Wednesday 3 April 2013

Woodland baby blanket

Hi there,
I have finished my entry to the Fancy Feet challenge over at Ricochet and Away.  However am probably a bit late but I will show it here anyway:)
The challenge was to use a sewing machine foot that you have never used before.  This was great timing as I wanted to attempt a baby quilt with free motion quilting.  This was very scary for me but after a few tension issues it was nowhere near as scary as I'd imagined.  I only followed a simple squiggle pattern which I freehand drew onto the quilt top with washable quilting marker.
Free motion quilting foot



Now as you can see by the picture here on the right I was way off the lines, but I really had a fun time quilting this little quilt and I was really happy with the results.


I did have the thread snap a couple of times but it was easily resolved by tying off the thread and then stitching in the same spot a couple of times where you tied off before continuing.  I did also keep checking the back because I was paranoid about tension issues.  This was good because on a couple of occasions I had really loose thread on the back which I had to unpick.  All in all though I had a great experience and finished this little quilt in two hours.





Thanks Rikka for giving me the push I needed to try this great method of quilting.
Kristin

5 comments:

  1. Absolutely adorable! Congrats on meeting your challenge!!!

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  2. Aww love this! What a gorgeous quilt! What is the name of the foot you used? Is it a darning foot?

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  3. Wow!!! You've done a fabulous job mastering free motion quilting, Kristin. It looks great!!!!

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  4. Hello, I'm visiting the participants of the challenge, I'm delight with all the beautiful creations! Your baby quilt is adorable and to be the first time you make free motion, you did a beautiful job! I'm also participating in the challenge, I used the pintuck foot. I am a new follower of yours via GFC and bloglovin. I leave the link to my blog, I hope you will visit me and if you like my creations, I invite you to follow me.
    I am pleased to meet you!
    Marisa from
    http://passionetcouture.blogspot.ca/

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  5. So nice! Look at you doing that neat quilting... I am really impressed. Love the little critters. So sweet.

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