Tuesday, March 19, 2013

wip - quilting noteworthy plus



I've seen these cool circular fmq designs so I decided to research them a bit.  I kept coming across the word "concentric".  Evidently, I missed that day in Algebra or totally spaced it or something.  So, after looking it up, I found that a bulls eye is a concentric circle.  That will be a cool design to try some day when I have the patience to fish all those beginning and ending strings into the quilt.



I'm quilting giant spirals.  I was just winging it, but found that using marking pens helped a lot, especially since I'm quilting this on my regular pfaff with the itty bitty throat space.










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24 comments:

  1. Oooh I love Noteworthy, and you did an amazing job on this quilt. :D The spirals look awesome! You have a lot more patience than I do. o.O

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  2. Loving the spirals - they look really fun. :)

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  3. visiting from WIP wednesday. This looks awesome

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  4. Love it! The concentric circles are perfect for this quilt. Well done. I'm visiting from we did it Wednesday.

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  5. Looking terrific!! I'm going to do a rain-drop interplay of concentric circles at some point this year, and now I'm thinking I should do like you and put some marking in since it's going to be done with a desktop machine.

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  6. Love the spirals with the blocks - fun mix!

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  7. Quilting looks great! How did you draw the spirals to get them so evenly spaced? Another beautiful quilt!

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  8. There is a similar pattern that is very old and traditional -- "Baptist Fan" is the name, I believe -- concentric half circles. Bonnie Hunter is a big 'fan' (ahem; no pun intended); you might check out her Quiltville website to learn more if you are interested. Meanwhile, your circles look great!

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  9. Love the spiral quilting. Looks wonderful with the cross pattern.

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  10. It looks great! I made one full size quilt with a big spiral, it adds a cool look to any quilt! I started the center of the spiral with a free motion foot, and a drawn spiral, then switched to a walking foot and a guide. I like how you are making a bunch of big spirals on your quilt, I will have to do that sometime :-)

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  11. I love the cross pattern of the quilt and the spiral quilting pattern - nice job :-)

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  12. Looks like a beautiful quilt and that quilting is fabulous!

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  13. The quilting is a nice contrast to the pieced pattern, that will be a lovely quilt.

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  14. spirals look great! must also try the cirles one day in my itty bitty space of my machine

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  15. Nice quilting and I LOVE that bucket list fabric you used.

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