heylulu

this is absolutely beautiful

adyldrop

i love it and i hate purple!!

Mossie

That is so pretty! The quilting is absolutely stunning.

Sewslow

Oh my gosh that is beautiful!

zz-pd

Oh what a stunner, the quilt and the quilting is breath taking. You did not need practice, it is perfect. God bless.

Aunt Bea

Words aren't good enough to describe the beauty of this quilt. You said you had to practice before quilting. Had you worked on a long arm before or did you just get started with this one?

JoyVoltenburg

Thank you!! No, I had never used a longarm before getting this one in March. I had done free motion on my regular sewing machine - which just always felt awkward and I usually wound up with at least one pucker on the backing. I did some fairly nice things on that setup, but nothing like what I can do with the longarm. I started out practicing on the longarm by just doing doodles - loops, feathers, stippling - everything I knew I wanted to do. Then I practiced ruler work doing crosshatch and eggs and darts on some placemats. I watched all the You Tube videos I could find on the subject and paid attention to the movement of the longarm. Then it was a matter of really studying the tension and getting to understand how the machine liked the thread and settings. The first couple of things I quilted, I was constantly diving under the frame to check the tension on the backing, but now, I 'm fairly confident of what's going on and only check now and then or when I change threads.

Aunt Bea

You need to have your own quilting business. If this is how you start, I can't wait to see what you do in the future.

Spudgm

Very pretty, is this quilt posted on the Yahoo group homequiltingsystems? Very nice job! :thumbup:

JoyVoltenburg

Thanks. yes, it's the same quilt on the Yahoo forum.