I finished the baby quilt for my daughter's friend. It's for a girl, though she chose the colors. I loaded it the standard way...and then realized that it made more sense to load it sideways in order to do the design I had decided on. I decided it was worth it to take it off, and load it so I could do the design lengthwise on the quilt, horizontally on the table. Thanks to Shelley for featuring a similar quilt on her blog. It's one of the hardest things for me to do--come up with a viable all over quilting design.
I tried a new pantograph on this donation quilt, which is also from Shelley. It's a dense design, but flows nicely. I must admit I had my doubts about Shelley's claim that the foundation tissue paper that she had used would disappear in the wash, but I quilted without removing it. Like magic it did disappear in the wash!
Okay, back to the kitchen. I still need to cook dinner and Dale is out of his cookies. Baking those will warm up the house.
2 comments:
Great job, both the custom/freehand job AND the cool new panto!
What a great job you did on both quilts! I look at your pantographs and think that I could do that too ...but it's such a PITA to get to the back of my machine.
I'm so glad that tissue paper dissolved for you too! I would have been very embarrassed if it was simply an anomaly on my part. :-) I really ought to make a tutorial on that cuz using tissue paper as a foundation is awesome.
That New Wave pattern is great, isn't it? I also loaded my version sideways; as you discovered, it's easier quilting that way.
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