More quilting -

 

 

Of the Ladies - 

 

First - 

 

Some "sort of straight" lines - LOL - 

 

 

 

Then some wavy lines in a wonky 9-patch - 

 

 

Similar to the other one to the left and below it - 

 

But going in the opposite direction - 

 

Then a section of wedges - 

 

Where I started at the bottom - 

And worked my way up the section - 

First from left to right - 

Then from right to left - 

 

I'm better at left to right - 

But right to left is good to know - 

 

Then another square - 

 

With "sort of straight" lines - 

 

Worked vertically from right to left - 

 

 

I still have some more wedge sections - 

 

And other areas to quilt - 

 

So stay tuned - LOL - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

 

More progress -

 

 

On the puzzle - 

 

And none in the sewing room - 

Maybe tomorrow -

 

But I make no promises - LOL - ;))

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

Some more quilting -

 

 

On my Ladies - 

 

First I redid the purple patches in the wonky 9-patches - 

 

I did a wonky double loop - 

and though they aren't wonderful -

they're good enough - 

 

 

 

 

Then I redid the Lazy 8s or Wishbones in the long rectangle - 

 

 

And did some wavy lines in another wonky 9-patch - 

 

 

And some pebbles in a black strip - 

 

 

 

And some "orange peel" in a section of squares - 

 

With some loops in the pink patch in the top left - 

 

 

A square spiral - 

 

 

And a funky flower - 

 

 

 

I'm making it up as I go along - 

 

And I'm not going to worry about the wobbles - 

 

Because I agree with everyone who says - 

 

If I can't see them from across the room - 

 

It's OK - 

 

And I seriously doubt that anyone else - 

 

Will be able to see them either -

 

Except my daughter - she has "eagle eyes" -

 

And if she says anything - 

 

She can stitch her own quilts her own way - LOL - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

 

No sewing today -

 

 

I spent most of the day doing paperwork - 

 

And then we played with the puzzle - 

 

Festival Day (found the name on the bottom of the box)

Nancy Wernersbach - MB Puzzles - 

2000 pieces - 

 

 

Tomorrow is more paperwork - 

And - hopefully - some sewing - ;))

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

The next one -

 

 

To be quilted is this one - 

 

I call it "Ladies" - 

And it goes back a long way -

 

All the way back to April 2011 - HERE -

 

 

That little patch on the bottom right is a scrap that I can use to check the tension without actually sewing on the quilt top (I learned that trick somewhere along the line - but it's been so long ago - I forget where - sorry)

 

I started with the vertical row of squares in the bottom right section - 

 

And chose a red thread - same as the ditch quilting -

 

And - believe it or not - it blends right in - 

 

 

It shows up on the black, of course - 

 

But not that much on the pink batik - 

 

Then I stitched the wonky 9-patches near the center - 

I did swirls in the light pink/orange patches - 

And a funky square-ish spiral in the purple ones - 

The swirls are not great - but fill the space - so I'll leave them as is - 

But I didn't like the spirals - so I "un-sewed" them - 

And will stitch something else in those patches tomorrow -

I stitched Lazy 8's or Wishbones in the long rectangle - 

But I didn't like them either - so I "un-sewed" them, too - 

Tomorrow I'll redo them and try to get them smaller and closer together - 

 

This is one of my favorite quilt tops - 

Definitely "improv" - LOL - 

And I've been hesitant to try to Free-Motion quilt it - 

But now is as good a time as any - 

I might as well - 

Just Do It - LOL - ;))

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

 

 

The last two -

 

 

Sections are quilted - 

 

First the last orange one - 

 

I tried a funky flower - 

 

 

And gave up trying to fit small ones going every which way - 

 

And settled for big ones all going the same way - 

 

Then the last red section - 

 

I started "garlics" going from one side - 

 

And switched to stitching them vertically - 

 

Which seemed to help a little with the curves  - 

 

But I have trouble seeing behind the needle - 

 

