Practice Quilt
 

just a small something i threw together this week so i could practice machine embroidery motifs and stippling.

no close-ups of this one, please, Mr. DeMille. i don't hate it, but the truth is that it looks waaaaaaaay better in the photo than it does in person. LOL LOL LOL

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I think it looks really nice. Stand back and look - you maybe will see what the photo is showing - how nice it is.

That dot print in the sashing reminds me of the old fashioned reel films yet the quilt has a modern feel to it. did you fussy cut it to get the dots to line up on the sashing like that?

Came out great!

nicely done... but would love to see those motifs

This quilt have great fun of colours,
JOHN

It looks great from here!

looks good!!!!

i like it a lot more than i expected to. i think it's fun and whimsical.
there are some technical errors, though, that don't show up in photos.
for now i'm saving it to use as a visual aid in some classes my friends and i will be giving at the local YMCA. i can use it to demonstrate some of the things that will happen if we don't pay attention and/or take the wrong sorts of short cuts during construction. then i'll fix it to demonstrate that we can often rescue projects that might seemed doomed to the landfill. :)

i used this motif (built into my embroidery machine) to practice centering on intersected seams. finding the center was easy enough. i will need to practice some more on getting them level, so motif points around the outside land where they're supposed to. these are close enough for a project like this, but i want to get better before i tackle anything really important. i just did small stippling in the gray block borders. it doesn't show up in a photo - not even a closeup. the thread color matches so well, it just "disappears".
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this is the fabric i started with. i used it for a 4-patch stack & wack, then played around with the leftovers to make the sashing and border.
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