This week I tried three new quilting motifs on my daughter's quilt. Come see!
I love watching Craftsy classes about free motion quilting and, of course, all the videos I can find on Youtube as well. One of the things I learned is when you can't decide what to quilt, let the fabric tell you what to do. So for this first motif, that is exactly what I did! Here is the fabric without quilting.
I decided to just follow the squiggles and quilt on either side of them. I chose to use coral thread on the top and as I mentioned last time, the bobbin thread is always going to be periwinkle. So here is what it looks like afterwards. I'm a little shaky about staying on the line but mostly because I went too fast. If I had slowed down a bit I'd probably have been more accurate.
And here is the back . . .
I did the same thing with the next fabric. I followed the outlines on each circle, so basically, really large pebbles.
I thought about doing spokes on each of the circles like this with a little swirl in the center but didn't really like how it looked. My first try was messy so I didn't want to keep doing them. I continued on just doing the outside of the circles.
Back side . . .
Next up I wanted to try the motif taught by Angela Walters in her Craftsy Class called Borders and Backgrounds. This motif is called Wavy Wavy. Here is her sample from the video . . . very beginner friendly
The next fabric I chose to quilt is this coral color. Coral thread on top, periwinkle in the bobbin.
One thing I learned from this fabric is that when the thread matches exactly, it is really hard to quilt with because it's very hard to see. I couldn't see where I had already quilted and had to resort to turning off the lights and trying to have some light shining from the side in order to see the places I had been. I think in the future, I will probably use a more neutral colored thread when there are multiple colors involved. I will also NOT use polyester batting like I did this time. I just doesn't seem to give the quilting as much texture and feels flat to me.
Another thing I am learning is to have a better plan for the path I am going to take. I had to do a lot of back tracking and when you don't follow the original path exactly, it doesn't look very good on the back. Either that, or stop and cut the thread more often.
I am looking forward to the rest of the fabrics because it will be much easier to see what I am doing and I am going to try some motif's that are perhaps a little more challenging.
I sewed another 2018 Rainbow Scrap Challenge block this week. The color is pink this month and I added a pink Migrating Geese block to my collection!
Here are all my Migrating Geese blocks that I have collected so far . . .
I think the pink one kind of sticks out a bit. It needs some red and red violet to blend it in better. We'll see what the future RSC colors turn out to be!
Great big THANK YOU'S to those of you who are have sent and are sending me fabrics with black backgrounds for an ongoing project I am working on. It will be fun to see what comes in my mailbox!
I am seeing so many fun Quilt Alongs lately that I can't make up my mind which ones I want to do. For now, I think I'll keep plugging away on my UFO's. Ashley's quilt is getting closer to a finish and I'm excited to actually have another finish.
What QAL's are you jumping on board with?
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