My current project (NOT shown) is free-motion quilted, full of woodsy images, kinda sketchy, not solid or straight lines - things in the woods should be weedy, spider-webby, viney, crooked, leafy, grassy-filled, etc., so that’s what I’m doing. It’s for our Guild Quilt Show, so I cannot post the whole project until after July. Coming up with quilting pattern ideas takes longer than actually quilting!
Since I don’t have anything new, I will show you a dimensional quilt I made some time ago. This was for the first official class I had arranged to attend - I had taken a day vacation, etc., I was so excited. Just to be sure I didn’t look like an uneducated boob in the class, I decided to practice just a little bit before the class, and true to my nature, once I started, there was no stopping, and by the day of the class, I had the entire top pieced! So I machine quilted it, while all the others had to listen to instructions. (I was very good and did NOT pipe in with my opinions or suggestions.)
This project was from a book by Jackie Robinson. The technique is a little ‘gimicky’ -- sometimes ya wanna know how these things are done! Each block has a number of dimensional pieces in it, and I can just imagine how a child, or anyone, would love to play with those folds.
It is free-motion quilted in short boxy straight lines, which worked well.