Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Surprise coming soon

I have not posted in a very long time.  Work has consumed my time for the whole year.  I took August to go back to a project started nearly 2 years ago.  This is the quilt for my daughter-in-law, Julie.

Here is the progress, I have just a little left to do on the borders and then I will begin to put the batting and backing together.


These are not very good pictures. but I am very excited about this project.  This is only the second quilt top to ever piece.  I have never quilted one, and I am not sure that I will get this done.  It is large enough to be a queen bed coverlet.  I am going to try something smaller on machine quilting before I attempt this.

FMQ domestic machine

 I have been reading and watching  many YouTube videos on FMQ. One of the best hints I found for basting was......pin first, then between th...