When I'm trying to sew backwards - 

So - anyway - 

This one is quilted - 

And sitting on the back of the chair - 

With the "No Rules" one - 

Both need binding - 

But I need to clear off the space behind my other sewing machine - 

 

In order to do that - 

And there are plenty more tops in the closet that need quilting - 

So I might just find another one to quilt - 

 

And go on a binding spree later - LOL - ;))

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

More practice -

 

 

But first I had to fill in the lines - 

 

That I missed yesterday - 

 

It doesn't look bad from here - 

 

 

But you can see my wobbles up close - 

 

Oh, well - 

 

Moving on - LOL - 

 

I decided to try another "feather" in this green section - 

 

 

Then I remembered that I had some stencils in the closet - 

 

So I dug them out and sorted through them - 

 

 

And found a "Baptist Fan" - 

 

And "pounced" some powdered chalk over it - 

 

The problem was that my FMQ gloves rubbed off the chalk - 

 

Before I got to it - so I did them free-form - 

 

And they don't curve quite as much as they probably should - 

 

So let's just call them "organic" - OK? - LOL - 

 

 

Then I tried another curvy one - 

So - not too bad -

 

 

But it looked sort of "empty" - 

 

So I decided to try to "fill" it - 

 

 

 

I should have left it alone - LOL - 

Oh, well - 

 

Moving on - again - 

 

I have two more sections left on this quilt - 

 

And I'll play with them tomorrow - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

 

 

Two things -

 

 

First - 

 

Gene is trying something different -

And is having issues with his hosting provider -

For now his address is -  https://artbygene.blogspot.com/

 

If you can't find him at his usual address - ;))

 

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Second - 

 

I marked another grid in another purple section - 

 

 

And - in case you think it's the same one I did yesterday - 

 

It's not - LOL - 

 

It doesn't look that bad from here - 

 

But compared to yesterday's section - 

 

This one looks a bit wonkier to me - 

 

And - now - looking at this photo - 

 

It seems that I missed a couple of "lines" - LOL - 

 

So I'll have to go back and add them in - 

And thanks to some of my friends - 

I'm not really bothered by my imperfections - 

My reply to some of yesterday's comments was -

THANKS!!  I guess I did want it to look perfect - but then it WOULD look like a machine did it!  THANKS for the reminder that the imperfections are what makes it look like a human quilted it and that "perfectly imperfect" is perfectly acceptable - ;))

I'm not entering any of my quilts in any "shows" anymore -

 

And I don't pay much attention to the quilt police - 

 

So my wonky Free-Motion quilting suits me just fine - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

 

 

Practice -

 

 

And more practice -

 

I need a LOT of practice - 

 

So I pulled out this old practice piece - 

 

And marked a grid in a purple section - 

 

Free-motion quilted the straight lines - 

 

And then practiced my "orange peel" quilting - 

 

Down the whole length of the section - 

 

 

It doesn't look too bad - 

 

Until you look up close - LOL - ;))

With practice - 

I can only improve - right? - ;))

I have LOTS of stuff to use for practice - 

So it will be fun to see - 

How long it takes me to improve - LOL - ;))

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

 

 

Quilting -

 

 

Is FUN - 

 

If I can ever get that far - LOL - ;))

 

I finished the Free-Motion quilting on "No Rules" today - 

 

I did a big spiral in this block - 

 

 

Some swirls - 

 

A funky flower - 

 

More pebbles and swirls - 

 

A square spiral - 

 

Some "orange peel" in the little squares - 

 

And they are still awful - LOL -

 

Some grid lines in the top border of blue and yellow squares - 

Alternating directions - 

 

I left the wedge sections for last - 

 

They are the most fun to do - 

 

Because I get to adjust the scale of the design - 

 

From big to little or little to big depending on how the wedge goes - 

 

So I just PLAYED - and PLAYED -

 

And realized that I remembered more designs than I thought I would - 

 

The top is finally quilted - 

 

You can't see the texture in this photo - 

 

But you can see it on the back - 

 

I still need to bind it - 

 

But I have another basted quilt ready to go - 

 

So I can keep practicing - 

 

While I do other things - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -