I thought that because the design is simple and there are only two colors, there is space for some special quilting. And here is what I am quilting. I spent some time drawing different quilting motifs onto this sealing wrap. A friend of mine from USA sent me a roll (the stuff I find here is not as great as this one). I placed it on top of the quilt and with water soluble marker I started … [Read more...]
Jeans Needles
I love and appreciate jeans needles more and more. They saved my sanity when I quilted with the Aurifil 12wt thick thread and these days I had another nice surprise. I had to quilt over fusible web appliques; I used Aurifil 50wt thread and a topstitch needle; I tested the thread tension on a small regular sandwich - no appliques. Perfect stitches. Then I started to quilt over the appliques - … [Read more...]
Aurifil mini quilt challenge
I am part of a mini quilt challenge organized by Aurifil and Sew, Mama, Sew!. The challenge ? To sew a mini quilt using threads from Camille Roskelley collection. Most of the time I quilt with neutral thread so I was excited to quilt in colors! Here is the beautiful thread I used. Plus white. And here are the 2 quilts I made - I couldn't stop at one! Quilt size : 20'' x … [Read more...]
Work In Progress
This is my new hexagon project.For now I am enjoying free motion quilting, but I promise many hexagons are involved. … [Read more...]
Free Motion Quilting Tips II
When I bought my sewing machine,11 years ago, I wanted that someone be able to show me all the secrets so I can stitch easily. But no one could do that for me because one of the secrets is PRACTICE. In my first years of quilting, I did not have major problems with piecing or straight line quilting (with a walking foot) but free motion quilting was a real challenge to me. So here are a … [Read more...]
An Aid for Free Motion Quilting
Super easy - free motion quilt following the fabric's pattern ! This fabric is from the Mixmaster-Scribbles line by Patrick Lose for Robert Kaufman. I love, love, love all the Mixmaster fabrics designed by Patrick Lose. It was fun and easy to quilt this piece! This fabric is from the Ginkgo collection by Kona Bay. I love striped fabric too, it is so easy to quilt it. I … [Read more...]
Free Motion Quilting Tips
Here is the promised tutorial on free motion quilting! In my country quilting is unknown to most people that is why I had to learn all by myself. Can you believe that the hardest thing I had to understand was stitching in the ditch? I had no one to tell me “Don’t do this, it is wrong” so I do some things in my own manner. They make my quilting easier and I use them all the time.Here are some … [Read more...]