Express Your Love #6

I should actually hide my head in shame, I can't believe it has been two months since I've worked on my Express Your Love - Goddess quilt.  My excuse is simple, I did not have the right threads for the job and I was simply too busy with family visits, and of course other little projects that got in the way.

But this week, I had so much fun coming back to her.  Every day this week I learned a new FMQ design.  Here are some close-up shots of what I've stitched.

I decided to, in contrast to Leah Day's Goddess Quilt, stitch Concentric Circles in red.  Because the McTavishing design is so bold and stand out so much with all the travel stitching I wanted it to not be too overpowering, and since there is quite a lot of travel stitching in this design too, the red does not draw that much attention.  Because my quilt already has so much colour I was also afraid that it will take away from it rather than add to the quilt.  

But I think I am wrong, all of the colours I've used looks great!

Concentric Circles

The next two designs, New Flock of Geese and Micro Zippling I decided to use together, this time in yellow.  That was before Leah posted the Wiggle Wiggle Spiral design with the Flock of Geese FMQ design.  

Flock of Geese and Micro-Zippling

The reason I decided to use Micro Zippling together with the Flock of Geese design, was in the beginning I made the mistake of stitching McTavishing in too many rays in comparison to Leah's quilt.  So I was scared of adding it to the others that I might not have enough rays left to learn and stitch new and different designs.

The next design, Boomerangs had me a bit nervous.  I sometimes have difficulty knowing in which direction to stitch, especially if it has a very distinctive and specific shape.  But I am very happy with it, and I just love how the travel stitching makes it pop.

Boomerangs

I also got around to echo quilt around the words in the first phrase I've added.

So, as you can see I have a had a very rewarding FMQ week, much better than the one I had last week, LOL.

Previous Posts:
Express Your Love #5

Express Your Love #4
Express Your Love #3
Express Your Love #2
Express Your Love #1

I am linking up to FMQ Friday with Leah Day @ The Free Motion Quilting Project.

Happy quilting.

Tree wall hanging

These past few weeks I have been busy making this wall hanging quilt.  It measures 26 in x 26 in.  I got the idea in a magazine, with much less free motion quilting.

It was quite the challenge deciding on what types of free motion quilting to use, and got valuable input from Leah Day at The Free Motion Quilting Project.  I did wiggly horizontal lines on the white background fabric behind the tree, Pebble ripples in the inner white border and blowing wind, which I think I did not pull off quite exactly as Leah, but I gave it a go, and I am happy with the result.  

I echoed around the base of the tree on the grass hill, not knowing if it would even 'work', but I like how it adds texture and creates a 'shadow' effect.  I quilted tree bark on the tree trunk, and for the inside of the tree, I just followed the swirly design of the fabric.

I am super proud of this quilt.  The effects all the free motion quilting has add so much texture to the design. 

Happy quilting.