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February 1, 2011

FO: My New Wave Quilt

February 1, 2011

I’m finished!  Woohoo!

New Wave Quilt.jpg

The quilt-sandwich making took over an hour {followed these instructions} which I did while the little guy was napping.  I’m glad I splurged on the bent-quilting pins – made pinning the layers easy.  Quick work.

Then on to the quilting.

Oh, my.

I haven‘t had much success with free motion quilting.  But I was one determined girl.  So I checked out a few tutorials.  The best advice I read, however, was a comment in a flickr thread telling me “machine goes fast, hands go slow.”  Reading that was like the key that unlocked the door.  That and increasing the tension to a 6 or 7 (from a 3-4).

It is physically taxing to move that much fabric around, balancing the weight of it all and trying to keep it moving under the quick up/down/up/down of the needle.   Took a lot of breaks.  Untangled the kid from under the table.  All in all the quilting piece took a good 3-4 hours.

Binding went relatively quickly.  I like using small, geometric print on the bindings.  Adds interest I think (not that this quilt really needed it).  I used the machine with a walking foot to attach the binding to the back of the quilt, then hand tacked it to the front.  By this time, I was sick of sitting in front of my sewing machine.  So I did the final hand sewing on the couch watching the rest of Dinner with Schmucks.

Finished size is approx 50″ x 54″.  Nice lap sized.  Pattern can be found here.  Along with a wealth of quilt-making instruction. 

Lessons Learned:

  • bent-quilting pins are my friends
  • do the on-the-floor work during naptime
  • machine fast! hands slow!
  • tension = high (6-8) for free motion quilting
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Posted by norine
Filed Under: sewing Tagged: made, quilt

Comments

  1. HLIP says

    February 1, 2011 at 4:57 am

    I tried to leave this once before – so you might get this twice.

    I’m glad to see this! I really like the pattern & the colors.

    With a helper no wonder your machine goes fast.

  2. Suzy says

    February 1, 2011 at 6:21 am

    I am so impressed! It lookos awesome! I’m glad you were able to find some good tips.

  3. Leilani says

    February 1, 2011 at 9:47 am

    Oooo I LOVE it! So so pretty! I dream of making something like this one day…. however I barely even know how to thread a needle!

  4. Reds says

    February 1, 2011 at 1:45 pm

    It looks gorgeous!! Wish I had patience and talent to make one!! 🙂

  5. Margaret says

    February 1, 2011 at 3:47 pm

    Awesome quilt! How talented you are!

  6. lisa says

    February 1, 2011 at 5:12 pm

    beautiful work, you!

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