Sunday 15 April 2012

Straight Line Quilting (Hadley Style)

I have been pondering how to quilt the Stained Down Under (sorry, I still haven't thought of a better name) quilt.

I really like Hadley's approach, but didn't want to start in case it was too hard work.  I decided to use the technique on the Racing Green quilt, and see how I got on with it.  My machine doesn't seem to pull the fabric through at an even rate, so I was pulling it through to help, but it's really made one of my hands ache.

Well, Hadley, I love the effect, and thanks for showing what you did, but it's not for me!!!  (Hadley did 119 lines of quilting - I've done 32, and that was certainly enough for me!)

Hadley, I am in awe!


8 comments:

  1. Hi Benta! Your quilt is beautiful! Hadleys' quilting looks so wonderful and I would love to quilt once like that but also my machine couldn't do all that. That's one reason I quilt often by hand. I think those lines you made, are enough.
    Have a great week! x Teje

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  2. Well done though, what you've done looks good! Bit daunted by the 119 lines myself... lol

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  3. Heh, yeah, I might not manage that many either lol

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  4. That's lookin really good. Like the link you posted I'd seen the you tube video of the jelly roll race some time ago.

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  5. Hee hee - cowards!!
    Yours looks great - it that an IKEA fleece backing I spy? That is probably why it didn't feed too well - do you have the fleece side underneath when quilting?
    I have 2 small ones to do - thinking to going diagonally with the fleece on top, not sure if it'll work though x

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  6. Quilt looks lovely Benta - being lazy I usually go with straight lines too.

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  7. Sometimes I remember why I'm lucky enough to have a longarm.

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  8. This looks great. I've never counted how many lines I quilt - I don't think I could bear knowing how much is left to go!

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