Thread: Batik Quilt with FMQ

It is GREAT! Love the quilting

How beautiful and quilting is awesome

Gorgeous!

Beautiful quilt and the quilting is wonderful!! You motivate me to keep practicing.

Wow its beautiful :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

lovely

Boy are you great at FMQ! I can't do it at all. And I'm soooo jealous of those of you who can.

Stunning quilt. Wonderful FMQ.
You can tell that you are comfortable
behind your machine. So creative.
Encourages some of us to get going with our own
machines.
Love the colors also. I could have it on my
bed! :D

don't shake that quilt out- you've got a dog on it!!!
beautiful quilt!!!

Originally Posted by SueJ

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

me too. a beautiful quilt

Great quilting!! :thumbup: :thumbup:

I get so thrilled looking at all the pictures they are so beautiful = do any of you feel kind of depressed afterwards wishing that you could do as well. Guess it sounds silly but I wish I could do as good work as most of you.

Really beautiful and so nice that you worked on it together

That's a gorgeous quilt!! Good job on the quilting too!

Love it! You did a great job...

The quilt and the quilting is beautiful!

Beautiful quilt with absolutely beautiful quilting.

A PURPLE LOVER'S DREAM!

Beautiful

Originally Posted by JackieG

A PURPLE LOVER'S DREAM!

My daughter is a total PURPLE LOVER! How did you ever guess?
:lol:

The quilt is beautiful and your FMQ is spectacular. Great job. :-D :-D :-D

Beautiful batik quilt and the FMQ is very nice. One of these days I will be able to do this!

Beautiful quilt. I love all shades of purple.

Originally Posted by azwendyg

Originally Posted by alaskasunshine

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?

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. ;)

Thank you so much for responding to my questions. Hmmm a "Chubby Crayon"? I'll have to look for that. Feel free to add more close ups of the quilt so we can see the block layout. It is such a lovely work of art!
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Beautiful quilting. I love the feather design in the first close-up.