Saturday 10 December 2011

A Christmas finish

This is the quilt that I was making for my mums birthday back in November.  Things happened and I didn't do it for her birthday.  However, it is now her Christmas present

I absolutely love this quilt.  The pattern came from Moda bake shop and the material were charm packs (can't remember which)

I hand quilted inside each star


I did a wavy sort of thing along the sashings in between the squares. 
So now it is going in a box, as a disguise, and I will wrap it up

I encountered a problem whilst finishing this off.  I used fmq to do the wavy bits and towards the end it kept dropping stitches.  Not too much of a problem, I put the feed dogs up and did it that way.  But it does mean I can't finish my Christmas quilt.  My fmq is just not happening whatever tension I use - it just wont pick up the bottom stitch at all - HELP!  Any advise anyone?

11 comments:

  1. What a lovely present. It's a fab design and the colours are great. Have you tried fmq-ing with your feed dogs up?

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  2. Great finish Catherine - lucky mum indeed!

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  3. I've only tried FMQ once and I didn't really not what I was at so I can't advise. The quilt looks fab though. I love the way you've used the yellow for the stars.

    I don't recognise all the fabric you've used but definitely can seem some Freebird by Momo in there. This is a fab design for charm packs.

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  4. It is a beautiful quilt! I like the yellow stars! Your mum is lucky!
    I'm not good in fmq, I tried once with small fabrics. It was ok, but I don' have the courage to try on a big quilt :( maybe next year!

    Could you show us the back of the quilt?

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  5. This looks fab, I have never done FMQ on a quilt so can't help sorry.

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  6. Love the starry quilt, your mum will love it. Have a look at Little Island Quilting - Alison has posted a link about fmq-ing with the dogs up, I am going to try it out later myself.Keep stitch length at zero and apparently it works??

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  7. it looks wonderful...I am sure your mum will LOVE it xx

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  8. Hand quilted stars are always so pretty. What fun to give it for Christmas!

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  9. I've found that whenever my machine starts misbehaving it is a cry for oil! Also, try rethreading and replacing the needle.

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