Slowly -

But surely -

It all comes together - ;))

I was going to mark some quilting baselines using a blue marking pen -

But then realized that they would be hard to see on a quilt this large -

So I switched and used blue painter's tape to mark my baselines -

Knowing that I probably couldn't sew many AWESOME lined-up seams - LOL -

I opted instead to lay the tape out in sweeping gently curved lines -

Making sure to stay clear of the re-pinned UNSEWN part of the AWESOME seam -

Since I don't want to get ahead of myself -

And start quilting before I stitch it closed - LOL - ;))

I'll stitch to one side or the other of the tape -

And once the baselines are stitched -

I'll remove the tape and quilt one section at a time -

Echoing the baseline with lines about two inches apart -

Then I'll go back and stitch another line down the center of the echo lines -

That somehow sounds easier than trying to stitch a line every inch or so -

And I should be able to accommodate variations in the width of the sections -

The echo lines should stabilize it quite a bit -

So that I can remove the pins as I go along -

At least that's the plan - LOL - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -

Sometimes -

I get ahead of myself - ;))

Promise you won't laugh -

And I'll tell you what I did - ;))

After binge watching a bunch of my Craftsy/Bluprint videos on FMQ -

I thought that - before I get too involved with my Mountain To Be Quilted -

I would get my "walking foot" project ready to go -

So I had something else to play with when I want/need a break -

I spread it out on the kitchen island -

And found two matching threads for the quilting -

A Dusty Rose -

And a Chocolate Brown -

I knew that I needed to close up the opening that I used to turn it inside out -

So I pinned it closed - trying to match the points -
With pins on either side of the point -

And one pin down the center to keep the seam together until it got stitched -

All pinned and ready to sew -

I did a single line of stitching - very close to the edge -
With Dusty Rose thread on the top -

And Chocolate Brown in the bobbin -

And I did an AWESOME job - LOL - ;))

From the back - it lined up so well that you can't tell that I couldn't see where I was sewing -

But - like I said -

I got ahead of myself -

When I spread it out to press/fuse the layers together -

I found big lumps of batting bunched up in several areas -

Note to self - Next time use a SINGLE sheet of batting -
This is NOT the place for franken-batting - LOL - ;))

I forgot that I had left that opening OPEN on purpose -

So that I could stick my arm in there to straighten out the lumpy batting -

BEFORE I stitched the opening closed -

So - I spent some time "un-sewing" some of that AWESOME seam -

Not all of it - mind you -

Just enough so that I could stick my arm in there and straighten out some parts -

Then I spread it out - again - and pressed/fused the layers together -

And pinned it to stabilize it before I take it to the sewing machine -

To RE-SEW the UN-SEWN part of that AWESOME seam - LOL - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -