At the Calgary Modern Quilt Guild, we are making charity quilts for bone marrow transplant patients at the local cancer hospital. We've decided to make blocks, each 15 1/2 inches, so that we can use them to practice our free motion quilting skills. We've had a couple of good demonstrations by Andrea at Urban Quiltworks. (Take a look at the quilting on her blog - she is fabulously talented!)
Then, we're going to put them together using the quilt as you go method.
I know you'll be surprised to hear that I had a couple, OK lots of blocks in my UFO piles. I selected a couple from a BOM I started years ago, and truthfully, will never finish. I added a little extra fabric to make them 15 1/2 inches, and tried to stretch myself a bit with the quilting.
You can see a bit of the blue marking pen in the centre of this one - I did manage to get that out before I handed it in. It's the first time I've used that, and it's not as easy as I thought to remove it!
3 comments:
Very nice quilting!
Lovely blocks and very nice quilting.
that's a good way to try out machine quilting. you did a good job.
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