The work on the baby quilt continues. I talked to the baby's mother and she didn't like the juvenile prints or orange colors so off they went. I think I have the final layout. I'll leave them on my design wall for a few days. The background will be a combination of beige fabrics.
I've tried to capture the movement of marbles. I hope I succeeded. I loved playing with marbles when I was young, now I just collect them in a glass jar. I enjoy looking at their beautiful colors. Even though I don't have sage colored marbles in my collection, I like these color combinations on the quilt.
I did the longarm quilting on the 'Scattered' quilt. Days before I actually quilted it, I looked at my collection of books on machine quilting by Angela Walters and others for ideas. I also looked at some edge to edge quilting pictures online such as Wildflower and others, hoping that I would find something I liked. When I saw this one and I said to myself, 'that's it'. It looked easy enough, I thought.
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I know I have so much more to learn and the most important thing is to practice more. I really enjoyed the longarm quilting. I especially like the part that I don't have to manually baste the quilt which saved me a lot of time and also saved my back! Even though this is my first longarm experience on a big quilt, I finished it in less than three hours time. I really like that!! Now I just have to make more tops so that I can do more longarm quilting. Problem solved!!
What are you working on this week? I would love to hear about your longarm quilting experiences, so please share in the comment below. Thank you!!
Have a great week.
Margo
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I really like your scrappy triangles with gray. They are so colorful! I'd comment on longarming, but I don't quilt with one. I use my domestic Jukie Tl2010Q to quilt my quilt tops. That is a lovely pattern that you used for the quilt. And not least, what an interesting baby quilt. I make lots and find that it is the Mamas likes which decide what they want.
ReplyDeleteNo basting is my main reason for using a long arm. That and being able to line up backing, batting and top straight using the machine poles, roll them up and having them still matching at the sides when I get to the bottom of the quilt. Your free-motion swirls are much better than mine. I'm told to keep practicing, but a computer has been the answer for me. sueclive at aol dot com
ReplyDeleteYou did an awesome job on that quilt! Love how the baby quilt is coming along. I love marbles too. They are so pretty to look at! Thanks for sharing on my weekly show and tell, Wednesday Wait Loss.
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Your baby quilt is coming along very nicely, I love these pretty colors and shapes.
ReplyDeleteGood job with the longarm, your swirls and hearts are perfect! I have never tried to quilt with a longarm, but it sounds terrific!
Thank you for sharing your progress, and linking up ;)
Hi Margo, your quilt turned out very well. It's always more difficult than it seems. Making more quilt tops to get in more practice sounds like a brilliant answer to me! Thanks for linking up to Free Motion Mavericks.
ReplyDeleteThat quilt is so modern-looking and pretty. I love your color and fabric choices. Now I want to make one for myself.
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