Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Baby Steps

My attempt of freehand machine quilting.
Sometimes, all it takes is a little courage and the will to try something new!

My first attempt to try something other than stippling and wavy lines. I can see how machine quilters get easily absorbed into various patterns and designs. This was actually a lot of fun!
I even tried binding with machine.

I tried!

I went back to hand stitching the binding on my second quilt.

Quilts for Basics
If you are a member of this blog, I would like to encourage you to post your scrappy adventures. I know how difficult it is to maintain posting on several blogs. But it seems like this poor blog has been neglected by me and I would like to change that.
I am up for a small challenge. Anyone interested? No deadlines, no rules.. just plain and simple fun :)

10 comments:

  1. What fun fabrics you used! Yay for orange! lol

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  2. Beautiful quilting! Nice way to stretch your skill. You're inspiring me.

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  3. Beautiful happy quilts made for beautiful happy babies!! Im up for a little scrappy challenge, What do you have in mind?

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  4. Your machine stitching looks great!
    I am itching for a new project (:

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  5. Machine binding takes practice. I learned on Katrina quilts. On the Bernina I use the edge foot, and on the Juki, the walking foot works well. Don't give up.

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  6. Buffy,
    I am going to try to stick to machine binding for some quilts. It's a big help, I noticed!

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  7. It's always good to expand your horizons. As they say practice, practice, practice. It's SO TRUE.
    I prefer to hand stitch the binding on. It's quite soothing. But then all aspects of quilting are soothing to me.

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  8. I did scrappy for blocks for mini quilts in January. It was fun, and turned out great.

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  9. way to go! I see that pile getting smaller!! yipppeeee

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  10. i havn't tryed any of that , i sew my bindings on by hand but i will try it sometime and free motion quilting ... when i get up the courage

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