Friday 13 January 2012

Shutting up and wiggling

I rather like Leah's Mantra - 'Shut up and quilt'. So without further ado, here's my second attempt at shutting up and wiggling..

(Here's my first if you want to take a look)

I wiggled up and I wiggled down and I wiggled all around. I found myself agreeing with Leah on...
-my machine feels better with the feed dogs up
-my hands really ARE better at certain curves than others and I need to practice getting my machine to match that
-I tend to get lost/stuck with random wiggling and prefer some method in the madness instead.

Now that I had wiggled a bit, I felt tempted to do the same with the leaf pattern that I was trying to learn as part of the 2012 FMQ challenge...

Leaves? Heart? Butts? Never mind :-). I think I'm beginning to get the hang of it. Now all that I need to do is perfect it :o).

Linking this up with Quilt Along Wednesdays on Leah's Free Motion Quilting Project. Loving it!!

9 comments:

  1. Nice Job Tina! Do you know the technik "meanderen" it's very nice to do! Here you can see it in close-up:
    http://quiltsvankippetje.blogspot.com/2011/12/hiep-hiep-hoera-rand.html

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  2. That looks great. It's a good idea to practice the leaves in rows. Maybe I will try that.

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  3. Both nice examples, Tina. I, too, found having the feed dogs up and the stitch length zero to be just what I needed to eliminate thread problems. So what project are you going to quilt next? Look foward to seeing it.

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  4. Looking good! Keep up the good work!

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  5. so nice to see your progress in fmq...

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  6. Funny, I have often thought of some of my stuff looking like butts too....loved seeing your FMQ

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  7. Nice work. I still haven't tried the leaves from the challenge..am still wiggling away with Leahs teaching.

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  8. Awesome stitching! It's a really good idea to apply the same idea to both tutorials because if it works best for your brain to stitch in a logical row with stippling, chances are you'll be able to stitch other designs better this way too. Great job!

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  9. Hi, Tina. Now your quilting looks so lovely and under control. I like the hearts. My quilt looks like scribbling and is very wobbly! Oh well, I like to zoom on the machine and have fun.
    best, nadia

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