Originally, I was only going to outline the spools with stitch-in-the-ditch quilting and leave it at that since this is such a small quilt. (15 x 17") After I did, I decided to try and make the spools stand out a little bit more and so I added the diagonal quilting on the white background.
Here are the "tools" I used to do the diagonal stitches:
A roll of 1/4" marking tape, and my sewing machine's edge guide
Using a long ruler as a guide, I put a piece of tape every three inches. I sewed right up against the tape to get the first quilting lines.
To fill in the quilting with more closely spaced stitches, I used the edge guide attachment on my sewing machine. I adjusted it to be 1 and 1/2 inches from the needle.
By following the previous stitching with the edge guide, I was able to make another straight line of quilting stitches without having to mark a line. It did the trick for me. (Seems that I will do anything to avoid learning to do freemotion quilting.)
This little gem of a project was so much fun, and will be hung by my sewing machine. I'm going to try doing the Mini Swoon next.
So creative in marking the quilt! You wouldn't have to mark if you learned FMQ!! I like how it came out though. It looks really nice!
ReplyDeleteThat's my talented sister!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a cute little quilt. Painters tape (either the blue or green kind) also works great for marking straight lines. I have been using it for the background quilting of my tie quilts.
ReplyDeleteVery cute, Auntie Em! Every sewing room should have one!
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