A Little More Goddess

Yesterday was such a lovely day to stay in and quilt. I decided to work on my Express Your Love/Goddess quilt and see if I could over come some thread breakage. I know that I'm still working through some tension issues on my new Tiara, but I didn't think that the Isacord thread breakage was all just tension. Then I read Linda's post, over at Linda's Landscapes,  regarding humidity and polyester thread breaks because of static. The humidity in my house is in the low 30's this time of year, so I set up my humidifier and got it up to about 45%. Didn't have one unscheduled thread break, although I did slow it down a bit.

 

All of the FMQ fills are some version of Leah Day's designs. It's so nice to be able to just flip through and pick out a fill to try out.

Anyway, I'm off to quilt!

Color Me Quilty!

Pat

Traveling Miles On a Quilt!

The on-going saga of FMQing my Expanding Possibilities quilt. Are you getting tired of seeing the same quilt, week after week??  I'm getting tired of stitching the same quilt week after week. I'm on my third spool of Isacord thread, they're a thousand meters each. That's 2.5 kilometers or about 1.5 miles of thread! The quilt is only about 52"x 72", that's a lot of thread! But the good news is that I now can see the end, although it's been a great quilt to practice on for my Leah Day homework.

Large scale Matrix

I practiced some swirls in a row as part of my November SoCalGal FMQ Challenge and some fun bouncy paisley, just 'cause!

Maybe next week I'll have this quilt completed and you can start looking at a whole new quilt!

I did actually start and finish a little project this week, a pillow for my grandson's birthday.

Flag front

Buffalo Bills fleece back.

I gave this to him on Sunday and he carried it around everywhere! I feel great that he liked it. It sure made this gramma feel good!

My stats for the week:
In-process: (4)
Purple heart wall hanging  (quilting and binding)
Expanding Possibilities quilt (Continuing to quilt)
Elephant quilt
Storybook quilt # 2 - All embroidery is done, plain blocks are cut and white border. Backs are cut.

New projects: (1)
Flag pillow

Finished (1)
Flag pillow
 
I'm linking up with  Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday and The Free Motion Quilting Project for QAL Wednesday

Color Me Quilty!

Pat

A Step On My Free-Motion Quilting Journey

I can't believe that we are already packing up to head home from our wonderful trip to the Outer Banks, NC. It has been a great week. I haven't completed any sewing projects, but I have made great progress in learning how to free-motion quilt. Back in June I talked about overcoming breaking needles when I quilted. Then early this week I talked about bad bobbins and bird's nests. But I'm now starting to get the hang of it. My Baby Lock Esante ran fine when I used good thread. The bobbin problems and bird's nests were from cheap thread I bought at a quilt show. When I put Isacord thread in, everything worked like a charm.

Backside (batting) of a new purse project.

A potholder project

My Mom's Table Runner UFO Note: My Mom had hand basted this, not good for machine quilting!

The back of the table runner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Sew, I have learned that practice helps, having the right thread counts and free-motion quilting at the beach is a blast!


 Sew for now, just Color Me Quilty!

 Pat