Hello everyone
Well it's been quite a testing week for me. Sometimes free motion quilting goes smoothly and according to plan and sometimes it doesn't!
I've been working on this wall hanging - a gift for my twin's birthday.
I saw these scrappy star blocks on Bonnie Hunter's website and had to have a crack at them. The green scrappy border were leftover strings from Orca Bay - thought I'd put them to good use.
I had terrible tension troubles quilting this and I didn't know why until I decided to give my machine a clean and an oil. The lint inside the bobbin case was quite unbelievable but not really - afterall I'd just completed a Bonnie Hunter mystery. Extreme piecing !!!
After a good vacuum out, some oil and a fresh needle, my machine is now back to it's normal self. I don't know why I didn't do that in the first place. Lesson learned!!!
Not good huh?
However it all turned out ok.
I quilted feathers with a pebbled spine and a meandering in the white diamonds.
Here's a great tip I got from Irene (at my quilt group). Use soap to mark your quiilt top. You need to leave it until the bar is nearly done then the edges are nice and sharp. It's quick and easy and smells nice.
After my last post on the Lantern quilt, lots of people have asked if I have a long arm, but I don't. Just a little domestic.
This weeks TGIFF part is over at
What a Hoot . LynCC is hosting this week and I promise you there are some fantastic finishes , no less from the hostess herself. Go and check them out - you will be inspired !
I'm off to sew the borders on my Orca Bay now.
Have a great weekend.
Rhianon.
