Keep breathing
After fmq'ing my hot water bottle last night I decided to be more adventurous today.
I did enjoy myself yesterday, but was worried that I may have bitten off more than I could chew when I decided I would FMQ this:
I took a deep breath and went ahead anyway. Now, please remember I have only done this on a few occasions and I still have a long way to go, but on the whole, so far, I think it's going ok:
One thing that I have definately learnt is the need to keep breathing whilst doing this!
I need to be more fluid and I definately like to do my swirls one way more than the other. also, I KNOW that I am doing this wrong - my feed dogs are up. I started off not dropping them by accident and then realised. I had a look at the front and back and decided that it was all going fine, so I couldn't change it. Maybe this is why it is not so fluid.
this is (a very bad) picture of the back. So, all you ace FMQ'ers out there - I need to spread out my swirls don't I : is this too packed together? Obviously I won't change it on this quilt, but for future reference?
Most importantly, I am enjoying doing this and I hope that however this ends up looking (not too disasterous I hope) it will make a little girl who is poorly, feel a little better. I will give you the end result when I am done!
Wow this is amazing. You are very talented. Also thank you for your kind comments. Px
ReplyDeleteI think you are doing great but can't for the life of me see how you do it with the feed dogs up!
ReplyDeleteIt looks great!! That's a whole lot of quilting! I imagine next time it would be easier to spread it out and especially with a bigger quilt! I always have my feed dogs up!
ReplyDeleteLooking good! Yes, you'll want to spread them out a little. It might be the feed dogs that's contributing to the little loops but I think it's more that you need to breathe! Keep it up though - you're doing great!
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