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Here's the latest from my sewing room. My daughter and I started on this quilt a little more than a year ago.

We got the main part of the quilt pieced last year, then this week we did the borders and yesterday I free motion quilted on my domestic (Juki TL 98 Q) it in a marathon session about 14 hours long!

It still needs binding, but Chris has taken it home with her to finish that in a few days before it finds its permanent home on her bed.

Hope you enjoy the pics. :-D

Detail of one of the setting triangles

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This square is the center of the quilt

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This is a little hard to see, but it shows the swirling ribbon motif on a 9 patch square

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This shows the motif better from the back of the quilt. The colors are off in this pic, but you get the idea.

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Chris and her dog showing off their new quilt (Please excuse the untrimmed, unfinished edges; the binding isn't on yet.)

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Beautiful! Fabulous quilting!

the quilting is spectacular!!! Love the batiks.

Awesome !! Did you use a long arm ?

Awesome quilt just beautiful. Marilyn

OMG! Beautiful quilt!

Beautiful and so is the quilting.

Amazing colors. I can't wait to get some more quilting experience so I can make some of these gorgeous quilts I see everyday!!

Beautiful quilt!! Great job, both of you!!!!

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Originally Posted by Jeanniejo

Awesome !! Did you use a long arm ?

No, I don't have a longarm; I do the FMQ on my Juki 98TL and use the "push through" method.

Beautiful Batik quilt and your quilting is awesome.

gorgeous quilt for sure

super ,awesome great job

Brilliant purple batiks! I adore the colors and patterns and quilting swirling across its surface. A beautiful feat of craftsmanship between you and your daughter.

That is gorgeous and your quilting is fabulous!!! :thumbup:

Wonderful! Love Batiks!

Beautiful job! I hope to become that talented on my sewing machine. I think your quilt inspector there likes it too!!

Your colors are wonderful. Your quilting is out of this world and on a small domestic machine. Wow. I don't want your sore muscles after that 14 hour marathon quilting job. But I suppose with such wonderful results it is worth it.

It's beautiful and great quilting also!

Wonderful! Beautiful!
Maureen

Your quilt is beautiful and the quilting is wonderful!!

Gorgeous! Love the batiks and quilting.

Beautiful - the quilting and the quilt :) I love the ribbons in the feathers! Wow - wonderful work! :thumbup: :thumbup:

You guys did an awesome job on this beautifulquilt.

beautiful job, great quilt!

Beautiful. Beautiful.

Beautiful !! Love the color !! :-)

Wow I love that quilt, excellent quilting....

Love the colors - beautiful quilt!

Love the quilt and the quilting. Your DD is a cutie and so is her furbaby.

Gorgeous and the quilting is amazing. My husband said you should be really really proud of yourself! I can hardly believe you quilted it on your regular machine. WOW :shock: How did you mark it? Did you use chalk?

beautiful quilting and fabrics

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Originally Posted by alaskasunshine

Thank you for your kind compliments. I started learning to FMQ about two years ago and this is my 5th large quilt I believe. When I first started, it took months of practice before I even got to the point where I felt like I could do well enough to use it on anything that anyone would see!

I do a very minimal amount of marking when I do free-motion quilting. I use something called a "Chubby Crayon" by Miracle Chalk that works well on dark fabrics. It is white and makes a crayon-like mark that removes EASILY with a steam iron. (I bought it on-line somewhere... you can find places that carry it by doing a google search on it).

I did mark approximate placement of the spines of the feathers on the setting triangles. I also lightly marked an "X" in the large blocks so I could get an idea of the placement for the swirled ribbons. On the nine-patch blocks where I also did swirled ribbons I didn't need to mark at all, just used the blocks as natural divisions to keep the placement sort of even--each of the eight outer blocks has a ribbon curl in it and they all come together at the center.

I think one of the reasons I like FMQing so much is that it doesn't require much marking! I always try out designs on practice sandwiches before I try to stitch them on a quilt. That gives me a chance to "warm up" a little and make sure I like what a design looks like when I transfer it from my doodling to actual stitching. ;)

Oh, what a beauty, and I do not mean the dog, although he/she is quite handsome too.

That is sew beautiful, your quilting is amazing. You give me so much hope I just purchased a Juki TL 98Q and grace start right frame. Looking forward to learning. Paula