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Guild cuddle quilt top for quilting |
At the last meeting for the season of the York Guild I picked up a couple tops from the Outreach table that needed quilting. They provided just about everything - the flimsy, the backing and the binding. All I needed to provide was thread, batting and quilting time.
I am very happy to make a contribution of time to the guild and I don't mind doing it by making and/or quilting some of the charity quilts. I do gain benefit of my own because I get to practice my free-motion quilting and boy-oh-boy do I ever need practice!!!
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not so pretty |
I still need lots of practice with my free hand flowers so I loaded one of the tops onto the frame this morning. The backing is pink and white so I decided to use pink thread and I think it works. I did a combination of loops and flowers but it is too bad that my flowers didn't turn out as nice as I would have liked.
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these flowers turned out 'okay' |
Sometimes I feel destined that my free-motion skills will never be good and that is discouraging but I will keep trying. Overall, the top looks okay but if you actually look at the flowers you will see that some are really bad and others are just okay. At this point, if I can even get my free-motion skills to the adequate level I will be happy!
I will load the second quilt onto the frame today or tomorrow so that I can do some more practicing - I need it!