I am for the most part a self taught quilter, I had never actually touched a Longarm quilting machine until mine arrived almost 19 years ago.
I have always loved to play with fabric and notions and very early on in my life with my Moms sewing machine…until she up graded and gave me her old one, I may have been 9 years or so at that point.
My love of sewing and then quilting has never deminished.
These two quilts are examples of trying out new to me techniques in 2013. They were inspired by the work and book by Angela Walters of Quilting is My Therapy.
This first quilt was one I designed myself wanting an opportunity to play with new ideas and adding piping as a detail in the piecing. The floral print gave me the opportunity to outline and showcase the flowers.
This type of quilting is a lot of fun, well for me anyways! I enjoy creating this density and variety in quilting when I can.
The next quilt was pieced using a pattern called picnic which I found on the Moda Bakeshop site from 2013.
Again playing with ideas from Angela Walters for the quilting. When learning to quilt it was suggested to use a busy backing which I did.
I have a customer quilt in my queue that I am planning to use different quilting fills on, it’s been good to look back on previous work alongside with playing with new ideas.
Last night I began quilting a placemat with my Juki Haruka, it’s a bright and busy mat and a beginning project while I work on this new to me skill.
Wendy’s Quilting and Life 