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<\/p>\nI made quite a few quilts since I started only a few months ago. Even more recently, I’ve started doing free motion quilting. Until I got the courage to do free motion quilting, I have been stitching in the ditch, which is stitching on piecing seams. \u00a0After I got a bit braver, I started dipping my toe into free motion quilting, using\u00a0stippling or meandering stitch. I’ve moved on from stippling to a whole range of designs \u00a0and I’ve been having a lot of fun doing it.<\/p>\n
It’s a completely different type of craft to piece a quilt and quilt a quilt. Piecing is very organized. (At least it is most of the time.) Free motion quilting is much more like drawing on the quilt with thread.<\/p>\n
I’m still learning my way with free motion quilting, but it seems to me that the piecing is the cake and that quilting is the icing. I find it very satisfying.<\/p>\n
That said, I’m not all that good at it. At least not yet. The more practice that I get, the more comfortable I feel doing it, and the better I get.<\/p>\n
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At this point, I’m not ready to use thread that is contrasting with the fabric. The last quilt that I did uses:<\/p>\n
I know it’s far from perfect, but I’m actually very happy with how the quilt came out. I know that I could rip out all my mistakes, but then I would never get the quilt done and done is better than perfect.<\/p>\n
I look forward to my next free motion quilting project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I made quite a few quilts since I started only a few months ago. Even more recently, I’ve started doing free motion quilting. Until I got the courage to do free motion quilting, I have been stitching in the ditch, which is stitching on piecing seams. \u00a0After I got a bit braver, I started dipping … <\/p>\n