Machine quilting is so much fun, especially when your tension is good, your bobbin doesn't run out AND your thread doesn't break. I have several smaller projects completed, a baby quilt for my niece and and few other recipient unknowns. So far they are all panel tops, no pieced projects but I do have an applique quilt to finish before my first nephew comes for a visit. I am still learning to know when and where and how to make the quilting the best I can. I am going to put a few more pantograph patterns together and really figure out the scale of the quilting design. I have had a little thread battle but I think I have that figured out, all in all, all is good.This week I have been taken completely over by my Grandmother's Flower Garden project. I am hooked, those little flowers can keep me up way past my bedtime. Things are progressing and I love the lay out design, thanks to the internet, I have found. I also found a great tutorial on-line for basting the fabric to the cardboard template. The only thing I do different then in the photos is that I don't pin my template and fabric together, oh and I knot my thread to start and finish. I don't want the basting to come out if I leave it for a while before assembling a block. Okay so I will try to be kind but I just don't understand why you sew your fabric to the cardboard - now you can't use the template again and you have to take out the stitches. So to anyone who has sewn their templates to their fabric, I am sorry and to anyone considering a Grandma's Flower Garden Quilt using an English Paper Piecing method baste your fabric to your templates. Please send me an email if you have any questions :)
My family is great, my little ones are getting bigger. Dad is away this week, so we should get lots of sewing done... we hope.
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Great fun indeed! It's good to know that we appreciate the simple joys of life and overlook the financial crisis that's going on. This site will be helpful for some. Thanks for your interesting post here.
Your flowers look great! Here is me sewing my fabrics to a paper template (but I do use my templates again and again). I have tried your method but just don't like the way they look after I baste one together. Your way makes so much sense and definitely less work. Perhaps I just need to give it another go.
Lovely design! This must have taken hours to create. Keep them coming. You can use this small business site to get funding to eventually sell these to other people. I think it would work.
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