Jelly Roll Race Finished!
 

I finally finished this today after having it in progress for several years now. It is one of my first quilts and it was put away for a long time because my teacher moved. I pulled it out a few weeks ago and decided it would be my first quilt to finish with free motion quilting. I'm extremely pleased with the results. I struggled getting the quilting done because I quilted the first 1/3 of it just fine and then I started having thread break after thread break. I cleaned, re-threaded a hundred times, bought new needles, tried silicone spray on the top and thread. I finally bought Aurifil thread in a matching color. It took the combination of the spray, thread and needles to make it work. The batiks on this quilt were woven so tightly it was giving me fits. I can't tell you how very thrilled I am that it is finished and I am so happy to share it.

Bravo! You did a good job on it!

very nicely done

very nice! bravo for persevering the result is really worth it.

Congrats on a great finish with your quilt. It is amazing what we learn from our first quilt. Glad you could get the problems solved.

What size/type needle finally worked? I've heard mention of a Top-stitch 90/14 needle.

It's perfect to welcome Spring--nice job!

Beautiful fabrics and very nice quilting. Love the backing too, just gorgeous.

Pretty quilt and very well done meandering!

So pretty, and your quilting looks great.

Really nice work. I love it..

It ended up being a 90/14 Microtex needle. I tried a topstitch needle but it didn’t do the trick for me.

Thank you all so much for your kind words and encouragement!

I have only done one of these.

The border is lovely and really showcases the “race”.

Turned out very pretty.

Very pretty quilt and you did a wonderful job on it. Yeah!! A finished quilt.

Very nice.

That is fantastic. Love the batiks and your FMQing is great for your first attempt on a whole quilt given your troubles. Great job. It must feel great to have accomplished this. :thumbup:

Now on to the next one!!! Good job on the FMQ.

Very pretty quilt and quilting. Glad you didn't give up on it!

Very impressed with your FMQ. I just haven’t got the hang of it yet. Thanks for sharing.

What wonderful spacing you got on your FMQ - doesn't look at all like my first effort!

Yippee! It is so pretty all finished up and ready to use. Great job on your first quilting. I am sorry it was such a hard job to finish for you, but, you did it!

Thank you all for the compliments on the FMQ. I did a lot of practicing on scrap sandwiches that did Not look nearly as nice before I finally found the rhythm. I also watched a lot of Angela Walters videos before biting the proverbial bullet. She says many times that nobody ever became a better quilter by ripping out stitches and a finished quilt is better than a perfect quilt top.

Congratulations on persevering through all those challenges. :thumbup:

Nice! I have several to finish.

Super. BrendaK