A finish and a post after a short interval…….

Hi everyone!!  Finally I am here after a small gap,with another wall hanging, which is again a gift for my dear friend who celebrated their wedding anniversary on the 7th of March.  I took a long time in deciding what to make and later with less time in hand, it was quite a hectic  few days wherein I completed this project.  Moreover, with children’s exams going on, I had very limited time in hand to concentrate on my finish.  But I am happy , I managed to finish this one on time and also happy that she liked this so much.

So, without anymore blah, blah let me show you my finish………..

                               

This pattern is by Jane Spolar of Quilt poetry and is given here.     I  have made some small changes as per my convenience in this pattern, and I did free motion quilting on the back ground fabric. Here’s the close up.

                                       

I used a loop and a flower pattern for free motion, which was quite easy and covered the area faster.

                                 

I am itching to do some more new projects, but I am taking it slow now, I have to concentrate on my son’s studies,but will try to do get things done whenever possible.  

Thank you for all your lovely comments and advices, and please continue supporting me with them always.

Regards to all my blogging friends, and I am sorry I was unable to visit your blogs recently, to see your beautiful work.  But I will do so, as soon as I can, meanwhile happy stitching !! and Bye from Preeta.

My free motion quilting journey……

Warning : Long post…

After doing my hand quilting classes, which really requires time and patience… I had decided that I would definitely prefer machine quilting, since it would be faster and get me quicker results. But we human beings, don’t learn from our life experiences, that anything fast may end in furious results too.

Well this was an episode wherein I forgot that lesson of life, and along with my free motion foot plunged into my free motion quilting journey, not expecting what was going to come in the process.

I had that much sense as to start with a small project like some coasters.  All motivated and charged, I downloaded some simple templates, transferred them onto my fabric, sandwiched my batting and backing and started off…….

To my disappointment , all my stitches were going haywire and moreover, the quilting stitches were not even seen.  It looked more like an applique stitch…. very minute.  I understood that there was some problem with the speed of my foot presser and my hand movement in moving my sandwich.  I tried and tried but to no avail.

Frustrated, I called up my dear friend Nima, ( We call each other, during our ups and downs in our crafty process).   I told her about the challenges I was facing with my free motion. 

In fact there was a time when I felt like running away from my machine, I also felt hand quilting is much better since everything is in our control. Here everything is controlled by the machine. Though at the back of my mind I knew its only a matter of practice, I was so…. obsessed with getting quicker results. 

Then later during the day, Nima  called me up with some great information about quilting and forwarded me this site and this blog  which was of great help. Next day I started with all new found knowledge and motivation. This time I din’t  give up since I also realized  that everything fast also needs patience and perseverance.

I hope I din’t bore you all with my quilting journey and long post. Before I end I would like to show you all  the result of my trial and tribulations…..

And after seeing this I am  sure you would also agree that these can’t be made into coasters. So please suggest what can I finish out of these.

 

  

The above are my first few trials…. and below is the one wherein I felt that I am improving so I can manage to show you the back of the sandwich too.

This is the front.

This is the back.  Haven’t I progressed a bit??

There is still a long….. way to go till I even become half as good as many great quilters out there.  But I would certainly not give up.  I would also like to thank all those expert quilters who comes up with great tutorials and discussions.

With all hopes that I come up with better free motion finishes, let me take your leave.

Do send in your comments and advices, please………