My Friendship's Garden has been with me since 2005 when I took a course using the Blackbird Designs pattern by Alma Allen and Cherie Ralston to learn appliqué. Over the months I did improve and I really love applique though do it less often.
At that time the whole piecing thing scared me and a delay took hold while I looked on at the HST sashing in horror!
I did eventually get over that and love piecing now of course! But once I got hooked on piecing the appliqué swag borders intimidated me!
I am now happy with either skill but wasn't sure how to quilt this rather large quilt!
Well FMQ has come to the rescue and I have bitten the bullet now with some small stippling (suggested by the ever helpful Helen). It really seems to puff up the applique - no doubt, helped by the wool wadding I used. I'm really rather pleased with it!
....but if I carry on in this vein I could be quilting for weeks to come! I have eight more blocks to come, HST sashing and some swag borders!
I will definitely need lots of encouragement so get out your pom poms and cheer me on! Please!
At that time the whole piecing thing scared me and a delay took hold while I looked on at the HST sashing in horror!
I did eventually get over that and love piecing now of course! But once I got hooked on piecing the appliqué swag borders intimidated me!
I am now happy with either skill but wasn't sure how to quilt this rather large quilt!
Well FMQ has come to the rescue and I have bitten the bullet now with some small stippling (suggested by the ever helpful Helen). It really seems to puff up the applique - no doubt, helped by the wool wadding I used. I'm really rather pleased with it!
....but if I carry on in this vein I could be quilting for weeks to come! I have eight more blocks to come, HST sashing and some swag borders!
I will definitely need lots of encouragement so get out your pom poms and cheer me on! Please!
Pom poms out waving madly! This is going to be an incredible quilt!
ReplyDeleteYay for puffiness and pom poms a-go-go!
ReplyDeletepompoms out here gooooooo !! you can do it !!! *cheering, whistling, jumping up and down*
ReplyDeleteBlowing the dust off the pom-poms now! Keep at it, it will be lovely.
ReplyDeleteGO! Nicky! Go! Nicky! Gooooooooooo! Yeah!!!
ReplyDeleteWow! Looking fabulous! Love the effect of tiny stippling. Sooo good! Keep going, this is an exciting quilt!!
ReplyDeleteperfect quilting, naturally! go nicky!!
ReplyDeleteGo for it Nicki, this is a fabulous quilt :)
ReplyDeleteThe small ripple really makes the appliqué pop. It looks wonderful. Keep going!
ReplyDeleteGo Nicky!
ReplyDeletelooking great! That Helen really is a clever one :-)
ReplyDeletewell you know how happy seeing this making it to the machine makes me! I am doing cartwheels and high jumps just for that fact.
ReplyDeletePom pom's are out and I am working on a chant!!
I'm cheering you on, it looks amazing! this one will be a real heirloom!
ReplyDeleteI'm fairly sure that you no longer need the pom-poms waving for this quilt so how about getting back to your WIP/UFO list?!!
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