Hello there -

 

 

When I walked into my studio this morning - 

 

I was greeted with this - 

 

Buja on her new hammock - LOL - 

 

As if to say - "Good morning, Grandma!" - 

 

 

After gently removing her from her resting place - 

 

I took the Red/White/Blue Panel off the frame - 

 

And pressed it -

 

Then decided to outline the top half areas the same as the bottom half - 

 

And to do a couple of the side star blocks using a ruler - 

 

But after the second one - 

It got a bit tedious -

And there are too many of them for me to DO tedious - LOL - 

 

So I did this one Free-Motion - 

It was definitely faster - 

And it doesn't look half bad - 

 

So I might leave the ruler work for the longer seams - 

 

Anyway - 

 

I finished a couple more side star blocks - 

 

And filled in the top corners with some Free-Motion stuff - 

 

Then re-hooped it to do the same in the lower corners - 

 

And a couple more side star blocks - 

Then took it off the frame again to check where to go next -

 

It doesn't look that bad from the back - 

 

The RED shows up on the BLUE - 

 

But doesn't show at all on the RED - YAY!! - 

 

This practice panel is great - 

 

I'm getting faster at "re-hooping" the quilt - 

 

And I'm getting better at judging where to position it -

 

In order to reach the areas that I want to quilt - 

 

The fusible batting lets me take it off the frame - 

 

And press it before I tackle another major section - 

 

To keep everything nice and flat - 

 

Since the top portion gets bunched up under the bungee cords on the top clamps - 

 

I like being able to start in the center - 

 

And work my way to the outer edges - 

 

Just like I did with my Free-Motion quilting - 

 

And the next few quilts that are "ready" to be quilted - 

 

Are already quilted-in-the-ditch - 

 

So that should help me keep them straight -

 

When I put them on the frame - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -