Archive for October, 2008

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October

I’ve finished a quilt!

I have to admit I’m not a prolific quilter.  I started this quilt for Evan in August of 2006, about two months before he was even born.  Piecing it really didn’t take very long.

Evan\'s QuiltI wanted to do more curved quilting on it to emphasize the pinwheels like I had in the quilt pictured in the previous post.  Only I was intimidated at the thought of doing it by machine.  In the intervening time, I did managed to get the right feet for machine quilting.  I discovered that the curves were a bit much for the walking foot so I had to get over my fear of free motion quilting.  I am unfortunately a bit of a perfectionist so I don’t tend to like my efforts while I’m still getting used to something new.  Eventually, knowing that Evan’s birthday was coming up I just pushed through my anxiety and got it done!

The second picture shows the quilting a bit better, even though it’s a bit blurry.

Evan\'s Quilting