Free Motion Mavericks - Week 371 - Steady Progress

The wedding quilt is slowly but surely coming together.  I am still putting the sandwiches together and doing straight lines of quilting on each one along the edges of the scrappy strips.  It is time consuming, but will make it so much easier once I start the free motion quilting because there will be so few pins to get in the way.  I started out using a regular hinged foot, but have now decided to change over to the adjustable cording foot because it is easier to see the seam line.  There were a few problems today with missed stitches, but I eventually solved it by adjusting the position of the foot by a squillionth of an inch.  I can't understand why it made a difference, but it did.

Choosing the threads has been fun.  This multicolour thread goes well with the scrappy strips.

Dark shades of pink and green in this thread should work well for the free motion quilting on this dark red and black stripe.

This peachy yellow striped fabric is one of my favourites, so I was really pleased to find thread that goes so well with it. 

Out of the total of 25 panels that I am making, I have finished the straight lines of quilting on 17 of them so far - all of the corner and border panels, and one of the 9 centre panels.  Despite the progress, I am now thinking I won't have it finished until May at the earliest.  It is easy to forget how much work is involved in making a large quilt.

Here goes for Week 371:-

Many thanks to Andrée for linking up last time with her Dresden Neighbourhood 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.