Then decided to start beside each feather and stitch to the edge. This took a bit longer but I like how it turned out. I pulled up the bobbin thread, stitched at 0 for 3-4 stitches then clipped the threads after stitching to the edge.
I am still wondering if I should close up the grid lines or leave them alone where they come to the feathers. I consider myself an insecure beginner at machine quilting even though I have been doing it off and on for about 10 years. Need practice, but have to complete some quilts to have something to practice on. Practicing on queen sized quilts is not as much fun as doing these smaller squares.
I sandwiched all the rest of the blocks using a scant bit of 505 spray adhesive on a large sheet of newsprint and still got glue on my table. I now have a very big box from my new printer that I will put them into next time. When I got to the end of the pile of backing/batting squares, I still had one top square and wondered how this could have happened. I am too left brained to have miss counted. I count the steps every time I go up or down them. I had moved the pile more then several times over the past few months and one had been left behind on a box in the closet. I had been looking for a red square but it was the batting that was face up and I kept missing it.
Blessings,
Chris
This block looks great, I would leave the quilting as it is, I don't think you need to add any more. What a brilliant idea to do your spray basting in a box to contain the glue.
ReplyDeleteLove those blocks and the colours that you used... Amazing how you can have learned a technique so many years before and still not consider yourself an expert, but I do understand! I think a quilter has much more to learn than any doctor or lawyer!
ReplyDeleteImpressively careful work, Chris!
ReplyDeletebeautiful work
ReplyDeleteIt'll be a lovely quilt when it's finished.
ReplyDeleteThis is just gorgeous Chris
ReplyDeleteBeautiful quilt.
ReplyDeleteIf you're still getting ripples, it's likely that the pressure on the presser bar is too great. On my electric machines (vintage Vikings) I can decrease the pressure in side the head. On my much older machines, there is a screw on the outside of the machine at the top of the presser bar that increases or loosens the pressure. You might look for that.
(I've had machines come to me which had the presser bar so tight it would barely accept one layer of fabric. The advice I was given is that the pressure bar needs to be just tight enough to allow the feed dogs to move the fabric forward. If your feed dogs are down, it's possible the pressure is still too great.) I hope this proves helpful.
Thank you for your suggestions. I was wondering if that was the problem. I am using a Brother and it usually works great with the free motion foot, but the presser foot is not all the way down and the feed dogs are down. What if I dropped the feed dogs? Just a thought.
ReplyDeleteThe machine was slightly damaged when I took it on an airplane as checked luggage because if its weight. There was a nob on the top left that broke off. I will see what I can do.