Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Choosing Patterns to Free Motion Quilt

My goal for August is to complete Donna's Stars, a Work in Process for well over a year now. The stars were quilted early this year, and it has been waiting patiently since. I often stumble when it comes to making up my mind with quilting patterns, so it feels good to have finally made a decision about how to quilt the negative space! I'm learning the Seafoam Swirls, as coined by Angela Walters.

This weekend, I did maybe 10% of the total area and feel pretty comfortable with them now. Here is one of the smaller squares - definitely not perfect, but getting better...
I plan to use the seamlines to quilt patterns in the four central, larger squares, and will work on those next as I want to quilt the inner areas before the outer parts 'stiffen' up. Not sure this quilt will be complete by the end of the month, but I am shootin for the Stars!

Blocks on design wall, prior to assembly and borders


Linking up this week with:
WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced,
WIP's Be Gone at A Quilting Reader's Garden,
and with other goal-setter's at A Lovely Year of Finishes (#28)!

13 comments:

  1. Gorgeous quilt! I love that quilting design, and use it quite often. I often have a hard time deciding what to quilt too.

    ReplyDelete
  2. The Seafoam Swirls are perfect & enhance the straight line designes in the stars & visa versa. Looks like bubbles surrounding the swirls...its wonderful. Can't believe how the quilting adds so much to the whole quilt. Love it!

    ReplyDelete
  3. This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

    ReplyDelete
  4. This is so fun! Seafoam Swirls is a great choice, and I'm sure by the time this quilt is finished, you will be a pro!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Lovely quilt and your quilting plan sounds both ambitious and fantastic! Can't wait to see it!

    ReplyDelete
  6. You have done a gorgeous job FMQ this! I haven't tried that design yet...now I want too! This quilt is so beautiful! Love the color!

    ReplyDelete
  7. I just got one of Angela's books and I am quite excited to try out some of her techniques. I have some straight line quilting lined up though for two of my quilts in progress, so I will need to find some kind of little free motion project in between.

    Your swirls look really lovely, and this will be an amazing quilt!

    ReplyDelete
  8. Beautiful project, your quilting is lovely!

    ReplyDelete
  9. This is so pretty! Love the colors and quilting together!

    ReplyDelete
  10. It's so pretty! Your FMQ looks good, can't wait to see this one all done.

    ReplyDelete
  11. Love your quilting. I find deciding what to quilt harder than the actual quilting. It takes me ages to decide

    ReplyDelete
  12. You've got the right attitude, keep going and keep practicing. They look great so far.

    ReplyDelete
  13. Those seafoam swirls look perfectly beautiful to me Heidi. This is going to be so stunning when you get it finished! Already the blocks were awesome!

    ReplyDelete

Thank you for sharing your comments!

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...