Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Let the Machine Quilting Begin

Hello Everyone,
 
Butterscotch Baskets is on the machine and I've taken a couple passes across her.  I refer to my HandiQuilter as my riding lawnmower.  I turn it on, grab the handles and start steering in nice neat rows from left to right.  I don't have a grass catcher or a mulcher, but it gets the job done.  Well then again, I guess my mulch is all the threads that I cut off during the quilting process. 
 

 
I had grand, elaborate plans before I started, then reverted back to what I'm comfortable quilting.  I had curved-crosshatch rulers lined up ready to go, and I bailed. I need to practice with them first, and this is not a practice quilt.
 

 
Each corner will have what I call a "pineapple-looking-thing".  It's a very technical, quilting term don'tcha know!

 
I drew this design in January.
 


It actually worked out quite well on the blocks.  I'm probably going to go back and add some stitching in the ditch......my least favorite form of quilting, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
 
As I'm quilting, I really take an upclose and personal look at my piecing skills.......there's always room for improvement.  As Forrest Gump would say, "That's all I have to say about that!"

Soon,
Lynn

15 comments:

  1. It's lovely - and I always enjoy seeing the process along the way to the finished end.

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  2. Thanks sew much for sharing your technique with us!! Love the plastic sheet with the erasable pen quilting!! Your quilting AND PIECING are both wonderfully PERFECT!!
    P

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  3. Woohoo!!! Yeah, some quilts are just not for practice. My should-be-top-in-line for quilting flimsy is not because I want a certain motif for parts of it that I've not mastered yet. So I'm quilting something else ahead of it that I practice that motif on. Feathers - yours are gorgeous here! - continue to elude me completely. Maybe I'll be able to get them in my muscles when I can get a longarm (can't happen before 2015), but on the domestic it just refuses to emerge nicely. I'll keep practicing them with ink, and maybe one day something will click. Can't wait to see your quilt finished!! :D Very pleasing work going on here.

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  4. Your feathers and pineapple thingy are beautiful! So....Run Forest Run!...LOL

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  5. Wow! That looks amazing! You are really an expert now!

    Cheery wave!
    Bev

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  6. I'm sitting here oohing and aahing over the quilting. What you decided on looks great to me, the feathering and pineapply thingy seems softer and more fitting. JMHO- LOL

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  7. Your feathers are so beautiful, so graceful. And the pineapple thing, too. I recently bailed on a cross-hatch thing, as well, but I would like to master that on a quilt that I can practice on. Love seeing this work up close. Looks great.

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  8. It's going to be gorgeous. I love the color palette you chose - my favorite.

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  9. Your quilting is awesome. One question what do you mark with?

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  10. Oh my Lynn, that is beautiful, love the quilting!
    Do you mark your quilts..
    Julia ♥

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  11. Oh, this is so beautiful. I am so impressed with your quilting...it totally enhances your fabulous quilt with the precise piecing! Wow!

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  12. I love your qulting. You have become my inspiration Lynn. It is beautiful. I'm going to go practice this week end. I'm quilting my last big quilt by my sewing machine. Thank you.

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  13. This is going to look beautiful. I specially love the "pineapple looking thing", and, of course, your feathers.

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