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Friday, 19 July 2013

Karol at the Window - The Second Stage of Quilting


This is the latest stage in the wall hanging of Karol at the Window - the second layer of wadding needs to be quilted.  The quilt is now a proper sandwich, with a backing and wadding.  I have had to do a second line of quilting around the outline, again using the Singer 15K hand machine, with the hinged cording foot.  I always have the foot set to the right hand side of the needle.

Here is the hand with the second line of quilting finished.  I have used a dark colour that will not show up against the background.



The next stage was free motion quilting the background - just a simple infill of parallel(ish) lines to represent the snow outside.



I am going to use a few different coloured threads so the snow outside doesn't look too monotonous, which is a good excuse for a quick shopping trip this afternoon.  Anything to put off quilting the tiny little spaces between the fingers...

Linking up again to Leah Day's blog for Free Motion Friday - lots of other projects to see there!

9 comments:

  1. Wow! This is really interesting. Thanks for providing so many details about your process. I can't wait to see how this progresses.

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  2. This looks great! Looking forward to seeing the finished project.

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  3. This little hand is so delicate and perfect! I can't wait to see the whole thing.

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  4. Love to see your quilt when it is finished. Thank you for your message and advice! It is helpful.
    You are an excellent machine quilter!

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  5. Your quilting is amazing and I love your old Singer!

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  6. Amazing!!! Love this idea!
    Esther
    esthersipatchandquilt at yahoo dot com
    ipatchandquilt dot wordpress dot com

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  7. At first I thought it was your hand and you were turning blue. Nice work

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  8. Nicely done! I'm looking forward to seeing the finished quilt.

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  9. Amazing. It will be wonderful when you have all that quilting done. Can't wait to see it.

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