Welcome to Day 11!
It’s been fun seeing the finished tops you’re all showing!
Seeing your use of different fabrics is my favorite part!
Guess what today is?
Quilt it day!
I have to say that the actual “quilting” of a quilt is my least favorite part.
I’m a “quilt by checkbook” kind of quilter!
Since I didn’t have enough time to send this one out, I quilted it myself, & I didn’t hate it!
I’ll show you how I did it.
I started by basting it with basting spray.
It was easy since it’s so small.
The lines were “drawn” with a hera marker, using my 6″ x 24″ ruler to align the first line only.
Notice the 60 degree line on the ruler, aligned with the bottom of the quilt.
Then I used a hera marker to draw the line that I wanted to quilt. I have a few on my website that you can find by clicking here.
It really just makes a dent in the quilt sandwich, it leaves no permanent line to erase.
I sewed that line, then slipped the guide into the back of the foot & used it to create the spacing between the quilting lines.
Again, no markings to erase!
I sewed a line of quilting in both directions through the middle of the quilt first, to help stabilize it, then I filled in the rest of the quilting in both directions.
Easy & fast too.
It probably took me 20 minutes to quilt the entire quilt!
Next, I trimmed it up & put on the binding,
but the binding is actually your work for tomorrow, the 12th Day of Christmas…
This could also be easily free-motion quilted. You decide!
Show us your finished top on my Sewing With Susan FB page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SewingWithSusan
Just Keep Sewing…
Susan
Quilting my way through life! 