The quilt is about 19 x 27 inches. I decided to face it after watching this: Terry Aske facing a quilt.
Here are close-ups of the animals:
The bunny is Sweetie. I quilted her whiskers with Perle cotton. It went right into the needle that I had on my machine, no tension adjustments or anything. Worked like a dream!
This is Rusty. I used several colors from Hollis Chatelain's Living Colors Threads from Superior Threads - a must-have thread collection for portrait quilters.
But this is what my sweet Kona did last week when I was out. She's 7 yrs old, so not a puppy thing... I think she was scratching out a sleeping area. That is wool batting, VERY expensive, arggghhh!
So I have been doing some quilt samples for free motion quilting classes that I teach at Gromes Sewing Machine shop.
This is a panel from Angela Walters Textures collection. I used my beginner quilting designs on this panel as a demo of the skills we learn. I know, I know, it's way over-quilted for a beginner, but I want to inspire and show students the possibilities.
I teach this class this Saturday.. I think we'll have fun!
In a more advanced free motion quilting class, we are working on these wholecloth feather wreath quilts. I am working on the outer borders now using a design similar to one I have seen on several quilts before. I used longarm rulers, specifically, Linda Hrcka's curved ruler set. This is quilted using gold Glide thread.
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