Here is the infamous New Year's Day Mystery quilt finally FINISHED! Oh, yes! I said it! Finished and I am so glad. Over 1200 yards of thread to quilt this, I lost track of bobbins and only 330" of binding! I have learned so much!!! But it's still a mystery quilt to me!

I also found a great web site that some of you already know about, quilter's tv. Lorraine Stangness has an episode on Magical Machine Quilting. She shows free motion quilting on your home machine and has some wonderful ideas. Try this site, scroll down to magical machine quilting.

http://www.quilterstv.com/?bcpid=1312346068&title=featured_designers

She also has a book out that sounds like one I need to get! Anyway, here's my latest efforts to learn the art of machine quilting on my Bernina!

And one more

BeautifuL!!!

WOW :!: :!: :!:
What a great job you did on the quilting. It looks fabalous. Keep up the good work. Thanks for sharing.

A masterpiece! Thanks for sharing your picture, it's very inspiring as I try to do a little more machine quilting.

G O R G O U S.... WOW That is simply beautiful!

Ditto Dawn!

OH MY, MY HAT IS OFF TO YOU! That is abosolutely beautiful in both departments. I have no clue how you have the patience for that. All I can say is, WOW

Oh, so beautiful, Yvonne. I loved it from the start! So pretty finished. You quilted and quilted, didn't you?! It's so wonderful! I want one bad! :D

Thank you, Ladies.

Yes, Chele, I quilted and quilted and then quilted some more. I'd change from free motion to walking foot and back and then realize I'd missed a section and have to go back and change feet again!

I'd call my sister and whine. I'd send out emails to anyone that would read them and whine! My husband was even saying he'd be glad when I was through with this quilt! I gave it to him since he was so supportive! :lol:

This quilt plain scared me. I finally just told myself to consider it a practice quilt and so, that's what I did. I just practiced! Tried a little bit of everything! Sure wish I'd seen that Stangness video before I was finished with this thing! Oh, well. I pulled out that big ole pink quilt top and am going to practice on it now! :lol: I'm on a roll! :lol: I hope! :lol:

absolutely beautiful!!!! pat yourself on the back !!!

well yvonne what can i say that hasnt been already said ... WOW beautiful, i still haven't quilted mine, i was just thinking of it yesterday. I think i'll use mine as a practice piece to learn how to do quilting. I got a quilting frame for christmas and shame on me i haven't even tried it out yet. Chicken , Chicken that me ..... :lol: Hopefully mine will look half as good as yours. Thanks for posting and i sure will check out this site, maybe i'll learn something. :D

I really like this quilt. Great fabric choices.

Kyia

that is so beauitful. never would have thought it with the way it started I still haven't finished mine. Hope it turns out 1/10th as nice as yours

Wow, you really quilted that big quilt on your Bernina? I can't imagine how............

It is beautiful. Would love to hear any tips you have for us.

Stunning, gorgeous, beautiful...... :D I love the colors and your quilting is absolutely awesome! Can't wait to see more!!!! Thanks for the link, too :D

WOW, What a beauty :!: :!: :!: :!: Pam W.

The best advice I think I've ever heard was to only worry about the part of the quilt that's right under the needle. As long as that's flat all's well! It seems to work for me.

There was a discussion on this board somewhere about machine quilting also. There were a lot of wonderful suggestions posted there also.

Yummy num nums, I want! Did anyone ever tell you you're one talented gal? Well, it's true! :thumbup:

Really Beautiful,,,,,,,,,,

Stunning :!: :!: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: You did a great job!

Your quilt looks amazing.

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THAT IS ONE GORGEOUS QUILT !!!

Lovely, lovely!!! The quilting is done so well too! What is your secret?

Yea! What a beauty too! I love your fabric and the quilting was worth every whining syllable you uttered :D

That is Beautiful!!!

ok call me dense.. but what mystery quilt was this? .. on this site? on another? .. umm what is the name of the block?

I just love the look of yours so I am trying to figure this out.

Thanks!

Here's the site for the mystery quilt.

http://planetpatchwork.com/Case126/Case126Part1.htm

I just looked and the directions are still posted apparently. Have some fun! It makes a big quilt but it was a fun project even if I couldn't keep up with the timeline on New Years Day!

Thank you everyone for all the wonderful words.

Wow! Yvonne: Your quilt is gorgeous and the quilting looks outstanding. I can't wait until I'm THAT good at quilting my creations. Great job, thanks for sharing.

Wow Yvonne, That is so cool, that must have been a mammoth task. You're really going great on the free motion quilting. I am still learning machine quilting and am still doing mostly stitch in the ditch, which is why I have so many quilt tops :lol: . I'll have to do way more practice before I can machine quilt like that. That's gorgeous :thumbup:

Thanks, Shelly! There was a lot of work getting that done but here's what 'cha gotta do.
Declare that new years quilt as a practice quilt! By the time you finish you will have learned tons! Trust me! :mrgreen: I made a couple of hot pads in practice and then I just bit the bullet and put the pedal to the metal and the rest is history. (Lots of cliches there, huh?) There is much that needs to be ignored but I did it and I'm glad. Oh, and I did not preshrink/wash the fabric so when I did wash it it really puckered up nicely and that hid another multitude of sins! :lol: I do have my ways!

OMG!!! You did a fabulous job!

Take a bow!!

Lol Where there's a will there's a way. You mean to tell me that I'm actually spose to finish these tops of mine :shock: .I thought they were meant to be this way
Seriously I really do need to practice more, might just bite the bullet, so to speak, :lol:

That is absolutely beautiful!

Love the job you have done on the quilting. I recently quilted something and put the binding on and felt it wasn't quioted quite enough for my liking so I did free motion over top of it and then felt better so I guess it is never too late. I love the heavily quilted look and yours is superb.

This is a knock-out!

Incredible!!!

M

I love it and the colors GREAT JOB. :D

Renee

Wow, it is simply lovely, as other's have said it was worth every whine!

You did a fantastic job of machine quilting. It looks a lot like my longarm quilting. NICE JOB!