Friday, January 11, 2013

Third Time's The Charm!

FMQ Koi
  The continuing saga of Koi for my Koi Pond quilt. With the two previous attempts with machine embroidery the back of the quilt had nasty knots. I think that I have found the solution, free motion quilting. I'm really love how this fish turned out.
The two to the left are machine embroidered. The one on the right was marked, then free motion quilted

The back is one of the biggest differences, no knots in the FMQ fish.
The other good part of the FMQ koi is that I was able to enlarge to a better size for the quilt. Machine embroidery is limited to the size of the hoop. I FMQed the koi with polyester embroidery thread (Iris), but yesterday I ordered 28wt Aurifil in bright orange and tangerine. Hopefully I get the thread quickly so I can use it in this quilt. I'm planning to get the quilt basted this weekend and I would like to start quilting soon.

Today I'm linking up with Leah Day at the Free Motion Quilting Project for FMQ Friday. Can't wait to see what everyone else is quilting today!
Free Motion Quilting Friday

Color Me Quilty!

Pat

18 comments:

  1. That's a good solution, it looks really good! Well done!

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  2. The koi you FMQ'ed looks great, I love it!!

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  3. It's lovely! I had a bit of trouble with Auriful knotting up on the back, even doing free-motion. Then I realized I was using a lovely cotton thread, on lovely cotton fabric, and had used polyester batting. First thing the nice lady at the quilt shop taught me, match type of thread to type of batting. I won't forget again!

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  4. Love it! It looks perfect, can't wait to see it on the quilt!

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  5. Wow, Pat, beautifuly quilted!

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  6. Well done!! I the resting that the free motion is better than embroidery machine. Could be humans give it soul?

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  7. That is seriously SO cool! I love the koi! I'm glad that doing FMQ got rid of the knotting in the back.

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  8. Wow! your Koi fish turned out beautiful!

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  9. You do beautiful work. Those are amazing

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  10. I. Love. It. It's wonderful with FMQ, far better than the embroidery trials. That makes you better than a machine, doesn't it?!

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  11. So lovely! The thread colors are really nice and you did a great job quilting it!

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