Found it -

 

 

Yesterday I mentioned that I was missing one scrap piece - 

 

Well - I found it - 

 

It was in a baggie with some its "little" friends -

 

 

I played with them for a while- 

 

Pressing them all nice and neat - 

 

Then I moved on to the baby quilt panel - 

 

I quilt a "regular" quilt using one color of thread from edge to edge - 

 

But this panel is practice before I try to quilt another "flower" panel - 

 

 

I had so much fun stitching the yellow/blue one - 

 That I wanted to do the pink one next - 

 

But the pink one is much larger -

 

And it will take a few "advances" to get it all quilted - 

 

The petals shade from yellow to pink to lavender to blue -

 

So I don't really want to do one color from edge to edge - 

 

I want to quilt it in several different colors - 

 

As I go from the center to the outer edges - 

 

And this panel has several different areas/colors to use for practice - 

 

 

I always ditch quilted around the blocks - 

 

When I did my FMQ on my domestic machine -

 

So I was able to jump around - 

 

If I wanted to quilt different sections with the same color of thread - 

 

The "areas" were "contained" nicely - 

 

And I didn't have to worry about the quilt getting wonky - 

 

This longarm is still new to me - 

 

So I'm still learning what I can and cannot do - 

 

And the more I thought about it - 

 

The more it made sense to do a large or basting stitch -

 

In the section that is "hooped" right now -

 

Before I advance the quilt to the next section - 

 

If I baste each section as it's "hooped" -

 

It would be similar to "ditch quilting" sections - 

 

And I should be able to roll it back and forth - 

 

Without getting it all "scrunched up" in areas -

 

It sounded good in theory -

 

So I tried it - 

 

And it worked -

 

I switched to the "Open Toe Foot" and some "Eggshell" colored thread - 

 

And stitched down the center of the rainbow stripes - 

 

Thinking that I would probably outline those - 

 

And I wanted the basting stitches away from any areas that I want to quilt - 

   

 

And then I stitched some loose stuff -

 

In the center of some of the animals and leaves - 

 

And - for Jennifer - 

 

Who was looking for the GREEN - 

 

Here is the mountain under the Ark - 

 

And the lower right corner - 

 

Once I got to the bottom of the quilt - 

 

I unzipped the backing from the leader cloth - 

 

And let the quilt hang loose - 

 

It's all basted together now - 

 

So it is in no danger of coming apart - 

 

And I'll just clamp the quilt to the front rail - 

 

As I roll it back and forth on the back rail - 

 

And while I still had the "Eggshell" thread in the machine - 

 

I rolled it back to the top section - 

 

And stitched the center bird and some clouds - 

  

That's why I like "practice" pieces -

 

I can experiment on this baby quilt panel -

 

To see what happens - 

 

Without worrying about messing up some "good stuff" - 

 

It's an old panel that will probably end up being a dog/cat blanket -

 

And I know that Echo and/or Buja won't care -

 

Besides - 

 

I have to remind myself that "it's only fabric" - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -