I have started the free-motion quilting on my niece's Wedding Quilt.
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My version of "Snowflake" by Trudie Hughes |
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Here's the back with all the signature blocks from the wedding guests |
I had my quilting plan all decided on after spending a lot of time looking on-line for ideas. The last time I made this quilt, many years ago, I handquilted intricate snowflakes in the alternate squares. But this time, I thought I would try the method of Dot-to-Dot quilting by Angela Walters, that I learned by watching a video class I bought from Craftsy. I premarked my registration marks on the entire quilt and practiced the design and was all ready to go, the quilt was under the needle, and I totally switched gears and decided it would look better if I did an all-over design in the alternate squares., and then that would make the stars and the chain stand out and be the focus. So far, I am super glad that I changed my mind. I am loving how it looks. Freemotion swirls on the swirly print fabric gives it such a lovely texture. Not sure yet what I will do beyond the centre part of the quilt yet. Something will come to me!
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Here you can see the difference in the background between the quilted area and the unquilted area. |
For thread, I am using, for the first time, Lava by Superior Threads. It is a 35/3 ply polyester variegated thread. Even though this thread is a heavier weight, it is lovely and thin. I am using a 90/14 topstitch needle as suggested by the manufacturer. It was also suggested to loosen the top tension a bit but I found there was no need. The quilting is going very nicely. I have not had any thread breakage at all and everything is going along just great. I am working in short spurts of half an hour or so at a time.
I hope to be finished the quilting by this time next week.
My Knitty Sister made me some awesome slipper-socks. Super warm!
Another gift...from my quilty friend Lesley, @
The Cuddle Quilter, who knew I would just love this yellow duckie tape measure. How sweet of her! Thanks so much Lesley. I do love him and he sits on my machine until I need to use him. You will notice I have also adorned my machine with a sticker from The Cuddle Quilter too!
My guild, The Maritime Modern Quilt Guild is exchanging zippered pouches with the Victoria Modern Quilt Guild and this is the pouch I made. I am not a fan of installing zippers so I figured why not try three zippers! It was a bit of a challenge but turned out great.
I hope you got time today to work on something quilty. I am linking up with
the Needle and Thread Network. Stop by and check out what everyone is doing this week.