Quilting New Year's Resolutions for 2015???

[Judith A.]

Lois,
Beautiful! And I really like your fabric choices.

Judith

[Geneva C.]

I'm not sure if I showed you the mug rug I made with the leftover fabrics from the commission piece. I sent it along with the big quilt and the lady loved it!

I love making these little guys. The hardest part is to get started. To not think too much, just sew stuff together. They are such fun.

Geneva

[TQS C.]

Beautiful Mug Rug, best one I have seen yet. Great job!

[TQS C.]

Beautiful muggie Geneva!

[Nancy R.]

Love it, Geneva! Thanks for sharing! It was very thoughtful of you to send that along to her.

[Nancy R.]

Geneva I love your mug rug. It is so cheery. I am wanting to learn to machine quilt and I wonder where you get your inspiration. Do you mark your lines and if so what works best for you?

Judy

[Nancy R.]

Fun muggie Geneva

[Rita C.]

I love it too Geneva. Those fabrics are luscious! Judy I could be wrong but I would imagine that Geneva quilted the mug rug in an improvisational way using her walking foot. If you look at the dark blue fabric on the left you can see a serpentine line, I think that's where all the subsequent lines to the right had their starting point. If it was me I would have used the edge of my walking foot as the guide for each following row of stitches. What she's done is really lovely and a lot more fun than just doing straight lines. The walking foot is a great tool in the arsenal of quilting and I use it a lot. Geneva, please correct me if I am wrong. :cheer:

[Dawn S.]

Geneva, super cool idea! It's the little things that show we care! I made two T-shirt/sweatshirt quilts for a friend, from her twin's lifetime collections. They were headed off to college. So, I made her a quickie single layer lap quilt with the scraps from the girls's sweatshirts. After she and her DH dropped off the girls at college, a day's drive from here, she said she wrapped herself in the lap quilt and cried all the way home. I was so glad I spent the extra time on it!

Dawn
In beautiful Northwest Montana

[Geneva C.]

Thanks everyone for your nice comments on the muggie.
Judy, Rita is correct. I love using my walking foot for quilting. I can do small amounts of FMQ, but prefer using the walking foot. I watched a show here on TQS with Jacquie Gerhing (hope I spelled that right!) and then took a class from her on Craftsy. Basically I just think about where I want the stitching to flow from and to and draw a line with chalk. I only do this if it is a larger quilt. On the muggie I just sewed from top to bottom at an angle. I love using the serpentine stitch on my Bernina. It's so easy and looks nice. I've also started using a wave like stitch also. I used these 2 stitches combined with straight stitching when I quilted the breeze and ocean on the commission quilt. The walking foot has measurements from 1/8" up to 5" inches or so, so I can follow the lines however wide I want it to be. On this muggie I had fun with a straight stitch on the side making squares and rectangles by going off the end of the muggie. I have done so much walking foot quilting that I can quilt most anything, even curves. I've learned to be able to start and stop on a stitch to make corners crisp. Here is a close up of "The Doors" (which will be hanging in the local quilt show this weekend!). All of this quilting was done with a walking foot.




Maybe someday I'll be good at FMQ like Nancy and others, but for now, my walking foot and I are BFFs! I guess it's like my being afraid of taking the training wheels off!

It's rainy and cool here, and I'm recovering from a cold. A good day to stay in and quilt!

Take care,

Geneva

[Coni P.]

The colors on "The Doors" are so vibrant and happy. Great work with the walking foot too.

[karen f.]

It looks great Geneva!

[Lois B.]

Love "The Doors". Walking Feet are wonderful and so is your quilting. Stay in, stay warm and quilt. Hugs!

[Nancy R.]

Love "The Doors"! Your sense of color and composition are outstanding! I love your walking foot quilting. I love straight line quilting as well as FMQ. They both have their place. I'm thinking about getting a new Bernina so that I can have the serpentine stitch, too. It's wonderful!

[Nancy R.]

Geneva, Thank you so much for all the information. The Doors is fantastic. I guess I just need to get over my fear of ruining a project and jump in the deep end. so
To all of you ladies that give so much of your time and expertise, Thank you. What a wonderful forum.

Judy