I was really pleased with myself last night, I had finally finished quilting James’s quilt, with wrist still intact!! Not only that but I had finished the quilting with about 12″ of bobbin thread left (from a 250m roll!!) Perfect I thought!
I quilted three chevrons yesterday which just left the side triangles. Each chevron has a different quilting pattern. My first attempt at free motion quilting (fmq) on this quilt hadn’t gone well, I tried to do wavy lines down a chevron, but mine have lots of wiggles and squiggles in them from when I had to stop and start. At that point I thought no more fmq on this quilt.
Trying to get to sleep the other night with my head buzzing with sewing stuff (Is it only me…) I suddenly thought that if I did a pattern with points and corners, I might be able to do it. It worked!! I did a pattern of sort of scrolls / waves / leaves, a sort of wave ending in a point when I could get everything straight before the next move, I was really pleased with it. The photos look grey, but actually it’s a teal blue, the bottom picture is a lot more accurate.
When it came to the side triangles I decided to do fmq in a meandering sort of pattern, that worked well too as I was only trying to tackle a small area at a time. Flushed with success I decided to do the other side with a loopy pattern, it just didn’t work out right, I should have followed Stuart Hillards advice and drawn it on a piece of paper first! Having done two corners though I felt committed as I really didn’t want to try and undo it, so I stitched the last three triangles with the loopy pattern. Finished…or so I thought!
This morning I started taking photographs of James’s quilt, top looked great, turned it over to show the quilting, arghh what’s that!!! Those first two pesky triangles that I wasn’t happy with but didn’t want to undo, were all loopy-loopy underneath!!! So I’m going to have to undo them anyway and not only that, I’ve had to go out and buy more thread too!!
Hopefully today I will finish the quilting, then just to bind and sew a label 🙂
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Oh no! I feel your pain! Hope you’ve soon got it sorted, and don’t forget when you go shopping, you’re only off to buy thread! 😀
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Thanks, it’s sorted, I’ve just to hand-stitch the binding down now…and I was very good, I only bought a reel of thread, mind you I was only in Stephen Smiths Craft centre, not as much to tempt me in there!!
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I’m glad you’ve got it sorted. It’s looking good.
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Thanks Anne, BTW Ali from Thimberlina (above) is organising a bloggers meet-up in Dewsbury in February if you are interested
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Thanks. I noticed that but wasn’t sure if I’d fit into the group. I’m free so could go – are you going?
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Yes, I’m going, it was good fun last year, we went round some fabric shops in Dewsbury and then to Wetherspoons for lunch, it was lovely putting faces to names and meeting others who enthuse over fabric!!
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You’re not alone – I lie awake some nights consumed with crafty thoughts which I just cannot switch off in my brain – most annoying. Your quilt looks beautiful!
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Thanks, glad I’m not alone in my midnight thinking!!!
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