More Flowers

I thought by now I'd have the quilt done that I showed you last time, but I got "chicken" and thought I'd mess it up, so gave it to my friend, Shirley, to free motion quilt for me. I wanted nice swirls like Kellie does on hers. Once I gave it to Shirley though, I really wanted to make another one, so got out all my stuff, and sort of made up my own pattern making some of the flowers smaller and the stems, thinner. I used a fancy stitch on my machine for that. And when I was done with the fusing and raw edge applique, I looked at it and wondered if I could actually quilt it myself. I checked out all the u-tube videos of swirl quilting, and studied the pictures online of everything I could find and finally made up a small quilt sandwich to practice.

Shirley told me to draw a leaf shape and flower and to pretend that it was a fused applique so I could practice going around it......so I did and I didn't think I did too bad of job for my first attempt, so decided to quilt my quilt myself. (Nothing like a swirl virgin, huh? .......A friend called me that. LOL I thought it was a riot.)

And here's the whole thing done. This one might go to my swap partner......it's in the running!!

Next time I'll show you Shirley's and then you'll know why I wanted her to do it. I'm positive that hers will be 1000 times better, but at least I tried and isn't that what this quilting bug is all about?