I am doing the FMQ with my Singer 301A. I have finished all the pinwheel/flower designs and just doing some FMQ in the borders. If you don't look at my flowers closely (Squint and be about 5 feet or more away), they look pretty good. LOL!!! I am quite proud of my first time using stencils and will keep on using them. I may try the chalk pounce next time. I used the purple disappearing marker to mark my pattern. So far, they have all faded away. I used a puffy polyester batting and it was kind of a pain to mark the stencil but I think if I use cotton batting, I will like it better next time.
I found some excellent tutorials on YouTube by Lynn Witzenburg,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r6Jte-wxYw She has tutorials on FMQ and stencils and they really are easy and informative. Watching the videos has given my the courage to keep on trying with stencils.
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