Originally Posted by Julieintheburg
The Debbie Beaves quilt was a kit too. I seem to be on a kit kick lately- we live in a rural area and while we have a really nice local quilt shop, I really love the convenience of kits when I am pressed for time! I also love the variety we can find on line! On this quilt I used the walking foot for the long curving lines outlining the "butterfly" shapes, then did sort of a scrolling design on the rest of the quilt and outline quilted the floral design on the border with a daisy- fmq. That was fun and turned out to be really easy! I hope the picture of the back helps you see the fmq. This was my first quilt to use fmq and as I went along, the scrolls (or curlicues) sort of got smaller and tighter. I read in one of my free motion books that was a common problem for a lot of quilters which made me feel a little bit better. I love the picture of you at your sewing machine- it warms my heart. You go girl!
This is my first full kit. I've done a few BOM that came in a kit for each month. Those have all gone well.
We live in a rural mountain community, so I'm in the same boat as you, sounds like.
Thank you so much for adding your close up picture of the quilt back, showing off your beautiful quilting! I just LOVE the quilting you have done on that quilt!! In fact, you have inspired me with your butterflies!! :thumbup: I am just ready to start the quilting on a baby quilt for our 8th grandchild and was wondering what in the world I was going to do for the quilting. Hmm, I'd love to know more about them if you wouldn't mind sharing some details like what pattern you used to draw them or by what method you marked your quilt. Getting to do something like that with a walking foot really sounds great about now. :thumbup: Since this quilt is for a boy, maybe the daisies wouldn't be the thing to do, but butterflies? Why not? :D
Karla