Day 3 for Me (Cheryl)

You would think that after 3 years of having a project laying around getting in my way most of the time, you would think that I would have a plan on how I want to quilt my daughters graduation quilt.

But the truth is that all I have come up with to quilt this is to stipple it. I really don’t want something that is simple for something special for her.  The photos will not have any quilting on them ( the black out areas) and the words are machine embroidered. 

So  today I am playing with some fill stitches to hope that something will come to me. If any body has any suggestions please chime in or comment (please, pretty please).

Cheryl M.

Continuing to progress...

I did today's FMQ Challenge - however it only consisted of two small pieces of scraps so I could continue to get the hang of it.

 Each day seems to be getting easier! The tall 'feather' was roughly sketched on to the felt to see if I could follow the lines with my movement...it worked some, then others were really off. I'll try more tomorrow...I have more time to practice this week - no school for me till Friday!

See you tomorrow!
Amanda
    ~ the Mad Fabrictist

Janet - Day 3

no sunshine today, back to the rain, and I just wasn't getting overly inspired today! 
I did finish off the last bit of McTavishing on my little Sunny Days quilt from yesterday

And then did a little more FM stitch in the ditch on the row robin quilt, but I still don't know what to practice on it, so just grapped a sandwich to play on.  One thing I want to do more practice with is stitching straight lines when I'm FMQing, so that was my exercise today

and then I tried some curved crosshatching

But, using the edge of my hopping foot as my guide means that these quilting lines are all really close together, and I fear if I do this on a real quilt, I'll end up with a piece of stiff cardboard!  What are your favourite battings to keep a quilt supple, even when there is a lot of quilting on it?

(all quilting today done with Gutterman cotton thread 50W, top and bobbin, 80/12 topstitch needle (this is my fave needle to use just about always), Acrtic Cotton batting and muslin.  The Sunny Days quilt has a mixture of Gutterman cotton 50W, Sulky rayon and Holoshimmer thread on top with Gutterman cotton 50W in the bobbin, all on a polished cotton sheeting which demanded that I use a Microtex needle.  A poly blend batting was used.  All quilting done on my HV Lily 555, feed dogs down.)