Friday, July 4, 2025

Help Challenge Quilt - finished !

 I learned all my free motion quilting skills from Angela Walters at Quilting Is My Therapy  by participating in her semi-annual challenges.  She keeps all the video lessons on her you.tube channel where we hope they can live on forever.  I have re-visited videos many times.

My "Help-How Do I Quilt It" Challenge was started Summer 2024?  I started with her center panel and the first feather border.  I thought it too pretty to stop there, surely it should be queen size!  So I fussed over more border styles until I finally settled on this pieced ribbon style border.  It was alot of work but miraculously fit wonderfully around the quilt without adjustments.

Here is a post when I had the project pin basted; ready for quilting on my "hand-guided" sit-down Janome.  If I remember correctly,  I started quilting in the center, got about 2/3 of that portion  quilted; then took a detour to make christmas projects !  Why does christmas quilting always take you thru January of the new year?!

This quilt spent much time sitting on my sit down machine table while I indulged in the Lil Bear Hugs project.  So far,  that will be an on-going mission in my life.

Okay, I had to get past this project,  so I could move on.  I devoted more effort to its finish, all the while telling myself to quit making queen size quilts!!!  In Angela's honor,  I did quilt it to death, Lots of Glide threads.  It finished at 90 x 99 !  It sure feels bigger than that.  I forgot to get a photo of the back fabric, it is a wide back I got at my LQS.  I love these ones with multiple colors that can compliment so many designs from the tops.  The bobbin thread was Bottom Line white/silver.  I just took a quick shot of the back that you can see from the tote the quilt is stored in at the moment.

On with the show ..........  photo heavy .  While I'm fmq, I dont feel that confident, I just keep on.  But when its all done and I look back, I think "Did I really do that?"........  always amazed.

Let's begin with some close-ups; scroll to the end for the full quilt.





 










The full quilt  - most of it



I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.
Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Blog - A Quiltery

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts


I wish everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.













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