Flower baskets finally quilted and ready to show!
#52
This is not usually a favorite pattern of mine but I must say yours is the most beautiful one I have ever seen. Your colors are glorious and your quilting is magnificent. I think you have made me change my mind on the flower basket pattern.
#55
Which once again shows it's all about the talent of the quilter, not the machine.
I LOVE the way you made the feathers fill up all the space in their respective sections (and I'm usually not a big fan of them), and the dense quilting in the basket blocks.....LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!!!!!!
Spectacular work...Best of luck in the show!
I LOVE the way you made the feathers fill up all the space in their respective sections (and I'm usually not a big fan of them), and the dense quilting in the basket blocks.....LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!!!!!!
Spectacular work...Best of luck in the show!
#57
Almost speechless! Wow, Gorgeous and you did it on a regular machine to boot. I have so many questions,lol. Do you mark your quilts and how big is it? Do you sew away or toward yourself. Sorry, it's just so beautiful.I may have to reconsider buying a new machine, not that I could ever get close to your talent, but I could enjoy trying. The judges will see more than the little corner we are looking at and they will be in awe and will have to give you best in show, blue ribbons,etc.Hope you get your birthday wish.
I really don't have a set direction that I normally quilt. I position the quilt so the least amount of it is in the throat space and then that determines which direction I will quilt (away, towards me or side to side). For the border I quilted so that I was pushing the quilt away from me. Makes it easier than having it start to pile up in my lap.
This quilt is roughly 70" by nearly 80" I think. Silly that I can't remember but I measure, write it down and then don't think about it again. The larger throat space in the newer machines really does help when quilting, but it doesn't provide a magical solution to all quilting problems. I hate to hear it myself but practice and more practice is what will increase your skills. A nice new machine sometimes makes practice more fun though.
#59
Thank you so much! I did have a Bernina 820 but I sold it this summer. I purchased the Janome Horizon and have been very, very pleased with it.
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