Armylady2012

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MarionsQuilts

Armylady - that is fabulous! What a great design! Your points are perfect (Paper piecing????)

FMQ can be really intimidating for a first timer (personally, I can't stand it, and I've been quilting for years!)

Don't feel you have to do FMQ ... I do tons of stitch in the ditch, or just use my walking foot and create designs. I also use templates and use my walking foot with those!!!!

Be sure to practice FMQ lots before you try it on your wall hanging. It's really hard to take those stitches out if you make mistakes!

I'm sure someone on here will be able to chime in with some tips, because the only tips I have is to practice and good luck!

GramE

OOOoooo. Lovely!

And I totally agree with Marion. FMQ continues to escape me. Straight lines are my friend. Or echo lines following the line of the design. I've taken out more FMQ stitches that I would care to confess to. My FMQing lady is my go to person when I want more than a straight line. I know how to drive but my Quilting is mostly in the ditch!

Armylady2012

Marionsquilts and GramE thank you for the advice and tips.

ube quilting

Love your stars Armylady, I think that the best treatment for this one would be to practice echo quilting.

Doing a stitch 1/4" inside the star outlines would be a simple way to quilt and have the stars shine. Do the lighter blue stars first.

When you do the dark blue stars there is a point in the valley of those stars where the quilting will cross into the light blue to make the inside point. I would not worry about crossing those valleys into the light blue to get the inside point.

After that, stitch 1/4" inside each edge of the blue border and a few in the white border just to keep it uniform.
This is just a suggestion to help get your creative ideas going.
It is a terrific little creation. Anxious to see it finished.

ube quilting

For everyone on the East coast. Noisy neighbors of the best kind.

Wood Frogs
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They are making a lot of noise the last couple of nights. This is the first one I ever caught. He is only a little over two inches long.

I love listening to them.

peace

GramE

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Well, I had to rework some because as the pieces came together the dominant color wasn't dominant and the highlight color was dominant. So for the third time I took some of the pieces apart & reworked them. The problem with working a mystery, will my color choices work? My choices worked just not in their intended positions! I don't think I'll use that dark to square it up. Maybe the heart or the light blue.


Question, what size wall hanging are you all making? I have a 36" sq & a 12 X 24" rectangule on my wall, this will be 24" square (not sure if I'm partings with it yet) what size do you here prefer or would like to receive. The is my first wall quilt swap, so if this discussion has been had, forgive me.

Armylady2012

GramE, love it can't wait to see if finished. I am not for sure about the size either this is my first also but I think mine is like 34 squared. I reread what the instruction page said it is suppose to be smaller than a lap quilt but bigger than a Mug Rug, hope this helps.

ube quilting

GramE, this is stunning. You are making great progress on this. Armylady is right about the size, bigger than a mug rug and smaller than a lap quilt. Most of the quilts I have received are between 18" - 24" sq.
peace

GramE

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Just a few more hand sewn seams and the square borders & she will be off the the quilting lady!