David and I are working on two totally diverse projects. While digging through our final few quilt boxes I found a dismal amount of unfinished projects. Some even go back to when I was a purist and was only hand quilting. That just means I was terrible at quilting by machine. It was also WAY before machine quilting became acceptable in shows.
I have decide to use some of them as machine quilting tune up projects to get back into the rhythm of both quilting and working multiple days. This one was actually a friendship group quilt started back in 1994! The first machine quilting was done on my Pfaff 1475. I remember getting frustrated with keeping the quilt rolled to get the quilting done. That is why it went in the "To Be Finished Later" bin.
It is a great example of how far I have progressed in my machine quilting from 1994 to now. This will get finished, but no sleeve will be attached as this baby is going no where except maybe to a group show and tell.
I have decide to use some of them as machine quilting tune up projects to get back into the rhythm of both quilting and working multiple days. This one was actually a friendship group quilt started back in 1994! The first machine quilting was done on my Pfaff 1475. I remember getting frustrated with keeping the quilt rolled to get the quilting done. That is why it went in the "To Be Finished Later" bin.
It is a great example of how far I have progressed in my machine quilting from 1994 to now. This will get finished, but no sleeve will be attached as this baby is going no where except maybe to a group show and tell.
Several people have asked David how he works on his projects on the design wall. this morning I took a few pictures of him working with the cutting mat and rotary cutter as he makes some adjustments to his current piece. Here he is trimming off just a 'smidgen' to make this stretchy fabric fit the way he wants.
He remarked that regular commercial fabric was the reason he should stick to batiks when doing his pieces. Batiks are woven tighter with a higher thread count and stretch and fray less. Those properties make his work easier to do with a lot less tweaking.
He remarked that regular commercial fabric was the reason he should stick to batiks when doing his pieces. Batiks are woven tighter with a higher thread count and stretch and fray less. Those properties make his work easier to do with a lot less tweaking.
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