I'm on a roll! I finished my dresden plate table runner last week and a quilt this week! I won these blocks at a quilting retreat in June and plan to donate it to the next non-profit that asked me if I'd agree to "donate one of your pretty quits" for a silent auction, something that's quite popular in the community-oriented town I live in in northern California. All those who came to the retreat were asked to make a 10-inch "batik and white block" for a drawing and 25 people participated. Two winners got 12 blocks each and I was one of them!
Since I didn't have to make all the blocks, I thought I'd take the time to do some nice quilting on it and really like how it turned out.
I do my quilting on a domestic machine, a Janome 6600. I bought it 4 years ago because I wanted a machine with more space at the 'neck' to quilting on larger quilts. For those of you who don't quilt your own quilts, I really urge you to try. Take a class in machine quilting and practice. And practice some more--it takes a long time to get really good at it but, like your momma always told you, whether it's a musical instrument or a dance routine or anything else, you'll never get really good if you don't practice. If I can do it, you can too. It's so rewarding to be able to make your own quilt from start to finish--then, it's all YOURS!
Take a look on Judy's Design Wall Monday to see what everyone else have been accomplishing!
3 comments:
Your quilting looks great. I never would have guessed it was done on a domestic sewing machine.
Oh I just love the sashing on the blocks. Gives the quilt such great dimension. And the quilting is awesome!!
STUNNING!! Can't wait to see it close up tomorrow night!
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