TA DA~~~~

I am so excited!  I posted in my last post about how my friend has been letting me use her quilt machine to quilt and today I got my first job done for a customer.  Very rewarding!  I just did a stippling on it as I'm still learning free motion.  I was very happy with how it turned out and I can't wait to begin the next one.  I got it loaded onto the frame today before I went to work.  This makes me happy!  This one still needs trimmed up and the binding put on but my customer is going to do her own binding.

As I mentioned above getting this one done and another one in the frame today before work really make me happy.   YEP I said Happy!  I can't wait till I can begin quilting this next one!!!

Well best head to bed.  

Happy Crafting!

tina

Gettin my quilt on!

In my last post I wrote about learning to free motion quilt on a Grace frame and a Juki quilt machine.  The juki is not a long arm but it sews beautifully.  I love the machine I do however wish that the throat was a big bigger it only gives me 9" of space to quilt in at a time and that is fine for small designs and once you get a good chunk of the quilt done that quilting space gets even smaller.  The quilt machine that I use is a friend of mine who is so sweet to open up her home and let me come over and quilt any chance I can.  I am very thankful for it for sure.  I've been back over there a few times now and I must say to add to my already long list of creative loves I have free motion quilting has been added and my new love and passion.  There is just something about starting a quilt and then getting to quilt it.  I've quilted a few quilts on my reg. sewing machine and I since I've had the chance to quilt on this I must say it's going to be really hard to ever go back to basting my quilt on the floor and pulling and tugging to quilt it on my domestic machine.  I think my friend has created a monster!

I've been practicing on paper to try and learn free motion quilt designs on so when I get a chance to go over and try it out on fabric I kinda have a idea how to try different designs and how to make them flow.

I've finally got it down how to run the fabric on the frame in the right directions to make it flow.

I love practice on just a solid piece of fabric with white thread so I can see my work.  This allows me to learn what works, what don't, and learn how to make it flow from one place to another.  I learned a new quilt term this week and that "travel" that is when you need to travel back over a spot you've sewn to get out of a corner you may have stitched yourself into.  LOL!  YEP I've gotten in a lot of "traveling" lately.  LOL!  Everything I've read has said you need to practice, practice, practice.  I love it!  I put on my headphones with pandora and I go at it.  Its very relaxing and has become my therapy to get though my winter blas!

Well its been a long day and I need to go get some sleep and rest my body.  My stomach has not been playing very nice past few days so I'm trying to just relax and rest while I'm off on this long weekend.  Today it was better then it had been!  Sorry had a little whiny moment there for a minute!


Until next time Happy Crafting!
tina