Progress

I finished quilting three blocks this weekend, as well as finally getting rid of the concrete base of our poor broken clothesline and concreting in a new one.

Only four more blocks to quilt before I have to make a decision on whether or not I need to add more blocks to make the quit bigger.  I'm not overly happy with my quilting this weekend.

Lollipop chain - I'm not really happy with my attempt

Mario vine

Sea Oats

The rest of the first panel

Swirling flames

Trailing spirals

Pebbles

Stipple/meander

Paisley

Shadow waves (but it didn't work out like that)

The first panel completed :)

More FMQ blocks

More of my Fmq blocks

Echo Shell

Pumpkin Patch

Fern and Stem

H2O

Basic Spiral

Quilting (qayg) the quilt - part 1

I've been following Leah Day's tutorials on FMQ and decided to use some of her design ideas on this quilt and use a different design on most of the blocks..

Etch and Sketch (beetle details tba)

Trailing tears

First pics

Here is the first picture of the layout. I decided on three double columns of flowers.

The flowers have been fused on, but no main stems until I join the blocks.

Lucky I haven't sewn these together yet - spot the mistake

Starting the quilt

I think I might be challenging myself a bit with this quilt. For starters, the base fabric is duck cloth, which I later found out is NOT recommended for quilting. It frays a LOT! So I cut the blocks at 13 inches, with a plan to cut them down to 12.5 once I finished the appliqué. Each block had to be zig zagged to reduce the fraying.I've never appliqued before and hadn't done quilt as you go or much free motion quilting. Oh well, nothing like a challenge.

Botanica Kentuckii

I decided to make a quilt for a friend's 50th birthday. After looking for a quilt pattern that would work with green as the primary colour (her favourite), I found a beautiful quilt named Botanica
Kentuckii by Linzi Upton.  Linzi kindly agreed to my using her quilt as a pattern.

http://www.thequiltquine.com/ 

Linzi's Botanica Kentuckii