Category: Free Motion Quilting

What do you see???

I am writing this post on my phone so it will be short and sweet!!

Yesterday I told you about my very long day of sightseeing in Copenhagen so today I thought I would give you a preview of what I saw!!

As I walked through one set of galleries, my eye was distracted by the floors in each gallery. This was one of my favorites….

What do you see here???

I see a wonderful FMQ design!!!!!

Linda (one of my readers) had mentioned using the symmetry setting in Procreate, so I spent a few minutes playing with this design…..

It definitely loses something in translation, but it certainly gives an idea of what can come of this floor inspiration!!!

So tell me, do you see “quilty” things when you travel??

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Intentionally practicing a new design!!

Today we are working through another one of Dorie Hruska’s designs from her book “Floral Confetti”…

If you missed the initial post and video about using this book, you can find it here….

Circle in a Grid

I am happy with how it worked out and can’t wait to show you……

As I said in the video, I am looking forward to using this design (and maybe some others of hers) to fill in some LARGE squares!

Also in the video, I floated the idea of “intentional practice”. This involves trying to do my VERY best, even if the piece is just for practice.

Do you use “intentional practice”?

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A Sashiko sewing machine??

This past weekend I was judging quilts at the Georgia National Fair. I look forward to giving you the inside scoop about this judging process but I can’t do it until after the fair starts in October.

So….stay tuned….

But I digressed…..

On Monday morning, I was listening to a podcast before I headed to the pavilion. In it, the quilter talked about a new Baby Lock machine that does Sashiko….

Its price is close to $US3,000, so you would need to be planning a LOT of sashiko quilting before you purchase it.

Maybe I should back up a bit here….

Sashiko stitching is a type of Japanese embroidery that is often used as a decorative quilting design.

It is normally done by hand and gives a very clean-looking stitch….

Instructions for this project can be found at “Sew So Easy”

Now you know WHAT it is, maybe I should get to the point of this story!!

As we were judging one of the quilts, I was looking at the amazing Sashiko quilting…..

Then I turned it over to look at the back…..

Wait a minute……this doesn’t compute!!

Oh….maybe this is done by machine???

I was happy to have learned about the machine so that I could properly judge the quilt, but MAN is it a pretty stitch!!

Maybe a bunch of us should get together and buy a machine that we can share….any takers???

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Where did it go???

As I have said, I am truly enjoying quilting on my BIG color wheel quilt……

It is the largest piece that I have EVER quilted.

But I am having one consistent problem!!

I keep losing my tools in the folds of the quilt!

WHERE IS MY RULER????

Hiding under here of course……

This scenario repeats itself for the pencil that I use to mark, the “Snag Magic” tool that I use to bury threads, and even my seam ripper…..

YES…..I have done a fair amount of ripping.

Oh….and I forgot my quilting gloves!!

Can YOU find them??

PLEASE tell me that you have found a solution to this problem….other than being conscious of where I leave them!!

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Quilt it FAST & EASY!!

One of my favorite things is to learn a technique that allows me to quilt something FAST and EASY!!

Because we all know that there are some quilts that don’t need a detailed custom design.

Some quilts just need to be held together to be useable and provide warmth!!

It is THOSE type of quilts that we are talking about today.

I had seen an exciting design on Youtube and wanted to try it out so I grabbed a quilt out of our Guild Charity basket, basted it up, and got to quilting…..

Now as you can see in the video, things did not go EXACTLY as planned!!

Honestly, I am not super happy with it, but it is done!!

And, I learned several lessons about how to do this design and I am looking forward to trying it again on another top. On THIS one, I will be able to see my design guidelines!!

Stay Tuned for more!!

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