Decorative meandering

March is Ann Fahl with a creative twist to filler meandering. Found this much easier than last month's feathers for some reason. I think I'll use it in the border of a small doll quilt I'm teaching at Tiger Lily in June.

Machine in dry dock

My 1130 is waiting for a feed motor so I haven't started my march practice yet. Still struggling with Diane feathers from February bathe definitely don't come easy. Tried a combined feather wreath with France's leafy vine. Slow but sure. Miss my 1130.

More February feathers

Have really had to work on these feathers and to make matters worse, my FMQ machine is in the shop! Amazing how you can get attached to the feel of a particular machine, isn't it. Anyhow here are a few pics of my latest practice. Still not quite there enough to put in my sampler, but definitely approaching muscle memory.

February challenge

First tTry

Second Try

Trying a little smaller on the right

Latest Attempt

Here are my first 4 days of practice. Was pretty discouraged on day 1,but hanging in there, a few tips from a good friend and a good re-read of DG's tutorial, and I have hope!

End of January

January was great. Those leaves are definitely in my muscle memory. Great tutorial from Frances Moore. Started my FMQ sampler.

A few more shots

I just figured out how to put multiple pics in one post. Hopefully I'll remember t the next time.





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Practice for real

I thought it would be a good idea to use some of my UFO'S for real world practice in this challenge, so here's my first project. I put the leafy vine in the border-all with red thread- Hard to see, but it gave me a good workout in multi-directional leaves. That's something I tend to have a big problem with. Hopefully this challenge will get me over that!


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Foundation for quilt sampler

I decided that I want to do a quilt sampler piece to document the finished product of this yearlong challenge, so last night I dug out some hand dyes we did years ago, and put together one of the layout suggestions. I'm trying to decide whether or not to use all one color thread (black) or choose a different contrasting thread for each block. Any suggestions? Feel free to weigh in!


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Second January sandwich

Trying to get this second picture posted, but I can't remember how I did it the first time. For some reason I can't seem to upload directly from my iPad but have to first upload to he web. There's got to be an easier way.

Success!

Yay!!!!!Posted picture and did the linky thing. My name now appears on Sew Cal with a red x so I'm guessing I did it right!

I'm still kind of confused about the process of actually getting a picture of the January challenge actually entered. I'm not having much luck with the Flickr process with my iPad, so maybe I'll try using that linky tool and posting here on my blog. I wonder, do I first have to have the picture here? Maybe I'll do that just in case. Hopefully these confused ramblings will help others to give this blogging stuff a try.

Let's get it together

Well, I'm going to get some sort of "home base" established so I can keep my quilting challenges where I can find them. Right now I need to keep track of Dear Jane, Civil War BOM, It Just Takes 2, Free Motion Quilting Challenge and .....that's enough I think. I'm looking forward to the year long challenge and hope to keep up and keep "dancing"!