My Sewing and Quilting Adventures

This months challenge was really fun. I have done a similar FMQ design during one of Leah Days Quilt Alongs, the sharp stippling. Here are couple of practice quilt sandwiches: The first one was done in small scale, they're between 1/4 & 1/2 inches scale: Party Hat FMQ - 1/4 inch scale I was reading Wendy Sheppard blog this morning and decided to try it in large scale. Here is a snapshot of that: Party Hats FMQ - 1/2 inch scale Thank you both Wendy for sharing this wonderful tutorial and SewCalGal for bringing this wonderful opportunity to learn and improve upon our FMQ. You both are amazing!

This past week I have been on a roll finishing up my quilt tops which either had partially pieced blocks or the fabrics where cut and ready to go.  So, here is what have been upto in the last 10 days: The first quilt top which I finished is Xs and O's quilt blocks using Moda's Rooftop Garden collections.  Check out this awesome tutorial from Jenny Doan @Missouri Star Quilt Co These are vibrant and colorful fabric. The first time I saw some of the quilts made from this line were not attractive at all. I believe some solid fabric needed to be added to make the beautfy of this fabric line pop. Here is my attempt in doing so: X's and O's quilt top A closer look at the X's and O's quilt block. I goofed up a little while trimming the blocks and some of my white squares ended up being wonky. But I do like this happy mistake. You can see that in the below pic: X's and O's Blocks Here is another sneak-peak at the one more quilt which Im ...

I'm so excited to be submitting couple of quilt blocks for the QuiltCon Block Challenge : For the first block my inspiration was pyramids or glass prisms. But after this block was made, it looks like "Road to California". ;) I'm just making this up. Inspired by Pyramids I also made another block, but now I'm going to keep it for myself and made a baby quilt out of it:

This week the cucumber vine pattern was really cool. At first I thought I would have difficultly with this pattern. But it came naturally to me. I'm sometimes puzzled how FMQ patterns which are similar some you have better control over others. My swrils are yet not very perfect but cumcumber vine was so natural same is true with paisley, it just seems like I have know these patterns for ever. So, I have admit that its always harder for me to follow the line than free-form FMQ quilting. So, here you can see both example of it. One of my sqaures with the the block is Moda Swrils fabric which is exactly like Leah's cucumber vine. This seems little bit tougher than the other plain square block where I did free-form FMQ. The larger squares on the left are quilted with Cucumber vine FMQ Need to finish rest of the block with these patterns.

This week it was quilting bare branches. I just did a tiny square with this pattern. I will practice more next week along with the tree roots FMQ. Here is my quilting so far and a closeup look at bare branches: Bare branches and other FMQ designs

This month our FMQ expert at SewCal Gal's FMQ challenge is Angela Walters. Angela Walters work is amazing in the modern free motion quilting world. I really love her work and started getting into modern quilting myself. Here is my attempt at modern quilt. I used Moda Marbles for all the different blue colors. And the Moda Bella white for the sashing and borders. Here is my Quilt Top: This is adorable fabric I found at the Fabric Place Basement in Natick, MA during our BMQG meeting. This line is called "Rolling Trains" by Free spirit. I wish I had bought more fabric to use it other baby quilts. Here are my practice for Tiles FMQ by Angela Walters: I was planning to do more of these but just ran out of thread. Thought any way I will link it up to SewCalGal's website and then tomorrow update it again. Tiles FMQ (the one at the bottom) Got some more quilting done over the weekend. Here is another picture: Added more FMQ, Paisley and Pebbles/Circles...

I hope my attempt to Modern Quilt piecing looks modern. I tried my best to give it a modern look using solid or solid like fabrics. Uneven sashing for the blocks and I followed it through the outer border too. The quilt measures approximately 42 x 46 inches. I hope I will get the quilting done my next week and then need to choose my binding fabric. I have a lot of options here for the binding fabric. Here are some pictures: Shades of Blues Modern Quilt Shades of Blues Modern Quilt Block 1 Shades Of Blues Modern Quilt Block2 I'm linking this to Leah's Quilt Along hoping it does look modern. Overall I'm happy with the results. I would love to hear your opinion on my attempt to modern quilting, please leave a comment one way or the other. Cheers, Malini