So...... Early in December I took an online Quilting course. It was excellent. Check out Ashley Hough at National quilters Circle. She gives many tips for both seasoned quilters and newbies alike. At the moment I am awaiting my materials to arrive from Fabric.com and then I can really start on this throw. I did a test piece as you can see below and started practicing some free form quilting. I discovered I have a long long way to go to perfect this technique. My curves sucked as I obviously went too fast and on the straight I tended to go to slow. Doing some research I discovered others who had the same issue resorted to using an embroidery machine to do the work. Well I have 2 so I thought - great I can do the quilt block by block. Not so easy. this is excellent if I am doing total area embroidery. Trying to quilt in one area while avoiding another proved to be as daunting as free motion quilting. I did manage to do a stipple area but it looked more like a jigsaw puzzle than quilting and I realized it didn't look so good with such a geometric pattern. Christina Camelli in Step-by-step Texture Quilting came to my rescue. I found my answer and some future designs in her Geometric Textures. I hadn't planned on doing diamonds and other patterns, I really like feathers and celtic designs, however I found them very appealing in the Forest Cabin design. Take a peak. On the left you can see the stipple design that reminded me of a jigsaw puzzle. I tried different threads including a clear invisible thread which does not work well in an embroidery machine. So don't bother trying it. It pulled the design a lot.
To the lower right and stem pattern I found from OESD. It was a lot more difficult to get it positioned and I wasn't happy with its result. At the top between the two bear claws are the diamonds one side in white and the other in cream. I like the cream. So for this center design I'll use different diamond sizes for the background and the pale blue. I can't wait for my fabric to arrive. In the meantime I am onto a table center. I'll let you know more on that later. What are your thoughts.
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