- - Batik Quilt with FMQ
(https://www.quiltingboard.com/pictures-f5/batik-quilt-fmq-t108751.html)
LAB55
03-18-2011 06:59 PM
Beautiful !! Love the color !! :-)
btiny36
03-18-2011 07:03 PM
Wow I love that quilt, excellent quilting....
texpat45
03-18-2011 07:06 PM
Love the colors - beautiful quilt!
boohoofish
03-18-2011 07:09 PM
A beautiful quilt!
BETTY62
03-18-2011 07:40 PM
Love the quilt and the quilting. Your DD is a cutie and so is her furbaby.
alaskasunshine
03-18-2011 07:45 PM
Gorgeous and the quilting is amazing. My husband said you should be really really proud of yourself! I can hardly believe you quilted it on your regular machine. WOW :shock: How did you mark it? Did you use chalk?
Maureen
03-18-2011 08:18 PM
beautiful quilting and fabrics
azwendyg
03-18-2011 08:21 PM
Originally Posted by alaskasunshine
Gorgeous and the quilting is amazing. My husband said you should be really really proud of yourself! I can hardly believe you quilted it on your regular machine. WOW :shock: How did you mark it? Did you use chalk?
Thank you for your kind compliments. I started learning to FMQ about two years ago and this is my 5th large quilt I believe. When I first started, it took months of practice before I even got to the point where I felt like I could do well enough to use it on anything that anyone would see!
I do a very minimal amount of marking when I do free-motion quilting. I use something called a "Chubby Crayon" by Miracle Chalk that works well on dark fabrics. It is white and makes a crayon-like mark that removes EASILY with a steam iron. (I bought it on-line somewhere... you can find places that carry it by doing a google search on it).
I did mark approximate placement of the spines of the feathers on the setting triangles. I also lightly marked an "X" in the large blocks so I could get an idea of the placement for the swirled ribbons. On the nine-patch blocks where I also did swirled ribbons I didn't need to mark at all, just used the blocks as natural divisions to keep the placement sort of even--each of the eight outer blocks has a ribbon curl in it and they all come together at the center.
I think one of the reasons I like FMQing so much is that it doesn't require much marking! I always try out designs on practice sandwiches before I try to stitch them on a quilt. That gives me a chance to "warm up" a little and make sure I like what a design looks like when I transfer it from my doodling to actual stitching. ;)
Yooper32
03-19-2011 02:41 AM
Oh, what a beauty, and I do not mean the dog, although he/she is quite handsome too.
emsunfire
03-19-2011 02:57 AM
That is sew beautiful, your quilting is amazing. You give me so much hope I just purchased a Juki TL 98Q and grace start right frame. Looking forward to learning. Paula