Friday, 6 April 2012

The Big Girl Bed Quilt Continued...

I've finished up the stippling in the centre of the quilt plus the free hand flowers in the border on both sides so needed to flip the quilt around in order to quilt the top and bottom borders.   This is the largest quilt I have put on this frame so far and I can't say I am super impressed.  The rods are only aluminum and seem to sag pretty badly in the middle so the fabric tension is off and I ended up with some puckers.  I also ended up with fairly small quiltable area by the time I finished the stippling in the middle, even though I mounted the quilt on the frame lengthwise (so I had the length of the quilt attached to the frame and rolled the width of the quilt).  I am a little nervous about the king size I have planned next.


Tuesday, 3 April 2012

The Big Girl Bed Quilt

I've got our baby's big girl bed quilt on the frame and I'm working away at getting it quilted.  I started with some free motion daisies in the mauve border, I forgot to take a picture before I advanced the quilt.  I decided just to stipple the middle, however, I already think that I have made it a little too dense.  We'll see how it looks when it is done and off the frame.