Yippee! Just finished quilt #3!

[cindyg]

Homespun - that is a perfect quilt for a seashore place. You did such a good job on it. I couldn't see a thing wrong with your quilting. It's just beautiful!

[Jasinta]

Absolutely beautiful!

[moma_lolaham]

I think you did great with your free motion quilting. I haven't tried that yet. Your quilt looks great. Your friend will love it.

[Cynluvs2quilt]

I love the colors!!! I have a friend who loves to make quilts with boats and lighthouses, she would definitely love to add this one in her collection!!! Beautiful!!!

[Dreamer]

Oh Whow You have made a quilt i have been looking at for a long time it is just beautiful

[HomespunMary]

Again, thanks to all of you for your nice comments! You all make me so happy! And, kadie, you're absolutely right, who needs quilting friends in real life when this community of wonderful quilters is there for you all the time!

9patchfav, yes, now it is back to my original plan, LOL! I can't wait to finish another quilt top so that I can practice some more free motion... Also, 9patchfav, and more importantly, I'm sure everyone here would love to see pictures of your work, I certainly know I would, so please go ahead and post!

[Maike]

What a nice and lovely work....Congratulations. You did a great Job.
It is so lovely and it me reminds me for at home. I am coming form NorthernGermany, just close to Denmark.
It ist perfekt, your quilt. You can be very proud of it..

[HomespunMary]

Thanks Maike! Since I live in southern Sweden, we must be living fairly close to each other!

[grammy65]

Boy Mary....I cannot believe how beautiful your free motion quilting is. How in the world do you get such even stitches? I was trying to do some on one of the Christmas stockings I am making for Georgiapeach and it was just awful. I finally ended up doing a stencil I could do with my walking foot.

I can't seem to figure out where I'm going with free motion. I was trying to do a large meander and just made a mess. It's a good thing I have a long arm. But the stockings were too small for the long arm so was trying to do it on my domestic.

You just amaze me.

Oh....yes, I also love the quilt!!

[HomespunMary]

grammy65, I really know what you mean with not knowing where to go with the meandering. I can assure you I had the same problem! Especially when I had to figure out how to go in and out between the white sails, to stay on the sky blue, without having to stop and start in every triangle... I found out that you needed to have sort of a "plan" for which directions to go first, so that even with all the twists and turns of the stipple seam, you generally "moved" in one or the other direction that you had decided on beforehand. A couple of times, I did "paint myself into a corner", which was very annoying, but I just tried to look at it from the bright side: I learned a lot from it!

As I said in another post, this not so seriously-looking quilt, bound not for an upscale master bedroom but presumably for the porch of a small summer house, was excellent for daring to try free motion! I felt that the mistakes wouldn't really matter so much on this one...

As for the "even stitches", well.... I keep comparing them to the stitches my machine makes on straight seams with the feed dogs up, and then my free motion stiches are not at all even! They vary between 1.5 and 4 (at least) in stitch length. But, seeing all your comments, I'm beginning to think that maybe I'm expecting too much... Maybe I shouldn't even dream of the free motion stitches being as regular as the "regular machine stitches"...? Come to think about it, I don't think I've ever seen a free motion quilted quilt in real life (only on pictures in books and magazines), so maybe I'm working with quite the wrong image in my head...