Hi! Welcome to week 431 of Free Motion Mavericks. I hope that you are doing well! I had a burst of creative energy after my Out of the Box Fibre Artists meeting this week and finished free motion quilting (FMQ) Wild Hexies. Yeah!
Adding Flowers and a Border
The first thing I did when I started to work on Wild Hexies again was to see if I had to re-do the cute cars and trucks, since that's where I was having so much trouble with my stitches. It turned out that it wasn't that bad, so I just stitched over the skipped or loose stitched and all is well. 😊
Since the fabric is so busy, there aren't many photos of the FMQ.
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| Adding flowers among the animals |
This is my favourite - I was able to add a small flower under the nose of the elephant so that he's watering it!
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| Baby elephant watering the flower |
Finally, here is the border. I used Lori Kennedy's Leaves and Circles. It needed to be something easy and forgiving. I think that I chose well.
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| Lori Kennedy's design of Leaves and Circles |
Of course it was only after I finished that I realised that I could have used a matching colour thread. Oh well, on the whole, it looks fine 😊.
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| Wild Hexies - sideways! |
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| Wild Hexies - all quilted! |
Since this is my May One Monthly Goal, I'll be squaring it up, binding it and making a special label within the next week. I'm looking forward to giving it, and meeting the new owner!
What I learned
- I'm glad that I didn't have to undo any of my stitching - although I had psyched myself up for it. It is a baby quilt, it will be greatly used and there are only a few areas where there is extra stitching. It really doesn't show!
- I was so used to stitching the whole quilt with the same thread that it never crossed my mind to change threads for the border. At least some of the FMQ is visible!
Related links
- Wild Hexies and Indecision on Free Motion Mavericks, April 27, 2023
- Cars, trucks and mixed media collage on Free Motion Mavericks, April 13, 2023
- March Finishes and April OMG, April 03, 2023
- FMQ Wild Hexies and Making Flying Geese, February 16, 2023
- Lori Kennedy: Free Motion Machine Quilting 1-2-3
Linking parties
I'll be linking up this post to many fun linking parties. Why not check them out after you link up below? Design Wall Monday, Sew & Tell, Midweek Makers, Put your foot down,
Free Motion Mavericks
We have some budding free motion quilters joining us. I'm so thrilled!
Donna Lee FMQ her latest appliqué project with wavy lines - it really looks great!
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| Donna Lee's latest appliqué project |
Gail of Quilting Gail had her lovely Baby Stars quilt in the Prairie Spirit Alpacas booth at the Central Alberta Quilt Show in Red Deer. I hope that this gorgeous quilt with the FMQ swirls resulted in lots of pattern sales!
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| Baby Stars quilt by Quilting Gail |
Frédérique finished her Village de Provence quilt for a house themed quilt-along! To learn more about how Frédérique made and quilted Village de Provence, as well as interesting facts about the region, link up to her post!
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| Frédérique of Quilting Patchwork Appliqué's lovely Village de Provence |
It's now your turn!
Well done on your Wild Hexies quilt finish! I agree with you, great choice of design for the border :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks Raewyn. It looks like I need to finish this little guy since it's my May One Monthly Goal - oh well at least I have a few days left :-)
DeleteCongrats on this finish. Your wild hexies look great :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Janine. I'm looking forward to squaring it up and binding it this weekend.
DeleteNice job on quilting your hexie quilt and getting one step closer to meeting your goal for the month. Thanks for joining Sew & Tell.
ReplyDeleteThanks Melva, almost there! I'll be squaring it up and binding it this weekend with probably very little time to spare - I'm not so good with deadlines but the OMG helps!
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