High Stepper! - Spring Festival Quilt
 

I did this quilt as a demo of free motion quilting on a domestic machine for a Spring Festival in our town. I hand dyed the fabric then drew the horse in the center. People walked by and watched what I was doing and the most common comment was "I want a machine like that one that does everything for you!". They were a bit incredulous to learn the only thing my machine would do was a standard straight stitch. And that I was guiding the fabric. This was the 3rd time I've done this type of demo and I always enjoy hearing the comments and talking to people about my passion. I finished the quilt the next day at home.

Beautiful! You must make it look easy.:D

You did an exceptional job with this.

What a gorgeous quilt!

Wow, it is apparent you do not need an embroidery machine!!! Amazing work!!

that horse is stunning...beautiful!

Really neat quilt.

Simply amazing. I do good with straight stitches

Stunning!! Do you also do entangle, by any chance?

Awesome quilting.

Very nicely done.

Your quilt is spectacular. You are very talented and it's wonderful that you are sharing what can be done with just a straight stitch sewing machine. Thanks for sharing.

Amazing! I love it!

I am fascinated by zentangle but have not jumped into yet...

Stunning work!

WOW - wiping the drool off my keyboard.

Spectacular quilting! You must make it look so easy they think the machine is doing it for you...but you are the artist here!

Beautiful and I would have loved to watch you work on it

You do indeed have a very talented machine! Kidding aside, that is wonderful.

Magnificent quilting!

OMG, That is stunning. Gorgeous quilting.

It's lovely.

that is really nice great quilting!!!

A beautiful horse! Neat project~

Beautiful! I'm sure you opened a few eyes about free motion quilting. You are very talented.

Beautiful quilting.

beautifully done... very creative. Your FMQ is amazing.

Everyone is right I would have walked by and thought you used an emb. machine you are a true artist. Beautiful work !

Awesome work, especially considering you only used 'normal' tools. :-)

very nicely done

Beautiful work!

amazing quilting and embroidery, very very pretty!

Ok, the question is do you sell transfers for those of us that just are not that creative or artistic? I've always had a vision of a brittany horse quilted on a white background for my bed.

I want hands that can do what you do

Outstanding talent you have! SO JEALOUS!!

What a talent you have! I too would have stopped and watched you work at this.

AWESOME. BrendaK

THAT is one beautiful piece of work.

I do not sell my work but I can tell you I haven't much artistic talent. I found the horse on Google images, printed it out, took it of Office Max and had it enlarged. Then I taped it to a window and traced around as much of the shape as I wanted, then sandwiched it and stitched it. It takes a little pre-planning but it isn't hard to do. But thanks to all of you for the kind words!

You are one talented lady. Not only is your horse beautiful, the quilting around it is stunning as well. I, too, find if I can print it out and draw it on the quilt, I can usually follow a line...............but have NO TALENT in coming up with an image of my own. I can't draw a stick figure!!!! UGH