Happy 300th to Free Motion Mavericks!
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| 300th Linking up Party |
I discovered the Free Motion Mavericks linking party in March of 2015, at Muv's 36th post. I was free motion quilting (FMQ) a wholecloth quilt based on one of Cindy Needham's courses on Craftsy (which I highly recommend - all links are in Related links below). I was thrilled that there was a place to link up and to see other quilter's FMQ.
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| My first FMQ link-up to Free Motion Mavericks! |
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| Original button |
I've been linking up all of my FMQ with Muv since then, and when it got quiet and Muv opened it up to other projects, I was linking up even more. I know that it's difficult to host a specialty linking party because it's easy for bloggers to forget to link up their posts. 😊
I started co-hosting Free Motion Mavericks in January 2019, at week 212. I was really excited to co-host since I had hosted a couple of specialty linking parties (Celebrate - Fêtons 150 and Learning Quilt-A-Long (QAL)) but I just didn't have the time or energy to host a linking party every week. In December 2018, Muv asked me to co-host - I was thrilled and the rest is history!
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In this special party post, we are asking you to link up to 3 of your favourite FMQ projects. I can't wait to see them all. I'm going to show you a couple of mine and then it will be your turn!
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| Lone Tree 2 art quilt |
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| Batik lap quilt - Chevy is always up for a picture! |
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| Notre-Dame Cathedral FMQ |
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| Eiffel Tower FMQ |
What I learned
- Hosting a linking party is a lot of work. I'm so grateful that I am co-hosting with Muv. She's a great partner, a good friend and a great free motion quilter.
- I've learned to organise my posts around Free Motion Mavericks. I haven't always been successful, especially this spring when I was doing very little FMQ. Fall is here and I have started doing more FMQ.
- I love learning and having ongoing projects to write posts about every two weeks has helped keep me on track. Last year FMQ Garden & Pond kept me going roughly from March to September. This year I've been working on the Pinwheels and Stars Baby Quilt since May.
- I've also learned that the best way to promote the Free Motion Mavericks linking party is to link up to as many quilting linking parties as possible to get the word out, as well as asking quilters who FMQ to link up to Free Motion Mavericks. This is not easy for me to do since I don't like bothering people - but quilters are very generous and have been great in supporting this linking party.
- To all quilters who have linked up or followed the Free Motion Mavericks in the last 6 years and to Muv, the founder of Free Motion Mavericks - THANK YOU!!!!
Related links
- Where Has Free Motion Friday Gone? June 5, 2014
- FMQ Madness!, March 16, 2015
- Cindy Needham's Machine Quilting Wholecloth Quilts on Craftsy
- Lizzie Lenard Vintage Sewing - Free Motion Quilting Design Videos
- Celebrate - Fêtons 150 and Learning Quilt-A-Long (QAL)
- Lone Tree 2 - Colour Unboxed Exhibition, January 24, 2017
- Batik lap quilt - February Finishes, February 28, 2017
- FMQ Garden & Pond posts
- Spring is in the air with Free Motion Mavericks, March 13, 2019 to
- Garden and Pond finished for Free Motion Mavericks, September 11, 2019
- Pinwheels and Stars Baby Quilt: Baby Quilt at Free Motion Mavericks, May 13, 2020
Linking parties
Here are some great linking parties that I will be linking up to this week, This includes Free Motion Mavericks with Muv. I hope that you check them out, once you have linked up to this one, of course 😊 Monday Making, Colour & Inspiration Tuesday, Midweek Makers, Long Arm Learning, Needle & Thread Thursday, Off The Wall Friday, Friday Foto Fun, Can I Get A Whoop Whoop?, Peacock Party,
Free Motion Mavericks
Wow! 300 parties since 2014! That is definitely something to celebrate. We had a record number of link ups since I've started co-hosting. Thank you so much!
I thought that you might want to see this lovely baby quilt by CHRISKNITSSEWS.
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| A lovely baby quilt from CHRISKNITSSEWS |
Now for the trans-Atlantic linking party! This week, both Muv and I are hosting a linking party.
Here at Quilting & Learning - What a Combo, you can link up to three (3) Free Motion Quilting posts you want, either recent or past.
Muv of Lizzie Lenard Vintage Sewing will dig out some of her favourite posts from her archives (she's an amazing cook and a fabulous knitter!). You can link up to three posts on absolutely any subject, quilting related or not!
Happy Anniversary or birthday. I had forgotten reading that we could link 3 projects today and I came fully prepared to link my current free motion thread painting. But was happy to look back and find 2 other projects where I had done some fm thread painting and quilting. Thank you so much. Your tree is awesome but my favorite is still the pond life which is the one that brought me here to begin with.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Denise. I gave my Pond quilt to a friend to put up in her cubicle. She then had a visitor who was desperate to know who had made it...it turns out it was my cousin! Her mother was an amazing quilter, weaver, etc. So the pond has brought us back together (before Covid) :-)
DeleteCongratulations on 300 FMM posts! May you have many more :)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Janine :-) Take care.
DeleteHAPPY ANNIVERSARY!! I'm so glad you said we could link up older posts today, because I've been frantically piecing a baby quilt all week for a little guy who had the nerve to be born TODAY, and have no new quilting to link up. It was fun searching back through my older posts; found some projects I'd forgotten all about. :-). And thanks for linking up with Long Arm Learning!
ReplyDeleteThanks Rebecca. I think that keeping a blog is so awesome that way. We get to go back because everything is documented so much more than I would normally document (scraps of paper everywhere is my method of choice :-)) Good luck on your baby quilt! You can link it up next week...if you're done. Take care.
DeleteJoyeux anniversaire !! Longue vie à cette belle link party ;-)
ReplyDeleteBonjour Frédérique, merci beaucoup pour tes voeux. A bientôt ma chère, Andrée
DeleteCongratulations to both of you on the milestone, and may there be many more parties to come. :)
ReplyDeleteHi Dione, I meant to leave you comments on your posts but they were closed - so thank you so much for linking up three great FMQ projects. Is your Dream Big quilt still holding up after all of the other ribbons? Thanks for the tutorial for FMQ with baking paper. That could come in handy! Thanks again and take care!
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