Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Mixing designs

I loved the Free Motion Quilt Along this past week.  For some reason adding hearts to each of the 5 designs felt like a natural progression.  I practiced adding hearts to Stippling, Sharp Stippling, Zippling, and Circuit Board.  I also added some stars into the Zippling, because the straight lines in the star worked really well with the zippling lines.
 The last design was perfect for a doll quilt I needed to finish up.  I added hearts to Loopy Lines.

I really loved how easily the hearts fit in with the loopy lines.  Adding the hearts definitely makes the quilting more interesting.















A view of the back:

I typically hand bind, but with small projects like doll quilts and table runners I like to play with different machine stitches and practice my machine binding (since it tends to not be very exact when I do it).  This time I cut the binding out at 2 1/8"  and I think it worked a little better for me. 


I've been out of town, so nothing else was accomplished this week on my list.









Other projects
Quiet Book - pages need to be put together
Cupcake & Roar Quilt Tops - need to be layered
Christmas blocks - no progress
Halloween Wall Hanging- no progress

Do.Good Stitches - need to do September blocks
Bloggers BOM - up to date

Coming up:
I really need to get going on the Groovy Quilt Along.

Stats for the Week:
New projects - 1
Completed projects - 1
WIP- 7  

12 comments:

  1. I am impressed with your free motion quilting! I have tried to do some practice pieces, but just can't get the hang of it...so for now I just stick with my trusty walking foot :)
    Amanda

    ReplyDelete
  2. Your hearts and stars are wonderful!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Love the Fmq, it looks fab on the mini :)

    ReplyDelete
  4. I love the idea of adding little shapes in there! They look awesome!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Your FMQ looks so great! Love those little hearts!

    ReplyDelete
  6. I love your FMQ designs - so cute and inspiring - I will have to branch out from the old meander!

    ReplyDelete
  7. Love your doll quilt and the FMQ on it.
    Anything looks awesome with loopy line FMQ. Great job!

    Combining Zippling with Stars was a smart idea. For, some reason I didn't try the Zippling.

    ReplyDelete
  8. The doll quilt is so qute! Nice work

    ReplyDelete
  9. I'm the same way with smaller quilts, table toppers, etc - I like to practice my machine binding. But I have never thought to do a decorative stitch, for some reason. I might try it now!

    ReplyDelete
  10. What a sweet doll quilt! I like the idea of using specialty stitches on small bindings like that. Will have to try it soon! Thanks for the inspiration.

    ReplyDelete

I love hearing from you! :)