FMQing Along

Since I have a baby quilt ready to quilt with the baby not coming until November I thought I would take my time with the quilting and really have some fun with a lot of different designs.  There are 6 blocks, so I chose 3 center-oriented designs and making them each twice.  I've been doing one design a day and it's helped me feel like I'm making progress without being too unrealistic about having a whole day to quilt.

Yesterday was the Sea Oat Flower:

Today was the Sea Weed Flower:

The one thing with center-focused designs that I've found is that it requires quite a bit of travel stitching.  It had been a while since I quilted a design with so much travel stitching.  The first block was a bit rough, but after just one day of working on it I already feel like it's a lot easier to work with.  I have one more design to quilt tomorrow and then it's on to the borders.