Originally Posted by
unfinishedbusiness
I'm elderly and I keep reading we old folks should learn new stuff to stimulate our brain. Do you think learning free motion quilting after70 yr of hand quilting counts? have it started it's not perfect . I 've got the straight stitching done and I am going oo learn free motion on the quilt.LOL It is just for me and my dog so why waste practice thread? Sound like my brain is too far gone already
I think she's older than 70. She didn't start quilting when she was a baby.
I'm over 80 and still teach at the one room school and square dance twice a week.
Last week I tried a new pattern for my FMQ. I usually do loops. Since the quilt was all machine tacked already, I started around the side on the half blocks. As I worked my way around, the quilting changed noticeably. The last 2 or 3 blocks started to look like something I really liked. So I ripped out about 5 of them and went on to finish the quilting. Then I went back and looked at those half blocks again. Didn't like some of them. Ripped out three more. Now most of the blocks on the whole quilt look mostly the same.
What I did I call Mushrooms. It is sort of a variation of 3's and E's with deep curlicues in each corner. I have a lot of flimsy tops around now and need to get them finished, so had to find a way to do that quickly.