Walking Foot Quilting

When Leah Day announced her next Block Party will be about Walking Foot Quilting, I couldn't resist but participated in at least one quilt from her book.

This was my first selection of fabrics only from my stash.

Even if this was nice, I wasn't completely satisfied and the end I purchased fabrics of red and green., The Batik I purchased, blended better with my stash.

 Here I've baste-sprayed my entire quilt, then stitched in the ditch with the walking foot. A foot I rarely used, if even! But doing it this way was an eye-opener for me. With my bigger quilts, I could stitch in the ditch, before free-motion quilter or walking foot quilting.

This was my first quilt with following a masking tape. So easy!

 The masking tapes was removed  after each line was completed done.

This was my first attempt to quilt an entire quilt with a walking foot. I'm sure to use this masking-tape technique with my walking foot more often now that I've learned it so well.

For further information on how to use your waling-foot, Rainbow pattern and tutorial go to The Free Motion Quilting Project, and pressed on the Machine quilting party 2018

 http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.ca/p/2018-machine-quilting-party.html

Thank you again Leah Day for another great tutorial on machine quilting:)

Be My Neighboor

Wash, Starch, and Press

 It's becoming one of my favourite thing to do. Yes, I washed my fabric now. A few years back,  I would not have dreamed or dared washing my fabrics. One reason main was, I preferred the 'stiffness' it gives and it didn't frilled much.

This wash, starch, and press, just started about two or three years ago. Maybe it has to do with me watching too much of Leah Day.. She does recommend it, but it's your choice of course. At first, I washed only a few fabric pieces and starch them. For these two quilts, I entirely washed all my fabrics before I cut them. Started to starch a little, then generously!  It might be a slower process in your pressing time, but it's worth it.

This piece was ironed and pressed about ten times and still, I had ripples waving on the white fabric. It's hard for anyone to just let go. If you are like me, you desire to have a flat and even block with not ripples in sight. That when I starch 'little'.

After starching the same block once and pressed it slowly. The result was amazing. So yeah, I'm sold on using Spray Starch, better than buying it, I made my own home-made spray starch, because I used it 'generously' now.

                                        Used my stash of fabrics for this quilt, except for the white fabric.

The black/white quilt is made from my left-over fabrics from a previous quilt I made for my youngest son. 

Both quilts were cut and sew at the same time. The pattern is fairly easy and repeats itself in a different size. It was very fun to do and love both quilts. 

PATTERN

You can find the pattern at Bear Creek Company Quilt

https://www.bearcreekquiltingcompany.com/moda-be-my-neighbor-2016/