Nursie good to know she is resting comfortably in a hotel room near the hospital. I will keep the healing thoughts for her coming though.
I have been busy working on my FMQ Mat and I thought I would share my progress. I have to say this is my best yet. Im going to put a binding on it and look onto what design I want to try next. I spent about an hour practicing my flower making without lifting the pen. Then I took a deep breath and went for it. Ok include another 30 min. to adjust the machine and make sure it was set properly. I made a small 4 x 4 practice square to practice that on until I got everything right then I moved on to my Practice Mat.. haha... I found that I did my best if I stopped ...needle down... right before I went into making my flower. I tried doing a series of flowers continuously. I was ok with two in a row but when I tried to do three I felt taxed. I was trying to move all over the quilt square without turning the block itself. As if I had a large quilt in front of me and not able to move and turn as easy as I would be able to turn the mat size square in front of me. I think this is really good practice. Was a suggestion from my video class. Time for an ice cream treat and then back to sewing.
Here is a picture of the front of the Mat and then a close up.
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And this is the back... I had blue in top and white in bobbin.
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