Hi and welcome 😊. I'm so glad that you're here! Things are looking up health-wise in our household, the sun is shining and flowers are peaking out 🌞. Spring is here - Yay!!!
Fun Scrappy Runner
I've taken some time to put together my latest scrappy runner for my two stuffed doggies with rabbit ears. 🐰They are so cute. Here is the runner with the two cuties.
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| Scrappy runner before FMQ - with cuties |
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| Lovely shot with the sun in the window! |
This is what the runner looks like. You can see that it's made up of two very scrappy pieced blocks, with scrappy strips on each side and between them.
I'm looking forward to FMQ it. Hopefully this weekend! 😊
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| Scrappy runner |
Small Embroidery Piece
At some point in the last few years I drew/painted on fabric. I believe that it might have been with water colours. I found the piece a while back and attached it to a hand-dyed stretchy background fabric. It is a bit of a challenge - I tacked the top fabric to the background loosely but I've had to unstitch most of it to avoid puckering. It's not going to sit perfectly but hey, that's life 😁. I'm sure that I'll be able to do something to either hide the puckers or accentuate them.
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| Playing with embroidery |
What I learned
- I'm having a great time adding strips to the scrappy runner - possibly too many of them! I'll FMQ what I have and can then make it shorter if I have to.
- I'm really looking forward to having these cuties keep me company in the car. 😍
- I used the same blue sheet for the backing since it worked so well for the small blue scrappy quilt.
- I'm considering doing an all-over pattern for the runner, just for something different.
- We are nearing the end of the month, so I'll have to FMQ Floral Fusion soon.
- I don't have any plans for my small embroidery piece. I do hope that my background fabric will fit over a canvas. That would be the easiest way to finish it.
- I'm getting my pieces ready for Fibre Fling 2025. I only have the Rabbit's Adventure piece on display. I am donating a piece for the raffle, "Scrap Happy", that I think I may have missed and not shared yet. I'll do that next week!
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Related links
- Imagine and Free Motion Mavericks, April 09, 2025
- PQ 16 - 1 Mythical Creatures - A Korean Folktale, January 10, 2025
Linking parties
I'll be linking up to many fun linking parties. Why not check some out? Remember to link up to Free Motion Mavericks' party below. Put your foot down, Off The Wall Friday, Finished (Or Not) Friday, Patchwork & Quilts, 15 Minutes to Stitch 2025, Oh Scrap!, Slow Sunday Stitching, Monday Musings,
Free Motion Mavericks
Welcome to week 527 of Free Motion Mavericks! It was a very productive week! Thanks so much for linking up while I've been almost absent. Here are the projects from last week that included FMQ, ruler work or walking foot quilting.
Preeti of Sew Preeti Quilts has released a new pattern - Austin. You may remember it since it was published a while back in Make Modern Magazine. Preeti showed us an EQ photo of the quilt in pretty Spring colours. You may want to go and have a look!
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| A close up of Preeti's Austin, quilted with a wavy stitch |
Kat of Scrapbox Quilts has FMQ two more lovely Bear Hugs. They are so cute! Both were quilted using fancy rulers! Here's the front of both quilts. You may want to go to her post to see the quilting from the back!
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| Kat's Bear Hugs #11, quilted with radiating lines |
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| Kat's Bear Hugs #12. You'll want to check out the back of the small quilt to better see the quilting, |
We have a surprise finish by Anne-Marie at Stories from the Sewing Room. Anne-Marie quilted a small quilt that came as a kit. It has two layers of batting and is absolutely scrumptious 😍. As you may know, this is my favourite type of FMQ.
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| FMQ in progress - Anne-Marie |
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| Finished FMQ quilt by Anne-Marie |
Brenda of Song Bird Designs participated in the Island Batik Drunkards Path Challenge with her quilt, Maze. What a lovely quilt! The quilting is exquisite.
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| Maze, designed by Brenda, is Chloe approved! |
I'm so excited that Kate, from Life in Pieces, has taken out her walking foot to quilt one of her pieces. This Sad Kitty trivet was made by her daughter, Grad Girl. Kate started by quilting a sandwich, following Jacquie Gering's instructions in her book "Walk", which Kate and I highly recommend!
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| Sad Kitty, quilted by Kate |
It's now your turn!
Your embroidery is really pretty :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Janine - it's so weird to find a painted piece in my stash but it's embroidering up well.
DeleteI love all that you are working on. I just recently learned that I can drop the feed dogs of my old Kenmore sewing machine for free motion quilting, but I have yet to try it. Soon. I love the quilts that you showcased.
ReplyDeleteThanks Cathie. I hope that you'll give it your old Kenmore a try. FMQ can be so much fun. Have a great weekend.
DeleteYour bunny puppies are just adorable. Enjoy your scrappy and hand stitching time. Thank you for showing the Sad Kitty Trivet, it's not perfect, but I did learn it's not as bad as I was making it out to be.
ReplyDeleteThanks Kate - we are always much harder on ourselves than we would be on others. I'm glad that you realise that it's not as bad as you though - in fact it's fine :-) Keep on playing!
DeleteIls sont adorables ces deux nounours, et leur tapis est très beau. Tu retrouveras sans problème ta voiture ! Bises
ReplyDeleteMerci beaucoup Frédérique. J'espère trouver l'énergie de le finir cette fin de semaine.
DeleteAdorable bunny pups! Those ears made me smile! Kudos for playing and enjoying the free motion quilting!--TerryK@OnGoingProjects
ReplyDeleteThanks Terry. When I'm over tired, all I can do is play. I'm glad that I have that in my life :-)
DeleteThat is a fun scrappy Runner - a great way to showcase those scraps!
ReplyDeleteThanks Alycia. It's now finished and bound!!!
DeleteLove your runner and that embroidery piece is so interesting! I look forward to seeing where this goes! Thanks for sharing with us at Monday Musings.
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