Quilting Progress – Disco Quilt

Quilting Progress – Disco Quilt

I’ve been working on quilting up my Dad’s quilt.  Doing the free-motion work myself always makes me nervous that I’ll ruin the quilt!  So…to give myself a confidence booster, I made a small version of the quilt with some of my leftover scraps for practice and to test out different designs.

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I reached out to my Instagram followers (who I so appreciate!) for their thoughts and they unanimously thought that I should mix and match the designs, keeping one design for each color. Thanks to their encouragement I got started!

My new house doesn’t have much non-carpeted  floor space so I had to baste in sections on my kitchen table.  Let me assure you that I will NOT do that again – it wasn’t east to keep creases out of the backing!

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Just starting out – man is free motion on a domestic machine hard work. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.  It counts as a workout, right??

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On my very last block, my machine decided to spit some oil on my top.  SO FRUSTRATING.  I was able to get it mostly out and covered up the rest with a little thread play (after a small freak out moment, of course!)

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And the quilting is all done! I’m very happy with the way it turned out despite my fears. Phew!

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On to figuring out how to bind up the weird edges.  Thankfully, Julie has some great tutorials on her blog.  Wish me luck!