My first machine piecing and FMQ!
 

I posted a picture of my first quilt top here last week. I realized that I should do a couple smaller projects before taking on machine quilting a large piece. I've also become attached to the quilt top and don't want to muss it up with my first attempts.

My solution, pot holders! I just quilted the first one his morning, so fun. My FMQing has a long way to go, but I'm still kind of proud.

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Now to figure out binding!

I think we all started there! I had a hard time remembering to run the machine fast but move a little slower!

Great first potholder. That is a great size to get used to working with everything on.

When I free motion quilt is to go all the way to the edge, then when you put the binding on, the quilting just seems to float across the entire quilt.

Enjoy your adventure.

Not bad! Not bad at all, and I am sure that my first foray into FMQ'ing was a far cry from that good. Some days, it still isn't great. Getting the rhythm going is the hard part.

We have all had to start learning at the beginning. I don't see anything wrong with your potholders. It is good to experiment starting on small things. I quilted numerous dog quilts for a local shelter. You probably learned to NEVER stop on a curve.

a great start

Great first effort! Much better than most. There are some great binding tutorials here on the board and on Youtube. Find the one that looks the easiest to you and go for it.

That's good. Keep practicing regularyly and all of a sudden you will notice that "you got it". But have to practice. Ask me how I know.
margee

Yup! that was my method of self teaching myself to quilt. Folks at work got Pot Holders for Christmas that year :) The next year they "graduated" to table runners.

great way to get in some practice and have something for it. great potholder.
also, pets don't mind sub par quilting, at least mine is sub par. Or worse.
great first attempt