Thursday, January 26, 2012

The Free Motion Quilting Project

I seem to be "late to the party" for so many projects already this year!
So, I finally settled down to do some FMQ practice
I have done stippling in the past, so what I needed was to practice scale....
I also recently purchased a Supreme Slider from Leah, and hadn't even tried it yet!
So, I set up my machine and got to work on a practice piece.
This is how it turned out......
Generally, not horrible. Ha! I actually found the smaller scale easier to do than the large scale. Is that weird?
My stitching looked okay on the front, but not so much on the back. I did use a really cheap, thin fabric, so that could possibly be the problem. I usually leave my tension on auto, but I'll play with it a bit and see if that improves. I was quite happy that I managed to maintain a speed I could handle. One of my biggest problems is moving the quilt way too fast and losing sight of where I am supposed to going next!
Linking up with Leah!

2 comments:

Anne said...

I did better with the small scale as well - the 3in one I tried was a disaster! Your stippling looks really good.

Bouts Choisis said...

That is a really impressive sample. Well done.

2 comments:

Anne said...

I did better with the small scale as well - the 3in one I tried was a disaster! Your stippling looks really good.

Bouts Choisis said...

That is a really impressive sample. Well done.