Since today is Friday, Cindy at Fluffy Sheep Quilting is hosting a link party for those of us practicing free motion quilting. This has been on my list of things to master, but like so many other skills it has been pushed back. I think it's about time I jump in and what better way than with other beginners!
I didn't hear about it until the day of last week and wasn't able to practice The Wave at that time, so I decided to do that pattern along with this week's pattern: Drop Art.
I decided to keep these as swatches and so I put the name of each on the sample in Sharpie.
Overall, I found it took some time to get used to moving in any direction. I'm too used to straight, I guess! I do think my stitch length was consistant throughout and don't think I need to adjust the tension to do this. I followed the advice in the starting video and set my stitch length to 0 instead of dropping my feed dogs.
Since I was cutting swatches anyway, I cut up enough to last me a few months. No excuse not to do this each week, right?
9 comments:
I think those are looking great :)
Awesome!! Glad you joined in on this too :D
Looking good!
Great job! This is so much fun!
Looking good, Katie! I missed last week, too, so I tried the wave when I was doing these and mine didn't have much wave to it either. I'm definitely stuck in the straight line mentality!
Your drops look great.
Looking good! Your waves could use a bit of wave to them, but your drops look honestly and truly like drops! Your stitches look great - no birds nests, nice and even. Well done! So glad you could play along :)
Fantastic!
What a good idea, cutting out swatches ready. I will have to try to make myself do that too.
Glad you are joining in. You have made a great start and so wise to have your fabric ready for the next one!
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