Susan Hunter

I have noticed when I use my regular sewing machine to quilt, such as "stitching in the ditch" or even sewing straight lines, that the quilting looks very different than "free motion" quilting or having it quilted by a long-arm quilter. It's almost as if I can tell that a regular sewing machine was used rather than the free motion quilting.

I also made a large quilt using a quilt-as-you go method, and I used strips to join the blocks together. Before joining the blocks, I had quilted them on a regular sewing machine. I made a 9-patch, and quilted with a squiggly line going down all 4 seams.

I finally put the whole thing together, and the quilt itself is lovely, but I am not sure I like the way the quilting looks. It just does not look like a "normal" quilt. Does anyone know if this is what normally happens when quilts are made this way? That they just don't look the same as a quilt made the conventional way?