Sunday 25 August 2013

Quick Quilting

As you may know, I'm a patchworker far more than I'm a quilter: I tend to go for minimal, in-the-ditch quilting if I have to do anything, and even then I shoot off the edges, or fall out of the ditch far more often than I'm happy with. Part of my reluctance is that I don't want to spend more time on this quilt: I want to get on with the next one!

 However, this top needed to be quilted
 

So I pulled on my big girl pants, and quilted free range echo lines either side of the zigzagged seams.   I didn't worry about going straight exactly to the seam and turning, instead I curved around it, and that made it much easier and much quicker

And I used grey top and bottom, so the curves showed on the back of the quilt too

I'm rather chuffed with this

I then machine stitched grey Spraytime border (one of my favourite go-to fabric ranges) and this is now in the rather monstrous pile waiting to have the binding hand stitched to the back

15 comments:

  1. This is a beautiful quilt. The quilting has turned out beautifully!

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  2. Great quilting Benta, way to go!

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  3. Well done with the quilting!

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  4. looks good to me .. seems like just the right amount of quilting x

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  5. It looks so pretty! Good job on the quilting, Benta!

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  6. Really lovely quilting - perhaps you've opened your quilting 'dam'? Hope that you carry on quilting and enjoying it! x

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  7. Really pretty, I love the colour choices too.

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    1. Thank you Kay it's so easy with a charm pack as you just KNOW the fabrics will work together ( sorry you are "no reply " so I can't email you direct)

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  8. You have been busy! I love the curved quilting. x

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  9. This is beautiful Benta, well done. Like you I prefer to do the patchwork than the quilting.

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