A long day 8

    

It has been a long time since I spent most of a day sewing or quilting. I have been in sewing heaven all day. I started out by changing the thread on the machine to water soluble thread to do some trapunto on a geisha panel that I wanted to do, followed by some FMQ fills and accents. All I have left is look for some olive green thread to do a very small section in the lower corner and then I can block this piece and bind it. One done and 3 more to do.

Cheryl M.

Days 8 & 9 - Janet

Day 8 - Yesterday was busy so I didn't get a chance to post, but I did get some stitching in.  I had so much fun last weekend with my Sunny Days quilt, I decided to play again!  Same idea, only this time with some raw edge applique.  I got the sun fused to the background, and a layer of batting FMQ/trapunto'd to it, and then got it sandwiched and ready to go.



Sun FMQ appliqued with layer of batting
(sorry about the colour it was late and dark!)

Day 9 - Then today I had some real FMQ fun.  I wanted to do different things then the thread work one, so started with the sky where I echoed the sunrays, and did a little curved cross hatching in the process.  My object with this was to try and keep my stitches neat and a relatively equal distance apart.



I used a 50/3 varigated King Tut thread by superior up top and Gutterman 50/2 in the bobbin  80/112 topstitch needle

Then, because I really like the Gold holoshimmer sliver I used on the sun last time, and the McTavishing I did in the sky, I combined these two in one of the sun swirls.  I like it!

Now I have to decide what I'm going to do in the rest of the sun - I am going to leave that one swirl unquilted so that you get the pouffy effect on it, but I'll need to do some more on this tomorrow.

Happy quilting!
Janet

Nice Loops...

Day 8 - I did long wavy FMQing line on a plastic bag keeper. It was good for a larger practice piece. I liked how most of them turned out...but they definitely are not symmetrical.

 I did do some stitch-in-the-ditch before I did the FMQing.

I really like how it turned out. If you want to see the finished project, check out today's post.

Now, for today's accomplishments...I made a log cabin block and quilted it for my FMQing practice for day 9. The loops turned out good, still not symmetrical, but Oh well...if I want to keep FMQing, I better not worry about symmetry for a while!

 

I really like today's results.

I've noticed with FMQing that I think I like the results better when I hold the sandwich a little father away from the needle and just pull it around. Also, pulling the material towards me rather than pushing it away.

The fun has just begun...
Amanda