Wednesday night I finished everything there was to finish for my Harry Potter swap on Ravelry. I packaged it all up in pretty paper, closed the box and put it next to my work bag so I could take it to the post office the next day. After all that, I found myself wanting to do some more sewing. Don't get me wrong, I love playing with yarn of all kinds! But I am determined to sew a human sized quilt this year and after discovering
The Patchwork Cheveron Quilt I decided it was high time I try my hand at free motion quilting!
This quilt is a go here people, I bought all the fabric needed for the top ( I wanted to wait on the back and the binding so I can really look at the colors in the A Walk in the Woods by: Aneela Hoey charm packs I ordered) and have decided that this quilt is easy enough to allow for all my time constraints but interesting enough to hold my attention. Not to mention the finished size will be around 78x78 inches which is in fact human size! Just enough for snuggling! Oh yeah!
I ordered my darning foot last year with every intention of trying it out, but then I got a new sewing machine and then I didn't have time and then I wasn't interested and then I was just plain lazy haha. It is a universal foot and it needed modifications to work (thank you YouTube) and I didn't have the patience to actually do the modifications that only took ten minutes at the time. But I did Wednesday night and it works great! I watched like 5 YouTube videos before I had the guts to start but eventually I started playing with it. As you can see from the picture below, I sucked at first....
It really isn't a natural instinct to move the fabric to make the stitches right. I had a hard time making it so the stitches werent really long so I upped the speed a little and that helped. As you can see in my second attempt....
It's a little better! Not crazy smooth, but definately an improvement! My tension was off a little and I kept fiddling with it. I eventually got the top looking good, but the back looked awful....I think I will need to re-tread the bobbin. And here is the last attempt before it got to late and I needed to go to bed!...
EEEEE!!! This one is my favorite so far! Still not prefect, but getting there! I can only do really small loops right now but I am going to try for bigger ones next time =) I haven't been home since Wednesday so tonight will be dedicated to practicing this new skill! This is going to be the best quilt ever! Haha....if I stick to it that is =P