Quilts

Monday, August 28, 2023

WIP And LongArm Quilting on 'Scattered'

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.

 

 
I practiced tracing with fingers and over-confidently thought that I got it.  When the day came, I showed up to find that Patti, a volunteer at the Q4C, had already set a practice piece for me.  Isn't she great?  Without her I would never have done it.  I tried to do the loops and swirls according to the picture I had in mind.  I couldn't guide the machine to do what I wanted.  It was NOT as easy as it looked.  It came out looking awful, didn't look anything like in the picture.  Patti recommended that I do the simple loops and leaves design.  She brought me back down to reality and I really appreciated that.  I realized that I took a bite bigger than I could chew.  I practiced for a while, and off I went on to the actual quilting.  Patti helped me to load the quilt on, and two hours later, I finished it.  The leaves look more like hearts but it doesn't matter, I like that.  Here are some pictures. 

 


Detail picture

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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6 comments:

  1. 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.

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  2. No 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

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  3. You 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.

    https://www.inquiringquilter.com/questions/2023/08/30/wednesday-wait-loss-343

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  4. Your baby quilt is coming along very nicely, I love these pretty colors and shapes.
    Good 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 ;)

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  5. 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.

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  6. That 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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