Category: Free-motion quilting
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Practicing on printed panels
I’ve been concentrating so much on piecing this past year or two that I realized it’s been a really long time since I’ve done any free-motion quilting. I think I’ve been subconsciously avoiding it and procrastinating, even though I have quite a few tops that I need to quilt. The good news, I guess, is…
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Play date with George
I had a play date with George on Friday, and I invited two of my friends to come over and play, too. Beth Schillig is so knowledgeable and such a good teacher! She used to sell Berninas. Once she retired, she thought she would do something completely different, but thankfully she gravitated towards quilting. She…
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Thread color decisions
Decisions, decisions. Today I need to decide if I will quilt this with just one color thread, or if I will use multiple colors. For most of the quilts I make, thread color is an easy choice. Since I am usually depicting realistic objects, I usually pick a thread that blends in, and I change…
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July Free-Motion Quilting Challenge
This month’s Free-Motion Quilting Challenge was issued by Angela Waters. I was not familiar with her work. She looks fairly young, and she quilts professionally for others. She taught a technique she calls “Tiles.” She had us divide up the space bit by bit and then we quilted within each space. She used just one…
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June Free-Motion Quilting Challenge
June’s special guest teacher for the 2012 Free-Motion Quilting Challenge through SewCalGal was Cindy Needham. She does such beautiful work. This month she encouraged us to do a sampler of sorts. She wanted us to experiment with “The Basic Three” – a repetitive line, a circle, and an S-curve. She advised us to spend some…
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May Free-Motion Quilting Challenge
Today I did another sample for SewCalGal’s 2012 Free-Motion Quilting Challenge. The guest teacher for May was Leah Day. Many people became familiar with Leah when she made small free motion sample each day for a year. She has tons of information and videos on her website, so it is well worth a visit if…
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Background beginnings
I had a few available hours today, so I dove in and made a start on the background. The basic outlines are now in place. Tomorrow I finish it off! This was the fourth month of SewCalGal’s 2012 Free-Motion Quilting Challenge. This month guest teacher was Don Linn. He introduced a method of tracing your…
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Last minute free motion sample
This is the third month of SewCalGal’s 2012 Free-Motion Quilting Challenge. Wow! This month nearly got away from me. Wonder how that happened? Anyway, after dinner tonight, I pulled out a fat quarter of pink Kona cotton, some batting scraps and some muslin. I quickly prepared a quilt sandwich, and away I went. This time…
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February Free Motion Quilting Challenge
I’m taking part in SewCalGal’s 2012 Free-Motion Quilting Challenge this year. Diane Gaudynski was the guest teacher for February. She’s one of my favorites! Her quilts are drop-jaw gorgeous!!! So today I spent some time playing with feathers. I decided to use a fat quarter of Kona cotton, which I divided into three panels so…
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January Free Motion Quilting Challenge
Earlier this month I joined SewCalGal’s 2012 Free Motion Quilting Challenge. I want to use this challenge as a way to get to know my new sewing machine, George. January’s guest teacher was Frances Moore, and she did a video tutorial on quilting an all-over leaf pattern. I used a fat quarter of Kona cotton…