Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Quilt Qwazy Queens blog hop

Hi, welcome to my day on the Quilt Qwazy Queens  blog hop.  Every year for National quilting day, Marian at www.seamstobesew.com, hosts this fun hop.

This year we are to share our kind of crazy.  I wasn't sure what to share.  I have never really done much of what I consider crazy.  Well, yeah, there is my fabric stash, between 3 rooms and the carport, due to a sewage flood we had, but I didn't want to share that.

Then I looked at some pictures and realized I do have some crazy to share.  My crazy is my quilting.  I have done some fun things and my goal with this is to inspire you to give these things a try.

When I first started machine  quilting, I did so on my domestic machine, a Viking Lily 550.  I am sharing this table runner, to show you how big my stitches were.




Then I decided I wanted frames.  I bought a used grace frame for about $100.  I got it set up and it was a bit hard to guide the machine, but it did get a little better with practice.  Right now, it is in the carport, again due to the above mentioned flood.  Unfortunately,  due to the remodeling and some changes we are making to what was my sewing room, I don't have a place to set it up, so I am back to my domestic machine, this time a Juki tl98q.

One of the projects I did on my frames was this tardis quilt for a son in law.  Now, all I knew is this was from Dr. Who.  So my daughter explained to me, that this floats down from the sky, so crazy me decided I needed to quilt stars around this quilt, but they had to shine.  So, I decided to use metallic thread.  Remember, this was when I didn't know a lot about quilting  by machine, but through trial and error, I figured it out.  It was fun.  He actually needs it longer, so I am going to make a new one. My little grandson loves the Quilt, so I will make a new one for my son in law and my grandson will get the old one.


This is a fun quilt, I can't show the whole quilt as it has not been gifted yet.  But this has been a learning experience for me.  I started it on the frame, then decided to finish it on my Juki tl98q , off of the frame.  The best thing is, is that I can feel my free motion quilting is really improving.







This one was fun in that I backed it with fleece.  I also tried quilting stars.  This quilt will be called Puff the Magic dragon and is for a grandson.  I will share a full picture of the Quilt when I gift it to him.





I hope you are inspired to try some of your ideas you may have in quilting.

Please join the other bloggers for today, and check out all the bloggers for this hop on Marian's blog at www.seamstobesew.comand be sure to enter the contest. 

Today's bloggers are:
Bumbleberrystitches.com
Quiltschmilt.wordpress.com
Elizabeth Coughlin Designs at www.ecoughlindesigns.blogspot.com

The drawing is for a $35.00 gift certificate to Fat Quarter Shop and 2 winners will be chosen.




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48 comments:

  1. I love your police box quilt! I am just starting to free motion quilt - it takes a lot of practice!

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  2. I admire you tackling free-motion quilting; I don't have the nerve!

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  3. Oh I love the Tardis quilt!!! Your quilting is great, and it will improve the more you do it! xx

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  4. Thank you for sharing your projects with us.
    Ronelle

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  5. With quilting, they say practice, practice, practice! I recently bought a second hand longarm, and that's what I'm doing.
    Your work it wonderful!

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  6. Very cool, thanks for sharing!
    cork@pa.rr.com

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  7. I enjoyed seeing your projects. Thanks for sharing.

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  8. I admire you for tackling FMQ. I stick to hand quilting.

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  9. It really is all about the practice. You can sure see the improvement in your quilts already! Whoop whoop! What a great reminder that we all can use a little practice time.

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  10. I've gone through some needles trying FMQ'ing but it does get easier over time.

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  11. Thanks so much for sharing your projects. I also have a a Juki but a TL98E I use on Handiquilter frame

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  12. It is fun to see what others have gone through. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us today. Best of wishes on getting things back to normal. quilting dash lady at comcast dot net

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  13. I hope you're able to get things back in order soon. I know the flood part was no fun!

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  14. Those big stitches look like me not long ago.

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  15. Thanks for sharing. I am new to free motion quilting and appreciate seeing how one improves with practice.

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  16. Practice makes (nearly) perfect! I give myself room there as nothing is ever perfect so why stress out. Your quilting was done with love and that's pretty perfect to me.

