Free Motion Mavericks - Week 365 - The First Sandwiches

 

Only five sandwiches for the wedding quilt are made so far, and I started with the four corners because they are only about 17 inches square.  I thought I would make the smallest pieces first to get myself going.

There is a straight line of quilting along the edges of the scrappy strips, which I have sewn with my 1927 Singer 99K.  I haven't used this machine since early 2016, which is when I started using my 1916 machine to celebrate its centenary.  The old machine has had a good run of six years, and I fancied using the 1927 machine again to add to the enjoyment of making this wedding quilt.  Much as I love the 1916 machine, I had forgotten how much smarter the newer machine looks, and how smoothly it runs.

Just these few lines of straight quilting help keep the sandwich together, so that means fewer quilting pins, and it will be easier to handle when it comes to the free motion quilting.  

Just another twenty sandwiches to go!

Here goes for Week 365:-

Many thanks to Frédérique for linking up last time with her baby owl quilt.  If you haven't seen her blog post yet, nip over now and see more.

 

If you have no free motion quilting to show, feel free to link up and show any project you like.  Here are the usual rules, but feel free to ignore them.  To keep the original emphasis, however, preference will be given to free motion quilting when featuring projects from the previous week.

If you love free motion quilting, whether you are a beginner just taking the plunge, or you have reached the stage where you can do ostrich feathers with your eyes shut and still achieve perfect symmetry, then please link up.

Remember, FMQ is FMQ, whether your machine was made last week, or it is older than your granny.

Here are the very easy and slightly elastic rules:-

1.  Link up with any recent post, ideally from the last week but within the last month, which features a free motion quilting project, whether it is a work in progress or a finish.

2.  Link back to this post in your own post.

3.  Visit as many of the other participants as possible and say hello in the comments box.

4.  The link up will remain open for five days, from midnight to midnight GMT for the long weekend, Friday to Tuesday.

So far quilters from the USA, England, Wales, Australia, Canada, Germany, Holland, New Zealand, France, Macau, Russia, Ireland, Brazil and Sweden have taken part.  The 

first participant from each new country will get a special mention the following week.

Free Motion Mavericks - Week 363 - Happy New Year

The New Year is here, so I wish everyone a Happy New Year for 2022... and it's not over yet, today is the Epiphany, so a very belated Happy Christmas too!

We have had a very quiet Christmas, which included three trips to the dentist's for my husband and a nice soft slow cooked gammon joint for Christmas dinner.  You get the general idea.  Plans for a jolly New Year at my brother's place to celebrate his birthday, which is New Year's Eve, were scotched by illness in his family, so we are planning a get together for February instead.  The weather has been monumentally dreary, so it has been a great time for staying in and getting on with a bit of sewing.

And here it is, block number 25!  The scrappy strips really work, keeping the eye busy between the large areas of plain colour, and I am delighted not to have to fiddle around with scraps again on this project.  As I hoped, I had all the blocks pieced by early January, and on Monday I had a trip out to stock up on wadding and backing fabric.  I already had a short length of dark yellow, about a quarter of the amount I need, and hoped to be able to find a matching yellow to go with it.  All the yellows I found were bad matches, so I decided to buy some dark red and dark purple so I can back the blocks in different colours and put together a bold design on the back.  That should make the prospect of making 25 sandwiches a little less daunting.

Here goes for Week 363:-

Many thanks to Vivian for linking up with her Civil War Strippie Quilt.  If you haven't seen her blog post yet, nip over now and see more.

 

If you have no free motion quilting to show, feel free to link up and show any project you like.  Here are the usual rules, but feel free to ignore them.  To keep the original emphasis, however, preference will be given to free motion quilting when featuring projects from the previous week.

If you love free motion quilting, whether you are a beginner just taking the plunge, or you have reached the stage where you can do ostrich feathers with your eyes shut and still achieve perfect symmetry, then please link up.

Remember, FMQ is FMQ, whether your machine was made last week, or it is older than your granny.

Here are the very easy and slightly elastic rules:-

1.  Link up with any recent post, ideally from the last week but within the last month, which features a free motion quilting project, whether it is a work in progress or a finish.

2.  Link back to this post in your own post.

3.  Visit as many of the other participants as possible and say hello in the comments box.

4.  The link up will remain open for five days, from midnight to midnight GMT for the long weekend, Friday to Tuesday.

So far quilters from the USA, England, Wales, Australia, Canada, Germany, Holland, New Zealand, France, Macau, Russia, Ireland, Brazil and Sweden have taken part.  The 

first participant from each new country will get a special mention the following week.