Quilting by Judith - Sharing my quilts and bits of my life.
Here are just a few more pictures of the freehand fun I've been doing. Above, large, puffy dwirling.
More dwirling and a close-up below!
This next pattern is spiked swirls, thanks to Jamie Wallen for this design, from his Mystical Cottontracks DVD.
A close-up below of the spiked swirls.
And, one more dwirling on the back!
I recently had some charity quilts to do and decided to have some 'freehand fun' with them. Most of them are inspired by Dawn Ramirez, also known as the "Pajama Quilter". Fun flowers above.
And now we have some dwirling. Lots of curvy lines that cover the quilt - it is addicting to do and covers beautifully!
More dwirling. Just throw in some curves and swirls!
Above are some flowing flowers. . .
Next we have some wonky feathers. . .fun with freehanding!
This cute little quilt was started about six or seven years ago in a guild workshop. The technique was using a lightweight interfacing with the squares marked on it so you just bonded the squares to the interfacing, sew on the lines, clip the seams and you were finished. Worked pretty well, actually, but for some reason it took me about 3 years to add borders and another couple of years to finally quilt it. But now it is FINISHED!!! Another to check off my list.
After 30 years of quilting you'd think I could make a quilt without a 'learning experience' but that has not happened yet. What I learned on this quilt is that by using the interfacing technique, your seam intersections are a little thick and when quilting, I had to be sure not to cross over the intersections or I was making lots of tiny stitches in the same spot. I think it might just be easier to sew the squares without the interfacing next time.
