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!
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Blocks on design wall, prior to assembly and borders
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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)!
Gorgeous quilt! I love that quilting design, and use it quite often. I often have a hard time deciding what to quilt too.
ReplyDeleteThe 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!
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ReplyDeleteThis 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!
ReplyDeleteLovely quilt and your quilting plan sounds both ambitious and fantastic! Can't wait to see it!
ReplyDeleteYou 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!
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteYour swirls look really lovely, and this will be an amazing quilt!
Beautiful project, your quilting is lovely!
ReplyDeleteThis is so pretty! Love the colors and quilting together!
ReplyDeleteIt's so pretty! Your FMQ looks good, can't wait to see this one all done.
ReplyDeleteLove your quilting. I find deciding what to quilt harder than the actual quilting. It takes me ages to decide
ReplyDeleteYou've got the right attitude, keep going and keep practicing. They look great so far.
ReplyDeleteThose 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!
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