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  17. I love your tardis quilt. So far I've been too chicken to try fmq since my first attempt. I am wanting to though.

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  18. I honestly don't know how anyone does any sort of quilting on a DSM!! If it weren't for my longarm, I would be quilting by check!!!

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  19. Interesting seeing your Free motion progress.

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  20. I have long arm machine quilted only once. Glad I did it but I need to practice, practice, practice. Nice to see your progress!

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  21. Larger quilts are tough to quilt on a DSM. You are doing good and the improvement is obvious. I'm with Farm Quilter, if I didn't have a long arm I would be quilting by check too! LOL

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  22. Great post! It is evident that you've been practicing with the FMQ, as the more recent quilts show. Thanks for sharing.

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  23. Good for you, practice makes perfect! Have not tried to do my own quilting. Would rather pay someone to do it.

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  24. to me, FMQ is as difficult to get right as hand quilting is. I'm sure handn quilters will disagree with me on that statement, but like they say.. with practice and I do mean every day for at least 15 minutes a day, you will get better. It's the same with FMQ or hand quilting. The biggest thing about getting started is that our stitches are always going to be longer than they will be once we get the hang of it. I wish I had the nerve to show off the hand quilting of my first quilt. It's the only quilt I ever made entirely on my own, and hand quilted also, it's also the last quilt I ever hand quilted. Quilts I made after that were either machine quilted, or I hired them out to be hand quilted. I liked your projects today and thank you for sharing them during QQQ 2019.

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  25. i'm not ashamed to say i have a long armer and. i don't mean machine, i mean jane the long armer

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  26. If you have been sewing for a while, you will feel the rhythm of the machine with each stitch. Learn how much fabric passes at each speed and you will find your rhythm for FMQ. ndfromsd

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  27. Practice, practice, practice. You are doing great! Once I got past my fear of it being a mess or not perfect, I settled in and it all became much smoother. Hang in there! Thanks for sharing. MelvaLovesScraps(at)NolanQualityCustoms(dot)com

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  28. I always figure if I can doodle it, I can quilt it. And now I doodle on people's quilts with my big giant longarm sewing machine, and they actually pay me for it! I love it!

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  29. I know I have never done crazy - not on purpose anyway - but I love free motion quilting and strive to do as nicely as you.

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  30. FMQ is definitely something I need to practice! I do plan to use fleece for my grandson's quilt; he likes fuzzy.

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  31. We all had to start somewhere! pjrquilter at msn dot com

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  32. I love fmq It definitely takes practice though.

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  33. Thanks for sharing! FMQ sounds easy but isn’t.

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  34. FMQ is a process. I am fine on small things orstencils, but trying to do a design in an entirely blank space still scares me. I do like ruler work too. I hope you get things back in order soon.

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  35. I need to get brave enough - or qwazy enough! - to try free motion. Thanks for the honesty and inspiration!
    basaran.family (at) rogers (dot) com

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  36. Ya free motion quilting is a challenge but worth trying...happyness04431@yahoo.com

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  37. I haven't tried free motion quilting yet but have watched my daughter do it. Quite fascinating. mtmom57@gmail.com

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  38. I've been working at free motion to get good, but still not much luck. It does look way better than my first attempt though, so I'm progressing in tid bits.

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  39. I am taking a FMQ class in April. I am sure I will learn a lot, but I know it takes lots of practice. Nancy A: rangerer@sbcglobal.net

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  40. Thank you for sharing your journey in quilting.

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  41. I think you do a great job free motion quilting.

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  42. it does take time to get good at quilting. you did amazingly well on you projects!

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  43. Great tardis. I do a lot of SID quilting, and walking foot. Some hand quilting. I pieced by machine, and quilted by hand for many years. Machine quilting still feels foreign.
    I think FMQ is just too fast for me.

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  44. Great job on your quilt. Free motion is indeed a challenge - but a good one!! LOL

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  45. Good job on your quilting efforts/ I really like the metallic thread on the tardis. Thanks for sharing in the hop ... :) Pat

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