Monday, October 22, 2012

Christmas QAYG progress

Hello, and Welcome back!
I have a few pictures to share with you guys. Friday night and Saturday afternoon I had time to  sit down and start the Free Motion Quilting I wanted to do on some of the Christmas blocks. I even got out my walking foot and put it to use in a real quilt for the first time. If you're following my blog you read my post about my problems with the walking foot. Thankfully I don't have that problem anymore! It included to order a brand new walking foot through Amazon.com.  When that arrived I could compare it to my original Singer walking foot and noticed that the plate itself that pushes the fabric down was missing from mine. No wonder why I couldn't get the stitches working. DUH! So now I have and extra walking foot :)
I got all excited and decided to quilt one of my blocks on my Christmas Quilt with straight lines. I can't remember if I mentioned it at the FAL blog post, but this quilt is partially made with block swap blocks from back in 2007. It mostly includes my blocks, but there were a few that were close to the size I needed (and we agreed on) so I decided to use those. Someone made a very pretty star block in which the fabrics I love and left the background just blank white which called for the straight line quilting I longed for. I think it looks really pretty now! I had to put a frame around the blocks to be able to size them up to be uniform.


Let me just say it while I was working on this block I was in loooooove! With my walking foot of course! Now I can't wait to make a quilt with just straight line quilting.

The next block I pieced myself because I love pine trees. A lot! :)

On this block I was going to practice the swirls I really like from Angela Walters' Craftsy class. Well, I still need a LOT of practice for sure! It's a lot more easier to just draw it on paper.

Close-up of the background quilting:


And the final one that was also pieced by  me:

With this block I was practicing pebbles for the first time. Not-so-perfect, but I can live with it :) It's kind of stiff right now, but I'm hoping it will get softer once the quilt is together and I can wash the whole thing. I love this look because it reminds me of snow falling. If you know me well, you know how much I LOVE snow! :)

Here's a close-up of the pebble quilting:

That's all I have for today, I'm hoping my Amy  Butler Weekender bag pattern will arrive shortly so I could start that project too! Like I need more projects to work on, LOL!

'Til we blog again! :)

7 comments:

  1. Nice quilting! Have you thought of changing thread colors to change up the look?

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  2. Wow,I am in love too! With your finished blocks and also your quilting Kati :) Excellent job on both the straight line and the free motion quilting!

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  3. So glad you've got the new walking foot and enjoyed using it. I've just bought the Angela Walters fmq book but not had a chance to play around yet but I was so inspired by her quilting on Tula Pink's quilts. All your work's looking fab - is this quilt a 'quilt as you go'? I've not tried that method yet but I'm very keen to do a class, hopefully in City Quilter's Spring schedule. I've not bought everything for the Amy Butler bag yet - life took over at the end of the week and I've had to postpone, looking forward to seeing how you go on - what fabric did you choose?

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    1. I've just worked my way down your posts in reverse date order and got the answers to all my questions - must remember to start at the bottom next time and work my way forward to the present!

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  4. Love your blocks! Great way to practice FMQ. I have Angela's book too and it has so many good examples.

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