I got the backing done on the '30s repro doll quilt yesterday, got it pin-basted, and then went hmm...
Such is my typical reaction when I get to quilting something. I lack the confidence in my FMQ skills, due primarily to lack of consistent practice. Nevertheless, I sat down with a mini quilt sandwich (which doesn't taste very good) and tried doing a freehand daisy, and hahahahaha! No. How about if I draw it in pencil and practice following the lines that way? Hahahaha! And what is up with my bobbin thread?
So on went the walking foot, out came the blue painter's tape, and a-straight-line-quilting I did go. However, I did decide to leave the white blank squares open for the time being. You know, should the quilting gods endow me with the sudden ability to quilt a curve.
And then I paused to read my email, wherein Princess Pajamas, having pity upon my circumstances, provided a link that was most intriguing indeed.
Christina at A Few Scraps is having a quilt along for those of us who need to be forced want to learn/practice how to free motion quilt.
I am so there, dude.
P.S. - There's also a giveaway!
Random thoughts during the first hour of stippling my table runner:
- OMG, where am I going?
- Polyester batting may not have been the best idea.
- Why can't I keep an even speed?
- My stitch length can do 0-6 mm in 1 millisecond!
- Perhaps I should have watched that Free Motion Quilting Basics DVD...
- Draw your hand, draw your hand!
- Draw a flower, draw a flower!
- Anything resembling a curve, maybe?
- Oops, I did a loop-de-loop.
- I need a rear-view mirror on this thing.
- And people do this for fun?
- Are these the same people who have one-hour labors and give birth without drugs?
- I wish I could have gotten the top off the Frangelico this morning.
- OMG, where-am-I-going, where-am-I-going, where-am-I-going!!
- Fast or slow? Make up your mind already.
- Never mind, I have no control either way.
- Polyester batting sucks.
- Practice makes perfect?
- Practice makes poopy.
- Oh, this is pure ----!
- *Cackling!*
- There is no way that alcohol should NOT be involved in this.
- I am so straight-line quilting the next thing...
