Hi everyone
oh what lovely quilters you are. I feel so reassured by your comments and I'm about to return to my machine with a fresh approach and a more forgiving mood! I've been watching the lovely Leah and Heather; so much good information there that my confidence is buoyed up. I may have to rethink my planned design so I can enjoy working on the quilt rather than it becoming a battle!
I have made up some large practise quilt pads and I'm going to experiment with keeping the feed dogs up which I hadn't tried before and I'm using a darning foot. I think my previous post sounded like I was attempting to free motion with a regular piecing foot, actually I was referring to testing the tension, not free motion quilting.
I think I may post some pictures of my efforts, they won't be pretty but maybe it might help others see what the beginning process is all about and normalise what to expect!
I shall report my findings!
Thank you all aagain much love
Mags
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