One of my goals for this year is to expand and improve my machine quilting. I came across Leah Day's Free Motion Quilt Project which started as 365 different fill designs-one a day for a year. A few years ago (I believe it was) she posted a video each day showing how to do a different fill design. She believes, as I am finding out, you need to practice your quilting skills daily (or almost daily-life does get in the way sometimes!) to get better. But then again, that's true with just about any skill. (Okay, I'm getting off on a tangent-redirect!) Back to my goal. Try to do 1-5 of these designs a day to catch up. Leah's also started a new quilting project this year but I've not even checked it out yet because I really wanted to finish Selvage Diamonds. Here's what I have so far:
Not a great picture-forgot to turn the flash back on.
Close-up of the first 5
Next 4
Don't really like the upper right one
Like most of these
Kind of fun trying each of these
More fun
These take a little longer than some but I like them.
What I did last night.
I wanted to do more but it was getting late and needed to get on dinner. I'm planning on doing more today as well as starting a sweatshirt quilt. The sweatshirts came in the bag with the tee shirts my daughter wants made into a quilt for her college graduation gift. I've wanted to play with making a rag-style quilt using sweatshirt so this is the perfect opportunity.
Happy Stitching!
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