This is my Week #2 McTavish practice piece. Amy of Amy's Free Motion Quilting Adventures is sponsoring a free motion link party/quilt along every Monday in March featuring Mctavishing!
I loved watching Amy's video as she filled in a circle and thought it would be fun to try out this week. I'm not sure if it was any easier. I tried to keep my eye on the border and hoped to have my design fill the circle completely. I didn't want the swirls to fizzle around the edges and definitely had to think a little more with the defined edges acting as an end to the design.
Here are close ups of each circle.
As I'm quilting each piece, I notice that my back tracking is a bit off, some of the lines are shaky. However, when you look at the design as a whole, it looks fine! I guess distance is a good thing! I'm quite happy with the final piece. I would love to use this design in a future quilt. Thanks, Amy! I don't think I would be this comfortable with McTavishing without your quilt along!
Here are a couple of the sketches I did. I think drawing on paper is harder! I've never been very good at drawing. So glad my sewing is better!
Looking great! All your practice has really paid off.
ReplyDeleteThanks! Getting there!
DeleteThe pattern you have used for these circles is delightful!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much! I'm really enjoying this!
DeleteOh, your practice came out very good. It's sew exciting to be practicing this style of quilting.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I'm so glad Amy had this quilt along. I would never have tried this without her!
DeleteYour practice pieces look good. That's fun to have a pretty good practice showing as you're moving toward perfecting it.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! It's much more fun than I thought it was going to be!
DeleteThanks for linking up and participating! I think it looks fabulous.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Amy! I would never have done this without you!
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