned it better. Oh Well!!

I was racing along to finish the borders when I hit this slight snag…..

Don’t you hate it when the backing fabric gets folded over!!

Here is the finished quilt……

Come back tomorrow and we will do a recap!!!

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