One day I was visiting our guild Charity Bee and grabbed this quilt top to quilt……

It looked nice and easy, but it sat in my “to-do” basket for almost a year because I simply couldn’t figure out HOW to quilt it.

In this video, we look at my process and also see a bit of the quilting.

It is a great start and the quilting should go pretty quickly.

Crisis averted!!

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Back in February, I was making headway on my scrap projects when I ran across a stack of teal-ish fabrics. I quickly left the project that I was working on and made this top instead…..

The top sat in my studio all year and now….the last few days of 2024, it is time to quilt it!!

I am happy with the quilting on this one…

and am looking forward to trying a new binding technique on it…….. Wish me luck!!!

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Well, yesterday we put together the practice piece for quilting…..

and today we get started!!

Join me…..

If you are reading on email, you can use this link to go directly to the video….. https://youtu.be/t47Ynow51OU

Come back tomorrow and we will finish up the practice session, in particular playing with filler designs for some of the petals.

I had so much fun quilting the Stair-Step Scrap quilt…..

I began by quilting straight lines starting with the stair-steps and echoing out to the edges of the quilt.

Then I quilted echoing curvy lines in the center between the stair-steps.

Finally, I pulled out a nested oval ruler that I had never used and quilted ovals in the border.

See the entire quilt finished in 10 minutes…..

If you are reading on email, you can use this link to go directly to the video….. https://youtu.be/CX_-mGmgExQ

Obviously, none of the quilting showed greatly but I am happy with the overall textures that were created….

Next week on Free-Motion-Friday, we are going to tackle one of the issues that most machine quilters deal with…..

HOW DO I START AND STOP?

Be sure to join me then.

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I know that I have already shown you the finished quilt…..

….but I wanted to show you the video of the final quilting in the borders.

I LOVE using straight lines in borders……

I feel that they draw the attention in to the spectacular center of the quilt AND they are normally fairly easy to quilt, which is a plus since I am normally ready to JUST BE DONE with it!!

Have a watch as we finish this off with some echo quilting using a straight-edged ruler!!

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So here is final border design…..

…and here is the corner with lots of echoes….